[IRCA] Oct 24 WC TP's - cats in a rocking chair factory

["R. Colin Newell" <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

If there ever was a solid argument for recording the entire spectrum of the
medium wave dial...
and then reviewing it over a good pipe and a dram of Scotch... over the
duration of your first month of retirement...
Then this would have been one of those mornings - not stellar, mind you,
not overwhelming -- but slow and steady and
moving forward like a tidal surge from the leftovers of a category 5
hurricane.

From my first peak at the Hall-Patch fish-barrel at around 1200 UTC, I knew
something was afoot - but not alarmingly so.
The prospect of *good to great reception* stood there, like the *shortest
bully* in the school yard. So I pulled the covers over
my head and decided to spend at least another 1/2 hour building my courage.

By 1344 UTC, now all showered and polished for a days work, I switched on
my auxiliary Drake R8 and associated Wellbrook
head amps and remote VACTROL units. It was clear by the Japanese babble on
531 that things were "OK"... sliding further up,
540 khz sounded a little like a train station waiting room - while normally
I hear CBK Regina quite late, there was a certain urgency about
the clutter of voices - nothing really saying... "Hey, that's Chinese! Or
Japanese! or... it sounded decidedly "Network Asian..."
upwards - 558 Khz buoyant *Korean* pops // to 603 khz. 567Khz in Japanese,
576 khz sounds like mumbly, dulcet and mail... moving on...
585 Khz... *Japanese*... parallel to 594... and 666 khz... and briefly 675
khz... 621 hammering away North Korean style... 639 Khz solidly Chinese,
657 Pyongyang yo-yoing up and down occasionally replaced with something
more progressive and Chinese sounding... 666 Khz, of course, steady
Japanese...
Leaping ahead a bit 675 Khz was offering up a grab bag of variations but
was largely Vietnamese lady talking between plucks of a ÄÃn ÄÃy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C3%A0n_%C4%91%C3%A1y> - a *long-necked
three-stringed instrument native to Vietnam...*
at 1417 UTC 675 sounded deliciously parallel to 1089 (which was
soaring...)... anyway... less prose, more notes.

1352 UTC - 711 - Sounded Korean but was not standing out that much
                   738 - Solid Chinese talk in the ravaging splash from 730
Vancouver
                   756 - All Chinese (747 Khz was Japanese most of the time
but not really a great signal...)
                   765 - Seemed Chinese but had competition - more Korean
sounding
                   783, 792, 801 - a mess - signals but nothing discernible
                   810  Someone running 200-300 hz low under KGO - no hope
of hearing anything - but other stuff underneath too
                   819  Solidly Korean with chorale music and a strident
female Korean speaker
                   837, 846, 855, 864, 873, 891 were all a right mess of
signals struggling for supremacy but no one winning - at best 855 and 864
were 60% Korean and 40% Chinese
                       depending on the time you idled by.
1402 UTC   900, 919, 928, A royal mess
                   936 Chinese
                   945 A mess of "Chinese sounding programming..."
                   974 Japanese
                   963 Solid Russian (CRI China)
                   972 Korea - plenty loud and easily audible on a nearby
Eton E100!
1404  UTC  1008, 1017, 1044, 1053, Each had their own thing going on
Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Korean/Japanese in that order
                   1089 (later in the session had some solidly unique
regional Vietnamese music with a lilting YL talker -- "seemingly" parallel
to 675 Khz -- but likely a stretch...)
                   1116 Sounded Chinese on several passes
                   1125, 1134,  more mess 1143 Solid Chinese - less formal
Taiwan Fisheries feel to the material
1407 UTC   1161 - was seriously loud but caught it in mid-Western music
theme... i moved on.

From this point on I started ignoring what I thought were "The Regulars..."
Like China on 1206, Japan on 1224, and 1287 etc... although 1215 was
fascinating from time to time
                    *1305 Khz caught my ear with easy listening Frank Mills
type Piano -- particularly at the top of the hour (1400) and then at 1423U
with a DU sounding YL... hmmmm..*
*                     1575 Upbeat newstalk by an EE speaking YL (AFN
maybe?"*

*There was a whole lot more to this morning folks - but with the
combination of numbers and levels PLUS the *
*hangover from chasing TA's last night until late....*

*Looking forward to everyone else's take on what was a "good morning!"*


-- 
Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com
<http://www.Coffeecrew.com> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> -
VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - Canada
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