[IRCA] Good not Great Asian Morning

["John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, you know, it's like the sales people say "Location, Location, 
Location!" Patrick had a mixed DU/Asian/Oceanic morning and my dawn 
was pure Asian... Of course my best non-Asian wire is on the ground. 
However, my only clear ocean path from here is up the Gulf of Georgia 
(between Vancouver Island and the BC Mainland) toward the East Asian 
Coast. That being said, there is still proof that the ionosphere is a 
bumpy surface with quite a few chug holes.  This morning, Walt 
Salmaniw heard readable audio on 936 which was probably a low-power 
JJ station.  Walt's location is considerably poorer for Asia than 
mine.  I was past 936 at least 5 times in the hour of max dawn 
enhancement and never had more than a mediocre het.  Hummmmm.

My most interesting channel this morning was 1305.  That has multiple 
CNR2 (China Business Radio) outlets on it and a "Literary Radio" from 
the Shandung Peninsula to the southwest of the Korean peninsula. For 
the second time this week, I've heard western classical opera around 
1330 and then man-talk.  It could be either station, but the Literary 
Radio is maybe a better bet.  No IDs that I noticed and band fade 
before TOH.  I tried // checking for CNR2, but that wasn't very 
reassuring because CNR2 SWBC outlets are fairly few and somewhat 
unreliable.  Ideas???  I have neither station QSLed.

Patrick, I think that I've probably heard 891-Thailand at Grayland, 
but I didn't realize it.  I think that the same thing is true of 
several Filipinos.... When I hear an Asian language that I don't 
immediately recognize (I'm good with JJ and standard CC, fair with KK 
and Vietnamese) I generally put it off to "some Chinese dialect" and 
move on to stations that I need and am surer of.... Its a bad habit 
and I've got to break it.  The problem is that Cantonese, Fujianese, 
Shanghaiese and Taiwanese are all totally separate languages from 
standard (aka Mandarin, or Beijing dialect) and all sound clearly 
Asian but no more "Chinese" than Korean does.... AND there is quite a 
bit of Chinese dialect transmission around on good Asian mornings. 
What we need is a good Asian language CD with 5 minutes of about 
every major language and Chinese dialect on it.  With all of the 
streaming audio now, maybe that would be a good winter project for me.....

Well, I better start my day.... Was a good but not excellent Asian AM 
for me.  Does anyone have insights on 1305???

JOhn B.

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