[IRCA] Grayland Report - October 7 & 8

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a summary of what we heard Saturday and Sunday morning at 
Grayland.  Chuck, Nick, Steve and Bill - feel free to add your own 
catches and comments to what I've noted.

Conditions both mornings were good.  I thought Sunday was slightly 
better than Saturday (contrary to what John Bryant and others 
experienced), but there was room for reasonable people to disagree.

Some of the highlights for me:

Friday night -  a couple of TA signals but no audio to speak of.  1134 
came close, and there was an intriguing carrier on 1476 at about 
0305UTC, that left us scratching our heads (nothing there with much 
power except a UAE station).

Saturday Morning
Voice of Russia Chinese service on 1251
A tantalizing station on 729 possibly in Vietnamese or something, mostly 
with interviews and phone conversations, quite loud at times with 
somewhat distorted audio.  No ID noted but possibly a long tone heard 
when we tried at the TOH.  In fact, they ran a phone call across the hour.
Another tantalizing station on 1179 mixing with Japan.  We couldn't 
place the language, possibly a Chinese dialect (non-Mandarin) or a SE 
Asian language.
Hebei RGD on 1278 with an ID at 1230UT
Vietnam 675
Taiwan Fisheries station 738
HLKG-738 with an ID at 1500
Plus many other Chinese, Japanese, and Korean stations.

This morning
JOCK-729 with local ID 0959
NHK1-846 //594
Something mixing with Japan 1242 at 1119 UTC.  I caught a few words of 
English so it may have been Vietnam's foreign service.
Monster signal from CRI Russian service on 963
The 1179 station again.  No IDs noted but but there were a couple sets 
of pips recorded on the hour (one probably was JOOR, the other our 
unid).  Hopefully we can ID this one based on what we've recorded.
South Korea 567 1467 558 603 1341 1044 711 1305 et al
Something in Chinese mostly under (sometimes equaling) KFBK, possibly 
with English, possibly with an ID 1400
Thailand 891 at about 1345
A station in Russian and a station in Chinese mixing with presumed KTBI 
(religious show) on 810, with no sign of KGO at 1410.  Probably the same 
one Pat & John heard.
Jiangxi 729 at 1418, no ID noted but had a long string of ads with 
Jiangxi mentioned several times
An NHK2 station with a local ID at 1500 signoff.  Unfortunately I didn't 
catch the call.  I have it on minidisc, but it may be too weak to ID.  
This on a channel where everything is 1 kw or less.
Hubei RGD 774 quite good at times after JOUB signoff.  ID heard 1537 
after several minutes of nonstop ads (these people are really getting a 
good handle on capitalism).
Plus a bunch of the usual stuff.
There was a post sunrise enhancement into China that lasted past 1600 or 
almost 2 hours after local sunrise.  The CNR stations on 945 and 981 had 
amazing signals up until around 1600, and the Korean on 1170 was still 
dominating the channel at 1545UT.

In all, a nice DXpedition.  Good but not spectacular by Grayland 
standards.  I'd give the weekend about a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10.

Bruce




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