Re: [IRCA] Grayland Report - October 7 & 8

["Bill Harms" <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The most important part of the trip to Grayland was the sharing of 
comradrie with other DXers.  It is always fun to meet people for the 
first time after exchanging email with them and seeing their name in 
print.  Swapping DX stories, discussing antenna theories, comparing 

As this was my first experience at Grayland, I do not have anything 
really to compare it to.  But in one word, I can say I was 
overwhelmed.  At times, I felt like I was back in Asia DXing. One 
thing that blew me away was listening to Asian stations overwhelming 
the domestics on 810, 1170, 1260, 1350, 1440 and 1530. I will write a 
more comprehensive report later.

I was able to test run Chuck Hutton's DX recording program which is 
capable of dynamically data stamping the audio clip as you DX.  I 
love it already.

Bill Harms
temporarily in Seattle on the way home to Elkridge.

On 8 Oct 2006 at 21:29, Bruce Portzer wrote:

> 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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