[IRCA] Tagalog speaker on 1610!!!

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:25 PM 7/19/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>1610    ??      unIDed Tagalog-speaking station noted at 2205 7/19,
>                  talking about "state of the nation" address by
>                  Philippine Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo" (to be
>                  rebroadcast?). Startled to hear Tagalog! Station's
>                  frequency was jumping around and last noted as
>                  1,609,890 Hz at 2210 tune-out. Ethnic programming
>                  implies CHHA, Toronto; but frequency jumping around?
>                  Thought it may be a pirate. (CAT-NC)
>

I suppose this is indeed CHHA. It has all the earmarks EXCEPT being
off frequency.

The whole thing is surreal. I was hunting Reloj, as is my wont
(more about that later) and decided to see what was coming in from
up north.

Tuned 1610 and here was an announcer speaking Tagalog (Filipino to
all you flat-landers). ¿What the ÐØßµ¶!? thunk I! And off
frequency to boot. Where am I? Isn't this North Carolina that I'm
in? What's a Filipino doing on 1610 and propagating in at that
strength.

Reminds me of my ship's first port call (USS Hancock CV-19 aircraft
carrier) of this tour of duty off Vietnam since overhaul its.
Night before, we stood off and circled until morning and pulling
into Subic Bay Naval Station, Philippines.

I was all ears on an R-390A and recording a quick bandscan.
Strongest station was DZYZ-540 Olongapo City. I recorded about
120 seconds of it. I was totally baffled by the language because
I thought it should be SPANISH, but instead it was TAGALOG.

Stowed the tape away and lost track of it until looking through
my old Navy stuff in 1976 (Got out of the Navy in 1972).
There was the tape, and I hardly remembered having cut it.

Played it back, and there was DZYZ-540 again. But this time I
understood it!! (I had since studied Tagalog and married a
Filipina).

WOW, what an experience. Like getting into a time machine and
going back in time to that date and understanding the very same
words I didn't understand then.

Surreal, weird!

Charles


   Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
  Greenville, North Carolina 



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