Took about 4 hours to get the two 85' broadband loops setup and properly
working Thursday night. Problems with coax cables, unbalums and such.
Finally
at 8 pm local time I finished and converted the SW loop to a NE loop. 9
TA's
with audio ranging from threshold to fair. Croatia with the signal. Only
listened for 1/2 hour. Back outside and switched the NE loop back to a SW
loop.
The SW loop worked well with Asian stations, sometimes better than the NW
loop.
Reason it cut down on domestic splatter. Lower channels much better than
the
higher channnels. Some receptions below.
209 MONGOLIA, Mongolyn Radio 1048 weak. Seemed // 4330
interference from weather station.
209 Alaska, weather report on top of Mongolia with weather report for
Alaska. Weak signal. No weather station listed on PALs for
this
frequency.
558 AUSTRALIA, ? 1517 fair fading to weak with pop music. SW loop.
612 AUSTRALIA, 4QR 1425 program about Film directors.
666 RUSSIA, Mayak 1135 man in Russian weak at times. No JOBK NHK1
heard when checking // 594.
828 UNKNOWN, 1512 Roy Orbison song, not JOBB with English lessons.
1216 Dusty Springfield song. Over JOBB most of the time. JOBB
back
on top at 1219.
945 SOLOMON ISLANDS, not China CRN1 as // did not match. 1245 -1255
Chanting with voice variations. Weak to fair at times. Sticks
hitting
each other for a while, then on to woman singing.
972 REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HLCA 1303 great signal with man mentioning
Kim il Sung. Still in at 1521 with good signal.
981 CHINA, CRNI 1308 fair on SW loop. // 5030 some splatter, shifting
up
0.50 kHz helped.
1017 TONGA, Voice of the Friendly Islands 0622 with man/woman
in Tongan. Heavy splatter when signal weakens.
1161 REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HLKU? 1435 with KSL gone, good signal
with man talking and music.
1377 CHINA, 1400 pips TOH // 5030. “Guangbo Diantai” heard after pips.
1593 CHINA, CRN1 1414 fair // 5030.
1593 CHINA, CRN2? 1415 fair over CRN1 for a minute with man/woman
in ? Asian language.
Managed to get a recording of 774 JOUB NHK2 sign off at 1500. Chimes
ended
at 1505. Carry left on pass 1520. With all the high power transmitters
on
the NHK2 network, leaving the transmitters on open carrier sure must use a
lot
of electricity.
Added a few utralight catches to the log sheet. Made reservations with
Mike to stay 2 days in November for Thursday, Friday the second week.
Best regards,
Dennis,
Grayland, WA
NRD 545 & R8B
NW & SW Broadband loops 85'
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