[IRCA] TPs Not So Bad: Orcas Island

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

I guess that my glass was half full, were Walt's was half empty!

The band was very much like the last several days.... pretty useless 
above1000, but below there, I had wall-to-wall audio at some point 
during dawn. Although most channels were occupied by the usual 
suspects, there were several quite interesting ones, too:

549: Briefly occupied by the Mayak // 576 which was doing wonderfully 
well... They were running some kind of harangue, probably political, 
by an excited male speaker.

720 was CNR2, again, but 630 was just KJNO and Seattle

765: I heard the "CC" echo station there again, though I now think 
that it is Korean... I wasn't smart enough to //819.

The most interesting was 603 which I checked late at post dawn to 
make sure that it was the Korean and it WAS NOT! Actually, the Korean 
was there for the first ten minutes, but mostly way beneath  the 
dominant. The dominant was playing nondescript music until after 
1500. However, at TOH, there were two sets of pips... with the 
dominant giving 5+1, I think. At about 1503, they began a series of 
60s rock classics with the Beatles "Yesterday" leading off. Twice, 
there were short periods of talking by a male... anmd it may have 
been in Russian, but things were getting quite weak as it neared 30 
minutes post-dawn. There are two Mayak stations listed on the Amur 
River, so it might have been them running non-Mayak late night stuff, 
though it could have been a lot of other things, too. This evening, 
I'm going to try to process the audio some and then see what I can 
make out.  Will report.

So, not a classic "good morning," but still very interesting.

John Bryant
Orcas Island, WA, USA
Winradio G313e and various Ultralights
Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops

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