[IRCA] TP for 26 Oct from Victoria, BC

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

I awoke much earlier this morning, so put in varying degrees of listening from 1300 to 1445UT.   I'm glad that Walt was unimpressed with conditions, because although various oddities were noted, particularly in the briefly strong signals category, hearing anything was hard work.   Another oddity was that although carrier strength was pretty good on a lot of channels, there just seemed to be a lot of domestic splatter, no matter which antenna I used, hence the hard work.

pretty darn good audio (at least briefly): 

567 JOIK at 1403UT //594
576 Rst Mayak; the surprise of the morning at 1418UT w/2 men in RR //549
594 JOAK , not steadily by any means
603 HLSA //558 at 1430 followed by KK talk by woman
747 JOIB at 1317 and a couple of other times; usually much worse
774 JOUB
828 JOBB at 1317, and snagged call letter ID at 1320; but often at poor strength with not much else taking its place
936 presumably Anhui, noted several times at this level
972 HLCA at 1438UT, poorer before this



reasonable audio  at  times during the period (though often battling w/splash or noise):


279 R. Rossii, very readable though weaker than above signals
549 Rst Mayak //576 w/men in RR //576
558 HLQH //603 and presumably JOCR, best at 1430
621 man and woman in CC; this popped up quite regularly through the listening period; not at 1400 though...
1044 CRI woman in JJ //7125 and 7235
1287 JOHR after 1300UT; along with the rest of the upper band, this was poorer later
1575 VoA


not so reasonable audio, occasional words in splash or noise: 

189 R. Rossii //279
531 JOQG //594, but also mx, presumably DU, as not heard on northerly Flag; JOQG has been surprisingly regular of late
657 hum and N. Korea at 1411UT
675 VV talk by man at 1433UT
873 JOGB //828 and hum; N.Korea noted later //2850
945 CNR-1 //5030 w/usual delay at 1318UT
954 JOKR
963 CRI woman in RR //7255
1134 KBS //972
1251 VoR //6145, lots of carrier, rarely audio


Burbles in the splatter and noise:

585 JOPG //594
612
666 a mess, think Russia was in there but couldn't properly parallel with 576
702 hum and N. Korea //2850; this is becoming a regular, though never really strong
711 likely HLKA?
738 mx, no idea
837 JOQK //594  later on
864 pretty consistent big carrier, little audio
1143 
1593 earlier on


Strongish het, no audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter):

891, 1098 (Asiatic direction), 1566.  Actually, a lot of signals fitted into this category this morning.


best wishes,

Nick



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Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada  

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