[IRCA] TP for 6 Mar from Victoria, BC

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

Fired up the receiver before 1400UT, and wasn't too impressed to start with, but between 1420 and 1450UT, things were pretty interesting.  It wasn't so much raw strength on the regulars (as Dennis noted, things were pretty quiet on the lower part of the band), as all sorts of less usual second tier stations, especially on the upper band--a bit of a Taiwan opening it seemed.   In addition, though local sunrise was at 1445UT, 954, 972 and 1566 were all heard between 30 and 60 minutes later.

pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least
briefly):


774 JOUB
1566 HLAZ 



reasonable audio  at  times during the period (much of it understandable by a
native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise):

594 JOAK
747 JOIB
972 HLCA
1386 NHK2 //747 at 1427

not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be
understood by a native speaker

567 JOIK
828 JOBB
1143 CC talk at 1424UT assumed Taiwan
1287 JOHR
1422 JORF
1494 unID, and quite consistent at this level; talk seemed Tagalog, but not sure; Japanese has been heard at Grayland, but 1287 never quite available for a solid parallel


Burbles in the splatter and noise (if lucky, language might be guessed at by
cadence of talk, or parallel established by changes in talk or music) :

558 woman talking, seemed //603 at 1432UT, so HLQH
603 HLSA
738 didn't seem //1143, but Asian direction
873 JOGB //774
954 (at 1540UT), likely Japan?
1134 mx, not //972 or 4460, so JOQR?
1161 mx at 1428; Taiwan??
1503 JOUK, but a SAH as well
1512 NHK2 at 1429 //774
1557 Family Radio Taiwan, deep voiced man at 1448UT
1584 might have been //1503, but not certain, both were at "barely there" level
1593 a tentative on Taiwan Fisheries station; not //774 or 4460, but seemed to match up with 1143.  Not 100% certain.  An interesting tentative, and has been heard at Grayland.
1602 NHK2 //828 at 1441UT


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

621 with hum., 666, 1053, 1242, 1269, 1314 w/hum, 1377


best wishes,

Nick



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Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada


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