[IRCA] ASIAN TRIP

[Pete Taylor <ptdx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On April 20, my wife and I embarked on a trip to Asia which included Singapore, Penang and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Phuket and Bangkok (Thailand). We also had a four hour wait between planes in Hong Kong. I am OK on Romance languages and can differentiate between Mandarin, Japanese and Korean, but in an environment of Thai, Vietnamese and Malaysian/Indonesian, guesswork reigns supreme. Receiver: Tecsun PL-300. Of note:

HONG KONG 4/26 9pm local
1098 wobbly jamming + 1
1557 two stns. fluttering
1584 BBC? Presumed RTHK3; weak.

SINGAPORE 4/27 9pm local
540 Filipino; probably DYRB
558 Aussie sports. 6WA?
684 two Aussies
720 Oman?
756 Arabic
1008 Surabaya presumed
(NOTE: No daytime AM signals, but I didn't DX outside the hotel)

PENANG 4/28 4pm local
801 ?
1062 (Phuket presumed)
1269 I am very curious about this one. Pretty definitely not Bangkok or Songkhla
1458 (Phuket presumed)

PENANG 4/28 9pm local
549 jamming
675 ?
684 CRI EE lesson. Dongfang, Hainan listed
891 Thailand. This is interesting because both here and in Phuket, there seemed to be a second synchronized signal.

PENANG 4/29 10pm local
549 jamming
603 very loud CC
1044 Arabic?

KUALA LUMPUR 4/30 10pm local
612 loud - Vietnam?
1575 VOA at good level

PHUKET 5/2 3pm local
720 loud, //963 & 1062
810
828
963 // 720 & 1062
1062 local // 963 & 720
1269 (still curious)
1350
1458 local fair

PHUKET 5/3 9pm local
1296 RFI. Listed as Kunming
1530 Filipino. DZME listed

BANGKOK
At 4am, 648 and 711 were jumbles. 999, 1350, 1422 and 1557 had OCs. 1593 (CC) was the only non-Thai station noted. At 7:30am on 5/7, 44 local signals were noted with the government newscast. 891 and 1575 were the only locals not carrying it (plus all the FMs which are seemingly exempt).

Otherness: (1) Kota Kinabalu-1475 not noted anywhere; (2) I did not miss not landing at Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong (if you are an old-time traveler, you will know what I mean).

Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA
12225w 4719n
HQ180 & ICF2010
Kiwa aircore & Palomar loops
DX398, SRF-59 & M37V
Eton E100 + Tecsun PL-300/380






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