[IRCA] TPs + DUs for Friday, August 31, 2012

[Dennis Vroom <vroomski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Only four Russia long waves heard this morning, but they all had either good or strong signals. With the second full moon in a month (Blue Moon) favored the Japanese stations this morning. JOHR 1287 heard for the first time this season. For DU's nothing from 738 Tahiti Radio Polynesie. DU's must have taken a morning off. 891 kHz at 1334 utc clear with just a level 3 het. Listen from 1206-1337 utc. 


153     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 1206-1216 good signal. News in Russian followed by man talking in Russian from 1210. Classical Piano music 1216.

180     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 1218 good signal with Classical Piano music. Static crashes. 

189     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 1220 strong signal with above music.

279     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 1221 good signal with the ending of the Classical Piano music. Followed by man in Russian.

594     JAPAN, JOAK NHK1 1312 fair signal with man in Japanese. Some splatter. NW ewe. 

693     JAPAN, JOAB NHK2 1314 fair signal with man in Japanese. Moderate splatter and better on SW ewe than NW ewe. 

774     JAPAN, JOUB NHK2 1315 fair signal with man in Japanese. Heavy splatter from KTTH. Better on SW ewe than NW ewe.

828     JAPAN, JOBB NHK2 1317 weak signal with man in Japanese. NW ewe.

1053    REPUBLIC OF KOREA, 1320 jammer with fair signal on top of channel. Have not heard DRKP's Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front
this season.  NW ewe.

1287    JAPAN, JOHR HBC 1252-1255 fair signal at times with woman in Japanese. Nick has been hearing this station a lot, but here it has been just a strong het. This morning with audio and some moderate splatter. Happy to received JOHR on a Blue Moon. NW ewe.

1323    CHINA, CRI 1301-1303 weak signal with music and Asian language (Korean, PALs) //'s did not match MW signal. 5965 & 13620 both had different programming. 13620 was Chinese and 5965 had Asian language that did not match 1323 or 13620. NW ewe.

1422    JAPAN, JORF 1308 believed to be the station with very weak audio at times and battered in splatter from domestics.

1503    JAPAN, JOUK NHK1 1325 weak signal with man in Japanese. NW ewe. // check not possible was JOAK 594 had faded out.

1566    REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HLAZ 1244 good signal with woman in Japanese. NW ewe.

1575    THAILAND, VOA 1246 weak signal with man in Lao (PALs). NW ewe.  Fair signal at 1310 in Vietnamese (PALs).

Best regards,

Dennis,
Kalama, WA
JRC NRD 545 + DRAKE R8B
NW + SW ewe
Sky wire loop 753'
Solar Indices SF 128 A 4 K 1
Local Sunrise 1322 utc
      Sunset  0250 utc
      Moonset 1347 utc
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