[IRCA] TP 5 Feb Victoria version

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

What a frustrating mess is the best I can say.   Conditions were 
reasonable from about 1430UT onwards, mostly the big guns though not 
terribly strong.   A little  after 1500UT, things really opened up, 
sort of.   Lots of carriers, extremely erratic fading meant that you 
were never sure from one moment to the next whether you were hearing 
splatter or snatches of audio.   And then there was the splatter.



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

594 JOAK woman in Japanese 1517UT
972 HLCA man in Korean 1444UT
1566 HLAZ in quite well for the half hour or more, though erratic 
fading at times, and occasional Chinese talk interfering with 
it.  Slow oriental sounding female vocal music and accompaniment at 
1520	UT was particularly good	.


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

738 Tahiti.  Odd one out with odd programming too.  Big band style 
music, male vocal, then announcer with a few words in Frenc 1432UT
1575 VoA woman and man SE Asian language 1420UT; weaker at 1429UT 
with Voice of America ID by man



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

558 HLQH man in Korean 1519UT //603; music there as well assumed Japan
567 JOIK man in Japanese 1508UT //594
747 JOIB man in Japanese //1386 1516UT; 774 in various times as well, 
not a great signal today though
1314 JOUF assumed woman in Japanese 1319UT
1503 JOUK woman in Japanese,  1520UT  //594
1593 CNR1 woman in Chinese //6125 1521UT, but often mixed up with 
something else



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)

1143 man talking, maybe Chinese?  1514UT
1242 JOLF? woman talking, sounded Japanese 1517UT
1269 man talking, maybe two stations, didn't seem //1287 1522UT
1287 JOHR  woman talking, Japanese inflection 1518UT
1377 slow music not //CNR1 or NHK2 1525UT
1386 NHK2 mand talking //747 1458UT; also made a mumber of appearances
1422 man talking, Japanese inflection ? 1431UT and various other 
times later on


Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or 
ravaged by splatter)

828 1098 1107 1134 1188 1206 1251  1278 1359 1323 1332 1404 1413 1494



best wishes,

Nick

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