Better; decidedly better, but mostly due to a fairly short-lived pre-sunrise lift primarily on the high band.
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly):
not so
Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise):
the above passing through
not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker:
594 JOAK 1502UT
1422 JORF woman in Japanese 1523UT
1503 JOUK man /594 1525UT
1566 HLAZ womn in Chinese 1524UT
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)
567 JOIK man //594 1522UT
774 JOIB //1386 1523UT, but slightly better signal at 1535UT
1017 island vocals 1449UT
1386 NHK2 woman //747 1523UT
1593 CNR1 woman //6175 1519UT
1593 NHK2 woman //1386 1522UT dominating CNR1 which was also there
Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter)
603 774 828 972 1098 1116 1224 1242 1314 1332 1359 1458 1485 1557 1575 seemed to be Asian;
603 891 seemed to be DU
best wishes,
Nick
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada
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