While I was crossing borders (the quality of migrants is obviously dropping isn't it?), the faithful SDR was DXing for me. An interesting lift at the top of band as sunrise approached this morning, not strong, but varied. Many of the carriers listed had "nearly there" audio at various times.
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly):
not quite
Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise):
594 JOAK 1448UT
774 JOUB 1444UT
828 JOBB 1447UT
972 HLCA 1448UT
not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker:
747 JOIB 1448UT (all of these had faded by the time the upper band lift arrived)
1287 JOHR man and woman in Japanese 1524UT
1594 CNR1 man in Chinese 1511UT, erratic fading, earlier paralleled with 1377
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)
1377 CNR1 1506UT //1593 music and man talking
1557 woman talking, Chinese intonation. Very rough carrier, wonder if there's an awkward mainland Chinese on the channel, as seems unlikely Taiwan would stand for that sort of nonsense.
1566 man in apparent Chinese 1511UT, but also someone else with pop music, on north Flag, so possibly China?
Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter)
693 864 945 1206 1242 1269 1278 1305 1314 1332 1386 1422 1458 1503 seemed to be Asian;
nothing much seemed to be DU
best wishes,
Nick
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20190218051504384