The doldrums are back...never went away perhaps.

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 woman in Japanese 1520UT

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)

576 2RN thought this was an exotic unID; deep voiced man talking 1443UT interspersed with vibraphone notes, and didn't sound quite English. But it matched up with a BBC program on the Congo, rebroadcast on RN, with accented men having their say.

612 man DU English? 1518UT

774 man talking, Japanese intonation 1508UT, briefly

828 man talking, Japanese intonation 1444UT

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

603 693 738 747 972 1548 1566 1575 seemed to be Asian;
702 837 846 891 1017 1116 seemed to be DU

best wishes,

Nick

Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada