The dire predictions don't seem to have had much effect on reception; still pretty reasonable.

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

594 JOAK 1355UT

1575 VoA powering in at 1411UT with woman in ?? (Khmer listed) Fading somewhat by 1430UT when VoA ID was heard

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

603 HLSA woman in Korean //558 1415UT

774 JOUB 1423UT

972 HLCA 1436UT

1386 NHK2 //774 1418UT

1422 JORF woman in Japanese 1419UT

1566 HLAZ? and ??? two stations mixing; pop music and maybe Chinese talk, then more sedate Chinese talk by man also assumed HLAZ, along with a grumble on channel 1416UT

1593 NHK2 //1386 1425UT, with CNR1 Chinese man trading places (//6175 earlier)

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

558 HLQH 1415UT //603

567 JOIK //594 1414UT

1503 JOUK //594 1423UT

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)

666 JOBK //594 1418UT

747 JOIB //774 1412UT

945 CNR1 man and woman //6175 1429UT

1206 man talking,Korean? 1413UT (off channel)

1242 woman talking, Japanese intonation 1419UT

1314 woman talking, Japanese intonation 1414UT

1323 woman talking, Russian intonation? 1415UT

1332 female vocal 1414UT

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

612 621 639 657 693 702 711 918 1017 1215 1287 1359 1431 1485 1494 1512 1539 1548 1557 1584 seemed to be Asian;

585 612 1548 seemed to be DU

best wishes,

Nick

Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada