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[IRCA] My Three Favorite TP Logs



I got the AFN technical details from the Staff Sergeant Station Manager at
AFN Misawa who also happens to be a DXer, who provided me with a QSL!;)

Paul



On Friday, November 25, 2016, Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','canswl@xxxxxxxxx');>> wrote:

> Paul, where did you get the information on AFN 1575 power level?  PAL
> mentions 3 AFN transmitters on 1575 with Iwakuni at 1 kw, Misawa with 0.6
> kW, and Sasebo with 0.25 kW.  It does seem that Misawa is the usual
> suspect, due to their program content (mostly music).   I've attached links
> to my Dropbox where I've attached several AFN mp3 files, including those
> clearly where 2 or more cochannel AFN stations are heard, slightly out of
> sync, resulting in an echo.   The last one is a bigger clip.  After 12:00
> or so, you can hear one AFN fade down, to be replaced by another.  Then it
> fades back up, with a nice "The Source" ID at about 14:00 into the
> recording.  Very strong, aren't they!  All the clips are recorded in
> Masset.
>
> The first file was recorded on 17 October, 2015 at 15:00 UTC.   One can
> clearly hear multiple transmitter sites:
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102306220/Japan%201575%2
> 0AFN%20The%20Source%20Misawa%20c%2017h00%20%209Mar2015%20Masset.mp3
>
>
> Next is 1575 with a "AFN Rainbow" ID at 16:30 on 9 March, 2015.
>
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102306220/1575%20AFN%20J
> apan%20with%20AFN%20Rainbow%20ID%20at%2016h30%20Misawa%
> 2017Oct2015%20Masset.mp3
>
>
> Next, is AFN with a nice AFN The Source ID at 17:00 on 9 March 2015.
>
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102306220/Japan%201575%2
> 0AFN%20The%20Source%20Misawa%20c%2017h00%20%209Mar2015%20Masset.mp3
>
>
> Finally, I attach a long mp3 file showing the strength of AFN as heard in
> Masset.   Lots of IDs, especially for Gravity on AFN.   I did faintly hear
> Yankee Doodle Dandy as well, coming from VOA in Thailand.
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102306220/Japan%201575%2
> 0AFN%20from%20c%2016h30%209Mar2015%20Masset.mp3
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <
> walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > My three favorite TP loggings form Alaska so far would have to be AFN The
> > Eagle 810, 50kw from Yokota Air Base Japan, AFN The Eagle 1575 5kw  from
> > Misawa Air Base Japan and V7AB 1098 13kw from The Marshall Islands
> >
> > In the first instance of logging AFN The Eagle 1575 on November 14th, it
> > happened at 1714UTC with Katy Perry's "Birthday" playing. Here is a 30
> > second recording:
> >
> > http://www.onairdj.com/amdx/AFNTheEagle1575_11142016_1814UTC.mp3
> >
> > After the Katy Perry song ended, I heard a break for public service
> > announcements and one of the announcements was two guys talking, and one
> > gave a phone number that sounded like 253-ACSC, but it's hard to know if
> > that's right through the jumbled mushy mess of a signal.
> >
> > At the end of the break, I heard a liner voiced by a deep voiced male
> that
> > said "AFN The Eagle, Serving America's Best". Here's a recording of that
> > liner:
> > http://www.onairdj.com/amdx/AFNTheEagle1575_11142016_1817UTC.mp3
> >
> > Here's one of 810 The Eagle form November 21st at 1851UTC:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnRaSgEBJu4
> >
> > Here's 810 The Eagle from November 22at 1843UTC:
> > https://soundcloud.com/onairdjpaulwalker/810november-22-2016-9-43-29-am
> >
> > Hear that chirping type sound in the background? It was in one of the
> > original clips I sent you as well. I did some research into this, and as
> it
> > turns out, that's South Korea on 819khz running the infamous "Video game
> > jammer" trying to jam Pyongyang and the signal is so wide it spreads 8khz
> > down the dial.
> >
> > This is what the video game jammer on 819khz really sounds like:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mb25e6IQrc&feature=youtu.be
> >
> > Here's 810 from November 24th at 1810UTC:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mROtw8UQ7nI
> >
> >
> > I had V7AB in at listenable levels for over half an hour on November 11
> > between 0518UTC and 0550UTC. The signal would fade down at times but I
> > would give this an overall SINPO rating of 35354. I'd rate this as good
> > because I was easily able to understand the music and the clips I
> uploaded
> > to YouTube garnered me 4 notices of copyright violations for the songs,
> > which were all correctly identified by their systems in the copyright
> > violation notices.
> >
> > Here's a few clips of V7AB where the music is very audible and easily
> > identifiable:
> >
> > http://www.onairdj.com/amdx/V7AB1098khz_11112016_0518UTC.mp3
> > http://www.onairdj.com/amdx/V7AB1098khz_11112016_0521UTC.mp3
> > http://www.onairdj.com/amdx/V7AB1098khz_11112016_0532UTC.mp3
> > http://www.onairdj.com/amdx/V7AB1098khz_11112016_0536UTC.mp3
> > http://www.onairdj.com/amdx/V7AB1098khz_11112016_0544UTC.mp3
> >
> >
> > Paul Walker
> > Galena, Alaska
> > Lowe HF225, Grundig Sattelit 750
> > DXEngineering HF PreAmp
> > Two 225 foot long wires
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