Nice catches!! You got really far inland on those, so I'd call that
a big success. I'm impressed!!!
Your 972 would be Henan Economic Radio most likely, 100kw. It
regularly is heard behind 1500kw 972 in Seoul and is a really hard
signal to shake. I've IDed it a few times under there and 972 is
under 40 miles away. Nothing else with enough power to hear on that
frequency in Chinese, anywhere.
918 would be Shandong People's Radio, Jinan (200kw). It's a mess of
echoes in Seoul because there are other 50 and 10kw affiliates on
the same frequency.
819 I'd imagine is Pyongyang. I doubt you'd hear MBC (never say
never I guess). But that Korean inflection is drastically different
between north and south. The northern media dialect (which doesn't
resemble normal speech patterns) is very distinct, but sometimes
they also run more normal programming with normal speech patterns.
1377 is obviously CNR-1 in Zhengzhou //Beijing (the reason your 972
is even more obvious). That's far inland, but they get out strong
into Seoul even at 600kw. I wonder about the distance of that, geez!
They're the only CNR-1 on the frequency as well and the frequency
isn't busy at all in the region.
756 is CNR-1 Harbin, 100kw (or one of the many smaller CNR-1s, but
doubtful given your other stations from up that way). 756 is almost
exclusively owned by CNR-1. There's a 10kw station in Japan and no
stations whatsoever on 756 in Korea to hear.
1242 is obviously Nippon, Tokyo, 100kw as you likely suspect anyway.
They play music and their unique cuckoo clock TOH ID sound. Nothing
else to hear on there and 1242 in Korea recently went on super-low
power. At 40 miles, you can barely hear the thing anymore whereas it
used to pummel Tokyo, but no more.
All the others I'm sure you obviously know, such as the two
Changchun signals (981, 1017) and Beijing. Anything else would be
mere speculation on my part as you obviously have a fair number of
10kw signals in there that you got.
-Chris Kadlec
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 06:29:49 +0000
From: Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [IRCA] TP 2 Dec Victoria version
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker,
at least briefly):
594 JOAK Japanese man in Japanese 1505UT
747 JOIB man in Japanese //774 (much weaker) 1510UT
972 HLAZ man in Korean 1503UT, had been bothered by a Chinese speaker
a minute or two earlier.
1566 HLAZ choral music 1539UT
Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it
understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise):
639 CNR1 man in Chinese, one low pip, one high pip, Beijing time
check 1430UT, news sounder etc.
981 CNR1 woman in Chinese 1508UT, ID'd earlier by parallels
1017 CRI woman in Korean 1502UT
not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or
noise could be understood by a native speaker:
558 HLQH soft vocal music 1441UT //603 which channel was actually
mostly Chinese talk by woman
603 HLSA soft vocal music 1431UT, //558 which was barely there just then
612 4QR fanfare, ABC news 1500UT
891 JOHK man in Japanese //594 1401UT
918 unID woman in Chinese 1506UT
945 CNR1 man in Chinese, news sounders 1530UT, best on north Flag
1206 Yanbian woman and man in Korean 1501UT
1287 JOHR man in Japanese 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)
702 2BL man talking //612 1507UT, plus someone else.
819 woman and man talking, Korean inflection 1504UT
837 JOQK man talking //891 1401UT
972 unID woman talking, Chinese inflection during dip in HLCA's signal 1502UT
1143 woman talking, Chinese inflection 1503UT; something else there also
1242 pop music 1503UT
1323 CRI immense carrier, slightest traces of chimes and fanfare
1500UT, heck, those could have been from one of the other CRI
stations on that channel, they were so weak. There were a couple of
other carriers on the channel, but no better than 20dB down
1377 CNR1 man talking, news sounders, //639 1502UT
Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or
ravaged by splatter) lots of near audio here
621 756 855 936 1008 1035 1098 1107 1152 1179 1251 1278 1386 1422 1476
best wishes,
Nick
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