Re: [IRCA] Top 10 "Flamethrower" TP's in Kona, Hawaii

[Chris Kadlec <beaglebass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice clips, Gary!

A lot of those signals are better received in Hawaii than in Korea, but there is predictably a lot less noise from other stations in the middle of the ocean than in one of the most congested MW locations on Earth.

The CNR-1 theme music also serves as the TOH station ID, which you have there as well. I mean, even without the ID, it's darn well obvious what station you're hearing. That's the joy of networks like that. You can understand no Mandarin whatsoever yet you know what you've got.

1134 Tokyo also liked to trounce on my local KBS 2R from just about seven miles away. It could always be heard in the background despite being a good 700 miles distant. And then, of course, Seoul turns off for much of the early morning hours and it's all Tokyo.

The 1593 is just like in Korea. That darn NHK was always in the way and sounded almost exactly as it does in your clip!! Then BOTH of them turn off for the night as well. Then 1593 is just a graveyard of silence.

As for your 909 unID, the clip you posted is almost certainly CNR-6, 1000kw aiming east from Quanzhou, China. The clip sounds Hakka to me, not Mandarin. And CNR-6 has a Hakka programming block at the specific time of your recording. However, the station isn't on for the entire day; it takes breaks, so you very well may have been receiving a different station at the times it was off the air. I could probably get the children clip here confirmed as to whether it's Hakka or not, which would be your confirmation. I can usually tell them apart (harder when it's being sung obviously) after all my Taiwan Es received in Hakka and Hokkien, and while it's extremely likely, I can't be extremely sure.

Send me any of your Asian clips you have UNID if you wish. Even some of them that sound like a mess of Chinese to you may have obvious clues that rule out other stations and zero in on a specific one. Plus, I'm bored.

-Chris Kadlec
 Seoul AM Radio Listening GUide
 www.beaglebass.com/dx/seoul/



Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 01:36:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [IRCA] Top 10 "Flamethrower" TP's in Kona, Hawaii

8)  981  CNR1   Changchun, China  (200 kW)   This was another overwhelming Asian signal after 0800 on most evenings, and was far and away the strongest Chinese station. This thunderous CNR1 theme music was received at 0900 on 12-18  https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0390gk266y2v675chc196nejoe6rqxnw

10)  1134  JOQR   Tokyo, Japan  (100 kW)   The only commercial Japanese station to make this list, its fast-paced programming usually drowned out the KBS co-channel, as at 0945 on 12-20. Stronger than most NHK big guns!

https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/7wbk5ocbzaa5phxz9bnpr6bal4hqlzg7

Honorable Mention:  For technical reasons these two stations missed out on the Top 10. 909-Chinese was UnID (one of many such Chinese stations), and because of some Christmas music may possibly have been the 10 kW Taiwan station. Strong children's chanting in apparent Mandarin was heard at 0956 on 12-18  https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0siovz0ojkty9ocy0gzl40bnfrp7qxpo

1593-CNR1 would have made the list except it could never quite shake off its pesky NHK2 co-channel   https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/eybu72zjipo1zb5gz6qh461cfomjly5s    
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