[IRCA] TPs Oct 18: Another Good CC Morning

["John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This morning, I was up almost three hours before dawn and the CCs 
were already rolling in. Over all, they were not up to the 
levels/quality of the past few mornings.  Things above 1000 seemed 
somewhat down, especially.  That being said, it was still pretty 
wonderful.  The UNID CC on 837 was in well and I got a decent 
recording at TOH, so there is a good chance of solving that mystery 
soon.  I also had CC for the first time ever on 720, but could not 
find a // before it faded.  I think that it was CNR2, which has 
multiple tx here.

Like most of us, I've continued to watch 1053 and I think that I 
heard Radio Veritas in the Philippines..... I could send a tentative 
report, but I think that I'll keep trying, as I only had about a 
minute of good talk plus some music... no ID.

The Chinese on 774 and 828 were almost totally dominant over the JJs 
and CNR1 was in again, tho' weakly on 540. The other mystery was 
fairly late beneath 1530, KFBK.  A guy in an Asian language was 
wildly haranguing a crowd. He was so emotional, so wound up and 
talking so fast that I had no chance to ID the language. I'm sure 
that it wasn't JJ... other than that.....

I'm afraid that the Wellbrook plus these wonderful conditions have 
allowed me to pretty well DX out the easy and semi-hard Alaskan 
stations.... but I'm still trying for more!  This morning very late I 
was hoping to catch something on 1 of 4 channels where there is a 
good bit of interference, mostly just to my east.  I figgered that 
there would be a short window of time through which Alaska would 
still propagate but after the semi-locals had been wiped out (or at 
least diminished) by the sun. I was bouncing around among the four 
channels and (very luckily) accidently had the recorder running. Just 
as I hit 1230, a female announcer gave a full ID and slogan for the 
station in Sitka, in Alaska's Panhandle! They the started a song and 
I got about half of that before things dropped back into the 
furball....  The first letter of the call happened immediately as I 
tuned to the frequency!  Wow.  Sitka is fairly close, but there are 
11 local stations in Washington and Oregon and three over the border 
in BC and western Alberta that are all in that mix, too. Pure blind 
luck, but I'll count that one as HEARD!

Raining hard here with windstorm to come.... welcome to the NW in the fall!

John B.

_______________________________________________
IRCA mailing list
IRCA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca

Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers

For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org

To Post a message: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx