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[IRCA] TP Reprt from Masset for 4Sep08 Disturbed!
TP report from Masset 4 Sep08 DISTURBED!
What can I say, but disturbed! Listening was a challenge this morning. Strange to say the least. First a brief note on last night’s TA (or total lack there-of!). There was virtually nothing to be heard….189, 1215 and 1377 yielded smatterings of audio, and that was about it.
Now onto this morning. Listened from 12:32 to 14:29. I knew something was up when the LW band was practically dead with only 2 Russians in weakly on 153 and 279. On MW things also started very slowly. Overall signal strengths were mostly down and highly variable. I note there has been moderate solar activity and G2 Geomagnetic storms with SF at 66, A 7, and K (12:00) 4. Explains a lot, I suppose!
1566 for example, had the usual HLAZ on very strong, but during some dead air at 13:45, presumed 3NE just blasted in for a brief period only. Brisbane was in very strongly on 612 at 13:35, not earlier, nor later. Instead JOLK was there at 9 level at 13:50 along with a cochannel Filipino. 4QD Emerald was also present on 1548 at 13:44 with a 9 signal. Also had weak English on 675 at 12:29, but couldn’t tell whether Australia or NZ.
My favourite for the morning was 1017 with a Filipino, 9 at times, with a call-in show and Karioke (or local renditions of popular songs which sounded pretty flat to me!). Never did get an ID despite quite a lot of monitoring. Other stations would fade in and out, usually JOLB, but occasionally a CC station too. I’ll have to check my Perseus files for this one. The best antenna this morning was probably the ALA 100 large loop oriented 210/30 degrees….strange, but it worked well. The N mini-Beverage was almost as good, but wasn’t quite as good for the DU stuff. The WB array and NW BOG were mostly useless!
A number of other Filipinos were also heard including 999 at 14:00 without any ID. I did not hear the RRI station today. A thought on yesterday’s RRI….wonder whether they’re on for Ramadan which started at the end of August. Perhaps!
Finally got a nice ID for KTWG, Guam at 13:57.
Not much Russian activity this morning, apart from Mayak weakly on 549, and 720 VOR JJ with a cochannel on 719.9. The North Koreans were better with 621 being // to 656.98 (at 9 level at 14:22).
963 had virtually no sign of CRI in Russian…very unusual!
1170 had VOA very strong in CC at 14:16.
1422 JORF had some company on 1422.8. No idea who.
1467 with 2 cochannels…prob JJ and KK, also had someone on 1476.07. By the way, have not heard anything from Malaysia on 1475 for a few days now.
1557 WYFR was pretty strong at 14:07 in slow English.
648, once again, carried VOA in KK with an English clip at 14:23, along with a cochannel and 647.87.
2 points especially for Bruce Portzer and the PAL. Yesterday while reviewing my Perseus files, I heard the Voice of Russia IS at 14:00 on 1251, 1269 and 1323. I don’t recall seeing anything about VOR on the latter 2 frequencies. Not sure about languages.
That’s it for today. Have a great day, and I do hope things settle down!............Walt.
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