Re: [IRCA] TPs from Victoria BC on November 20

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hi Nick,
 
Great job on the new NHK1 logging on 675 kHz. Usually when there is a 675  
kHz mix here it turns out to be Vietnam and Hohhot, but I haven't  heard 
them together since the peak October days. Of course, after sunrise  the TP's 
here in inland Puyallup fade out much more quickly than in salt  
water-enhanced Victoria.
 
Like you, I have also heard the UnID Chinese on 972 kHz mixing it up with  
HLCA recently. The 972 Chinese seems to have a talk-oriented format, unlike 
the  828 kHz music-oriented Chinese station which has been giving JOBB  such 
competition this month.
 
On 594 kHz, I had no trace of the echo (or Chinese) that you and John had  
under JOAK, although I did have the Korean mixing very strongly until around 
 1500. Usually the TP propagation here will not last very long  after 
that-- recently around 1510 the TP's are leaving for good.
 
Thanks again for your detailed and positive TP report from yesterday, which 
 along with Nigel's equally glowing summary helped convince me that the  
late-season band still had bright spots.
 
73, Gary 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/20/2009 10:11:30 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
nhp@xxxxxxxx writes:

Bit of a  mistake this morning, as didn't start listening until after 1500, 
and things  were pretty lively then; hopefully this was the peak, as it 
hadn't been really  exciting at 1300.   0630 to 0700UT the evening before had 
been  pretty good however w/the NHK2 Kitami transmitter (presumably) on 702 
noted  //774, and the Hokkaido NHK1 station on 1188 noted //594;  likely  
Russians on 765,  666, 234 and 279 etc. plus carriers on 738, 846 and  1017 
which looped towards the Pacific islands.

Most interesting was 3  signals on 675, one presumably Vietnam, one turned 
out to be NHK-1 (new; there  are two listed), plus ??? 

It's still not entirely dead after 1700UT,  with CNR-1 on 945 identifiable 
by //5030, as well as what sounds like another  CC (even though PAL lists 
Heilongjiang s/off at 1500UT, there seems to be a  Heilongjiang 945 webstream 
still going strong, and they sounded similar to  what I was hearing).     
972 and 1287 still have some audio  from time to time also (actually 1287 had 
fairly readable audio at 1726UT),  and 1566 would have good audio if they 
actually had any modulation  left.   Could hear 1566's carrier cut at 1729:45 
for the change in  antenna direction; even stronger carrier afterward, but 
any audio would be  imaginary....somewhat less imaginary talk at 1736.

pretty darn good  audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at 
least briefly):  

279 R. Rossii at 1526
594 JOAK; someone under had an echo on  it.
639 CNR-1 //5030  at 1521
747 JOIB later; 1520UT
774 JOUB  
828 JOBB
936 assumed Anhui initially, but actually two stations; the  louder at 1530 
had classical sounding piano, which I haven't heard as part of  Anhui's 
programming
1575 VoA at 1518UT


reasonable audio   at  times during the period (much of it understandable 
by a native  speaker,
though often battling w/splash or noise):

531 JOQG //594 at  1525
585 JOPG //594 at 1523
918 CC with echoey CC talk, and mx  underneath from someone else


not so reasonable audio, occasional  words or phrases in splash or noise 
could be understood by a native  speaker

153 R. Rossii
558 HLQH //603 plus one other
567 JOIK  //594; not up to its usual strength
675 three stations trading places, one  NHK1
873 JOGB //828
945 CNR-1 delay of >1 sec from 5030
972 two  stations here, one seemed CC, the other had KK talk so HLCA
1134 CNR-1  delayed by <1 sec from 5030
1251 mx at 1538, VoR; gone before a parallel  found
1287 JOHR at 1540; had been better at 0700UT the evening before (and  
nearly as good at 1726)
1503 JOUK //594 at  1543UT





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) :

711 big carrier, possibly HLKA
846  seemed //594 so NHK-1
855
981 //5030 at 1532, so CNR-1
1269, no  //1287 at the time though

Strongish het, no audio (either  undermodulated or ravaged by splatter):

1539 (didn't seem to be UAE; no  Farda on 1575 either) , 1566

best  wishes,

Nick




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Nick  Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada   

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