[IRCA] TP's & DU's for Monday, August 20, 2012

[Dennis Vroom <vroomski@xxxxxxxxx>]

TP's this morning here down here. 738 Tahiti never made a appearance on 3 scans of their channel. The only DU for sure was 5AN 891 with announcer saying "ABC".  X band suspected DU's all had very poor or weak audio this morning. Radio Rossii on 153 was heard on all 4 antennas this morning. They have been out performing King of the long-waves
Radio Rossii on 279 this young TP season.  Will be interesting to read Gary's report from the Oregon Cliffs!  Enjoyed
Guy's report from the Grayland beach too. Listened from 1156-1335 utc.

153     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 1156-1159 Good signal, music followed by 3 Radio Rossii IDs, one singing ID with music.

180     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 1200 6 pips followed by woman in Russian. Weak signal.

189     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 1201 steady poor signal with static crashes. Woman in Russian.

209     ALASKA, weather forecast steady weak signal at 1203.

279     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 1204 good signal, not as strong as 153 Hz. Woman/man in Russian.

567     AUSTRALIA? 1218-1223 weak signal with music and moderate domestic splatter. Best on SW ewe. Faded out 1220.

657     DPR OF KOREA? 1241-1243 very weak signal with music. NW ewe.

657     NEW ZEALAND? 1215-1217 poor signal on SW ewe. Music in and out.   

748     JAPAN, JOIB NHK2 1247 weak signal with splatter from 750. Man/woman in Japanese. 

774     JAPAN, JOUB NHK2 1225-1228 weak signal with splatter. Woman in Japanese. Fair at 1226 with English Conversation Program. Good signal at 1248 with English Conversation program.

792     UNKNOWN, 1250 very weak signal with Asian language? Heard on NW & SW ewe, but better on SW ewe.

828     JAPAN, JOBB NHK2 1251-1252 very weak signal with Japanese // 774.

891     AUSTRALIA, 5AN 1257-1258 weak signal with announcer mentioning ABC.  No much Idaho splatter. 

1053    REPUBLIC OF KOREA, 1209 jammer on top of channel with weak signal and moderate splatter.

1386    JAPAN? 1232 very weak signal on NW ewe. One of the NHK2 stations?

1566    REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HLAZ fair signal at 1211 with man in Chinese.  

1575    THAILAND, Radio Saranrom 1212-1217 weak fading signal with woman in Thai.  PALs lists Radio Saranrom 1200-1230 Monday-Friday.

1584    UNKNOWN, 1302 duel stations with poor audio, equal poor strengths on the NW & SW ewes. 

1593    CHINA? CRN1 poor audio at 1236.  Weak at 1237 with Chinese?  

1611    AUSTRALIA, strong het, but no audio from 1314-1307.  

1656    Level 5 het 1308.

1665    Level 4 het 1308.

1674    AUSTRALIA, 1310 poor audio heard briefly, could not ID language.  Heavy splatter appeared from domestic.

1701    AUSTRALIA, 1312 very weak audio with XEPE fading. 1313 woman singing? Very poor audio or just my imagination?

Best regards,
 
Dennis,
Kalama, WA
JRC NRD 545 & DRAKE R8B
NW & SW ewe
Sky wire loop 753'
High Performance Active Whip (long-wave)
Solar Indices SF 96 A 12 K 2
Local Sunrise 1318 utc
      Sunset  0310 utc
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