[IRCA] TP 18 Feb Tofino version

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

A busy week last week, with no reports from Victoria.   One reason 
was a couple of days DXing at Tofino, BC, so  I thought I would do a 
quick DXpedition report for at least February 18th, using a FLG100 
and a NetSDR at the beach, coinciding with part of Bill Whitacre's 
expedition at Grayland.

Bill had good conditions the previous day, but things hit the skids 
with a K = 5 early in the evening as I was setting up the 
antenna.  I'd hoped for great DU conditions, but in fact nothing too 
amazing was heard, and by 1200UT, JOBB-828 was the strongest overseas 
signal on the band.    But that didn't mean that there was a lot of 
Asian action either.   I'd suggest that it was like a really good 
morning at home, and the same "digging in the dirt" DX techniques 
were needed to get anything other than the regulars.   More northerly 
paths than those from Honshu were definitely missing.

Not too many program details in this report, just stations, times 
heard, and signal strengths.   Conditions were better on 19 February, 
but I'm still going over those files.


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

594 JOAK man JJ 1545UT
693 JOAB EE lessons 1425UT discussing phrase "out of whack",
774 JOUB EE lessons 1426UT
828  JOBB 1401UT, KK lessons very good indeed; dominant station today
873 JOGB man JJ //weaker 828 1503UT
1116 4BC  1516UT, multiple station ID by man:  2CC, 2UE, 3AW,  4BC
1566 HLAZ woman CC 1512UT



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

603 1100UT,but just changed its mx selection across hour...NZ?
621 0959UT   island choral mx briefly at this level, Tuvalu?
702 1427UT DU EE man, series of commercials, likely NZ, fair to good
738  Tahiti 1301UT  man en francais briefly at good/fair level
792  4RN 1001UT  increasing strength after hour man giving news DU 
EE; didn't get ABC radio ID until 1200UT though, along with ABC nx fanfare
819  R.NZ National1440UT DU EE woman interviewing man on phone, fair 
to good in splash, //very weak 756
954 JOKR man woman JJ 1521UT
972 HLCA man woman KK 1517UT
1287 JOHR woman JJ 1430UT



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

612 woman DU EE 1452UT, likely 4QR
657 1438UT soft ballad, then at 1503UT woman with wx forecast in DU 
EE, likely Southern Star?
702 NHK2 1402 UT KK lessons, //828
747 JOIB JJ man 1449UT
864 chanting vocal 1426UT
1008 JONR 1404UT man in JJ
1035 Newstalk ZB man talking, poor //1008 which was marginally better
1188 JOPK woman JJ //594 1527UT
1242 JOLF man JJ  1516UT
 1314 JOUF man woman JJ at 1525UT
 1332 JOSF man JJ 1525UT
 1386 NHK2 //774 man woman 1530UT
1422 JORF man woman JJ 1524UT
1512 woman DU EE 1534UT
1548 man DU EE 1533UT



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)


a first pass, there may be others: 567, 684, 909, 918, 963, 1089, 
1098, 1179, 1269,1323, 1476, 1494,1512,1575,1629

828 1100UT  3GI pips and ABC nx fanfare, weak, and //stronger 702, an 
hour later had been replaced with much stronger JOBB....
846 1200UT   NHK1 pips and man talking, poor //594
1053  1458UT, laid back vocal mx //1035, so ZB I guess

	


Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or 
ravaged by splatter)

quite a lot...there's a reason to be at the coast, even when conditions are bad




best wishes,

Nick

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