[IRCA] October 1 - 2015 - Victoria B.C. TP's Full report

["R. Colin Newell" <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not a great morning - but not a bad one for doing a bit more homework and
getting a better lay of the land.

Having been antenna challenged for the last decade or so, the last 3-4
weeks have been a wake up call
with fresh antennas and renewed enthusiasm.

Listening period: 1325UTC until 1410UTC

1325 529 Khz SQM Alaska Aero weather reports at great levels - little of
nothing on 530 with W/NW Flag doing great rejection.
https://youtu.be/4y--dIqSWPw

1326 567 Khz Japan - usual sedate OM talking in Japanese - never got that
hot on the low band this AM.

1327 594 Khz Japan - at slightly more subdued levels in Japanese (747 and
774 present at good levels around now...)

1330 828 Khz Japan - one of the better low band signals with signature 1/2
hour music and YL announcements.

1332 972 Khz Korea - underperforming with music and talk... wait for it....
In the mud!

1334 1017 Khz  UNid - got to good levels at times - low modulation - with
talk by OM that was too muddled to make sense of or pick language

1334 1053 Khz S. Korea - usual jam consisting of what sounds like ditty,
ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty,
ditty, ditty, ditty, ...
or something slight more naught.... what a waste of radio waves.
Occasionally some Japanese surfaces here - but I have never actually
heard North Korea on here - maybe they need a memo.

1335 1098 Khz UNid - OM talk in an unidentified lang.

1339 1278 Khz UNid - OM Talk down in the mud - would get near audio
frequently - but never enough.

1339 1287 and 1386Khz - OM chat in Japanese - both frequencies were pretty
"present" most of the morning.

1342 1566Khz - Korea - Signal winner of the morning without question - next
door at 1575 Khz the VOA in Thailand was rocking it with Vietnamese and
about 7 db less signal

1345 1323 Khz - China - CRI in Russia - solid signal -
https://youtu.be/2vEA0jBsUzY - Video shows or has ID in CC and RR on the
hour

1356 1503 Khz - UNid - OM chatting what I think is Chinese -

1404 621 Khz - N. Korea (t) - assume the occasional snippets of strident YL
talk and the periodic sounds of sabres rattling.

Shut the radios off at 1410 and the opening was still lively but showing
signs of waning.

Earlier in the set I tried to do a comprehensive scan of channels that had
carriers on them that were worthy of "just short of audio..."
This is what I got while listening/scanning between  1320 and 1330 UTC

558, 603, 621, 756, 792, 819, 909, 918, 936, 945, 1008, 1089, 1143, 1179,
1215, 1224, 1233, 1242, 1251, 1296, 1305, 1314, 1359, 1377, 1413, 1422,

Looking forward to putting up a solid True North Flag this week and sucking
up a bit more of that TP energy and hopefully nailing some TA's this season.

Primary receiver: Drake R8
Second receiver: AOR 7030+
Third receiver: ICOM R71A
Primary portable: Eton E1
Secondary portable: Sony 2010



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*Colin Newell is the Editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com
<http://www.Coffeecrew.com> - Coffee.bc.ca <http://Coffee.bc.ca> and
DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> -| Amateur Radio VA7WWV |
Twitter.Com/CoffeeCrew | Victoria B.C. Canada*
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