[IRCA] Grayland day two

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Day Two at Grayland was similar to what Gary and Nick reported, but with 
a lot more stations.  Some had consistent reception, others popped up 
for a few minutes and then faded back into the mush.

DUs were in short supply and somewhat intermittent, despite having an 
antenna aimed at 242 degrees.  Instead, Japan dominated the scene. A 
handful of non-Japanese Asians had good signals at times, including the 
Koreans on 972, 1053, and 1566, Taiwan-1143, VOA-1575, Philippines-1215, 
and possibly 1-2 others.  We may find others once we dig through the SDR 
files.

The Big Gun NHK Stations were energetically vibrant at times, as were a 
few of the second, third, and fourth tier stations.  I managed to hear 
very faint NHK1 on 621 and 981, thanks to the absence of strong mainland 
Asians.  Those two frequencies had been my last two unheard NHK channels.

Some of the stronger Japanese included 594 666 693 729 747 774 828 837 
846 864 891 909 918 954 963 1008 1026 1053 1071 1089 1098 1116 1125 1134 
1152 1179 1188 1224 1242 1278 1287 1314 1332 1386 1422 1440  1503 1593 
and 1602.  I'm going from memory, so there may be others.  JOEF-918 had 
a nice YBC ID at 1400, a new one for me.  I also had a ToH ID as "JOHI" 
on 864, for which the closest match is JOHE.

Anyway, those are the highlights from today.  More to follow after we've 
combed through our files.

Day One, part 2 department:  I checked my Saturday morning overnight 
recording and had a good signal from Tuvalu-621 at 0730 (no actual ID so 
far but there was a newscast in an island language with several mentions 
of Tuvalu). Also, I'm pretty sure I had Micronesia on 999 with Christian 
programming.

Bruce


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