The 9th of February is the 9th anniversary of John's untimely death,
following a fall from a ladder at his home in Stillwater, OK. I still
think of John often. He was a good friend, mentor, teacher, and first rate
DXer. Rest in Peace, John. Please take a moment for some thoughts for
this amazing gentleman. Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC.

Walt, today, out of the blue, I happened to be thinking about John's trip
to Easter Island while I was driving around in Rochester wind and snow.
Not sure why, but maybe in your post you have supplied the answer! Jim
Renfrew

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On Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 21:55 Volodya S <canswl@gmail.com wrote:

> The 9th of February is the 9th anniversary of John's untimely death,
> following a fall from a ladder at his home in Stillwater, OK. I still
> think of John often. He was a good friend, mentor, teacher, and first rate
> DXer. Rest in Peace, John. Please take a moment for some thoughts for
> this amazing gentleman. Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC.
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Not a morning for much audio, and sunrise killed what was there pretty smartly.

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

not so

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

1566 HLAZ man in Chinese 1447UT

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

the above passing through

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)

702 man talking, DU English intonation? 1435UT

1593 man talking, Chinese intonation 1512 and 1533UT. Any possible SW parallels were buried in local noise.

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

594 774 1098 1422 1557 1611 seemed to be Asian;
603 657 756 837 891 1017 seemed to be DU

best wishes,

Nick

Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada

The 9th of February is the 9th anniversary of John's untimely death,
following a fall from a ladder at his home in Stillwater, OK. I still
think of John often. He was a good friend, mentor, teacher, and first rate
DXer. Rest in Peace, John. Please take a moment for some thoughts for
this amazing gentleman. Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC.