[IRCA] September 11 2016 PART Three (of 3) - West Coast TP's

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

900 - 1600 Khz

This morning did not belong to the upper band (and neither did
yesterday...) but with a little
patience and digging, some nuggets were retrieved.

909, 918, 927, 936, 945khz... carriers and little else during the 12:20
until 13:40 session.

954 khz Almost always TBS Tokyo JOKR and today no exception - higher energy
music and talk -
and you can tell by the fact that the female on-air personalities sound 16
years old and giggle a lot.

963 Khz - if you hope to hear Russian on medium wave these days, this will
be one of the first -
and ironically, it is from China. Come to think of it, Russia on
medium-wave is a sad shadow of
its former self. As little as 5 - 7 years ago there were a dozen high
powered Russian long wave
stations in Siberia that would put bone crushing signals into the North
West - truly staggering levels
of signals. 279 Khz being one good example. The electric bills got too
high. They turned them off.
Anyway - at great levels at 13:27 moments before the band started its
sunrise death pangs.

972 Khz KBS S. Korea - at 1500KW (max) this is easily the first S. Korean
station you will here.
IN for the entire morning session with chorale/christian sounding music and
talk.

1017 Khz JOLB Fukuoka, Japan - what I consider one of the more dominant and
easily received Tier-2
NHK2 stations. At a decent level around 1323 UTC

1053 Khz S. Korea Jammer - built for one purpose - to play something that
"sounds" like "Ditty ditty ditty ditty..." over and over again
with no variation - and much to my surprise, it sometimes fades revealing
either Japan underneath or the DPRK station its
trying to flatten. In this morning for the entire shift - but with JJ
coming to the surface every 5 - 10 minutes or so.

1143 Khz China (t) with Chinese opera - as opposed to more the poppy stuff
that Taiwan Fisheries plays - this is a classic
battle royale channel. Either one can appear.

1179 Khz UNid - 12:53 with what sounded like Chinese opera.

1242 Khz NBS JOLF - one of the top ten Japanese stations to usually appear
and top 5 among the "commercial" stations. 12:51 UTC

1287 Khz JOHR Hokkaido HBC - arguably the best sounding Tier 1 commercial
stations in Japan - often at absurdly good levels on the W/NW Flag
definitely in the category of "always there when the band is open..." and
often among the last to leave when sunrise sets in.

1566 Khz HLAZ (FEBC) - likely the consistently loudest Asian signal on the
band- with a couple of different antenna patterns - and at 250kw
packs a wallop and a great "split" for good penetration into the North
American continent. When in Hawaii, this appears early and stays late -
here on the west coast, it'll hang around regardless of the suns position
in the sky.

1575 Khz VOA Thailand - at a million watts, not quite the thumper that you
would expect. Almost always second fiddle to 1566 and always with Lao and
S.E.A. languages and familiar VOA interval signals on the hour.

1593 Khz CNR (t) China likely the chorale music at 13:32 as the band began
its shut down. This is a good window for Japan quite often later in the
season.

Receivers - Drake R8 / AOR 7030+
Antennas - W/NW Flag with FLG100 Wellbrook Head and "Newell made" Remote
VACTROL & ALA100 (N-S)

-- 
Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com
<http://www.Coffeecrew.com> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> -
VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - Canada
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