Hello All,

 

     The new month brought the best Asian signals for quite a while here, including a very decent sunrise enhancement (also apparently noted by Walt, during his 1440 check with the Perseus and ALA 100 loop). Even though nothing new or rare was heard, it was a refreshing change from the late October doldrums.

     As usual, the TP's were fairly decent around 1300, with the NHK "big guns' and several other common Asians producing fair-good audio. Unlike previous days there was no mid-session propagation swoon, however, and signals stayed fairly stable right up until a pretty decent sunrise enhancement, which brought 639-CNR1 out of the noise with a fair to good signal. 738-BEL2 also had its signal enhanced up to a good level, and 1566-HLAZ and 1575-VOA came out of the noise. Listening to the 639-CNR1 signal with headphones allowed detection of the weak, mystery co-channel again (which is not // with 594 or 1134), with its hollow-sounding Asiatic language speech. Even though the chances of this IDing this station during the rest of this lackluster Fall Season seem like slim to none, considering the recent poor conditions, it's probably best to be thankful for the chance to even have such a TP mystery in November.

 

     The following were heard on a C. Crane SWP Slider model (7.5" loopstick), inductively coupled to a 6' sided "nasty weather" PVC tuned passive loop (in the rainy and windy back yard). A modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) was used as an SSB spotting receiver:

 

558  HLQH  Daegu, S. Korea  Fair Korean music at 1326, // 603

594  JOAK  Tokyo, Japan  Very good Japanese interview 1404

603  HLSA  Namyang, S. Korea  Poor-fair music at 1327, // 558

639  CNR1  China Synchros  Fair-good Chinese YL speech at

         1442; trace of weak UnID Asian co-channel underneath

         earlier  http://www.mediafire.com/?uyktvmy80fn2l0e 

648  VOR  Razdolnoye, Russia  Poor JJ speech in-out at 1441

657  Pyongyang BS, N. Korea  Another sunrise-enhancement

          latecomer at 1438; typical tirades and obsolete music 

738  BEL2  Penghu, Taiwan  Fair Chinese at 1318; good at 1446

747  JOIB  Sapporo, Japan  Fair-good Radio English study

          lessons at 1348   http://www.mediafire.com/?jp52plh554luz36

828  JOBB  Osaka, Japan  Fair Radio English program at 1337

936  Anhui, China (presumed)  Fair music at 1319

972  HLCA  Dangjin, S. Korea  Weaker than usual this morning;

          fair Korean around 1311

1134  KBS3  Hwaseong, S. Korea  Good Korean speech in

          domestic splatter late at 1436

1566  HLAZ  Jeju, S. Korea  Good Japanese language program

          at 1342 before ant. switch, then fair signals around 1430

1575  VOA  Ban Rassom, Thailand  Fair Asiaitc language audio

          out of the noise during sunrise enhancement at 1428

 

73 and Good DX,

Gary DeBock