Monday, October 09, 2006

Blog Log - Asia on Medium Wave


Here's the latest on what Patrick Martin is hearing on medium wave from the west coast. Looks like he's had another stellar DX session! Thanks for the logs Patrick!
Gayle VH

Greetings all,
Lots of Japanese in this morning. More JJ than anything else. Kind of a
repeat of the other morning, however instead of Chinese it was mostly
Japanese.
531 JAPAN, Morioka, JOQG, good with man in JJ at 1350 10/6. (PM-OR)
540 JAPAN, Synchros, JJ echo here //to 531 at 1350 10/6 (PM-OR)
549 JAPAN/ RUSSIA mix here at 1356 10/6 (PM-OR)
558 JAPAN, Kobe JOCR, very good with woman in JJ at 1410 10/6
(PM-OR)
567 JAPAN, Sapporo JOIK, good //531 with JJ talk at 1351 10/6
(PM-OR)
576 JAPAN, Synchros fair with JJ talk //531 at 1353 10/6 (PM-OR)
585 JAPAN, Kushiro JOPG, good //594, 531, etc. 1352 10/6 (PM-OR)
594 JAPAN, Tokyo, toally 'local-like" signal at S9+20DB with JJ talk,
1357, ment NHK 10/6 (PM-OR)
603 JAPAN/KOREA mix here at 1410 10/6 (PM-OR)
612 JAPAN, Fukuoka JOLK good on top of DYHP at 1415 10/6 (PM-OR)
612 PHILIPPINES, Cebu City DYHP, took over channel at 1421 with
excited talk in Tagalog my man, mentioning Radio Mindanao Network 10/6
(PM-OR)
621 KOREA, presume the Northern KK in passing at 1405 10/6 (PM-OR)
630 CHINA, CNR2 good on top of domestics at 1407 10/6 with woman in
CC. (PM-OR)
639 CHINA, CNR1 good in passing at 1408 10/6, man & woman in CC.
(PM-OR)
648 RUSSIA, usual KK talk, Russian FS in passing at 1411 10/6 (PM-OR)
657 KOREA/CHINA mix here in passing 1411 10/6 (PM-OR)
666 JAPAN, Osaka JOBK, good //594 with man in JJ at 1411 10/6 (PM-OR)
675 JAPAN, Synchros o/u Vietnam at 1416 10/6 //594 (PM-OR)
675 VIETNAM, Hanoi, fair with woman in Vietnamese at 1418 10/6. On
top of JJ briefly. (PM-OR)
684 JAPAN, Nagasaki, JOAG //594 with other JJ in background at 1423
10/6. (PM-OR)
693 JAPAN, Tokyo JOAB, another armchair copy with JJ News in EE at
1402 10/6. (PM-OR)
702 JAPAN, Synchros //693 with EE News at6 1402 10/6 (PM-OR)
711 REP. KOREA, good with man in KK at 1403 10/6 (PM-OR)
720 PHILIPPINES, weak Taglog talk buried in jumble of domestic, JJ
stations at 1407 10/6 (PM-OR)
729 CHINA, CC talk u/o JOCK at 1345 10/6 (PM-OR)
729 JAPAN, Nagoya JOCK, with woman in JJ at 1345 10/6 (PM-OR)
738 TAIWAN, Taiwan Fishery station here, BEL2 quite good with woman
in Cantonese or Taiwanese at 1425 10/6 (PM-OR)
747 JAPAN, Sapporo JOIB armchair copy with news in EE at 1403 10/6
(PM-OR)
756 JAPAN/CHINA mix here at 1403 10/6 (PM-OR)
t765 JAPAN, Kofu, JOJF, probably the one with JJ talk by excited
woman at 1429 10/6 (PM-OR)
774 JAPAN, Akita JOUB another armchair copy // 747 wiuth news in EE
at 1404 10/6 (PM-OR)
783 CHINA, fair to weak CC talk in noise at 1422 10/6 (PM-OR)
792 REP. KOREA, fair with woman in KK. Sounded like a childrens show
of some kind at 1434 10/6 (PM-OR)
801 GUAM, Agana KTWG fair with minster in EE at 1415 10/6. This is
the most common Guam station here. (PM-OR)
810 CHINA, CC talk u/KGO at 1427 10/6. Presume the Zhejang BS
station, logged here in the past. (PM-OR)
819 KOREA here in garbled audio. Think NK is off freq giving Rep.
Korea fits at 1425 10/6 (PM-OR)
828 JAPAN, Osaka JOBB //774 with EE news at 1405 10/6 (PM-OR)
837 JAPAN, Niigata JOQK, JJ talk in 840 splat, during a phase at
1440 10/6 (PM-OR)
855 CHINA, CC talk here in passing at 1423 10/6 (PM-OR)
864 REP. KOREA/JJ talk, mix here at 1412 10/6 (PM-OR)
873 JAPAN, Kumamoto JOGB //828 with EE pgming at 1414 10/6 (PM-OR)
882 UNID, sounded CC in off freq garbled mess here at 1437 10/6
(PM-OR)
891 JAPAN/KOREA mix here in passing at 1441 10/6 (PM-OR)
891 THAILAND, Bangkok fair above jumble with woman in Thai at 1357
10/6 (PM-OR)
900 CHINA, UNID CC u/CKMO at 1445 10/6. (PM-OR)
909 JAPAN, Nagoya JOCB // 873 woith woman in EE at 1416 10/6 (PM-OR)
918 CHINA, Shangdong good with woman in CC at 1356 10/6 (PM-OR)
927 CHINA, CC talk at 1356 10/6 (PM-OR)
936 CHINA, Anhui good with ID at 1359.40 with pips to 1400, then CC
music into pgm 10/6 (PM-OR)
945 CHINA/JAPAN mix here at 1410 10/6 (PM-OR)
954 JAPAN, Tokyo JOKR, good with man in JJ at 1409 10/6 (PM-OR)
963 CHNIA, FS in Russian, good as usual with man in RR at 1421 10/6
(PM-OR)
972 REP. KOREA, KK talk by woman at 1432 10/6 (PM-OR)
981 CHINA, CNR 1 good with woman in CC at 1407 10/6 (PM-OR)
990 CHINA, CC talk buried in domestics at 1424 10/6 (PM-OR)
999 CHINA, mostly buried by KOMO splat at 1431 10/6 (PM-OR)
1008 JAPAN, Osaka JONR very good with JJ pops and woman in JJ at 1440
10/6 (PM-OR)
1008 UNID u/JONR. Did not sound KK or CC, but Asian lang. of some
kind, but buried under strong JONR at 1442 10/6 (PM-OR)
1017 JAPAN, Fukuoka, JOLB //873 with EE talk in passing 1437 10/6
(PM-OR)
1026 CHINA, Beijing presume the source of the CC talk here at 1416
10/6. The most common CC here. (PM-OR)
1026 PHILIPPINES?, weak signal during CC fade at 1417 10/6 of
discussion program. Man sounded like a Tagalog accent. Likely DZAR.
(PM-OR)
1035 CHINA, CC talk here in passing at 1417 10/6 (PM-OR)
1044 CHINA, FS in JJ at several passings 10/6, noted 1450 (PM-OR)
1053 JAPAN, Nagoya JOAR, very good above KK at 1435 10/6 and other
times. (PM-OR)
1062 PHILIPPINES, Quezon City DZEC, fair with man in Taglog at 1422
10/6 (PM-OR)
1062 REP. KOREA KK talk in passing at 1443, with Filipino buried by
that time. (PM-OR)
1071 JAPAN, Obiriro, JOWM STV good with JJ talk //1440 (JOWF) at
1446 10/6 (PM-OR)
1089 UNID here, sounded JJ in splat at 1447 10/6 (PM-OR)
1098 JAPAN, two of the JJ comerical stations in 1100/1090 splat at
1439 10/6 (PM-OR)
1107 JAPAN, Commercial JJ stations here at 1451 10/6, woman with JJ
talk. (PM-OR)
1116 JAPAN, Commercial JJ stations here 1452 10/6, man with JJ talk.
Sounded like more than one. (PM-OR)
1125 PHILIPPINES, Davao City DXGM, once again with man in Tagalog at
1429 (same ancr as earlier hrd in the week) 10/6, but station was much
weaker today. (PM-OR)
1134 JAPAN, Tokyo JOQR, good with woman in JJ at 1424 10/6 (PM-OR)
1143 TAIWAN, BEL3 Fishery station //738 with Cantonese/Taiwanese
talk 1425 10/6. (PM-OR)
1152 JAPAN, Synchros with EE talk at 1419 10/6. (PM-OR)
1161 CHINA, Beautiful CC mx at 1438 10/6 in passing. (PM-OR)
1179 JAPAN, Osaka JOOR, very good and holding its own easily with
woman in JJ with JJ pop mx at 1452 10/6. (PM-OR)
1197 JAPAN, fair with woman in JJ talk 1453, but beginning to lose
the signal rapidly, and KEX splat creeping in more and more. (PM-OR)
1206 CHINA, CC FS in KK good all morning 10/6, noted several times
in passing between 1344 to almost 1500. (PM-OR)
1215 CHINA, weak CC talk in splat at 1428 10/6 (PM-OR)
1242 JAPAN, Tokyo JOLF, good with man in JJ at 1340 10/6 (PM-OR)
1278 JAPAN/CHINA mix here at 1409 10/6 (PM-OR)
1287 JAPAN, Sapporo JOHR good with man in JJ at 1447 10/6 (PM-OR)
1296 JAPAN, Matsue, JOTK, JJ talk at 1347 10/6 (PM-OR)
1305 REP. KOREA, fair w/ KK talk in a349 10/6 (PM-OR)
1314 JAPAN, Osaka JOUF, OBC fair with woman in JJ at 1342 10/6
(PM-OR)
1323 CHINA, Russian FS fair in garbled, sounded like jammer or
someone off freq. at 1355 10/6 (PM-OR)
1332 JAPAN, Nagoya JOSF, fair in splat at 1444 10/6 (PM-OR)
1386 JAPAN, NHK synchros, fair with news in EE at 1406 10/6, splat
from 1380/1390. (PM-OR)
1413 JAPAN, Fukuoka JOIF, fair with man in JJ at 1448 10/6 (PM-OR)
1440 JAPAN, Sapporo JOWF, fair u/o domestics at 1446 //1071 10/6.
Man in JJ talk (PM-OR)
1449 JAPAN, fairly strong JJ talk in heavy splat from rock music
being played on GYer KBPS 1450, 75 miles away!! At 1433 10/6. (PM-OR)
1503 JAPAN, Akita JOUK , JJ talk at 1456 10/6 (PM-OR)
1557 TAIWAN, Family radio here at 1330 with minister in EE 10/6
(PM-OR)
1566 REP. KOREA, Cheju HLAZ, very good as usual 10/6, all morning.
(PM-OR)
1575 THAILAND, VOA good at 1441 10/6 (PM-OR)
1593 JAPAN, Synchros good at 1408 10/6 with EE News and discussion.
NHK 2 //828. (PM-OR)
A very good JJ morning. I just wish I could have fiqured out whick JJ I
was hearing on 1449. It is rare to hear one there with audio.
(Patrick Martin, Seaside, OR/Drake R8)