DXpedition to
Grayland
September 9-10, 2006
by Chuck Hutton
945 CHINA location unknown, Sep
9 1230 good+ with the CNR sounder. This year, 945
has been better than 936 Anhui but the last few
years Anhui was a big #1. (CH-Sep 2006)
945 JAPAN NHK1 various locations
Sep 9 1233 mixing with China when China took a big
fade but otherwise well underneath. Parallel to
594. (CH-Sep 2006)
999 CHINA CNR 1100 Sep 9 weak
with pips at the top of the hour and the standard
CNR sounder. (CH Sep 2006)
1017 CHINA 1247 Sep 9 with fair+
Korean that turned out to be CRI with their listed
Korean program rather than MBC South Korea per Bill
Harms. (CH-Sep 2006)
1179 UNID 1252 Sep. 10 an Asian
station mixing with Japan, and it’s not standard
Mandarin Chinese but I can’t say what it is.
First time for a non-DU station to be heard with
Japan. (CH-Sep 2006)
1225 UNID 1325 Sep. 10 not //
NHK so not Japan. Bill Harms and I can’t say
what it is, but it’s not China or Japan. (CH-Sep
2006) 1251 CHINA unid Sep 9 with non-stop talk by
a woman from 1118 to 1131. No break at the half-hour
point. Clearly not CRI who is supposedly mostly
English and this didn’t sound like a big-production
CRI affair. Good+ signal at points with no slop
and just a trace of someone else way under. Sounds
like standard Mandarin to me, but take that with
a big grain of salt. (CH Sep 2006)
1269 JAPAN a mix of JOFM and
JOHW parallel to 1287 plus another Japanese station
that must be JOJR as the other listed Japanese station
is only 100 Watts. Fair, 1131 Sep 9. (CH-Sep 2006)
1386 SOUTH KOREA 1300 Sep 9 on
top of the channel with "MBC Yo'lshi-nyusu'
imnida" ID at the top of the hour after a single
pip. Japan and their 3 low + 1 high pips were there
too. Even more interesting was a set of 5 low and
1 high pips from an unid, likely China. Thanks to
Bill Harms for spelling out the Korean. (CH-Sep
2006)
1395 CHINA 1324 Sep. 10 fair-poor
with a man talking in Chinese and mixing with equally
difficult Korean. Either Anhui or Xilingol but I
have no way to tell which. (CH-Sep 2006)
1395 SOUTH KOREA HLCO assumed
the source of Korean (confirmed by Bill Harms) at
1325 Sep. 10 (CH-Sep 2006)
1404 JAPAN JOQL HBC Kushiro 1323
Sep 9 poor-fair but parallel to 1287 for an easy
ID. (CH-Sep 2006)
1404 SOUTH KOREA to fair level
1338 Sep. 10 with a woman in Korean, confirmed by
Bill Harms. That means this is HLKP (the only Korean)
with 10 kw. (CH-Sep 2006)
1449 JAPAN JOQM HBC Abashiri
fair-poor 1306 Sep 9, paralleled to 1287 for the
ID. (CH-Sep 2006)
1449 SOUTH KOREA HLQB Ulsan (assumed)
1307 Sep 9. Bill Harms confirmed I have a fair-poor
segment of Korean when Japan had faded. First time
for something other than Japan here. (CH-Sep 2006)
1449 CHINA unid 1305 Sep 9: Bill
Harms also found some Chinese in my recording, but
there are 2 listed Chinese so I’ll never know
who. (CH-Sep 2006) 1467 SOUTH KOREA 1400 Sep. 10
with fair “KBS” ID by man followed by
news in Korean. (CH-Sep 2006)
1485 SOUTH KOREA 1344 Sep. 9
audio rising from poor to fair levels a few times
and there was enough for Bill Harms to nail this
as being Korean. That means I heard HLQU / HLQS
(1 kw each) which are KBS relays. I’m quite
happy to have a log on this graveyard channel from
a distance of 500 miles (CH-Sep 2006)
1521 JAPAN NHK2 synchros
(6 at 1 kw) poor-fair 1143 Sep. 10 with a man talking
parallel to a powerful 774. (CH Sep 2006)
1548 UNID and puzzling. Clear oriental flute music
1156 to 1204 Sep. 10 including 5 short low and 1
long high pips at 1200. Sounded like there was an
echo, implying a second station. There’s no
network listed in the Pacific Asian Log so I can
only wonder who this was. There’s very little
on this channel in Asia – no Japanese or Korean
stations and only 2 Chinese and a couple Filipinos.
(CH-Sep 2006)
Posted on October
17, 2006
  
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