Skegness Log: 25-10-13 (MW)

1350 1655  J  JOER RCC Chugoku Hoso, Etajima/Okimi (chg-hir). Japanese YL and OM // 1413 
              9252 km **

1413 1700  J  JOIF KBC-Kyushu Asahi Hoso, Fukuoka (kyu-fuk). Getting quite regular lately!
              Japanese OM & YL, as 1350  9225 km

1557 1700 TWN Radio Taiwan Int., Kouhu (YL). Presumed. Time signal and YL in oriental language.
              Presume sign-off. https://app.box.com/s/1yv2kw2gwdc5sq7pwuaf  9715 km **

1017 2100 CHN China Radio Int./CNR 8, Changchun/SARFT523 (JL). CRI interval signal.
              https://app.box.com/s/ft21f8agfvotjj00ky7j  8011 km **

1566 2100 KOR HLAZ FEBC, Jeju=Cheju (jej). Almost like a local! Frequencies and ID just before
              the hour. https://app.box.com/s/vmxqopnirwl5f1sqo9mv  9067 km.
            
** Personal Skegness 'First'

More good conditions to the far east.

Very annoyingly, we suffered a power failure (we have several a week here out in the sticks) a few seconds after 1700 which damaged the SDR file. The file is still completely playable though (phew!) with the top of the hour section intact, but Wavchopper is unable to chop down the file because of the damage. So the remaining file is almost 600MB in size and I would love to upload this to a file storage site but I cannot find one which will allow such large files. If anybody knows of one please let me know asap as I would really like to archive this file.


The following might be worth further investigation:

702 1700 25-10-13: Chinese time signal and ID at 15 seconds.
https://app.box.com/s/zhogg5nnbtmk8payrl8v

1359 1700 25-10-13: Chinese OM and music. Time signals. YL echoey ID at 55 seconds.
https://app.box.com/s/gg1zt50zi3a29igjccto

1413 JOIF Fukuoka 1655 25-10-13. I just want somebody to listen to the recording and confirm this is really what I am hearing. I have no doubt in my mind but I find I keep pinching myself about the reception of Japan here.
https://app.box.com/s/8bq8vuaqcqlptuvwk8mz


Finally, these two are very weak. It has been suggested that 720 could be North Korea and 729 Vietnam. I can just imagine I am hearing the North Korean national anthem on 720. They are too weak for comfort however.

 720 1700 25-01-13; Chinese time signal and possible v weak YL ID
https://app.box.com/s/cn0wby49pwgk55ig1r66

 729 1700 25-10-13: Japanese time signal? Possible v weak YL ID?
https://app.box.com/s/67fvrda05tmm98q021bp


Some rough notes on other Asiatic DX. "Long pip" refers to those time signals used in the far east which could refer to South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, etc. and I include these just to show the amount of Asiatic DX which was coming in yesterday. Any audio was just that bit too weak for identification. I have cross-referenced them with the audio heard on Asiatic SDR files from Finland just to confirm I am on the right track with these.

 540 Long pip
 558 Chinese pips
 567 V v weak long pip under R Rossi
 594 Long pip
 612 V v weak long pip
 666 Long pip
 702 Chinese pips and ID
 711 Long pip
 720 Chinese pips x 2
 729 Long pip
 747 Indian music - clear under Holland // 783
 774 Oriental music, under Leeds
 828 Long pip
 855 Chinese pips
 963 Chinese pips
 981 Chinese pips
 990 Chinese pips
1044 Chinese pips x2
1071 V v weak Long pip
1098 Chinese pips
1170 V v weak Long pip
1224 V v weak long pip
1287 V weak Japanese pip
1305 Chinese pips
1341 Chinese under R Ulster
1377 Chinese pips
1386 V weak long pip
1404 Chinese pips
1413 Chinese pips under Fukouka
1467 TWR Kyrgyzstan
1494 Chinese pips
1539 Chinese pips
1557 RTI, Kouhu
1593 Chinese time signal

Well, the conditions haven't blown out yet so hopefully there will be more Asiatic DX along this afternoon.

Good DX!

John Faulkner, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com

Receiver: Perseus SDR
Antenna:  10ft x 25ft flag at 350 degrees
Software: Perseus v4.1a; HDSDR v2.63; Mestor