On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:43:17 -0800, running dogg wrote:

Tebojockey wrote:

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 07:13:42 -0800, running dogg wrote:

I woke up at around 3:30 am local time so I decided to do some real
DXing for the first time in a year or more. I chose the 31m band because
it seems to have better reception during darkness hours. Comments at
bottom.

Time: 1145-1230 UTC
Place: Sacramento, California
Radio: Yaesu FRG-8800 with 50 foot longwire

9355 Radio Free Asia from Saipan in unknown language (Korean?)

This is from Saipan in LAOTIAN. 100kW on a Continental 418E/F
transmitter. I am the station engineer for Saipan/Tinian. :-)

Thanks. Passport doesn't indicate what language this is in, just
"other". I usually can't tell one Asian language from another. European
languages I'm pretty good at, especially the major ones, but with Asians
I can tell "Chinese" from "non Chinese" and that's it. Reception was
fairly good here on West Coast USA. I noticed the absence of jamming,
which I thought odd, but sometimes the Chinese jammer covers up the
signal and sometimes the jammer is weak. Depends on frequency, as far as
I can tell. What does 1200 UTC equate to in local time for Saipan?

That's 2200 local! We're UTC +10 here. And just for the record, it's
a breezy 80+ degrees F here too! LOL

Al

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