KONG51 - Day Five

 What a nice view from my bedroom window when I woke up this morning!

Following yesterday evening's excellent opening towards Japan, I thought I'd share audio from two regular catches here, JOAR 1053 kHz and JOSF 1332 kHz, both located in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, between Tokyo and Osaka. Their signals were HUGE yesterday. Enjoy one-minute MP3 recordings with IDs by clicking the links above. Remember, these 50-kW stations are almost 7000 km away.

A few noteworthy logs from today: KOKL-OK 1240, KNND-NV 1400, KVDW-AR 1530, KHIT-NV 1450 (amazingly common), a few from Hawaii also noted like KKEA-1420 and KHKA-1500. Tonga-1017 and Majuro-1098 also excellent signals before the Asians arrived on the band. As mentioned in yesterday's blog post, yesterday evening brought daytime-powered WHGT-MD 1590, and also WBSM-MA 1420 and KVDW-AR 1530, mentioned above.

Another great day for Japan's NHK-2 network today. More 100-watt stations identified among massive Chinese power houses, the 1359 kHz Wajima relay of JOJB Kanazawa (1386), and the 100-watt 1539 kHz Masuda relay of JOTB Matsue (1593). What are Japanese radio engineers made of. Again, these signals travel almost 7000 km. At 20:00 an NHK-1 opening revealed a couple of 100-watt relays from the south of Japan. Whatever we hear the rest of the evening will be told tomorrow.

Alas, the alt-Loran recordings were a disappointment. When we got there today we discovered that the beverage to feedline  transformer was literally under water, and parts of the Zarges aluminium case with the equipment was too - luckily the water hadn't reached the PC and the Perseus yet. We got everything on "dry land" and it will hopefully perform better the rest of the week.

After not having had a proper wash since Thursday, it was refreshing to go to the municipal centre Berlevåg afterwards and have a swim, a sauna and a shower. All for the equivalent of 10 USD.

Windy but sunny today, just above freezing. There were some icy patches on the road to Berlevåg, so we didn't rush it. Looks like it's going below zero overnight, and more as today tomorrow.

Dinner! One of Norway's national courses is "Fårikål" or "Får i kål", which translates to "Sheep in cabbage". I guess the recipe is self-explanatory except we use lamb meat. Cooked for 3 hours with fresh rosemay (obviously not part of the Norwegian tradition), served with potatoes and often carrots. Basically a lamb stew. Amazing. The Norwegian farmer knows his/her business. Served with the Côtes du Rhône mentioned two days ago. For dessert we had an apple pie I made today which you can see below:

Apple pie, turbine style

Served with whipped cream and a Tokaij dessert wine.

And that's all for today. -1 Celsius outside, warm and cozy inside. Clear skies and traces of aurora in the eastern sky.