Rockport, MA DX preview (13/14 MAY)

[wa1ion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mark Connelly )]

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Hi Bruce, Jean, Neil, the BADX crew, and hard-core DXers:
Conditions at Granite Pier in Rockport (MA) last night were 
really cranked up to Europe and North Africa.  There was 
action on the dial right from the "get go" when I set up 
shop at 7 p.m. local / 2300 UTC (well before sunset).  Here's 
a preview (full logs will be added to this coming weekend's 
planned Cape Cod / South Shore reports):

CHRONOLOGICAL LOG (Granite Pier: Rockport, MA) -=- Mark Connelly  

13 MAY 1997 
<* 2300-2359 UTC *> Mauritania-1349, St. Pierre-1375, 
Spain//Canaries-1179, Morocco-1044, Algeria-981, Algeria-891,
Spain//Canaries-882, Spain//Canaries-837, Canaries-1008,
Spain/Morocco-1044, Spain-1098, Croatia o/Spain-1134,
Spain o/Croatia-1125, Spain/UK(?)-1143

14 MAY 1997 
<* 0000-0059 UTC *> Spain-1152, UK-1215, unID (not UK)-1197,
Spain o/ others-1224, France-1242, Libya-1251, UK/Spain-1296,
Spain-1305, Norway-1314, N.Ireland-1341, unID-1368, unID-1386,
Netherlands-1395, Germany o/ others-1422, Saudi Arabia-1512 
(loud!), Spain/UK(?)-1521, Algeria-1544, Kuwait VOA (huge) 
o/UK-1548, Spain-1575 (o/Italy), Ceuta/Spain-1584, Spain-1602, 
Germany(RTTY)-1608, Netherlands(PCH)-1619.45, Sweden(SAB)-1620, 
unID FF (USB)-1713.05, Spain-1698, Denmark?(OXZ)-1613

<* 0100-0159 UTC *> Norway(LGB TLX)-1611.4, Switzerland-1566,
Iran(t)-1386 [Koran], Spain-1287, Spain o/2 others-1107,
Spain-1116, weak Angola het-1115, Slovakia-1098 (local-like!),
UK-1089 (10 dB better than WBAL), Morocco(?)-1080 [AA u/ WTIC],
UK-1053, Spain-1044, Spain-1026, Spain o/others-1017, Spain-954,
UK o/ others-909, Gambia-907.8 het only, UK-882, Egypt-864 local-
like, Spain-855, Italy-846, Azores-836 (NOTE: 1 kHz low of nominal
837), Egypt o/others-819, Syria-783 (o/Spain/Portugal),
Egypt/Spain-774, Switzerland-765, Germany o/Spain-756,
Netherlands (o/Spain-Canaries)-747, Spain-738, UK slightly o/
Azores/Spain-693, Spain-684, Netherlands-675, Spain-639,
Morocco slightly o/others-612, Spain-585, Ireland-567, 
Algeria-549

It amazed me that some of the signal strengths were "winter-
like" only 5 weeks before the longest day of the year here in
the Northern Hemisphere.  South American and Caribbean stations
were poor, barely worth mentioning.

Any comments on listening done at the same time as my Rockport
DX session will be appreciated.  

73 / good DX ... Mark