LOG: condensed Cape Cod report

[wa1ion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mark Connelly)]

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>From Mark Connelly (WA1ION@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)

I got a bit of listening done last weekend from the Cape Cod
area.  After reading the Iceland-189 reports, I figured I
should look for it.  On Saturday night (16 AUG local; 17 AUG UTC),
I received a signal on 189 with non-stop mellow pop music.  It
was one of the stronger longwave Trans-Atlantics, along with
France-162, UK-198, Luxembourg-234, and Ireland-252.  There
were thunderstorms in New Jersey and Long Island (about 300 km /
180 miles to the southwest), so static levels on longwave were
fairly high.  Has anyone received positive ID material from the
new 189 kHz station yet ?

The following is a chronological summary of some recent logs.  
A full details report including these and subsequent loggings
will be issued in 1 to 2 weeks.

16 AUG 1997: East Harwich, MA 
(* 0315-0359 UTC *) Grenada-535, Bahamas(ZLS)-526, Dominican 
Republic (PPA)-450, Turks & Caicos-530, Cuba-670, Cuba-710,
Venezuela-750, Spain-774, Spain-936, Spain-1017, local WKPE-1170
(should be daytime only !)
(* 0400-0459 UTC *) Vatican-1611, "WCTD" (WPKN270) RI TIS-1620, 
Sao Tome-1530, France-1206, France-1071, Spain-1044, Spain-1026
(* 1003 UTC *) Mexico-540

16 AUG 1997: Plymouth, MA (Robbins Road) 
(* 2315-2359 UTC *) Mauritania-1349, Algeria-1544, Kuwait-1548, 
Spain-1296, Libya-1251 (local-like!), Croatia o/u Spain-1134,
unID weak het-1126.2, jumble-1125, Spain-1071, Morocco o/u Spain-1044,
Spain-1026, Canaries o/ Spain-1008, Spain-999, Algeria-981 (huge!),
Portugal-963

17 AUG 1997: Plymouth, MA (Robbins Road) 
(* 0000-0059 UTC *) Spain o/apparent Middle East music-954, Spain-936,
UK o/others-909, Gambia-907.8 het only, Algeria-891, UK o/Canaries-882,
Spain-873, Egypt o/u unID C&W style folk vocal-864, Spain-855, 
Italy-846 (loud!), Canaries-Spain-837, Azores-836, Egypt o/Spain/
Morocco-819, Germany-873, Spain o/Jordan-801, Egypt-774 (huge, burying
Spain!), Syria/others-783, Switzerland-765, Spain o/u Germany-756,
Canaries-Spain-747, Spain-738, Spain-729, W. Sahara/3 others-711,
UK o/Azores/Spain-693, Spain-684, Spain-639, Canaries-Spain-621,
Egypt-621, Ireland/others-612, Spain-585, Algeria-549, Iceland(?)-189,
(* 0100-0114 UTC *) Netherlands(PCH)-1619.5, unID-1458, Germany-1422,
N. Ireland/unID (SS?)-1341, Norway-1314 o/Spain, UK-1215, UK-1089,
Albania-1089, Spain-1080, UK-1053

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Equipment used at Harwich was the Drake R8A fed by the MFJ-1026 
phasing unit with a Quantum Loop as the "main" antenna and the
built-in whip as the "auxiliary" antenna

The usual mobile cardioid-pattern set-up (R8A / RL-1 loop / RW-1
whip / DCP-2 controller-phaser) was used at the Plymouth site.

Best of DX & 73 to all ... Mark