[HCDX]: Boston-area X-band + some foreign DX

[WA1ION@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On a drive home from Cape Cod on Saturday afternoon, I stopped
at a good beach DXing site at the Powder Point Bridge in 
Duxbury, MA.

The 1650 Logan Airport TIS station came in with a very clear
(S9) signal at 2239 UTC before Virginia faded in (eventually
overtaking it).  The message I heard was "This is a test message:
Test Message Number 7".

On 1640 I heard the Haitian Creole pirate Radio Nouveaute from
the Dorchester section of Boston.  It was about S5 to S6 on the
Drake R8A meter.

Foreign DX was interesting: not much out of northern or eastern
Europe, but very strong Spain and North Africa.  All the usual
stations from that area were loud; I'll have a complete report
on the DX later.  Morocco on 612 seems to be reactivated as 
I heard African drumming and shouting, then followed by more-
Arabic-sounding music at 2350 UTC (17 APR).  Brazilians on
760 and 690 were noted.  Off-channel stuff: Azores is still
on 836, Ceuta on 1583.62, RASD Algeria on 1550 (loud at 2235
through local WNTN), and tentative Angola on 1502.0.  Caribbean
splits 555, 705, and 895 started showing up a bit after sunset
as I was getting ready to leave: the signal levels of these
weren't that impressive.

MW DX observations by others are always of interest here.

73 / good DX ... Mark

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This message is a follow-up to:

On 04/17/99 20:02:44 you wrote:
>
>Keith,
>
>This is a new TIS for the Logan International Airport.  How close are 
>you to the Airport?  
>
>Licensee - MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY
>No call assigned yet.
>Phone - (617) 561-1917
>
>Possible QSL address -
> 
>OPERATIONS LOGAN INTL AIRPORT CORBETT
>600 TOWER RD
>EAST BOSTON
>MA  02128
>
>Transmitter location - TAXI POOL LOGAN INTL AIRPORT
>Geo coords - 422206N 0710146W
>
>From:           	kmdxer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date sent:      	Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:24:03 -0400
>Organization:   	Wish I had One
>To:             	amfmtvdx@xxxxxxx
>Subject:        	[AmFmTvDx] 1650 UNID
>Send reply to:  	kmdxer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>> Keith McGinnis
>> Winthrop, MA
>> 
>> While at work today I was playing with my DX398 and came across a unid
>> that kept repeating a tape loop stating "This is a test message...test
>> message number 7.  I'm still getting this signal tonight (0820 PM EDT). I
>> believe the signal to be local due to the fact I got it at work today in
>> downtown Boston and in steel, interference laden building.
>> 
>> Keith
>> 
>
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