[HCDX] LOGGINGS FROM VICTORIA, BC

["Walter (Volodya) Salmaniw, MD" <salmaniw@xxxxxxxx>]

Despite rather low solar flux, I was able to receive some decent DX this 
weekend:

SRI LANKA  7115  VOA Communications World in progress from tune-in at 0137 
on a UTC Sat with Kim Andrew Ellliot's unmistakeable voice.  Listed as 
Iranawila.  Fair to good reception.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 17 February).

NORTH AMERICAN PIRATE  6948 USB  Take it easy Radio, with a Vietnam vet 
program.  Time check for 1:41 UTC.  PO Box 1, Belfast, NY 14711 for 
QSLs.  Off at 0142 with fair to good reception.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 17 
February).

UZBEKISTAN Radio Tashkent.  7215  My favourite for this weekend's DX 
session.  Heard regularly each day this weekend with reception often at 
good levels.  Starting with English at 0100.  Signal peaks here usually 
about 0130 to 0200.  Parallel 5955 not as strong, and suffers more 
splatter.  Radio Vatandosh ID in Uzbek at 0257, heard past 0310.  Listed 
sign-off of 0330.  Tonight the English broadcast had the usual sign-off 
music at 0128.  Suffered from static crashes I hadn't noticed the last 2 
nights. (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 17-19 February).

NICARAGUA  5770USB  Presumed Radio Miskud on late with just threshold 
audio.  Mostly music.  On at 01:49 tonight.  Usually sign off at 00:00, but 
occasionally can be heard much later.  Haven't heard them since before 
Christmas.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 17 February).

EGYPT  9475  What a waste of a transmitter.  In what is supposed to be 
English at 0216.  Music is in the clear, but not the voice at all.  Awful 
modulation, as is the norm for this North American broadcast.  I guess they 
don't care whether we in the Americas hear them or not.  (Salmaniw, 
Victoria BC, 17 February).

RUSSIA  9450  Reported recently to be coming from the Kalinigrad region of 
European Russia.  Heard with time pips and weak Russian audio at 
0300.  This is the supposed sign-on time.  The next day, however, I could 
clearly here audio in the half-hour preceding.  Can anyone closer verify 
this, or are there other Radio Rossii transmitters on at the same time from 
elsewhere?  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 17-18 February).

NORTHERN MARIANAS (TINIAN)  21.784.95  Radio Australia in Indonesian at 
0419.  Many mentions of Australia.  I think I have the tx location correct, 
but there have been many changes.  This one is quite regular here on the 
west coast of North America.  Signals often quite good.  Unusual audio.  A 
bit muddy.  Sounds very much like the typical RRI transmitters.  Those in 
the know should understand what I mean.  The audio processing just sounds a 
bit strange to me.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 17 February).

CANADA  6070  CFRX Toronto, heard at 0452 often equal strength to cochannel 
Christian Voice.  Interestingly, only obvious when using LSB.  CFRB ID at 
0453.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 17 February).

TAIWAN (non)  I was looking for the so-called Radio Vancouver International 
program supposedly relayed via Taipei.  Nothing but Deutsche Welle weakly 
heard in German at 0500.  Checked several times since, and 
nothing.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 17 February).

UKRAINE  9385  At 04:03 was expecting to hear English, but someone was 
asleep at the controls.  Instead, heard German programming from Radio 
Ukraine International.  The following night they were back with 
English.  Again, the signal can be good at times, with parallel 9610 fair 
to good at best.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 18 February).

ICELAND  13860 USB  Rikisutvarpid signing on at 1833 with what has to be 
the most phone-like audio heard anywhere on shortwave.  Schedule in 
Icelandic, with many mentions of "KHz", then into presumed news.  Fair to 
good.  Listed to North America at this time.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 17 
February).

MEXICO  6134.96  Strong signal from Radio Educacion at 0234 with an English 
program by a heavilly accented YL, about 15th century Mexican history.  The 
off frequency is always a dead giveaway, as they never seem to drift up or 
down from this frequency.  Good to very good.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 18 
February).

OMAN  15355 Radio Sultanate of Oman.  I was surprised to hear them in 
English at 0318, as the solar flux has not been very high.  Still they were 
in the clear with fair to good strength.  English international 
news.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 18 February).

DIEGO GARCIA  12579 USB  Another delight to hear AFN at 0320.  Quite 
unusual.  I've heard them here in the fall, but towards our dawn, not late 
at night.  Signal was well over the usual cochannel ute, and parallel to 
12689.5 Key West, Fl.  Still only poor.  The other AFN stations heard with 
other programming were:  10320 Pearl Harbour, parallel to 6458.5 Puerto 
Rico.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 18 February).

CANADA  6160 CKZU  Terry Palmershein from WA as asked about the audio of 
our local CBC SW outlet.  Last night they seemed to be back with a very 
strong clean signal at 0328.  No sign of CKZN unlike the last month or so, 
where it has dominated right through the night until past 1000.  (Salmaniw, 
Victoria BC, 18 February).

SWAZILAND  6035  Trans World Radio Swaziland with English ID into German 
programming at 0359.  Apparently a Sunday only broadcast.  Good 
level.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 18 February).

GERMANY  7265.06  Sudwest Rudfunk.  Nice signal with German news at 
0700.  Only 20 Kw I believe.(Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 18 February).

ISRAEL  17544.97  IBA in English signing off at 1729, into Hebrew briefly, 
but off in mid-sentence at 1731.  Very good signal.  Parallel 11605 
good.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 18 February).

LIBYA  17725  Voice of Africa at 1733 from Arabic into English.  Strong 
signal, but with some flutter and echo making it difficult to copy.  Wasn't 
even sure it was English initially.  Situation was greatly improved by 
using John Bryant's audio box, with audio from my Collins R390A with SE-3 
feeding the right channel, and my HF-2050 feeding the left.  Stereo effect 
greatly improves intelligibility of signal.  Into French at 
1739.  (Salmaniw, Victoria BC, 18 February).

That's it for tonight, folks!  Good DX everyone...........Walt.
Walter R. Salmaniw, MD             email:  salmaniw@xxxxxxxx
Victoria, British Columbia    DXING FROM CANADA'S WEST COAST, using
CANADA                        premier radio receivers:

                              Rockwell/Collins 
HF-2050
(250) 592-1033                Collins R390A,ITT Mackay 3031A,
                              Racal RA8772 and 6772, JRC NRD 
535D,
                              AOR 7030+, and Kenwood R5000.

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