[HCDX] Loggings from Victoria, BC

[Walter Salmaniw <salmaniw@xxxxxxxx>]

Been rather busy of late,  and on top of that have a new computer to figure 
out.  Nonetheless, here are a few loggings from last weekend:

PARAGUAY  9737.50  Radio Nacional at 01:50 on 8 April.  Use LSB to avoid 
het on upper side.  Usual Spanish programming.  Good reception, with their 
normal slightly muffled audio.  (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC).

ALBANIA  7160.00  Radio Tirana in English at 0155 on 8 April.  Frequency is 
spot on now, unlike in the past.  Loud het from something on 7160.75, so 
very good as long as using LSB.  Parallel 6115 very weak, but seemingly on 
frequency as well.  (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC).

HUNGARY  9570 Radio Budapest in English at 0242 8 April, while looking for 
Radio Romania International (on at that time on 11.940).  DX World at this 
time (UTC Sunday), followed at 0247 by DX news, then DX catches at 
0252.  Mostly over cochannel CRI in Chinese, but the latter will fade up to 
equal Budapest at times.  Overall good reception.  (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

RUSSIA  11840 USB  Radio Sakhalin at 0258 8 April with local weather for 
Sakhalin, then local ad and phone number.  Local ID at 0259 and local 
programming until 0310 when switched to Radio Rossii programming.  Only 
fair today, instead of usual good to excellent reception.  Nice to have 
HCJB gone from this frequency.  (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC).

TURKEY  11655.02  Voice of Turkey at 0316 8 April with English program 
about Instanbul.  Mild flutter.  Otherwise good reception.  (Salmaniw, 8 
April).

UKRAINE  13590  Radio Ukraine International at 0320 8 April is here in 
English, despite listed Ukrainian.  Fortunate, as this is the only usually 
half-decent signal from Ukraine that I can hear.  DX program at this 
time.  I believe it was usually at BOH in past.  Only poor to fair this 
evening, especially with the "space zapper" pulser ruining the 
band.  Clearly not the ocean wave radar off Honduras, which was apparently 
turned off.  Do others hear it as loud as I do?  Pulses at 2 
cps.  (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

USA  4278.5  AFRTS Key West, Fl.  At 0327 8 April, parallel to very much 
stronger 12689.5 both in USB.  The 4 MHz channel is very weak.  Haven't 
heard it reported for some time now, and maybe an unusual choice for 
A01.  Don't think I heard them during the more expected B00.  (Salmaniw, 
Victoria, BC).


ECUADOR  21.454.89  HCJB on this off frequency at 0339  8 April with usual 
English religous programming.  Quite strong, so presume still running the 
40 Kw tx instead of the 1 Kw unit. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC).

GUATEMALA (etc)  5955  This is a very interesting frequency, and very 
difficult for me with much splatter and heavy usage.  Listened from 0350 to 
past 0520 on 8 April with the following results.  My R-390A with SE-3 
outperformed my beloved HF-2050, by the way!  At 0350, could hear English 
religous programming, presumably Radio Cultural.  At 0400, Channel Africa 
dominates with an English half-hour, improving towards 0430 to fair, from 
initial poor reception.  After 04:30, Radio Cultural, again, I think, 
dominates with religous programming.  Heard a 1-800 number at 0439, 
followed by religous choral music, all at weak audio levels, and into 
Spanish, from what I could hear.  All wiped out by Radio Netherlands at 
0457 with a massive signal, but still audible underneath.  A very 
challenging frequency.  (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC).

DIEGO GARCIA  12579 USB  AFRTS heard weakly from tune-in at 0226 8 
April.  When rechecked at 1509 they were heard at least equal to the ever 
present cochannel ute.  (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC).

MONGOLIA (tent)  12085  presumed Voice of Mongolia at 1502  8 April with 
weak audio, but I recognize the YL voice as that of the sole presenter of 
the English program.  Unfortunately this frequency was also spoiled by the 
same "space zapper", 2 cps intruder with occupies 11998 to 12106 KHz, as 
well as wide swaths of spectrum elsewhere (see Ukraine above).  Wish he 
would go away.  Still not clear what he is or is doing.........(Salmaniw, 
Victoria, BC).

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