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Walter
I also heard them at low levels from 1940-2010 on
the same date - 29th. (Right down in the noise)
The propagation here into the Pacific Northwest is
how you describe --- fadein around 2000 and
bulding strength until close. For those of us in
the Northwest, the optimal time of year to hear seems
to be in January-February. I received them on
numerous occasions at good signals levels.
Don Nelson
Oregon
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 5:41
PM
Subject: Re: [HCDX] LRA-36 15425.55
At 01:18 PM 3/30/2002 -0800, David Hodgson
wrote:
David Hodgson, TN USA. March
29
Antartica, 15425.55, LRA-36, 2105-2215, Latin American
romantic
type ballad music, with only occasional
announcements in Spanish. I did
hear announcements @
2123 and 2135. CD recording skipped @ 2137. Signal
was
weak to begin with, but increased to fair level around
2144. Audio
started dropping out @ 2153. Definite ID
announcement @ 2200. I don't
speak SS, but these are
some of the words from my ID recording that
I
understand: "Transmite LRA ?? (pres 36)... Radio ?
Arcangel?..."
Then freq in kHz. was given "para todo ?
" Played clip for Glenn Hauser
who was fairly sure
about station ID and 100% sure about ending
slogan
"para todo el mundo." This is a difficult one for us
in N
America to hear due to the freq being too low for
effiecient mid-day
propagation from Antartica;
however, the station was on later then usual,
and I
think there was a slight geomagnetic disturbance at
the time,
which pushed the MUF down. Signal was of
fair strength and quite
listenable at peak, but with
rapid flutter, which would also suggest a
degree of
geo-magnetic disturbance.(Hodgson,
TN)
Interesting observations, David. I have yet to hear
them in Victoria between the usual 1800 and 2100 time frame. They were
relatively well heard, however, during that test transmission a few years back
for North America. Again that was a later transmission. Seems to
be the same propagation characteristic as Radio St Helena. Consistently,
the signal would be poor to non-existent, for the first hour, and then
gradually increase, often to good to very good levels before starting to
gradually fade during the last hour. Maybe they'll be on late again this
Monday?........Walt.
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