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Hello to all of you !
The last January 16 was by far the best Latin
American opening of the week, but still WAY below average, the past week
produced two or three good openings, including a nearly positive identification
from Nicaragua-600 (620 would be easier since I have a semi-local near the QC/VT
border wich is WVMT in Burlington) and 600 is locally free since at least the
summer of 2000 when CINW closed the CIQC simulcast and is ruled by doemstics
WICC in Bridgeport, CT and CKAT in North Bay, ON at night as well as
by Latin Americans (Cuba is the only one I noted this week here, though and
generally with a very, very poor signal - and not even this
Tuesday).
I didn't bother to include the time frames and much
of the receptiond details, aside for some notes on the signal strenght mostly. I
cannot send a full report when most if not all signals are weak to poor and into
the mush 80% of the time, like they were this week. Domestic DX was not great
either, though I did note a spanish tropical music domestic the last night on
1570 with an often local - like signal with just minor to moderate het from
adjacent NYC powerhouse, as well as unID SS salsa domestic on 1330, poor to
somewhat fair signals out of WBT-NC on 1100 and today as we were in Quebec City
to pick up my mother from work (he had a class with adult students who study
physiotherapy this week-end) at 2:18 PM we were hearing very poor to excellent
signals from CKEC-1320, but no other signals present and when we come near
Montreal they were lost to CJMR and others, so Quebec City most be in a pretty
short-skip range from New Glasgow.
Well, that's it. Into the LAm reception
notes right now:
Bogdan Chiochiu, DXing from Montreal/Pierrefonds,
QC
Equipment: Sanyo MCD-S830 and ferrite bar
antenna
530 Turks and Caicos, Radio Visión Cristiana,
Caicos - very poor and fadey
610 huge growl against WIP / others; possibly from
a computer
640 Venezuela YVQO Union Radio - briefly fair
to poor with WNNZ and later some Guadeloupe and possible Cuba - at 0257
UTC with woman in spanish with nx mentioning "Unión Radio".
640 Guadeloupe
640 Cuba ? - Salsa mx fairly good under WNNZ and
Guadeloupe
750 Venezuela - sign-off tune under WSB (at
0356)
910 (tent.) Venezuela YVRQ, Caracas -
0306-0307 UTC - breifly in spanish for maybe 4 seconds then faded down to
clutter !
Well, that's for all the LAm signals I heard on the
day before the last Friday, when even the big RCN out-let on 760 wasn't
there at all and yesturday night around 11:30 PM the only signals comed
were from RVC-530, Cuba-600 and Guadeloupe-640 and they were at very weak to
fair levels only !
Tonight, my neighbors have their computer on and
there is incredibly lots of noises from power-lines too, so I can forget about
DX tonight, especially considering I have to go to bed around 10:15 PM as to be
able to wake up around 6:15 AM or so for the school. What is odd is that before
leaving for Quebec City, the noises was also very high in the SW band, even way
up in the 13 meters band making impossible to listen to smaller international
broadcasters on my Sangean 606a.
Hope this noise problem will not last too
long.
73, good DX and good Week !
Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu
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