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Hello to all of you !
Despite the long number of day-light hours
and the fact we are in the summer day-light saving time since a week, the past
night I was able to hear 3 Cuban stations on the AM band, the strongest
being Radio Rebelde on 600 kHz.
Here are the details:
600 CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde APR
13 0326 - Man in SS with "Deportivamente" sports comments. Very good with a very
poor trace of CKAT (C&W domestic in North Bay, ON).
(Chiochiu-QC)
640 CUBA Radio Progreso APR 13
0324 - "Radio Progreso" ID in mess with a poor WNNZ. No sign of Guadeloupe, the
usual dominant Caribbean station on this channel. (Chiochiu-QC)
890 CUBA Radio Progreso APR 13
0330 - "la onda del alegria" and "Ritmos" mentions, then music. Strong and
initially very clear with WLS very easily nulled, but 2 minutes later huge
splatter from local-like WCBS on 880 (there was nearly no splatter at all using
the Sanyo receiver, but the Phillips one is more sensitive in the 800-1000 kHz
range wich is the radio I used the most while DX'ing this station).
(Chiochiu-QC)
Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu
QTH: Montreal (Pierrefonds-Est), Quebec,
Canada
Equipment: Sanyo MCD-S830 and Phillips LW/MW
portables with ferrite bar antennas
I was very surprised to not been able to hear Turks
and Caicos-530. I only founded computer QRM from our neighborhoods on this
frequency. Also only got Radio Progreso, WNNZ and a maybe a third station wich
was probably remnants of nulled Mojo Radio on 640 kHz with not even a faint
trace of Guadeloupe or Venezuela.
I tuned to the LW band and found a
het 180 and 200 kHz (not sure exactly, but I presume 189) that I never
heard before while aiming the radio east-west. I will try again tonight and if
conditions are good I may get an ID from Iceland wich is very often reported
here in North America on this channel. No other hets or signals were heard, not
even France-162 wich Matt L received a few weeks ago and I'm still
trying to ID my first TA.
I think Iceland-189 and Spain-585 on MW (because of
their powerfull 600 kW and because they are on a wide 5 kHz split distance from
domestic channels 580 and 590 wich have nothing too strong anyway) are my best
bets for TA DX'ing and I hope to get these sometime.
Well, that's it for now !
73 and good DX,
Bogdan
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