[HCDX] Latin American MW logs for the past two nights
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[HCDX] Latin American MW logs for the past two nights



530 TURKS AND CAICOS, RVC, South Caicos MAY 4 0503 - with SS talk, very poor and could only pick up the word "informacíon" out of the signal. First time heard in May for me ! + MAY 4 0518 - to fair peak (!) with man preaching (Chiochiu-QC)
 
640 CUBA, CMBC, Radio Progreso, Guanabacoa MAY 3 0434 - Presumed ! Noted at a very threshold level with music (too weak to clearly determine if tropical or pop type of music, but sounded a bit SS). (Chiochiu-QC)
 
890 CUBA, CMDZ, Radio Progreso, Chambas MAY 4 0512-0513 - Poor and continiously fading with music. Seemed // with 640 but not sure. (Chiochiu-QC)
 
1180 CUBA, CMBA, Radio Rebelde, Villa-Maria MAY 4 0432 - with old-fashioned female son song way under WHAM, but  very clearly parallel with 5025 SW 60 meters wich was huge ! This is the 1st LAm I positively identify (thanks to the 5025 parallel) on MW in the month of May; I only got presumably Progreso-640 the past night and around 2 years ago in May 2001 I got for 6 minutes a so a futboll game on 760 from presumably RCN Barranquilia (wich is sometimes a "pest" during the fall and winter months here), but it was too weak to pick up too many words. All my respect to Mark Connelly who say the "DX season never ends". And this is true to some extent even here inland, in Montreal ! + MAY 4 0526-0528 - Even better right now and was actually quite good, with man talk followed by a salsa song. Was way over WHAM for 10 or 15 seconds around 0527, but after 0528 was rapidly fading down and after 0529 WHAM was virtually alone. (Chiochiu-QC)
 
With the time set on EDT instead of EST it doesn't get completly dark until about 9:05 or 9:10 PM here in Montreal, and it takes sometime after that for the D layer to dissapear completly. 1 AM is better than 12 AM and after 1 AM is even better to hear station due west of south like Rebelde-1180. This is a very big disavantage if I have school the next day.
 
I also did note the following on SW (didn't note the times like I did for MW):
 
2500 WWV Fort Collins, CO (the only WWV previosuly not logged; new)
 
4890 unID - two stations one in African FF and the second one in an unID langauge. The second one might have been Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
 
5025 Radio Rebelde, Cuba   huge !
 
6010 unID mx in 10 kHz splash from next-to-adjacent Radio Habana Cuba on 6000. XEOI, Radio Parinacota (Chile) and La Voz de tu Consencía are all three possible
 
6185 XEMPM Radio Educacíon Onda Corta - Mexico, D.F. - often very strong with nice mariaci mx.
 
9580 Africa Numéro Un - Libreville, Gabon - with top-of-the-hour stuff at 0500 UTC on Friday throught Saturday night (Sat. morn at 0100 AM EDT). First time received at this time around sunrise at the tx site !
 
That's it for now !,
73 and good DX,
Bogdan
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