Re: [IRCA] 1000-Radio Record (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Received in the Cook Islands

[Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Colin,

Your description of receiving 1100-Brazil in Halifax was very interesting. Maybe your 3' x 3' loop looked like the latest breakthrough in string instruments?

It reminded me of when a car drove up in the total darkness at 0450 PDT (1150 UTC) at the Rockwork 4 Highway 101 turnout, coming right up next to my position. A lady got out, looked at my multiple huge FSL setup on PVC bases, then walked right up to me in the total darkness, stared right at me and said, "Are you investigating the clouds?"

Gary


> On June 19, 2018 at 4:06 PM "R. Colin Newell" <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     Dang! I can make that out as Portuguese in a heart-beat!
> 
>     Nice catch!
> 
>     One of my first East Coast DX catches on my first expedition to Halifax, Nova Scotia was Brazil on 1100 khz (I think...) It too was about 200 kw
>     and one of the easiest Brazilians that is heard in North America.
> 
>     I kid you not: I arrived in Halifax in the middle of "Busker Fest" (which to you older dudes, is a festival of street performers; singers, jugglers, magicians, mimes, etc.
> 
>     I set up my 3 X 3' loop (holding onto my Sony 7600G with one hand and steering the loop with the other...) on the waterfront boulevard in the middle of a steady stream of passers by - who would stop... pause... and look at me curiously...
>     and then the occasional person would ask... "Uhm. What is your 'thing'?" meaning - What is your act or your program that you are performing? 
> 
>     I would take my headphones off and explain that I was a ham radio operator listening for signals from South America...
>     ... they would look even more confused and then move on.
> 
>     I did this for around an hour and then found a quiet park away from the waterfront!
> 
> 
> 
>     On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx mailto:d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
> 
>         > > Thanks to Ivan Dias of Sorocaba, SP, Brazil for identifying the station and program of my UnID recording made on Aitutaki (of the Cook Islands) at 0751 on 4-10. In Portuguese, the station is 1000-Radio Record, a 200 kW station in Sao Paulo  https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/wiuc8rlk3q1ylt6580kh2m016c8jblsg https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/wiuc8rlk3q1ylt6580kh2m016c8jblsg
> > 
> > 
> >         At 7,072 miles (11,381 km), this was the only South American reception during the DXpedition, mainly because my wife wanted to use the sunset time for beach walks and Polynesian dinners :-) The Brazilian station was strong enough to overpower all the South Pacific DU's on 999 kHz at the time.
> > 
> > 
> >         73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >     > 
>     --
>     Colin Newell -  Editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com http://www.Coffeecrew.com  and DXer.ca http://www.DXer.ca - 
>     VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - Canada
> 
 
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