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[IRCA] East Coast DXing activity



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Three reports from New England DXers - first one is from Bruce Conti, second and third from Roy Barstow

International MW DX (UTC)

531    ALGERIA   Jil FM, F'kirina Wilaya d'Oum El Bouaghi  SEP 9 0458 - Fair; choral marching band national anthem, parallel 549 kHz. [Conti-NH]

549    ALGERIA   Jil FM, Sidi Hamadouche  SEP 8 0458 - Fair; Koran and brief announcement, then signature time marker on the hour and pop music, parallel 531 kHz. [Conti-NH]

783    SYRIA   Syrian Radio/R.Damascus, Tartus  SEP 8 0030 - Good, with Mauritania off the air; Mideast orchestra vocals. [Conti-NH]

837    SPAIN  COPE synchros  SEP 8 0000 - Good; time marker, "Las dos, la una Canarias," into news, "Ultima hora en Cope, estar informado." [Conti-NH]

864    EGYPT   ERTU Santah  SEP 8 0020 - Fair; Koran. [Conti-NH]

882    UNITED KINGDOM   BBC R.Wales, Washford et al.  SEP 8 0025 - Fair; talk about Africa economy, parallel 198 kHz. [Conti-NH]

936    MOROCCO   SNRT Agadir  SEP 8 0600 - Fair; Koranic vocal with drumming through the hour. [Conti-NH]

1089    UNITED KINGDOM   TalkSport synchros  SEP 8 0000 - Fair with synchro echo; canned ID, "On digital radio, 1089 and 1053 AM, TalkSport," and presenter, "We are here until 6 o'clock in the morning," into news. [Conti-NH]

1107    SPAIN   RNE5 synchros  SEP 7 2330 - Fair with pronounced synchro echo; news/talk in Spanish. [Conti-NH]

1188    IRAN   IRIB R.Payam, Tehran  SEP 8 0045 - Fair; wailing Koran, 0100 signature ascending notes marking the hour. [Conti-NH]

1215    UNITED KINGDOM   Absolute Radio synchros  SEP 7 2330 - Fair to good; "Grounds for Divorce" by Elbow, "Walking on the Moon" by The Police.  Must admit that I wasn't familiar with the Elbow song, identified by 'recently played' listing on the Absolute Radio website then matching it to a YouTube video. [Conti-NH]

1359    ETHIOPIA   Voice of the Tigray Revolution, Mekele  SEP 9 0300 - Fair; typical Ethiopian flute instrumental through the hour. [Conti-NH]

1467.37    IRAN    IRIB R.Qom, Qom  SEP 8 0040 - Fair, het against presumed 1467.00 Saudi Arabia; Koranic vocal.  Measured 1467.372 kHz. [Conti-NH]

1503    EGYPT   ERTU El Arish  SEP 8 2335 - In/out with Spain; Koran parallel 864 kHz.  Thanks to Roy Barstow for the tip. [Conti-NH]

1503    SPAIN   RNE5 La LÃnea de ConcepciÃn//PiÃeira  SEP 9 0600 - Poor with synchro echo; time marker into servicios informativos parallel 1107 kHz. [Conti-NH]

Many unID's left on the table, including 648, 702, 1278, 1287, 1332, 1503, 1512, 1539, 1575 kHz.  Too noisy to get anything definitive.

Bruce Conti WPC1CAT, Nashua NH; WiNRADiO Excalibur, Intona USB 2.0 Hi-Speed Isolator, MWDX-5, variable termination Super/Ewe antennas 15 x 23-m at 60Â northeast and 180Â south.


-- 
Bruce Conti
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Subject: Menauhant Beach DX September 7-8 2018
(Roy Barstow)
             2300  UTC.               Ant.  120 Deg.


576  AFS - T - R. Veritas, Meyerton - Man talking in English about politics. Weak w/static.


621  Botswana and Spain -  Spain into news and Botswana singing and drumming.


729  AFS - Cape Pulpit - Capetown - Instrumental music into ID. by a woman but static crashes drowned it out - Man then w/news. Good on LSB and better than 730.


828  AFS - Magic 828 - Cape Town - Best on 827 with heavy beat music.


846  AFS - Komga - Good S 6-7 - Vocal and heavy on the drums - Excited announcer in English and no ID. TOH.

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840  Salvador - Good on top - Music, woman talking and man giving ID.


1179  Mozambique - Quelimane - Fair at S 4-7 with Portuguese singing along with drums. Best on 1177.750 // 1206.


1206  Mozambique - Inhamban -  //  1179 but not as strong.


     A nice file



           2315                   120


828  Capetown - S-6 - After a techno beat song into a slower vocal by a woman.


846  AFS - Komga - S 4-6 - All talk.


945  Sao Tome E Priecipe - F air at S 5-6. - Man talking in Portuguese - Best end of file.  NEW


981  Algeria - Mid-East singing with a fair amount slop.


1089  UK - Good w/talk and stronger than 1090.


1206  MOZ. - Fair - Portuguese slow vocal into a Portuguese rap song.


1575  UAE - T -  with Iran jammer.



            2330                    120


729  AFS and Spain about equal.


828 and 846  AFS both around S 5-7.


864  Egypt - Koran - Fair.


936  Mrc. - All talk.


1206  Moz. - fair.


1296  Cope


1431  DJI - Weak w/ music.


1503  Egypt - Koran - Fair.



           2345                     120


    A surprise

657  AFS - R. Pulpit - Meyerton -  English talk - Man said, what they were talking about and mentioned 17%.

         Best on 656.  NEW


810  Cuba - With a game and WGY and others.< /p>


891  Carrier but to much slop.


1026  Spain - Talk. // 1044


1278  Iran - T - With talk but static and slop.


1305  Spain - Good.


1503  Egypt - Good w/Koran.


1512  ARS - Nice carrier but weak audio with Quran prgr.



            0000                       120


610  Cuba, then Brazil with a game and saying National. Brazil was R. Itatiaia, Belo Horizonte // 650.


639  Spain with talk a nd unknown station under them.


700  Argentina - 5=1 pips in the mix.


729  AFS - S 5-7 - Light music to static ID., then the man said, the music will enhance you. Later  a woman joining with the conversation and back to the music.


783  Syria - S 5-6 - Talk and music.


819  Egypt - weak with music.


828 and 846 AFS at S 6-7


WHY ARE NOT OTHERS NOT PICKING UP THIS STUFF ALONG THE EAST COAST


anyway back from our commercial,


945  At least 4 pips heard.


954  Spain - Fair w/talk.


1386  LTU - ID. in English


1467  Iran on the high side, not much audio.


    Ok when looking for stuff below the Equator and Europe coming in I take my 1 capture.



                   0015                               80 Deg.


558  Unknown with group singing. Weak.


657  AFS - R. Pulpit - Meyerton -  Woman and man with presumed news ( sounded like BBC News ) man said, www dot ? as static crashes.


702  AFS - LM Radio - T -  Leaning towards them instead of Algeria bec ause of music content. More like 828 Magic or 830 WCRN would play.


783  Syria - With Mid-East music at S 6-7. Strong line on waterfall.


828 and 846 AFS.


882  BBC - Good.


1098  ARS - Jeddah - With Mid-east music and mixing w/ Spain.


1107  Spain and a weak station under them.


1179  Rou. -  With instrumental music and // to 1332.


1188  Iran - Weak.


1197  Weak w/talk.


1278  To weak.


1359  Carrier. I am going to have some fun on this freq. come Fall.


1386  LTU a gain with Opera music.


1503  Egypt again and all alone on the channel with Koran. At S 6-8 signal and only 25Kw.


1575  Unknown with slow instrumental music along with Iran's buzz saw.



                      0030                      140 Deg.


945  Sao Tome - Best at mid-file at S 6-7 with a couple in Portuguese talk.


1026  Spain now gone and in with, Iran - Quran type singing. Fair at times.


1071  Weak.


1296  Sudan - M id-East singing at S 7-8 at first part of file.



                      0045                      140


558  Botswana - Man in accented English talking. Later with a woman  and presumed news.


729  AFS - Man and a woman in a discussion - Talking about the community and religion.



                     0100                        180


1030  WONQ - FL. - ID. after TOH. and wipping out WBZ.



      July and August had many from Argentina. Now DX moving more towards the East and Africa. Next it should move more to the East and Europe. That's the way it seems to me.



OLD ROY FROM OLD CAPE COD

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[CapeDX] Menauhant Beach DX on 9/ 1-2 / 2018     


About 1 minute into first recording the program stopped. After rebooting it was ok.


              2325  UTC                   All files at  120  Deg.


639  Unknown - LSO or Spain - 2 men talking in unknown language.  S 4-5.  684  Spain not //  639.


720  Brazil - Portuguese - Musica - Man w/ ID. between songs . Guaiba Porto Alegre.


729  AFS - Cape Pulpit - Cape Town - Man talking in English. Weak to fair and best on 727  4.6 filter.


750  Brazil - Portuguese


828  AFS - Magic 828 - Cape Town - S 5-7. Fair with heavy beat pop song, then some tones.


940  Brazil - Super RBV, Rio - Portuguese talk.


1179  Unknown - S 5-6 w/ music. Spain or Moz.


1206  Unknown - But my guess would be ISR. as music not // 1179 and more Mid-East type.


1220  Brazil - Portuguese.




1377  Carrier


1380  Portuguese


1500  Brazil - T -  A vocal song then ID at 2325:30 and said something like, In Certa in Quarta Miso. All alone on channel.


1503  Unknown


1510  Portuguese - possibly a game.


1512  To weak.


1530  SS


1566, 1575, 1584, 1602 with carriers



               2330


610  Brazil - In the mix.


700  Argentina - Mixing with another Spanish station. 2+1 pips.


730  Brazil - Portuguese with play by play of a game. Brazil vrs. ?.Another man broke in with ID. twice, do Brazil - w/ Goiania twice. Canada under but Brazil on top.  Brazil # 40. Had to use USB to get away from AFS.


760  Brazil - Presume Fortaleza with man in Portuguese.


810  Brazi l - Fortaleza - A short song then ID. and into Bossa Nova music.


846  AFS - Komga - Weak with talk.


1060  Brazil -  Presume more powerfull R. Grande, Belo Horizonte w/ game. Under local.


1070  Brazil -  No ID. Woman and man in Portuguese conversation. Also unknown station playing songs like,  "Sink the Bismark", war tunes.


1215  Carrier - If you want to duck Europe just try summertime DXing.


1220  Brazil - With game.


1260  Brazil -  Maybe Sao Paulo - Game in play with mention of Brazil a few times and Nacional.


1500  Brazil ? Man saying, in Brazil La Sorta?


1530  A mes s.



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700  Argentina - 5+1 pips.


729  AFS - With slow religious songs.  S 5


1170  Brazil - Portuguese talk - Presume R. Atalaia - On top at times of the mess.



                0030


648  Botswana T - Talk but weak.


846  AFS - Komga - Fair w/ heavy beat music.


945  Unknown - Music then fad to mid file with a woman talking but to weak to ID. language. 3 players here, Angola, Botswana and Sao Tome. This FDM-S2 sucks for finding correct freq. but it was on the high side. This lets out Angola, per MW Offset lists. No listing for Botswana but lists SaoTome at 945.01, so maybe them?



                0200


639  Lesotho - LNBS R. Lesotho, Lancer's Gap. - T -  A few words in English with man talking to top of hour. Then music to fade out around 0202.


684  Spain - RNE R. Nacional - Best from Europe - Music to TOH. 5+1 pips, theme music into news. S 7.


1161  Carrier


1278  Carrier


1422  Weak w/music. Suspect Algeria.



I d eleted some of the files.


Many other stations coming in but I am looking for South of the border below the Equator and not interested in other stuff at the time.


Things are shifting. A few weeks back the action was after sunset and now it's going the other way. I have to start at 7 PM. Also I think signals from over the pond to Europe will start to improve.


That's it for now.


Good DX to you all, and it's all about location as the Real Estate people will tell you.


OLD ROY FROM OLD CAPE COD



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