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- Subject: East Coast DXing activity
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 23:02:23 -0400
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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.
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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?
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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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