[IRCA] Final Report # 5 from Murray Harbour North, PEI

[Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, things are winding down.  This afternoon and evening, we DX'd using
solely the remaining Superloop antenna, which, despite it's small
dimensions, still provided some really interesting DX.  Here are my final
loggings for the trip, as we all return to our homes tomorrow.  73,  Walt
Salmaniw

828 SOUTH AFRICA Klipheuwel 25 kW Magic 828, Nov 11 2138 - Thanks to Nick
Hall-Patch for alerting all of us to Celine Dion singing, and sure enough,
// to the internet feed, and followed by Dan Hill's Sometimes When We
Touch.  A difficult copy, but the songs are readilly copyable.  I tried
very hard yesterday to hear this one, and thought at one point that I might
have had them, but not conclusively.  Here's the proof!   Thanks again,
Nick!  By 21:45 faded down to be replaced by UK's Smooth Radio.
(Salmaniw,Murray Harbour PEI)

837 IRAN Esfahan 400 kW IRIB Radio Esfahan, Nov 11 2029 - Happened to be
parked on the channel (looking for Ukraine), and a choral anthem started.
Followed by the infamous gong at 20:30, confirming this to be Iran.  Very
strong. (Salmaniw,Murray Harbour PEI)

1035 IRAN Yazd 100 kW IRIB Radio Yazd, Nov 11 2002 - Nice ID heard for
Radio Yazd.  Sounds like a childrens program or a story told to a young
child.  Was very strong!  Not bad for a super loop antenna, the sole
remaining antenna at our DXpedition site, now that the fabulous DKAZ and
Beverage has been taken in. (Salmaniw,Murray Harbour PEI)

1206 ? GREECE Athens Radio Babis (tent), Nov 12 0233 - Highly tentative.
We battled with this frequency all evening.  Never very strong, but would
occasionally rise.  Mostly non-stop music, but with occasional speech,
including a very brief mention a few minutes ago.  The style to me of
broadcasting is very much Greek pirate, but have no idea to be honest.
I'll post the brief audio clip at RealDX and see if anyone has any ideas.
I tried the UTwente SDR but nothing heard there on repeated attempts, and
apparently also not heard on an Italian SDR site. A mystery!.
(Salmaniw,Murray Harbour PEI)

1278 UKRAINE Petrivka 100 kW Radio Ukraine International, Nov 11 2040 - The
best heard during this DXpedition.  1270 is a local station which splatters
a lot, but this afternoon, with our most modest antenna, reception is
actually good at times, and clearly // to 1431 in Russian, so it's not the
1st domestic program, but the external service to Crimea in Russian.  Vlad
Titarev tells me as well that it's 1 minute out of sync with 1431, so not
to be fooled. (Salmaniw,Murray Harbour PEI)

1395 ALBANIA Filake 500 kW TWR Europe, Nov 11 2116 - Very strong reception
in listed Serbian, with a certain amount of splatter from adjacent
channels.  Clearly religious in nature.  Clean audio.  No cochannel
interference at all.  Measured on slightly off frequency of 1394.950.
(Salmaniw,Murray Harbour PEI)

1593 ROMANIA Radio Romania Actualitati (tent), Nov 11 2026 - I'm not clear
which Romanian this might be.  4 transmitters are listed:  SRR Radio Cluj
in Oradea with 15 kW, SRR Radio Romania Actualitati with 15 kW in Ion
Corvin, SRR Radio Targu Mures with 15 kW from Miercurea Ciuc, and SRR Radio
Cluj with 10 kW from Sibiu.  In any case, we found a huge number of
parallel frequencies:  1530, 1458, 1422, 1332, 1179, 1152, 855 and 711!
Some very strong, but most cochannel.  Apparently a World Cup qualifying
game between Poland vs Romania. (Salmaniw,Murray Harbour PEI)

1635 HOLLAND Europirate Monte Carlo Radio, Nov 11 2320 - Just ID'd in Dutch
at good level. (Salmaniw,Murray Harbour PEI)

1677 SPAIN La Coruna La Coruna Coast Guard Radio., Nov 11 2311 - Just
signing off in Spanish at good/very good level with maritime weather.  I
believe there is an error in the MWList, as it only list Cabo de Penas
Radio, but clearly the ID was for La Coruna, and verified by some on-line
marine radio guides checked. (Salmaniw,Murray Harbour PEI)

1530 SAO TOME PRINCIPE Pinheira 600 kW VOA, Nov 11 2051 - Excellent
reception with their English to Africa feed, confirmed on-line.  Within a
minute, faded down to be briefly replaced with Romania with the
Poland/Romania soccer elimination match. (Salmaniw,Murray Harbour PEI)

6949 PIRATE North American Pirate Pee Wee Radio, Nov 12 0159 - Tuned in at
01:50 to good reception playing modern guitar music, followed by Kryptonite
with Three Doors Down.  Reported it to the HF Underground.  Dead air for
about a minute, but back at 02:01:30.  Not really my style of music, but
always nice to hear a pirate broadcaster.  Good reception.  Measured on
6949.75 USB. (Salmaniw,Murray Harbour PEI)
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