Re: [IRCA] Brazil Heard in Ontario

["Chris Black" <n1cp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Barry,

Here are a couple of logs from the NRC from last year that you might want to 
consider.


      840 72-01 BRAZIL   R.Bandeirantes, São Paulo  SEP 21 - Presumed; 
Portuguese vocal mixed with Spanish station, much flutter, fast Brazilian 
beat.  Strong WHAS signal phase nulled to reveal the Brazilian signal under. 
[Stromsted-MA]
      840 72-28 BRAZIL   ZYK687 R.Bandeirantes, São Paulo (23°32'S 46°37'W) 
JUN 2 0152 - Portuguese talk by man; fair over jumble. [Connelly-MA 4815mi 
7748km]


Chris Black
Cape Cod

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry McLarnon" <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:24 PM
Subject: [IRCA] Brazil Heard in Ontario


> Funny how things go sometimes... it all started when Saul mentioned to me
> some of the stuff he was hearing at sunset in Burnt River on the weekend.
> One that caught my eye was KTIC-840 in Nebraska.  Never logged here, so I
> thought I'd give them a try on Monday evening.  I knew I'd be tied up with
> dinner and such at the time they should be powering down this month (1800
> EST), so I set up timed recording after nulling WHAS as best I could, and
> left it to run.  Checking later, I found no sign of KTIC around 1800, but
> when I checked the 1900 TOH recording, I found something interesting - a
> man talking in what sounded to me like Portuguese.  I sent off audio clips
> to a couple of Brazilian friends, and they both confirmed that this was
> definitely a Brazilian station.  It was apparently religious programming,
> and the man seemed to be giving a list of network affilates.  I didn't
> hear a definite ID, but after going through the list of stations on 840
> and eliminating the low power stations and those with other formats, I
> came to the conclusion that by far the most likely candidate was ZYH447,
> R. Excelsior da Bahia, in Salvador.  Looking at the multihop path between
> Salvador and Ottawa (about 7700 km), it looks like all of the ground
> reflections would be on salt water, which helps a lot.  Anyway, it goes
> into the log as a tentative, and my first MW Brazilian.  :-) I believe my
> only other logging from the Southern Hemisphere was Guayaquil, Ecuador on
> 540. That was almost exactly a year ago (Nov 18, 2004), so there seems to
> be something special about this month for hearing South America.
>
> If anyone wants to hear the clip (especially if you've heard that
> particular station and might recognize it), drop me a note and I'll send
> it along.
>
> Barry
>
> -- 
> Barry McLarnon VE3JF  Ottawa, ON
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