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- Subject: Re: DX at Orleans, MA
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:33:05 -0500
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This is my response to Roy Barstow's recent beach outing in Orleans, MA.
The 702 South Africa reception is one of the better logs. This may be the first log of that station here in MA though Bill Whitacre had it in Lubec, ME back in NOV as quoted below:
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Bill Whitacre
Nov 27, 2017
Sometimes it takes awhile to find âthe sweet spotâ in a weeks worth of wav files.
2100utc on Nov. 13 is such a spot apparently.
I donât know what the sun was doing while I was at Quoddy House near Lubec, Maine but Iâve got a recording of at least three IDs for LM Radio on 702kHz in this cut:
http://realmonitor.com/qh10/171113/qh100/2100/south_africa-702.wav
Youâll need your headphones.
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Roy's Estonia 1035 and Israel 1206 are other ones not heard here at the house yet. 711, if Tanzania, would be a stunning catch.
576 is the frequency on which I've received South Africa in recent months.
828 SA has been tried many times. WCRN slop is killer. Get rid of WCRN and you still have 830 "otherness" such as HIJB, WEEU, and the YV to provide slop.
I've also looked for 567 South Africa but just Spain so far.
846 SA was logged tentatively through bad 850 WEEI slop quite a few years ago at Granite Pier - Rockport, MA.
Countries near South Africa include Botswana (VOA recently logged here on 909) and Lesotho (now-inactive 1197 BBCWS was once common in coastal MA).
This time of year the trans-equatorial routes aren't quite as jacked as they are around the autumnal equinox but I'm still getting Brazilians many nights (760 semi-regular around sunset; 610 / 700 / 860 / 1100 / 1220 / others occasional).
I'm posting my comments to several lists because there hasn't been a lot of East Coast reporting over the last month or so. DXers in other areas can use the report to help them find and identify various TA's.
For those unfamiliar with Roy's "12 ft. stick" antenna set-up, it is a car roof mounted terminated SuperLoop of 12 ft. (3.6 m) vertical dimension. Guessing that the horizontal dimension is the same or somewhat greater.
Similar antennas:
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/loop/car_roof_loop.htm
http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA
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Roy's notes below:
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From: roybarstow@xxxxxxxxxxx [CapeDX] <CapeDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: CapeDX <CapeDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Jan 17, 2018 8:34 pm
Subject: [CapeDX] DX at Orleans
12ft. stick w/amp. FDM-S-2 Nauset Beach, Orleans, MA. 1/11/18 UTC
2100 Ant. 90 Deg.
531&549 Alg.
567 Spain - good- w/news // 576
595 Morocco - Fair
603 Spain - Fair // 567
612 Morocco Fair Talk // 595
621 Spain - Fair w/ splatter // stronger 639
639 Spain - Good- Music into pips into news.
639 CZE. CRO 2 - under Spain w/music // 954
657 Spain - RNE R. 5- Madrid- Spanish talk, fair, mixing with unknown station w/mid-east music.
666 Spain - SER - Spanish talk-fair mixing w/ another unknown station.
693 UK- Strong w/echo mixing w/ Spain
702 South Africa - LMR- Springs- weak to fair at times. A fiery preacher in English. It is god, the Lord is God etc, etc. Best 2103-2105 utc.
747 Spain
756 Romania - weak w/ 6 pips into talk.
765 Unknown - Weak at first- Like 10 cow bells sounds at TOH. music w/ woman singing a song. May be French. And another carrier around 766.5 does not help.
774 Spain - Fair w/ hum
783 MTN. - Droning music, mixing with Spain.
810 UK - All alone at S- 6-7
837 Spain - Good w/echo
846 Unknown - weak w/talk - my note to check other files.
864 Spain - Fair-pips into news
873 Spain - Fair
918 Spain - weak to fair, pips TOH.
917 Carrier
954 CZE. - Music - Slavic talk- Good at times. // 639
963 Tun. Music
981 Algeria - Pips w/talk, good + suspect Iran under w/mid-east music.
999 Spain - COPE - Good w/game.
1071 Iran - Fair w/ talk and mid-east music- unknown under them.
1098, 1107, 1116, 1125 Spain, the last w/echo
1134 Spain - Cope- w/game and unknown on top at times w/woman talking- earlier on file mid-east music so suspect Iran.
1143 Spain - Cope - weak // 1134
1152 Spain - Good - w/ Romania // 1179
1161 Weak- Egypt or Iran- check.
1188 Iran - Good- Music to 3 ascending bells into news.
1197 UK - Absolu te- Fair w/ LSB w/music // 1215
1224 Spain - Cope- weak // 1134
1206 Israel - At S- 4-6 - man w/ news
1242 Unknown- weak w/ bits of audio- w/splatter
1278 Unknown - Woman talking at end of file- check
1287 Spain - Spanish talk - Ser- // 873
1296 Spain - Cope- w/game // 1134
1305 Spain - w/hum // 1314
1341 UK - Good
1359 Unknown - Bits of audio w/slop
1368 UK - Music- Fair w/slop
1377 Unknown - Mid-east music- Good at I point- after theme music or short anthem gone.
1386 LTU - Good - Man and woman alternating w/ news.
1395 Iran or Albania - weak
1413 Spain and 1 more.
1422 Algeria - W /pips - good
1467.360 Iran carrier.
1476.140 Iran carrier.
1485 Spain -
1503 Spain - Along w/ mid-east music, suspect Iran.
1512 ARS and GRC. mixing
1557 UK - Weak
1584 At least 2 here.
1593 Romania
1602 Spain
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DX at Nauset Beach Cont.
558 Spain - T - Hard to crack as WGAN at S-9+
570 CFCB (VOCM) strong, dominate.
621 Belgium - RTBF - Fair- USB with music and mixing with Spain. // 1125
657 Spain - Madrid - Good w/ talk // 747
657 Italy - Talk mostly - under Spain- // 1062
729 Spain - RNE- R - Good - w/talk // 684 and 738
747 Spain - RNE-R.5- Good w/talk // 738- yes- Valencia mentioned at the same time.
792 Spain - Discussion going on // 873
801 Unknown - too much WNNW MA.
837 Iran - Fair - w/music under Spain // 936
846 Unknown - weak w/music- EZL music
864 Egypt - Koran - Good
873 Iran - Fair under Spain w/mid-EAST MUSIC.// 1071
882 UK on top w/Spain
909 UK - Good w/echo
936 Spain - RNE R. 5 - Good w/talk and Iran under them.
1026 Spain on top w/talk- S-7-8 w/echo at times
1026 Iran - Under Spain w/music // 1134
1035 Estonia - TWR - Theme music into presumed news with om&yl- sounded Russian- Woman mentioned Pakistan. S- 5-7 with some splatter.
1044 Spain - In strong at times.
1062 Italy - Fair at end of file with man and woman talking in Italian.
1098 Spain - Good // 1107- The synchro not working good as words repeating themselves.
1107 Spain - Good // 1098- All talk and just echo heard- under unknown station w/music.
1116 Spain - SER - Pips, fair to good with unknown station near end of file with music- Suspect Iran.
1134 Spain - Cope- Good with it's 1/2 hour pips and unknown under them and maybe Kuwait.
1152 Romania - Good- 2 persons talking // 1332
1179 Romania - Fair in slop on USB w/ maybe Iran mixing at times.
1332 Romania- W eak- Talk- // 1152
1386 LTU - Good at S- 7-8
1539 Spain - Talk in fair w/LSB
1548 KWT - R-Sawa - T - Good
1575 Spain - SER w/pips along with a buzz.
1584 Spain - Fair w/pips along with others.
OK above file at 2130 UTC ant. 90 Deg.
2200 UTC ant. 70 Deg.
576 Unknown - Choir music or maybe anthem - Man in unknown language and a few bars of music- seemed like an ID. as saying something like, Maracous? Not // to Iran on 936 or Iran VOIRI.
603 Romania - Mixing w/ Spain w/double pips at TOH.
612 Morocco - Good- Mixing with Spain.
702 Algeria - Fair with Coran chanting and mixing w/ unknown station.
711 WS. or Moeocco as listed in the WRTH- In good on USB // 612 and mixing with Spain at end of file.
765 Iran - Fair- A woman singing - // 936
819 Egypt - Good w/Spain under w/ pips.
864 Egypt - Good
2230 UTC ant. South
1520 Gospel on top of NY.
2300 UTC ant. back at 90 Deg.
677 LBY - Fair w/ mid-east music.
702 South Africa- LMR- Springs - English words heard, "men are free to a part where to the next point where............ This preacher was calm in his speech. In best at start of file. The filter at the time was on 6.200 as in stronger than 700
720 CNR- RNE R. 5- w/talk and Romania mixing in along with double pips at TOH.
711 Tanzania T - Not // w/612 and w/splatter. A woman in English said, with impenetrable solutions.
917 Nigeria - After 918 went out noticed a woman singing on 917.
1125 Belgium - Theme music into news with woman in French.
1323 UK - T- Smooth R.- too weak.
1332 UK - T- " " Man talking but like above to weak to know language for sure.
1197 UK - Fair w/ music // 1215.
Also on 828 Unknown - Best on LSB with a man and woman talking in a language that may be Spanish or Portuguese.
As for 702 South Africa- The 2018 WRTH list the address as Genesis House at 18 Wessel Rd., in Rivonia.
The web site only has info on music for LMR.
That's about it,
Roy Barstow - Falmouth, MA.
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I forgot to mention that at 2200 1530 STP - VOA - was on top of channel at S-7-8.
Roy
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