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- Subject: DX file review - Falmouth, MA
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 22:40:56 -0400
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I received a USB stick with some of Roy Barstow's DX files from Falmouth, MA.
Review of the 4 Elad format wav files is not complete yet. Below is an initial "taste" from an hour or so of virtual tuning.
Roy Barstow at Menauhant Beach - Falmouth, MA
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Menauhant+Beach/@41.6034845,-70.6980742,11z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e4d6eddda32249:0x602bc57f9a6058f2!8m2!3d41.5493017!4d-70.5557244
Roy's notes in quotes below.
File 2018_06_27_00_57_21_FDMSW1_Rec_RF_000
UTC 27 JUN ~0100
"a few Argies and Brazil"
700 Brazil good peak, Portuguese religious talk
830 HIJB D.R. under WCRN
1030 Noticias del Plata (Argentina) ID 0100:55 under WBZ
1040 Presumed Sao Paulo with woman in Portuguese; in mess 0101 UTC
1120 R. Once Puerto Rico good ID 0100:45
1540 Bahamas loud 0101
810 Bahamas (// 1540, but much weaker) under presumed HJCY
2018_06_28_00_58_58_FDMSW1_Rec_RF_000
UTC 28 JUN ~0100
"looking for Uruguay on 650 after TOH. Woman singing. Possible Montevideo ment. Uruguay, Brazil, or something else?"
610 Brazil inbooming "A Voz de Brazil" and Itatiaia ID's
620 Portuguese talk, presumably Fortaleza, mixed with WSNR, over Rebelde
650 RCN la radio ID 0102:48 so Colombia. Seemed like same guy talking throughout segment.
700 Brazil very good, dominant.
2018_07_20_00_57_07_FDMSW1_Rec_RF_000
UTC 20 JUL ~0100
"average DX"
US and Canadian stations on channels such as 730, 740, and 760 that would have Latin Americans during more interesting conditions. Review of file put on hold.
2018_07_21_00_57_23_FDMSW1_Rec_RF_000
UTC 20 JUL ~0100
"ant. at 120 deg."
700 Argentina suspected
More of this file to go over later.
Routine Cubans, 750 Venezuela, 580 WKAQ, and other typical blasters are on most files but not worth a lot of discussion.
Roy, I have the files in my PC now so I'll send the stick back Monday.
Menauhant Beach site is pretty good, very low electrical noise, but those NYC stations are killer loud unfortunately. Chatham or Orleans, MA would give you substantially less QRM from the Big Apple and metro.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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