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[IRCA] some East Coast reports



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 With so many reports from the West Coast, I'm forwarding some East Coast coverage from two of our more active DXers, Roy Barstow and Bruce Conti.
At the beach Roy is hearing stuff beyond just the routine big-gun TA's an hour pre-sunset and a half hour before anything interesting shows up here. This is consistent with what I note on seashore DXpeditions: usable DX at least an hour earlier than when any second-tier type stuff starts showing up even just 10 miles inland.
Roy is using a SuperLoop 6 ft. vertical by 12 ft. horizontal with about 15 dB amplifier gain. I wonder what size DKAZ that would equate to in low band sensitivity.

In a few days I'll have some of my own stuff up as well.
Then there will be logs from the NJ and PEI DXpeditions before long. Not sure what's scheduled for Newfie 2018 activity. DXers can follow day to day logs up that way via Allen Willie's Facebook postings. Sylvain Naud in eastern Quebec has also been getting active.

Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA 
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From: roybarstow@xxxxxxxxxxx [CapeDX] <CapeDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: CapeDX <CapeDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 6:57 pm
Subject: [CapeDX] Sandy Neck Beach DX Barnstable, MA. on 10/18/2018

   To much coming in so I have to shorten the list.
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ Spain531, 558, 567, 576 (2), 585, 603, 612, 621, 639, 648, 657, 666, 684, 693, 720, 729, 738, 747, 774, 783, 801,810, 837, 855, 864, 873, 936, 954, 990, 999, 1017, 1026, 1044, 1080, 1098, 1107, 1116, 1125, 1134, 1143,1152, 1179, 1296, 1305, 1314, 1143, 1152, 1179, 1296, 1305, 1314, 1413, 1485, 1503, 1539, 1548, 1575,1584, 1602.
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ UK693, 810, 882, 909, 1053, 1089, 1152, 1197, 1215, 1278, 1296, 1341, 1368, 1458(2), 1548, 1557.
 Ok now for some DX
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 2100ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ Sunset at 2156ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ Ant.ÂÂ 70Â Deg.
720Â Unknown with music, no ID. Maybe the Boston pirate.
981Â Algeria - Fair w/slop - Talk and music.
1503Â Egypt and Spain mixing and best on 1502 as a carrier on 1504.
1521Â ARS - Good w/talk.

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 2130ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 90 Deg.
Noted that Egypt on 774 as strong as 770 NY.
819Â Egypt - Talk weak w/slop.
936Â Spain and Mrc.
1008Â Hol. - T - with light music.
1510Â WMEXÂ The South Shore radio station (relay WATD 95.9). Strong .

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 2145ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 90
carrier on or around 1188.210
1278Â Egypt - T -
1332Â Romania - With talk.
1386.210Â carrier.

 2200 30 Deg. Looking for Greenland, etc.
720 Double pips - Spain, Por. - Rou. in play.
810Â Spain.
846Â Ireland - T - Bits of audio but weak.
900Â Pips.
990Â Spain - Spanish talk w/ 5+1 pips.
1035Â Estonia - T - Man talking.
1152Â UK. - LBC News - London. - Fair, USB English with Brits. Man and a woman alternating with news.
1197 UK. - Absolute - Weak with talk . // 1215
1278 UK. - English - Presume Pulse 2, Bradford. Last part of file best with man saying, Now Americasconstant? in Sudan. In at S 5-6.
1332Â UK - Smooth Radio - in weak - //1557
1368Â UK. - Manx Radio - weak w/talk.
1458 UK. - Gold, Manchester - Fair on top with heavy beat music with Brit talking over the musicat times. //1548.
1548Â UK. - Gold, London - As above but stronger.
1557Â UK. - Smooth Radio - Music -Â // 1332

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 2215ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 110
612Â Mrc and Spain mixing.
675Â LBY. - Fair w/music.
783Â Syria - Mid-East music at S 6-7.
801Â Spain - Fair w/slop.
855Â Rou. - Fair, mixing w/Spain.
963Â Tun. -Â Music in fair.
1062Â Italy - T - Woman sounded Italian and man talking. Should be off?
1071Â Egypt -Â Fair w/talk and slop.
1170 UAE. - First part of file buried WWVA. Will try to post on my flicker site.
1197Â LSO. - LNBS Ultimate FM - Lancer's Gap - Man and a woman talking in English. - Not // Absolute.
1377Â Arm. - TWR - w/talk.
1512Â ARS. - Quran type mixing w/ Greece.

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 2230ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 110
595 Talk but weak. // 612 Noticed they have better audio recently.
603Â Egypt - ERTU Koran Prgr. - W/ Koran under Spain. Best on 622.5 along w/ splatter.
648Â Spain with ARS. under them w/music.
702 Iran - Music, "Flight of the Bumblebee", // 1098. Also along with Algeria with a woman talking in Frenchalong w/music mostly of stringed instruments. Algeria all alone at the end of the file.
711Â MRC. - Talk with another station under them w/ Mid-East music.
729Â AFS - T -Â Weak under Spain.
756Â Romania - Talk and mixing w/presumed Iran.
765Â Iran - Mixture of talk and music.
792Â Spain - And unknown under them- ARS. or Iran.
837Â Iran and Spain mixing.
846Â AFS. - T - Preaching.
864Â Spain on top of Egypt, then last part of file Egypt buried them. Reception can change fast at time even in a small file. that is why I sometimes record every 15 minutes.
873Â ARS. - SBC - Quran under Spain and // to 882 under the UK.
917Â Nigeria - Bits of talking.
918Â Iran or Egypt with Mid-East music. Spain, Madrid has bit the dust..
927Â Unknown - Weak audio.
999Â Spain - Madrid - So strong that 1,000 was just a het.
1062Â Iran - USB. w/ Koran type program - Good.
1098 Iran - VOIRI - Zabol - Best at mid-file with, "Flight of the Bumblebee'. // 702
1134Â Kuwait - mixing with Spain.
1161Â Egypt - Spotty reception w/ music - splatter.
1170Â UAE. - Where did WWVA go.
1188Â Iran - Strong - 3 bells, theme music, into news.
1197 LSO. - Lancers Gap - Religious program - Man saying,'Receive the God on the sands of Egypt', etc. Absolute weak under them.
1206 Israel - T - English pop song - In good first part of file. - no // found.
1278Â Iran - Talk
1290.290Â Brazil?
1296Â Sudan - Good start of file, song in Arabic.
1323Â Iran - VOIRI - Talk and // to 1098.ÂÂÂÂ IRAN in good tonight.
1377 Iran - Talk and Mid-East music - weak // 1278
1422Â Algeria - Strong at local quality.
1431Â DJI. - Music and good peak.
1467Â Iran -Â w/talk - 1467.3 something.
1476Â Iran - Also on the high side.
1521Â ARS. - Saudi - Duba - News and s/off 2230 and then unknown weak station.
1539Â Iran - Over Spain mid-file with Mid-East music.
1548Â Kuwait - Mixing w/ Spain.
1593Â Kuwait - Mixing with Romania.

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 2245ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 110
531Â Spain - Mixing with Jill FMÂ // 603
558 Iran - Talk and Mid-East music. // 765.
567 ARS. - Quran - On top. // 936
594Â ARS. - T - Slop on both sides.
675.10 Qater - With weak Mid-East music. ARS and LBY on the low-side of 675
756Â Iran - Fair w/ stringed instruments.
828 Magic 828 - Song, goes something like this, Susan down by the water. Fai w/slop.
1287Â Israel - Fair with Mid-East music toward end of file.
1359Â Carrier - Presume UK. but no audio.

ÂÂÂÂ 2330ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 70Â Deg.
756Â Unknown, China? who knows. - At S 6-7 and not // to Romania. Woman speaking in Chinese or similar language.
1107Â At least 2 stations here. Spain and maybe UK. Both with music and talk.
1240Â OC.
1242Â Weak carrier.
1332 Iran - Tehran - Talk and music. S 9+5 peak with Romania under them at times. // 1593.
1386Â LTU. - Talk at S 9+5
That's it.ÂÂÂÂÂ And the above w/ 12ft. stick and amp with FDM-S2 receiver.
The next night went to Menauhant beach to Dx and will report this soon.
Take care and GO SOX.
Roy Barstow - Falmouth - Cape Cod - MA.- U.S.A.








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From: Bruce Conti contiba@xxxxxxxxx [CapeDX] <CapeDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: CapeDX <CapeDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, Oct 20, 2018 11:42 am
Subject: [CapeDX] October DX Logs

   Domestic (EDT)

550ÂÂÂ KFYRÂÂÂ NDÂÂÂ Bismarck - 10/20 0500 - Poor through WDEV; iHeart Radio promo, AM 550 KFYR Bismarck ID to Fox news. (BC-NH)

830ÂÂÂ WCCOÂÂÂ MNÂÂÂ Minneapolis - 10/20 0159 - Under WCRN; "This is WCCO... HD2 Minneapolis-St. Paul." (BC-NH)

1060ÂÂÂ CKMXÂÂÂ ABÂÂÂ Calgary - 10/19 0500 - Over KYW; "...Funny 1060 AM" and standup comedy. (BC-NH)
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ - 10/20 0558 - Over KYW; Funny 1060 AM ID and standup comedy. (BC-NH)

1140ÂÂÂ CHRBÂÂÂ ABÂÂÂ High River - 10/20 0600 - Over CBI; "AM 1140 is CHRB High River-Golden West, connecting communities." (BC-NH)

1450ÂÂÂ CHOUÂÂÂ QCÂÂÂ Montreal - 10/19 0600 - Atop the pile; Middle Eastern music and fanfare leading up to presumed reading of news in Arabic. (BC-NH)

1560ÂÂÂ WGLBÂÂÂ WIÂÂÂ Elm Grove - 10/19 0601 - Under WFME; promo, "...right here on WGLB AM 1560 and 96.1 FM." (BC-NH)

International (UTC)

531 ALGERIA Jil FM, F'kirina Wilaya d'Oum El Bouaghi OCT 8 0458 - Fair; choral marching band national anthem parallel 549 kHz. [Conti-NH]

531 SPAIN RNE5 synchros OCT 12 2325 - Over/under Jil FM; talk parallel 684 and 855 kHz. [Conti-NH]

549 ALGERIA Jil FM, Sidi Hamadouche OCT 8 0600 - Good; "Just a Dream" by Nelly, ID and time marker to news. OCT 20 0458 - Good; choral marching band national anthem parallel 531 kHz. [Conti-NH]

585 SPAIN RNE1 Madrid OCT 19 0500 - Fair; "EspaÃa las siete en las maÃanas de Radio Nacional, IÃigo Alfonso.." [Conti-NH]

603 ROMANIA R.RomÃnia Actualitati, Botosani//Oradea OCT 7 0159 - Poor; choral national anthem, parallel 1152 kHz. [Conti-NH]

702 unID OCT 19 1000 - Weak het against 700 WLW. Japan? [Conti-NH]

747 unID OCT 19 1000 - Weak het against 740 CFZM. Weak signal on 774 also observed. Both are likely Japan. [Conti-NH]

783 SYRIA Syrian Radio/R.Damascus, Tartus OCT 12 0300 - Fair; melancholic Mideast vocal with orchestra through the hour. OCT 19 0100 - Fair to good; Mid East orchestrated vocal, announcements by man and woman to what sounded like a radio drama. [Conti-NH]

882 UNITED KINGDOM BBC R.Wales, Washford et al. OCT 7 0100 - Good; promo ending "...BBC World Service, the world's radio station," and time marker to news. [Conti-NH]

1017 SPAIN RNE5 Burgos//Granada OCT 12 2350 - Fair; talk parallel 855 kHz. [Conti-NH]

1053 ROMANIA R.Iasi, Iasi OCT 8 0401 - Poor to fair; woman in Romanian.. [Conti-NH]

1089 UNITED KINGDOM TalkSport synchros OCT 12 2258 - Good; promo for Matchday Live every Saturday afternoon on TalkSport. OCT 19 0258 - Fair; talk about NFL with mention of Patriots and Titans. [Conti-NH]

1143 unID OCT 19 1000 - Weak het against 1140 CBI, WRVA, and R.Musical Nacional. Measured 1143.000 kHz so possibly JOBR Japan or R.Free Korea. [Conti-NH]

1152 ROMANIA R.RomÃnia Actualitati, Cluj OCT 7 0400 - Good; ad to ID, "Aici Bucuresti, Radio RomÃnia Actualitati, hora exacta." [Conti-NH]

1179 ROMANIA R.RomÃnia Actualitati, Galbeni-Bacau et al. OCT 8 0400 - Fair; hora exacta ID and news parallel 1152 kHz. OCT 19 0159 - Fair over SER and 1180 WHAM interference; choral national anthem. [Conti-NH]

1188 HUNGARY MR4 Marcali//Szolnok OCT 19 0600 - Signature 10-second test tone up to the hour. Hungary sign-on per summer schedule, listed 0700 UTC winter time. [Conti-NH]

1332 ROMANIA R.RomÃnia Actualitati, Galati OCT 19 0159 - Poor; choral national anthem parallel 1179 kHz. [Conti-NH]

1386 LITHUANIA R.Liberty, Viesintos OCT 6 0300 - Fair; interval signal. Signal still present up to 0500 sign-off. OCT 20 0500 - Sign-off.[Conti-NH]

1559 BAHAMAS ZNS1 Nassau OCT 19 1000 - Spur from 1540 producing a het against 1560 WFME and WGLB. Spur on 1521 kHz also observed during quiet moments of 1520 WWKB. [Conti-NH]

1566 unID OCT 19 1000 - Weak signal observed, likely HLAZ South Korea. Transpacific signals on 702, 747, 774, 1143, and 1566 not observed an hour earlier. Need to check an hour later for dawn enhancement as receiver sunrise is now 1104 UTC. [Conti-NH]

1575 ITALY Rai Radiouno, Genova OCT 19 0358 - Pre sign-on clock tones through wideband music audio splattering from 1570 CJLV. [Conti-NH]

1633 unID OCT 20 0200 - Steady s4 signal; 400 Hz tone marking the hour. Unable to find any marine radio or utility stations listed for 1633 kHz. Wouldn't expect a Dutch pirate to broadcast a time pip. [Conti-NH]

Bruce Conti WPC1CAT, Nashua NH; WiNRADiO Excalibur, 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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