[IRCA] St. John's Newfoundland Trans-Atlantics Oct 13-14

[Allen Willie <vo1_001_swl@xxxxxxxx>]

Greetings To All, 
  
An interesting evening , propagation wise , to say the least. The night began as usual with TA's in and out along with the ongoing heavy static and noise levels as experienced during the past number of days. 
  
The exception to this was between 1:30 and 3:00 UT/14 when a major TA propagation effect began to take over. During this time on the split frequencies, signals from abroad were wall to wall with many stations from Africa, Europe and Asia at local sounding readability levels. Some of the different TA's were so strong they were over top of usual resident DX stations, home to that particular frequency heard here nightly 
  
 In the hour and a half of this exceptional propagation from the rest of the world , minimal domestic DX stations from other parts of North America were rarely heard with propagation conditions so strong from a more easterly direction. Definitely an evening to remember . 
  
1 new station was logged by myself and 2 new stations and 1 new country for Dianne’s logbook 
  
The SRF-M37V and SRF-39FP was used with the lead in copper wire from an outside dipole antenna wrapped around the small radios and near the small ferrite rod in the ultralights . TA’s signals were so strong they even overrode the noise and static levels at times 
  
  
  549 khz - ALGERIA – Alger Chaine 1 , 2:05 UT /14 woman reading in Arabic 
  558 khz - SPAIN -  R. Nacional 5  2:19 UT/14  man and woman in Spanish 
  864 khz - ARMENIA – Radio Liberty Relay Gavar 2:20 UT /14  man in Turkmen 
  882 khz - ENGLAND – BBC Wales  2:28 UT/14 reading mottos sent in fr. Listeners 
  900 khz – SAUDI ARABIA – Qurayyat (presumed)  2:04 UT/14  Arabic chants 
  999 khz – SPAIN – COPE Madrid  2:06 UT/14 woman talk Spanish 
  999 khz – MOLDOVA – R. Pridnestrovye, Maiac   3:00 UT/14  Russian talk, ID 
1017 khz – GERMANY – SWR Wolfsheim  2:08 UT/14 German talk by man 
1044 khz -  SPAIN – SER San Sebastian  1:05 UT/14  Spanish talk 
1089 khz -  ENGLAND – Talksport Radio  0:23 UT/14 Program promos // 1053 
1170 khz – UNITED ARAB EMIRATES  - R. Sawa  22:47 UT /13  Arabic music/ID 
1251 khz -  LIBYA – Voice of Africa,Tripoli  21:44 UT/13  man in Arabic (Continued to be strongest signal of them all) 
1260 khz – SPAIN – SER Murcia  2:23 UT/14  Spanish talk man and woman 
1269 khz – GERMANY – Deutschlandfunk, Neumunster   2:10 UT/14  Classical music, German talk //1422 khz 
1341 khz – N. IRELAND – BBC R. Ulster 1:16 UT/14  talk on mine rescue 
1341 khz -  HUNGARY -   Katolikas Radio  2:40 UT, religious music (Signal strong over top BBC Ulster) 
1377 khz -  FRANCE – France Info, Lille  1:33 UT/14 french talk (sounded like a local) 
1386 khz -  SPAIN – Euskadi Irratia  Bilbao  1:35 UT /14 talk in Basque ( station changed to this frequency recently from 1071 khz ) *** NEW STATION on ULR *** (AW)(DF) 
1413 khz -  SPAIN – Radio Nacional 5  1:09 UT/14 Spanish talk by man 
1422 khz -  GERMANY – Deutschlandfunk, Heusweiler   1:20 UT/14 Classical music, German   
*** NEW COUNTRY & STATION  on ULR *** (DF) 
1431 khz -  DJIBOUTI – R. Sawa  Arta   1:02 UT/14  Pop music , ID, Arabic talk 
1440 khz -  SAUDI ARABIA – General Service Dammam (presumed)  1:32 UT /14  Arabic talk 
1449 khz -  LIBYA – Voice of Great Homeland   Misurata  1:24 UT/14  Arabic talk & music 
1467 khz -  FRANCE – TransWorld Radio Roumoules  22:05 UT/13 religious program in English 
1485 khz -  SPAIN – SER Santander  1:14 UT/14  Spanish talk by woman 
1494 khz -  FRANCE – France Info,  1:03 UT /14, music and French talk 
1503 khz -  IRAN – IRIB1 Bushehr (presumed)  1:09 UT /14  persian talk, chant 
1521 khz -  SAUDI ARABIA – BSKSA Duba   1:11 UT/14  slow Arabic talk by man 
1557 khz -  FRANCE – France Info Nice  23:51 UT/13  french talk 
1575 khz -  UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – R. Farda,  Al Dhabiya  1:12 UT/14 
  
Good Dx to All 
  
Allen Willie & Dianne Froude 
St. John's, Newfoundland 
47:37N  52:45W 
 

_______________________________________________
IRCA mailing list
IRCA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca

Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers

For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org

To Post a message: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx