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- Subject: Latin America feeding-frenzy, evening 18-19 MAR
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:19:06 -0400
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Complete non-performance of Canadians in last night's aurora led to some easy pickings from the tropical regions.
Logs below are 0200 UTC / 19 MAR (10 p.m. EDT / 18 MAR) +/- 2 min. unless otherwise noted. see scratch notes below for a bit of detail.
Exhibit A: R. Melodia, Colombia 730 (no Montreal)
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/hjcu-730_20150319_0159z.mp3
Exhibit B: Voice of Nevis 860 (atop Reloj Cuba, no Toronto)
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/von-860_20150319_0200z.mp3
Exhibit C: Maracaibo, Venezuela 900 (atop Progreso Cuba, no Hamilton)
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/yvmd-900_20150319_0201z.mp3
Colombia, in general, was crankin' with these also making a good showing:
HJHF 550 (// 570) over RI
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/hjhf-550_20150319_0202z.mp3
HJKH 650 Antena Dos over Cuba
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/hjkh-650_20150319_0200z.mp3
Puzzler sent to RealDX:
800 kHz at 0200-0202 UTC: two stations in Spanish. One is PJB (Radio Transmundial) which dominates at the beginning of the audio clip. The second station starts gaining and is better towards the end of the clip. It might just be WNNW Lawrence, MA but possibly something of Latin American origin instead. Someone fluent in Spanish should be able to sort it out.
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/pjb+unID-800_20150319_0200z.mp3
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Log-prep scratch notes, hopefully partially intelligible:
Last night's file - 20150319_0200z.wav - partially reviewed.
530 YL R. Enciclopedia ID
540 WFLF
550 HJ Pomp & Circumstance march, SS talk 0202z // 570, o/ RI
570 HJ Pomp & Circumstance march, SS talk 0202z // 550, u/ Reloj
570 Reloj huge o/ HJ + WMCA
580 WKAQ ID, Mayaguez ment. o/ 2 other SS
630 Uno ID under WPRO
650 Antena Dos ID, sports promo; good
690 OM SS, "W Radio" ID mix Progreso
690 // 700 en Colombia ment., OM/YL SS laughing 0201z
710 echoey Rebeldes murdering WOR
730 good Melodia ID at 0159z followed by list of network affiliates
750 pres. YV, SS talk about movies; o/ Progreso
760 // 770 HJ's with time pips, ment's of Santa Fe
770 had Rebelde as #2 (attention signal 0201:50), WABC #3
780 R. Coro ID's good
780 ZBVI with GSTQ at 0201; under Coro
783 Mauritania Afro vocal best TA on south ant. 0158z
800 PJB + unID SS submit RealDX
810 HJCY over Bahamas
820 HJ delayed a fraction of a sec. from // 810; in jumble with Cubans
860 clear ID "With all the power from the tower, this is the powerhouse of the eastern Caribbean, VON Radio from the federation of St. Kitts and Nevis."
870 Reloj
900 YVMD "en Maracaibo" in talk 0201z
910 YVRQ upbeat tropical vocal through ToH, doorbells at 0202z
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Quick peak at previous night, 0300 UTC, 18 MAR:
20150318_0300z.wav
1070 HJ R. Santa Fe ID
940 PR Maxima Nueve Cuarenta ID
800 Radio Transmundial ID by YL good
580 WKAQ Cinco Ochenta ID good; way o/ Rebelde
(Antenna connection intermittent in high winds, file discarded.)
I'm still sitting on several other recent capture files and I'll be back at it tonight.
Some related last-night comments from others are reproduced below.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
Perseus, SuperLoops peaking 75 deg. and 165 deg.
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810 Bahamas ZNS3 Freeport - MAR 19 0945-1000 UTC - Strong way over WGY with Christian Minister. ID at 1000 "This is The Bahamas Radio Network..." and listing of FM frequencies. Not recorded as heard on Sangean PrD5 portable while getting ready for work.
Prior to 0930 loud Spanish on 810 - suspect the HJ. Also, Reloj-870 local-like, Reloj-860 making it thru the mush with minute markers and RR Morse Code. CMHW-840 local-like.
That's all I had time for. I suspect that LA's were all over the dial this morning, Thursday 3/19..
Marc D
South Dennis
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I had a strong PR on 940 around 9:45 last night.
Lots of recordings to go through, so little timeâ
Bill
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Subject: [lbi-dx] Last night better
Just started going up thru a 0300utc wav file from last night [March 18, EDT]. Cx better than the night before but usual QRN here at home. WFLF, PR on 580, etc. Stopped at 610 with a WIOD wx forecast for a high of 87 Friday! :-(
On a spot-check Globo is on 1220 but nothing to brag about, signal-wise. 1100 was Caracol well over WTAM.
TONS of Cubans, duh.
Oh how I wish I was at Bay House last night!
More later â off to see if I can get âTSAPreâ on my boarding pass FOREVER!!
Bill Whitacre
Alexandria, VA
4-element Wellbrook phased delta array [pointing South]
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