[HCDX] Latest LW-MW logs

[aurel chiochiu <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Warm greetings to all of you !

LW TAs were gradually improving, though the past night the trans-atlantic skip on LW was only half-decent and tonight LW signals seems unreadables yet. MW TAs still are inexistent, as reveal both Spain-585 and Morocco-595, but I think we are running fast from solar minimal and I'd rather expect good auroral southern enhacement than a feeding-frenzy high-latitude east-west opening ! What are your thoughts about this ?


Trans-Atlantic DX

162 FRANCE   France Inter, Allouis JAN 17 0251 - Fair-good with minimal computer-like hash playing slow music on guitar. SIO 453 ! (Chiochiu-QC)

171 MOROCCO   Medi Un, Nador JAN 16 0345 - continous plantive Arabic vocals which were perphaps religion-related. Generally fair ! The best North African LW in the Montreal area ! (Chiochiu-QC)

183 GERMANY   Europe 1 JAN 16 0310 - Booming in as I tuned it with a French talkshow regarding the sexuality of the older persons ! This and Iceland-189 are usually the strongest longwave broadcasters to reach my QTH in the Montreal area ! (Chiochiu-QC)

189 ICELAND   Rikisutvarpid, Gufaskalar JAN 17 0125 - with a mixture of Icelandic and English-language pops and short IDs as "Ruv (Fier?)..." between almost each song. (Chiochiu-QC)

207 unID JAN 14 0320 - bits of unredable audio getting through several beacons including perphaps QI on 206 kHz in Nova Scotia. SIO 111, nothing usable. (Chiochiu-QC)

216 FRANCE   RMC, Roumoules JAN 16 0420 - French news, poor-fair in the absence of the usual groundwave and/or short-skip beacon that dominates this TA channel. (Chiochiu-QC)

225 POLAND   unID JAN 15 2231 - weak man talk, pretty much a threshold signal. Probably Poland, as this is the only broadcaster heard on this channel by our dearly Sylvain Naud ! (Chiochiu-QC)
 
234 LUXEMBOURG   RTL, Beidweler JAN 14 0549 - with a joke regarding the Barak Obama's rise in status "il casse la baraque" which roughly translates to break the shadow between him and his futur status as the president of the USA. Very good, way over NDB QRM, had armchair copy for a couple of minutes, but then faded under the beacons ! Best ever reception of this 2 MW powerhouse ! SINPO 43522 (Chiochiu-QC)


Pan-American DX

570 CUBA   CMDC, Radio Reloj, Pilón JAN 17 0342 - Woman with nx and RR code IDs at the end of one news item. Couldn't copy much, as the reception wasn't as good as the last Sunday morning, but obviously you don't need armchair copy to get the RR code IDs past WSYR Syracruse... I wonder when is WSYR nest maintenance period ? (Chiochiu-QC)

600 CUBA   CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norris JAN 15 0210 - "...el primero, segundo..." baseball play-by-play. Good under domestics. SIO 422 (Chiochiu-QC)

640 CUBA   CMBC, Radio Progreso, Guanabacoa and / or CMBD, Radio Progreso, Las Tunas JAN 17 0339 - Presumed with Spanish programming in heavy QRM from WNNZ and other weaker visitors. This one is NOT as strong as it once had, giving real hope of hearing the José Elias Diaz Gomez's DX tests during the Sintonía DX program over Unión Radio (YVQO, Puerto-La Cruz, Anzoátegui) during, at least, a decent semi-auroral opening, if not a heavy auroral one. (Chiochiu-QC)

730 unID JAN 17 0450 - In local CKAC null: romantic Spanish male vocal getting through strong residual CKAC, followed by Spanish announcements way under residual CKAC. SIO 412. I had some fadings in null of their groundwave, as if skywave already start to blen with groundwave at such a short distance (probably 12 km from downtown Montreal as the crow flies) ! HJCU Melodía AM in Santafé de Bogotá is suspected, as XEX is now "Sports Ya". Also, didn't seem // 640...  (Chiochiu-QC) 

750 VENEZUELA   YVKS, Radio Caracas Radio, Caracas, Distrito Federal JAN 17 0350 - Woman announcer with several repporters concerning a lost video and their attempts at trying to locate that lost video which seemed fairly suspect (weird, to say the least). SINPO 33322, as the signal wasn't too stable and almost completly faded away with WSB fading-up. Overall, pretty fair reception ! (Chiochiu-QC) 

760 COLOMBIA   HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca, Barranquilla JAN 17 0350 - Man in studio chatting with someone outdoors, very threshold and unreadable. Condx need to be at least SLIGHTLY below average to South America for this one to be, at least, listenable ! (Chiochiu-QC)

770 CUBA   CMKB, Radio Rebelde, QTH ? JAN 17 0449 - Cuban "beisbol" event way under WABC, noted in passing. (Chiochiu-QC)

780 VENEZUELA   YVNM, Radio Coro, Coro, estado Falcón JAN 17 0445 - one hour later, after an unsuccesful attempt to listen to a definite signal out of HJAJ-760, got to hear an upbeat cumbia using major chords with lots of accordeon at a fair level. Quite surprised to get this, as this one is well heard when conditions are at least AVERAGE toward South America and the past night they were well subpar. A couple of dozens of seconds later, I was chassing possible Colombia-730 ! (Chiochiu-QC) 


Additionnal comments: In addition (another use of that "famous" word) to joining the NRC, I was gladly invitied to ABDS a wonderful Yahoo! Group where I could all, but boore myself. The moderator of that group knows me quite well and found suspect that despite my young age, being passionated by radio and by history, I tried desesperatly to locate information on the web about how well and how regularly the CX Radio Imparcial out of Montevideo could be heard on 1090 kHz back in the late 60's durign WBAL's Monday Morning Silent Period... He though I wasn't a teenager, but an adult and did think I could pay the NRC dues by myself.... Well, there is a magic word for this: Asperger's Syndrome which also explain why I'm so obsessed with the history of oldschool DXing and oldschool radio stations, especially the French one Aventure FM and to a somewhat lesser extent, other ones as well...

This will be probably the last of the regular repports, as the comeback to school is imminent.

I have a special meeting with a girl tonight, so I have to keep the additionnal comments shorter than usually !

This repport is brougt to you by Bogdan Chiochiu, DXing from Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), PQ - QC using the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot and the Sangean CST-818 along with the PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop !

May the good DX suddenly comeback in a brutal way !
Bogdan Chiochiu
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