Hello !
Bogdan Chiochiu DX'ing from Montreal (), Quebec, Canada Equipment: Sanyo MCD-S830 with ferrite bar antenna. 530 TURKS AND CAICOS, Radio Vision Cristiana DEC 30 0442 - Man in Spanish; good to fair, noted in passing (Chiochiu-QC) 640 VENEZUELA, YVQO Uni�n Radio, Puerto La Cruz, Anzo�tegui DEC 30 0445 - Nx with a serious and relativly furious man speaching (Chavez ?). Poor to fair, mixing with Guadeloupe. Trace of a third station way under, presumably WNNZ (in Westfield, Massachusets). (Chiochiu-QC) Not much, conditions were very poor, and even the RCN outlet on 760 wich recently returned back to higher-power was audible only as a sub-audible het. I didn't do much DX'ing primarily because of the poor conditions wich were poor to either domestic and Pan-American (LAm) DX'ing. For that reason in the first part of the evening, I profited to burn a CD of old-school freestyle music (I like this music very much, even though I'm only 15; it has looots of Latin American influences, most of the singers are either Puerto Rican or Cuban english-speaking Americans who put a mix of break-dancing, Latin rythms (salsa, merengue, cumbia mostly), disco and on very rare occasions even some rap and played a kind of funky-beat music in the mid-80's. The best artists are Expos�, Nu Shooz and The Cover Girls. Back to DX'ing, I found Radio Mauritanie on 4845 kHz just about every late afternoon. They are especially strong around 6 PM; I hope that if solar activity decreases, even a little bit, I will be able to hear my first TA, by tuning to 783 kHz on my Sanyo and trying to // it with 4845 (on the Realistic DX-351; on the Sangean ATS-606A I barely hear them and they are the only tropical station, I can listen to; even WWCR isn't coming very well; I guess this receiver was meant for SWLing to the major international broadcasters, not the smaller international broadcasters, the domestic tropical band broadcasters, the pirate radios or any shortwave DX'ing purposes; I find the reception VERY enhanced by connected the wire I installed outside to the telescopic antenna. So much enhanced, that it picks up looots of images below 11.5 MHz, I get some overloading and mixing products with the multi-band pocket Realistic, but nowhere as high as on the Sangean; I have picked up two new ZYs on 60MB that I never thought I will ever hear, the new wire really works out, is more my receivers that are not up to the job). I will try now to see if I can get the Romanian service of the BBC on SW; it will be really nice to hear them, since they beam to eastern Europe mostly, it will be a true DX catche. Their programs starts when it's 1400 (Eastern standard Time), so 1900 UTC. That's it for now !, 73 and good DX, Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 will be out soon. Order it now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/095358643X/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
