I`m not kidding at all. I know "I" can hear them often even with the telescopic antenna unextended at all into it`s socket on the Sangean 606 witht excellent strenghts.
But it isn`t the same way in Europe. I only heard once some Spanish on 6.03 MHz using the Umea`s Web-controlled shortwave receiver in Swden and it was weak and with quie some QRM and not enough to ID it. If you are interesed in using this great web-controlled receiver (you select a frequency and listen to it as it is heard in Umea, Sweden and you DX on the Net !), just go to http://194.165.225.6/sfors/. This web-controlled rx web-site has also a chat where you can talk about DX strategies, targets, music, pets, or any other subject while listening to the radio, with the other users. About 1 year and a half before I started DX`ing, I was amazed by people I tought were from another planet, that were from Sweden as well, from Uk, SPain, Finland and other European countries that told me they heard my local CKAC Radio M�dia on 730 kHz and other Quebec stations, New-Foundland stations like VOCM as well as WABC and CHRQ from Alberta on 770 and Radio Vibracion 1470 from Venezuela. At that my furthest MW catche was WSB in Atlanta, GA on 750 and I tought anything further than Atlanta such as Savannah in SOUTHERN Georgia, Florida, Latin America, Europe et al was impossible on MW because the ionospheric absorptions were too high, compared to shortwave. How wrong I was ! This site teached to me a lot about MW and SW DX`ing too (there were some people tuning to SW pirates and tropical bands broadcasters, at that time I thinked SW was merely for the international broadcasters because in Romania when I was a little child in the appartaments with concrete ceilings and walls with radios that had mostly extremely simple antennas - our main shortwave radio at my parents house about 10 years ago when I listened to Radio Free Europe, the BBC and things like that, was connceted to just a random wire in strunggled along the library in our living room, so you can imagine major international broadacsters was all I could hear). And at that time, I didn`t even know how DX-unfriendly were the concrete buildings. Well back to Radio Marti, you can try to get it at your home too. However, I`m not kidding: here in Montreal I get them even with the telescopic whip at minimum ito the socket, but in Europe they seem to be, at most, very weak, if it was really them (the PWBR also list a religious domestic Chilean broadcaster on 6029.6 kHz, Radio Santa Maria wich I even very tentatively received here during the Radio Marti Monday Morning "silent period"). While here in Montreal they are often extremely strong, I`m sure in Europe they would be a nice DX catche ! Especially considering that 6030 is used, in the morning at 6AM Romanian time in the winter by Radio Free Europe, so at the best time for hearing Radio Marti on 6030 kHz in Europe due to sunrise enhancement at the receiver end there is intense RFL co-channel QRM. I also wonder if the cuban jammers can be picked up on a regular basis in Europe. Regards, 73 and good DX ! Bogdan ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 is out! Order it now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059677/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.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
