Report from Mark Connelly - Times / dates = UTC / 2005 [Connelly*B-MA] = Billerica, MA, USA (GC= 71.221 W / 42.533 N) (home)
Receivers: Drake R8A, Palstar R30 Antenna: dual-feedline Flag: 5 m x 10.6 m; DXP-3 phasing unit Homepage = "http://hometown.aol.com/MarkWA1ION/weblink.htm"; RF circuit page = "http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/index.html"; e-mail = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ====================================================== *** TRANSATLANTIC DX *** 747 | NETHERLANDS | R. 747 AM / R.1, Flevoland, MAR 22 0112 - men's chorus; fair. [Connelly*B-MA] 765 | SWITZERLAND | RSR Option Musique, Sottens, MAR 20 0012 - "Delilah" by Tom Jones; fair. [Connelly*B-MA] 774 | SPAIN | RNE R.1 synchros, MAR 20 0436 - woman in Spanish mentioned politics; fair. [Connelly*B-MA] 783 | MAURITANIA | R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott, MAR 11 0100 - // 4845 with Afro-Arabic female vocal, then Arabic talk by man; poor to fair. [Connelly*B-MA] 792 | FRANCE | France Info, Limoges, MAR 20 0025 - // 1206 with French rock; good. [Connelly*B-MA] 837 | FRANCE | France Info, Nancy, MAR 20 0032 - woman in French; fair. [Connelly*B-MA] 864 | FRANCE | France Bleu, Villebon-sur-Yvette, MAR 22 0154 - French vocal; fair. + MAR 22 0212 - "I'm Not in Love" by 10cc from 1975. [Connelly*B-MA] 873 | SPAIN | SER synchros, MAR 20 0543 - Spanish newstalk; poor to fair. [Connelly*B-MA] 999 | SPAIN | COPE, Madrid, MAR 11 0113 - advert with radio drama / "soap opera" type dialogue; good. + MAR 19 0432 - man in Spanish talking about an event occurring in May; good. [Connelly*B-MA] 1044 | SPAIN | SER synchros, MAR 11 0356 - man & woman in Spanish, Cadena SER mention; good. [Connelly*B-MA] 1089 | UNITED KINGDOM | TalkSport synchros, MAR 21 0418 - sportstalk; fair in WBAL slop. [Connelly*B-MA] 1107 | SPAIN | RNE R.5 synchros, MAR 19 0422 - Spanish newstalk; fair. [Connelly*B-MA] 1134 | CROATIA | Glas Hrvatske, Zadar, MAR 21 0416 - Slavic talk by man & woman; through WBBR slop. [Connelly*B-MA] 1169 | IRAN | IRIB Sarasary, Semnan, MAR 20 0038 - talk by man in presumed Farsi; fair. [Connelly*B-MA] 1171 | unID (possibly Iran moving around ?), MAR 22 0150 - het on high side of WWVA/R. Farda/Colombia jumble. [Connelly*B-MA] 1179 | ROMANIA | Romania Actualitata, Galbeni-Bacau et al., MAR 20 0113 - dominating over usual Spain-Canaries: Romanian talk (that sounded somewhat like Portuguese with a bit of Slovenian mixed in) and many pop instrumentals and vocals including "Fields of Gold" by Sting. Not much 1180 slop. It took a while to figure this out, but eventually finding it and an 855 parallel on a German DXTuners receiver solved it. Interestingly the Waterford, Ireland DXTuner hardly had a trace of this: SER Spain dominated 1179 and RNE Spain topped 855 (as they typically do here as well). [Connelly*B-MA] 1206 | FRANCE | France Info, Bordeaux, MAR 20 0025 - // 792 with French rock music; good. + MAR 21 0410 - French in-studio talk and phone interview; good. [Connelly*B-MA] 1215 | UNITED KINGDOM | Virgin R. synchros, MAR 20 0124 - Donovan song, then Virgin Radio ID. [Connelly*B-MA] 1296 | SPAIN | COPE, Valencia, MAR 11 0042 - Spanish discussion; fair. [Connelly*B-MA] 1314 | NORWAY | NRK, Kvitsoy, MAR 22 0146 - end of country song, then man in Norwegian spoke over a jazz piano background; fair to good. [Connelly*B-MA] 1359 | SPAIN | RNE, Arganda del Rey, MAR 21 0407 - fast-talk Spanish news by man; fair. [Connelly*B-MA] 1521 | SAUDI ARABIA | BSKSA, Duba, MAR 20 0427 - Arabic talk by man; still good at this late time. [Connelly*B-MA] 1530 | VATICAN CITY | R. Vaticana, MAR 19 0410 - piano music, then Vatican interval signal (celeste or harp); talk followed; slightly under WCKY. [Connelly*B-MA] 1548 | KUWAIT | R. Sawa, Kabd - Kuwait City, MAR 15 0051 - pop Arabic string & vocal music; bouncy fading. [Connelly*B-MA] 1557 | FRANCE | France Info, Fontbonne, MAR 19 0412 - woman in French; fair through WQEW slop. + MAR 21 0401 - French news by woman; good. [Connelly*B-MA] ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
