Repport from:
Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu
4190 Edward Higgins
H8Y 3M9
Pierrefonds / Montreal (West Island), QC
Equipment:
Sangean CST-818 and long-wire connected to the encoding cable which was it's
self connected to the EXT. ANT. jack
Sanyo MCD-S830 with it's internal ferrite bar antenna
4915 BRAZIL, Radio Anhanguera, Goiânia APR 2 0348 when I wasn't ready for
sleep yet and APR 3 0315 too with Brazilian and international pops. Good
reception on APR 2 (SINPO 35444-3 - O = 70% of reception quality). There is
nothing to hear on 60m during the mid-evenings hours (9PM to local midnight /
0100 to 0400 UTC in the spring, summer and early fall and 1 hour earlier in the
fall and winter months) aside from Radio Rebelde 5025, a few US rel. BCers
(i.e.: WWCR) and Brazilians like this one. Still ZYs on 60 meters are something
quite challenging for me in that they are local and broadcast in a language I
can only compare with french, spanish and romanian (and probably a few words
could compare to english, because there were Celts in Portugal and in the UK
too and their language wasn't too different, spanish and english are also
RELATIVELY close, HungRy = HambRe). Well, enough with the languages lesson.
(Chiochiu-QC)
9460 TURKEY, Voice of Turkey, Çakirlar APR 2 2106 - w/ traditionnal
flute-based Turkish music. Very strong with just some fadings, but fairly
low-modulation. Not really DX, because it also broadcasts to North-America, but
since the low modulation used makes it slightly harder to hear, I'm sending it
to CumbreDX and the other lists therefore. (Chiochiu-QC)
9580 GABON, Africa Numéro Un, Moyabi APR 2 2101 - Newscast with low
modulation and fairly little comprehensibility. Almost the same considerations
as for Turkey-9460. (Chiochiu-QC)
9900 EGYPT, Radio Cairo, Kafr Silîm-Abis APR 2 2036 - w/ traditional Arabic
music with lots of tiring, yet interesting violin melodies (one of the
instruments I like the least, but I loved the Middle Eastern flavor of it).
Also some arabic talk. Very good, SINPO 44544 until about 1657 when dropped to
fair (overall = 50 % between 2 and 3 over 5). This drop from very good to fair
level is quite surprising. Do they change patterns ? (Chiochiu-QC)
And on mediumwave:
1110 VENEZUELA, YVQT, Carúpano, Sucre APR 5 0107 - briefly audible for a few
seconds with a familiar joropo ("...La Caracha, es mi muchacha") through an
ALMOST alone (and otherwise COMPLETELY alone WBT). Very weak ZIZ-555 once,
regular Caicos-530 and Cuba on 600 and 670 last night (APR 6 UTC) are the only
other southern foreign signals noted, despite a recent increase in solar
activity. (Chiochiu-QC)
First of all, I really need to try on a regular basis Marfil Estereo on 5910.
Colombians are also special targets for me and this one can be quite
challenging, just as was Radio Mil the first time I heard it. La Voz de la
Guaviare on 6035 might break through the Marti-6030 splatter during the right
conditions too.
There was a Spaniard DX'er who, 2 or 3 nights ago, got several Bolivian
stations. One of them, the most powerfull received one, Radio Santa Cruz on
6135 would be a nice target for me too and probably a good beat for hearing my
first CP. Radio Victoria from Peru would be a great, albeit somewhat easier
challenge too. I'm looking forward listening more actively in the following
days. One problem I have to cope with is that I often get powerline noises on
LW and lower SW which, on 60 meters, makes for nothing but Rebelde-5025, USA
and marginal Brazilians (especially when thinking about the N part of the
SINPO). It is not noticeable on MW (fortunately !), altough our brand new TV
set (purchased this late fall, after the end of the chemo) does ruin the 1000s,
the 1100s and early 1200s only when it is running.
Also, as far as these logs goes, I'm surprised I heard Egypt-9900 drop from
about 80% of reception quality to around 50% with the noise level increased
around. I would really appreciate is someone would know the answers of this
drop in the quality of my reception. Do they change for broadcasting to another
part of the world ?
Last, but not least, I had blood tests today and will have the third scan this
next Tuesday. It is not really off-topic, since my health has a great
relationship with my ability to DX. If everything is ok (and IT WILL !!!), I'm
looking forward having a beautifool DX extravaganza Eastern break DX'ing my
favorite mediyumwave target from Cape Cod !
May good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
"La jalousie est un grand pieux dans l'évolution spirituelle !"
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