24 JANUARY 2010: Was out primarily for European Pirates on this micro-DXpedition. The few ZYs left on 60 meters were quite good. Better than they have been this season. Should have checked 31 meters but didn't.
RX: Microtelecom Perseus SDR with ARR preamp. ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 50°. QTH: Pennsylvania State Game Lands #26 Duration: 0705-0920 UTC Solar Indices: Solar Flux = 85 A Index = 5 K Index = 1 No storms. WX: Cloudy. Cool 27° F. (-2° C.) BOLIVIA 3310 R. Mosoj Chaski 0908 almost NA-sounding LA song at t/in, then W and M anncrs at 0909 w/ment of Mosoj Chaski. Also gave numbers. Nice haunting instru. Flute CP mx as filler, then M anncr. Decent strength but noise was too high. (24 Jan) MAURITANIA 4845 R. Mauritanie 0756 W host w/lcl guitar mx, canned anmts including a long one on remote w/M chatting w/M. Ment of Mauritan. Lcl guitar filler mx at 0800. 5 time ticks at 0801, AR ID anmnt by M ending w/ment of radio, guitar mx briefly, and cont. anmnt by M for abt 30 seconds, fanfare, and into pres. nx by M. Good signal. (24 Jan) BRAZIL 4885 R. Clube de Para 0756-0802 contemporary ZY Pops. 0800 full canned ID/freq anmnt by M, TC by M, then back to mx. Good signal. (24 Jan) BRAZIL 4914.97 R. Difusora de Macapa 0756-0802 Pleasant ZY Pops, 0758 nice ID promo/jingle, then full canned ID by M, ads and promo then, all by the same M. Blasted by 4915.03 pres. Anhanguera signing on at 0800:43. Abt the best I've ever hrd Macapa. (24 Jan) BRAZIL 4915.03 R. Anhanguera (pres.) Signal suddenly on at 0800:43 in middle of ad w/mx and W anncr, then canned anmnt by M anncr. Definite PT. Abt equal to Macapa just 60 hz below. Was able to notch out some of Macapa and make this a bit readable at abt 2.5 khz bandwidth, but didn't record long enough to ID. (24 Jan) SURINAM 4989.98 R. Apintie (pres.) 0756-0802, Soft Pop ballads including a remake of "I Want to Make It With You" by Bread at 0800. No ID or anmnts in the short time I had recorded. (24 Jan) BRAZIL 5044.98 R. Cultura do Para 0742-0802, Nice soft ZY ballads and one or two Pops. 0800 full canned "R. Cultura" ID anmnt ending w/".Para, Brasil", then brief anmnt, and back to mx. Very nice signal. (24 Jan) EQUATORIAL GUINEA 6250 R. Nac. Malabo 0730 lively Hi-life mx. Not very strong but surprised it was coming in at this late time for them. UTE QRM. (24 Jan) BRAZIL 11814.99 R. Brasil Central 0736 nice signal w/"We Are the World", //4985 which was also good. Caught full canned ID by M at 0800 on 4985. 60 mb ZYs doing well for a change. (24 Jan) 73 Dave ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
