When I left the dials last night, the radio was tuned to 5505 kHz and the antenna was directed to the northeast. I was surprised at about 1025 UTC this morning to turn it on and hear Shannon VOLMET with a very good, very readable signal, about 2-1/2 hours after their local sunrise.
I've tended to ignore announcements from European pirates and special event stations about upcoming broadcasts at that hour, because I figured I'd never hear them in North America. But now I think it would be well worth checking for those stations, especially when the magnetic field is quiet and the solar wind speed is relatively low. Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, MD Ten Tec RX-340 SAL-12 antenna _ 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
