I arrived at the cottage yesterday at noon after having to change planes in changing planes in Vancouver as ours had a defective light. On top of that, there were very strong headwinds making a 2 hour flight into one of 3 hours. Still, arrived safe and sound in Masset and after a quick lunch with the in-laws, I headed out to the cabin for some serious antenna and receiver work. I brought with me the Perseus SDR as well as theSDR IQ as back up and my 7030+ which stays here. I laid out my favourite Beverage to the NW (BOG) at about 800’, and my permanent mini-Beverage of about 450’ due north, and a large diameter ALA 100 aimed N/NE and S/SW. All these fed via coax to the new shack in the garage (heated and roomy). It took me some time to get organized as I couldn’t figure out why the Perseus wasn’t working as well as it does at home until I understood that it was using an older Dell Dual Core rather than core 2 Duo processor (or is that vice versa?). On 1000 kHz it worked just fine. Nonetheless, I switched over to using the Perseus with my MSI Wind and turbocharged and that seemed just fine. That took me until it was quite dark, although in the meantime, I noticed armchair copy of Croatia on 1134 from 02:00 or earlier. I listened to around 06:00 UTC before calling it a night. The Perseus was happily recording the full spectrum for over 2 hours! I’m going to have a ball, as there was audio on virtually the entire band with all sorts of good stuff to be heard. Here’s some of my early result. “6” unless otherwise noted:
189: Iceland at 7 198: BBC R4 at 7 at 04:34 216: RMC at 7.5 252: probably Algeria at 6 531: 2 transmitters noted on 530.997 and 531.024. Music plus the other tx. Never really strong 594, 603, 612 675: music at 7 level 02.45 prob Radio Maria, Lopik 684, 693, 702 700: Very nice ID for “Smart Radio, KBYR Anchorage” at 04:30 738: 02:47 at 8 level but rapidly faded ?France or Spain 747: 8 level 756: 8 level with singing at 02:51 prob DLF 765: 9 level at 02:52 ? Switzerland 774: 8 level talk, Slavic sounding at 04:20 most likely Radio Varna, Bulgaria 819: 8 level at strong level except for splatter early only and nothing later with male talk. ?Egypt 828 837: French at 7 level 03:57 France Info 855: 9 level at 03:56 with ezl music and talk. Spain. 873, 882, 909, 927 945: France Info at 9 level 954: 9+ level Czech at 03:52. Really strong! 963: CRI very strong with Estonian at 9 level at 04:22. Weaker earlier in Russian. Poro, Finland. 999 1008: Religious music. 7 level. Likely Grootnieuwsradio, Holland 1017: 8 level SWR at 03:48 1026: 7 1044: 7 level SER Spain, good except for splatter. 1053: 9 level Talk Sport at 03:45. Earlier, choral singing at 02:57 over Talk Radio. Also noticed several tx here on 1053.105, 1053.050, 1053.023, and 1053.004. Choral either Radio Iasi, Romania or Radio Maria St. Petersburg. Great frequency! 1062, 1098, 1107 1134: 9+ level early from Croatia, but 8 later 1152: 9 level pres Spain Radio Nacional 5 1161: ezl music at 7 1170: 7 to 8 level Middle Eastern sounding music under domestic at 03:40. Can’t be Sawa as it’s in daylight. ?Russia? 1215: 7 level Absolute Radio. Not such a hot performer this season compared to last. 1224 1242: 7 1251 1269: 9 level DLF in GG at 05:12. Armchair. 1278: 9+ level Radio Bleu, France with “New York, New York” by Frank Sinatra at 01:57. 1287 1296: 7 level with 2 cochannels 1305 1314: 8 level with female vocal choral ?Yerevan, Armenia? 1323: 7 1341: 7 level BBC Ulster 1377: France Info at 8 1386: 03:27 very strong with Greek sounding music, but deep fades. Earlier at 02:03 sounds like CRI via Sitkunai, Lithuania 1404: talk at 7 but splatter +++ 1413: ditto to above 1422: 9 level DLF at 03:23 presumed 1440: 8 level over/under domestic, I think is Luxembourg. 1449: talk at 7 1458: music at 7 1476: 8 level EZL vocals at 03:19. Couldn’t quite make out language. ?Ukraine? 1485: 8 level 1494: 2 stations at 7. 1 on 1494.000 and second on 1493.943 1503: 7 level 1512: 7 level. Weak modulation at 03:15 ?Greece 1521 1539: 8 level 1548: VOR in EE via Moldova at 03:09 8 level exc for splatter. 1557: France info at 8 1566: English religious px presumably TWR Benin at 8 level 1575: 9 level Spain 1584 1593, 1602: both 7 level. Latter in SS at 03:05 1611: Vatican Radio at 9 level at 04:23. Absolutely armchair! _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
