Some moderate TA activity at Biurnt River. Not all that stable on the more
interesting channels, and even 1134 Croatia was at times close to armchair and
then without audio. I'm working 531 and 549. The latter had brief snippets of
middle eastern music, a bit closer to pop than anything obviously religious.
But 531 and 549 have never been there at the same time. At one point I was
pretty certain I had one of two stations on 531 //to one of two stations on
252, which would suggest Algeria. But for 549 I'm not yet ready to rule out
Saudi or Algeria. Have had Germany 765, Spain 531 855 621 (or Canary) + others;
Saudi 1521 (also not able to //549 as signals everywhere have been unreliable);
747 probably Holland; UK 909, and probably Libya on 972.09 ... had brief very
faint audio.
1670 Ottawa is obviously testing, as had mostly an open carrier. Interestingly,
had French with Haitian accent underneath, audible even with Ottawa doing
music. I've had a Boston-area pirate there before.
1630 had TISes from (I think) RI and MA. Have some checking to do.
1180 has a chirp/tweet kind of sound, as if it were a jammer. One of the two
known Rebelde stations is in //5025 and with a good clear signal at times, all
u/WHAM.
For you VHF buffs, the Geminids meteor shower is underway. Bursts were
unimpressive earlier but seem to be picking up as the evening progressive. Far
as I can tell, the peak is supposed to be around midnight Sunday night (Monday
morning) Eastern time. I'm working FM.
Saul Chernos
Burnt River ON
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