It was definitely feeling like Halloween spookiness when it came to propagation here in the North Atlantic last evening as per logs below. Signals were ever changing quickly throughout the evening on certain frequencies.
A strange occurrence with the two stations audible on 693 and 918 still remaining a mystery, not in determining what they were but why they were audible on those particular frequencies. 693-Unidentified or not ? 22:20 UTC Oct 31 All India Radio in English // 11670 khz with sign off at 22:30 UTC (This was last heard about a year and a half ago back in St. John's) not sure why this would be audible on said same frequency ) see also 918 khz below 693-ENGLAND-BBC 5 Live, Droitwich 23:25 UTC Oct 31 talk (very strong) 783-MAURITANIA-R. Mauritaine, Nouakchott 23:47 UTC Oct 31 Arabic talk & music (good) 792-FRANCE-France Info, Limoges-Nieul 23:27 UTC Oct 31 French talk (good) 882-Unidentified 23:46 UTC Oct 31 Chanting (over BBC Wales at times) 918-Unidentified or not ? 23:25 UTC Oct 31 Voice of Russia ID, Russian Folk Wave program in English) …. There seemed to be heavy enhancement of signals from that area as well as the Middle east for a period of time also 954-QATAR-QBS Al Arish 23:44 UTC Oct 31 Arabic talk , Qatar mentioned 954-CZECH REPUBLIC-Cesky Rozhlas, various 22:55 UTC Oct 31 man in Czech (good) 963-TUNISIA-R. Tunisia Cultural Channel, Tunis 22:20 UTC Oct 31 Arabic singing/chanting,talk 999-MOLDOVA-Voice of Russia Relay, Maiac 22:18 UTC Oct 31 Russian talk about Ukraine 1062-IRAN-IRIB Kerman 23:52 UTC Oct 31 Farsi talk, piano music 1080-IRAN-IRIB1, Abadan 22:50 UTC Farsi talk & music (mixing with WTIC Hartford CT) 1125-SPAIN-R. Nacional, various 00:22 UTC Nov 1 Spanish talk by woman (Very Strong) 1125-Unidentified 00:24 UTC Nov 1 man in high pitched tenor singing (under Spain) 1134-CROATIA-Glas Hrvatske, Rasinovac 21:45 UTC Oct 31 Croatian talk (very good) 1170-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-R. Sawa, Al-Dhabbiya 23:18 UTC Oct 31 Arabic talk, ID 1188-IRAN-Payam Radio, Tehran 22:03 UTC Oct 31 String music & Farsi talk (Very strong) 1215-ENGLAND-Absolute Radio, various 00:15 UTC Nov 1 , ID, talk about Halloween,ads (good) 1251-LIBYA-Voice of Africa, Tripoli 22:07 UTC Oct 31 music & Arabic talk 1269-GERMANY-Deutschlandfunk, Neumunster 00:13 UTC Nov 1 German talk by man 1296-ENGLAND-Radio XL 1296 AM Langley Mill 19:24 UTC Oct 31 Indian language programming, ID (good) 1314-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-R. Farda, Al-Dhabbiya 22:12 UTC Oct 31 Arabic music, R. Farda ID 1323-GERMANY-Voice of Russia via Wachenbrunn 22:07 UTC Oct 31 jazz music & Russian talk 1332-IRAN-Tehran Radio, Tehran 22:05 UTC Oct 31 Farsi talk & music (good) 1350-FRANCE-R. Orient, Nice 23:32 UTC Oct 31 Arabic music & talk 1377-FRANCE-France Info, Lille-Camphin-en-Carembault 19:24 UTC Oct 31 man in French about Palestinian situation (Very Strong) 1377-IRAN-IRIB1 22:48 UTC Oct 31 Farsi talk (completely over France for about 10 minutes) 1395-ALBANIA-Transworld Radio via Fllake Relay 19:20 UTC Oct 31 Hungarian lang. program (Very Strong) 1413-SPAIN-R. Nacional, Jaen 00:17 UTC Nov 1 Spanish talk (Like A Local) 1422-GERMANY-Deutschlandfunk 19:26 UTC Oct 31 German talk (good) 1431-DJIBOUTI-R. Sawa, Arta 23:12 UTC Oct 31 Arabic music & talk (good) 1440-LUXEMBOURG-China Radio Relay, Marnach 22:10 UTC Oct 31 talk about University in English 1449-LIBYA-Voice of Free Libya Meserata 23:16 UTC Oct 31 Arabic talk (Very Strong) 1458-ENGLAND-Sunrise Radio, Brookmans Park 22:02 UTC Oct 31 ads in English, ID (mixing with Gold Manchester) 1548-ENGLAND-BBC Bristol, Mangotsfield 22:00 UTC Oct 31 news in English (mixing with Kuwait) 1548-KUWAIT-R. Sawa, Kuwait City 22:01 UTC Oct 31 Arabic pop songs 1575-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-R. Farda, Al-Dhabbiya 23:16 UTC Oct 31 R. Farda ID, Arabic music (Very Strong) Receivers: SRF-M37V, SRF-39FP , SRF-59, SRF-M37W , DT-210V barefoot Good DX Allen Willie & Dianne Froude Bristol's Hope,Newfoundland 47:43N 53:11W http://nldxers.summerhost.info _______________________________________________ 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]
