[HCDX] MW and SW DX stations heard this Sunday morning and this Sunday evening

Report from Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu in Pierrefonds-est (Montreal), Quebec, Canada: Hello to all of you ! No time to send a full report (i.e.: time, name of the station, etc...) but I want to say that I did experience excellent condx to Latin America the past evening. Here is what I heard

[HCDX] some MW and SW logs from the past evening

Report from Bogdan Chiochiu 4190 Edward Higgins Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada Equipment: MW: Sanyo MCD-S830 w/ ferrite bar antenna SW: Sangean 606 w/ outdoor long-wire, connected massive parts of it (massive enough to not need a plug) to theantenna terminal instead ofthe telescopic whip, so

[HCDX] unIDs on 1580 kHz from this early evening

with apparent nx, but Noticias was the only world I could sort out. Thank you very much for any help on this two unIDs caught on 1580 ! That's it for now !, 73 and good DX, Bogdan Chiochiu - Original Message - From: Aurel Chiochiu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dario Monferini ; [EMAIL PROTECTED

[HCDX] Re: [LatinMWDX] Re: Latest Medium Wave DX ...

You say that you logged USA, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Virgin Islands, Colombia and Venezuela. What radio stations you logged from Venezuela ? This my favorite country and I would like to become a disc-jockey on a radio station there. I logged 6 YV states (Venezuela is divided in 23 states,

[HCDX] A question about the power of European tx'ers

Hello all ! I wonder why European MW radio stations use powers of several hundreds and sometimes thousands of kWs ? Is it because in Europe, there are much more concrete buildings than in North America, where there is much more absorption of radio waves and the skywave signals of

[HCDX] Thursday, October 10 logs

Hello ! I was 3 days away in St.-Alphonse de Rodriguez (from Friday night to Monday afternoon) (95 kilometers, NNE of my West Island Montreal QTH) with my Phillips LW-MW transistor radio. Aside from CARACOL-810, no Latins were heard. Of course, I was in a kind of Thanks Giving Day camp, so

[HCDX] YVKS-750

In Montreal, QC using a ferrite bar Sanyo port.: 1805 local time (2305 UTC); Radio Caracas Radio heard with a fair signal way over a verry weak WSB; mention of "emisora" at 2306; now at 2334it almost completely faded away; but it is RVC-530 that has a pretty strong signal now, this is a

[HCDX] A great reception of Guadeloupe, on Sunday

Hello ! This Sunday, for the first time, I heard Paris pgm on Radio Guadeloupe. No Latins audible on MW at this moment, except maybe a SAH on 640. I installed today a 40 meters long-wire antenna to a Realistic communication receivers, and it works verry well on MW about 1200 kHz, but

[HCDX] YVOZ IDed

Hello to all ! Ne wlog; YVRZ Radio Timepo wich is still very strong on my Sanyo MCD-S830 as I listen from my Montreal with SS talk, QC location; finally an aurora reception like those I have at the beginning of my DX carrer in November 2000 (I begun MW DX in October 2000). If everyone

[HCDX] The best LA DX night of the season

Hello to all ! I've got to sleep 90 minutes the past afternoon, and it was really what I had to do to stay up late. After a brief broust of loud signal from Guadeloupe, when I writed my message last night on the LatinMWDX list, conditions deteriorated a little bit, with only RVC-530 and a

[HCDX] Logs on December 6/December 7, 2002

Hello ! Slightly above average conditions to Latin America produced a solid log of Colombia-650 among others.Another Colombian, the one on 760, is much strongersince a week suggesting a back to normal power (theywere very difficult to hear during most of this fall). Also, some listening

[HCDX] Logs made on the car-radio

Hello ! We had two visits this evening, one to a 20 year old friend of my father who is studying bothphilosophy and photography at the McGill University (in the Cartierville area of Montreal) and another to a family (in the St.-Laurent suburb), both romanians. We listened to the 50 kW

[HCDX] LA logs for DEC 11 and early evening DEC 12

Hello ! Bogdan speaks: The last night I was buzzy with the french oral who was for today (I think I had around 95% !), so DX time was limited to an hour beetwen 10:30 pm and 11:30 PM when I got to bed (I did sleep an hour yesturday afternoon before doing my homeworks, so it helped a lot,

[HCDX] recent LAm and 'graveyard' condx+logs

Hello! I am now in vacation, so can DX very late on all days. I finished all my middle-of-the-year exams very well. The past Friday night was pretty average, still with a nice reception of Cuba on 640. They are somewhat tougher to hear this season with Guadeloupe on full-power, so it was

[HCDX] a new LatinMWDX club on Yahoo!

Hello again ! I forgot to tell you about a new LatinMWDX group who appeared on Yahoo. It is open to members (DXers) from all over the world who receive and listen to Latin American stations on the main mediumwave 520-1710, but also for those of you who DX medium-wave harmonics in the

[HCDX] A new Unión Radio web-site

Hello ! As announced last night over the air, while listening to Unión Radio on 640, they have a web-site at http://www.unionradio.com/. This site is currently under construction, altough almost 2 years ago I could listen to them on the Internet using Windows Media Player. Maybe they are

[HCDX] Re: Caracol on 960 ??

Also heard some splatter from next-to-adjacent local CINW-940

[HCDX] Pan-American logs from the past evening (DEC 22)

Hello ! Bogdan speaks: As many of you know, especially those of you who are on LatinMWDX, the last night while I was walking with my father and the dog, I bring an old longwave/mediumwave transistor radio, Phillips, with us and it sounded like Pierrefonds/Dollards-des-Ormeaux (Montreal

[HCDX] Domestic DX Tip

Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu QTH: Pierrefonds-Est, Quebec, Canada Heard on a Sanyo MCD-S830 w/ internal ferrite bar loop antenna: 1320 CKEC New Glasgow, NSDEC 231711 EST - End of wx report for Northern Nova Scotia, followed by a man announcing "Right now Pet Shop Boys -West End Girls" wich is

[HCDX] the 9kHz/10 kHz switch

Hello! How can I chwenge from the 9 kHz steps in wich my new Sangean ATS-606A receiver tune to the 10 kHz steps. Except for a very few caribbean splits, most Latin are using 10 kHz splits, and until I get a better antenna, I wouldn't get any trans-atlantics anyway. One the manual hand-book

[HCDX] Some logs from the past 2 evenings

. Are they are any other domestics on 1130 or did YVRL play some music in EE too?; heard before the walk with Tom (my dog) and Aurel Chiochiu (my father) on the evening of December 22 (Chiochiu-PQ) 1150 UNITED STATES, La Mega, Boston, MA, WMAG, DEC 26 0238 - fair with minor fadings some QRM from remaints of nulled

[HCDX] 60 meters DX tips

Hello ! Due to the verry poor Latin condx and to the increasing QRM from CJMR on 1320 (where I wanted to listen to CKEC) and a near-threshold signal strenght from RCN-760 as the best Latin MWer, I fixed the outdoor wire antenna and connected to a radio I received for my 13 years birday on the

[HCDX] Re: 60 meters DX tips

Hello, they (Radio Difusora ancrena) just signed off a couple of minutes ago, as of 0300 UTC. They gived frequencies with call-leters and even tough I don't speak portuguese at all, I could understand that what I had heard what their 4885 kHz outlet and they also simulcast on MW //690 (I have a

[HCDX] Nicaragua on 600; Log from the past night ! - The logs from the pastnight

Hello ! I've gota lot of listening last evening, from 8PMup to about 1AM in the morning (Montreal and Eastern Time hours), so lot of DX on AM and 60 meterts tropical band. As we throw toward the night the conditions getted from pretty good high-latitude to slightly auroral, improving LAm

[HCDX] Logs

Bogdan Chiochiu QTH: Pierrefonds (Montreal), Quebec, Canada Some domestic logs from the night of December 26-27: Heard on a weak Panasonic-RxD14 portable: 1320 CKEC, New Glasgow, NS DEC 26 2028 ET - Ad with mentions of the Halifax area, wx with ID/jingle, followed by a soft-rock song.

[HCDX] Logs

And on shortwave: Realistic DX-351 portable with75 meters of outdoor wire attached tot he head-phones connection jack: 4885 Brazil, Rádio Difusora Ancreana - DEC 27 0200 and 0300 UTC _ Full canned ID ith mention of freqs, in PP. Do not sign of at 0200, a a brazilian DX'er informed me via

[HCDX] Logs from the past evening (DEC 28 (ET))

Bogdan Chiochiu, using his Sanyo MCD-S830 portable w/ the ferrite bar loop antenna Mediumwave: 640 VENEZUELA, YVQO Unión Radio, Puerto La Cruz, Anzoàtegui DEC 29 0346 - Good with man and woman alterning news items. Peaked about the same time as the last evening. No other Latins at decent

[HCDX] Venezuela-640 ?

Hello ! I get a trace of a second station on 640, mixing with WNNZ as early as 3:30 PM, might this be Union Radio-Venezuela or a domestic talker (I cannot really understand the language, due to WNNZ). Too much interferences to understand much... Conditions look pretty good and there is already

[HCDX] Logs from this afternoon

Hello ! I finally connected the outdoor wire to the telescopic whip of the Sangean 606 and found thereare nearly no mixing products above 4 mHz; perphaps I used something else the last time ? anyway, Imanaged to pull in the following: 4845 Radio Mauritanie, Noackchott, Mauritania 2319 -

[HCDX] Happy New Year 2003

Hello ! I would like to wish to all the DX'ers a Happy New Year of 2003 and much more DX than we had in 2002 (due to the solar conditions). Have good celebrations and/or partyies ! 73 and good DX, Bogdan Chiochiu

[HCDX] MW Conditions up to date !

Hi to all of you here! Tonight seems to be an opening just SLIGHTLY below-average and if I have time enough, I may log some goodies somewhat later this evening and conditions may even jump to good. Duirng the last hour I managed the following (mostly the usuals, not much rare stuff

[HCDX] CKEC faded down

Hello ! It seems like I have to wait until local sunset to get CKEC again, along with other longer-haul eastern signals such as St.-Pierre-1375 (previously IDed and a fairly regular back in the fall of 2001, very poor and only once heard this season). It very briefly peaked to excellent,

[HCDX] Domestic DX tip

Heard on the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot (from Montreal): 1360 CKBC Bathurst, NB JAN 6 1703 EST - playingtwo soft-rock songs,jingle at 1709 as "Today's Best Music ...CKBC Bathurst" with bits of songs played beetwen the words to make sound them more attarctive,followed by a more rythmic CW

[HCDX] CKEC

CKEC 1320 from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia is in with poor to occasionally good signal since at least 1:58 PM when I caught a CW song followed by a newscast, then wx wich mentionated it was 1 degree Celsius in New Glasgow followed bya Hot-AC song. Not bad, especially considering it's full

[HCDX] Pan-American loggings from Sat. night Dec. 11

Hello to all of you ! Condx were not excellent like they were Thursday (when I had SS all the way up to 1180), but I still managed to get at least the regular stations. I only DXed beetwen a half-hour 10-10:30 PM intensively, but maked a quick low-band band-scan beetwen 8:43-8:46 PM, so

[HCDX] MW logs and comments from the past evening (January 13)

Hello ! Solar conditions seemed fairly low the last evening (January 13 - early AM Jan. 14 UTC), not enough to make St.-Pierre-1375 audible, but too low to make any decent or even sub-par Latin American reception possible. The only real action and signal I could identify was from

[HCDX] LA MW obesevrations for T-January 16,2003 and some brief observations on domestic DX condx for this week-end

Hello to all of you ! The lastJanuary 16 was by far the best Latin American opening of the week, but still WAY below average, the past week produced two or three good openings, including a nearly positive identification from Nicaragua-600 (620 would be easier since I have a semi-local near

[HCDX] Re: [mwdx] LA MW obesevrations for T-January 16,2003 and some brief observations on domestic DX condx for this week-end

It's actually 1300, not 1330 - 1330 is Boston SS (see below) - Original Message - From: Aurel Chiochiu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Risto Kotalampi ; Jouko Huuskonen ; Ahonen Tuomo ; Miha Rus ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; William Centeno

[HCDX] Re: two medium-wave domestic logs from this late afternoon/earlyevening

- Original Message - From: Aurel Chiochiu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 5:15 PM Subject: Re: two medium-wave domestic logs from this late afternoon/early evening - Original Message - From: Aurel Chiochiu

[HCDX] 1680 kHz unIDs: unID ... ABC Radio, 10000 watts of power andunID urban mx

Hello ! Can anyone help here: unID stn on 1680 kHz, in the expanded part of the dial, with Indian music and IDs as ABC Radio and sixty-eighty AM and mention 1 watts of power (probably day power, since it was pretty fadey for a 1 watts signal, I guess they are running 1000 watts

[HCDX] Pan-American DX logs for the evening of January 31, 2003

Hello to all of you ! Awesome condx to Latin America the past evening (January 31 EsT - February 1 UtC). A new country and a nearly positive log of Venezuela-910. The odd thing was that the big guns from Caracas and Barranquilia on 750 and 760 were very, very weakly received. But the other

[HCDX] two new logs from the past night

Hello ! As some of you who are on LatinMWDX already know, I did experience a fair opening around mid-night. Logged two new ones from myself: a domestic wich make TX my 22th state and a new cuban for me on 900 in // with 890. I planed to log Texas tonightand knewed WBAP is very regularly

[HCDX] Estacíon ID heard on the 600 kHz mystery

Hello ! I taked the tape I made of the 600 kHz Dominican and listened to it on the road before and after school on the school bus and the only clear ID I founded beetwen break in meringue/bachata music block is "Estacíon..." after a UTC-4 time check at 0255 UTC "diez cincuenta y cicnco..."

[HCDX] SW DX this morning

Hello ! I had the pleasure to wake up this morning around 4:15 AM and noticed a lot of really good condx on SW, nothing like the evening when I got to bed at 10:30 PM when Brasil wasn't that good. Here are a couple of exemples of the good stuff this AM: Rx and location: Sangean ATS-606A

[HCDX] ZY log

Hello ! Bogdan Chiochiu QTH: Montreal (Pierrefonds-Est), Quebec, Canada A nice Brazilian from the past evening: 4985 BRASIL, Radio Brasil Central, Manaus FEB 240120 - Soft PP mx, ID at 0126 w/ 2 jingles. Also heard at least2 other IDs as "Brasil Central". (Chiochiu-QC) Alsothis morning

[HCDX] Condx this morning; comments on MW DX the past evening

Hello ! It's 6:43 AM in Mtl. and nothing interessant so far except for the 4960 stn (wich dissapeared a few minutes ago with dawn). Lots of computer QRM; I guess the long-wire antenna outside is too close to the basement window, so too close to the computer. If the computer is off, it works very

[HCDX] update of my all-time MW logbook

My MW Logbook (part 1) QTHs: Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada, on the car in the neighbors of Pierrefonds/Montreal (i.e.: St.-Laurent, Île-Perrot). Some older logs of local and short skip clears was made in the Bordeaux-Cartierville parts Also DX-ing from St.-Alphonse de Rodriguez

[HCDX] two new logs on 31m

Hello to all of you ! Here are 2 new 31-meters band logs from this first day of my spring holidays (March 3 to 8 + 2 full week-ends) Heard on the Sangean ATS606A rx with long-wire antenna connected directlyinto the ANT terminal:9580 GABON Afrique Numéro Un, Libreville MAR 3 1959 - End of

[HCDX] SPECIAL YV log - Music on Union Radio !!

SPECIAL log from the past night: 640 VENEZUELA YVQO, Union Radio, Puerto-La-Cruz, Anzoàtegui MAR 8 0455 - Good, over/under Cuba and occasionally Guadeloupe, with nx report about "materias bruts", followed by a ballad about "Libertad", then "Union Radio Noticias" jingle at TOH (around 0501

[HCDX] Latin American MW DX logs for the evening of MAR 18

Hello to all of you ! A poor to fair showing of Latin American signals at my QTH the past evening, the best in the past two week. Rx. : Sanyo MCD-S830 with ferrite bar antenna QTH : Montreal (Pierrefonds-Est), Quebec, Canada 530 Turks and Caicos,Radio Vision Cristiana Int. MAR 19 0231 -

[HCDX] Logs

Bogdan Chiochiu QTH: Pierrefonds, QC AM: Sanyo MCD-S830 w/ internal ferrite bar antenna SW: Sangean ATS 606A rx w/ long-wire antenna in the yard 640 GUADELOUPE, Radio Guadeloupe, Pointe-à-Pitre MAR 19 0337 - talk in accented french about the disavantages of the war in Iraq, then

[HCDX] Bata on 5005

Here in Mtl. they are very strong playing non-stop soft adult contemporary music. A very slight het from very strong Radio Cristal on 5010, otherwise very good reception. No ID yet though. Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 is out! Order it

[HCDX] Latin American MW logs for the evening of MAR 24

Hello to all of you ! Yesturday wasa fairly good evening for Latin American medium-wave DX yesturday despite the non-auroral conditions, and especially considering the spring season and the day-light hours wich are getting longer and longer, and the D layer of the ionosphere aborb more and

[HCDX] Latin American MW / SW logs for the evening of MAR 28

Hello to all of you ! Despite the increasing number of day-light hours and despite we are in the spring right now, yesturday produced the best condx on MW toward Latin Americaof the whole month. I could say condx were, at least, very slightly auroral as I could get WQEW Radio Disney 1560

[HCDX] Log - DW to Russia

9715GERMANYDeutsche Welle/Voice of Germany in Russian,Wertachtal MAR 29 1954 -Russian talk, IS, then time pips at 2000, followed by man inRussian with news; mention of Irak. Poor signal with lot of fadings. Taped.Initially logged as Irak, but after reading the George Maroti and reviewing

[HCDX] (non-show) Radio Imperial

Hello to all of you ! I have tryed to get Radio Imperial out of El Salvador, but I hear nothing but amplifier generated noises on either 17835 or 17836 (they are on the split frequency of 17835.16 and my receiver can only tune in 1 kHz increments). I hope to get them the next time they are

[HCDX] a very tentative log from Venezuela

9640 VENEZUELA, Radio Nacíonal de Venezuela, Campo Carabobo (Carabobo state) MAR 30 1416-1417 - noted what sounded like a very weak carrer under pops-up noises (from cable leakage or something like that); very tentative ! (Chiochiu-QC) Bogdan Chiochiu (QTH: Montreal - Pierrefonds-Est,

[HCDX] Argentina on 15345 is stroooong !

Strong signal since at least 4:55 PM until now (beetwen 5:05 and 5:40 PM I was watching a movie, so I re-opened my radio just a few minutes ago) with futbol play-by-play time pips at 22:00 UTC, shortly after ads, mention of "Radio Nacíonal" (in PWBR it is indicated a Radio Nacíonal relay of

[HCDX] logs of Radio Bandeirantes received on two frequencies

9645.9 BRASIL Radio Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo MAR 31 2301 - audible clearly on even 9646 kHz (9645 was a bit distorted) with portuguese talk; // 11925; fair-poor level with QRM from a computer in the neighborhood. (Chiochiu-QC) 11925 BRASIL Radio Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo MAR 31 2301 - with

[HCDX] Huge Aurora - Almost no MW skywave signals the past ev. herein Mtl., targets talk

Hello ! The past evening I was surprised even tough there was an hour or so before sunset to not being able to hear at all WPTR Legends 15-40 wich is a short-skip "pest" usually here, from Albany, NY. Then two hours after dark they were not audible at all either and semi-local WICY on 1490

[HCDX] logs of Caribbean MW DX heard the past night

530 TURKS AND CAICOS, Radio Visión Cristiana,South Caicos MAY 31 0558 - Spanish gospel tune followed by a few announcements, then top-of-the-hour jingle "Radio Visión Cristiana, marcando la hora", then time-check "Uno de la madrugada en punto en Nueva York"followed by triple legal IDs for

Re: [HCDX] Re: [LatinMWDX] Re: Latest Medium Wave DX ...

Here in Montreal, I often get Venezuela on 640, 670 and 750. 640 Union Radio in Puerto La Cruz (in the Anzoàtegui state) was by far the strongest South American this season so far. YVKS-750 was sometimes excellent during the first half of the season (the fall and early winter), but since late

[HCDX] Log - My first reception of Guadeloupe-640 in the month ofJune

640 GUADELOUPE, Radio Guadeloupe, Pointe-à-Pitre JUN 8 0217 - presumed (no ID, but I'm certain it was them from hearing them with IDs on a regular basis the past season). Weak-poor levelwith an old-sounding song (initially I thought I had the "Trios en la Noche" program from Radio Progreso

[HCDX] Cuban log

1180 CUBA, CMBA Radio Rebelde, Villa-Maria JUN 19 0314-0321 - Woman in Spanish followed by salsa music. Poor to nill with remains of nulled WHAM only very slightly stronger (due to the AUroral conditions). ¡ Primera vez enJunio ! ¡ La trecera emisora de America Latina en onda media esta mez

[HCDX] Miscellanous DX things - Computer and radio broked / Mtltropo inBeauport (almost 300 kilometers away !) / Congratulations to UK DXers forhaving TA-FM DX !

Hello to all of you ! First of all shortly after I posted on HCDX and the other lists about my reception of Cuba-1180 on the night of June 18 my computer was locked and when I restarted it didn`t work properly anymore (we had a very big virus) and then on June 28 I did leave for a summer

[HCDX] Logs from New Bruntswick

Hello to all of you ! I was so sad about my broken Sanyo MCD-S830 portable that I forgot to tell about my vacation trip to N.-B. that ended up yesturday. I did bring a few radios though and my Sangean 606 was one of them, as well as my long-wire antenna. We did stay in Shediac Bridge, 30

[HCDX] New very low powered local on 104.5

Hello, while in the car getting back from a rendez-vous I heard what sounded like a manifestation on the phone with monaural audio on 104.5 at a fairly weak level fighting and mostly winning over even weaker CFLG (Variety 104 in Cornwall, ON) wich was in stereo when in and a man sayed This is

[HCDX] Big Es opening tonight - FM logs - my first FM Es in Augustand the only one with IDs this season so far to me

Heard on the Mazda Protégé`s car radio of my father while driving from Hochelaga-Maisonneuve to Pierrefonds (after staying 8 hours with a friend on the Mont-Royal mountain I was boored so I asked my father if we could check out if in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve we can get CFXM M105 in Grandby without

[HCDX] Groundwave propagation on SW

Hello again ! I have a question for those of you specialists on the propagation of radio waves. How far from the tx-site, a SW signal can reach without being reflected by the ionosphere thousands of kilometers away or so ? I mean what is the groundwave reach of a signal on the 49 meters band,

[HCDX] Logs from Île-Bizard

Yesturday late afternoon / early evening we spent a nice time in Île-Bizard, a place about 15 minutes from my home QTH on the Edward Higgins street in Pierrefonds-Est, this is where my girlfriend Anne-Marie Tsen-Valiquet lives (though she`s currently in a holiday in Texas). We went there on a

[HCDX] Another DX trip to Île-Bizard

Hello ! Because of the very hot weather (29 degrees C and well over 35 degrees with the humidity) we are going to Île-Bizard again and we will swim as well this time, but will have some time for DX as well. I`m taking the Passport to World Band Radio with me this time. That`s it for now !

[HCDX] Shortwave DX logs from Île-Bizard for August 21

Hello to all of you ! Another succesfull DX-pedition to Île-Bizard with my father. I didn`t swim like I wanted, because the vestiary close down at 5:00 PM and by the time we arrived at 5:20 PM it was already closed, but I played chess with my father while listening to RAE on 15345 kHz and they

[HCDX] shortwave DX logs from Île-Bizard on August 22

Bogdan Chiochiu Sangean 606 portable rx w/ long-wire antenna in the trees 4845 MAURITANIA, Radio Mauritanie, Nouakchott AUG 22 2217 - Loud with AA talk and AA mx; SIO 444. (Chiochiu-Î-B-QC) 4885 BRAZIL, Radio Clube do Para AUG 22 2329 - tuned in during the legal ID that mentioned their onda

[HCDX] Latin American MW logs for the evening of AUG 22 (AUG 23 UTC)

Bogdan Chiochiu using my father`s 2002 Mazda Protégé car-radio on the road in Pierrefonds and on the parking road at the St.-Charles clinic while waiting for my mother to came from the work there 1110 VENEZUELA, YVQT Radio Carúpano, Carúpano, Sucre AUG 23 0044 - Tentative with SS announcer

[HCDX] Tropo Ducting FM logs for AUG 21 received in Île-Bizard on the car-radio while driving away

96.3 CHLY Kitchener, ON AUG 21 1941 EDT - Fair reception with relatively intense Duppler effect, with ...CHLY... ID beetwen two CW tunes. Right now, this is my furthest ID`ed Tropo Ducting catche on FM. (Chiochiu-Î-B-QC) 104.3 unIDs AUG 21 1956 EDT - 3 stations mixing here, one with oldies,

Re: [HCDX] A question about Radio Marti

I`m not kidding at all. I know I can hear them often even with the telescopic antenna unextended at all into it`s socket on the Sangean 606 witht excellent strenghts. But it isn`t the same way in Europe. I only heard once some Spanish on 6.03 MHz using the Umea`s Web-controlled shortwave receiver

[HCDX] 2 NEW Radio Sawa logs !!

Hello to all of you ! This afternoon I managed to re-install the long-wire in our own back-yard wich I didn`t manage to do since I returned from the summer camp near Quebec City were my Sanyo radio broked (I taked it instead on our travels to New-Bruntswick and Île-Bizard) and managed to pull

[HCDX] Correction - 2 NEW Radio Sawa logs

I just received an e-mail from a DX`er called Bob Montgomery that did point to me the Radio Sawa transmitter on 12010 was from Marocco not from the Phillipines (the PWBR do not list any Maroccan station on this channel, and the Phillipines seemed to me the most likely outlet of all the stations

[HCDX] WWV is booming on 15 MHz using the Umea web-controlledreceiver

Just sayed 0 Hours, 4 minutes, 4 seconds Universal Time followed by time pips. Very strong, but with intense and abrupt fadings however. That`s it for now !, 73 and good DX, Bogdan Chiochiu ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 is out! Order it now!

[HCDX] Another Tape recorder broken (the one with the microphone!!!!!!!!!!)and I lost my first message due to a virus e-mailing a stupid I love You - Isent you a love card message WICH LOCKED the computer

And as re-listening to high-quality DX tape recorders when I have nothing to do and DX isn`t coming in is what I almost always do, as to not be frustrated by this thinking, I think I`ll stop DX`ing forever and in my free times I will download freestyle and dance music form the 80`s and 90`s

[HCDX] The virus message

Thank you very much for all your encouragements as to continue this really wonderfull hobby ! As for the radios, in the beginning of September, I should have the Sanyo MCD-S830 repaired and toward the end of the month my mother will have trips to Austria and Romania and will look for a Sangean

[HCDX] Pan American log

Hello to all of you ! It`s been a long time since I didn`t DXed and I may be mostly inactive this season due to the lack of any good equipment. Still, I managed to go with my father when he was picking my mother from her work and heard English religion on 530. Has Radio Vision Cristiana

[HCDX] Nice domestic DX log from this saturday afternoon

Hello to all of you ! I have been very buzzy burning CDs and going out with a friend in the downtown Montreal areas, as well as with my parents so I didn`t have time to mention this log that I made on the car-radio, the past saturday afternoon: 1320 CKEC, New Glasgow, NS OCT 11 1753 - playing

[HCDX] Re: [LatinMWDX] Sunday 'porta-bog' log with unident audio clip - HELP !

Hello John ! The only Latin American wich is more or less regularly reported on 970 kHz in eastern North America is Mundial Oriental from Barcelona, in the Venezuelan state of Anzoàtegui. They are part of the Mundial network wich flagship station is 550 kHz in Caracas (YVKE). They have been

Re: [LatinMWDX] Re: [HCDX] Re: [NRC-am] Sunday 'porta-bog' log ... XEVT ViLLAHERMOSA !

Sorry for the mistake with Mundial Oriental-Venezuela instead of XEVT but I couldn`t get to hear the clip finally. My Netscape navigator locked when it transfered it to Real Audio. Bogdan - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;

[HCDX] Pan Ameircan MW logs for the evening of OCT 23 (OCT 24 UTC)

Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds, QC DX`ing on his father`s Mazda Protégé 2002 car-radio I had a very big chance to DX the last evening in nice auroral conditions (there are 2 articles on the main Hard-Core DX page about 2 big solar flares. I had Latins on half the frequencies from 530 to 1110 in

[HCDX] Re: [LatinMWDX] A new radio !!!!!!!

; definitively much more synthesizer than most of what they have done during their classic period in the 70`s, for those of you that know them. 73 and good DX, Bogdan - Original Message - From: aurel chiochiu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED

[HCDX] Re: [LatinMWDX] A new radio !!!!!!!

What do you think would be the cheapest option ? Repair the Sanyo MCD-S830 tape recorder or put a much narrower filter in the other more new Sanyo receiver that we buyed today from an used radio shop ? Good night, Bogdan - Original Message - From: aurel chiochiu To: [EMAIL

[HCDX] Re: new receiver

Message - From: Henrik Klemetz To: aurel chiochiu Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 11:01 AM Subject: Re: new receiver There are good receivers and less good receivers. I had an RF29 (Panasonic) which was much less sensitive on MW than the Sony ICF6500 which endured longwire

[HCDX] Reply to morning logs at 5 PM

Hello ! Intriguing report. I repeat what others sayed to you: 4845 is Radio Mauritanie in Arabic, perphaps the strongest tropical band radio station here in Montreal aside from WWCR-5070; I think they are stronger than even WWV-5000 when it`s in. On the other hand, I`m not accoustumated with

[HCDX] The Sanyo MCD-S830 repaired

Hello to all of you ! Bogdan speaks: The missing piece of the recorder did come up earlier than expected - the last Thursday, yesturday. Almost everything is repaired, not only the tape recordering, but also the FM antenna wich broke about 2 years ago and the volume controlo. However, it needs

[HCDX] LAm AM band logs for the rest of the night

Hello to all of you again ! The past night, I did feel asleep a little bit after 1:30 PM while listening to Radio Vision Cristiana in my parent`s room. I also heard a very few other Latins, including a tantalizing mess on 580 containing apparently WTIG Princetown, NJ, RJR out of Galina,

[HCDX] Urban quality strenght on medium-wave short-skip signals

Hello ! I think this could make a top story for Hard-Core DX. Maybe some scientists could study this phenomenon. It is a part of my recent MW and SW logs report. It happened during the middle of the December 18 evening here in Pierrefonds-Est (Western part of the Montreal island), QC.

[HCDX] Recent MW and SW DX logs

Foreign logs: MW (AM Broadcast Band) 530 TURKS AND CAICOS, Radio Vision Cristiana DEC 17 0209 - Very, very strong signal with spot and jingles followed by a Spanish gospel song then a pastor sermon inviting childrens to go with their parents to a church and that there there will be very

[HCDX] Re: Urban quality strenght on medium-wave short-skip signals

, but... Bogdan - Original Message - From: aurel chiochiu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 7:57 AM Subject: Urban quality strenght on medium-wave short-skip signals Hello ! I think this could make a top story for Hard-Core DX. Maybe some scientists

[HCDX] Log - Greece

7450 GREECE, Foni Tis Helladas, Athens DEC 21 2143 - Selections of folkloric Greek tunes until 2158 when I hear an ID and several frequencies were gived in Greek (the Greek number world pronounced phonetically kàtóncé was pronounced each or almost each time a frequency was gived, I know it is a

[HCDX] LAm log for Sept. 1 (Sept. 2 UTC)

1180 CUBA, CMBA, Villa-Maria SEP 2 0152 - with Radio Reloj programming instead of Rebelde: heard a jingle followed by news with RR code IDs. Fair signal through remains of nulled WHAM. No other Latin signals on the AM dial. (Chiochiu-QC) Bogdan Chiochiu 4190 Edward Higgins Montreal

[HCDX] Another Cuban signal appeared

640 CUBA, Radio Progreso SEP 2 0209 - Son mx (presumably from the Ritmos program) at poor-fair level, over WNNZ. (Chiochiu-QC) ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is out! Only $20.97 through us. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom

[HCDX] Radio Rebelde on 600

Hello to all of you ! Right now at 0242 UTC, Radio Rebelde is in at good level, mixing with WICC on 600 kHz and playing Cuban salsa music, the first time this season. Maybe later, after midnight, La Nueva Radio Ya, YNLD, out of Nicaragua will pop up on 600 too. I was lucky enough to hear them

[HCDX] tropo and meteor scatter

Hello to all of you ! The past night, when I heard 93Q (WNTQ) out of Syracruse with fair reception on the car-radio around 8 PM until about 8:07 PM (0107 UTC) when they dropped to threshold reception of the Ottawa ethnic station. They played a mix of pop/rock and RB hits and their slogan was 93Q,

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