Warm greetings to all of you guys ! I have been taken my Sanyo MCD-S830 to the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve / Montréal-Est border cottage with no trouble... We had flood two nights this week, so I have not slept too much this ending week except during the last two nights, but I'm not that tired overall... On the other hand, I had two or three pleasant surprises DXing South America and the Caribbean on MW, while condx were slightly below average as one would expect during such a phenomenal run of non-auroral ionospheric conditions...
I'm still in DEEP trouble with the cegep's principals, so I'm still away from school, but at least I can stay up late and DX exciting stations like Venezuelan Radio Coro, so things aren't too bad overall, but I must admit they could get way much better... Into the logs now: Pan-American DX 555 ST KITTS ZIZ, Basseterre OCT 27 0326 - poor w/ Caribbean calypso and time-checks. (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 600 CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norrís OCT 30 2310 - advice regarding persons sick with H1N1 flu to stay "en un lugar cerrado" (away from anybody) and to meet as soon as possible "el medico de familia". This medical advice was followed by a Spanish Adult Contemporary ballad. After about 2330 UTC, their sports coverage begun, like usually on this station. Very good, over / under both WICC and CKAT. SINPO 42543-4 (Chiochiu*carMontRoyal-QC) 640 GUADELOUPE RFO, Pointe-à-Pitre OCT 27 0037 - w/ a zouk-love track followed by "Radio Guadeloupe présente Lionel Ritchie..." with some of his great hits... Good signal in a big jumble (Radio Progreso, WNNZ Westifield-MA carrying BBC World Service and weak residual AM 640 out of Toronto) ! SINPO 42532... I haven't heard that one in years ! That is a pleasant surprise, an almost astonishing one ! Have they increased their power ? (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 670 CUBA CMBA, Radio Rebelde, Arroyo Arrenas OCT 30 2317 - Woman in Spanish talking after the SS AC ballad (in // w/ 600) way over WSCR and slightly over the WFAN-660 IBOC hiss and the local next-to-adjacent CINF Infos Six Quatre Vingt Dix 690 splatter ! (Chiochiu*carLachine-QC) 750 VENEZUELA YVKS, Radio Caracas Radio, Caracas, Distrito Federal OCT 27 0115 - Venezuelan baseball coverage... On of the teams was "Los Gavilanes" or "Los Magallanes". Huge, almost local-like, way stronger than anything else on this channel (WSB, CMHG Radio Progreso out of Sancti Spiritus). (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 760 COLOMBIA HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca OCT 27 0026 - promo for a cumbia music show on RCN "Nuestra TV", time-check, ad for a bank. +OCT 27 0101 - nx segment about several Colombians who died in Venezuela in places such as "el estado Táchira" due to the H1N1 swine flu bacteria. (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 780tent. BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS ZBVI, Roadtwon OCT 29 0104 - Tentative with reggae music in WBBM null and heavily QRMing La Discoteca del Pueblo on Radio Coro... All my suspicions lead to ZBVI, but I'm skeptical as sooner or later I WILL GET AN ID ! (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 780 VENEZUELA YVNM, Radio Coro, Coro, Falcón OCT 26 0400 - carrying Ruta Músical 7-80. The beginning of the program featured mostly dark edged tropical grooves using minor chords, while the follow-up after about 1AM EDT (we are switching to EST this weekend though) featured mostly happy-sounding cumbia, vallenato, etc. tropical and traditionnal songs. Very huge peaks, deep fadings and domestic QRM in WBBM null ! SINPO 43323. I prefer hearing endlessly the same 2 or 3 regular Latins that, at least, are pretty long-haul from where I live rather than trying to hear through a deep-pileup low powered short skip USA stations that belong to the same networks anyway. At least, Radio Coro is a true regional Venezuelan ! (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 840 unID OCT 27 0015 - very good mixing with WHAS in Lousville, KY playing traditionnal Venezuelan music (música llanera). Lost barely two minutes away before I could secure any ID material. According to the YV DXers on SKYPE, Radio Juventud (YVMY) in Barquisimeto, Lara is running lower power than it used to. Given the huge friendship between Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro, it could be one of the two Cubans. There is also a domestic here playing Spanish tropical music, but I doubt it was it, since you won't hear YV mx on USA Spanish domestics. (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) 870 CUBA CMHL, Radio Reloj, Sancti Spiritus OCT 27 0258 - Spanish news with clock ticks behind. Good through an annoying WCBS-880 IBOC hash. (Chiochiu*HochelagaMaisonneuve-QC) Trans-Atlantic DX 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg OCT 31 0425 - carrying a Laurent Rouquier do-you-know general culture game show in the same fashion as the ever-popular "Des Questions pour un champion" on TV5. Good with some slow fadings in and out. Generally speaking the signal was good, almost armchair copy ! SINPO 45432. This one is a French "radio périphérique" who started broadcasting from Germany to escape the French law prohibiting private radio a long time ago (before private Bayard Presse and state-owned SIRPA started Aventure FM in 1987). Nowadays, Europe 1 can be heard nationwide on FM, but the LW transmitter is still on from 4 o'clock to 1 o'clock (21 hours out of 24) in order to ensure coverage in a few remote areas where multi-path hilly or mountainous ground is disturbing regular line-of-sight FM reception and also maybe for the pleasure of a few crazy DXers like me. (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC) 252 ALGERIA Alger Chaîne 3, Tipaza OCT 31 0424 - talkshow in French. Very good above the beacons, but difficult to follow due to the low modulation as far as the audio is concerned. (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC) Additionnal comments: We are going through heavy rain and almost extreme winds, so an electricity shortage could be expected any time. Therefore, I will keep it short and radio related. I took my Sanyo MCD-S830 instead of my Sangean down there... I have a question though... Have I missed anything on longwave while I was there ? I most admit Europe 1 is stronger in Pierrefonds than in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve on LW 183 kHz ! I'm still trying to digitalise most of my airchecks... However, I will be a long way before I'm able to do that to most of them, as I have a bug on my own computer that throws heavy noise each time I try to record using a WAVE software. I will be using my parents computer. If anyone has airchecks of Canadian AOR (Album Oriented Rock), American AOR, Venezuelan tropical, Romanian Dance or AOR, French eclectic CHR (like Pacific or Aventure FM), Top 40 or Dance and Belgian dance radio, please let me know ! I found the Aventure FM airchecks very interesting, musically speaking, however too short, without any jingle and all the talk was edited which isn't really appealing to me... If anyone is having Aventure FM tapes, please let me know... They are scoped musical airchecks, although saying scoped when I'm talking about the music is a bit heretic... Has Medi Un changed their directionnal pattern on LW (171 kHz) ? I tried to get them unsuccesfully, while a MA DXer is reported them with a very good signal, as strong as BBC Radio 4 a few channels above on 198 kHz ! On the other hand, I almost felt asleep the last night enjoying Europe 1 on 183 kHz... That being said, I will reply to everyone who wrote me, as soon as possible ! This report is brought to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DXing from the MTL-EST / Hochelaga-Maisonneuve QTH during the week nights and from the Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island) QTH during the week-ends using his Sanyo MCD-S830 / PK AM loop combo for mediumwave and the Sangean ACS 818-CST / PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop for longwave May the good DX be with you ! Bogdan Chiochiu Btw. I: Those of you who work in the propagational dep. maybe could help me...when the next run of auroral or, at least, semi-auroral conditions may (at least probably) hit the Earth ? What was the pattern of CMEs during the last 3 years ? Curious mind enquires ! Btw. II: Does anyone remember Yes FM 98.7 and 94.7 (WYUL Châteaugay, nowadays the bothersome Hits FM) ? They used to serves the Sea Way Valley market and were less powerful than Hits FM ! I have a 45 minutes unscoped aircheck from November of 1998, a few weeks after they started ! A former student at the St-Laurent cégep is interested in this wonderful aircheck which is way I was trying to digitalise my airchecks today, a few hours ago ! ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
