30 september 2009

mw was very poor here this morning even the regulars were well down. again i didnt check the k index last night but i am sure the high k index from the other evening is still affecting the band. so with the band being poor i have done another screen grab this time on 980 khz as this is rather interesting to me as i havent had much luck on 980 khz due to radio star country from ireland but as you can see from the grab there is certanly a few stations to get.


980khz 05.40 - 06.26 utc

29 september 2009

band conditions were well down dx wise but had some good signals from the new york stations wabc wepn etc. i think the k index was rather high last night so that would explain this mornings conditions.

ken baird has been doing more screen captures especially the one he did on 590 khz it looks like chinese writing lol i will do a grab of 590 khz tommorow morning and see if my flag is getting it. here is the link to kens grab
http://www.ayrshirehistory.eu/tadx/perseus_mw_screenshots.html

nothing much else to report and hopefully conditions improve

28 september 2009

i have been reading w curt deegan email all wrong about the wobbler on 930 khz which i took was a cuban jamming station which after another email from curt it seems its not so sorry for any confusion on my part here is his reply

David,

Not a problem, just didn't want to cause any confusion. What I was trying to say about Radio Surco was that it had been identified as the probable source of the wobbling carrier on 930, not that it was producing it intentionally for some nefarious purpose.

Cuba does at times engage in jamming activity on the MW band as well as regularly on SW. The forms of their jamming is fairly well understood. From considering the south Florida stations on 930, there is no Spanish language station with program content that would be a likely target for Cuban jamming. But more to the point, the Wobbler is not the jamming signal used by Cuba when they do have a target. Most often Cuba just puts one or more AM stations on the same channel as the US station they wish to block. Sometimes they off tune their stations a few Hertz to create further disruption, either intentionally or through bad or rushed implementation. Since Cuba doesn't abide by international conventions, US stations have no protection from such malicious interference. This even though the US Federal Communications Commission enforces protection regulations on US stations, in consideration of Cuban stations which have been registered through international agreements.

Thanks for the link, for some reason I didn't come across that.

I appreciate your spreading the word about the strange Wobbler phenomenon.

Curt
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W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida, USA

conditions on mw this morning was pretty poor here in the west coast of scotland signals to north america were not so strong and alot of them had ss stations mixing with them so hard to pull out any ids i have a few more recordings to go through so hopefully i get something.

27 september cont

THE WOBBLER....
the WOBBLER was back on 930 khz this morning this time i recorded it on cw so you can see and hear it better and many thanks to W. Curt Deegan in florida who kindly sent me a detailed email about it which can be seen on my blog


the wobbler 930 khz

the screen grab below you can clearly see the affect the wobbler is having on 930 khz this grab was from 05.30 - 06.16 utc


930 khz with wobbler




PERSEUS ETHICS
again this subject has cropped up again and i wasnt going to say to much on the subject as i have already said my tuppence worth but when i read comments like i received outer mongolia on my homebrew receiver made out of a toilet roll and recorded it on my reel to reel recorder from the 50"s i get more dx satisfaction out of that than a perseus user ... WHAT A LOAD OF B%$$^&£S again i will quote something i put on guy atkins blog about this same subject would these same guys take a modern drug for a serious disease or ailment or would they treat it with leaches or get thrown in a pond and see if they drowned to see if they were a witch or not bloody hell the perseus stops the getting up at 3 in the morning to see if the band is open and you can check the full band when it suits you ie you have just had your dinner with your slippers on and puffing away at your pipe telling the wife to get the dishes done OR ELSE well these guys seem to be missing the 1930"s lol you load up a recording from 3 in the morning it doesnt matter if its midday or 6 in the evening you are still dxing at 3 in the morning and this year i have aready had 4 personal firsts from peru etc there is NO CHANCE i would have had that with a conventional receiver maybe one two at the most why would i want to get up at 3 in the morning to listen on one frequency to see if it ids or not if thats "real" dxing then i am just kidding myself with the perseus even though the perseus is not even mine its ken bairds LOL! another bottle of belly rot is on its way ken

youtube videos
search on youtube for MARKGM20877 and check out marks dx videos some impressive signals on some of his mw catches and some pretty impressive sw catches from hawaii etc and a good video of his ewe antenna (hope my 50 quid is in post for that plug mark lol )

27 september cont

again i have put 2 grabs together this time on 740 khz running roughly from 05.30 - 06.15 utc


740 khz 05.30 - 06.15 utc

27 september 2009

this morning on mw had the same old stations feeling again but some huge signals from the canadians new york etc you can hear below how well cfrb sounded this morning. i have been doing some screen captures if there is no "real" dx to be had and this morning i did 740khz from 05.27 - 06.16 utc and vocm in toronto is usually the dominant one on 740 but as you can see there is more than that also "IF" the far right carrier is vocm it doesnt look very stable coming from a vocm transmitter.

in theory i count 14 carriers so there is a chance of 14 different stations fading up as one fades down and this makes mw dx so interesting. ken baird is planning a page with these screen captures for the full mw band jeez that will take a wee while as it takes around 45 mins for one capture but i think it will be well worth it in the end and very interesting.


740khz 05.30 - 06.16 utc




crfb audio

26 september 2009 cont

i have put my grab and kens grab of 1070 khz together just to see the differences if any they were both at roughly the same time and the only differences were the antennas in use



no wonder they call 1490 a "graveyard" frequency can you imagine if all these came up to audio levels


1490 khz 05.30 - 06.15 utc

26 september 2009

a mixed morning on mw ken baird posted on the mw cluster that he had KOMO Seattle Washington at 05.50 utc and when i checked my own recording just before 05.50 i had a few references to seattle.com or org i will have to listen a bit closer but after that WMVP chicago was dominant. i have a couple of ss stations to check out as well on 1270 1350 and 1490 but after a quick listen there is very little talk i havent had a chance to have a good listen to my recordings as yet.

i did another screen grab this time on 1000 khz running from about 05.30 to 06.17 utc and as you see there is a few coming in


1000 khz 05.30 - 06.17 utc

25 september 2009 cont

my dx neighbour ken baird just down the road from me did a couple of perseus screen shots of 1230 1240 & 1400 just to give you an idea of how many stations are on the one frequency you can see his results here
http://www.ayrshirehistory.eu/tadx/transatlantic_logs_september_2009.html

i decided to give it a go myself but i made the grab on 1590 as the past few years this frequency has thrown up a couple of personal firsts for me and most of the time it sounds like a normal "graveyard" frequency ie the rumble noise of many stations together. the grab was from about 05.27 utc to 06.15 utc and as you can see there is quite a few stations on there not as many as kens 1230 etc but enough to keep us busy.

i also did a grab of 1070 and there is some very distinctive carriers and it just goes to show how many stations are actually on the one frequency.

recorded with the perseus sdr & indoor terminated flag


1590 khz 0527 - 0615 utc


1070 khz 0527 - 0616 utc

25 september 2009 cont

just finished listening to this mornings recordings and the only ones really mentioning are

1130 KWKH shrevesport 0600
1210 presumed WPHT philadelphia pa 0600
no id heard only "the big talker"
1290 CJBK london ont 0600
1300 WOOD grand rapids mi 0630

as i said the band was well down on yesterday and i also recorded 02.00 04.00 05.00 but at those times there was quite a bit of splatter. the past few days i have been letting the recording run from 05.30 - 06.30 but that is alot of listening so in the next couple of days i will go back to a few mins before and after toth & both.

25 september 2009

conditions on mw this morning was VERY poor even the regulars were down the only thing of interest i have found is a ss station on 840 which i will have a listen to see if i can hear an id

24 september 2009 cont

WBBM chicago 780 khz

24 september 2009

well what a difference a day makes there was some big signals on mw this morning BUT!!! from the regulars ie stations from the chicago new york areas etc were really good i am still checking my recordings but nothing of interest yet.

if you want to hear how transatlantic dx in scotland should sound like check out ken bairds audio page
http://www.ayrshirehistory.eu/tadx/transatlantic_audio_clips_2009.html

23 september 2009

conditions on mw this morning was worse than yesterday the only ones of interest was WPAT patterson nj 5kw on 930 khz and WOAI san antonio texas on 1200 khz the latter will be on youtube later. i have a couple of more recordings to go through but i wont hold my breath lets hope conditions pick up again.

22 september 2009

conditions pretty much the same as yesterday on mw but i have a station which was coming over wcrn on 830 khz all morning which could be Radio Sensación Venezuela the recording is on my youtube page if anyone can id it please let me know. ken baird just down the road from me had this station as well but wcrn was much stronger on his beverage antenna.

21 september 2009

i thought mw was quite poor this morning as i said yesterday the peak is just not quite reaching 06.00 utc and is not too bad at 05.40 utc but you dont get too many id"s at that time and the band does really drop off quite quick. the 930 warbler was there again i noticed it quite strong at 05.45 utc. hopefully tommorow morning is a bit better

20 september 2009 cont

the Wobbler
a recording of this is on my youtube page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h82e3d7FWI&feature=channel_page


here is a reply from W. Curt Deegan in florida
http://ScooterHound.com/WWWR/wobbler

David,

The recording on YouTube and the one linked to on your Blog, are both examples of the Wobbler, as I dubbed it in early 2005. I avoided using "warbler" so as to not confuse search engines with stories about the bird.

The fact you're hearing it over other programming is not at all unusual. The affect tends to cut through very well, like the sweep tones that are used in organized DX test broadcasts. It is common to hear the Wobbler with no trace of the source station audio, the Wobbler laying itself atop programming content of the more local station with which it interacts.

At times the severity of the affect grows to considerable levels, which is when it can be heard at great distances, coupling that with atmospheric conditions, of course. Some time back, one Wobbler was heard as far as the northwest US coast and even Hawaii, during an especially vigorous outburst from a Cuban station on 1100, which I regularly monitor.

I believe yours is the first report from across the Atlantic, if I've not forgotten an early one.

This affect is different from bubble jamming. Those signals do not fluctuate in period and intensity as the Wobbler does. Bubble jammers have a constant swishing or chugging sound that doesn't vary. Also, with careful investigation the bubble jammer signal will be seen to be modulated audio on a steady carrier, while the Wobbler is created by the fluctuations of the carrier itself. If there is no other station on the frequency, the Wobbler can't be heard on the offending station at all, without injecting a local oscillator signal. Bubble jammers can be heard idling on empty channels just in the event an offending broadcast should begin.

For the last several months the number of stations exhibiting this anomaly has dropped to only a few, with 930 being the only one heard daily at my location. During this time Cuban MW broadcast installations have been upgrading their equipment with Chinese assistance, further substantiating them as the source.

In the good old days -- three or four years ago -- the Wobbler on some stations would become violent and then suddenly the station would completely leave the air. After some delay the station would return, usually along with the Wobbler at reduced level but gradually building back up. This cycle could go on for days.

You can enhance the affect by switching to sideband mode and off-tuning slightly. What you are hearing is a heterodyne produced when the unstable, wobbling carrier wave, beats against a stable carrier. Inserting the BFO produces a more audible result, especially if the only other stations on the channel are very weak. If you have CW mode you'll hear it even better and see the signal on spectrogram software in it's full glory. In USB or LSB you hear and see only half of the wave form, in CW mode you get the full affect.

As I am writing this, the Wobbler on 930 is extremely active and easily heard using the tuning technique I describe, even at 3pm local time. From DFing and other efforts by DXers in Florida, the 930 station producing the Wobbler is presumed to be Radio Surco, Ciego de Avila, in the province of the same name, Cuba.

My web site has several audio samples and pictures of the Wobbler -- link in my signature. Unfortunately I have grown lax in updating the site with my recent receptions, though I've logged one or more Wobblers nearly every day since I first began my investigations nearly five years ago.

Thanks for the report. Nice to know the Wobbler has not stopped creating an occasional stir in the DX community.

Curt
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W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida, USA

20 september 2009

another personal first 1590 WVNA tuscumbia alabama 06.12 utc its was another one of those that just came out of nothing the recording is on my youtube page.

1521 just checked the rest of my recordings but nothing much else that i can hear 05.00 & 05.30 has still quite a bit of euro splatter and 06.00 is just quite not there yet a week or so and it should be good

19 september 2009

i am still trying to decide if it was an average day or a good one there was some really strong signals but it had the same old stations feeling this morning. the peak is moving again at 05.30 utc there is quite a bit of euro splatter and the best time here seems to be 05.45 - 06.00 utc. at 06.00 i had some good ids from wdrc wsar etc etc but again same old stations but i have a few more ss stations to go through before the files get wiped for tommorow morning.

18 september 2009

930 KHz WARBLER
here is a few responces so far

I've heard that sound here many times. When you hear a wobbler like
that, think Cuba. AM Dxers down in Florida have researched these warbles
and have determined that the origin is Cuba. The hard part is
determining exactly which station.

Mike B
Enfield, CT USA
R75
flag pointed ENE

I hear it here in Lenoir, NC as well on 930 KC. It sounds very much like "bubble jamming" over here though. The Cubans love to use it, as you probably already know.
kj4wy

The warble is what's known as a "wobbler" from Cuba. This is heard often
on many frequencies from Cuba. Go to the following URL to learn more
http://scooterhound.com/WWWR/wobbler/
Bruce Conti - Nashua NH

There's more to it than that. There is Arabic chanting in there -
perhaps the warble is jamming.

My clip from the same time:
http://www.geocities.com/paulcrankshaw/930unid.wav
paul .. troon scotland

David I wonder what it is...I have received something very similar on Shortwave never on MW. its interesting that it could be from cuba...wonder what the are trying to jam?..cheers Mark

17 september 2009 cont

while i was chatting to ken baird on the radio he started to tell me about a warbling noise on 930 khz he was getting and i remembered i have been getting it myself the past week or so. paul in troon came up with a good description of it as he said it sounds like rolf harris wobble board. there is a recording of the warble on my youtube page and ken has done a section about it on his web page
http://www.ayrshirehistory.eu/tadx/transatlantic_logs_september_2009.html

some dxers think its coming from somewhere in the middle east but personally i think its coming from the west as when i was receiving it it was 05.30 utc and most of the euros etc had nearly faded and my flagis beaming west so could it be a jamming station is cuba etc let me know what you think

17 september 2009

WOW! what strong signals from the usual canadians new york chicago area"s it must have been the strongest i have seen them and i got another personal first WINZ miami florida on 940 khz what a great season so far i only hope it doesnt blow itself out. conditions to the carribean etc seem to have faded out but i am getting some good signals at 06.00 utc from usa canada etc. the recording of winz is on my youtube page.

16 september 2009

what a season this is turning out to be and its just starting another personal first this morning 1350 WOYK york pa 5kw the recording is on my youtube page. the past few days have mostly been the same old stuff but with really strong signals but the odd good one pops up which takes away the same stuff everyday feeling. i am still going through this mornings recordings as i type.

15 september 2009

another personal first this morning KWKH SHREVEPORT on 1130 khz it came over wbbr just at the right time the recording is on my youtube page its weak but call and shreveport can be heard which is all is needed i suppose. still checking this mornings recordings

14 september 2009

pretty average on mw this morning but still some booming signals from the chicago area. i got an unid yesterday morning on 1360 which i am pretty sure is brazil and i think i can hear radio sol or sul i have put it to the guys on realdx and hope they can hear something my ears cant. i really like getting all the south american and carribean etc stations but they are a pain in the ass to id and i must confess most of the ids are not down to me as if they are not in english i am lost so a big thank you to the guys on realdx paul in troon and everyone else that help me with them.

13 september 2009

this morning almost the same as yesterday but signals from the carribean were down but again i did manage another personal first 1370 WGIV gastonia nc at just before 04.00 utc still checking my recordings so hopefully something else pops up.

12 september 2009 cont

this morning was pretty much the same as yesterday north american wise some really strong signals to chicago boston areas etc but after 05.30 utc the band is opening up to carribean etc and i spent most of my listening time listening to ss music and very little talk but was happy with Radio Impactante Santo Domingo as a personal first.

ken alerted me to ss talk on 1550 at 0600 utc and this turned out to be r rebelde in cuba which is the first time i have had it on that frequency but is quite common on 710 etc

12 september 2009 cont

HIAK Radio Impactante Santo Domingo 1440 khz recording is on my youtube page follow link at bottom of the page

12 september 2009

another personal first for me this morning HIAK Radio Impactante Santo Domingo on 1440 khz at around 05.57 utc more to folow .....

11 setpember 2009

this morning at 05.30 utc there was some huge signals on mw from the chicago/new york area some even at local levels especially cftr wwbm and cp24 were big signals but again nothing new i have a couple of ss stations to listen to again and i am pretty sure i had peru on 1310 again. here is a few from this morning all around 05.30 utc

650 wsm nashville id 05.31.31
660 wfan new york are you listening to wfan on the web
670 wscr chicago
680 wrko boston weather then am 680 wrko
680 cftr toronto 0500 local levels
700 wlw oh id 05.30
710 wor & vocm mix
740 chwo & chcm mix
750 cbc with radio sweden/austraila local level
760 wjr detroit traffic from wjr
770 wabc new york local levels
780 wbbm chicago 50"s radio show local level
820 wbap fortworth texas video on youtube
840 whas louisville ky id 05.34.30 v strong
850 weei boston strong
870 wlw new orleans id 05.30
880 wcbs new york weather then id 05.30.12 v strong
890 wls chicago weather then id 05.34.42 v strong
1000 wmvp chicago presumed no id espn sports strong
1020 kdka pa id 05.31.10 strong
1080 wtic hartford news talk wtic id 05.30 v strong
1100 wtam cleaveland id 05.34.16 v strong

more to follow ...... maybe lol

good signal from cp24

10 setember 2009 cont

i have noticed on certain mw groups logs etc that a typical log entry might be ie Kxxx 1000 khz song with webstream would you count this as a positive logging personally myself i wouldnt as i always like to hear the station give a positive id also one that came in this morning from a couple of dxers saying they heard 3 pips on 1470 and they are counting this as a positve logging of cjvb in vancouver and only a small amount of talk was heard again would you count this as a positive logging again personally i wouldnt as i would rather hear the station id itself.

wait a minute i hear you cry what about your positive logging of radio gotel yola from nigeria on 917 khz when there was no id well i think i can confidently claim that one as there is no other station that uses 917 as can be said for ZIZ on 555 from st kitts but there are difficult ones like greenland when we all know it is them but who can say that they have had a positive id from them. i dont think it would look ok in my log book if i had 1470 3 pips cjvb vancouver or i made a recording of it and put it on youtube with just 3 pips and nothing else but again there might be dxers desparate enough to claim it

10 sept 2009

again strong signals on mw this morning BUT! my neighbour has left her alarm or tv on overnight and i am really struggling with noise and its putting me off even listening to mw at the moment. WNAM wi came in on 1280 at around 05.30z with a good id and some latin music on 1250 and 1490 but no talk as far as i can hear but as i said the noise is putting me off i hope she turns it off or it will be back to b2 untill the tvdx season starts

9 september 2009

again some really strong signals on mw this morning but again mostly from the usual ones YAAAWWWN but a couple of good ones crept through so hopefully the propagation improves more west. the below log is just an idea to what was coming in all times in utc

830 wcrn worchester ma v strong 05.00
850 weei boston ma v strong 04.00
870 wwl new orleans fair 05.00
880 wcbs new york v strong 04.00 & 05.00
1050 wepn new york good 05.40
1310 wlob portland me strong 04.00
1320 cjmr ontario v strong 05.00
1510 kckk littleton co fair 05.06
1540 chin toronto v strong 04.30
1570 cfav laval qc strong 05.00
1580 ckdo ontario strong 05.15
1610 the carribean beacon v strong 05.20

more to come if i get around to listening to more of my recordings

8 september 2009

another late in the season band 1 opening to hungary czech rep latvia and spain but didnt record as the audio is all set up for mw dx and i have had them so many times but good to see them and long may they stay on band 1

some very strong signals on mw this morning but nothing new and just the usual stations

7 september 2009 cont

i have had a few emails asking about my flag antenna well its a very simple but a good dx antenna and all it is is a rectangle of wire 8 feet on the verticals and 15 feet on the horizontals with a 48/11 turn balun in the middle of the vertical leg i want the maximum direction and in the middle of the other vertical leg i have a 540 ohm resistor you could use a variable one but i find 540 ohms suits mine fine and thats it very simple but as i said a good mw dx antenna dont get me wrong i would love a beverage but its not possible at this place but i get my fair share of dx on it ie when i was getting peru on the flag antenna on 1240 and 1310 khz ken was getting north americans on his 500m beverage so its sometimes handy having a wide forward lobe.

7 september 2009

my neighbour left her alarm on again so there was alot of noise on mw this morning so i didnt record too much the noise made it too bad for weak signals and only alowing the strongest ones through but the band seemed in good shape ie WBBR WWL etc etc were really strong but the buzzzz the alarm gives off doesnt make it too good and hopefully like last week it will go off tonight.

6 september 2009

just the usual ones this morning nothing to shout about and nothing much to say today just a usual boring wet sunday i am just going over some old perseus files to see if i can dig anything out.

5 september 2009

very strong signals from canada this morning and i also managed a personal first on 1090 khz. this is a difficult frequency for me as i have a local on 1089 khz but wbal baltimore managed through the splatter at 05.30 utc the recording can be seen on my youtube page follow the link at the bottom of this page. still listening to this mornings recordings more to follow ......

4 sept 2009 cont

another one from peru Radio Líder, Arequipa on 1240 at 05.27 utc the recording can be seen on my youtube page again more to follow fingers crossed .....

4 september 2009

well what a morning it started off not looking so good with just the usual ones coming in but at around 05.10 utc i noticed a few ss stations coming in and i logged R APOLLO from venezuela on 1320 then i switched to 1310 and started the recording around 05.10 utc and it was constant latin type music then pan pipe type music and very little talking i did manage to get some talk around 05.30 which i sent to the guys on the realDX yahoo group which they were pretty sure was peru but i didnt like to claim it with out an id so i did some more listening and around 05.24 i found an id which was also sent to realDX and it turned out to be RADIO LIBERTAD in Arequipa, Peru wich is 6303 miles from here which i think is amazing on a indoor antenna. i have still to go through my recordings so hopefully more to follow. the peru clips can be seen on my youtube page.

WHY WHY WHY such low audio
ken has commented about this on his website as well but why does the cbc sydney ns on 600 have such low audio does it sound like that over there maybe some dxers over the pond can comment but as you can hear you can hardly hear a word they are saying but from a dx point of veiw it might let other stations under it with stronger audio come through. they are a few others ie cknb on 950 wegp on 1390 which is lower than last season and has a very long pause at toth but again with dx in mind this is a chance to let other stations through. tell me what you think on the below clip the signal is not bad considering i am using a indoor flag but audio way too low


cbc sydney ns low audio

3 september 2009

conditions on mw were down on yesterday but a few good signals getting through a couple to note were

830 WCCO minneapolis 05.00
1190 RADIO AMERICA argentina 05.09.50
1310 WLOB portland me 05.05.35

nothing much else to report lets hope conditions improve

2 september 2009

conditions on mw this morning were more or less the same as yesterday but i did manage a personal first WSSP milwalkee wi on 1250 at 05.00 utc it wasnt a good enough "keeper" as it was one of those you had to play around with the filters and listen to it a few times but its still in the log. here is a few which i have noted down from this morning all times utc and again excluding vocm etc etc

700 wlw cincinnati 03.00
760 wjr detroit 04.00
890 wls chicago 04.00
1100 globo brazil 03.00
1100 wtam cleavland 05.12 v strong
1250 wssp milwalkee 05.00 pf

the past few days i have been putting on short logs to give an idea to conditions so from now on the logs will consist of rare or personal firsts very strong and so on as it will get very boring with the same stations every day.

anoying perseus sdr
no not the radio itself but the recording bar its so bloody thin that if you dont hit it spot on it either replays itself over and over or you get a very loud tone which is not ideal at 4 in the morning without head phones and you wake up the house. i know ken has stated this on the perseus yahoo group and nico must have seen this so i dont know if he is planning to make the recording bar wider which is all it needs.

anoying ids
have you ever listened to a file over and over again and just cant pull out the id it happens to me alot even the other day it wasnt even a rare station but i just couldnt get the id so i asked ken for some help and he suggested it could be CINW on 940 so i listend to it again and it was clear as anything and it even said the id 3 times its funny when you first listen to it you just cant hear it but when someone tells you its clear

tune that sticks
now i cant say i have listened to opera far from it but while checking my recordings from this morning i was on 730 and the french canadian was playing an opera song and it caught my ear and it just made the hairs on my neck stand up i didnt have a clue what it was called so i sent it to alf in the mw chat and he told me it was time to say goodbye by andrea bocelli am i turning into an opera fan lol. i must admit another one that made the hairs on my neck stand up was from the film hannibal it was called vide cor meum i never thought the day would come when i would listen to opera.

1 september 2009 cont

mw conditions were fair this morning some strong signals but nothing new as i havent been through all my recordings yet. again myself and ken were receiving different stations on the same frequency at the same time and we are less than 100 meters apart. on 1430 khz at 05.00 utc ken was getting WNSW newark nj and i was getting WENE endicott ny so it just goes to show the difference in lobes etc on different antennas ken is using a 500m beverage and i am using the flag antenna.

here is a small log from this morning as i have been quickly going through my recordings excluding vocm etc all times utc

950 r reloj cuba 05.08
1010 wins new york 05.17 clip on youtube
1080 wtic hartord ct 05.30
1140 wqba miami florida 05.20
1330 wrca waltham ma 03.00
1440 wred westbrook me 05.00 clip on youtube
1570 cfav laval qc 03.00
1580 ckdo oshawa ont 03.00

the above are just a quick scan more to follow if i get time to listen to my recordings

1 september 2009

tv noise update ... good news for a change my neighbour is away all weekend at her caravan and she has an alarm system that switches on/off the lights etc etc and she just forgot to switch it off and everything goes off in the evening time so let the dx resume. as i type 05.51 utc i am just going to check my overnight recordings more to follow ....