Wasn’t the greatest last night. Was picking up Miami and South America talk (Spanish). Did pick up what sounded like a European station in low 6 MHz frequency. Couldn’t understand what language it was.
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Good propagation last night here on the west coast, could tune in multiple stations on most SW bands, still cant get anything on the 20m ham band since over the last month.... my standard for a "good night" is if I can hear WWV 20 MHz and it barely came in over the mud.... never have heard WWV on 25 MHz
Got on for a short time tonight. Bands are open pretty good.
Kind of weird conditions the past few days here. 10 and 11 meters get some good propagation, but it's short-lived. Lower bands have had a lot of fade and instability as well. Noise floor is generally up. Last couple of nights were so weak that I turned off the HF stuff and concentrated on VHF.
WWCR didn't switch to 7490 this morning; on 5935 at 0935 Central at S5 to 7 with moderate fading. 35343.
Still waiting for some good signals from RNZ Pacific. 17675 is usually buried in noise, though a signal is detectable. 13755 has been a coin toss, though when it's good, it's been the best. I did get top of the hour news of Maduro's capture at 0200 local that morning. 7390 is generally weak, but often readable.
Best signals have tended to be from Asia in the 0300ish hour on 31 meters. 41 has some good signals, though mostly ES programming.
ETA: WWCR FC to 12160 at 1000 local as usual. I wonder if something is wrong with 7490 on that xmtr.
WWCR didn't switch to 7490 this morning; on 5935 at 0935 Central at S5 to 7 with moderate fading. 35343.
Still waiting for some good signals from RNZ Pacific. 17675 is usually buried in noise, though a signal is detectable. 13755 has been a coin toss, though when it's good, it's been the best. I did get top of the hour news of Maduro's capture at 0200 local that morning. 7390 is generally weak, but often readable.
Best signals have tended to be from Asia in the 0300ish hour on 31 meters. 41 has some good signals, though mostly ES programming.
ETA: WWCR FC to 12160 at 1000 local as usual. I wonder if something is wrong with 7490 on that xmtr.
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Lots of noise, but lots of Asian stations coming in on 49 meters.
1200z
6180 R. Taiwan 35433
6170 R. Delta 24322
6150 R. Taiwan 23222
6105 Taiwan and CNR jamming 22322
6100 KCBS Pyongyang 34333
6055 Radio Nikkei 23232
6030 China National Radio 23233
6000 R. Habana 42333 interference from CNR.
1200z
6180 R. Taiwan 35433
6170 R. Delta 24322
6150 R. Taiwan 23222
6105 Taiwan and CNR jamming 22322
6100 KCBS Pyongyang 34333
6055 Radio Nikkei 23232
6030 China National Radio 23233
6000 R. Habana 42333 interference from CNR.
Increasing daylight is helping things a bit here; Reiger cycle uptick in the next few days should help a bit unless there's HF blackout flaring.
RNZ Pacific 13755 is improving during the overnights and 7390 is reliable for morning news at the 1300z FC.
A coronal hole is going past is now; effects expected this weekend. Hopefully we can get some stable skip in 10-12 meters without too much noise due to incoming complex sunspots.
RNZ Pacific 13755 is improving during the overnights and 7390 is reliable for morning news at the 1300z FC.
A coronal hole is going past is now; effects expected this weekend. Hopefully we can get some stable skip in 10-12 meters without too much noise due to incoming complex sunspots.
Was on last night for a little bit. Not the greatest but did pick up some usual transmissions.
Continuation of the Geomagnetic storm ongoing. Starting to get 3-5 second bursts of audio from WWCR 7490 and 13845. Kp7, strong G3 storm, S3 solar radiation storm, just a loverly day for space weather.
7490 audio becoming continuous as I type this.
7490 audio becoming continuous as I type this.
Copied Radio New Zealand on 17675 khz last night around 10:00-10:30, fading in and out a bit, but managed to copy an ident and record several snippets of programming over about half an hour... Not bad for a rough-cut 20 meter dipole up about 20 feet here in Plano, TX 
Caught some other Pacific amusements like about 20 minutes of NHK Japan on 17870 but it was fading deep by the time I tuned in. Fun though
Caught some other Pacific amusements like about 20 minutes of NHK Japan on 17870 but it was fading deep by the time I tuned in. Fun though
Did a run through the AM Bands to see what I could pick up down in Fort Erie Ontario
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Open tonight. Listening to a training session. Was on line 7 using phonetic alphabet on 5.394.500 USB. Anyone know what this is?
