HF BANDS Open

jazzboypro

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True, and they have been for years. The bands 'ain't what they used to be'. It seems like China Radio and religious/talk programming dominates the dial. RNZI and a handful of others are the few remaining gems.
I pickup a fair amount of HFDL also
 

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Going through the HF Bands to see how the propagation is tonight and I can say it's terrible again.
SdrPlay RSPdx receiver, SDRUNO software
SDRConsole Software,
100 feet of wire facing East and West out on my 4 floor balcony
Listening from Fort Erie Ontario Canada
Steve

 

ditto1958

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Last night about 0300 UTC I was getting World Christian Broadcasting from Madagascar. I am always a bit surprised that it can be heard here in Wisconsin. Not much else was doing, though.
 

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Wasn't to bad last night. Haven't heard anything on 6.000 Mhz in awhile but last night around 8:45 pm, it was booming. Used to be voice of cuba. Not sure what it was as it was spanish speaking. Picked up some faint signals that faded in and out too. Am hoping my new antenna does better when I get it set up.
 

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Wasn't to bad last night. Haven't heard anything on 6.000 Mhz in awhile but last night around 8:45 pm, it was booming. Used to be voice of cuba. Not sure what it was as it was spanish speaking. Picked up some faint signals that faded in and out too. Am hoping my new antenna does better when I get it set up.
That probably was Radio Havana Cuba
 

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Things aren‘t bad at all here in WI tonite. Caught New Zealand at 17675 kHz, weak but definitely there. Radio China came in a bit weak but definitely there at 11820 kHz. Then 10 minute later on the same frequency Radio Romania was booming. CFRX Toronto at 6070 was there. Also 700 AM, a clear channel MW station from Cincinnati. It’s a 50,000 watt boomer, but I don‘t get it here all that often.
 

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Some great stations logged here!

700 AM is WLW, one of the pioneer broadcasters which was founded by Powel Crosley Jr of the Crosley Radio Corp. It's been on the air since 1922. In the 1930's, WLW experimented with a 500,000 watt transmitter on the AM broadcast band.

WLW's "Big-Arse" Transmitter

 
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If you have a iPhone, and your using your speaker to listen, there is a translation app that you can use to see what foreigners are saying. Works pretty good. Not sure if android has one but probably does have one.
 
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