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?
Bands were open real good last night. Allot of fading on the weaker stations but still a good night.
Pretty good conditions here the past several days. WWCR 13845 and 4840 came back on air, and have been great signals. WRMI 9455 has been their best signal here, followed by 17790 and 15770. Their nighttime frequencies tend to be weaker with more noise lately.
RNZ Pacific has been a fair performer over the past several days, although 17675 and 13755 are usually noisier. 11725 tends to be the best, but I'm getting a solid 1½ - 2 hours of good listening on 7390 at FC.
Haven't done a whole lot of signal hunting lately, just quick scans to find some music for the background. Spending a little more time on military and utilities the past few days.
RNZ Pacific has been a fair performer over the past several days, although 17675 and 13755 are usually noisier. 11725 tends to be the best, but I'm getting a solid 1½ - 2 hours of good listening on 7390 at FC.
Haven't done a whole lot of signal hunting lately, just quick scans to find some music for the background. Spending a little more time on military and utilities the past few days.
Last night was ok. Not the greatest though. Will be going to Cozumel next week. Hoping to pick up some new stations.
This morning -- around 1550 UTC, 0750 Pacific) several of the standby's on 41M seemed to reappear after a couple days of grainy static -- Radio Kitai to Russia (from China) was just audible, and Nippon No Kaze, CNR-1 and CNR-2 were on with mostly readable signals (very readable, in the case of Nippon No Kaze).
Radio Kitai 7265 ('Radio China' in Russian -- it's CRI, basically); Nippon No Kaze (in Korean) 7290; CNR-1 on 7300 & 7305; CNR-2 on 7245.
I also heard the Russian 7 kHz FSK on 7062 & 7069 -- very weak, but it was there. Sounds like bad, super fast CW, but it's a form of FSK. Apparently out of the Crimea region. The signal was a little watery, as it traverses the pole. I also heard the Russian FSK on 7042 and 7049 late this afternoon, 0117 UTC, probably from the same transmitter(s). The '7 kHz FSK' is noted because it's apparently two signals, 7 kHz apart, that are slow baudrate FSK.
All on my Tecsun PL-330 and indoor wire. My location is Western WA state, US.
Radio Kitai 7265 ('Radio China' in Russian -- it's CRI, basically); Nippon No Kaze (in Korean) 7290; CNR-1 on 7300 & 7305; CNR-2 on 7245.
I also heard the Russian 7 kHz FSK on 7062 & 7069 -- very weak, but it was there. Sounds like bad, super fast CW, but it's a form of FSK. Apparently out of the Crimea region. The signal was a little watery, as it traverses the pole. I also heard the Russian FSK on 7042 and 7049 late this afternoon, 0117 UTC, probably from the same transmitter(s). The '7 kHz FSK' is noted because it's apparently two signals, 7 kHz apart, that are slow baudrate FSK.
All on my Tecsun PL-330 and indoor wire. My location is Western WA state, US.
1014z RNZ Pacific 11725 kHz coming in nicely with some mild fading. Jazz music at the moment; I'm listening on all three antennas to remove that little fade right now, 'cause their weekend music shows are always good. 35444. Don't really care about searching or monitoring HFGCS, happy to chill with the tunes.
Got one of the mini Si4732 receivers; not too bad on the 1200' LoG, I'll see how it likes the MLA-30 later. DSP is heavy-handed like ATS25 types, maybe a touch lighter. There's also a FW that adds a waterfall, and with a jumper soldered inside, CW and RTTY decoding.
Got one of the mini Si4732 receivers; not too bad on the 1200' LoG, I'll see how it likes the MLA-30 later. DSP is heavy-handed like ATS25 types, maybe a touch lighter. There's also a FW that adds a waterfall, and with a jumper soldered inside, CW and RTTY decoding.
I like the Saturday night request show on RNZI (Radio National, relayed via RNZI) which runs for a few hours during the late night / early a.m. here on the West Coast. RNZI usually comes in really well here, sometimes it's regardless of overall propagation. I've even heard them just off my XHDATA D220 off the whip.
At this moment I can access the WB5TUC repeater in TX. 29.640, CSQ (no tone).S7 -S8 with QSB. Called a few times,no response. Will try later.
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I had switched to utility dxing because of this but lately since getting the NRD-525 I've been searching the SWBC bands to see what's out there. I used to listen to the Sri Lanka Broadcast Corporation nightly for the music but they've been gone for some time. Happily I have found short broadcasts from AIR and of course Voice of Turkey is still sending out a good signal.
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