log your SW catches here:)

[majoco]

Nice catch Ridgy. Here's a little tip - to stop that noise surge when the signal fades, try reducing the RF gain a bit - you'll get to a point where you can still hear the signal but the noise doesn't pump up so much.

Hope you're still trying for that 500 watter in Brazil! Check DX Atlas for the grey line to pass through him and you, although as you're in SFO it may never happen, or at best once or twice a year!

 

[ridgescan]

Nice catch and a quick question; What site was that when you panned over to the left on your monitor? I use something a little different when looking up shortwave stations.

Here ya go HD

Short-Wave Frequency Schedule for BBC in ENGLISH at 16:01GMT

Nice catch Ridgy. Here's a little tip - to stop that noise surge when the signal fades, try reducing the RF gain a bit - you'll get to a point where you can still hear the signal but the noise doesn't pump up so much.

Hope you're still trying for that 500 watter in Brazil! Check DX Atlas for the grey line to pass through him and you, although as you're in SFO it may never happen, or at best once or twice a year!

Hey I am with ya on the RF gain-I even shot a video 3 years ago of the R75 doing it very well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c9sVcZcIQY
unfortunately the R71a will not do this well as the signal goes away right with the noise in AM-but it will do it in SSB. The SX-88 also performs this well via its "sensitivity" control
I think I didn't have a 100% positive connection up at the loop connector all this time because this thing is working a lot cleaner and stronger than before I tore it down for the roof job. I cleaned it up and reformed that little pinhole in the feed socket while it was down here.

 

[k9rzz]

11,670khz 2200z All India Radio in ENGLISH screaming into Wisconsin. R75 and 20 meter dipole. S9+20db. EXCELLENT copy.

 

[prc117f]

I am picking up this station called WBCQ on 5110khz. It looks like they only transmit the carrier and the upper side of the AM modulated signal.

Clear signal. I am using ECSS on the FDM-S2

Quite odd station, nice to hear something different on SW.

WOW for 25 bucks an hour you can have your show transmitted on two frequencies. Man that's quite cheap.

so for 100 bucks a month you can pretty much have a one hour show 4 times a month.

 

[k1agh]

Its from here in Maine. Where you hearing it from?

 

[prc117f]

Its from here in Maine. Where you hearing it from?

miami

 

[k1agh]

Good station. Read up on the history.

 

[k9rzz]

GOOD CONDITIONS tonight 12/20 0100z

On 10.000 Mhz I am hearing, all at the SAME TIME

WWV Ft Collins, CO
WWVH Kekaha, HI
BPM Peking, China
PPE Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in Spanish
JN53DV Italy (morse code ident copied at top of hour)

and on 9,9996khz RWM Moscow is very loud.

China 14,500khz is S9+20 db, Japanese hams heard on 20 meter SSB very loud.

Conditions are VERY GOOD tonight.

Icom R75 and vertical 20 meter dipole

 

[Ryangn]

Picking up what I believe is Dandal Kura Radio on 7415 khz. Good signal.

 

[majoco]

Without more information, how can we tell? Time in UTC would help for a start.

 

[Ryangn]

I posted at 12:45 am so that would be 5:45 utc time.

 

[Ryangn]

Radio Voz Missionaria on 9665 khz @ 4:10 UTC out of Brazil verified by their website.

 

[Boombox]

After a long hiatus from SW (seemed every time I switched a radio to SW the bands were mostly dead), I fired up the G2 the past few nights, just tuning around on 49 meters and noticed that China still comes through rather well. So does Korea. Even the BBC. Here's a scratch list of what I've heard lately:

On January 8th, between 1100-1116 UTC I heard CRI in Russian on 7290 khz, and CRI in Russian on 6080 khz.

I heard the BBC in English from Kranji, Singapore on 6195 khz, SIO353-4 -- I haven't heard that one in a while. I used to hear the BBC from Singapore every morning, before I quit listening to SW.

On 6105 khz the past couple nights I've heard what sounds like CNR1 with slapback echo, as if they're jamming a broadcast going into China with two separate transmitters. In the background you can hear a third, separate broadcast in what sounds like Chinese or a similar East Asian language.

I heard CRI in English with a news report on 5955 khz at 1008 UTC.

North Korea on 6100 khz with their odd mix of music at 1611 UTC Jan 6th, and North Korea on 6170 khz with a chorale at 1036 UTC Jan. 8th.

On the 10th, I heard North Korea on 6170 khz at 1117 UTC, with announcements in English, after some dramatic piano music. The signal was barely readable, about S3.

I heard what sounded like Asian accented, slightly clipped sounding Russian on 6080 khz at 1113 UTC. According to SW Info, it's CRI in Russian.

At 1109 UTC I heard an unid. Asian language (not Chinese, Korean, or Japanese) on 6060 khz, signal strength S2-S1. Possibly China in Tibetan, but I'm not sure. I've heard Kashgar on the G2 before, so CNR in Tibetan wouldn't necessarily be non-receivable.

Just a grab bag of what you can hear off the whip in the PNW -- mostly Asia, of course. But I ain't complaining.

I'll rue the day the Chinese and Koreans decide to abandon SW. The bands will be completely dead.

 

[Boombox]

This morning (January 12th) I fired up the DX-375, and then the G2 again -- conditions on the SW pipeline to Asia weren't as good as they were the previous few days.

Stations heard of note:

6055 khz, 1038 UTC, Radio Nikkei with a lot of very cool Japanese folk music, with shamisen, singing, accompanied by a drum. SIO 353, some fading.

6090 khz, 1058 UTC, NHK in Russian -- interval signal and announcements in Russian by a woman, "nasha programma", "NHK", "dotchka" (internet address), etc. SIO344.

6170 khz, 1128 UTC, North Korea with a chorale sounding like a Communist Johnny Mann singers, followed by announcements in English concerning all their broadcasts; then they went into a French program. There was some deep fading and the signals were SIO353, sometimes the signal dipping below S2.

One cool thing about the G2, aside from its good sound through headphones and good sensitivity off the whip, is you can record stuff. It's really easy, once you learn the keystrokes (press in the tuner knob, scroll down to 'record', press the tuner knob in again, etc.). Last time I did so was a looooong time ago, using a cassette and a microphone.

So I got a few minutes of the shamisen folk music and a minute or so of the North Korean national anthem.

 

[k9rzz]

There's nothing to listen to on shortwave!!!

NOT

Trans World Radio 3240khz 0310z religious programming but with cool African music. Check it out.

https://soundcloud.com/k9rzz/3240khz-0310z-twr-swaziland-15jan16

 

[majoco]

K9rzz said:

There's nothing to listen to on shortwave!!!

Sorry, but it's the middle of summer down here! Light at 0430local and dark at 2230 - lightning crashes and tropical fizzing noises! Wait until winter for the propagation to improve.

 

[k9rzz]

5085khz WTWW 0200z Lebanon, TN

Made a collection of idents: https://soundcloud.com/k9rzz/5085khz-wtww-idents-16jan16

 

[ridgescan]

5085khz WTWW 0200z Lebanon, TN

Made a collection of idents: https://soundcloud.com/k9rzz/5085khz-wtww-idents-16jan16

John are you still running that 600' wire over the water this year? Just curious because nice catch that TWR.

 

[k9rzz]

John are you still running that 600' wire over the water this year? Just curious because nice catch that TWR.

I don't trust the ice yet out that far yet. (plus it's -1F and I'm friggn' freezing indoors!) LOL I'll slowly 'test the waters' ... 200', 300', etc.

 

[ridgescan]

I have a killer path to Asia right now at a little past 3pm my time. Radio Veritas Asia out of Zambales, Philippines. Christian program in Filippino. 15355kHz am, 200,000 watts @ 7016 miles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwahQCpfVFU&feature=youtu.be