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Great logs, Jay. Love hearing Malaysia when it comes in (here in the NW US the Far East / SE Asia sometimes blasts in during the early A.M. hours).

I imagine you can hear a lot of the pirate hams operating in the lower reaches of the 40 meter ham band. I once heard a few of them from Kalimantan talking to a chick in the Philippines. Pretty exotic stuff here in the NW.
 

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This evening's log

March 10th 2016:

1036UTC 4940KHz Chinese music/singing by YL. Voice of the Strait, 50kw, BCing from Fuzhou, Chinese coast. SINPO 34433. 1040UTC YL announcer in Chinese. Sounds like news program.

1046UTC 6115KHz Chinese pop & rap music (huh!), V. of the Strait again, lang. Amoy. SINPO 45444.

1049UTC 6180KHz Two or more stations, on in Chinese by OM (R. Taiwan), one in English by YL. Supposedly Radio Nacional de Amazonia (a.k.a Radio Capybara) is on this freq at this time but I can't hear them in the jumble.

1053UTC 6185KHz V. of Korea, OM in English w/news BC from Kujang @ 200kw, also weak Chinese station in BG: China Huayi BC Corp. from Chengdu @ 15kw. SINPO of Korea 32432.

1057UTC 6195KHz BBC World Service in English from Singapore (I didn't think they even had room there for a SW station's antenna farm!) ID'd at 1058UTC. News program w/YL announcer. Faint OM in English in background: no idea what station he'd be. SINPO 54544.

1111UTC 11600KHz R. Taiwan Int'l. in English, YL interviewing OM about hiking trails in mountainous region somewhere. Also about other outdoor sports such as water rafting. SINPO 45554. 250kw from Paochung. (YL mentioned that they have "menstrual leave" 1 day/month & miscarriage leave, besides maternity/paternity leave & also pregnancy leave. YL went on to discuss sexual harassment/discrimination, her and OM.

1116UTC 11665KHz RTM Wai/Sarawak FM, Malaysia. Weird programming, two OM in Malay, one speaking in falsetto as though imitating a YL. I have no idea what's happening here. Maybe the announcers are trying to be funny. SINPO 44544. Slight interference from another station, can't tell what.

1121UTC 11780KHz two stations, one w/music, YL singing, can't tell lang. but not English. OM from other station in BG. SINPO 22322. One sta. supposedly Brazil again (R. Nacional de Amazonia.) Heard OM announcer briefly but couldn't tell if Portuguese. 1130UTC stronger station has YL speaking what sounds like Japanese.

1131UTC 11865KHz BBC News from Thailand. SINPO 45444. In English of course. YL announcer (they're probably easier to hear due to higher voices?)

1134UTC 11955KHz China Radio Int'l. in Taglish (Tagalog with a few English words, which is what most Filipinos speak every day: not necessarily Tagalog, but w/lots of English words.) SINPO great: 54554. V. slight interference by weak YL in bg. Talk of Western restaurant "scene" in China @ 1137UTC. Interview in Eng. w/French restaurantier who lives in China w/Chinese wife.

1146UTC 15120KHz R. Saudi Int'l. OM singing in Arabic. SINPO 25322. Sounds like regular singing rather than Koran recitation (which is also sung rather than spoken.) 1149UTC changed to OM annoucer/speech.

1151UTC 15150KHz VoA from Thailand in Chinese (I think.) SINPO 32532. Fluttery effect & echo, prob. due to attempt at jamming.

1154UTC 15605KHz KSDA-AWR (All World Radio?) from Guam, YL in Shan lang. (whatever that is. ) 1155UTC OM w/occasional English words, none when YL speaks. SINPO 45544.

1157UTC 16760KHz weak sta. w/what sounds like Indian music/singing (I hear Tabla drums and harmonium.) I'm guessing AIR here, but maybe Pakistan?. SINPO 35322. 1159UTC OM announcer in lang? Probably station ID but I didn't understand it. (FYI I think my radio's UTC clock is a minute slow, so ID was prob. at 1200UTC.)

1208UTC 17880KHz Mashall Radio in Pashto lang. bc from Iranwila, Sri Lanka @250kw. SINPO 44454.

1212UTC 17705KHz AIR in Chinese from Bengaluru + R. Saudi in Arabic from Riyadh. YL speaking from India, music from the Saudis. Both decent signals but India's better, though she sure has a high voice! Saudi singer is OM, w/instrumental accompanyment.

1215UTC 15760 R. Mashaal again.

1216UTC 15690 R. Farda in Persian.

1217UTC 15400KHz Adventist W. Radio from Trincomalle, Sri Lanka, YL announcer in Mon lang. SINPO 54444. Language sounds tonal like Chinese, but it isn't Chinese or Vietnamese (I've heard both of those tonal languages before.) Sounds like there are a few tongue-clicks like Bantu, too. Wikipedia says Mon (spoken in Myanmar and Thailand) isn't tonal, so lang?? Maybe Khmer?

1229UTC 15225KHz R. Veritas Asia, religious sta. in Karen lang. (spoken in s. Myanmar) SINPO 34433.

1332UTC 13775KHz R. Saudi, OM chanting/singing a capella, prob. reciting from Koran. SINPO 54544.

1234UTC 13695KHz All India Radio (AIR) w/music program in Telugu lang. BC from Bengaluru (Bangalore) @500kw, SINPO 55545. Interesting music: sounds like pop or Bollywood music. 1240UTC: YL said something, maybe station ID, followed by OM announcer. News? Occasional English words.

(Glad y'all like my SINPOs! Hehe!)
 

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Great logs jaymot. One day you should fill us in more on your antenna setup (jurry-rigged randomwire 425 metre square 8'up) such as how are you feeding it to the Tecsun..via antenna jack, or clip to whip? Proper 50ohm feed? Grounded or counterpoised? Stuff like that. It seems, based upon your loggings, that overload is not an issue at all.
 

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Great logs jaymot. One day you should fill us in more on your antenna setup (jurry-rigged randomwire 425 metre square 8'up) such as how are you feeding it to the Tecsun..via antenna jack, or clip to whip? Proper 50ohm feed? Grounded or counterpoised? Stuff like that. It seems, based upon your loggings, that overload is not an issue at all.

It's kind of embarrassing, but: I live on a 425 sq m lot surrounded by a roughly 8 foot tall fence made of concrete hollow blocks set between reinforced concrete pillars on roughly 10 foot centers. There's about 18 inches of rebar sticking out of the top of this fence every 2 feet and that's strung with 4 strands of barbed wire, which continues around the entire lot, including over the gates, in a big rectangle. Our house is about a meter or so away from the fence on one side.

What I did was scrape and sand the rust off of a few inches of the topmost strand of barbed wire nearest the window by our desk then wrapped a few inches of (stripped) stranded copper wire around that shiny spot, taping it securely with electrical tape. I figured it wouldn't be of any use trying to solder it as all that barbed wire would probably act as a huge heat sink anyway, so the solder probably wouldn't even melt. The other end of the wire just runs to an eyebolt I installed on the side of the house (which is also concrete) then down through the window and attached to the radio clip-to-whip. It isn't grounded as the ground outside the window is covered with concrete that I'd have to chisel a hole through to plant a ground rod then patch it: that's a project for another day.

It isn't what I'd actually call an "antenna" but it seems to work OK, at least better than just the whip alone. I imagine that I'll eventually have to redo the connection of wire to fence when it gets corroded.

(When I lived in a 4th story walk-up studio apartment in Seattle my "antenna" was several feet of folded-in-half aluminum foil thumbtacked to the top of the outward wall in the main room with an alligator-clip-to-antenna-terminal connection to my receiver. You do what you gotta do.)
 

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Embarrassing why?? This is what makes this hobby so cool is when a guy makes a listening station with whatever he can deploy. A HAM would say you "loaded the fence" as your antenna. As for the feedpoint, I would get some sort of clamp-maybe a ground clamp they use on a ground rod, but use that to "crush" your feedline to the barbwire for positive contact, then tape the heck out of that whole thing for weather. More likely than not the copper feedline will clash chemically with the barbwire metal anyway, causing a disconnect. The aluminum clamp you find will marry the two metals without all that mess. You may find one of these at an electrical or home improvement store.
Hey it's an antenna and you can call it that! Stealthy too. It's gotten you some neat DXs so there's obviously continuity all the way around the fenceline. Nice!
 

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Ridgy - RTM Sarawak Malaysia romps in here first thing in the morning up 0900local/2000z on 9835kHz - great signal - usually music. He's on 24/7 so perhaps you could get him early in the day too.
 

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Thanks Marty-will giver a try:)
around here every band is saturated with Asia in my mornings. They are the ones keeping SW alive and well if we are giving credit where it's due. Some signals literally bury the needle!
 

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March 25th NYC 3:15 A.M. UTC - 3:25 A.M. UTC. Equipment AOR 8200 MK111 - Stock BNC Antenna. Station Radio Cuba. Language English. Strong, Clear Signal from 5.995-6.070 MHZ. It looks like the official broadcast is sent out at 6.0. My AOR is awesome, although the frequency counter is probably a bit off.

I realize that 1,343 miles (or 2,162 kilometers for the non-U.S. folks) isn't a great distance for a shortwave to travel, but nonetheless, it is a ton of fun to pick up. The signal doesn't come in at all inside my apartment, but 4 blocks away outside, it is loud and clear.
 

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CRI - China Radio International 9570 kHz. This is coming in strong without any static, like a local FM station. Not bad for a signal from Cerrik Albania, >4,600 miles away.
 

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A friend came over today and helped me put up a new antenna ... just a 20 meter dipole up 20 ft or so, but it's working pretty well. I worked 4 countries on 20 meter SSB during the Worked All Europe contest today (my first ham contacts in probably 3 years and the first from this new location) and it's working as a nice listening antenna on other bands as well. Got some health problems that have slowed me down out in the yard, but now with the new antenna I can pick up the pace in the radio department. :)

9550khz Voice of Iran in Spanish 0100z Good with talk in Spanish.
 

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9/11/16 Icom R75 + 20 meter dipole up 20 ft. Pushing the upper limits for frequencies at this time of day, but there's some stuff to be heard.

12,095khz 0240z BBC via Oman English. Fair signal but copiable.

12,085khz 0240z Radio Cairo, Egypt in Arabic. HORRIBLE audio. Very distorted and wide although loud.

12.035khz VOA Deewa Radio 0245z in Pashto via Kuwait. Fair signals.

12,025khz Voice of Iran in Spanish 0250z Good signal S9.

11,995khz BBC via United Arab Emirites in Hindi. 0250z Fair sigs.

11,860khz Republic Yemen Radio Sana'a in Arabic via Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 0250z Good signal S8.

11,764.7khz Super Radio Deus e Amor, Curitiba, Brazil in Portuguese. 0255z Fair sigs but listenable.
 

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Insomnia DX session. Munching on "Lucky Charms" cereal probably not helping. :)

Icom R-75 + 20 meter dipole up 20 ft

7305khz 0605z BBC via Ascension Isl in French to Africa. VG S9

7255khz 0600z Voice of Nigeria in Housa. Freq. mentions of "Nigeria". VG S9

7365khz 0610z Radio Marti USA to Cuba in Spanish with what sounds like jamming. Strong signal but heavy interference.

7445khz 0615z BBC via Ascension Isl in English to Africa. VG S9+ International news topics.
 

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Conditions have been tough lately with the high K index and earlier in the afternoon I was frustrated trying to find African stations. Welllll .... tonight I spun across 31 meters and found both China and India all across the band coming in over the north pole with Cuba (normally pegging the S meter) hardly heard at all. Going up to 25 meters it was very similar, China and India dominating.

THEN ... I found Sri Lanka BC on 11,905khz at 0205z. WOW! 14,000+ km away.

Who says shortwave is dead???

https://soundcloud.com/k9rzz/sri-lanka-11905khz

Rig: Icom R-75 plus wire 20 meter ground plane (16 feet vertical wire hung in a tree with 3, 19 ft ground radials. Feed point only 8 feet off ground) KILLER DX ANTENNA!
 

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Nice catches. In 2002 I was able to hear India behind China on some mornings, using my DX-440 and a 100 ft. wire. Was always fascinating to hear. Of course, here in the PNW we have a sort of pipeline to Asia (Ridgescan seems to have one also -- all that salt water over the Pacific).

The last few times I've pulled out my radios and listened during the mornings, most of what I hear is China and Japan.

The fact you heard all those stations over the Pole is really cool.
 

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This afternoon at 1715Z , I caught All India Radio to "Eastern Europe" on 15140 (not in DRM as indicated on AIR's website) || 9950. That latter frequency usually carries programming to East Africa in Swahili. The other frequency aimed at East Africa that I receive well, 13605, had different programming on it than 9950.
Also, AIR's National Channel on 9380 has been received clearly here during the local evenings for the past couple of days starting around 1700Z.
And, I just caught AIR on 7505 at 1730Z.
One thing about listening to All India Radio, you never know where or when you'll hear them!
Excellent conditions!
Jim
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