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LOGS / NEWS - FEBRUARY 2012 A site mainly dedicated to Mediumwave Dxing |
| 1020 | Radio Reloj, Cuba |
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| AUDIO STRUCTURAL UPDATE: NB: There
is a large audio structural update to this site in progress. Many
of the archive audio files will not be working at present. Especially
those files associated with the DX Archive web site. Bear with us
on this. A few different ideas are being thought about. Back to normal
by later this week.
Let's hope for better conditions than last dx test a few weeks ago when the band was real miserable.
WHP
580 kHz, Harrisburg, PA. February 27, 2012 at 0005 ET (0505
UTC), 0033 ET (0533 UTC), 0105 ET (0605 UTC), 0133 ET (0633 UTC),
0205 ET (0705 UTC), 0233 ET (0733 UTC), 0305 ET (0805 UTC), 0333 ET
(0833 UTC), 0405 ET (0905 UTC) and 0433 ET (0933 UTC) for 1 minute
each time. Test includes voice announcements and CW IDs. EMail reception
reports with digital recordings to rjharris@clearchannel.com Or, via
postal mail to Mr. R. J. Harris, Operations Manager, WHP Radio, 600
Corporate Circle, Harrisburg, PA 17110. Please include an SASE and
return postage. WTKT
1460 kHz, Harrisburg, PA. February 27, 2012 at 0015 ET (0515
UTC), 0045 ET (0545 UTC), 0115 ET (0615 UTC), 0145 ET (0645 UTC),
0215 ET (0715 UTC), 0245 ET (0745 UTC), 0315 ET (0815 UTC), 0345 ET
(0845 UTC), 0415 ET (0915 UTC) and 0445 ET (0945 UTC) for 1 minute
each time. Test includes voice announcements and CW IDs. EMail reception
reports with digital recordings to rjharris@clearchannel.com Or, via
postal mail to Mr. R. J. Harris, Operations Manager, 1460 The Ticket,
c/o Clear Channel Communications, 600 Corporate Circle, Harrisburg,
PA 17110. Please include an SASE and return postage.
DX neighbour Paul C has been hearing a few interesting stations from VA in the last days. Again I have heard the oldies on 1420 this morning, but the elusive ID of WKCW Warrenton still evaded me. I heard Beatles "Yellow Submarine", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", as well as "Photograph" and "I Love The Rainy Nights". There was another Beatles track as well. But was there any ID?? No. Paul has also recently logged 1400 WKAV Charlottesville, and 1480 WPWC Dumfries. Amazing. No sign of the latter two here.
THE FUNNY LITTLE THINGS WE REMEMBER: I was having a carton of pineapple juice the other night and as often happens, the taste of fresh pineapple juice has an eerie effect on me. It always or almost always takes me back to 1982, when two young fellows were setting sail late on a Friday night to try and catch a 3am ferry at Stranraer, to go to Ireland. I was driving, and couldn't have the usual pint or two in our local pub before we went. However, my pal did!! I bought a few very small bottles of pineapple juice in the pub, to take with me. The ones you buy with a vodka for example to top up the glass. And thats the complete story, nothing more, no punchline. The taste of pineapple juice always takes me back to two of us trying to get some sleep in a mini van till the first ferry at 6am or so. What about the 3am sailing?? It didn't sail on weekends at that time, which we only discovered when we arrived!! I remember sitting at the harbour waiting for a boat, maybe it was even at Cairnryan, maybe at Stranraer, with Radio Nova 88FM coming out the Grundig radio. Or was it 819 am? Could we hear 88fm at the port? It is now 30 years ago, half a lifetime, and memory is failing. But the taste of the pineapple juice always reminds me of that miserable night, waiting for the first sailing. We never even had a bag of crisps between us!! Who can verify this story. No one. It is one of those little memories that will remain with me and only me, and has done already for 3 decades. My old pal from 1982 died at a young age, and thus the story of the pineapple juice is only in the memory cells of one person. Myself! I just thought I would share the memory. Incidentally my old friend was less than impressed the following night when we had to sleep in the van again, after getting lost in Dublin at night!! After that, things became much more fun when we met up with a motley crew at Suirside Radio in Waterford, where we knocked the top off a few bottles!!
The MW DX has shifted around a little towards Cuba and PR. I had some nice signals on Sunday on 1660, with // 1390 PR. Also Radio Islas, PR on 1320, probably the strongest I have heard them. There were no logs here today because I was using the USB port the Perseus was connected to and forgot to reconnect last night after setting the timers!! Silly Billy...
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A log from January had me mistakenly believing the station was something else. At 6s I thought Radio Globo or something was being said, but it is basically Radio Coro saying Happy New Year. Phew, my SS skills are almost nil. Tnx to Paul C for the assistance. He even noticed a weak CORO id at 16s!! 780
Radio Globo?? Doesn't sound like Radio Coro.. 1/1 0800
The MW DXING part of this site, these pages, have not been updated since early January, mainly due to the dx being rather poor of late, poor enough for me personally to drift off and do other projects. I spent a little time listening to some files I gave Davie H away with him. They came from December 2009. What a season. Some really rare and great DX there. What a difference to those noisy boring files I record almost daily here. Almost daily!! I never recorded on Sunday night after the stinking rotten conditions on the MW band for the DX test. Of course Paul C, my dx neighbour, has logged a rare daytimer!! Typical. (1420 WKCW) Back to these pages. Logs have been listed below from the last few weeks, dating back to New Year. Just before I don't get around to it at all. Do have a look at the January page which includes some other entries which have not been added to the on line version, and thus unread except by myself!! January also included the personal firsts which seem all to have been from January.
There was no trace of the DX test that took place at 0500 on Sunday morning UTC. Sadly there has been a power of solar activity, which has simply messed up the whole band.
530
Unid Indian type sound 0800 1/1 Not the usual Encyclopedia from Cuba
(Asian Indian)
RADIO FREE EUROPE: I noted
a Radio Free Europe ID 0200 11/2 on 1593. Is this VOA Kuwait? Who
do Radio Free Europe think is listening these days?
DUTCH QSO WITH SERBIA: Radio Happy Miner, and Radio Readymix from Holland were QSOing with a Serb pirate called Radio Texas on 17th January. I noted these QSOs around 2300. The biggest problem was that the cloggies kept jumping on top of the Serbian station and jamming him. As a result, I failed to hear any ID on the Serb station, although I could hear him chattering away. Frequecnies around 1650 / 1653.
AMUSING JINGLE ON RADIO STAR 981: I heard
this little jingle on Radio Star Country in December which amused
me no end. Have a listen!!
RADIO SOFIA CLOSES: What listener to SW would believe in 1980 during the cold war, that so many of the International broadcasters that were once heard across the world would be gone!! Radio Sofia, or Radio Bulgaria as they were called in recent times closed at 2200 on 31st January 2012. I began making a list of stations that have closed, in the January pages. This probably deserves a page to itself, as an article. The inclusion of International broadcasters would also be interesting. Remembering stations from the past.
I have not had the same success with my temporary beverage in the open field this season as I had a few years ago. This is temp only, when the farmer was not using the field over the winter. The direction was a few degrees farther to the North, and the termination was near to a house and power lines. But it was no closer to the power lines than it was the last time I used the field. Since day 1, the antenna has been noisier, and gives more Euro QRM than the permanent antenna through the woods. The exact opposite was the case a few years back, and the antenna picked up stations that were unheard on the antenna through the woods. So what was wrong this season?? Well to begin with, when we (Davie and I) put the aerial up, there had been a blow out, and the band was very poor. In fact the DX has not been such that I have been interested enough to mess around and tear down the aerial and resite it. Finally yesterday, I took it down and hauled in the cables. It saves anyone nicking the wire, especially when the results have been poor. In fact, I think I have been so "proud" of this performance, I have not a single photo, which is quite unlike me!!
DELETED PERSEUS FILES AGAIN BY MISTAKE!! While I was clearing out a hard drive from the last month, I have again deleted a particular file by mistake, which I was going to keep. Three high power German transmitters were switched off on 8th January. (1017, 666, 576) I was going to keep the particular file with the transmitters going dark, but of course like what happened with Radio Sweden 1179 final files, I was a little over enthusiastic when deleting the files!! UPDATE: After deleting the files, I thought I should try one of the data recovery programmes you get. Voila - success. I managed to retrieve the files in question for the archives!!! I went to the hard drive that would have once held the Radio Sweden files, but the file was not available, due I suppose to the drive being used and filled with perseus files many months after that time.
GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES: Another month that I would call absolutely ******* average!! During January, there were a variety of days, from good strong signals and good separation from the Euros, to the other end of the spectrum when there was absolutely nothing to hear due to aurora. Many nights I have not recorded. I have managed to pull in a few new stations, ie personal firsts, including a daytimer.
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