TADX - DXing in SW Scotland - Latest Logs June / July 2008

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Going..Going.. A list of common dx stations looking to move to FM include: 560 Now 103.9 KIX Country, 610 CHNC/ Frenchy, 780 CFDR/ KIX, 980 CKRU, 1140 CBI/ CBC, 1150 CHGM/ Frenchy, 1550 CBE/ CBC. 560 KIX are already carrying the FM service, which usually signals that the end is near!! Any more?? Many of these are dominant on their channel, so their sign off will open the frequencies up for further dx.

Recently gone: 550 CHLN, 630 CFCY, 920 CJCH, 950 CHER, 960 CHNS, 960 CFFX, 1070 CBA/ CBC, 1320 CKEC, 1380 CKLC. I will keep this list at the top of the next few months logs as things change. Updates welcome.

Notable logs now in bold.

This part of the web site has been neglected during the summer months of 2008. I had a rather annoying eye infection of some kind in June. One eye went, then as it began to get better the other eye caught it. Lucky white heather. All on the mend now, but at one stage driving was a bit dodgy, and had to give the PC a rest!!

I have a few logs to report, but nothing startling, mw wise. On band 1 and band 2, I have been monitoring this years sporadic e season. For some reason, this part of the world has been much quieter than southern parts of the UK. There has in fact been more intense sporadic e openings in August than June this year!!

I have recently bought a receiver that covers band 1 television frequencies, something I had always lacked. The old Tandy scanner covers those frequencies, but has no SSB. This is of course required for checking for carriers using Speclab. It is an old ICOM 706, which doesn't transmit, so it was advertised on the junk sale just as that. I don't think the seller could comprehend that I did not care about the fact it didn't transmit. Anyway, it was cheap, and it did the job. Not as sensitive as say an icom icr7000, but still reasonable for band 1 and for listening to the 50mHz ham band.

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