[HCDX] St. Helena, Israel, Iran, Equatorial Guinea (early Africans)

[Dave Valko <djvalko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Because of interference and noise at home, I decided to drive up to the 
usual remote listening site for the R. St. Helena Day Revival.

RX:  JRC NRD-535D
ANT:  44' Dipole (cut for 11092 khz!!!) 15°-195°, 394' BOG at 95°, and 315' 
BOG at 50°
QTH:  Pennsylvania State Game Lands #26
Duration:  1800-2240 UTC
Solar Indices:  S.F. = 86  A Index = 6  K Index = 2   No storms.

ST. HELENA   11092.5U  R. St. Helena  1804-2232  I'll spare the 
details.  Nothing at 1800 on the African (394') BOG, but very slight audio 
on the Dipole when I finished getting it up at 1804.  Finally slightly 
readable by 1900, and quite good by 2000.  Even better during their 
European beam later.  Heard back at home also.  (Valko 4-5 Nov.)

ISRAEL   6985  Kol Israel  1841-1845  W w/nx and wx in EG ending w/"...a 
very goodnight from Jerusalem".  Slightly better on the Dipole.  (Valko 4 Nov.)

IRAN   6250  VOIRI (pres.)  Apparently this is the one first noted at 1848, 
and later in EG at 1933.  QRM from Zamaneh below.  (Valko 4 Nov.)

EQUATORIAL GUINEA   5005  R. Nac. Bata  Extremely weak carrier here at 
1909.  Same for 4976 Uganda, and 4845 Mauritania, but that was all that was 
noted on 60m at the time.  By 1935, 4940 Sao Tome, 4835.4 Mali, and 4770 
Nigeria joined in.  Oddly, the Dipole was just as good as the 394' African 
BOG on the 60m Africans.  And not really surprising, 11735 Zanzibar was 
better on the Dipole than on the 394' African BOG.

73         Dave


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