[HCDX] unID Spanish trop mx station on 1430 kHz

[aurel chiochiu <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Warm greetings to all of you !

While the past night, nothing noteworthy was heard, on Tuesday night, between 0030 and 0100 UTC (2030 to 2100 EDT), I heard a Spanish tropical music station, playing a wide array of music ranging from salsa to bachata or merengue ! Very good peaks over/under an unID sports talker, but always faded out during the talk segments, so I couldn't ID it... Almost certainly an ethnic domestic, but probably not the Toronto station, because this station was nulled out with the Sanyo's antenna aimed perpendicular to the E/W bearing... I even thought I had Venezuela, but the strong signal and the very poor propagation toward Latin America, unlike on Monday night when a few of the most commun Pan-Americans were huge, definitively points to the USA ! Some of the music was taped, but this don't proves to be useful when trying to ID it !

That being said, I was quite buzzy yesturday, so I didn't had time to repport it back then. Among the DX related things, I joined AM Stereo groups on Yahoo! and I also took a Technics SA-104 tuner out of dust I received as a gift sometime ago. I found an adapter for proffessional headphones (so only one that would work, anyway), so I could listen to it. I connected it to a broken Yagi antenna and I must confess that the performance I had maked me want to use a better antenna... I heard a new semi-local on 100.1 MHz in Valleyfield and several other catches, but it lacks a lot of gain, as some of the elements of my Yagi were broke and the wire I use for connecting the Yagi isn't a coaxial cable, so they are lots of signal losses with it... Anyway, some of the stronger Es might be heard... As far as the selectivity goes, I'm VERY impressed. I can hear slight splatter on 94.5 MHz, while using other radios I have, I get very annoying overspills from local CKMF on 94.3 and semi-local WYUL on 94.7. This Technics SA-104 tuner is an AM-FM one and on mediumwave the selectivity is the worst one I've ever heard. The Sont XFD AM Stereo car radio we have, in the Wide filter position, is slightly MORE selective than it is and is a real DX machine in the AM "normal" filter position which is narrower than "normal" mid-range fidelity. As far as the sensitivity goes, I have trouble hearing some of the semi-local pests clearly like WVMT-620... It is really a sensitivity problem as the internal ferrite bar antenna on the back of it is quite large ! I guess, the selectivity could compare with that of the Grundig G5 receiver which is the only radio I have that clearly cuts down the 91.9 jazz splatter against 91.7 in the way of Radio Coco, Ciúdad de la Havana via a long-haul single-hop Es mixed with some tropo in the way... Enough now, I'd like to see if there is some Es undergoing !

Anyway, if someone knows the identity of the Spanish tropical music station heard on 1430 Tuesday night around local sunset, please let me know !


This short repport is brought yo you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu, DXing from Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), Quebec, Canada using mainly the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot, but also the Technics SA-104 AM/FM Stereo tuner along with a Yagi antenna that has some of its element broken !

May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu

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