[HCDX] Logs for the MW Hell Week CME

[Mirela Chiochiu <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Warm greetings to all of you !

I did some listening on Saturday night through early Sunday morning as to follow the Hell Week CME contest on ABDX and bagged the following South Americans. The most impressive one was YVKE-550 as it is usually weaker than both YVKS-750 and YVNM-780 and is ONLY heard during the regular fall and winter months... The outage of former semi-local CHLN-550 in Trois-Rivières definitively helped ! But what helped the most was the outage of the powerline buzz that is runining DX on all LW, MW and SW bands day and night which thanksfully stops occasionally allowing for the nice DX that I used to report often and that I`m still enjoying at least sometimes. Enough chatter, into the logs:


550 VENEZUELA   YVKE Mundial, Caracas, DF JUN 20 0618 - trad. YV mx selecgtions with patriotic comments in between, mention of "la patria" and "la revolución". Fair with QRM from WGR in Buffalo, NY. SINPO 33432. (Chiochiu-QC)

760 COLOMBIA   HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca, Barranquilla JUN 20 0720 - Very tentative with man talking slowly in apparent Spanish trhough residual nulled WJR (Detroit, MI). Almost impossible copy. SINPO 12421. (Chiochiu-QC)

780 VENEZUELA   YVNM, Radio Coro, Coro, estado Falcón JUN 20 0415 - Poor to fair at tune-in and fading up to very good with some QRN, in Chicago`s QRM null: "El mejor de la balada" program with old-fashionned tropical sounding Spanish romantic songs, caught some beautiful ones on tape. Ended around 0430 UTC, then Ruta Músical Siete Ochenta. + JUN 20 0715 - End of a Dominican merengue, then canned ID "Esta es la Ruta Músical Siete Ochenta por la AM Radio Coro, siempre en primer lugar" followed by Lalo Rodriguez 80`s salsa classic number "Tu Me Quemas"... During the Lalo Rodriguez number, the signal was fading down from fair to very poor. SINPO 44322. (Chiochiu-QC)


Additional comments:

All in all, I have a full C90 tape with the peaks in the strength of Venezuelan Falconiano 780 kHz biggie and also 2 or 3 segments from Mundial YVKE airchecked.

About those airchecks, I have a lil` problem with the soundcard of my computer, but as soon as I get it fixed, I will forward them to some of you. If you are interested, please drop me an e-mail.

There was only one other Spanish signal noted on 890, but it sounded like the Massachussets station in a suburb near Boston.

As far as FM goes, I had a fairly big opening to Kansas on the 17th of June with huge signals on 93.1, 93.3 and 100.3, but I won`t report on it. I`m waiting for something in Spanish or Caribbean English, like Florida or the Bahamas to report it. 


This report is brought to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu, happily DXing from his homeland of Pierrefonds (Montreal`s West Island), Quebec, Canada using the Sanyo MCD-S830 boombox along with the Australian homemade PK AM loop


May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
Btw.: When is the headline for the Hell Week CME, today or tomorrow evening at 0000 UTC ? June 22 is tonight at 0000 GMT (2000 EDT), so I`m a bit confused !... Well... 
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