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[HCDX] Logs for Al Muick 05-07 November 2011
Not too much to report, so....
FRANCE, 3AC Monaco Radio 8728 USB, 07 November 2011, 1020 UTC. I was
waiting for this one, camped out on the frequency. Finally, just barely
above the noise I heard the Monaco National Anthem and then an ID in
French by a man in French, into weather information. At 1022, the
language changed to a woman in English along with IDs and weather
information, followed by the National Anthem again and off air at 1025.
This was so weak...barely an S2 and I was able to pull it out of the
noise. 13148 was wiped out by some sort of local noise and 17260 was
dead at my QTH. See comments/discussion below. The ID was always given
as Monaco Radio and never as Monte Carlo Radio, as shown in the
Klingenfuss listings.
RUSSIA, St. Petersburg Regional Center, 6135 heard on 05 November at
2356 UTC, thanks to a personal email from Mikhail Timofeyev.
Transmission started out with well-modulated 1kHz test tones and went
into Voice of Russia Spanish at 0000. Unfortunately, the VoR audio was
not at a level to modulate the transmitters like the test tones and it
left the audio weak and somewhat muffled. QSB was fluttery and signal
strength was fair at best, but without any major QRM, until I tuned out
at 0020. Thank you Mikhail for the heads up. Glenn Hauser has already
spread the word where to find the schedule and more details in his
recent report, so I won't re-duplicate efforts.
Some may be questioning why I list 3AC as France. From the research I
have done on the web, in particular referencing one persons visit to the
utility station, the transmitters are actually at Fontbonne in France.
Following our protocols, this would then count as France, and not
Monaco, even though the receive site is within the Principality of
Monaco. It is customary (as well as good RF engineering practice!) for
coast and utility stations to keep their receive and transmit sites
geographically separated and control the TX'ers remotely. While this is
certainly disappointing as far as logging/QSLing a new country, I am
happy that at least I have heard them, and hope for a QSL.
Years back, TWR Monaco played a nice little musicbox tune as their
interval signal. I was always curious as to what it was. Imagine my
surprise when I heard it played by a march band at the opening and
closing of the 3AC transmission. At the risk of being called a prat, I
looked up Monaco's NA, and now I know that all this time, that is what
TWR Monaco had used as their interval signal. Trivia, but nonetheless a
surprise for myself.
Hope everyone has been getting more DX than I!
73
Al Muick
Whitehall PA USA
WinRadio G303e/100m longwire
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