[HCDX] foreign LW-MW logs for the past few weeks

[Mirela Chiochiu <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Season greetings to all of you and a happy 2013 for all of us !

2012 has been an year of disappointment for me in all areas of my life, except maybe DXing and Aalyiah, and I really hope 2013 is the year where most things will get to become more stable.

As far as DXing goes though, I found a new way of airchecking music from deep fringe C-Quam stereo and other even more entertaining long haul LW, MW and SW signals... It is called Voice recorder and it is definitively more effective than I expected at first.

The 2012 fall was mostly dominated by MW Latins including 2 or 3 seldom heard stations, while the very last few days, with the very low geomagnetic activity, were mostly dominated by LW Trans-Atlantics, although nothing necessarily unusual, most of those were really pleasant catches. Talking about Longwave Broadcast DXing, Iceland-189 is having transmitter issues lately on, with transmitter popping on and off every few minutes, sometimes every few seconds, for about 2 seconds at a time.

Enough chatter, into the logs:

Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu, DXing using an AIWA portable with PK loop for LONGWAVE and an assortmenent of PK MW loop and Select-A-Tenna on the Sony CFS-3000 for MEDIUMWAVE, also using the Hyunday car radio with it`s antenna on the back of the window shield for MEDIUMWAVE

Trans-Atlantic DX:

162 FRANCE   France Inter, Allouis DEC 7 around 0100 - with a talkshow about ships and about the importance of ships. Huge, strongest TA on band ! (Chiochiu*Verdun-QC)

171 MOROCCO   Medi 1, Nador JAN 2 0124 - Woman hosting a show of eclectic Arabic mx, both Middle Eastern and North African music, ranging from Rhythmic CHR to traditionnal plaintive religious Arabic vocals. Huge at this time, though with LONG and deep fades (like a LONGwave signal) and sometimes with some slight nulled hum, apparently coming from a powerline radiating something odd at such a low frequency. (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC)

183 GERMANY   Europe 1, Felsberg DEC 28 0610 - with a news item about François Hollande. Sometimes huge, though with deep fadings ! (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC)

189 ICELAND   Rikisutvarpid / RUV 4, Gufuskalar JAN 1 2100 - slowly fading in at this VERY early time with a jazz concert, BUT every few minutes and sometimes EVERY few seconds, it stopped broadcasting for 2 or 3 seconds, before resuming the transmission. Is it a transmitter failure ? I have made a few recordings with a Voice Recorder, but I`m not sure how conclusive they are, though maybe they are worth sharing. (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC)

198 UNITED KINGDOM   BBC Radio 4, Droitwich - very weak under 2 different NDBs at all the times tried. They are strong everywhere on this side of the pond, but in the Montreal area they get seldom too strong, I think even Morocco-171 is stronger than them. Anyway, maybe I just didn`t try enough. (Chiochiu*Verdun-QC / Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC)


Pan-American DX:

600 CUBA   CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norrís (Holguín area) DEC 30 around 2400 - playing dark-edged Cuban salsa show until DEC 31st 0000 GMT, then propagandistic talk. //710 and 1180. I thought //560 was up for a check, but it was clock-jammed with domestic QRM, so couldn`t be really sure. Anyway, have not heard this for a while, but it used to be very regular the last season. Maybe they finaly improved their supposedly 150 kW rig. Heard near the Fairview parking lot ! (Chiochiu*Pointe-Clerc-QC)

640 VENEZUELA   YVQO, Union Radio, Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui NOV 10 0130 - with a baseball fame promoting the Caribes of the Aragua state (the Villa Cura area) against the Magallanes of Caracas. Floating above the 640 domestics at this time, with Cuban Progreso not much in evidence. After it being an almost nighttime occurance during the 2002-2003 season and even before, it is now seldom heard. Probably running lower power than it did 10 years ago, perhaps due to the fuel availability as suggested by nuestro compañero DXista Jorge García Rangel in Barinas, Barinas, YV land. (Chiochiu*Verdun-QC)

750 VENEZUELA   YVKS,   RCR, Caracas, Distrito Federal NOV 9 2320 - speaking during a talkshow with persons that were apparently hold ``sequestrados`` by bad weather or such, followed at 0000 NOV 10 UTC by the same baseball game as carried on YVQO-640, except the Magallanes of Caracas where the leading team. Very, very commun reception everywhere, even easier than Radio Coro. (Chiochiu*Verdun-QC)

780 VENEZUELA   YVNM   Radio Coro, Coro, Falcón JAN 1 0438 - dude inviting his listeners to call him to greet the radio stations ! Excellent signal at times, though quite often in slop from local-like WABC-770 on the low side and from real local CJAD-800 on the high side. In general, Latin American MW signals not too impressive lately. (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC)

900 VENEZUELA   YVMD,   Mara Ritmo 900 / CRV, Maracaibo, Zulia OCT 31 0005 - ``hóra Venezuela`` grabbled ID, heavy interference from Radio Progreso and CHML. Tentatively NEW, as there is no other YV on 900 kHz ! ¡ Segunda vez que estoy llegando hacia el estado Zulia ! (Chiochiu*Verdun-QC)

900 CUBA   CMKP, Radio Progreso, Cacocum JAN 1 0314 - woman announcer just told her listeners they were about to keep the party going on until 3 AM, for the New Year`s Day. Good, but fadey and impossible to keep a solid null on CHML Hamilton, Ontario, even by using 2 loops besides the radio`s ferrite bar antenna; the very low geomagnetic activity must have been for something. (Chiochiu*Pierrefonds-QC)

1130 VENEZUELA   YVRL, Radio Ideal, Macuto, Distrito Federal OCT 31 0006 - Apparent Spanish music way under semi-aurorally subdued WBBR. Tentative log based on having it IDed last March during a more severe geomagnetic storm. (Chiochiu*Verdun-QC).


Bogdan speaks: They were other Latins, particularly on 910, but with WLAT often using day power at night with a Spanish tropical format, it is hard to distiniguish RQ-910 or Radio Cadena Agramonte from their contagious tropical fare. Bits and pieces of broadcast audio was heard on longwave ABOVE 200 kHz, but never good enough for listening efforts to be done. Most of the interesting channels remain between 153 and 198 kHz, no matter what, at least on longwave.

I also did some AM stereo listening, but nothing special, so I didn`t bother to include those listening experiences there, at least not in this report.

I hope most of you had a nice Xmas and I wish anyone a good year of 2013 !
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
Btw.: Sound bites of distant receptions are coming, to those of you that are interested.
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