Willis DXERS'CORNER // REMOTELY from the garden

Mostly quiet and weak signals have come across the Atlantic over the last few weeks, but there have also been a few new stations from South America. The spread changed seasonally towards the south of the globe. Instead of East Coast US there were some good openings for Peruvian stations, including some I've never heard of before. However, there was no longer skip. Most of the time, the usable part of the spread was limited to 10-20 minutes, around sunrise.

21.04.2023

1470 0346 PRU Radio MegaMix, Lima/Pantanos de Villa (lim) .002 10752 km
930 0347 PRU Radio Visión/Radio Moderna, Lima (lim) 10753 km
1540 0351 BOL Radio Bendita Trinidad, El Alto (lpz) .983 10523 km
1490 0354 PRU Radio Dios es Amor/Cadena Sur, Cusco (cus) .002 10519 km
1280 0400 PRU Radio Moderna, Cajamarca (caj)
1350 0401 PRU Radio Visión, Ferreñafe (lam) , 10470 km
1380 0402 PRU Radio Campesina, Cajamarca (caj) 10424 km
1400 0403 PRU Radio Agricultura, Cajamarca (caj) .939 10421 km

20.04:2023

1380 0358 PRU Radio Campesina, Cajamarca (caj) 10424 km
1490 0358 EQA Radio Santa María, Azogues (can) 10069 km
1500 0400 USA WFED, Washington (DC) 6498 km
1510 0401 EQA Radio Monumental, Quito (pic) 9820 km
1470 0402 PRU Radio MegaMix, Lima/Pantanos de Villa (lim) 10752 km
1500 0403 PRU Radio Santa Rosa, Lima/San Miguel (lim) 10745 km
1570 0406 PRU Bethel Radio, Lima (lim) 10732 km

14.04.2023

Perhaps the last day of this season with chances of reception for the American east coast

1130 0200 USA WBBR, New York/Carlstadt [NJ] (NY) 6175 km
880 0400 USA WCBS, New York/High Island (NY) 6155 km
1010 0400 USA WINS, New York/Lyndhurst [NJ] (NY) 6180 km
1200 0400 USA WXKS, Newton (MA) 5888 km
1280 0400 CAN CFMB, Montréal/Saint-Mathieu (QC) 5829 km
1290 0400 USA WKBK, Keene (NH) 5914 km
1330 0400 USA WRCA, Watertown (MA) 5888 km
1400 0400 CAN CBG, Gander (NL) 4410 km
1440 0400 USA WRED, Westbrook (ME) 5741 km
1480 0400 USA WSAR, Fall River (MA) 5927 km
1500 0400 USA WFED, Washington (DC) 6498 km
1520 0400 USA WJDM, Mineola (C) (NY) 6156 km
1570 0400 CAN CJLV, Laval (QC) , 5833 km
1660 0400 USA WWRU, Jersey City/Carlstadt (N) (NJ) 6176 km
1430 0401 USA WENE, Endicott (NY) 6211 km
1390 0403 USA WEGP, Presque Isle (ME) 5399 km
1690 0405 USA WPTX, Lexington Park (MD) 6523 km
1360 0406 USA WDRC, Hartford (N) (CT) 6018 km
1470 0411 USA WLAM r:WLVP, Lewiston (ME) 5707 km
1580 0413 CAN CKDO, Oshawa (ON) 6252 km
1670 0415 USA WMGE, Dry Branch (GA) 7404 km

Posted by Administrator

The far east is still conspicuous in its absence, while the ionosphere favors the broader near east through to mid-Africa. Already at 1540 UT AIR North could be heard from Varanasi, followed immediately by Radio Sultanate of Oman on the same frequency. Radio Free Africa was also able to keep up with the early start at 1800 UT. Later in the evening, the station could be recorded almost continuously in quiet quality.

Later in the evening, many Spanish channels could be received somewhat more subdued and with an echo effect. This could have been beneficial if the condx had only been slightly better.

Here are the logs:

Continue reading "From Asia to Africa: neither fish nor meat available"

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A review of the wave propagation can be read in the logbook. How does it come about?

The value ✴/ corresponds to the impression of the listening experience that arises when I listen to and evaluate the recording for the first time. The purpose of the exercise is to better understand medium wave propagation and later to have a comprehensible assessment of the recording stored in the archive.

Should your personal assessment deviate from this: no problem. Already 300 km away from my location it could have looked completely different.

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Audible for the first time this season was CNR 5 Taihai zhi Sheng, Quanzhou on 10/26/2022. With 1000 kW no problem, one would think, but the inonosphere often has a different opinion. Two transmitters from Thailand on 891 and 1575 kHz can be heard regularly, albeit weakly. While the Voice of America from Ban Phachi/Rasom (Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya) also comes with 1000 kW on 1575, the Radio Thailand transmitter from Saraburi is content with a modest 400 kW on 891 kHz. Also worth mentioning is the powerful signal from Radio Afghanistan from Kabul on 1107 kHz with 400 kW.

Here are the logs:

Continue reading "Log's Oct 25 & 26 2022"

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