Willis DXERS'CORNER // REMOTELY from the garden

To the logs Greyline not up-to-date. Propagation: ✴✴✴✴/excellent

Excellent conditions spread above 1500 kHz to 1700 kHz. It was primarily a Canada opening with strong, stable signals, sometimes lasting over an hour. The best long-term signal came from CHIN, Toronto Island (ON) 1540 kHz with over 54 dBm SNR. Program listeners were able to fully enjoy loud and stable transmission until well after 7 a.m.

590 0400 CAN VOCM, Saint John's (NL) 4360 km
1520 0400 USA WWKB, Buffalo (NY) 6337 km
1510 0519 USA WLAC, Nashville (TN) 7325 km
1540 0530 CAN CHIN, Toronto Island (ON) .983,
best long time signal of this morning, 54 dBm SNR 6308 km
1650 0530 CAN CINA, Mississauga (ON) 6323 km
1600 0533 USA WUNR, Brookline (MA) 5888 km
1600 0536 USA WWRL, New York/Secaucus (Radio Av.) [NJ] (NY) 6177 km
1320 0557 CAN CJMR, Oakville (ON) 50 dBm SNR 6342 km
1130 0600 USA WBBR, New York/Carlstadt [NJ] (NY) 6175 km
1140 0600 CAN CBI, Sydney (NS) 4931 km
1200 0600 CAN CFGO, Ottawa (ON) 55 dBm SNR 5974 km
1270 0600 CAN CJCB, Sydney (NS) 4923 km
1280 0600 CAN CFMB, Montréal (QC) 5829 km
1390 0600 USA WEGP, Presque Isle (ME) 5399 km
1430 0600 USA WENE, Endicott (NY) 6211 km
1430 0600 CAN CHKT, Toronto Island (ON) 6308 km
1450 0600 CAN CHOU, Montréal (QC) (pres.) 5830 km
1480 0600 USA WSAR, Fall River (MA) 5927 km
1540 0600 BAH ZNS1 National Voice, Nassau/South Beach (npr) 7617 km
1550 0600 CAN CBEF, Windsor (ON) 6627 km
1570 0600 CAN CJLV, Laval (QC) 5833 km
1610 0600 CAN CHRN, Montréal (QC) 5817 km
1250 0601 CAN CJYE, Oakville (ON) 6342 km
1590 0601 USA WARV, Warwick (RI) 5944 km
1690 0601 CAN CHTO, Toronto (ON) 6297 km
1700 0602 USA WJCC, Miami Springs (FL) 7749 km
1580 0614 CAN CKDO, Oshawa (ON) 6252 km

After weeks of claiming that "the DDA has a hidden defect," today she was able to prove the opposite. It was about time too. And it saved me a lot of work because checking the buried coax lines is a mammoth task.

Thanks to Reinhard Weiss who developed wavFFT and wavView10K. This software is a true revolution for my hobby applications.

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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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Transatlantic "witches sabbath" on mediumwave

You work towards a day like this all year round. If you don't look after your station or shack every day, you run the risk of missing it. The wait was worth it, with 36 logbook entries and a new US state heard: Nebrasca. The latter was a hearing error, the poor ears still had to work for the last log of this remarkable day. Most of the signals were good to excellent. But there were also weak outliers like Radio Surco and Radio Angulo from Cuba as well as XEGEM Mexiquense Radio.

Propagation: ✴✴✴✴/excellent

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