MW dxing in Canary Islands. Tips and UNID help wanted
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MW dxing in Canary Islands. Tips and UNID help wanted
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Tired of freezing in Lapland, Scotland or Newfoundland? Give a try to MW
dxing in Canary Islands. The only difficult thing there is to find an
accomodation without terrible manmade noises (avoid resorts and big
hotels). Don't care about antennas, a random wire will work. Low value
dxing? Maybe, still it's not bad to hear 4-5.000 km.away stations as
locals, from 20,00 UTC till 09,30 with a warm sun well over the horizon.
Try to find a place on the west coast of any island and your results will
dramatically increase, as mountains and volcanos are excellent shields for
European interferences.
The following stations were heard between 29 Dec and 4 Jan in Gomera Island
(BTW a wonderful place to stay) in four different locations. The best place
was by far the last one, three days in a small village on the west coast. I
had with me a AR7030 and a 20mt wire, but 90% of the stations were audible
also with the small Sony 7600 put in the right side of my bedroom... No
tape recorder, just me, 3-4 hours a night and a thousand of IDs lost, I
guess. After all, it was a holiday.
NORTH AMERICA
590 30/12 22.15 VOCM St.John's weather
670 2/1 02.15 WWFE Miami FL SS phone-in
700 2/1 00.50 CHSJ St.John NB Country-700
710 2/1 03.40 WAPI Miami FL SS
730 2/1 02.20 CKAC Montreal PQ FF
740 2/1 22.50 CHCM Marystown NF carrying VOCM St John's
760 30/12 23.05 WJR, Detroit MI news
770 2/1 23.00 WABC New York NY ABC news
780 2/1 22.45 CFDR Dartmouth NS 7-80 Country
780 2/1 02.25 WBBM Chicago IL
850 29/12 23.50 WEEI Boston MA, sport
860 2/1 01.35 CJBC Toronto ON FF
870 2/1 01.40 WWL New Orleans local advs +football // 980
930 2/1 00.45 WBEN Buffalo NY
940 1/1 01.05 WINZ Miami, FL allnews
940 2/1 22.30 CBM Montreal ON
970 2/1 01.00 WWDJ Hackensack NJ religious px
980 29/12 23.55 CBV Quebec PQ, FF
1000 2/1 00.10 WMVP Chicago IL sport
1030 2/1 23.00 WBZ Boston MA news
1050 1/1 21.30 CHUM Toronto ON
1050 2/1 00.00 WEVD New York NY
1080 2/1 01.55 WTIC Hartford CT
1100 2/1 01.50 WTAM Cleveland OH sport
1120 2/1 01.40 KMOX ST Louis MO sport
1130 29/12 23.25 WBBR New York NY Bloomberg business news
1140 3/1 23.00 WQBA Miami FL SS
1160 1/1 23.15 WVNJ Oakland NJ oldies, very regular
1170 1/1 23.25 WWVA Wheeling WV country
1190 2/1 01.30 WOWO Fort Wayne IN
1210 1/1 23.05 WGMP Philadelphia PA newsradio
1280 2/1 22.20 WADO New York NY SS R.Reloj, noticias de PuertoRico
1300 4/1 09.00! WFFG Marathon FL "from the Florida keys..."
1380 2/1 22.35 WKDM New York NY SS
1450 1/1 21.05 VSB1 Hamilton, Bermuda country mx
1470 2/1 03.00 WRBD Fort Lauderdale FL mx
1490 1/1 23.30 WMBM Miami Beach FL spirituals
1500 1/1 22.15 WTOP Washington DC news
1560 1/1 22.30 WQEW New York NY
1580 2/1 03.00 WSRF Ft Lauderdale FL //WINZ 940
CENTRAL AMERICA AND CARRIBEAN
1020 31/12 00.30 Carr.Christian Radio, Turks and Caicos
1280 3/1 21.50 WCMN Arecibo PR with Notiuno news
1400 alw 00.00 Harbour Light
1430 3/1 21.55 WNEL Caguas PR with Notiuno news
1480 1/1 22.30 WMDD Fajardo PR
1560 4/1 09.15 tent. XEFAJ Mexico
1580 2/1 01.30 VOA Belize SS
1590 4/1 09.00 XEVOZ Mexico City Bonita 15-90
1600 1/1 02.00 WLUZ Bayamon PR
SOUTH AMERICA
760 29/12 23.15 RCN Barranquilla COL
820 2/1 23.00 Guadalupana, Coro VEN
860 1/1 21.45 CBN Rio de Janeiro BRA
950 1/1 22.00 Journal Sousa (tent.ID) BRA
980 1/1 21.35 Nacional Brasilia, BRA
1000 2/1 02.05 Record Sao Paulo BRA
1030 1/1 21.30 Olinda BRA
1140 3/1 23.00 La Margaritena 11-40, Porlamar VEN
1200 1/1 21.00 Ceara' Radio Clube, Fortaleza BRA
1230 31/12 20.30! CBN Anhanguera BRA
1240 2/1 02.15 Nacional de Venezuela "Antena Popular" VEN
1280 30/12 00.00 Super Tupi, Rio de Janeiro BRA
1290 2/1 23.30 Puerto Cabello VEN
1320 30/12 00.10 Apolo, Turmero VEN
1430 31/12 22.50 Satelite, Guacara VEN
1550 3/1 04.55 Metropolitana, Los Teques VEN
1580.03 31/12 23.00 Manzanares, Cumana' VEN
REMARKS AND UNID HELP WANTED
Despite the latitude, NA propagation was dominant, as all over Europe in
this period. No Praires or West Coast, maybe I should have tried later in
the night. Sooner or later we'll catch a real K-something below the Alps, I
have been up to that for the past 20 years and I'm getting old :-)
I was impressed by the two NY SS stations on 1280&1380, which are very
difficult to catch in Southern Europe. Any information on their antenna
paths?
Brazil is strong at local sunset time (or even before), then surprisingly
tends to fade out. Keep in mind that 25 mt. Brazilians are heard all day
long, here... Puerto Rico is impressive at local sunset, too. No surprise
from Venezuela or Caribbean reception. Mexico in the morning should be
quite regular in this period.
I have a curious ID at 22.20 on 1360. It sounded like Radio Calidad, Viva
la Radio and I would say it was not from South America. Florida??
Another mystery is a Radio Cinco ID on 1430 at 09.15. It was not Spain,of course
I have no information on a Radio Libertad RCN hrd on 1360 at 23.30.
Colombia from where?
As for Africa I did not put a list here, because I had no surprises. The
only interesting signal was an UNID on 1222 at 19.00 both in French and
Vernacular. Senegal? No // with 765
Bye everybody and happy 1997
Rocco Cotroneo, Milan, Italy