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I didn’t know there was a solar storm yesterday until
AFTER I just happened to see what I could hear on the 31 and 25 meter bands between
about 2250 and 2320 UTC [4:50 to 5:20 p.m. local Pacific Daylight Time]. I
apparently heard: R. Kuwait 9855 kHz –115 dBm SINPO 25333 Saudi Arabia 9870 KHz –110 dBm SINPO 25343 Swiss Radio Int. 9885 kHz –125 dBm SINPO 25342 R. Cairo 9900 kHz –125 dBm SINPO 25342 Kol Israel 11585 kHz –110 dBm SINPO 25343 V. of Turkey 9445 kHz –110 dBm SINPO 25342 RAI [Italy] 9515 kHz –105 dBm SINPO 35343 Today I checked the last four stations at about 2320Z and
the only one I could hear was Italy. Hardly a “scientific” test, but now I will
look for these guys in the afternoon as “beacons” for Mid-East reception.
Anything from –115 to –125 dBm is what I call weak! Yesterday I tried switching
from my SWL-DX Sloper to my 150 ft, 100 foot elevation, long wire and couldn’t
hear any of these signals – just noise. Tom Roach Grass Valley, California [in the Sierra
mountain foothills about 50 miles east of Sacramento] Listening with: Watkins-Johnson HF-1000
with Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper and Sherwood SE-3 |