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