[HCDX] Logs from tonight (Semi-auroral conditions tonight) and best bets for deep-South America

Hello !

Semi-auroral conditions tonight. Stayed on 640 for over a half-hour and received Cuba, Venezuela and a station that was playing cuban jazz with a very good signal that gradually faded down in strenght but remained in for over 10 minutes (didn't sound like Radio Progreso though, they always ID at the top-of-the-hour - wich was 0200 UTC - 2100 EST, wich they did not). RFO have some jazz mx at times, so most likely Radio Guadeloupe. Brazilian Radio Bandeirantes in Porto Alegre may also had been possible, but never previously IDed here.

I left a tape running on 640, so we'll see what comes in. Because they aren't very strong stations on 640, this may be one of my best opportunities to log Brasil, from the Montreal area.

I don't have much time for more DX tonight, since I begun school tomorow so have to go to bad quite early tonight.

I will finish this holiday with my theory on deep-South Americans and the best frequencies to try for them. I'll begun with a high-powered Brazilian on 640 in south-eastern Brazil, then talk a bit about 2 high-powered Buenos Aires stations. They may be very difficult, but not impossible for Canadian/US DX'ers.

I found a tentative report from the east-coast DX'er Eric Stromsted in Massachusets. I found it in the IDXD 70-01 of September 20, 2002. Go to http://www.nrcdxas.org/idxd/idxd7001.html. What do you think about it ? It stayed in for 30 minutes - according to the IDXD report, as I never heard Brasil on MW - wich is quite long for a Pan-American, so should be easy for eastern inland DX'ers, like me. It is only a tentative catche, since he didn't came up with an ID, but I think I may heard them, I really need a ZY on medium-wave. It has been reported THIS season, so I hope to hear them with patience and near-nightly trying. I give credit to Bruce COnti (wich is part of this thread) for letting post this. I think it is important enough, especially considering that in October I was logging Ecuador here.

Here is the afore-mentionated Eric Stomsted report !:

640 BRAZIL R.Bandeirantes, Porto Alegre SEP 09 0225 - Tentative; replaced R.Guadeloupe in a fade in with Brazilian non-stop music and several Portuguese male announcements but faded five minutes before -on hour- break, with R.Guadeloupe fading in. This is a long shot, as the only high powered Brazilian station on the frequency, could also be Venezuela, Cuba or Guadeloupe? [Stromsted-MA]

That's it for now !

If I will ever hear Porto Alegre on 640, it will surely be my most distant MW log. It is deep-South American, 30 degrees south of the Equator. Another good deep-SA beats would be LRA1 870 kHz wich is an excellent DX frequency (just camed up with WWL last night) and 1070 (LR1 Radio El Mundo, after I have logged YVMA and HJCG with CBA nulled in November 2001 - these are fairly commun her ein north-Eastern North America - so you'll never know with what you may came up).

I suspect the Porto Alegre 640 kHz, and Buenos Aires on 870 and 1070 would be most likely during our summer months when it's winter down there. From my little experience, the best summer months for Latin DX and the only one that is quite good with fewer static and loger nights, is August. But until we made to August, we still have a long winter and a second half of the 2002-2003 DX session to deal with, until will came the summer and the "trans-equatorial" season as Mark Connelly sometimes say.

Well, that's it for now !

Have a good night and hope for all of you to get back to work form the holidays easily,

73 and good DX,

Bogdan Chiochiu