[HCDX] recent logs: March 2004

[MarkWA1ION@xxxxxxx]

Report from Mark Connelly - Times / dates = UTC / 2004 
(logs: MAR 2004)   

[Connelly*B-MA] = Billerica, MA, USA
(GC= 71.221 W / 42.533 N) (24 km / 15 miles NW of Boston)
(home)

Drake R8A receiver, DXP-5 phasing unit

Antenna system: dual-feedline Flag antenna (4.9 m X 10.4 m),
 12 m vertical

Homepage = "http://hometown.aol.com/MarkWA1ION/weblink.htm";
RF circuit page = "http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/index.html";
e-mail = "MarkWA1ION@xxxxxxx"

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*** TRANSATLANTIC DX ***

162 | FRANCE | France-Inter, Allouis, MAR 6 0540 - man & woman with French talk mentioning a minister of the exterior. [Connelly*B-MA]

171 | MOROCCO | R. Mediterranee Internationale, Nador, MAR 6 0539 - drumming, strings, chanting; good. [Connelly*B-MA]

183 | GERMANY | Europe No. 1, Felsberg, MAR 6 0538 - sports-related French talk by man; good. [Connelly*B-MA]

189 | ICELAND | Rikisutvarpid, Gufuskalar, MAR 6 0541 - folk-style vocal; fair. [Connelly*B-MA]

198 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC R.4, Droitwich et al., MAR 6 0535 - classical music, then "Rule Britannia" march and talk by a woman about football; good. [Connelly*B-MA]

567 | IRELAND | RTE R.1, Tullamore, MAR 21 0020 - remake of Five Stairsteps "O-o-h Child" soul hit from 1970; fair. [Connelly*B-MA] 

621 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | RNE R.1 synchros, Santa Cruz de Tenerife et al., MAR 5 2326 - excited Spanish talk; good. [Connelly*B-MA]

747 | NETHERLANDS | Flevoland, MAR 21 0033 - plaintive ballad, Dutch talk by man, then a telephone interview; to good peak. [Connelly*B-MA]

756 | GERMANY | DeutschlandRadio, Braunschweig & Ravensburg, MAR 21 0034 - woman in German; fair. [Connelly*B-MA]

783 | MAURITANIA | R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott, MAR 5 2321 - // 4845 with religious-sounding Arabic talk (poetic scripture with similar-length rhyming sentences); poor to fair in CFDR slop. [Connelly*B-MA]

837 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | COPE synchros, MAR 6 0532 - woman in Spanish talking on the phone, slight reverb / echo noted; good. [Connelly*B-MA] 

855 | SPAIN | RNE R.1 synchros, MAR 5 2330 - // (loud) 621 with rapid-fire Spanish newstalk by man; good with WEEI phased. [Connelly*B-MA]

864 | FRANCE | Paris, MAR 21 0035 - "Killing Me Softly" by Roberta Flack, then French talk; fair, over others. [Connelly*B-MA]

999 | SPAIN | COPE, Madrid, MAR 21 0016 - man in Spanish; to fair peak. + MAR 31 0323 - fast Spanish teletalk; loud. [Connelly*B-MA]

1017 | GERMANY | SWR-1, Wolfsheim, MAR 21 0040 - woman mentioned "auf Deutschland"; poor to fair. [Connelly*B-MA]

1053 | UNITED KINGDOM | TalkSport synchros, MAR 21 0041 - sports-related radio contest promo; fair through WEPN slop. [Connelly*B-MA]

1089 | UNITED KINGDOM | TalkSport synchros, MAR 5 2337 - man & woman with English teletalk; fair over second station (Albania ?). + MAR 6 0522 - advert for oldies albums including Elvis Presley hits; good. + MAR 21 0043 - announcers shouting at each other in mock New Jersey Italian-American accents, then into calmer Brit-accented sportstalk; good. [Connelly*B-MA]

1107 | SPAIN | RNE R.5 synchros, MAR 21 0014 - woman with Spanish teletalk; echoey, fair. [Connelly*B-MA]

1116 | SPAIN | SER synchros, MAR 6 0520 - Spanish news; good. + MAR 21 0013 - monotone-delivery Spanish newstalk; fair. [Connelly*B-MA]

1134 | CROATIA | Hrvatski R., Zadar, MAR 21 0012 - female group folk vocal; to good peak over Spain. [Connelly*B-MA]

1206 | FRANCE | Bordeaux, MAR 21 0007 - world-events talk by man & woman in French, then a musical interlude; good. [Connelly*B-MA]

1215 | UNITED KINGDOM | Virgin R. synchros, MAR 5 2339 - song "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer; to good peak. + MAR 6 0519 - "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman; loud! [Connelly*B-MA]

1251 | LIBYA | Libyan Jamahiriya, Tripoli, MAR 21 0051 - female Arabic vocal; in slop. [Connelly*B-MA]

1332 | ITALY | RAI R. Uno synchros, MAR 31 0319 - man in Italian; fair. [Connelly*B-MA]

1512 | SAUDI ARABIA (t) | BSKSA, Jeddah, MAR 31 0317 - apparent Arabic music & talk; in tough WWZN slop.  EMWG listings say off air at 0300 UTC. [Connelly*B-MA]

1521 | SAUDI ARABIA | BSKSA, Duba, MAR 31 0310 - a segment of pop-style Arabic music, then woman talking in Arabic; HUGE signal.  Pre-sign-on carrier was noted totally destroying WWKB about a half hour earlier on the car radio at a marshy area near the Route 38 / Shawsheen River crossing in Tewksbury, MA. [Connelly*B-MA]

1584 | unID | MAR 31 0313 - Arabic vocal over others.  Might not be Kuwait as 1548 wasn't putting much signal in. [Connelly*B-MA]

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