[HCDX] SW logs from today

[aurel chiochiu <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello to all of you !

Around noon and this afternoon noted very good condx on SW, hence spent a lot of time DX'ing. The three big highlights were 
hearing CFRX shortly after noon with a really strong signal, hearing Morocco before 2:30 PM EDT (before 1800 UTC) and having 
been able on my Sangean radio to get several Ham operators around 7165 kHz. The strong signals from CFRX-6070 and CHU-7335 make me thinking condx were quite exceptionnal enough for some DX from the Maritimes and maybe some possible TAs, but due to the facts they dropped dramatically in strenght in just over an hour and powerline noises this late afternoon / early evening on MW, I had to forget about this.

Another highlight, from yesturday this time and of a different nature, was that I received for a half-hour on visit two friends from my high-school (Des Sources). I showed them my radio, played a tape of an RCN MW reception with a soccer game from "La Copa de Todorte" (they were very impressed !) and showed them Morocco-9575 on my Sangean CST-818-random wire shack (they were impressed too !). I played chess with them and they beated me very hard, but I forgot to play it and have a big lack of concentration. They were at our home from 5 to 5:30 PM. 

Otherwise, tomorrow afternoon will be the last chemical treatment of cycle 1. This week-end I wasn't really tired, stayed up very late both Friday and Saturday night, so until cycle 2 begin, I expect to be quite active in this wonderfull hobby.

Into the logs now:

6070 CANADA, CFRX, Toronto, ON SEP 25 1614 - Talkshow noted in passing at a VERY good level. I don't remember hearing 
usable signal from this one around noon ! + SEP 25 1724 - Good w/ QSB w/ talk w/ the writer of a novel. Less consistent than at 
1614. Strange ! (Chiochiu-QC)

7165 USA, various hams SEP 25 1707 - One of them talking and giving call-letters that sounded a bit like "WIHCBOW" then signed 
off followed by another one wich gived "WERM" call-letters and talking about contacts he made this past winter. Audible with the receiver in BFO with the BFO control adjusted for extractable audio - this is like single-side band aint'it ? (Chiochiu-QC)

7335 CANADA, CHU, Ottawa, ON SEP 25 1616 - Very strong, but after 1800 at re-check this one was really weak. Very strange, as 41 MB propagation should become even better the closer to the dark we get, not worse ! (Chiochiu-QC)

9575 MOROCCO, Medi UN, Nador SEP 25 1814 - Already in with a very poor signal at this early time with man in AA followed by popular AA music. At re-check after 1500 this one was much better (actually pretty fair) with news in French. (Chiochiu-QC)

9580 GABON, Africa Numéro Un, Moyabi SEP 25 1900+ - with a traditionnal story. Fairly good reception. (Chiochiu-QC)

15300 FRANCE, RFI, Issoudun SEP 25 1726 - w/ pgm about Poland (certainly due to the elections there). Accordeon interludes between each item. At least 1 mention of communism and talk about Poland being a richer country than 15 years ago, but w/ much more inegalities. Still a poor Polish man is much richer than 10 years ago and will be much richer in 10 years than he is now. 
UTC and Parisian TCs at 1730 followed by newscast w/ the nice news jingle. Some items were about the elections in Poland like in 
the pgm heard prior to 1730, about a Libanese christian journalist being trapped with a bomb under his car and loosing one foot and about the "Grand Prix du Brésil". Then after the newscast, interview with a programmer of movies or a cineast (not sure due to the quite deep fadings and often mixing products from major broadcasters beaming to NA fading up with CFAV-1570 "Radio Boomer"). One of his first movies was seen by 200,000 persons (a succes), mention of the movie "La compagne d'il y a quinze ans" and about something against psychanalyse. Then the interviewer asked the presenter of movies what he wouldn't want to present. He sayed that he would be really against only bad ones. Afterwards they talked about nazist movies and the movie presenter sayed he didn't really want to present them, but he may do that anyway as he don't want to loose his audience, so he thought about presenting this German World War II movies to a really mature audience. Then promo with "RFI, La radio du monde" slogan followed by instrumental jingle with IDs and how RFI can be heard in FF, UK-accented EE and GG (they actually gived their web adress "for a list of all our frequencies). Excellent on peaks, but suffered deep fadings (undeciphrable during fade-downs) and overload from mixing products (strong SW signals fading up mixing with the 1570 local). SIO 422 (Chiochiu-QC) 

Bogdan Chiochiu - Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), QC
Sangean CST-818 with random wire in our yard

I will finish replying to a few nice and interesting e-mails, eating, take a shower, maybe listen for a few minutes to the radio, then I'll went to bed, 'cause tomorrow it will be a long day.

Be the good DX stuff with you,
Bogdan
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