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Re: [HCDX] Tropical bands very much alive!
Hello Walter
I send this mesage thrice to your email but seems bounced and i do not know why ....
this is the reason I send this mesa throu the mail list
Your thoghts in this mesage remind also my thoughts....
When i was driving thru very big lands incide Greece , i was always thinking
putting wires of more than 1500 m long , posibly suitable to DX on
MWs esp in the LA or even SEA
or even making a rombic antenna 400 m each pole , with orientation towards SEA for
listening to my most belowed sations from that places (Msia , Insia ,
Brunei etc).......
I also have a 1103 but sudenly it lost its AM abilities and i today sporadically use my 1102
to listen only to specified stations for QSL reasons. Unfortunately Degen/Tecsun seems
closed and a pending order is now impossible . It is now 5 months since i have no news
from them.
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> I've just returned from a short vacation in Maui, Hawaii. In my
> possession, I brought along my Kaito/Degen 1103 portable receiver
> along with about 20' of random wire. As is so often the case, my
> monitoring recaptured some of the thrill that has been lost in
> recent years as tropical band stations drop out one by one. The
> norm in the Pacific north west, where I live, is to hear virtually
> no stations in the dawn period on 60 meters, apart from a few
> Chinese power houses. Gone are the days when the band would be full
> of PNG, Indonesian, and other Asian stations. Well, I found where
> they all went. Where do you ask? Hawaii is the simple answer! For
> many of us, Hawaii can represent a relatively easily accessible
> DXer's paradise. All that one needs is a handy portable SW
> receiver, and preferably some random length of wire. For the really
> serious DXers out there, why not take along a real communications
> receiver. In the past, I've taken along a Kenwood R5000 and dx'd
> some !
> pretty amazing stations, including the old Taliban radio station
> from Afghanistan on 41 meters with a wildly drifting signal in
> English and later in Russian as well. These days, there's an
> excellent alternative, and that is Software Defined Radios, or SDR
> for short. These nimble little units measure no larger than small
> portables, but one does need a laptop to use with them. I would
> have really loved to have brought by Dell laptop and SDR-IQ or
> Perseus receiver, but alas, I didn't. Still, I had a lot of fun.
> Over two mornings (from about 06:30 to 08:15 AM local or 16:30 to
> 18:15 UTC), I sat on the lanai scanning the tropical bands. Sunrise
> occured at 7:03 AM during this time of the year, so no need for
> super early rising. Here's what I heard on Friday February 15th
> and Saturday the 16th:
>
> 4635 Tajik Radio, Dushanbe fair to good
> 4750 Probable Chinese at 16:45 on Sat. CC programming with weak
> cochannel (which might have been Radio Peace in Sudan) 4760 Sat
> only.
> May have been TWR Swaziland at fair level. 4775 Sat only at fair
> level with weak music. ?AIR Imphal. 4800 Music at good to very
> good level. CC. 4810 talk at poor level. ?AIR Bhopal or Armenia.
> 4820 CC talk at good level and s/off at 18:00. Lhasa, Tibet. 4828
> Zimbabwe fair with music. 4835 fair to good level. Thought this was
> an African, but who? Possibly too Alice Springs still on their day
> frequency instead of 2310. 4840 fair talk AIR Mumbai? 4860 Koran
> at 16:52 AIR Delhi with Northern Service. Fair. 4880 Good level
> with a het. Seems on the high side of 4880. Middle eastern
> sounding music. Presumably AIR Lucknow with Northern service. 4895
> fair reception on Saturday. Probably AIR Kurseong, although
> couldn't absolutely rule out Sarawak (but doubt the latter). 4900
> fair to good with Firedrake style music. Voice of the Strait,
> Fuzhou listed. 4905 Very good reception with EZL music. Again,
> Lhasa, Tibet. 4910 Indian music at 16:54. Presumed AIR Jaipur.
> 4920 Very good reception of EZL music. Again, Lhasa, Tibet. 4930
> Very good reception with African accented English. News at 17:25
> noticed on Saturday. VOA, Botswana. 4940 English news between 17:30
> to 17:35 only followed by Indian music at fair level. Improved to
> fair to good reception by 16:55. This is AIR Guwahati, in Assam.
> Heard on Saturday. 4950 lively Portuguese talk at 17:20 at fair to
> good levels. This is Angola. Either has weak modulation, or was
> cochannel with a stronger OC station. Not sure. Very rarely heard
> on the west coast for sure! 4965 poor to fair. Possibly Tajikistan.
> 4975 poor reception. Again,perhaps Tajikistan. About the right
> strength to come from that part of the world. 4980 fair talk at
> 16:57 on Saturday. ?Xinjiang PBS. 4990 poor to fair again on
> Saturday. Either AIR Itanagar, or Hunan PBS. 5000 WWVH and
> cochannel Chinese time signal station. 5010 Good reception on
> Saturday with AIR English news at 17:30. This is AIR
> Thiruvananthapuram. Don't hear this one very often back home. 5015
> fair reception on Saturday with music. Presumably Turkmen Radio, in
> Asgabat. 5030 Usual power house Chinese station at very good level,
> just like home! 5040 fair to good on Saturday except for splatter
> from 5030 presumably AIR Jeypore with their Eastern service. 5060
> poor reception of presumed Xinjiang PBS.
>
> Now, on Saturday, I also did a short bandscan on 90 meters at 17:00
> UTC:
>
> 3200 poor/fair TWR Swaziland
> 3250 fair to good reception North Korea.
> 3320 poor/fair reception North Korea. Sounds jammed.
>
> Not much to be heard, but perhaps I listened too late in the
> morning. Now switching to 49 meters, I found the band absolutely
> alive with stations on virtually every channel. A nice improvement
> after 17:00 in strength, too.
>
> 6055: French talk which is presumably Radio Rwanda. Generally well
> heard based on past visits to Hawaii. 6250 North Korea with strong
> signal. 6260 Not sure who this was. Sounded kind of Middle eastern
> or even African. 6270 someone here as well. 6285 North Korea in
> Russian at good level. 6915 someone here at poor to fair strength.
>
> I was handicapped with having no internet access (no computer with
> me), and only an older 2005 WRTH as a resource. Still, I think that
> you can see that the potential exists for some pretty exciting DX
> from Hawaii. As for the random wire....I simply tossed it from the
> lanai to a close tree. I have to admit that the noise is pretty bad
> in a lot of the resorts owing to energy saving lights, TV sets in
> the proximity, etc., at least in the Kaanapali area of Maui. While
> MW dxing, I did on occasion move down (after sunset) to the beach
> and DX'd just using the internal ferrite core with very quiet
> conditions. By the way, I had the opportunity to DX just about every
> Hawaiian AM station, along with recording IDs from them on my Edirol
> R-09 mp3 recorder. For distant DX, though, at least on the MW band,
> one needs a little more than simply using the internal ferrite core
> antenna. I would definitely suggest using a portable loop, or even
> a Beverage antenna if room exists. I just dreamed of laying out 500
> or more feet of wire along the beach at night, but never had the
> chance to do this.
>
> Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC.
>
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