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1134 Croatia: my 1st trans atlantic!

Thank you very much for your insight, stormy. I, for one, can certainly glean valuable clues (although I'm not a techy, at all), from your information, in this cat-and-mouse game of chasing TAs.

OK, time to warm up the silicon chips in the DX-440 and hear what we can find tonight (Actually, I was quite pleased in getting WWL so well, slopping over onto 873 last night).

:D

~BG
 
crainbebo said:
WOW!!! That's amazing, and over 5000 miles too!
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Actually more like 3400 miles from Western Michigan to Croatia. Real nice DX, no matter how you look at it.

It's roughly 4600 miles from Bothell to Croatia.
 
Wonderful!!

SW is lighting up, everywhere now.

-crainbebo
 
I had them here tonight also and managed to record some audio at the top of the hour at 0000 UTC (modded my DX-440 today to include a record-out jack). Not as strong as a few nights ago but discernible as Stormy mentioned. Here's an audio clip that I made, best heard through headphones with the volume up high:

http://71.205.237.97/1134.mp3

Note the three distinct "time tones" at the top of the hour.

Hopefully that MP3 worked :)
 
kilokat7 said:
I had them here tonight also and managed to record some audio at the top of the hour at 0000 UTC (modded my DX-440 today to include a record-out jack). Not as strong as a few nights ago but discernible as Stormy mentioned. Here's an audio clip that I made, best heard through headphones with the volume up high:

http://71.205.237.97/1134.mp3

Note the three distinct "time tones" at the top of the hour.

Hopefully that MP3 worked :)
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What direction did you have your radio/antenna oriented?
 
I think I got it tonight. Around 8:10 CDT I heard a man & woman talking in a foreign language on 1134. For a short time fairly good signal.
 
radioman148 said:
I think I got it tonight. Around 8:10 CDT I heard a man & woman talking in a foreign language on 1134. For a short time fairly good signal.
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Good show!

It is up tonight and coming in pretty good at times, inspite of Bloomberg's strong slop. I'm concentrating on 855 tonight...there's something there...

~BG
 
Tincap said:
radioman148 said:
I think I got it tonight. Around 8:10 CDT I heard a man & woman talking in a foreign language on 1134. For a short time fairly good signal.
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Good show!

It is up tonight and coming in pretty good at times, inspite of Bloomberg's strong slop. I'm concentrating on 855 tonight...there's something there...

~BG
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The only thing I'm getting on 855 is French bleedover from Canada's 860.
 
radioman148 said:
I think I got it tonight. Around 8:10 CDT I heard a man & woman talking in a foreign language on 1134. For a short time fairly good signal.
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Yes, It's been good reception for Zadar 1134 the last three nights. I'm also hearing new hets on 567, 1053, 1107 and 1215. I'm presuming the 1053 is TalkSport-UK, and 1215 is Absolute Radio (former Virgin Radio)-UK. What is baffling is the 567. Ireland took Tullemore off the air, so that leaves Syria for high power on the channel. On 1107 there's a high power in Egypt on 1107 (600kW) and Afghanistan (400kW). There is also Rome on 1107, but it's supposed to be 'only' 100kW, and there may be plans to make that DRM... Other hets that seem consistent the past week or so have been 603, 693, 747, 837, 873 and 1377. 855 might be Spain (300kW - Murcia - there are a number of 'synchros' that RNE also runs on 855) or it may be Romania (400kW) I haven't heard a het on 855 and CJBC Toronto usually doesn't give me a problem.

Try this to see what direction the stations are likely to be coming from: http://www.wm7d.net/az_proj/az_html/azproj_form_short.shtml
Select the Whole World, 2000km/cm, map extends 20,000km from QTH. It's not clear from the site if the headings are geographical or magnetic so you'll have to correlate that when comparing a compass heading to the geographical heading. It may be corrected for magnetic, I tried reading through the documentation and I couldn't tell.
 
I had trace audio last night on 1215 between 11:00-11:30pm EST for brief moments, music heard, seemed to match Absolute's audio stream but I'm not counting it yet. Will be monitoring it again tonight, ready to record. Aside from 1215 (and 1134), 693 and 837 are the strongest "hets" I'm getting here in west Michigan that hold promise for any audio coming through.
 
kilokat7 said:
I had trace audio last night on 1215 between 11:00-11:30pm EST for brief moments, music heard, seemed to match Absolute's audio stream but I'm not counting it yet. Will be monitoring it again tonight, ready to record. Aside from 1215 (and 1134), 693 and 837 are the strongest "hets" I'm getting here in west Michigan that hold promise for any audio coming through.
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And the good thing is it should only get better as the days continue to get shorter.
 
stormy01 said:
Try this to see what direction the stations are likely to be coming from: http://www.wm7d.net/az_proj/az_html/azproj_form_short.shtml
Select the Whole World, 2000km/cm, map extends 20,000km from QTH. It's not clear from the site if the headings are geographical or magnetic so you'll have to correlate that when comparing a compass heading to the geographical heading. It may be corrected for magnetic, I tried reading through the documentation and I couldn't tell.
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I've been messing around with Google Earth (the program, not Google Maps) and noticed that you can draw lines between points on the globe (think receiver location to transmitter location). The resultant line can then be analyzed for distance, bearing, etc. Useful data for DXers.
 
kilokat7 said:
I had trace audio last night on 1215 between 11:00-11:30pm EST for brief moments, music heard, seemed to match Absolute's audio stream but I'm not counting it yet. Will be monitoring it again tonight, ready to record. Aside from 1215 (and 1134), 693 and 837 are the strongest "hets" I'm getting here in west Michigan that hold promise for any audio coming through.
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1215 is pretty sloppy for me here, but I am picking up some hetrodyne. The streaming link for Absolute is here, which should be useful in trying to make the catch ~> http://player.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/player/?service=abr

~BG
 
kilokat7 said:
I've been messing around with Google Earth (the program, not Google Maps) and noticed that you can draw lines between points on the globe (think receiver location to transmitter location). The resultant line can then be analyzed for distance, bearing, etc. Useful data for DXers.
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Thanks for the tip, kilokat7. Google Earth works great. So Zadar is approximately 4950 miles at 47° I see that Syria and Egypt are 'only' about another 1000 miles further.
 
stormy01 said:
kilokat7 said:
I've been messing around with Google Earth (the program, not Google Maps) and noticed that you can draw lines between points on the globe (think receiver location to transmitter location). The resultant line can then be analyzed for distance, bearing, etc. Useful data for DXers.
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Thanks for the tip, kilokat7. Google Earth works great. So Zadar is approximately 4950 miles at 47° I see that Syria and Egypt are 'only' about another 1000 miles further.
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I don't know about you guys, but my TA reception isn't as good tonight although I am getting the het on 837.
 
radioman148 said:
stormy01 said:
kilokat7 said:
I've been messing around with Google Earth (the program, not Google Maps) and noticed that you can draw lines between points on the globe (think receiver location to transmitter location). The resultant line can then be analyzed for distance, bearing, etc. Useful data for DXers.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the tip, kilokat7. Google Earth works great. So Zadar is approximately 4950 miles at 47° I see that Syria and Egypt are 'only' about another 1000 miles further.
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I don't know about you guys, but my TA reception isn't as good tonight although I am getting the het on 837.
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1215 was giving me some het, but 855 was quiter than the previous night. Will try again this evening!

~BG
 
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