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[MarioMania]

Tincap...I'm ready when your make me a list

 

[ddsparxx]

At 10:25 PM EST I heard only a het tone on 1215 from UK, but I heard a very weak audio on 171 in Morocco like I did a couple of months ago.

 

[Tincap]

Tincap...I'm ready when your make me a list

Mario give these a try. Some of your local/semi-locals will make some of these impossible to catch. Some of the folks here have picked up trans-Pacific DX, usually posting it, as it occurs, and you may want to pop into NorthWest DXing, or so, to see which frequencies offer up the most active visitors to your shores.

Here's some bigger transmitters, close to the coast, which may be worth a try (other folks from the West may jump in here and mention if these signals have been heard your way).

549kHz China 1200kW 2055-1705UTC ~ CNR5 programming, aimed at Taiwan
" Saudi 2000kW 24hrs ~ Not on the coast, but worth a try!

558kHz South Korea 250kW 24hrs ~ KBS-2, This must be a visitor to the West coast

567kHz Japan 100kW 24hrs ~ NHK-1
" South Korea 100kW 24hrs ~ KBS-1

576kHz Australia 50kW 24hrs ~ABC (2RN Sydney), since you're looking for Australia, this could be a long shot

585kHz China 200kW 2255-1650UTC ~ CSEBC (中国东南广播公司), located on coast at Fujian
" Pakistan 1000kW 0045-0605, 0800-1900UTC ~ Radio Pakistan
" Russia 1200kW 1100-1500UTC ~ VoR, in Chinese, small window, but you never know
" Saudi 1200kW 24hrs ~ Another biggy from amongst the dunes

594kHz Japan 300kW 24hrs ~ NHK-1
" Saudi 2000kW 0300-1500UTC

603kHz China 600kW 2300-0100, 0400-0600, 1100-1700UTC ~ CRI, located on Hainan
" South Korea 500kW 2000-1800UTC ~ KBS-2, Surely, this has been heard on West coast?

612kHz Taiwan 1000kW 1000-1700, 2200-2400UTC ~ RTI/CBS, also carries RFI

621kHz North Korea 500kW 2100-1600UTC ~ VoK/PBS, in Japanese and Korean

630kHz Australia 50kW 24hrs ~ ABC, don't know if heard in North America, located on North East coast of Australia
" Vietnam 200kW 2200-1700UTC ~ VoV1, on a good day anything is possible

648kHz Russia 1000kW 1000-2200UTC ~ VoR/RFA
" Saudi 2000kW 24hrs ~ Another blow torch

657kHz North Korea 1500kW 2100-2030 ~ PBS, I'm surprised you guys don't hear this through your tea kettles out West

666kHz China 600kW 2225-1700 (off air Weds 0400-0953) ~ Right on the coast in Fujian
" Japan 100kW 24hrs ~ NHK-1

675kHz Vietnam 500kW 2145-1700UTC ~

I'll wrap it up here, for the time being. This should keep you busy, Mario! I'll post more in the near future.

~BG

 

[kilokat7]

Nice list Tincap

Here are two more that might be useful to Mario and others:

702 Australia
738 Tahiti (and also Australia)

Mario - look for these and the others around your local sunrise (but it won't hurt to look before sunrise either). You will have two things going for you during this time: grayline enhancement (sunrise skip) and the fact that stations to your east will be weakening and dropping off thereby causing less of a problem when trying to hear the DX from across the ocean. If you have a single sideband equipped receiver then first tune in LSB or USB mode slightly off the target station's frequency and see if you hear any "hets" or tones/whistles from the target station's carrier signal. If you detect a strong het, then there's the possibility you will hear some audio too when you tune back in AM mode. If you don't detect any hets then you're not going to hear any audio - period, so it's always good to check for these "hets" first if you're able to. If you don't have a SSB capable receiver then it will take a little more patience but it's certainly possible as others on this board from the west coast have proved. If you're close to the coastline then I'd take the radio to the beach during sunrise and go for it, and also be on the lookout for Hawaii while you're at it.

Why 702 & 738? These two have been producing strong hets and weak audio on occasion here at sunrise and I would think you might have a fair shot of catching one of them depending on your locals.

 

[Tincap]

At 10:25 PM EST I heard only a het tone on 1215 from UK, but I heard a very weak audio on 171 in Morocco like I did a couple of months ago.

My LW was pretty quiet last evening. Are you bare footing it? One thing I've found, while trying a long wire for LW, was that I was pulling in (faintly audible) SW signals, so I avoid the long wire, except for SW itself. Finding an on-line parallel certainly takes out a lot of the guess work and gives you that added surety of bagging your catch!

BTW, kilokat7 has loaded up a Youtube vid of his 171 catch, from last year sometime. Nice stuff, kilokat, which my catches sounded that good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgki1b3Z7UA

~BG

 

[kilokat7]

LW conditions last night were almost as good as that evening last year shown in my LW videos. The only problem with last night's reception was noise and local RFI, but I noticed signal levels were pretty good around midnight on most channels. Iceland on 189 was missing though and 225 Poland which I rarely ever get anyway.

 

[Tincap]

Nice list Tincap

Here are two more that might be useful to Mario and others:

702 Australia
738 Tahiti (and also Australia)

Mario - look for these and the others around your local sunrise (but it won't hurt to look before sunrise either). You will have two things going for you during this time: grayline enhancement (sunrise skip) and the fact that stations to your east will be weakening and dropping off thereby causing less of a problem when trying to hear the DX from across the ocean. If you have a single sideband equipped receiver then first tune in LSB or USB mode slightly off the target station's frequency and see if you hear any "hets" or tones/whistles from the target station's carrier signal. If you detect a strong het, then there's the possibility you will hear some audio too when you tune back in AM mode. If you don't detect any hets then you're not going to hear any audio - period, so it's always good to check for these "hets" first if you're able to. If you don't have a SSB capable receiver then it will take a little more patience but it's certainly possible as others on this board from the west coast have proved. If you're close to the coastline then I'd take the radio to the beach during sunrise and go for it, and also be on the lookout for Hawaii while you're at it.

Why 702 & 738? These two have been producing strong hets and weak audio on occasion here at sunrise and I would think you might have a fair shot of catching one of them depending on your locals.

You're welcome, kilokat! 702 & 738, eh? I do see that China has 200kW stations on those frequencies as well, but that's the excitement of our hobby...you may think your tugging on one station when all of a sudden something completely unexpected comes in. I recall while trying to pull in Germany's 100kW MDR on 783kHz, all of a sudden strong push of Arab music came through...I nearly jumped out of my chair, as I was able to ID that one as Syria's 300kW operation on the Med coast.

~BG

 

[Tincap]

LW conditions last night were almost as good as that evening last year shown in my LW videos. The only problem with last night's reception was noise and local RFI, but I noticed signal levels were pretty good around midnight on most channels. Iceland on 189 was missing though and 225 Poland which I rarely ever get anyway.

I wasn't able to spend much time tuning around, but a semi-regular for me has been France Inter on 162. She was pretty quite. I actually found my self listening in to the ball game on KMOX, while monitoring 1116. Some strong signals were being thrown around by our AMs last night, causing trouble for those of us, who like to listen for the stuff between them. 8)

~BG

 

[MarioMania]

738 Tahiti (and also Australia)

That will not be possible cuz of KCBS 740..

What is the bast times to try it?? Early Morning/Evenings?

 

[kilokat7]

738 Tahiti (and also Australia)

That will not be possible cuz of KCBS 740..

What is the bast times to try it?? Early Morning/Evenings?

See reply #123

 

[MarioMania]

I didn't read that..I try to get up, I'm not a morning person

Any thing good on 800 kHz though 1700 kHz on the Asian Shore??

 

[ddsparxx]

My LW was pretty quiet last evening. Are you bare footing it? One thing I've found, while trying a long wire for LW, was that I was pulling in (faintly audible) SW signals, so I avoid the long wire, except for SW itself. Finding an on-line parallel certainly takes out a lot of the guess work and gives you that added surety of bagging your catch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgki1b3Z7UA

~BG

I was using an antenna called AOR LA 390, looks like an undersized Wellbrook 1530, it receives well on LW as well as MW and HF. I can't have a longwire outdoors so I paid more for smaller size, performance and indoor apartment use. Works well with my R75.

 

[cyberdad]

Tincap....

I'll try your list also during my trip this week. Apologies for the duplicate post last night. I was having browser problems when trying to edit....but mostly it was operator error.

In other words, my bad! ;D

 

[Tincap]

I didn't read that..I try to get up, I'm not a morning person

Any thing good on 800 kHz though 1700 kHz on the Asian Shore??

Mario, in your neck of the woods, you'll have to be a very early morning person, to catch anything from Asia!

More coming, but busy, busy, busy...

~BG

 

[Tincap]

Tincap....

I'll try your list also during my trip this week. Apologies for the duplicate post last night. I was having browser problems when trying to edit....but mostly it was operator error.

In other words, my bad! ;D

No worries, Cyber. BTW, CFGO " The Team" 1200 may give you a hard time, trying to bag Absolute Radio on 1215, while in Ottawa, but Absolute is being heard fairly well, from my location south of town tonight.

~BG

 

[asugeorge1]

Tincap....

I'll try your list also during my trip this week. Apologies for the duplicate post last night. I was having browser problems when trying to edit....but mostly it was operator error.

In other words, my bad! ;D

No worries, Cyber. BTW, CFGO " The Team" 1200 may give you a hard time, trying to bag Absolute Radio on 1215, while in Ottawa, but Absolute is being heard fairly well, from my location south of town tonight.

~BG

Do you think there's any chance of picking up some of these Transatlantic stations west of the Rockies? Seems like a mighty feat considering how hard it already is to pick up these stations on the Atlantic side, but I'm wondering if anyone has picked up European / African stations along the west coast.

 

[Tincap]

Tincap....

I'll try your list also during my trip this week. Apologies for the duplicate post last night. I was having browser problems when trying to edit....but mostly it was operator error.

In other words, my bad! ;D

No worries, Cyber. BTW, CFGO " The Team" 1200 may give you a hard time, trying to bag Absolute Radio on 1215, while in Ottawa, but Absolute is being heard fairly well, from my location south of town tonight.

~BG

Do you think there's any chance of picking up some of these Transatlantic stations west of the Rockies? Seems like a mighty feat considering how hard it already is to pick up these stations on the Atlantic side, but I'm wondering if anyone has picked up European / African stations along the west coast.

It's been done! Absolute Radio and (I believe) Radio Farda have been heard on the West coast. I would imagine that these would perhaps be coming over the pole, deep into DX season. Right now, the chance (especially for Farda or Saudi) is low.

~BG

 

[cyberdad]

Just turned on the radio. Very long day today and an early wake-up call tomorrow (I'm going to Boston). Upshot is I won't have a lot of time tonight. That said....

Splatter from CFGO is there, but not severe. I'm in a second floor room away from the elevator and other electrical equipment, but across the hall from the Pepsi machine and a snack vending machine. So there's more noise here than I'd hoped for, but still not real bad.

I am hearing something on 1215, but to this point it's unidentifiable (definitely not CFGO). I have an even longer day tomorrow (Tues), so it may be a couple of days before I post, but I'll definitely report on how the evening unfolds.

 

[Tincap]

Some more of the bigger Pacific/Asians to go after. What I'll do once I've laid down this list, in spits and spurts, is to compile them into one post for folks to reference.

684kHz China 600kW 2300-0100, 1030-1130, 1200-1700UC ~RCI & RFI in French, English, Vietnamese and Cambodian
" China 1200kW 2155-1605UTC ~ CNR-6, aimed at Taiwan
" North Korea 250kW 2100-1800UTC

693kHz Bangladesh 1000kW 0030-0610, 0830-1730UTC
" Japan 300kW 2030-1500UTC ~ NHK-2

702kHz Australia 50kW 24hrs ~ ABC/2BL Sydney for those looking!
" Oman 800kW 1500-2100UTC ~ BBC Arabic Service (given transmitting times, highly unlikely catch...)
" Turkey 600kW 0400-0800UTC ~ TRT-1

711kHz South Korea 500kW 24hrs ~ KBS-1 (directional, but I'm not sure to where)
" Myanmar (Burma) 400kW 2300-0130, 0730-1000, 1130-1530UTC
" Taiwan 250kW 24hrs
" Vietnam 500kW 2145-1700UTC ~ VoV-1

720kHz North Korea 500kW 2000-1800UTC

747kHz Japan 500kW 2030-1500UTC ~ NHK-2
" South Korea 100kW 24hrs ~ KBS-1
" Taiwan 250kW 2200-2400UTC ~ RFI (tiny DX window)

756kHz South Korea 100kW 24hrs ~ KBS-1

765kHz China 600kW 2055-1705UTC ~ CNR-5, aimed at Taiwan
" Iran 600-1000kW 1830-0330UTC ~ VOIRI, on coast of Arabian Sea
" Turkey 600kW 0400-0800UTC ~ TRT-1, close to Med coast

774kW Australia 50kW 24hrs ~ ABC/3LO Melbourne, another Australian looooong shot
" Japan 500kW 2030-1500UTC ~ NHK-2

783kHz China 600kW 2223-1700UTC ~ Voice of the Strait, Chinese (Amoy)
" Vietnam 500kW 2145-1700UTC ~ VoV-2

That's it for now.

More later!

~BG

 

[Tincap]

Just turned on the radio. Very long day today and an early wake-up call tomorrow (I'm going to Boston). Upshot is I won't have a lot of time tonight. That said....

Splatter from CFGO is there, but not severe. I'm in a second floor room away from the elevator and other electrical equipment, but across the hall from the Pepsi machine and a snack vending machine. So there's more noise here than I'd hoped for, but still not real bad.

I am hearing something on 1215, but to this point it's unidentifiable (definitely not CFGO). I have an even longer day tomorrow (Tues), so it may be a couple of days before I post, but I'll definitely report on how the evening unfolds.

I did get Absolute earlier this evening, but like you I've had a pretty long day. I've just posted some more Asian DX opportunities, I'm currently chowing down on a roast beef and (home made) salsa on a warm ciabatta, then...hitting the showers!

Ciao for now!

~BG