Logs 4 - 5 MAY 2005 Report from Mark Connelly - Times / dates = UTC / 2005
[Connelly*R-MA] = Rockport, MA, USA (GC= 70.622 W / 42.667 N) (Granite Pier) Receiver: Drake R8A Antennas (cardioid array on roof of car): Vertical: 3 m whip to 81:1 transformer to DX Engineering RPA-1 amplifier; Broadband loop in vertical plane: square, 2 m per side, to 1:1 transformer to W7IUV amplifier, peak 80/260°, null 170/350° Accessories: DXP-6 and Superphaser-2 phasing units Homepage = "http://hometown.aol.com/MarkWA1ION/weblink.htm" RF circuit page = "http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/index.html" e-mail = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ====================================================== *** TRANSATLANTIC DX *** 603 | FRANCE | France Info, Lyon-Tramoyes, MAY 5 0024 - // 855 with Spanish talk by woman; poor to fair. [Connelly*R-MA] 612 | MOROCCO | RTM A, Sebaa-Aioun, MAY 5 0015 - // 207 with male Arabic vocal, strings, and back-up group; to good peak. [Connelly*R-MA] 621 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | RNE R.1 synchros, Santa Cruz de Tenerife et al., MAY 5 0028 - // 855 with Spanish teletalk; way over other station. [Connelly*R-MA] 684 | SPAIN | RNE R.1, Sevilla, MAY 5 0036 - // 855 with Spanish newstalk; very good with WRKO phased. [Connelly*R-MA] 693 | AZORES | Centro Regional da RDP, Terceira, MAY 5 0007 - // 837 with man & woman in Portuguese; at low audio level on fat carrier. [Connelly*R-MA] 711.06 | WESTERN SAHARA | RTM, Laayoune, MAY 4 2300 - Arabic talk by man; through CHTN-720 slop. [Connelly*R-MA] 774 | SPAIN | RNE R.1 synchros, MAY 5 0038 - man & woman in Spanish; loud. [Connelly*R-MA] 783 | MAURITANIA | R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott, MAY 5 0004 - rustic North African group vocal with drums and blues guitar, then woman in Arabic; LOUD! + MAY 5 0041 - bluesy vocal & guitar plucking; strongest TA - bombing in at S9+25 dB! [Connelly*R-MA] 801 | SPAIN | RNE R.1 synchros, MAY 5 0043 - // 774 with woman in Spanish; in PJB-800 slop. [Connelly*R-MA] 819 | MOROCCO | RTM, Rabat, MAY 5 0028 - // stronger 612 with flute music, talk by woman; at low audio level on good-strength carrier. [Connelly*R-MA] 837 | AZORES | Centro Regional da RDP, Pico da Barrosa, MAY 5 0001 - Portuguese news; mixed with others. [Connelly*R-MA] 855 | SPAIN | RNE R.1 synchros, MAY 5 0024 - // 603 with woman in Spanish; fair. [Connelly*R-MA] 864 | FRANCE | France Bleu, Villebon-sur-Yvette, MAY 5 0054 - romantic male-female duet vocal; fair. [Connelly*R-MA] 873 | SPAIN | SER synchros, MAY 5 0055 - // 1116 with phone interview; fair. [Connelly*R-MA] 890.98 | ALGERIA | Chaine 1, Algiers, MAY 5 0056 - man yelling in Arabic; huge. [Connelly*R-MA] 945 | FRANCE | France Info, Toulouse, MAY 5 0059 - // 1377 with tropical music; fair to good. [Connelly*R-MA] 981 | ALGERIA | RTVA Chaine 2, Algiers, MAY 4 2305 - Arabic vocal; over unID talker; to fair peak with WCAP phased. [Connelly*R-MA] 1008 | CANARY ISLANDS | Punto Radio, Las Palmas, MAY 5 0111 - non-SER Spanish talk; atop Holland and Spain. [Connelly*R-MA] 1008 | NETHERLANDS | R. 10 Gold, Flevoland, MAY 5 0110 - "The Beat Goes On" by Sonny & Cher; briefly atop Canary Islands & Spain. [Connelly*R-MA] 1017 | SPAIN | RNE R.5 synchros, MAY 5 0112 - Spanish teletalk; to fair peak. [Connelly*R-MA] 1044 | MOROCCO | Sebaa-Aioun, MAY 4 2308 - rustic Berber style music; noted in tight phase null of WBZ IBOC glop that was spread all the way from 1034 to 1046. Nulling the WBZ crud didn't allow me to put full null on WEPN-1050 at about a 50° bearing difference. A bit of CJMS-1040 chatter after knocking out 1050 was all I ever had to worry about pre-IBOC. [Connelly*R-MA] 1044 | SPAIN | SER synchros, MAY 5 0122 - // 1116 with Spanish teletalk; g ood. [Connelly*R-MA] 1071 | SPAIN | Euskadi Irratia, Bilbao, MAY 5 0136 - // 1197 with Spanish talk by woman; through bad CBA slop. [Connelly*R-MA] 1089 | UNITED KINGDOM | TalkSport synchros, MAY 5 0128 - English teletalk; poor to fair. [Connelly*R-MA] 1098 | SPAIN | RNE R.5 synchros, MAY 5 0129 - // 774 with echoey Spanish talk; loud. [Connelly*R-MA] 1116 | SPAIN | SER synchros, MAY 5 0055 - // 873 with Spanish teletalk/interview; fair. [Connelly*R-MA] 1125 | SPAIN | RNE R.5 synchros, MAY 4 2312 - Spanish talk; barely over others. [Connelly*R-MA] 1134 | CROATIA | Glas Hrvatske, Zadar, MAY 4 2250 - Slavic talk by man & woman; fair. [Connelly*R-MA] 1143 | SPAIN | COPE synchros, MAY 4 2349 - // 1224 with Spanish talk, teletalk; fair to good. [Connelly*R-MA] 1152 | SPAIN | RNE R.5 synchros, MAY 4 2350 - // 1503 with folk Spanish duet with acoustic guitar; good. [Connelly*R-MA] 1179 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | SER synchros, MAY 5 0134 - // 1116 with light music; excellent. [Connelly*R-MA] 1196.7 | unID | MAY 4 2355 - Angola the probable off-channel station here, creating het against Spain/others-1197. [Connelly*R-MA] 1197 | SPAIN | Euskadi Irratia, Vitoria, MAY 5 0136 - // 1071 with woman in Spanish; good. [Connelly*R-MA] 1206 | FRANCE | France Info, Bordeaux, MAY 4 2247 - French discussion, interview; fading up. [Connelly*R-MA] 1224 | SPAIN | COPE synchros, MAY 4 2349 - // 1143 with Spanish teletalk; poor. [Connelly*R-MA] 1287 | SPAIN | SER synchros, MAY 5 0138 - // 1116 with jazz, talk by woman; poor. [Connelly*R-MA] 1296 | SPAIN | COPE, Valencia, MAY 5 0140 - Spanish interview & teletalk; good. [Connelly*R-MA] 1359 | SPAIN | RNE, Arganda del Rey, MAY 5 0143 - // 1098 with woman in Spanish; loud. [Connelly*R-MA] 1377 | FRANCE | France Info, Lille, MAY 5 0059 - // 945 with tropical music; to fair peak through WMYF-1380 slop. [Connelly*R-MA] 1422 | GERMANY | Deutschlandfunk, Heusweiler, MAY 5 0144 - classical music; excellent. [Connelly*R-MA] 1431 | DJIBOUTI | R. Sawa, Arta, MAY 5 0145 - Arabic vocal, talk by man & woman; to good peak. [Connelly*R-MA] 1503 | SPAIN | RNE R.5 synchros, MAY 4 2350 - // 1152 with Spanish folk vocal & guitar; good. [Connelly*R-MA] 1521 | SAUDI ARABIA | BSKSA, Duba, MAY 4 2232 - // 9555 & 9870 with man in Arabic; fair to good, more than an hour before sunset. [Connelly*R-MA] *** PAN-AMERICAN DX *** 580 | VENEZUELA | YVMJ, Maracaibo, MAY 5 0020 - Venezuelan adverts; over HIAF/WKAQ/WTAG. [Connelly*R-MA] 640 | GUADELOUPE | R. Guadeloupe, Pointe-a-Pitre, MAY 5 0127 - man in French; over CBN/WNNZ/YVQO. [Connelly*R-MA] 670 | CUBA | R. Rebelde, CMQ, Arroyo Arenas, MAY 5 0031 - // 5025 with Cuban political speech; over Venezuela. [Connelly*R-MA] 680 | PUERTO RICO | WAPA, San Juan, MAY 5 0034 - Puerto Rican news; good with WRKO phased. [Connelly*R-MA] 750 | VENEZUELA | RCR, YVKS, Caracas, MAY 5 0037 - RCR ID, Spanish talk; dominant over CBGY. [Connelly*R-MA] 760 | COLOMBIA | RCN, HJAJ, Barranquilla, MAY 5 0107 - // 1000 with RCN Spanish talk; dominant over Brazil, Venezuela, others. [Connelly*R-MA] 780 | VENEZUELA | R. Coro, YVMN, Coro, MAY 5 0042 - Coro mention; slightly over jumble of CFDR & others, badly slopped by huge signal of adjacent Mauritania-783. [Connelly*R-MA] 800 | NETHERLANDS ANTILLES | Trans-World Radio, PJB, Bonaire, MAY 5 0045 - piano music, then ID in Spanish as "Radio Transmundial"; dominant over domestics. [Connelly*R-MA] 820 | ST. KITTS & NEVIS | Trinity Broadcast Network / R. Paradise, Charlestown, MAY 5 0048 - talk mixing apocalyptic religion and politics: scriptural references and mentions of the nuclear arsenals being built in Iran and North Korea; way over WNYC. [Connelly*R-MA] 860 | CUBA, CMBL, Arroyo Arenas, MAY 5 0103 - "RR" code beeps in the midst of a huge pile-up of unintelligible Latin American signals. [Connelly*R-MA] 910 | VENEZUELA | YVRQ, RQ-910, Caracas, MAY 5 0057 - "RQ" (erray-coo) ID's; loud, way over WABI. [Connelly*R-MA] 1000 | BRAZIL | R. Record, ZYK522, Sao Paulo, MAY 5 0108 - fast Portuguese talk came up over the Colombian. [Connelly*R-MA] 1000 | COLOMBIA | RCN, HJAQ, Cartagena, MAY 5 0107 - // 760 with man in Spanish; over jumble. [Connelly*R-MA] 1020 | CUBA | R. Reloj, MAY 5 0116 - "RR" beeps getting through YVRS, YVMX, and ZP14. [Connelly*R-MA] 1020 | VENEZUELA | R. Calendario, YVMX, Maracaibo, MAY 5 0120 - Radio Calendario ID momentarily atop the pile. [Connelly*R-MA] 1020 | VENEZUELA | Mundial Margarita, YVRS, La Asuncion, MAY 5 0115 - Mundial Margarita ID; rising up over ZP14, YVMX, and Cuba for a while. [Connelly*R-MA] 1020.06 | PARAGUAY | R. Nanduti, ZP14, Asuncion, MAY 5 0114 - The log of the evening! A bit of Andean style music, then reverberated Spanish talk (that had an accent making it sound a bit like Portuguese), two Nanduti mentions; briefly atop the pile with a low growl from the slight frequency offset. The last time I heard Paraguay from MA was on 645 back in the '70s. [Connelly*R-MA] 1080 | VENEZUELA | YVQJ, R. Barcelona, Barcelona, MAY 5 0125 - Radio Barcelona ID, folk style vocal; mixed with WTIC. [Connelly*R-MA] 1090 | VENEZUELA | Union R., YVSZ, Caracas, MAY 5 0128 - Union Radio mention, news in Spanish; under WBAL. [Connelly*R-MA] 1100 | BRAZIL | R. Globo, ZYK694, Sao Paulo, MAY 5 0130 - reverberated sports-related Portuguese talk; good with WTAM phased. [Connelly*R-MA] 1110 | VENEZUELA | R. Carupano, YVQT, Carupano, MAY 5 0131 - Venezuela & Carupano mentions, then Spanish version of "Alone Again Naturally"; dominant. [Connelly*R-MA] 1130 | BRAZIL | MAY 4 2320 - Belem or Rio de Janeiro here with Portuguese talk, country-influenced vocal, "cultura" mention; in WBBR null. [Connelly*R-MA] 1200 | unID | MAY 5 0139 - Venezuela suspected as the Spanish talker over WKOX. [Connelly*R-MA] ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. 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