Hello to all of you !
Repport from:
Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu
4190 Edward Higgins
H8Y 3M9
Pierrefonds / Montreal's West Island, Quebec, Canada
1-514-685-0714
Equipment:
Sanyo MCD-S830 portable with his internal ferrite bar antenna
The past night was quite awesome, as far as Latin American MW DX is concerned,
for this time of the year. It's the FIRST time in July when I surely got TWO
SOUTH AMERICANS ON MEDIUMWAVE !!!
But, it was different from the other openings of June and early July which I
reported to HCDX and other lists in Spanish. It was different in that Radio
Coro never really reached a decent strenght and Caicos-530 was pretty much
useless. But, it's the first time in July when I get anything out of
Barranquilla, Colombia on 760. The other times, Radio Coro 780 kHz would have
been the only South American audible. So, yes, it was different, but still
pretty outstanding considering the time of the year !
Into the logs:
760 COLOMBIA,HJAJ, RCN Cadena Basíca, Barranquilla, dpt. Atlantico JUL 14
0346 - Assumed this with a young woman doing an apparently news report in
Spanish, mixing with somewhat stronger remains of nulled WJR. Very difficult to
read, although the signal was quite strong, but WJR was booming in and was
difficult to null out. SIO 312-1. First time in July for me ! My goal is to get
this Colombian, the next summer in mid-june ! Sure, it is possible ! HJAJ-760
has always been the most consistent Colombian and one of the most consistent
South Americans in Montreal. (Chiochiu-QC)
780 VENEZUELA,YVNM, Radio Coro, estado Falcón JUL 14 0403 - Part of their
ToH ID sneaked through local splatter from next-to-adjacent instrumental liner
on CJAD-800 with ...Radio Coro, patrimonio de la comunidad SIO 131 and
improved very quickly to a better level (SIO 322) with YV pasaje mx at 0405,
but fading out quickly afterwards, slight QRM from WBBM which wasn't too easy
too null out, although it wasn't a major problem. After 0406, did never
come-back to a readable level. (Chiochiu-QC)
890 CUBA,CMDZ, Radio Progreso, Chambas JUL 14 0327 - very good with
stations spots and promo for the upcoming Saturday Ritmos En Concierto
program with a cha-cha-cha cantante (singer) ending in ...por FM estereo o
por onda media followed by theme jingle, ID and time-check. After the
time-check, inunded by strong overspills from a very strong WCBS-880. +JUL 14
0413 - Nocturno - with an astonishing Spanish soft-rock tune, probably Mana (a
great Mexican rock band). Very good reception during the tune and faded down to
a very poor level at the end of it !!! So, I got it perfectly on tape !!! +JUL
14 0427 - Male DJ presenting music, including some old stuff ...cortesía de
Nocturno, en sus grandes exitos de los años '40 I'd like to remind you
that Nocturno is a prerecorded program. The announcements are simple
information regarding the tunes played and there is no information regarding
the weather or anything else. Radio Progreso is having many prerecorded
programs. General SINPO 43322. (Chiochiu-QC)
Other than the time spent at the radio dials the past evening, I also listened
to something else really great. I just received from a very friendly guy,
unscoped airchecks of a 100% techno-house music french station, Maxximum, the
one which replaced Aventure FM which is way much better and my favorite
all-times radio station. Still, it was awesome to hear great house tracks I
didn't even know, that weren't necesarily populars, since Maxximum had a lot of
new realeses. It's a great present from my 19th birthday I hope to be able
to relisten to something out of Aventure FM. Maybe, since it's a special
station, being owned by the French Army, that some DXers will be willing to
discover it. Maybe Glenn could talk about it on the World of Radio programs.
Otherwise, another big thanks to José Elias Diaz Gomez in Venezuela for having
helped me with music I was looking for.
As far as the languages issue is concerned, I plan to alternate ven between
English and Spanish repports. The reason is that I don't want to have problems
being understood by the friendly Venezuelan and Cuban guy I'm in touch with.
That being said, I plan to post in the future more in English. I received a
complaining joke from 2 Western Canadian DXers regarding this issue. but, most
importantlly of all, I'd like to rejoin the National Radio Club. The NRC
membership means no more regular Spanish repports, only now and them when I get
the time to write two separate ones. I wonder where should I sent the money in
order to become an NRCer. Also, something odd is that my Spanish gets better
and better to the detriment of my English, since I seldom watch any English TV.
But, as far as the NRC is concerned, it will enable me to get up with the
current DX scene and being able to see the astnonishing Marc Connelly logs,
since he don't seem to post his catches to Hard-Core-DX anymore. Also,