Greetings To All, An interesting evening , propagation wise , to say the least. The night began as usual with TA's in and out along with the ongoing heavy static and noise levels as experienced during the past number of days. The exception to this was between 1:30 and 3:00 UT/14 when a major TA propagation effect began to take over. During this time on the split frequencies, signals from abroad were wall to wall with many stations from Africa, Europe and Asia at local sounding readability levels. Some of the different TA's were so strong they were over top of usual resident DX stations, home to that particular frequency heard here nightly In the hour and a half of this exceptional propagation from the rest of the world , minimal domestic DX stations from other parts of North America were rarely heard with propagation conditions so strong from a more easterly direction. Definitely an evening to remember . 1 new station was logged by myself and 2 new stations and 1 new country for Dianne’s logbook The SRF-M37V and SRF-39FP was used with the lead in copper wire from an outside dipole antenna wrapped around the small radios and near the small ferrite rod in the ultralights . TA’s signals were so strong they even overrode the noise and static levels at times 549 khz - ALGERIA – Alger Chaine 1 , 2:05 UT /14 woman reading in Arabic 558 khz - SPAIN - R. Nacional 5 2:19 UT/14 man and woman in Spanish 864 khz - ARMENIA – Radio Liberty Relay Gavar 2:20 UT /14 man in Turkmen 882 khz - ENGLAND – BBC Wales 2:28 UT/14 reading mottos sent in fr. Listeners 900 khz – SAUDI ARABIA – Qurayyat (presumed) 2:04 UT/14 Arabic chants 999 khz – SPAIN – COPE Madrid 2:06 UT/14 woman talk Spanish 999 khz – MOLDOVA – R. Pridnestrovye, Maiac 3:00 UT/14 Russian talk, ID 1017 khz – GERMANY – SWR Wolfsheim 2:08 UT/14 German talk by man 1044 khz - SPAIN – SER San Sebastian 1:05 UT/14 Spanish talk 1089 khz - ENGLAND – Talksport Radio 0:23 UT/14 Program promos // 1053 1170 khz – UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - R. Sawa 22:47 UT /13 Arabic music/ID 1251 khz - LIBYA – Voice of Africa,Tripoli 21:44 UT/13 man in Arabic (Continued to be strongest signal of them all) 1260 khz – SPAIN – SER Murcia 2:23 UT/14 Spanish talk man and woman 1269 khz – GERMANY – Deutschlandfunk, Neumunster 2:10 UT/14 Classical music, German talk //1422 khz 1341 khz – N. IRELAND – BBC R. Ulster 1:16 UT/14 talk on mine rescue 1341 khz - HUNGARY - Katolikas Radio 2:40 UT, religious music (Signal strong over top BBC Ulster) 1377 khz - FRANCE – France Info, Lille 1:33 UT/14 french talk (sounded like a local) 1386 khz - SPAIN – Euskadi Irratia Bilbao 1:35 UT /14 talk in Basque ( station changed to this frequency recently from 1071 khz ) *** NEW STATION on ULR *** (AW)(DF) 1413 khz - SPAIN – Radio Nacional 5 1:09 UT/14 Spanish talk by man 1422 khz - GERMANY – Deutschlandfunk, Heusweiler 1:20 UT/14 Classical music, German *** NEW COUNTRY & STATION on ULR *** (DF) 1431 khz - DJIBOUTI – R. Sawa Arta 1:02 UT/14 Pop music , ID, Arabic talk 1440 khz - SAUDI ARABIA – General Service Dammam (presumed) 1:32 UT /14 Arabic talk 1449 khz - LIBYA – Voice of Great Homeland Misurata 1:24 UT/14 Arabic talk & music 1467 khz - FRANCE – TransWorld Radio Roumoules 22:05 UT/13 religious program in English 1485 khz - SPAIN – SER Santander 1:14 UT/14 Spanish talk by woman 1494 khz - FRANCE – France Info, 1:03 UT /14, music and French talk 1503 khz - IRAN – IRIB1 Bushehr (presumed) 1:09 UT /14 persian talk, chant 1521 khz - SAUDI ARABIA – BSKSA Duba 1:11 UT/14 slow Arabic talk by man 1557 khz - FRANCE – France Info Nice 23:51 UT/13 french talk 1575 khz - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – R. Farda, Al Dhabiya 1:12 UT/14 Good Dx to All Allen Willie & Dianne Froude St. John's, Newfoundland 47:37N 52:45W
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