.
590 KXSP Omaha, NE – ENOX2
600 WMT Cedar Rapids, IA – ENOX2
630 KHOW Denver, CO – ENOX2
640 KGVW Belgrade, MT – ENOX2
670 +KLTT Commerce City, CO – ENOX2 (11.10.07)
750 KERR Polson, MT – ENOX2
760 KKZN Thornton, CO – ENOX2
770 XEACH Monterrey – ENOX2
790 XEGAJ Guadalajara – ENOX2
810 WGY Schenectady, NY – ENOX2
870 +WINU Shelbyville, IL – ENOX2 (13.10.07)
920 XECQ Culiacan – ENOX2
1080 +KYMN Northfield, MN – ENOX2 (15.10.07)
1240 KLYQ Hamilton, MT – ENOX2
1340 WROD Daytona Beach, FL – ENOX2
1340 KVBR Brainerd, MN – ENOX2
1340 KROC Rochester, MN – ENOX2
1400 KODI Cody, WY – ENOX2
1410 CKSL London, ON – ENOX2
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Sunday, March 09, 2008
LEM262: 1-8.3 (ARK)
Sunday 2.3
Conditions are as poor as expected due to effects from past coronal hole. This morning 04-05.30 short opening towards midwest. 1200 KFNW only catch to mention. KBRW and KOMO occasionally with extremely weak signals and deep fading during morning and afternoon. Nothing from AK, HI or the Pacific.
Monday 3.3
Similar poor conditions as yesterday. However, some most common Japanese stations around 15 UT.
Tuesday 4.3
Another day with pretty weak conditions. They started towards midwest at 02 UT and lasted until 06 UT. Only common dominants. Nothing during midday and early afternoon. 13-14 UT some WA and AK. 15-16.30 UT lots of AK stations (830 KSDP, 930 KNSA) plus some Hawaiians. However, the best AK catches stayed away, blah.
Wednesday 5.3
Once again, conditions pattern continued almost similar. Lots of midwest and west coast stations from 02 UT, weakening at 0630 and fading out totally by 0730 UT. One-hour conditions to west coast at 0930. AK and HI twice during afternoon in half hour portions. 4QD Emerald at 16 UT.Previous night was freezing cold (-29°), first day with bright sunshine during this expedition.Little birds in trees announced the joy of increasing daylight after dark winter! Crows have returned and were "singing" too. When writing this report in the evening, worrying sights of distant northern lights around northern sky...
Thursday 6.3
West coast and midwest stations from 03 UTC plus east coast from 06-08 UT. 08- UT strong conditions to west coast and midwest, even all graveyard channels were well open (1240 KQEN, 1400 KWNA). However, only dominants and nothing from east coast. All faded out by 1130 UT.
Some most common Hawaiians in the afternoon, 1330- UT several Japanese with strong signals. Unidentified 1620-aussie at 16- UT.
Friday 7.3
02 UT once again midwest and west coast stations. 0430 UT also big lakes area. All faded out by 0730 UT. 14- most common Alaskan stations, 15 UT Japanese stations. -32° at night.
Saturday 8.3
Forecasts indicated high speed stream to arrive from the visible coronal hole and I was hoping it would cause special conditions. However, no such one. Its effects could be heard at 08 UT, when almost all stations disappeared accompanied with increased hum. 09 UT signals strengthened with common midwest, west coast and AK stations.
Anyway, during night conditions started at 00 UT with X band stations, even east coast stations for a while. 0330- UT common stations from the Lakes and west coast. As I was the last crew this main season, I had no hurry to pack things and leave. Turned off my radios at 10 UT when there still were several stations on the band. When driving home in the evening, there was impressive northern lights in the sky!
Saturday, March 01, 2008
LEM261: 23.2-1.3 (HS, JMS)
Sunday 24.2
A bit cold start with -35 Celsius at night! However, good TA DX made us feel warm. Some Brazilians and La Plata at night, AM Nuevo Mar del Plata 1620 being the best catch. NA quite well between 05 and 10 UTC. WBIX 1060 with a DX test was heard very well. Then eg. WESX 1230, WBUR 1240, WEZR 1240, WSYY 1240 and WFAU 1280. No Pacific at all, but many Chinese in the evening.
Monday 25.2
Poor conditions both night and day meant no new loggings nor reports. Hawaiian stations surfaced late afternoon with some nice signals. However, only the usual stations were noted.
Tuesday 26.2
Wow! Continuous NA from 23 to 12 UTC. Some excellent peaks during the sunrise. Also Hawaii well in the evening. Clearly the best NA conditions for us this season!
KNRS 570, KXSP 590, WOI 640, KXOR 660, KNBR 680, XEDE 720, KTTO 970, KORL 1180, KTSN 1340, KZNW 1340. From earlier days WTSN 1270, WNZS 1340, WWWL 1350.
Wednesday 27.2
Back to normal. Poor night, mediocre morning (KSJB 600, WJON 1240) and challenging afternoon with interesting Asians. Australia on x-band and 5PA ABC Naaracorte 1161 booming. Also RRI Singaraja from Bali on 1080 like a local station for 40 minutes. Some northern lights promises interesting times ahead.
Thursday 28.2
Conditions have really deteriorated since yesterday. Nothing during the night, some NA in the morning and nothing during the entire day until Asian stations surfaced late afternoon. Tonight the sky is beautiful with fast moving Auroral lights so not much is expected of the next night either.
Friday 29.2
Completely silent - no stations from anywhere. The coronal hole did what a coronal hole needs to do! Now it is time to prepare next weeks work presentations and listen to tapes from Tuesday.
Here are some Asians from 26.2.: 549 Vietnam, 558 DZXL, 576 Yunnan, 603 CRI Hainan, 648 Guangdong, 666 DZRH, 675 Vietnam, 720 ABC Perth, 729 Vietnam, 747 Ningxia Jinji, 783 Hong Kong, 792 Guangxi, 819 ABC Kimberley, 828 Guangzhou and so on. Clearly the direction was a bit different than with usual Asian conditions.
Saturday 1.3
TA and Asia DX totally dead, but last night we enjoyed Emissao Provincial do Niassa from Mozambique with their local Friday evening programme on 1260. LEM261 signing off and wishing good luck to Ari for the last LEM expedition this season.
A bit cold start with -35 Celsius at night! However, good TA DX made us feel warm. Some Brazilians and La Plata at night, AM Nuevo Mar del Plata 1620 being the best catch. NA quite well between 05 and 10 UTC. WBIX 1060 with a DX test was heard very well. Then eg. WESX 1230, WBUR 1240, WEZR 1240, WSYY 1240 and WFAU 1280. No Pacific at all, but many Chinese in the evening.
Monday 25.2
Poor conditions both night and day meant no new loggings nor reports. Hawaiian stations surfaced late afternoon with some nice signals. However, only the usual stations were noted.
Tuesday 26.2
Wow! Continuous NA from 23 to 12 UTC. Some excellent peaks during the sunrise. Also Hawaii well in the evening. Clearly the best NA conditions for us this season!
KNRS 570, KXSP 590, WOI 640, KXOR 660, KNBR 680, XEDE 720, KTTO 970, KORL 1180, KTSN 1340, KZNW 1340. From earlier days WTSN 1270, WNZS 1340, WWWL 1350.
Wednesday 27.2
Back to normal. Poor night, mediocre morning (KSJB 600, WJON 1240) and challenging afternoon with interesting Asians. Australia on x-band and 5PA ABC Naaracorte 1161 booming. Also RRI Singaraja from Bali on 1080 like a local station for 40 minutes. Some northern lights promises interesting times ahead.
Thursday 28.2
Conditions have really deteriorated since yesterday. Nothing during the night, some NA in the morning and nothing during the entire day until Asian stations surfaced late afternoon. Tonight the sky is beautiful with fast moving Auroral lights so not much is expected of the next night either.
Friday 29.2
Completely silent - no stations from anywhere. The coronal hole did what a coronal hole needs to do! Now it is time to prepare next weeks work presentations and listen to tapes from Tuesday.
Here are some Asians from 26.2.: 549 Vietnam, 558 DZXL, 576 Yunnan, 603 CRI Hainan, 648 Guangdong, 666 DZRH, 675 Vietnam, 720 ABC Perth, 729 Vietnam, 747 Ningxia Jinji, 783 Hong Kong, 792 Guangxi, 819 ABC Kimberley, 828 Guangzhou and so on. Clearly the direction was a bit different than with usual Asian conditions.
Saturday 1.3
TA and Asia DX totally dead, but last night we enjoyed Emissao Provincial do Niassa from Mozambique with their local Friday evening programme on 1260. LEM261 signing off and wishing good luck to Ari for the last LEM expedition this season.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
LEM 260 Hannu Niilekselä (HN) and Jari Sinisalo (JSN)
LEM 260 started on Saturday, February 16, 2008 around noon with expectations of improving conditions after an unsettled to active period in the past week. Saturday offered an unbeatable chance of getting the listening gear tuned into “full readiness”, as the afternoon and evening conditions remained substantially poor. Just a few of some most common NA west coast stations were noted with weak signals.
17.2.2008: Totally quiet around midnight, some LA and CA with weak signals around 1-2 AM UTC, with four or five NL stations surfacing for 10 minutes – not good, but giving a promise of the expected improvement. In the morning all of the sudden a nice and noiseless one hour opening to the areas between the prairies and US west coast , whereafter the atmospheric bruise level returned to where it was on Sunday. Practically nothing from NA during the whole day. Some 15 minutes of fairly nice conditions to Asia in general, with 4QD 1548, along with the 3-4 most common upper band HI stations, surfacing loud and clear for 5 minutes. Japan gave a bit of promise with good signals levels for some minutes, as well, but died out completely 5 minutes prior to the NHK-2 break at 13.20 UTC. A tricky day, but the short morning “break” moments with SDR:s still paid off nicely with a bunch of A-class stations. Peppered fillet of pork accompanied with Torres Mas La Plana 1999 and goat cheese together with arctic cloudberries and sweet caramel sauce topped the evening. KNRS-570, KID-590, KSUB-590, KGVW-640, KXOR-660, KFMB-760, XESPN-800, KUTR-820, KANN-1120, KWIK-1240, KNND-1400.
18.2.2008: Still waiting for the conditions to open up. No evening conditions, some promising Orinoco in the night, but another dead morning. Only a minor 1 hour opening to NA with extremely unstable signals, then complete silence again in the afternoon. Nice sunshiny days with –5 C temperatures outside. The pleasure again today was the chef´s menu with stuffed mushrooms with garlic cream potatoes, accompanied by Puilly Fumé, La Forge, 2006. José Cuervo tequila has been our friend in modest quantities – naturally only to please the God´s of the Mexican skip. Results have, though, not materialized yet. CHTM-610, KFXD-630, KERI-1180, XESA-1260 and KWKW-1330.
19.2.2008: Another disappointing day. Evening and night completely blank to across the Atlantic. The morning equally disappointing. Not a trace of any NA conditions and when trying for morning Iberians, the result: Russians on 2 frequencies and DLF on 1269, nothing else ! . A 5 minute burst in the morning towards NA with 3 “ actual stations (in addition to such stations as KOMO and KBRW which were heard occasionally). But one of these 3 stations gave a super short ID: “La X” on 660 with a decent signal ! Unbelievable to hear such a station without anything worthwhile. The two others identified at 0930 UTC were CKYL-610 and KXL-750. Some Thai in the early evening. It makes one wonder, where have the conditions taken their way in these times of the solar minimum year…Top class spaghetti Bolognese with the remaining 2 glasses of Mas La Plana while nothing that IB is coming in fairly well.
20.2.2008: Still waiting for something positive to happen. Again nothing in the evening, but for the first time Brazil and La Plata fifth fairly good signals in the night. After a bit of sleep, when waking up in the morning before 8 local time, the band was full with NA stations from the prairies, however accompanied by a strong atmospheric “hum”. In 15 minutes the stations started gradually fading outand in an hour the band was empty again. Late in the afternoon some AK and HI with nice signals, but no super-cx. Asia mainly Thai and other uninteresting (?). Wienerschnizel with South African red. R Murial-1290 and R Belgrano-1510 (with supersignals), KLAM-1450.
21.2.2008: The evening started more promising than any of the previous ones. Tiny signals from the most common NL-NS stations started gradually coming in to a more silent MW-band around midnight. Soon VEN-Caribbean stations took over and were well audible all night. Just some isolated NA at night but as the morning came, we had moved to “more normal” conditions. Nothing spectacular, but a handful of nice stations and gratifying was to note that also the GY-frequencies held stations on an uninterrupted manner all morning, from all over the NA, but mostly from the rockies direction. The stations gradually faded out before mid-day and never came back. The afternoon was again totally blank to practically all worthwhile directions, so something is still “wrong”. ZIZ-555, tent. St. Vincent-700 (IQ-recordings haven't been checked out yet), KTNN-660, KGHF-1350, KBLJ-1400, KPTO-1440, KVSI-1450, KMRI-1550.
23.3.2008: Our last chance. We took it seriously and had tortillas with José Cuervo tequila for dinner. The mornings conditions were compared with Tuomo Ahonen, who had sniffed the morning´s conditions and arrived in Enontekiö for a couple of nights for DX´ing. The distance to Lemmenjoki is only some 100+ kilometres but substantial differences in the rhythm of fading and audible stations were noted, in spite of practically the same length and direction of the east coast antennas.
No evening stations from a cross the Atlantic were audible, once again. However, around midnight local time, first NA were noted and soon lots of Puerto Ricans and Venezolanos accompanied them. Gradually, some time after 0100 UTC NA stations started taking over and around 0200 the MW band was already in a promising speed. In the next hour the conditions kept on improving and thereafter the skies opened: signals were huge from all over the NA, with perhaps exception of the extreme West Coast. In addition, we had obviously succeeded in flattering the MEX-gods, since together with the NA signals. NA and Mexican stations were heard both in quantity and quality unexperienced by either of us ever before in our combined history of 68 years of DX´ing.
Then, the conditions behaved as had been the rule this week: in half and hour, the MW band died out completely around 0700 UTC. It is gratifying to end this blog by saying that this last night made the week for us and there will be a lot of work to thoroughly examine all the sound files to get a full understanding of what this rewarding morning gave us. We will do our best to provide the first insights to the list of stations logged.
17.2.2008: Totally quiet around midnight, some LA and CA with weak signals around 1-2 AM UTC, with four or five NL stations surfacing for 10 minutes – not good, but giving a promise of the expected improvement. In the morning all of the sudden a nice and noiseless one hour opening to the areas between the prairies and US west coast , whereafter the atmospheric bruise level returned to where it was on Sunday. Practically nothing from NA during the whole day. Some 15 minutes of fairly nice conditions to Asia in general, with 4QD 1548, along with the 3-4 most common upper band HI stations, surfacing loud and clear for 5 minutes. Japan gave a bit of promise with good signals levels for some minutes, as well, but died out completely 5 minutes prior to the NHK-2 break at 13.20 UTC. A tricky day, but the short morning “break” moments with SDR:s still paid off nicely with a bunch of A-class stations. Peppered fillet of pork accompanied with Torres Mas La Plana 1999 and goat cheese together with arctic cloudberries and sweet caramel sauce topped the evening. KNRS-570, KID-590, KSUB-590, KGVW-640, KXOR-660, KFMB-760, XESPN-800, KUTR-820, KANN-1120, KWIK-1240, KNND-1400.
18.2.2008: Still waiting for the conditions to open up. No evening conditions, some promising Orinoco in the night, but another dead morning. Only a minor 1 hour opening to NA with extremely unstable signals, then complete silence again in the afternoon. Nice sunshiny days with –5 C temperatures outside. The pleasure again today was the chef´s menu with stuffed mushrooms with garlic cream potatoes, accompanied by Puilly Fumé, La Forge, 2006. José Cuervo tequila has been our friend in modest quantities – naturally only to please the God´s of the Mexican skip. Results have, though, not materialized yet. CHTM-610, KFXD-630, KERI-1180, XESA-1260 and KWKW-1330.
19.2.2008: Another disappointing day. Evening and night completely blank to across the Atlantic. The morning equally disappointing. Not a trace of any NA conditions and when trying for morning Iberians, the result: Russians on 2 frequencies and DLF on 1269, nothing else ! . A 5 minute burst in the morning towards NA with 3 “ actual stations (in addition to such stations as KOMO and KBRW which were heard occasionally). But one of these 3 stations gave a super short ID: “La X” on 660 with a decent signal ! Unbelievable to hear such a station without anything worthwhile. The two others identified at 0930 UTC were CKYL-610 and KXL-750. Some Thai in the early evening. It makes one wonder, where have the conditions taken their way in these times of the solar minimum year…Top class spaghetti Bolognese with the remaining 2 glasses of Mas La Plana while nothing that IB is coming in fairly well.
20.2.2008: Still waiting for something positive to happen. Again nothing in the evening, but for the first time Brazil and La Plata fifth fairly good signals in the night. After a bit of sleep, when waking up in the morning before 8 local time, the band was full with NA stations from the prairies, however accompanied by a strong atmospheric “hum”. In 15 minutes the stations started gradually fading outand in an hour the band was empty again. Late in the afternoon some AK and HI with nice signals, but no super-cx. Asia mainly Thai and other uninteresting (?). Wienerschnizel with South African red. R Murial-1290 and R Belgrano-1510 (with supersignals), KLAM-1450.
21.2.2008: The evening started more promising than any of the previous ones. Tiny signals from the most common NL-NS stations started gradually coming in to a more silent MW-band around midnight. Soon VEN-Caribbean stations took over and were well audible all night. Just some isolated NA at night but as the morning came, we had moved to “more normal” conditions. Nothing spectacular, but a handful of nice stations and gratifying was to note that also the GY-frequencies held stations on an uninterrupted manner all morning, from all over the NA, but mostly from the rockies direction. The stations gradually faded out before mid-day and never came back. The afternoon was again totally blank to practically all worthwhile directions, so something is still “wrong”. ZIZ-555, tent. St. Vincent-700 (IQ-recordings haven't been checked out yet), KTNN-660, KGHF-1350, KBLJ-1400, KPTO-1440, KVSI-1450, KMRI-1550.
23.3.2008: Our last chance. We took it seriously and had tortillas with José Cuervo tequila for dinner. The mornings conditions were compared with Tuomo Ahonen, who had sniffed the morning´s conditions and arrived in Enontekiö for a couple of nights for DX´ing. The distance to Lemmenjoki is only some 100+ kilometres but substantial differences in the rhythm of fading and audible stations were noted, in spite of practically the same length and direction of the east coast antennas.
No evening stations from a cross the Atlantic were audible, once again. However, around midnight local time, first NA were noted and soon lots of Puerto Ricans and Venezolanos accompanied them. Gradually, some time after 0100 UTC NA stations started taking over and around 0200 the MW band was already in a promising speed. In the next hour the conditions kept on improving and thereafter the skies opened: signals were huge from all over the NA, with perhaps exception of the extreme West Coast. In addition, we had obviously succeeded in flattering the MEX-gods, since together with the NA signals. NA and Mexican stations were heard both in quantity and quality unexperienced by either of us ever before in our combined history of 68 years of DX´ing.
Then, the conditions behaved as had been the rule this week: in half and hour, the MW band died out completely around 0700 UTC. It is gratifying to end this blog by saying that this last night made the week for us and there will be a lot of work to thoroughly examine all the sound files to get a full understanding of what this rewarding morning gave us. We will do our best to provide the first insights to the list of stations logged.
Friday, February 15, 2008
LEM259: 9-15.2.2008 (HJK, JJK)
9.2.2008 Saavuimme Lemmenjoelle puolenpäivän jälkeen ja kävimme tervehtimässä Kristiinaa. Jenkkiputki oli jonkin aikaa auki hyvästikin, mutta totutteluksi tämä iltapäivä meni ennen kuin säädöt saatiin kohdalleen. KJRB-790 oli ensimmäinen idattu asema. KTIX-1240, KRLC-1350, KSPZ-980. Myöhemmin aasialaisia Tien Sheng 1314, Han Sheng 684 ja sokerina pohjalla RRI Singaraja 1080.
10.2.2008 Yöllä Radio Perú, Juliaca 1320 ja Nationwide Radio 700 tentatiivisena. Aamunousulla melko tavallisia jenkkejä WKSH-1640.15 ja WCHB-1200, iltapäivällä CIOR-1400 ja KMAS-1030. Kelit romahtivat.
11.2.2008 Yöllä laplatalaisia LRA2 Radio Nacional Viedma-1150. Yksi jenkkikin rupukuuluvuudella: KTOE-1420. Romania-osasto otettiin avuksi (Radio Constanta 1530), lisäksi kuulimme mm. Radio Zvezda 1440 ja Groot Nieuws Radio 1008 huippukuuluvuuksilla. Iltapäiväkiinalaiset pelastivat tilanteen: Shanghai Dongfang BS 1422, Shaanxi Traffic 1323, Anhui Life Channel 1395, Jiangxi PBS Satellite 1350.
12.2.2008 ei paljon parempaa NA-suunnalta – yöllä KBGG-1700 ja aamunousulla KZTS-1280, KLIN-1400, KTOP-1490, WONX-1590. Magyar Muravideki Radio 558, Radio Plovdiv 648 ja Radio Oltenia 1314 kertovat paremmin kelien suunnasta. Iltapäivällä kiinalaiset jälleen pelastuksena Zhenjiang EBS 1224, Chutian News Station 1179. Illalla ERTU Luxor 1386 South Upper Egyptin paikallisella ohjelmalla.
13.2.2008 Yöllä NA vaisuna: WILS-1320. KBC Marsabit 1233 ja Radio Vida AM 1620 muista maanosista. Aamunousulla KBAR-1230 ja KZZR-1230. Iltapäivällä horjutettiin kiinalaisten valta-asemaa: Mor Kor 1314 ja Voice of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City 610.
14.2.2008 Pientä lupausta paremmasta, torstai siis toivoa täynnä: KTIK-1350 0030 UTC, KDOW-1680 0056 UTC ja muita tavallisia washingtonilaisia samoihin aikoihin. Rádio Globo Londrina palloili1400:lla. Pari kolumbialaista aamulla pastoreineen eikä ideistä tietoakaan. KVVK-1470 muitten tavallisempien teksasilaisten kera. Mutta aamunousu lopahti ennen kuin oli tullutkaan. Kävelylenkiltä tultua bandi oli kirkas ja KWIP-880 ja KWBY-940 porskuttelivat vähän aikaa. Mutta sitten taas suhinaa. Aasia avautui noin puoleksi tunniksi klo 1210 UTC, siitä tosin 10 min meni sähkökatkon takia ja 15 min sähkömiehen juttuja kuunnellessa. DYSI-1323 oli ainut jonka sai analogisilla vehkeillä koukkuun. Parin tunnin hiljaisuuden jälkeen Aasia lähti uuteen nousuun, BRT 1098 olemassaolo tuli todistettua samalla kun idästä tuli parempaa kamaa JORR-738, AFN Okinawa 648 1600-1700 UTC välillä ja vielä loppuillasta Taiwan BC, Sungling 630 ad 1840 UTC. Tänä iltana oli jo pientä vipinää X-bandin 9:llä jaollisilla taajuuksillakin
15.2.2008 yöllä KRRZ-1390 ja XEKT-1390, mutta ei mitään sen kummempaa. Kuvaavaa on, että vasta nyt sai ensimmäisen kerran KDDZ-1690:stä rupisen idin. Varsinainen aamunousu jenkeistä jäi tulematta, vaikka KBSN-1230 kuuluikin. Ennen sitä brassareita, mm. ZYJ491 Rádio Continental 1520 ja ZYJ590 Rádio Globo Santos 1550. Jätetään loppuosa asemista nyt mainitsematta, koska niitä ei ole vielä kuultu ja tuskin enää blogia täältä pohjoisesta tältä reissulta laitellaan. Kaiken kaikkiaan olipa kiinalainen juttu!
Saturday, February 09, 2008
LEM258: 26.1-9.2 (JEÖ, PÄ)
Sunnuntai 27.1: Yöllä hyvät kelit brassareihin ja La Plataan. Ei aamu-LA kelejä. NA sen sijaan koko aamu-iltapäivä. WKBN, R Jamaica 700 etc.
Maanantai 28.1: Hienot BRA-La Plata 23-02 jonka jälkeen NA iltaan asti. Kuviot samat, kelit lopulta jämähtää NW-nurkkaan. WGVS 850 etc.
Tiistai-keskiviikko 29-30.1: Sama kelityyppi jatkuu. BRA ja LP yöllä. NA hyvin heikko aamulla. Jotain sentään: 830 R Princesa da Serra SE; 1290 R Brasil Sul.
Torstai 31.1: Keskinkertaiset brassari ja LP läpi yön. Enimmäkseen länsirannikkoa pitkään iltapäivään. Kohtuulliset AK/HI. Marshall 1098, XEUT etc.
Perjantai-sunnuntai 1-3.2: Häiriön johdosta huonohkot kelit. Tänään 3.2 massiiviset BRA-LP kelit 550-1690. Mm. LT43 Mocovi hurjalla signaalilla sekä samalta taajuudelta - eli 800 - brassari R Universidade RS. Tallenteita on niin pirusti kolmen sdr:n ja 8xNDR johdosta. Lyhyt NA-putki 07 kieppeillä. Myös NA-kelit nousenemassa. Ainoa pettymys eka viikon jälkeen on MEX-kelien puuttuminen.
Maanantai-keskiviikko 4-6.2: Erinomaiset kelit pari päivää. Voimakkaat sinkut Brasiliasta ja La Platastä öisin. Aamulla ja päivällä länsirannikkoa ja järvialuetta. Etelävaltioista ja Meksikosta ei juurikaan mitään. Janne arvioi tallenteiden selvittämisen vievän 40 vuotta! (via HS).
Sunday, February 03, 2008
AND2: 24.1 - 3.2 (GF, JA, OF, TBV)
Thursday 24.1: AND2 (location Andöya, Norway) is now in progress. A brief check at 17 UTC had most Alaskan stations audible at good levels, even 1020 kHz was strong.
Friday 25.1: Good conditions to Brazil and Argentina 22 to 05 UTC. Intense opening to the Great Lakes at 01 UTC. The morning was uninteresting. Excellent signals from AK and AB/BC after 12 UTC.
Saturday 26.1: Excellent conditions to Brazil and La Plata during the night. Very nice NA opening 07 to 10 UTC to the Rockies and the west coast, particularly in the lower half of the band.
Sunday 27.1: Strong signals from Brazil 22-01 UTC. Widespread NA from 02 UTC with signals becoming very strong in the morning. For instance 880 offered WCBS one minute and KWIP the next.
Monday 28.1: Again good propagation to Brazil and La Plata around midnight. Later on nice signals from mainly western NA. Some Mexican stations too.
Tuesday 29.1: Excellent signals from AK/YT/AB/BC until 16:30 UTC on the 28. Uninteresting night and morning with only the regular LA and NA stations noted.
Wednesday 30.1: Weak signals from Brazil early in the night. After 02 UTC strong signals from AB/SK. Uninteresting morning with only the NA dominants noted.
Thursday 31.1: Nice signals from Brazil early in the night. Morning and day propagation was very good to the Rockies and the west coast. Ex: 1230 KSBN
Friday 1.2: Superb NA opening 02-08 with many stations on most channels. Only a few dominants audible after LSR.
Saturday 2.2: Rapidly changing conditions early in night. Maine one minute, then Brazil, then AB/SK. Overall a poor night.
Sunday 3.2: Uneventful night, then intense opening to AB/MT after 08 UTC. Yesterday was more interesting than we thought, 590 CFAR, 610 KRTA. 1420 WASR
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
LEM257: 19-26.1 (JP, VJR)
Saturday 19.1
LEM257 started: VJR and JP. Some us new:1420 KITI, 1310 KFKA later asia even aussies 2ME R Lebanon 1638.
Sunday 20.1
LEM257 JP VJR 20.1: In the night Brazil and La Plata. In the morning something from NW NA - 1350 KRLC. Middle of the day nothing. After 12utc 1270 KIML ja 880 KJJR.
Monday 21.1
Some NA stations in the evening and afternoon: 1120 KANN, 620 KPOJ, 1240 KTIX, 920 KXLY, 1290 KUMA. Also japanese: 1233 JOUR. In the evening stations from China and SW Oceania: 3335 East Sepik, 4605 Serui, 4870 Wamena.
Tuesday 22.1
LEM257 JP VJR 22.1: Yö vaisu mutta auringonnousun maissa alkoi reissun paras NA-päivä. Asemia 1. kerran keskipäivälläkin. 1230 KBAR, 550 KOAC, 1410 XECF, 1180 XEDCH, 1510 R Belgrano, 1420 KIGO, 550 WSAU, 1230 KKEE.
Aasia-nousu 13-14 utc 1107 JOCF, 1152 JORP, 1260 JOIR, 1062 DZEC. Aussien x-bandilla myös elämää 1430 utc lähtien. Ja aamun pakolliset RAI lokaalit: 936 Veneto ja 1062 Sardegna.
Wednesday 23.1
Yöllä tikkuista keliä Argentiinasta jenkkeihin. Aamulla repesi jenkkikeleiksi ja kovat Havaijit. Nyt kuunnellaan uutta TWR Beniniä 1566.
Asemia: 1230 KWYZ, 770 KTTH, 1450 KQDI, 1450 KONP, 1400 KODI, 1400 KEDO, 1420 KKEA, 1270 KNDI, 1180 KORL, 1210 KGYN, 1270 KBAM, 1470 KBSN, 1560 KZIZ. Ja aamun pakollinen RAI: 567 Emilia-Romagna.
Thursday 24.1
LEM257 JP VJR 24.1. Ei aivan yhtä hyvä NA-päivä kuin eilinen mutta jotain kuitenkin: 1350 KGHF, 1420 KIGO, 760 KGU, 1270 KNDI, 660 KEYZ, 650 CISL, 1230 CJNL. Ja aamun aloitti RAI Toscana 657.
Friday 25.1
LEM257: 00-01 kiva Ontario-itärannikkokeli 830 WCRN, 620 CHWO, 1690 CHTO. 0430-0600 Venezuelaa. Aamun Iberia-avauksesta 666 R Barcelona ja 1314 R5 Salamanca 0815.
Vaisu NA-aamu mutta antennien tsekkausreissulta palattua aukesi ID-WA-HI. 1110 KAOI, 1540 KREA, 1460 KHRA, 1420 KKEA, 1270 KNDI, 760 KGU, 1480 KBMS, 1400 KEDO, 1470 KBSN, 1480 KRXR. Illalla RNE5 Malaga 1152, ja 558 Muravideki Magyar R.
Saturday 26.1
LEM257: 0000-0017 töhäys järville: 1690 WVON, 1470 WBKV, 1480 WLMV. 0115-0130 länsirannikon dominantteja. Muutoin yöllä La Plata- Brassi-linjaa: 1560 Maldonado, 1620 R Vida, 1630 AM Restauracion. N. 0700 ylämummo heräsi: 1240 KWIK, 1560 KZIZ, 1650 KFOX. Mukava reissu ja riittävästi kelejä vaikkei hamonen nyt heilahtanutkaan.
LEM257 started: VJR and JP. Some us new:1420 KITI, 1310 KFKA later asia even aussies 2ME R Lebanon 1638.
Sunday 20.1
LEM257 JP VJR 20.1: In the night Brazil and La Plata. In the morning something from NW NA - 1350 KRLC. Middle of the day nothing. After 12utc 1270 KIML ja 880 KJJR.
Monday 21.1
Some NA stations in the evening and afternoon: 1120 KANN, 620 KPOJ, 1240 KTIX, 920 KXLY, 1290 KUMA. Also japanese: 1233 JOUR. In the evening stations from China and SW Oceania: 3335 East Sepik, 4605 Serui, 4870 Wamena.
Tuesday 22.1
LEM257 JP VJR 22.1: Yö vaisu mutta auringonnousun maissa alkoi reissun paras NA-päivä. Asemia 1. kerran keskipäivälläkin. 1230 KBAR, 550 KOAC, 1410 XECF, 1180 XEDCH, 1510 R Belgrano, 1420 KIGO, 550 WSAU, 1230 KKEE.
Aasia-nousu 13-14 utc 1107 JOCF, 1152 JORP, 1260 JOIR, 1062 DZEC. Aussien x-bandilla myös elämää 1430 utc lähtien. Ja aamun pakolliset RAI lokaalit: 936 Veneto ja 1062 Sardegna.
Wednesday 23.1
Yöllä tikkuista keliä Argentiinasta jenkkeihin. Aamulla repesi jenkkikeleiksi ja kovat Havaijit. Nyt kuunnellaan uutta TWR Beniniä 1566.
Asemia: 1230 KWYZ, 770 KTTH, 1450 KQDI, 1450 KONP, 1400 KODI, 1400 KEDO, 1420 KKEA, 1270 KNDI, 1180 KORL, 1210 KGYN, 1270 KBAM, 1470 KBSN, 1560 KZIZ. Ja aamun pakollinen RAI: 567 Emilia-Romagna.
Thursday 24.1
LEM257 JP VJR 24.1. Ei aivan yhtä hyvä NA-päivä kuin eilinen mutta jotain kuitenkin: 1350 KGHF, 1420 KIGO, 760 KGU, 1270 KNDI, 660 KEYZ, 650 CISL, 1230 CJNL. Ja aamun aloitti RAI Toscana 657.
Friday 25.1
LEM257: 00-01 kiva Ontario-itärannikkokeli 830 WCRN, 620 CHWO, 1690 CHTO. 0430-0600 Venezuelaa. Aamun Iberia-avauksesta 666 R Barcelona ja 1314 R5 Salamanca 0815.
Vaisu NA-aamu mutta antennien tsekkausreissulta palattua aukesi ID-WA-HI. 1110 KAOI, 1540 KREA, 1460 KHRA, 1420 KKEA, 1270 KNDI, 760 KGU, 1480 KBMS, 1400 KEDO, 1470 KBSN, 1480 KRXR. Illalla RNE5 Malaga 1152, ja 558 Muravideki Magyar R.
Saturday 26.1
LEM257: 0000-0017 töhäys järville: 1690 WVON, 1470 WBKV, 1480 WLMV. 0115-0130 länsirannikon dominantteja. Muutoin yöllä La Plata- Brassi-linjaa: 1560 Maldonado, 1620 R Vida, 1630 AM Restauracion. N. 0700 ylämummo heräsi: 1240 KWIK, 1560 KZIZ, 1650 KFOX. Mukava reissu ja riittävästi kelejä vaikkei hamonen nyt heilahtanutkaan.
Friday, January 25, 2008
TESTING THE PERSEUS- SDR
KING´S VILLAGE TEST BENCH:
PERSEUS SDR-RECEIVER – A Pretty Excellent Receiver of Software … OR – A Poor Example of Receivers … - First Impressions (by TK)
These impressions are something found during a brief test arrangements on January 21-22 with a Perseus + Table-top PC Fujitsu-Siemens (about 1.8 GHz – 1 Mb mem. + 250 GB HD). The rx was compared mostly to a SDR-14 & IQ + a communications receiver Icom R9000.
Generally the look and feel is great with this equipment and the installation of the software was a piece of cake. The software (beta 0.31) was distributed on a CD with the receiver. There were a HF-Span software (showing 0-40 MHz span) and drivers + dll´s for the WinRad, too. It was very easy to calibrate the set using just the mouse to move the scale and the “
On the screen you can set frequency also by clicking the arrows below the small secondary window. This is handy, when operating with a laptop without mouse. The averaging system in the software is done nicely on the screen – you can adjust it manually by clicking and dragging the vertical sliders both for the main and the second window. On the screen you can use also the memo (memory tables) where you can load lists of potential stations and there are already memos of EiBI list and HFCC-tables included. You can import your own list to the memo table as well. Software worked OK although there are some problems still with the listening to the recorded (captured) RF-file. While checking how many stations you can have on one frequency (if there is a vertical scroll) I found that you can but up to six on the channel - so a scroll should be good if you wish put lists like "potential NA / TA -stations" etc - these lists have usually dozens of stations on each channel.
You have to use the transformer (5 V) which comes together with the rx and I have seen reports that this unit (a switching transformer) does produce some noise especially to other RXs (using splitters), but I did not note very much interference in my set-up. However I have already some noise from other PC-equipments, mainly from my LCD-screen which I have to switch off when doing serious RF-recording at daytime with low signal levels.
Sensitivity & Strong signal handling seems to be adequate - I would say the sensitivity is a bit worse than that of the Icom-receiver (R9000) and I have seen some figures at about 2 uV (10 dB/SN, AM-mode); however, when used with active splitter (with 10 dB gain) and/or amp. of 10 dB with a LW of 150 m or BOG 300 m the rx did overload and I had to set the attn to -10 dB on the program. But this is what is happening with other sdrs (14 / IQ and WinR) as well. That is never a problem with my old Icom, AOR or EKD 515 (DDR-rx).
Frequency measurements are a bit harder to do with the Perseus (compared to IQ using Spectravue) basically as the minimum SPAN in receiving is 1.6 kHz (showing also the max. BW resolution 1.9 Hz). As can be seen at the picture, you have to “click” the markers on screen (you have to use as good resolution as possible) whereas Spectravue with 14/IQ gives you automatically the 4 strongest carriers of the SPAN. The comparison test was done on 1368 with a station (
Selectivity is good and at least at the same level as that of the IQ/14 and a bit better than that of the ICOM R9000 or AOR (with SSB filters around 2 kHz). And you can adjust it how you want – also “asymmetric way”. You can also move the center frequency – about as PBT does. There are buttons also for the notch and PBT but they seems not to be active yet – this feature is coming later on, I suppose.
Recording – Span Capturing (“Drift Net-DX”) is straightforward, you have just to decide whether you want to capture a slice of 100, 200 or 400 kHz, push the button and use the recorder-buttons on a lower left corner of the window. Actually you can even record a bit more (almost 500 kHz with 500 kS/s sampling?), but there can be false signals on both sides?). As mentioned earlier the play-back feature differs from that of SpectraVue a bit: you can not jump just back and forth. Instead, you can assign a portion of the recording for looped play-back. And there seems still to be some problems with the operation on playing back – I could freeze the computer using that and had to switch the power off once. Note that you should have the unit on – so you can not listen the files with another computer and/or at another place without the hardware using the Perseus software, what is possible with the SpectaVue and SDR-14/IQ. However using the WinRad-softaware you can do playback also without the Perseus hardware, which is good although there are some limitations using that one as there are no timestamp at the timeline and not even the stop button on WinRad´s timeline. You get 10 minutes recordings with the software automatically (about 1,7 Gb each). You have also to give the name to the files all the time before starting to record and the software puts the sequence numbers after the name like 1,2… The timer is not included, but there is a possibility to do a timer with windows macros, but I have not yet tried that. The timer function like that of IQ – Spectravue could be greatly appreciated! After this report was written I have heard that the "official" release of the software (1.0) is due out in February - maybe something of the wish list are in that version.
I used mainly my desk-top (a bit old) model of a Pentium 1.8 GHz machine with 1 MB internal memory. The software took about 30-40 % easily at 125 kS/s and when switched to maximum sampling rate of 500 kS/s in order to capture 400 kHz to the hard disk, it took about 80-90% of the resources. So with my setup, I can not use both Perseus & IQ at the same machine. I also had some play-back problems with this set-up, and had to start the playback again, which actually worked to that problem. Using my laptop of Pentium (1.3 GHz only, IBM T40) was about the same, but it seems this machine works better showing the maximum usage of resources at about 60-70 %. I have heard these small IBMT40´s really performs like about 2 GHz machines. I did not tried to record to external HDs, but it should work ok and that has been done by other testers without problems. I think that with modern pc´s of about 3 - 4 GHz and 2-4 GB memory these problems are not present.
All-in-all I have to say this is a great piece of equipment – good looking software with great capabilities – and the software is still in Beta-state – so what are we getting when that is the final version. Well Done Nico Palermo & Microtelecom!
Last but not least, I would like to thank all the impressions of earlier testers of the rx like Bjarne Melde, Guy Atkins and Giampiero Bernardini at their blogs and emails as well as Mauno Ritola & Jussi Suokas (& all the “DXing Wolfs” in Eastern Finland) who were the first in Finland to test the machine. Now we have the DriftNetter of 400 kHz, next year at least up to 2 Mhz or ?
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