PAX69 log - the first version

I have checked some of my PAX69 -recordings and you can read the first version of the log clicking the PAX69 -link in this blog. Actually I don't think that there will be many more interesting loggings from me since the conditions were not very good except the opening on Sunday morning at the time when I was about to leave for home. This log includes only TuA's loggings during PAX69. Stefan Wikander's and Italian listeners loggings can be found later on PAX -website. Log link
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PAX69 - the last live report 28th of Jan

Just like during PAX61 last season my attedance on PAX69 will end with quite good conditions on. The night was empty but about 0700 UTC stations faded in and the conditions are getting better all the time. Stations can be heard across the US and Canada and it's quite difficult to pick up the right antenna. When writing this KCID-1490 identified on the backround. More PAX69 news coming up in coming weeks so stay tuned on this PUDXK Blog. TuA

PAX69 - 27th of January

Actually there is not much to write about the conditions during the last 24 hours. Night was empty of almost any kind of TA signals. In the morning some ON-, QC- and east coast stations were present and later in the afternoon there were some west coast dominants to be hear. For today I have not found any new stations for me so far. I wish the last morning tomorrow will give some new stations to be picked up. TuA

The new KVAN-1560 was heard on PAX69!

TuA joined the PAX69-crew late Thursday evening. The equipment is two SDR-14s and a WR 313e. This DXpedition began in Parkalompolo already last week when two Italian DXers and Stewan Wikander from Timrå, Sweden arrived in Parka. The third Italian listener came on Thursday night as well.

TuA's start wasn't too bad with some nice stations on Friday morning and afternoon. For instance WSAU-560, WTVN-610, WBEN-930 and KEIN-1310 had decent signals. However the most interesting station today was the new one on 1560 kHz, KVAN Burbank, WA. It uses the old KVAN WA-1550 calls and had a huge signal. It played oldies songs like Eagles etc. and annouced AM and FM IDs. The signal was badly off the frequency - the correct frequency is 1559.980 kHz.

The solar weather looks promising for Saturday and Sunday... let's see what happens! TuA

PAX63

PAX63 in Parkalompolo, Northern Sweden has been going on since September 22, 2006 when Sigvard Andersson (A) started the first Parkalompolo pedition in this season. Later on Bo Olofsson (BOS) joined PAX63 and so did Christer Koivuranta (CKL). BOS left PAX63 last Sunday and CKL will drive home this coming Sunday. Lars Hedberg (LHU) and Tuomo Ahonen (TuA) will join PAX63 crew tomorrow, October 7, late Saturday evening.

So far a couple of nice TA -stations have been logged - WBCK Battle Creek, MI-930, KVNU Logan, UT-610, WTMJ Milwaukee, WI-620 ect. All those stations had been picked up last week - there is no information available about TA conditions on PAX63 this week.

I will be updating this Blog-site with the latest news from PAX63 next Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The outlooks are very good, however there is a chance for disturbance from CH 242 -stream on coming Saturday and Sunday.

/TuA