Pirate Report from Dunlo, PA, USA. 26 October 2008

[Dave Valko]

This time a report exclusively from my own QTH!!!!

26 October 2008: Mystery R. was a little stronger than it has been when I awoke at 0615 UTC. The propagation wasn’t stormy, but the A Index was low and the MUF around the pole was down to 6 mhz. So I was undecided whether to go up to the remote site to listen or not. In the end, I figured I’d go. It was a good decision. Conditions were only fair, but still better than about 90% of the Sunday mornings in the past 4 years!! Managed to log over a dozen stations. It was rather fady. Very quiet though. The Summer noise was gone. Took the NRD instead of the E1 this time.

RX: JRC NRD-535D
ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at about 50°.
QTH: Pennsylvania State Game Lands #26
Duration: 0657-1020 UTC
Solar Indices: Solar Flux = 68, A Index = 1, K Index = 2 No storms
WX: Starry sky. Cool, 38° F. (4° C.)

6240.38 Old Time R. 0704 end of song then long anmnt apparently in Finnish by M w/Eisenach addr and poss. e-mail, then unrecog. song. 0712 ID and voice-over anmnt in same lang. 0720 M again briefly sounding like a listener acknowledgement. 0729 anmnt w/ment of “.comâ€

[playbackinternational]

5803 Playback Int. 0745 “We Can Work It Outâ€

[JoJo]

Hello Dave,

thanks for the log, much appreciated

[saturnus]

Hello Dave,what a surprise that you caught me.
I was only using 25 watts from a new homebrew tx

[Ray Lalleu]

Hi, Dave !

Your carrier on 6291.78 at 9.00
was a real station with music (pop, hard-rock),
but drifting quite a lot.
I heard it first at 8.32 on 6291.1
just seconds before Egypt came on with full power.
Later, drifted on 6291.3 at 8.40,
(so may well have drifted to 6291.78 at 9.00).


Sorry, still no other report found about this one.

Last news : Axel heard it also

[Radio Scotland]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the log, nice too see the signal of the Mickey Mouse TX
was able to cross the Atlantic again!

Greetings,
Albert.