European Free Radio Report from Dunlo, PA, USA, 7 Jan. 2007

[Dave Valko]

Fair conditions this morning allowed for some stations to come through on this first weekend of the new year. After a dreadful holiday season, I was looking forward to this morning.

7 January 2007: Mystery R. was doing pretty well when I awoke at 0615 UTC, the propagation data looked good, and the weather was warm, so I decided to trek up to the remote listening site for a few hours this morning. Another reason why I wanted to go out to listen was that this is the time of year for the latest sunrise in the northern hemisphere and thus the latest fade-out. Band conditions were pretty quiet. No thunderstorm static crashes like over the holidays. There was a bit of fading, but it wasn't heavy. It was interesting how the band (signals) suddenly picked up strength within a minute or two at 0748 UTC.

RX: JRC NRD-535D
ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 50°
QTH: Pennsylvania State Game Lands #26
Duration: 0655-1015 UTC
Solar Indices: S.F. = 87 A Index = 3 K Index = 0 No storms.
WX: Clouds and Moonshine, warm 34° F. (1° C.)

6266.56 R. Scotland Int. Heard a signal here at home before I left so tuned to this immediately when I started. Very weak signal but getting a little audio. M anncr at 0655, into mx. Could hear several anmnts at 0712 and 0735, but really no chance to copy. At 0748 this signal suddenly got stronger and noted M w/echo effect mentioning the e-mail addr and phone 0031-653489736 several times. Into Rock mx. 0754 canned ID jingle. 0811 caught end of anmnt w/ment of "...on now for a few hours". 0826 instru. Pop song w/voice-over anmnts starting out with some coughing, ID, ment was closing down, "...starting 2 and half hours ago...", then went into a fairly long list of listenern acknowledgements before finally signing off at 0835. Freq was rock stable. (7 Jan.)

6290.73 Don't know what this would be but was getting a carrier here from 0657 onward and sounded like mx at 0823, 0841, and 0851 checks. Maybe just a spur. QRM from the usual pulsing UTEs here. (7 Jan.)

6219.98 Mystery R. Strong peaking at S-6 on occasion. 0702 canned W ID "Only the best music, Mystery R. Worldwide". (7 Jan.)

6324.5 RWI (pres.) Weak carrier under UTE after 0700 and for on for quite a while. Just couldn't get any audio. ID per uk DXer blog. (7 Jan.)

6280.03 Orion R. 0742 weakly here abt equal to 6266.56 RSI but Orion's modulation seemed a bit stronger. 0745 unrec. slow Rock song. 0756 nice Polka. 0758 usual “Crunchy Granola Suiteâ€

[sciroccoam]

Hello mr Dave Valko
Thanks for my first log from the USA!!
I'm verry happy whit it
I'm working whit an R&S SK010 and only 20 watts and an inv.V

[Bycross Radio]

I list all mine by time too. Admitidly, analouge tuning makes freq readings harder... [/quote][/code]

[Radio Scotland]

Hi Dave,

Great to see or signal was travelling across the Atlantic today!
TX today was the good old homebuild PL519, while the R&S-050 was out of order. (again)
Greetings from the Netherlands,
Albert.

www.radioscotland.nl

[JoJo]

Hello Dave,
Many thanks for the logs, much appreciated. Happy new year and many dx-ing,