« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2019, 0419 UTC »
Seems that there has been decent amount of activity on 25 meter band during the day while anything 15 Mhz and up has been kind of lousy. Although I do hear the BBC service mostly beaming to Africa around 1700 UTC many times and thereabouts. The VOA is also on the upper part of the 19 meter band at 15580 as well as Radio Habana Cuba on 15140 Khz. The best thing I can say is to see how WWV is coming into your area to see if the conditions are decent enough to permit some sort of decent reception. Seems I've also been occasionally hearing some activity at 15435 which I presume is something from Saudi Arabia.
Also, its finally getting more fall like here in the Ohio Valley instead the near 90 degree temperatures we had only a couple of weeks ago. AM Broadcast band at night has been excellent and even during the day its been much improved over the summer months with a lot of stations 100 to 250 miles away starting to come in pretty well.
I would also mention that there has been a lot of activity in the mid afternoon to evening time frame in the 31 meter and 25 meter band. See if you can catch REE Radio Exterior Espana on 9690 which has a pretty good signal here during the late afternoon evening frame. Also around I think I heard the Voice of Turkey on 9830 khz recently in that same window of the late afternoon evening. 11820 khz on the 25 meter band is the Broadcasting System of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which is referred to as Saudi Radio these days as well as some station probably broadcasting to Yemen and the Middle East more than likely from Saudi Arabia.
The best thing is to try to get some wire up in the air and another thing away from other electronics such as LED/LCD televisions, monitors and even my supposedly trusty laptop has a power supply issue that causes massive buzzing so its time for a different charger or some other measures.
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