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Latin American Pirate / Re: UNID 10230 AM 2213 UTC 28 MAR 2022

« on: March 29, 2022, 0426 UTC »

0418 with music
0423 with talk by a studio host and a guy on the phone. 

This sounds like Portuguese to me. signal is kinda weak and fades out quickly but is clear and understandable on peaks!

Paul Walker
McGrath, Alaska 250 miles NW of anchorage with a Tecsun PL880, two tunable HF loops and a DXE preamp

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: NEW Country SW Log!

« on: March 29, 2022, 0234 UTC »

Paul,
          What is your receiver/antenna set-up?

Tecsun pl880, a DXE hf amp and 2 tuneable loops

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: NEW Country SW Log!

« on: March 28, 2022, 1319 UTC »

Wow, that is some impressive DX! I don’t see reports of reception of radio logos very often. Peru is a very hard country to hear on shortwave. Here in Canada I have yet to hear any Peruvians. The only low power Latin American stations I can get here are Rádio Clube do Pará (5 KW, Brazil, can be heard with very weak audio every night) and “La Montana Colombia” (? KW, Believed to be from Colombia). I can only get “La Montana Colombia” when noise is very low and even then it is extremely weak. It doesn’t help that along with the low power most Latin Americans sign off before it is dark enough for DX on 60 meters this time of year.

I've heard 4885 Clube Do Para up here a few times too.. dont recall its been too good when ive heard it though

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: BBC 11680 AM 1959 utc 27 Mar 2022 - A22 New Transmission

« on: March 28, 2022, 0101 UTC »

I think in the culinary world it's called fusion 

Ah Ha.. better way to describe it!

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: BBC 11680 AM 1959 utc 27 Mar 2022 - A22 New Transmission

« on: March 27, 2022, 2050 UTC »

Here, ive got quite the combo on 11680 now

Voice Of Korea in Korean from Pyongyang with a serious, stoic male anchor mixing with BBC in english

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Granville 11.175 MHz USB Phonetic Letters Broadcasting Now.

« on: March 27, 2022, 2049 UTC »

this comes from different places.. i heard an EAM on 11175 the other day it was so strong, it had to have come from JBER here in alaska

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Radio Cairo 9810 AM 1945 UTC 6 MAR 2022

« on: March 27, 2022, 2017 UTC »

Cairos fuzzy muddy distorted low modulation has gone on for years and years and years

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Radio Saudi ==> North Africa

« on: March 27, 2022, 2016 UTC »

13710 can be anywhere between poor to GREAT here.. usually at least fair, but sometimes kinda "watery" and fadey due to over the pole reception

their 15170 and 15285 around 02 or 03 .. i forget which... are great here often enough

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Radio Voz Missionaria 9666 am 2224 utc 19 Mar 2022

« on: March 27, 2022, 1947 UTC »

Very Good Reception, Portuguese Service.  ID's by Shazam.

2224 "Povo Escolhido" Erasmo E Aline
2226 ID to "A Promessa" Kemilly Santos & Damares
2246 Music continues

this one has been making it to Alaska nightly the last few weeks... and very well at that, at times.

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Shortwave Broadcast / NEW Country SW Log!

« on: March 27, 2022, 1945 UTC »

Hearing new countries on SW is tough, as these days, many of the various broadcasters/stations/programs all come from one of the 2 dozen or so sites across the world.

Well, Saturday night about 730pm AKDT (0330UTC Sun) I bagged Peru. Talk in what was spanish or something soundalike along with religious music was fading up on 4810khz but getting hammered by codar. The music and talk was 1kw Radio Logos on 4810 from Peru!

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: IRRS Milano

« on: March 27, 2022, 1943 UTC »

This one is usually a 45444 SINPO here in Alaska

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General Radio Discussion / Re: The SMALL World ThaT Is The DXing Hobby!

« on: February 13, 2022, 2329 UTC »

Yeah, it was pretty cool... we're a town of 300 people thats 250 miles NW of Anchorage...last place I Expected to see any member of a hobbyist group I'm a part of.

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General Radio Discussion / The SMALL World ThaT Is The DXing Hobby!

« on: February 12, 2022, 2034 UTC »

For those of you unaware, I live in McGrath, Alaska managing the day to day operations of an NPR Radio station, KSKO, serving about 500 miles of the alaskan interior.

On Friday, someone I didn't recognize popped by the radio station but vaguely knew my name. We got talking and it turns out he's an HFU member. He was here in McGrath to fix some equipment for the FAA.

Paul

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MW Loggings / Re: KVRI 1600 Blaine, WA

« on: January 16, 2022, 1912 UTC »

Pretty impressive, Paul.  1500 miles @ 10 KW from a station whose signal  pattern flames out  somewhere over the Alaskan Gulf , well short of Anchorage.   Nice catch !

http://nf8m.com/pattern_maps/current/NIGHTTIME-UNLIMITED/NIGHTTIME-UNLIMITED_1600KHz-1.html

What im getting is the skywave.. which is pretty awesome

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MW Loggings / KVRI 1600 Blaine, WA

« on: January 15, 2022, 2252 UTC »

KVRI 1600 is licensed to Blaine, WA right and its towers are right on the border with WA state/Canada. This station targets the punjab community in the Vancouver area and not exactly a surprise, but it is incredibly strong here in McGrath, Alaska!!  It's 10KW/6 tower night pattern is right along the waterfront and beams right up the coast.  If I draw a line from it's tower array and main lobe, its pointed almost dead center at my general area.

Not unexpected but still amazing considering KVRI is 1500 miles away! They are my most consistent station... the strongest, most regular.  I hear the 50kw'ers from Vancouver 1320,, 1470, 1130, 730, etc.... but this one tops them all by noticeable amounts.

Here's some audio of the station with the audio filter widened to 6khz on my CC CRane Skywave with my FSL loop tuned up:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-60_UIaYpulnmRRleSuiSomgQNkrE5BV/view?usp=sharing

Paul Walker