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Title: Russian/Soviet CW Beacon reception, Fiji Islands, June & July 2015
Post by: Teotwaki on July 12, 2015, 0059 UTC

I recently returned after 2 weeks on a few islands. I toted along a small CommRadio CR-1 receiver and a PAR end-fed SWL antenna. I will post up some short videos of the reception and post a link.

6-28 21:00 local, Waya Island and amazingly strong signals

10,872.3   letter K
10,872.4   letter M

I checked a few other frequencies such as WWV on 15 MHz and heard both Hawaii and Colorado

21:14 local

13,528.3  letter K
13,528.4  letter M

16,332.2  letter F
16,332.3  letter K

8,495.2  letter F
8,495.4  letter M

7,039.3   letter K
7,039.4   letter M


July 4th, Mana Island and much poorer reception

20:39 local  13,528.4  letter M

July 5th, Mana Island

16:15  hours local

16,332.4  letter M weak

20:50 hours local

16,332.4  letter M  fair

10,872.3   letter K  fair
10,872.4   letter M fair

21:01 hour local

10,871.7  letter D is weak

Title: Re: Russian/Soviet CW Beacon reception, Fiji Islands, June & July 2015
Post by: Teotwaki on July 12, 2015, 2231 UTC

video/audio recordings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rgfys_ROOs