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Volmets heard this week...
« on: December 26, 2016, 0235 UTC »
HF has been very erratic this week, some nights/mornings signals are good then very poor the next, following Volmet transmissions heard here during the past 10 days:

0813z  6.604MHz  WSY-70 New York Radio with Volmet, 5X2 report. Via Grey Line.
1758z  6.617MHz  RLAP Rostov Meteo, Rostov-On-Don, Russia with long Volmet report. 4X3 report.
1730z  6.676MHz  AWB Mumbai (Bombay) Volmet, with Volemt including Sri Lanka & Maldives. 5X4 report.
0940z  6.676MHz  HSD  Bangkok Volmet, Thailand in English, Australian accented male announcer. 5X8 report.
1101z  6.679MHz  KVM-70 Honolulu Volmet, many locations "no reports received." male announcer. 5X5 report.
0822z  6.679MHz  ZKAK Auckland Volmet, New Zealand, Pacific airports Volmet (Nadi, Faleolo, Rarotonga, Pago Pago, Papeete etc), 5X9 plus 20dB over report.

1728z  8.819MHz  Tashkent Volmet, Uzbekistan in Russian, Volmet report.  Shocking audio. 5X5 report.
1745z  8.888MHz  UNNN Novosibirsk Meteo, Siberia, Russia with Volmet report. 5X2 report.
0731z  8.952MHz  LVE Cordoba Volmet, Argentina in Spanish. Via Grey Line. 5X8 report.
1946z  8.957MHz  EIP Shannon Volmet, Ireland in "polished" English accent. 5X5 report.

0756z 10.051MHz  VFG Gander Volmet, Canada, Newfoundland with long report. 5X2 report on Grey Line.

1008z 11.253MHz  MKL Royal Air Force Saint Eval, UK with Volmet.5X2 report.

1132z 11.297MHz  RLAP Rostov-On-Don Volmet, Russia, female announcer. 5X8 report.
0944z 11.318MHz  UNNN Novosibirsk Meteo, Volmet, Siberia, Russia. Modulation hard to understand, muffled. 3X3 report.
1004z 11.318MHz  UBB2 Syktyvkar Volmet, Komi Republic, European Russia,male announcer. 5X6 report.
1122z 11.318MHz  RQCI Samara Volmet, European Russia, female announcer, very clear. 5X9 report.
2332z 11.387MHz  AXQ-421 Australian Volmet for major Australian state airports.  5X9 report.
1038z 11.387MHz  AWC Kolkata (Calcutta) Volmet, India. 5X2 report.
1028z 11.387MHz  AWB Mumbai (Bombay) Volmet, India, also includes Colombo (Sri Lanka) & Male (Maldive Islands) airports. 5X5 report.
1024z 11.387MHz  9VA-43 Singapore Volmet, Changi report. 5X9 report.

0633z 13.282MHz  KVM-70 Honolulu Volmet with many "No report received" status. 5X6 report.
0744z 13.282MHz  JIA Tokyo Radio Volmet, Japan in English. 5X4 report.
0748z 13.282MHz  VRK Hong Kong Radio with Volmet. 5X3 report.
0710z 13.285MHz  3UW-33 Guangzhou Radio Volmet, China in Mandarin, robotic announcer. 5X6 report.

Many published Russian or former Russian States Volmets are either not on air or just not heard this way, looking for many of them on 10, 11 and 13MHz with no result or even hint of result.

Pakistan Volmet 11.387MHz KAR
Karachi Volmet never heard this way either, any one logged it of recent? India comes in well but nothing from Pakistan at nominated transmission times.  Also Tehran Volmet, Iran never heard on published frequencies at scheduled times.

CPB-22 La Paz Bolivia on 8.070MHz never heard either, maybe someone else has?

Thanks, Jack VK2XQ.
 
« Last Edit: December 30, 2016, 0055 UTC by Looking-Glass »
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