Sensational Winter Daytime DX Comes to Australia


There has been some fantastic DX appearing in the 49 and 41 metre bands here at Mount Evelyn over the last two days. The bands have been wide open from 0200 UTC on the 41mb and from 0400 in in the 49mb. To put this into context for international readers of this blog, 0200 UTC is midday in Melbourne. 

Of special interest were the signals from Africa, following pretty much a greyline path to Melbourne, starting from East Africa and working across the continent during their morning hours. Noted this afternoon were Madagascar, Sudan, Rwanda, Botswana, and Sao Tome. With Antarctica permanently in darkness and daylight hours quite short in Melbourne, these lower frequencies are open for most of the 24 hours.

In discussing seasonal DX patterns with Victor Goonetilleke during his recent trip to Melbourne, this is one very big difference between tropical climes such as Colombo and Melbourne. Being much further south of the equator, we notice profound differences in DX conditions between all four seasons.

Anyway, here's a summary of stations heard in the form of a band scan.

6mHz:
0400-0445 UTC

5910   FRANCE.  R. Japan - Issoudun. Spanish 0400-0430
5935   USA.  WWCR - Nashville. English 0400
6000   CUBA.  R. Havana. English 0400.
6030   USA. R. Marti - Greenville. Spanish 0400
6060   CUBA.  R. Havana, Spanish.
6080   SAO TOME.  VOA - Pinheira. F/in 0425 with African music and English anncts, weak.
6105   GERMANY.  RL - Lampertheim. Belarusian, f/in 0420.
6120   GERMANY. RL - Lampertheim. Russian, f/in 0415.
6125   SPAIN.  REE - Noblejas. Spanish powerhouse signal.
6155   AUSTRIA.  AWR - Moosbrunn. S/on 0430 French
6155   AUSTRIA.  ORF - Moosbrunn, s/on 0500 German.
6175   USA.  VoVietnam - Cypress Creek. Spanish 0400, huge signal.
6180   BRAZIL.  R. Nacional Amazonia - Brasilia. F/in 0430.

7mHz:
0200-0400 UTC

7205   SUDAN.  R. Omdurman - Al Aitahab. F/in 0315, Arabic, weak and off at 0400.
7280   GERMANY.  R. Farda - Nauen. Farsi f/in 0320 to s/off 0358.
7295   FRANCE.  R. Algerienne - Issoudun. S/on 0400 French.
7305   USA. Vatican R - Greenville. Spanish to CAm to s/off 0245.
7310   GERMANY.  Bible Voice - Nauen. Arabic 0300 to 0315 s/off.
7315   USA.  WHRI - Cypress Creek.  English to s/off 0300. Big signal.
7325   SAO TOME.  VOA Pinheira. 0330 in Kinyarwanda to s/off 0400 and // 7340 khz. Scheduled to s/off 0430 on Sat/Sun.
7340   BOTSWANA.  VOA - Moepeng Hill. S/on 0330 to 0400 in Kinyarwanda. Weak. The Nagoya list has this as s/off 0430 daily, which is wrong - only 0430 s/off Sat/Sun as per // 7325 above.
7350   ROMANIA.  RRI - Tiganesti. English s/on 0300, Romanian 0400 through to 0500.
7360   MADAGASCAR.  Vatican R. - Talata Volonondry. English 0300, Swahili 0330 to s/off 0357.
7365   USA.  R. Marti - Greenville. Spanish right through to s/off 0400.
7385   USA.  WHRI - Cypress Creek. English s/on 0300 to 0500
7395   MADAGASCAR.  R. Japan - Talata Volonondry. Swahili s/on 0315 to 0400 s/off
7405   USA.  R. Marti - Greenville.  S/on 0400 Spanish.
7425   RWANDA.  DW - Kigali.  Swahili 0300-0400
7435   GERMANY.  RL - Lampertheim. Russian s/on 0300 heard right through to 0500.
7445   GERMANY.  RL - Biblis. 0320 Chechen and other Caucasian languages, to s/off 0400
7475   GREECE.  VoG - Avlis. Greek 0215 to s/off 0355. Big signal.
7490   USA. WBCQ - Monticello. English 0320, weak.
7506.4   USA.  WRNO - New Orleans. English 0230 to s/off 0400. Still seems to be way off it's registered 7505kHz.

 Have a great weekend everyone and good DX,

 73,

 Rob VK3BVW

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