DX QUICK TIPS - DINGO BEACH EDITION! July 27, 2016


DX QUICK TIPS
DINGO BEACH EDITION!
July 27, 2016


 After having made to the top of Australia on our road trip, we have begun to slowly head back down the state coastline of Queensland....although we still have a very long way to go before arriving back home at Mount Evelyn. Yesterday, a stop for morning tea at Dingo Beach and Hideaway Bay (south of Townsville) allowed me the opportunity to pull out the Tecsun PL-680 receiver. A random wire antenna approximately 25 metres long was slung low in some nearby trees and proved to be more than enough to hear some good DX in the 31 mb. Local time at Dingo Beach was 11:15am. Weather was bright sunshine, hardly a cloud in the sky, temperature about 27C - not bad for winter in the tropics!
The tide was out. Lots of little crabs running around in the wet sand.

 There was only one station heard on 7mHz - Radio Vanuatu - (just a handy 2100km due east across the Coral Sea) and not one I would normally hear in the middle of the day back at Mount Evelyn! The other blockbuster signal was, of course, the 9mHz outlet of Solomon Islands BC - (approx 1700km northeast of Dingo Beach). All in all, around 15 countries were noted in just over one hour of band scanning. Who said you can't hear DX in the daytime??!!!

 Dingo Beach is a quiet spot, a remote location on the Queensland coast. There is one "General Store" and the Dingo Pub. And that's about it!! Needless to say, the beach and foreshore were deserted (being a weekday), and manmade noise levels were virtually nonexistent. So, even weak signals were easy to pick out. The only noise noted were occasional static crashes, probably from lightning discharges north of us, near the equator. Here's the morning tea list:


DATE: Wednesday July 27, 2016
TIME SPAN: 0115 - 0220 UTC (11:15am to 12:20pm local)
LOCATION: Dingo Beach, Queensland.
7260   VANUATU. R. Vanuatu - Port Vila. Nice signal at 0115 with Bislama speech.

 9410   OMAN. BBC - Al Seela. English WS ID at 0129 in service to SEAs, fair signal.

 9460   CHINA. CRI - Kunming. Amoy service at 0131, fair signal.

 9470   CHINA. CRI - Kashi. English to Eu 0132, Good signal.

 9490   FRANCE. R. Republica - Issoudun. Faint signal at 0134.

 9500   CHINA. CNR 1 - Shijiazhuang. Mandarin, fair signal.

 9530   CHINA. CNR 11 - Baoji. Tibetan at 0136, weak signal.

 9535   CHINA. CRI - Kashi. English to SAm, weak signal.

 9545   SOLOMON ISLANDS. SIBC -  Honiara. Pop song "Say You, Say Me" 0138. Huge signal.

 9550   IRAN. VOIRI - Kamalabad. Spanish to SAm at 0140, weak signal and heavy QRM SIBC 9545.
Tuned to Honiara with the signal at "Easy Listening" level!

 9580   KOREA REP. KBS - Kimjae. Japanese programming at 0143, fair signal and no sign of the co-channel CRI's English via Cuba.

 9590   CHINA. CRI - Kashi. Very fluttery signal at 0147 in Spanish to SAm.

 9595   JAPAN. R. Nikkei - Nagara. Japanese talk program at 0148. Weak signal and rarely heard at home, so nice to catch it here at Dingo Beach.

 9610   CHINA. CRI - Kunming. Amoy music program 0150, weak.

 9620   CHINA. CNR 2 - Beijing. Could not hear co-channel Iran at this time from this location.

 9635.8   VIETNAM. VoV - Son Tay. Network 1 Vietnamese at 0153. Very good signal.

 9645   CHINA. CNR 1 - Beijing. Fair signal.

 9655   CHINA. CRI - Nanning. Fair signal in Mandarin to SEAs

 9660   TAIWAN. RTI - Kouhu. Mandarin to EAs 0155 with CNR 1 jammer, good signals from both stations.

 9665   D.P.R.KOREA. KCBS - Kanggye. Korean lecture at 0159 through past 0200, fair signal and rarely heard at this time back home. 

 9685   CHINA. CNR 5 - Beijing. News at 0202, good signal.

 9690   UNIDENTIFIED. Very weak signal at 0204. Could have been AWR-Moosbrunn but based on reception patterns at this location today it was probably more likely KBS-Kimjae.

 9710   CHINA. CRI - Kashi. Sanish to SAm, good signal.

 9720   CHINA. CNR 2 - Baoji-Xinjie. Mandarin, good signal.

 9730   ROMANIA. RRI - Tiganesti. Spanish to CAm 0210, weak signal.

 9750   UNIDENTIFIED. No positive ID for this weak and variable signal at 0212 but believed to be FEBC via Dhabayya in Urdu.

 9810   CHINA. CNR 2 - Baoji. Very good signal.

 9835   MALAYSIA. RTM - Sarawak. FM relay of pop music programming in Malay, 0217, big signal.

 9870   INDIA. AIR - Bengaluru. The Vividh Bharati service at 0218 with music programming and a good signal.

 9885   TAJIKISTAN. RFA - Dushanbe. Tibetan service at 0220, good signal and stronger than the CNR 1 jammer.
After hearing this lot, we rolled up the antenna, packed away the radio and got on the road again for our next stop of the day.

 So.....what's a Dingo?  The dingo (Canis lupus dingo) is a wild dog found in Australia. Learn about the dingo at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo

 73 and have a great weekend everyone!

 Rob Wagner VK3BVW





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