DX QUICK TIPS - September 9, 2018


DX QUICK TIPS
September 9, 2018


 This weekend, my next door neighbours have been away on a brief holiday. Result: The noise on the shortwave bands was reduced significantly! YAY!!! It's amazing what one can hear when RF interference is absent. Plenty of weak signal DX was noted mostly during daylight hours, including frequencies normally heard during our mid-winter season here (May - July). So this weekend has been a pleasant DX surprise for me. May my dear neighbours take more holidays in the future!!! 😄
👍 4840   USA. WWCR - Nashville TN. Unusually early fade in for this time of year at 0555 (3:55pm here) with American preaching. Weak signal at first but improved quickly by 0625. Sept 8.

 👍 5020   SOLOMON ISLANDS. SIBC - Honiara. Unusually early fade in for this time of year at 0625 (4:25 pm here) with music programming and chit-chat in English. Weak audio initially but improved later. Sept 8.

 👍 5040   CUBA. R. Habana - Bauta. Fading in at 0515 (3:15 pm here) with English to CAm with Havana Portraits. A weak signal but great to hear it still coming through well after the Southern Hemisphere’s winter DX season has passed. R. Rebelde 5025 also noted fading in at this time. Sept 9. 

 6155   AUSTRIA. R. Oesterreich Int’l - Moosbrunn. German to Eu at 0516 with commentary, a fair signal, Sept. 9.

 👍 7570   USA. WRMI/Overcomer Ministry - Okeechobee FL. Nice to hear the signal (but not the content!) at f/in 0350 (1:50pm here), still hanging in there even though winter afternoon reception conditions have long passed. A weak signal, Sept 9.

 👍 9395   USA. WRMI - Okeechobee FL. Not DX for our US readers, but here in southeastern Australia it was good to catch this at 0415 (2:15 pm here) with classic rock hits such as “Got To Get You Into My Life”. ID at 0420 as “We’ll be back to the music in moments on WRMI, Radio Miami International”. Weak signal but pleasing to hear in the early afternoon at this time of year. Sept 9.

 👍 9410   UZBEKISTAN. BBC - Tashkent. English WS current affairs program to SAs at 0105 (11:05 am here). A weak signal but interesting for middle-of-the-day reception in Spring over an all-daylight path where reception at this time can be marginal at best on 9 mHz. Sept 9.

 👍 9510   UZBEKISTAN. BBC - Tashkent. Hindi to SAs at 0120 (11:20am here), weak but readable signal (see comments for 9410). Sept 9.

 👍 9525   FRANCE. R. Dengê Welat - Issoudun. Some wild Kurdish music at 0429, then a talk with background music. Signed off 0457. Weak signal but able to hear it on a day when the noise was well down. Sept 9.

 👍 9550   IRAN. VoIRI - Sirjan. Spanish to CAm with a discussion at 0125, a weak signal and no signal noted from CRI-Kunming which is often heard here at this time. Sept 9.

 9595   JAPAN. R. Nikkei - China. Network 1 with long talks and discussion at 0632. Good signal, Sept 8.

 👍 9600   FRANCE. R. Dabanga - Issoudun. Sudanese discussion show at 0440 beamed to Sudan. Weak signal and nothing heard on the // 13800 outlet, Sept 9.

 9605   USA. KBS World R. - Cypress Creek SC. Spanish to SAm at 0130. A very weak and fluttery signal, Sept 9.

 9636.03   VIETNAM. VoV - Son Tay. Network 1 programming at 0136 in Vietnamese, fair signal, Sept 9.

 👍 9790   CUBA. CRI - Quivican. Cantonese service to WNAm at 0447, fair signal. No QRM from the co-channel RFI-Issoudun to EAf, although a check on the Qatar KiwiSDR reveals that RFI is indeed heard in that part of the world….with no sign of CRI. Sept 9. 

 9800   IRAN. VoIRI - Zahedan. Arabic service to ME at 0456, fair signal, Sept 9.

 👍 9860   VATICAN. R. Japan - SM Galeria. English to WAf at 0502 with news on the recent Hokkaido earthquake. Japan is really having some bad luck with recent floods, typhoons and earthquakes. One of my daughters lives in Osaka, so I have a constant eye on natural disasters in Japan. A very good signal on Sept 9.

 9860   ENGLAND. KBS World R. - Woofferton. Korean service to Eu at 0620, with chat and occasional songs, excellent signal, Sept 8.

 9865   INDIA. AIR - Bengaluru. Vividh Bharati service with groovy Hindi songs at 0145. weak signal, Sept 9.
9890 Kranji Outlet

 👍 9890   SINGAPORE. BBC - Kranji. Bangla service to SAs at 0150 till s/off 0200. Fair signal for lunchtime reception on 9 mHz! It was scheduled to continue in Burmese at 0200, but nothing heard. Checked the other listed freqs of 11995 and 15310 both here and on the Delhi KiwiSDR but nothing heard on those channels either! Latest HFCC registration for all three freqs shows they appear to have been dropped. Looks to be a recent change. Sept 9.

 👍 11530   PRIDNESTROVIE. R. Dengê Welat - Grigoriopol. A long telephone interview in Kurdish at 0745. Frantic Kurdish instrumental music at 0754. ID and news at 0800. A fair signal at the start but weakened by 0810, Sept 8.

 11655   GERMANY. Bible Voice - Nauen. R. Dardasha 7 programming in Arabic to NAf at s/on 0600 with ID and preaching until s/off 0615. Fair to poor signal, Sept 9.

 11680   D.P.R.KOREA. KCBS - Kanggye. News reports in Korean at 0810. Audio quality was somewhat muffled at times, but a fair signal, Sept 8.

 👍 11885   USA. KNLS - Anchor Point AK. English language lesson outlining the different uses of the words “practice” and “practise” in the Mandarin service to EAs at 0830. Then an interview program at 0835. A weak signal, Sept 8.

 17640   THAILAND. R. Thailand - Ban Dung. English to Eu with travel/tourist news at 0550. Fair signal, Sept 9.

 17760   ROMANIA. RRI - Galbeni. English to AUS/OC at 0553 to s/off 0557, fair signal, Sept 9.

 17790   SRI LANKA. AWR - Trincomalee. Arabic to ME with talks and music at 0540, fair signal, Sept 9.

 17880   THAILAND. R. Azadi - Ban Dung. Pashto service to Afghanistan at 0546, news reports and ID, fair signal, Sept 9.
EQUIPMENT:
➤ Yaesu FTDX3000 transceiver
➤ Horizontal sky loop antenna 
➤ Double bazooka (coax dipole) antennas for 14, 7 and 3.5 mHz.
73 and have a great weekend everyone!

 Rob Wagner VK3BVW






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  1. Steve McDonaldSeptember 10, 2018 at 6:24 AM

    Rob, I always enjoy your wonderful blogspots. Keep them coming! Regarding your local QRN from the lovely new neighbours...have you ever investigated more closely to find out what might be creating it? Perhaps an easy fix? Around here I have had the neighbours let me swap out their low voltage switching-supplied halogen track lights for normal AC ones. They've also let me install zero-noise light dimmers. Maybe there is something similar next door there...? Steve VE7SL 73

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    1. Rob WagnerSeptember 10, 2018 at 7:45 AM

      Hi Steve, thanks for dropping by the blog and leaving your kind comments! Over the months I have noticed a variety of different noises being picked up. As we have now entered Spring here, one especially loud noise appears to have disappeared, so perhaps relating to heating? Don't know. It sounds to me like there could be a few (many?) devices involved in RFI. And, of course, noise levels are generally increasing all over the wider neighbourhood, so it's not involving just the people next door, as far as I can tell.

      I have ferrite in the lines already, but still have a few tricks up my sleeves which I am yet to try....and which I must get around to deploying eventually! Over the past few months, we have been travelling and had some part time work has come along, so investigations have stopped for the moment. Also, I've been mucking around with FT8 for some of the time, and that mode seems to cut through the noise like a knife through butter!! :-) Cheers, mate. Rob VK3BVW

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