Monitoring from Mont Albert

Here in Mont Albert some good propagation appeared in the icy dark hours before sunrise on 11 MHz and 13 MHz.

 

This is a summary of events as they unfolded between 1900 and 1930.

 

11610 GERMANY AWR-Nauen, Arabic

11635 N. KOREA VOK English

11635  MOLDOVA VOR-Kishinev French co-channel VOK

11650 CHINA CRI-Urumqi German

11695 ALBANIA CRI-Cerrick French

11735 ZANZIBAR local

11775 CHINA CHINA CRI-Kashi German

11805  ROMANIA RRI *1900 Spanish

11910 N. KOREA VOK English

11975 ROMANIA RRI-Romanian

12025 IRAN French to 1930*

12070 GERMANY IBRA-Woofferton Arabic

 

13640 INDIA Arabic

13650 KUWAIT R . Kuwait Arabic

13695 INDIA English

13720 IRAN Hausa to 1930*

13740 FRANCE RFI-Issoudin French

13760 N. KOREA VOK Spanish

13820 FRANCE R. Algeria, Issoudin, Arabic

Radio Taiwan Internatiponal to close some English services

RTI has announced on its website that its transmissions to the Philippines in English at 0100-0200 on 11875 and 1100-1200 on 9465 will close from 1 July.

Brazil in mornings

Propagation from Brazil is currently of technical interest in the Melbourne pre-sunrise and post-sunrise periods!

 

The signal path is via the "short-route", south from Brazil, over the Antarctic region, then northerly into Melbourne.  At 2000 to 2200, this path lies almost in total darkness, but polar absorption limits effective propagation, due to signal blocking on freqs below about 6 MHz.

 

6180 R. Nacional, Brazilia – this appears at 2030, peaking 2100, through to past 2200, clear channel

 

9565 R .Tupi network, Curitiba – around 2000, co-channel VOIRI *1930-2030* Russian

 

11765 R. Tupi network, Curitiba – around 1930 to past 2200, co-channel RFI-Issoudin and VOIRI (*2100 Japanese)

 

11780 Radiodif. Amazonias, Brazilia – around 2030, to 2300, but schedule seems to vary each day. Clear  channel.

 

 

 

Map of terminator on May 16 at 2000

 

 

Great Circle path from Brazilia to Melbourne

 

 

Propagation and Monitoring Report

Evening propagation into Mont Albert has been quite good, of late, on those
bands which have been open.

Continuing low solar activity has mitigated against long-haul propagation in
this time period on frequencies above about 15 MHz!

This is a summary of May 15 , in the window 0900 to 0930, on 49 and 41
metres.

5890 USA WWCR English
5930 RUSSIA R. Rossi, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka
5940 RUSSIA R. R Rossi, Magadan, Russian
5950 JAPAN NHK-Yamata, Korean *0915
5980 USA R. Marti, Greenville
6030 USA R . Marti, Greenville
6055 JAPAN . Nikkei 1, Japanese ese
6070 JAPAN NHK-Yamata, Japanese
6090 JAPAN NHK Chinese
6150 AUSTRALIA RA-Shepparton, Pidgin
6180 BRAZIL R. National
6195 USA NHK-WHRI Portugese

IPS says: High solar flare activity. An X1.2 magnitude solar flare occurred
at 0148 on May 15, producing a short-wave fadeout centred on the Western
Pacific, and including the Australian continent. Minor coronal mass ejection
effects possible later in the day. Solar wind light. Geomagnetic conditions
quiet initially, becoming unsettled to active. Further short-wave radio
fadeouts likely. High-frequency radio communications otherwise normal.

Episode 360 of the Australian DX Report

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Episode 359 of the Australian DX Report

Episode 359 of the Australian DX Report weekly audio program (Podcast) about world shortwave broadcasting is now available.

It's at

http://adxr.podbean.com

Comments and reactions would be appreciated.

Please note that you may subscribe (free) to the service using Feedblitz, which will send you a direct link to the embedded player within a few seconds of the Podcast being uploaded. A subscription link is at the site.

Regards!

Bob Padula
Melbourne