Winter Monitoring Report from Melbourne - 4, 5, 6, 7,9 MHz

I was out in the Olinda Forest, 30 km east of the Melbourne CBD, on Friday afternoon July 3, 2009, a cold, bleak, and rainy winter day!

My visit was to review some walking tracks and to discover new winter Fungi, in this former logging region.

I took the little Eton E5 receiver with me, and did some HF propagation research in the mid-afternoon on 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9 MHz, between 0500 and 0600.

Good longpath propagation from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, and shortpath from Asia and the Americas.

Here are some selected entries from my research, all in the 0500 to 0600 window:

4985 BRAZIL R. Brazil Central Portuguese

5910 COLOMBIA Manfil Estereo Spanish

5945 GERMANY VOA-Biblis *0500-0530 Albanian

6010 COLOMBIA LV de Tu Conciencia Spanish

6035 BOTSWANA VOA *0530-0600 French

6060 CUBA RHC English

6090 ANGUILLA TOM English

6095 SAO TOME VOA *0530-0600 French

6140 CUBA RHC English

6145 GERMANY AWR-Wertachtal *0500-0600* Bulgarian

6145 S. AFRICA BBC-Meyerton 0500-0530 Portuguese

6180 PORTUGAL DW-Sines 0500-0530* English

6185 MEXICO Spanish

6190 S. AFRICA BBC-Meyerton English

7230 GERMANY VOA-Lampertheim *0500-0600* Kurdish

7310 S. AFR ICA BBC-Meyerton English

9385 USA WYFR Okeechobee Arabic

9430 ZAMBIA CVC English

9535 FRANCE R. Algeria, Issoudin Arabic

9580 GABON Africa no.1 Moyabi French

9590 ALBANIA CRI-Cerrick Arabic

9610 ASCENSION BBC *0530-0600 Hausa

9685 CHINA CNR5 Mandarin

9770 GERMANY VOA-Nauen 0530-0600 Kurdish

9835 FRANCE RN-Issoudin *0500-0600* Dutch

9885 USA VOA-Greenville *0530-0600 French

Regards from Bob Padula, in Melbourne!