Post-sunrise propagation

There is excellent propagation in to Melbourne in our post-sunrise window,
between 1900 and 2000, on 6 MHz and 9 MHz, dominated by shortpath
transmissions from Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia.

These are important channel occupancies observed on 10 January 2011:

5850 SRI LANKA VOA-Iranawela Farsi 1900
" SRI LANKA R. Farda, Iranawela *1930
5930 CZECH REP R. Prague Spanish/French 1935
5940 RUSSIA VOR-Samara Russian 1930
5960 GERMANY Christian Science Monitor, Wertachtal, English 1935
5970 ALBANIA CRI-Cerrick French 1930
5975 RUSSIA VOR-Samara Arabic 1935
5980 IRAN VOIRI French to 1930*
6010 IRAN IRIB English *1930
6030 GERMANY BVB-Wertachtal English 1935
6040 GERMANY Pan American BS, Wertachtal, English 1935 (parallel with 6030)
6050 TURKEY VOT English 1940
6090 SLOVAK REPUBLIC IRRS-Rimatska Sobota English 1930
7280 PORTUGAL DW-Sines English 2135
7310 ROMANIA RRI English *2130
7345 RUSSIA VOA-Irkutsk Arabic 1930
7360 ALBANIA CRI-Cerrick French 1920
7380 IRAN VOIRI French/Italian 1935
7380 ROMANIA RRI English *2130
7430 ROMANIA RRI Romanian 1935
7435 ALBANIA R. Tirana Albania *2130\

Regards from Melbourne!

Bob Padula