Excellent 13 MHz propagation in sunrise window

The 13 MHz spectrum is currently offering excellent propagation here in
Melbourne, during the window just after local sunrise.

Frequency occupancy is dominated by shortpath signals from Asia, the Middle
East, Europe, and Africa.

This a sample of spectrum occupancy observed on October 19, 2011, in the
period 1900 to 1930:

13570 BOTSWANA VOA African languages to 1930*
13600 IRAN VOIRI French to 1930*
13640 INDIA Arabic
13660 AUSTRIA BBC-Moosbrun Arabic
13675 FRANCE RFI-Issoudin Portuguese to 1930*
13695 FRANCE RFI-Issoudin French
13710 IRAN VOIRI Hausa to 1930*
13730 VATICAN RCI-Santa Maria di Galeria French
13740 GERMANY Bible Voice Broadcasting, Nauen, Arabic to 1930*
13760 N.KOREA VOK Spanish
13765 VATICAN VR Italian
13800 TAJIKISTAN RFA-Dushanbe Chinese
13820 FRANCE R. Algeria via Issoudin, Arabic
13870 GERMANY VOA-Nauen, Tigrinya to 1930*

Regards from Melbourne!

Bob Padula