Propagation and Monitoring

I was in the Olinda Forest , 30 km east of central Melbourne, yesterday and did some propagation research in the mid-afternoon period, using the little E5 receiver and  three metres of random wire antenna.

 

Its autumn now, 'with good longpath signals from Europe, Africa,ME, and shortpath from the Americas, on 6 MHz, and Antarctic-mode Brazilian activity on 9 MHz and 11 MHz.

 

Solar activity remains very low, with the 10.7 cm flux down to 122, and the equivalent smoothed sunspot number down to 72.

 

This is a summary of selected entries entries, observed in the span 0500 and 0530:

 

5890 USA WWCR English

5965 COSTA RICA REE Spanish

6035 ASCENSION VOA Hausa

6055 SPAIN REE Spanish

6080 BONAIRE NHK Spanish

6110 CANADA NHK Sackville English

6125 CUBA RHC English

6155 AUSTRIA ORF German

6190 S.AFRICA BBC Meyerton English losh

 

9565 BRAZIL

9820 BRAZIL

 

11765 BRAZIL

11780  BRAZIL

 

21520 IRAN Russian

21580 MARIANAS RFA Tinian Chinese

21710 MARIANAS RFA Tinian Chinese

 

Regards from Melbourne!

 

Bob Padula