TUNING THE WORLD ON 11 MHZ

 

TUNING THE WORLD ON 11 MHZ

 

Solar activity remains very low (IPS-Sydney) with the 10.7 cm Solar Radio Flux down to 84, and the Equivalent Smoothed Sunspot Number having fallen to 26. So long-haul multi-hop transmissions over darkness or semi-darkness zones remains unreliable on  frequencies above 13 MHz.

 

I was out at the Warrandyte State Park yesterday afternoon, September 8 2015, in Melbourne's outer east, at one of my favourite monitoring sites in the Fiddler's Gully former gold mining reserve on Fifth Hill. Plenty of quartz rocks and tailings there – perhaps this abundance of  surface  minerals in the area contributes to the good propagation there!

 

As usual, my receiver was as the small Eton E5 with about two metres of antenna, one metre high, supported in a wattle tree.

 

Good array of signals on  the 11 MHz band in the 0500 to 0530 period (1500-1530 here) - notable were:

 

* IRAN – Azeri, Turkish and Dari services

* FRANCE – Issoudun: NHK and R. Denge Kurdistan

* KUWAIT – Mashaal Radio via Kuwait

* SAO TOME – VOA

* S. AFRICA – BBC Meyerton

 

This is the summary ---

 

11520 USA WEWN English

11580 USA TOM-WRMI English

11600 FRANCE R. Denge Kurdistan, Issoudun Kurdish

11620 CHINA CNR5 Chinese

11635 USA WHRI English

11725 RNZI

11760 IRAN Azeri

11775 ALBANIA CRI-Cerrick Arabic

11780 BRAZIL R. Nacional

11870 USA WEWN Spanish

11905 SAO TOME VOA English

11925 IRAN Turkish

11935 CHINA CNR5 Chinese

11945 S. AFRICA BBC-Meyerton English

11970 FRANCE NHK-Issoudun Japanese

11980 TURKEY Turkish

12070 IRAN Dari

12130 KUWAIT R. Mashaal Pashto

 

 

 

 

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