Splendid afternoon propagation on 7, 9, 11, and 13 MHz

On Friday afternoon January 8 2010 I went over to the Jumping Creek Reserve in the Warrandyte State Park, about 20 mins from here.

This is another of my favourite noise-free field monitoring sites, and I was impressed with the activity on the 7 MHz, 9 MHz, 11 MHz, and 13 MHz bands between 0330 and 0500.

This is a summary (Eton E5, 5m random antenna):

7250 IRAN VOIRI V. of Palestine service Arabic *0330 (first reception of
this frequency!)
7440 UKRAINE RUI English 0410
9430 ZAMBIA CVC Lusaka English *0400
9500 CHINA CNR1 0400
9505 CHINA V. of Strait Mandarin 0400
9560 CHINA Xinjiang PBS Urumqui Uyghur 0400, parallel with 13670
9595 JAPAN R. Nikkei Tokyo Japanese 0410
9635 VIETNAM VOV East Sea service Vietnamese super-strong 0400
" ROMANIA RRI Spanish 0415, interfering with Vietnam
9665 N. KOREA KCBS Pyongyang Korean 0400
9675 CHINA CNR1 Mandarin 0400
9685 CHINA CNR5 Mandarin 0415
9720 CHINA CNR2 Mandarin 0415
9730 N. KOREA VOK Pyongyang French 0350
" MYANMAR MBS Yangon Burmese 0410
9735 ENGLAND DW-Woofferton German *0400
9760 JAPAN R. Nikkei Tokyo Japanese 0415
9790 CUBA CRI-Habana Cantonese 0415
9850 VIETNAM VOV dialects network *0400
9865 IRAN VOIRI Azeri 0405
9870 INDIA Nat network 0415
9875 VIETNAM VOV nat network Vietnamese 0415
9895 IRAN VOIRI Arabic 0415
13670 CHINA Xinjiang PBS Urumqi Uyghur 0415 parallel 9560
13740 IRAN VOIRI Dari 0415
13750 IRAN VOIRI Turkish *0430
13800 ABU DHABI R. Dabanga via Dhabbaya Sudanese *0430

Note: Signals from Africa, Middle East and Asia were via shortpath, propagating via the "Summer Daylight Transmission Mode" into Melbourne.