Excellent signals on 6 MHz at East Gippsland

I spent Christmas weekend with my brother at his farm at Clifton Creek, East
Gippsland, about 300 km east of Melbourne.

I did a spectrum study between 1930 and 2000 on Dec 25, covering the 49
metre band, with very strong shortpath (darkness) signals from Europe,
Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

I had the Eton E5, using only its small whip antenna!

This is what the band looked like:

5780 KUWAIT VOA Dari
5790 ENGLAND BBC-Skelton Arabic
5810 MARIANAS RFA-Tinian Chinese
5830 UZBEKISTAN DW-Tashkent Russian
5835 PHILIPPINES VOA-Tinang Korean
5850 SRI LANKA R. Farda, Farsi
5860 MARIANAS RFA-Tinian Chinese
5875 ENGLAND BBC-Woofferton English
5885 VATICAN Eur langs
5890 IRAN Italian
5900 BULGARIA R. Bulgaria, Bulgarian
5905 FRANCE RFI-Issoudin Russian
5915 SLOVAK REPUBLIC R. Slovakia International English
5920 ENGLAND Polish Radio, Woofferton, Russian
5930 CZECH REPO. R. Prague Spanish/French
5940 RUSSIA VOR-Samara Russian
5945 CYPRUS BBC English
5955 AUSTRIA VOV-Moosbrun French
5960 GERMANY Christian Science Monitor, Wertachtal, Russian
5965 MALAYSIA RTVM-Kajang Malay
5970 ALBANIA CRI-Cerrick French
5975 RUSSIA VOR-Novosibirsk Russian
54980 TURKEY VOT Turkish
6000 RUSSIA WYFR-Moscow Russian
6005 SEYCHELLES BBC English
6010 ORAN VOIRI English
6020 MADAGASCAR WYFR-Talata English
" CHINA CRI Albanian
6030 GERMANY BIB-Wertachtal English
6040 GERMANY Pan American BC, Wertachtal, English
6050 TURKEY VOT English
6055 ALBANIA CRI-Cerrick French
6060 THAILAND VOA-Udorn Korean
6065 IRAN VOIRI Arabic
6075 ENGLAND DW-Woofferton German
6080 KUWAIT R. Kuwait, Arabic
6090 SLOVAK REP. IRRS-Rimatska Sobota, English
6095 MARIANAS RFA-Tinian Chinese
6100 CHINA CRI-Beijing Russian
" S. AFRICA WYFR-Meyerton Portuguese
6110 ENGLAND BBC-Rampisham Arabic
6120 TURKEY VOT Turkish
6130 SWAZILAND TAR-Manzini Portuguese
6135 GERMANY VOA-Biblis Croatian
6145 CHINA CRI-Urumqi Romanian
6150 GERMANY RL-Lampertheim Belarusian
6155 RUSSIA VOA-Samara Russian
6160 CHINA CRI-Urumqi German
6165 CHAD N'djamena French
6175 FRANCE RFI-Issoudin French
6180 INDIA Arabic
6185 VATICAN VR Bulgarian
6190 S. AFRICA BBC-Meyerton English
6195 OMAN BBC Al Seela, Arabic
6200 BULGARIA R. Bulgaria Bulgarian
6260 UZBEKISTAN CVC-Tashkent Hindi
6280 INDIA Arabic
62985 NO. KOREA VOK German

Bob Padula,
Melbourne