The Radio Waves are Humming!

All,

 

Lots of activity on the bands as intercepted here in Melbourne now as we move into our pre-winter period! Solar activity still low, 10.7 cm flux down to 114, equivalent daily SSN 65.

 

Radio Australia has opened up several changes in late April/early May to its A12 schedule, and these new channels have appeared, carrying English programming, all from Shepparton, and audible here via groundwave :

 

5940 1500-1700

7410 0700-0900

9890 1300-1500

19000 0100-0300 (interesting  usage in 15 metre band!)

21740 2200-0100

 

I haven't noticed any of the planned DRM transmissions.

 

It's useful to be remember that frequency management, transmitter operations, transmitter maintenance, transmitter construction, HFCC/ABU-HF frequency coordination (on-shore and off-shore), are the responsibility of the transmission provider Broadcast Australia, which owns all ABC transmitter facilities, leasing these to the ABC, with funding provided to the ABC by the Federal Government's Annual Appropriation Bill.

 

MONITORING

May 4 interceptions revealed good multi-hop long-haul 7 MHz, 9 MHz, 11 MHz propagation from all continents during daytime in Melbourne, and here are some selected entries for our mid-afternoon research period:

 

0430-0500

 

7350 ROMANIA RRI Romanian

7435 GERMANY RL/RFE Lampertheim Russian

 

9375 GERMANY Croatian R. Wertachtal Croatian

9565 BRAZIL

9625 CANADA CBC Northern Service Sackville

9800 ROMANIA RRI Russian

9820 BRAZIL

9835 MALAYSIA RTM Malay

9870 MADAGASCAR V. of People

 

0500-0530

 

9500 SWAZILAND TWR Manzini *0455, scintillating signals via long[path, English!

9515 ALBANIA CRI Cerrick Albanian

9555 CANADA VOV Sackville Vietnamese

9580 GABON Moyabi French

9590 ALBANIA CRI Cerrick Albania

9635 LITHUANIA RL/RFE Sitkunai Tatar-Bashkir

9700 ROMANIA RRI French

 

11560 RUSSIA R. Miraya, Nikolayev

11605 S. AFRICA RFI Meyerton French

11620 CHINA CNR5

11640 CHINA CRI Vietnamese

11850 GERMANY RFE/RL Lampertheim Russian

11930 BELARUS Minsk, nat network

11935 CHINA CNR5

11940 IRAN VOIRI I Dari

11945 SEYCHELLES BBC English

11970 FRANCE NHK Issoudin English

12025 BOTSWANA VOA English

 

11665 MALAYSIA RTM Malay

 

9850 RWANDA DW-Kigali English

 

Regards from Melbourne!

Bob Padula