Monitoring Research - 9 MHz

 

Here in Melbourne, it is only two weeks until the end of winter, and propagation patterns have changed, with earlier sunrise and later sunset.

 

Solar Activity continues to remain low, meaning that long-haul, multi-hop propagation on frequencies above about 14 MHz on darkness or partial-darkness paths will continue to be unreliable.

 

The 9 MHz area continues to show strong activity in our pre-sunrise window, in the time span 1900 to 1930, corresponding to 0500 to 0530 here. This band is dominated by transmissions from  Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, arriving in Melbourne via the darkness zone from the west.

 

Notable occupancies included:

 

IBRA Radio via Kigali 9550

Radio Cairo 9685

CRI via Cerrick 9480

RRI 9500 and 9540

VOIRI 9715

 

This is the full summary:

 

9390 THAILAND R. Thailand English

9410 UAE BBC-Dhabbaya English,lish

9420 GREECE Greek

9425 N. KOREA German

9440 CHINA CRI English

9460 TURKEY Turkish

9480 ALBANIA CRI-Cerrick French

9500 ROMANIA RRI Romanian

9515 ALBANIA CRI-Cerrick Czech

9525 CHINA CRI-Beijing  Russian

9535 CHINA CRI-Baoji Portuguese

9540 ROMANIA RRI Spanish

9550 RWANDA IBRA-Kigali Arabic

9555 S. ARABIA Arabic

9560 CHINA CRI-Urumqi Hungarian

9620 INDIA Arabic

9620 CHINA CRI-Kashi Portuguese

9645 CHINA CRI-Kunming French

9655 CHINA CRI-Kunming Turkish

9665 SPAIN English

9675 S. ARABIA Arabic

9685 EGYPT Russian

9715 IRAN English from *1920

9730 VIETNAM English

9755 IRAN Italian from *1920

9765 CHINA CRI-B Portugese

9775 KUWAIT RFA Chinese

9810 BOTSWANA VOA Portuguese

9835 MALAYSIA domestic Malay

9840 GERMANY RL-Lampertheim Russian

9870 S. ARABIA Arabic

9875 N. KOREA German

9925 PHILS PBS Tinang English