MONITORING NOTES TO START THE NEW YEAR

 

MONITORING NOTES TO START THE NEW YEAR!

 

The New Year of 2015 started with an excellent propagation opening into Melbourne in our pre-sunrise window, with splendid signals on 15 MHz, 17 MHz and 21 MHZ in the time span 1700 to 1730.

 

Most signals had disappeared by 1730, suggesting that the dominant propagation mode was short path (Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe), and long path (Americas) into Melbourne from the west.

 

This summary of observed spectrum occupancy may be of interest!

 

15140 INDIA Russian DRM mode, making frequencies between 15130 and 15150 unusable

15205 S. ARABIA Arabic

15225 S. ARABIA Arabic

15235 S. AFRICA Channel Africa Meyerton English

15300 FRANCE RFI-Issoudun French

15335 FRANCE BVB-Issoudun Tigrinya

15400 ASCENSION BBC English

15435 S. ARABIA Arabic

15455 SAO TOME VOA Shona

15540 KUWAIT R.Kuwait  Urdu

15570 VATICAN VR-SMG French

15580 SAO TOME VOA English

15610 USA WEWN English

15825 USA WWCR English

 

17560 S. ARABIA Arabic

17575 MADAGASCAR AWR-Talata Swahili

17630 FRANCE V. of Oromo Revolution Issoudun Oromo

17655 USA VOA-G Portuguese

17670 INDIA English

17775 USA KVOH Spanish

17850 FRANCE RFI-Issoudun French

17895 VATICAN VOA via SMG relay English

 

21600 USA WHRI English