HF monitoring at 6 am!

Interesting signals from Africa, the Middle East, SAsia, and Americas between 6 am and 7 am on 15 MHz this morning, 1900-2000.

These were flitting across the Pacific daylight path, with OWF/MUF around 17 MHz.

This summary may be of interest:

15110 SPAIN REE Spanish

15140 OMAN

15190 PHILS PBS Tinang English/Tagalog

1522 USA VOA-Greenville French

15240 S. AFRICA AW R-Meyerton Fulfilde

15275 RWANDA DW-Kigali English

15330 USA R. Marti Spanish

15400 ASCENSION BBC English

15480 S. AFRICA AWR-Meyerton Arabic

15540 KUWAIT R. Kuwait

15580 BOTSWANA VOA English

15610 USA WEWN English

15650 GREECE VOG Greek

15710 EGYPT Hausa

Great Circle Map – Melbourne to Ascension Island. Non-stop over Antarctica!

HF monitoring at Fifth Hill

I went over to one of my favourite field monitoring sites at Fifth Hill, Warrandyte State Park, on Oct 31 1012, and did some work between 0400 and 0500 on 9 MHz, 11 MHz, 13 MHz, 15 MHz, and 17 MHz, all good bands playing nicely!

My summary -

9675 S. ARABIA Arabic

9710 IRAN English

9695 CYPRUS BBC Farsi

9755 IRAN Hebrew *0430

9765 ARMENIA VOR-Yerevan Spanish

9815 CYPRUS BBC Somali

9840 RUSSIA VOR-Moscow Russian

 

11510 UKRAINE RUSSIA Denge Kurdistan, Nikolayev, Kurdish

11520 USA WEWN English

11620 INDIA Nat Net

11645 CHINA CRI-Kunming Vietnamese

11690 S. AFRICA R. Okapi, Meyerton, French

11730 UZBEKISTAN NHK-Tashkent Farsi

11760 CUBA RHC Spanish

11765 BRAZIL

11770 IRAN English

11780 BRAZIL

11820 OMAN BBC Arabic

11840 CUBA RHC Spanish

11845 CHINA CNR2

11620 INDIA

11860 IRAN Dari

11870 USA WEWN Spanish

11905 CHINA CNR6

11935 OMAN BBC Farsi

11940 MADAGASCAR R. Tamazuj, Talata, Arabic

12015 S. AFRICA BBC-Meyerton English

12035 CYPRUS BBC English

 

13590 CHINA CRI-B English

13600 CHINA CRI-Kunming Tamil

13610 CHINA CNR1

13615 SRI LANKA R. Farda, Iranawila

13620 CHINA CRI-Xian English

13630 UZBEKISTAN CVC-Tashkent Hindi

13650 N.KOREA VOK French

13655 CHINA CRI-Xian Cantonese

13670 CHINA Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, Uyghur

13680 IRAN Swahili *0400

13700 CHINA CNR13 Uyghur

13710 MARIANAS RFA-Tinian Chinese

13720 DUBAI R. Darfur, Dhabbaya, Arabic

13765 MADAGASCAR VR-Talata Amharic

13800 DUBAI R. Tamajuz, Dhabbaya, Arabic

 

17505 CHINA CRI-Xian Hakka

17540 CHINA CRI-Kashi Hakka

17550 CHINA CNR1

17565 CHINA CNR1

17580 CHINA CNR1

17595 CHINA CNR1

17605 CHINA CNR1

17640 CHINA CRI-Xian Russian

17710 CHINA CRI-B Hakka

17725 CHINA CRI-Xian English

17740 CHINA CRI-Xian Vietnamese

17770 THAILAND RL-Udon Russian

17790 THAILAND BBC-Nakhon English

17810 JAPAN NHK-Yamata Japanese

17840 PALAU RA-Koror Indonesian

17855 CHINA CRI-B English

17860 PHILS VOA-Tinang Tibetan

17870 ROMANIA RRI English

17880 MARIANAS RFA-Tinian Chinese

17890 CHINA CNR1

17895 S. ARABIA Arabic

 

Who said that SW radio was ending? There are plenty of transmissions, but is anyone listening? !!

HF Monitoring Oct 30 2012

Lots of action on 22 mb in the 1800-1900 window!

Entries of Oct 30:

13590 OMAN R . Oman Arabic. Listed to s/off at 1730 but running late

13695 GERMANY R. Farda Lampertheim

13620 KUWAIT R. Kuwait Arabic (unlisted freq – not on usual 13650!)

13625 GERMANY VOA-Wertachtal Amharic

13640 INDIA Arabic

13695 INDIA English

13755 SRI LANKA VOA-Iranawila English

13765 VATICAN VR-SMG Portuguse

HF Monitoring Oct 29 2012

On the morning of Oct 29 2012 I did some some spectrum monitoring work bet ween 1600 and 1700, that’s 3 am here in Melbourne.

I was at astonished to discover that the 16 metre band was very active, with MUFs quite high, even though solar activity is advised as being “very low”!

Many signals on 19 mb also.

Many long path signals from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa arriving from across the Pacific, after passing over North America.

This is a summary:

17560 S. ARABIA Arabic

17595 EGYPT Urdu

17615 S. ARABIA Hausa

17640 CYPRUS BBC English

17670 INDIA Swahili to 1615*

17715 SPAIN RFE Spanish

17735 FRANCE NHK-Issoudin Japanese

17745 ENGLAND Sudan Radio Service, Woofferton, Arabic

17850 COSTA RICA REE Spanish

15190 EQUATORIAL GUINEA R.Africa, Bata, English religious

60 METRES

Lots of activity between 16 30 and 1645, dominated by AIR regionals on 4760 4800 4810 4820 4840 4860 4880 4910 4920 5010 5040.

13 METRES

Goodness gracious!

21610 SPAIN REE Noblejas Spanish 1615!

HF monitoring Oct 28 2012

Yes, it came to pass that a new SW transmission season really did begin on October 28, 2012!

Many frequency changes have been made, and this is my summary of observations made over at Fifth Hill, Warrandyte State Park, on Oct 29 2012

0310-0330

11710 CHINA CRI-Urumqi R Russian

11780 BRAZIL

11795 THAILAND RL Udon Tajik

11825 ROMANIA RRI Spanish

11850 ROMANIA RRI Spanish

11935 F. GUYANA NHK Montsinery *0330 Japanese

12035 OMAN BBC English

0330-0355

9645 ENGLAND VOV-Woofferton English

9930 USA WYFR Spanish

11510 RUSSIA Denge Kurdistan, Nikolayev, Kurdish

11860 CHINA PBS Xizang, Lhasa Chinese

13590 CHINA CRI-B English

13615 SRI LANKA R. Farda, Iranawila

13620 CHINA CRI-Xian English

13630 ROMANIA RRI Spanish

13735 CHINA CRI-Kashi Tamil

13790 PHILS RFE –Tinang Uzbek

15230 CUBA RHC Spanish

15330 TAIWAN RTI English

15390 CHINA CNR13 Uyghur

15530 PHILS IBB Tinang Uzbek

15620 SRI LANKA VOA-Iranawila Somali

15650 THA ILAND RL-Udon Uzbek

15630 RUSSIA VOR Petro Pav. English

15690 SRI LANKA R. Farda Iranawila

15810 TAIWAN SOH

15870 TAIWAN SOH

21450 MARIANAS RFA-Tinian Chinese

0400-0430

9520 KUWAIT Russian

9710 IRAN English

9830 RUSSIA VIA-Petro Pavl English

13765 MADAGASCAR VR-Talata Tigrinya

17770 THAILAND RL-Udon Russian

17840 PALAU RA-Koror Indonesian

17870 ROMANIA RRI English