Excellent propagation in 49, 41, 31 and 25 mbs

As winter approaches, there is excellent propagation into Melbourne during various "spectrum windows", particularly during our daytime hours, from all continents.

Morning signals in the 49 mb are now audible well beyond 2300, over two hours past sunrise, shortpath from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Brazilian signals are also observed in the 49, 31 and 25 mbs in the window 2000 to 2200.

Ths is a summary of important spectrum ccupancies noted on April 29, which include newly introduced frequencies for A09.

5945 IRAN VOIRI, *2230-2330* Malay
5980 RUSSIA V. of Russia, Moscow, *2300 Russian
5990 BRAZIL R. Senada 2000-2100
5990 SLOVAKIA IRRS, Rimavksa-Sobota, *0430-0530* English religious programming
6100 ROMANIA RRI, *2300 Spanish
7250 CHINA CRI, Urumqi, *2300 Spanish
7260 CHINA CRI, Kashi, *2330 Sinhala
7370 CHINA CRI, Urumqi, 2345 Mandarin
7390 CHINA CRI, 1005, Russian
7410 CHINA CNR8, 1015, Minority Language Network, Korean
7555 USA WEWN, 1030 Spanish
9620 TURKEY RCI via NEW RELAY (Emirler) to Asia, *0100 English
9635 BRAZIL R. Aparecida, 2000-2130
9710 CHINA CNR1, *2100
9745 CHINA V. of Han, 2115
9815 GERMANY VOA, Nauen, *2030 French
9820 CHINA Guangxi Foreign BS, Nanning, 2345, Vietnamese
9900 CHINA CNR1, 2105
11520 UISA WEWN, 0510 English
11530 USA WYFR, 0515, French
11580 USA WYFR, 0515
11780 BRAZIL R. Nacional, 2105-2200
11815 COSTA RICA REE, 2110

Monitoring notes of newly introduced A09 frequencies

Still no sunspots, so here are some monitoring notes of newly introduced
frequencies for A09.

April 25 - from my home town of Mont Albert, pre-sunrise period:

5950 UAE Zimbabwian Community Radio, Dhabbaya, English and African langs
*2000-2100*
5970 FRANCE RN, Issoudin, Dutch, *2100
6040 ENGLAND RN, Rampisham, Dutch, *2000
6010 BELARUS Belarussian Radio, Home Service, 2030
6065 ROMANIA RRI. French, *2000
6155 GERMANY Polish Radio, Wertachtal, Polish, *2100
7370 IRAN VOIRI, Russian. *1930
7395 MADAGASCAR R. Sweden, Talata, 2005
7490 UZBEKISTAN R. Free Chosun, Tashkent, Korean, 2030
7530 ARMENIA R. Free North Korea, Yerevan, Korean, 2015

April 26 - mid-afternoon, from the Olinda Forest, Dandenong Ranges National
Park, 40 km east of Melbourne CBD

6040 TURKEY VOT, Turkish, 0415
7300 BULGARIA R. Sofia, Russian, *0430
7350 ROMANIA RRI, Romanian, 0440
9555 BULGARIA R. Sofia, Russian, *0430
9565 BRAZIL R. Tupi, 0440
9735 F. GUYANA, VOR, Montsinery, English, 0445
11625 VATICAN VR, Arabic, 0435
11635 GERMANY Bible Voice Broadcasting, Wertachtal, Amharic, 0430
11730 INDIA AIR, Arabic *0430
11980 TURKEY VOT, Turkish 0415
13650 CYPRUS BBC, Arabic 0430

Regards from Melbourne!

Propagation research notes

There have been no sunspots for over 40 days now, but HF propagation continues to be excellent here in Melbourne during our mid-afternoons, on 6, 7, 9, 11, and 13 MHz.

 

Longpath signals from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East dominate, with shortpath from the Americas and Asia.

 

Here are some of my propagation research notes, compiled from a field site in the Warrandyte State Park, about 20 km east of the Melbourne CBD, on April 17, 2009, in the period 0500 to 0600.

 

5985 USA WYFR, Mandarin

6175 CANADA VOV, Sackville, Vietnamese

9430 ZAMBIA CVC, English

9460 GERMANY VOA Biblis to sign-off 0530, English

9630 JORDAN, Arabic

9635 LITHUANIA RFE, Sitkuani, Tatir/Bashkir

11745 TAIWAN RA, Indonesian

11930 BELARUS Minsk, Belarussian

11970 FRANCE NHK Issoudin, English

13640 IRAN Turkish

13650 CYPRUS BBC, Arabic

13660 OMAN BBC, Arabic

13680 UZBEKISTAN CVC Tashkent, Hindi

13695 FRANCE RFI Issoudin, French

13720 ABU DHABI Sudan R. Service Dhabbaya, Arabic

13740 IRAN Dari

13750 IRAN Bosnian

13765 VATICAN various langs

13790 IRAN Arabic, 0530 sign-on

 

Regards from Melbourne!

 

 

Adventist World Radio Asia - Wavescan program to close in May

I have received advice from Rhoen Catolico, Assistant Producer, AdventistWorld Radio-Asia, that the long-running weekly English languagecommunications/media/DX Wavescan program will be closed down in May.

This is a consequence of a decision made by AWR Headquarters in the USA.

At present, AWR-Asia programming originates from studios in Singapore - from June, production will be moved to Indonesia.

The Wavescan program is broadcast from KSDA in Guam, and via the Wertachtal (Germany) relay, for a target audience across Asia, the Indian sub-continent, and the Pacific. It is also rebroadcast over WRMI, in the USA.

Since Wavescan's inception some years ago, EDXP has provided major input each month via the Australian DX Report features, for 15 minutes. During the month, Wavescan also includes features contributed from other members of the production team, including Japan, Bangladesh and Indonesia.

From June, this will mean that the only weekly media/communications/DXprogram on SW targeting Asia and the Pacific will be HCJB's DX Partyline,from Kununurra, Western Australia, which has a short version of theAustralian DX Report each month of four minutes duration.

It is not known if AWR-HQ in the USA will produce any regular communications/media/DX type programs after May.

Australian DX Report, episode 147 available

The latest episode, no. 147, of the Australian DX Report, a weekly audionews magazine with news and information about shortwave broadcasting, propagation, monitoring notes and schedule updates, is now available.

It's 13 mins 10 secs, and may be downloaded from
http://airm.edxp.org

The site allows you to listen to the ADXR and other audio features directly(streaming audio) via your MP3 player, or via the site's embeddedmini-player. Podcasts, iTunes capability, full RSS/XML/Atom feeds, and free subscriptions are supported - full details are at the site.

The ADXR is compiled from the resources of the Electronic DX Press Radio Monitoring Association.

Your comments and feedback are particularly important!

You can also hear the episodes on-air, via WWCR Nashville, every Sunday at0200-0215 on 5070 and on Mondays 1145-1200 on 15825. The WWCR release is also available as streaming-audio, live, from http://wwcr.com

Good listening to the Australian DX Report Episode No. 147!

Bob Padula, Melbourne

Australian DX Report, special Easter Episode no. 146 available

The latest episode, no. 146, of the Australian DX Report, a weekly audionews magazine with news and information about shortwave broadcasting, froman Australian perspective, is now available.

Information about current unauthorized activity in the newly allocated amateur radio service band 7100-7200 is included.

It's 13 mins 40 secs, and may be downloaded from
http://airm.edxp.org

The site allows you to listen to the ADXR and other audio features directly(streaming audio) via your MP3 player, or via the site's embeddedmini-player. Podcasts, iTunes capability, full RSS/XML/Atom feeds, and freesubscriptions are supported - full details are at the site.

The ADXR is compiled from the resources of the Electronic DX Press RadioMonitoring Association.

Your comments and feedback are particularly important!

You can also hear the episodes on-air, via WWCR Nashville, every Sunday at0200-0215 on 5070 and on Mondays 1145-1200 on 15825. The WWCR release isalso available as streaming-audio, live, from http://wwcr.com

Good listening to the Australian DX Report Episode No. 146!