An hour ago, I wasn't hearing Romania on 720 kHz; instead I had Iran 😮
Now, I do have Romania back on 720, but it's missing from 711 kHz; instead I have... Iran :v
630 & 963 Tunisia remain outstanding, as are 558 & 1170 from Slovenia (but not 549!). But NO Egypt, even on 864!
Bulgaria wasn't really heard throughout the evening on 576, but now it's fairly good.
A mindblowing thing is SBA Holy Quran sticking out on 873 (10kW) but down in the noise on 882 (100kW!)
Czechia is now back, but instead, am losing Romania, even on 756 kHz, which is usually a powerhouse signal 😮
More Romania attenuation makes other signals clear: 630 Tunisia sounds almost like a local! On 531, Radio Algeria International has the frequency all to itself -- well, it's weak too, revealing more NDBs on 527 & 535 kHz.
Only just starting to hear BBC on 693 kHz. 648 Caroline is stronger.
And Lithuania has finally ceded way to 1386 Greece - now w/ audio!
NO signal from Country Radio on both 639 & 954 kHz, and Radio Dechovka is also missing on 792, not to mention 1260 kHz.
Also lost most of Romanian txers: 630 has Tunisia instead of Timisoara, and 711 & 720 have gone silent - together with the naZi NDB on 718.
Totally lost 1386 kHz from Viesintos🇱🇹 - and even 1557 Sitkunai, some 200km closer. 666 Sitkunai too, still going strong, but I guess that's groundwave...
It's an hour past sunset, yet #mediumwave looks as if it was more like an hour before sunset...
Very poor signals, only few listenable ones.
BUT the most shocking thing is 1035 Radio Eli 🇪🇪 is COMPLETELY MISSING, and I'm beginning to lose Lithuania 🇱🇹 on 1386 (it's head-to-head w/ an off-freq Greek #pirate) -- on an unterminated SuperLoop, not a KAZ with a null on them 🤯
No Southern enhancement meanwhile; no Tanzania after TWR s/off on 1377, & no trace of Djibouti on 1116.
The shutdown of 14 #mediumwave transmitters on 9 frequencies has made all but 3 freqs completely silent in the UK: 756 still has a 1kW BBC R.Cumbria relay, 1449 is BBC Asian Network @ 150 watts, and 1458 is a 125kW Lyca Radio for most of us except in Birmingham where there's another BBC Asian tx @ 5kW.
Yes, even our European "graveyard" frequency of 1485 kHz no longer has anything from the UK!
Additionally, 1242 became one more freq w/ NO STATIONS AT ALL anywhere in EUROPE!
666 kHz: Radio Signal, new station (!) launched yesterday, another independent one that targets naZi ruZZia (and belaruZ), very similar to Nasha Lenta on 1557. Both stations are produced in The Netherlands 🇳🇱 and use a transmitter in Sitkunai🇱🇹, just 268km away from me. Fair until 2010z or so in disturbed condx but improved then. #WARINUKRAINE#mediumwave#mwdx
1098 kHz: looks like SBA Jeddah FM 🇸🇦 Dammam relay is playing nothing but a 1kHz test tone (and a 3kHz harmonic) o.O S9+15dB in S6 noise + thunderstorm crashes #mediumwave#mwdx
North American #solareclipse monitoring in NE Poland????????
Yeah, however long a shot it is... but this very faint trace coming on & off, peaking literally for SECONDS around 1936z (I know the time in this waterfall plot is 4h off xD) on 1129.991 kHz can't lie...
Also w/ timeanddate.com day/night/#eclipse map for 1936z attached, w/ locations of WBBR & mine overlaid. NY was in slightly less than 75% totality at the time but a full one was right on the radio waves' take-off 😅
There appear to be two even weaker & more fluttery carriers peaking at 2004-2006z on 1140... One I guess is CBI in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦, but the other? WRVA? Wouldn't it be too late for them? 🤔
Also with timeanddate map, for 2004z. Totality was maybe around 50% on its path into the Atlantic #mediumwave#mwdx#solareclipse
A true madness has happened on 1500, as we see not one but TWO carriers.
One is actually from Germany 🙃 Radio Eule, a Munich🇩🇪 museum station, chose to operate on 1500 kHz, contrary to European 9-kHz raster. Listed as 10 watts only but enough for a burden...
I thought the 2nd carrier was WFED. But it's listed as 1499.9925, while my plot puts them closer to .996 (poss. -2Hz)
Probably generated by my laptop, likely at one or more USB sockets. (But don't worry, there's not a lot of those on the Airspy compared to my old SDRPlay RSP1 😂)
880 is one. Although there's something very faint @ 880.05, but nothing matches (I don't think it could be Wisconsin XD)
Another is 1200. This freq's particularly disappointing to me as I hoped for either WXKS Boston or CFGO Ottawa, both frequent catches on winter nights. But no 😥
Meanwhile as I talk, SDR Console has generated another interesting plot, this time for 1270.
One carrier almost spot-on (poss. -2Hz in reality) from the beginning of my recording @ 1924z to last trace @ 1956z. Many options but the 10kW+ ones likely too far.
Another in @ 1945-2008z, peaking 1958-2001z, on 1270.017. No doubt CJCB NS 🇨🇦
1370: extremely weak carrier, 1941-1950z only, "best" @ 1943-1944z. Full totality over SW Nova Scotia, so must be from somewhere between New York & New Brunswick. MA, NH, ME apply. There's a 50kW in MD too though.
But there's an offset: 1370.003. This matches WDEA Ellsworth ME, even though it's only 5kW 😳
I need to go to sleep now but just to make sure: at the moment, almost all of North America is in daylight, and there's next to no signal from any of the stations mentioned in this thread. Except for Nova Scotia ones on 1140 & 1270, where it is just about sunset 🌞 #mediumwave#mwdx#solareclipse
Obviously with positive Bz (let alone so high), I'm seeing no #aurora effect of attenuating stations within the auroral oval (i.e. mostly north of me).
1035 kHz from Estonia as well as 1386 & 1557 kHz from Lithuania are still strong. All signals war-related; 1035 has TWR in Ukrainian at the moment.
The opposite seems to be happening: Middle East is degraded.
And all of that boiled in higher noise level than usual.
BTW 1566 is a Greek pirate, not HLAZ, and not Iran.
When considering the future of #BBC Radio 4 #longwave service, many people seem to forget there are a couple #mediumwave fillers active. Would we allow them to let go too?
The answer is... yes -- and even earlier than 198 kHz, as there's no Teleswitch, no time signals, no bells & whistles accompanying these mostly low-power relays.
And as it turns out, we only have some 3 weeks left to listen to them!
Also Smooth Radio closing 4/5 txs by Apr 30 (I'm sure they'll be pulling the plugs earlier than advertised, so much respect to that rotten "technology" xD). Same for Gold Manchester on 1458.
#160m activity snapshot mostly from the East during #CQWW160 Contest, SSB part, 1518-1642z, with nightly streetlight QRM starting @ 1636z. (Times on the waterfall are wrong; SDR# Baseband Recorder plugin puts my local time in its IQ file names, while SDR-Console thinks it's UTC 🤷)
Note a strong station as low as 1819 kHz LSB, although I think there's another one briefly on 1815 around the "18:22:00" mark.
Used my 15x4.5m Conti SuperLoop w/ 1000 Ohm resistor, beaming ~67deg. #mediumwave#mwdx
558.0792 kHz: IRIB Radio Iran's extensive synchronuous network is no longer really that synchronuous, as one of the 22 transmitters listed for this frequency has slipped almost 80 Hz off 😝
EDIT: during about 10 minutes it took me to polish, ALT-text, and publish the above note, that IRIB Radio Iran transmitter has managed to re-adjust to 558.0 kHz!
There are 2 more strong offset carriers just below the frequency, but they don't look like carrying Radio Iran. And whatever's underneath is covered up pretty well by the giant Iranian network. #mediumwave#mwdx