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 😅
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 😳
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 🇨🇦
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
Recently, a #IRCA (International Radio Club of America) group, which discusses #MWDX, has been hot about a phenomenon of Chinese #mediumwave#AMradio#jamming... or a strange defect of some 🇨🇳 MW transmitters... or both 🤔
1503 kHz: weak wobbly carrier, presumed from China 🇨🇳, seen around 1500z today here in NE Poland. I've seen the same thing - and even heard the audio - some 5-6 years back on a Tokyo area KiwiSDR, as "whisperized" instrumental music battling with JOUK... impressive it's been left out like this for so many years 🥴 #mediumwave#mwdx#OddballCarrierOfTheDay
It now requires me to log into FMLIST or MWLIST...
Not that it's a problem to me 😝 but if you just want to check what you might be hearing on a particular frequency or generate those fancy maps of a transimtter or an entire radio network's coverage, just for fun -- then it might be a hurdle.
What did ya say again? Solar flares? What solar flares?
Time signals from presumed Japan (EDIT: or Korea! 2x KBS 1 Radio on freq), and two echoey TSs from China (presumed Xinjiang Kazakh) a few seconds later, on 963 kHz - a busy frequency here that just happened to have little else around my sunset 😜
2 years ago I was fortunate to capture RRI Pro-4 Banda Aceh Interval Signal all the way from Indonesia 🇮🇩 into NE Poland on 1251 kHz. Back then, it was listed as 10kW, so this was a remarkable catch ✈️
Today I got a comment to my YouTube video of the station that they're now running at 5kW❗
Unfortunately I don't know when the power decrease took effect. Was it 5kW already when I received them in Nov 2021 or when John in Skegness🇬🇧 got them in Sep '23?
Yo dawg, I'm spammin' Reverse Beacon Network again 🤪
These are just last 15 minutes or so of #160m traffic in #CQWW160#CQWW160CW Contest, with my (almost) 15x4.5m Conti SuperLoop beaming ~67deg, right across Asia.
As you can see, not much far into Western Europe... which is good 🙂 furthest RD8D, near naZi ruZZia's border with Mongolia and NE China 📏5684 km.
I've been skimming like this for around 2 hours so there must be more good stuff in there 😅
1188 kHz: Asian propagation is so good tonight that I was able to see - and hear? the Yanbian Wobbly Rumbler #jamming HLKX FEBC. The view was pretty much unobstructed by stronger IRIB Radio Payam.
Even managed to trace the Rumbler's switch-off @ 2007:03*z, and its QSY to 1205.961 - now w/out rumbling, although there's another Chinese Rumbler on 1206.0! - at *2008:51z.
594 kHz: this one was real quick, unexpected, and what not, as it almost escaped the usual rise in my noise floor as streetlights are turned on for the night...
Myanmar Radio 🇲🇲!
YL announcer barely heard, then some piece of mx, but IMMEDIATELY obliterated by noise! - so no chance to recognize it 😞
This was right at 1629z. Within next minute, I managed to quickly increase waterfall FFT resolution & zoom in much closer to see a carrier drop within seconds of 1630*z.
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 😝
1080 kHz: Arab music, fairly strong, would've been better if I could improve my NE SuperLoop to null Cadena SER better. Anyway IT WASN'T THERE IN THE AFTERNOON!!! Another Israel reactivation for the #WARINGAZA? KAN MaKan? #mediumwave#mwdx
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!)
774 kHz on my fixed SuperLoop: children's singing and a brief Japanese YL announcement are lurking from behind Iranian Islamic Call to Prayer.
No doubt it's JOUB NHK Radio 2 Akita🇯🇵
Also later @1422z, found English lesson actually comprising of a long discussion on 747 = JOIB (damn, forgot their call XDDDDD) Sapporo #mediumwave#mwdx
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
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.
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...
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!
Despite it's been more than a week since the unprecedented G5 geomagnetic storm, #mediumwave propagation is STILL RUBBISH 🗑
Single-hop signals from Romania, Czechia, Moldova are pretty much the only ones available. Maybe a few strognest of the further ones, like 963 RTCI, 864 Egypt, 684 Radonezh (a naZi church station).