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We are now well away from the winter season and the window to north America is becoming shorter and shorter here in W Europe. If you wish to hear north America...
From the other side of the pond this time. This from Mark Connelly in Massachusetts (have I spelt that right? Looks odd :0) " First of all, TA signals were...
I've been away from medium wave DX for the last week or more but I thought I'd have a go 1390 overnight and heard two stations: English oldies and WEGP. I was...
Major leaps forward have been made with the new Skywaves website. This is now being designed and built 'behined the scenes' and will shortly replace the...
Hi all, Can anyone help me out here? I've just recently bought a wellbrook loop antenna, an ala1530 ( http://www.wellbrook.uk.com/ALA1530.html ) . All seems to...
The new Skywaves website is virtually ready for going live. All being well, we plan to do this on Friday of this week - considerably sooner than we had hoped....
Intriqued by reports on http://dxlc.com/solar/ I observed the last couple of days around my local sun rise (LSR) the band. I only used a 1x1m loop with Sangan...
Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
May 11, 2006 7:27 am
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I have bought a wellbrook loop LA5030 .Does anyone have experiences with this antenna???Is there a big difference between LA5030 AND ala1530 WELLBROOK LOOP`??I...
... Check http://dxlc.com/solar/ . He lives near Stavanger and updates his reports daily. There you can see what is possible, mostly South American currently ...
Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
May 12, 2006 3:36 pm
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Ann I would be interested to know what treceiver you are using. Unless conditions are very good (as in midwinter) then you need to slope detect using USB /...
for information my radio receiver is a yaesu FRG100. Also for information my house is just 100meters away from a small hill I think 60meters high and 2 km long...
Regarding recent questions about the Wellbrook ALA1530 antenna: There's no doubt this antenna offers very good gain, even when only a few feet above the...
Registration to the new Skywaves site. Just to clarify how to do this. Please note your old username will not be valid for logging into the new website. We...
To keep you informed about updates to our new website ... The user login on the main page now automatically gives you access to the DX loggings submission ...
For all users of Pizza the great-circle mapping program Jim Tonne has just added a small button on the polar display that switches the text in the upper left...
Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
May 16, 2006 6:46 am
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I managed a quick tune around medium wave from 01:00 GMT this morning and was pleasantly surprised to hear several north American stations. I did not listen...
... for the time of year! Reasonable conditions once again around 01:30 GMT. About a couple of dozen North Americans heard, some with fair signals. Best were...
NHK reports that the medium wave transmitter at Kvitsoy will go silent on July 1st, 2006. This will render the channels of 1310 and 1320 much easier for...
I was up around 02:00 this morning and caught some good North American signals. CBG Gander on 1400 was the strongest, giving me S7 on the AOR. Many others...
... LTV - Radio Tatras, Kuldiga right now booms in with Radio Caroline, when it fades I hear Nice, F (also strong) Jurgen...
Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
May 29, 2006 11:24 pm
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Thanks for that Jurgen. It is interesting to learn how these stations get out at night. Unfortunately I didn't have time to listen overnight as I was unwell....
1350kHz is proving to be a difficult channel. I recorded 1350 overnight and could only ID two stations - R Nightingale from Rotherham and R Orient from France....
Norway had left the air when I checked at 22:45 GMT. I could hear very weak carriers on 1310 and slightly stronger (but still weak) carriers on 1320. 1310 did...
... This is what Jan Alvestad wrote: 1390 kHz had many stations coming and going with Radio Universidad (Argentina), Radio Fé y Alegria (Venezuela) and Rádio...
Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Jul 1, 2006 7:23 pm
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Hi guys Many Africans coming in, positive id on 5005 Eqitorial Guinea and its only 7.30 may stay up tonight. Nice to hear. Mark Anglesey...
Hi all, Anyone got any idea about an Arab station on 94.1 seemingly coming from the direction of Morocco. heard today while Medi 1 from Rabat was about. Paul...
hello to you all, i'm new to this group but used to subscribe to skywaves a few years ago. qth at work, iraq. rig pcr1000, ant. maplin discone (30-1500mhz) at...
