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November 9th 04, 04:12 AM

In article ,
(bpnjensen) wrote:

Telamon wrote in message

...
Despite the current geomagnetic and solar storms my reception on the 19,
16 and 13 meters has been good so far today.

Radio Netherlands on 19 and 16 meters was good as is Australia and New
Zealand on 16 meters. Australia on 13 meters is excellent just to
mention a few.

I have had good luck with some stations, worse with others. In
particular, Radio Thailand (which was coming in so good here
1400-1430z local mornings on their SE Asia 31 meter EE broadcast) is
now barely a carrier on SSB (and I am aware that they switched to
their new 31-meter winter frequency).

OTOH, Radio Ethiopia, which has always had a curse of some sort at
this location in central Cal, US, now shows up pretty well in Arabic
after 1500 on 31-meters once I get the adjacent channel stuff out of
the way. Sorry about the immediate lack of specific freqs - I don't
just now have my charts handy.

This may be dependent upon other factors than simple general
coming-and-goings of propagation, though.

We have been seeing some Sun action lately.

NOAA Scales Maximum in Currently
past 24-hours
Geomagnetic Storms extreme moderate
Solar Radiation Storms moderate minor
Radio Blackouts minor none

I was just listening to New Zealand and they had a piece on DRM from
3:00 to 3:45 UTC where someone played received DRM from different points
on the globe. It all sounded fine on AM if you know what I mean.

New Zealand sounded good on 17675 and also good on 15340 where they
switched to at 4:00 UTC.

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Telamon
Ventura, California