"Billy Smith" wrote in message
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"Bebo" wrote in message
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I hooked my 80 meter dipole to my Sherwood receiver and was listening to
WSM....Grand Ole Opry outta Nashville on 650 when a Mandarin Chinese
station started coming in and out....Time here is 01:52 UTC


BOBO

Possibly a Chinese station because some really strange conditions were on
last night both on 75 meters but also 40 meter ham bands. Considering that
we are getting longer nights in the Northern Hemisphere it is very
possible. At 9 PM eastern here it would be around 8 am to 10 am local
China time. Which would give the possibility of night path propagation.
Especially considering that it might be coming over the North Pole into
your station. It could always be a US based station or Canadian. Since
you've tried several radios with similar results. It sounds not to be a
receiver issue with images or something like that.

75 meters within a few hundred miles totally dropped out last night around
400 UTC and 40 meters was totally non existant. However, 160 meters was
quite good and this morning quite a bit of long distance DX work between
US and Australian stations is occuring. So perhaps the ionosphere is
favoring long distance DX. Its about time as things have been dead here in
the Midwest.




Here is something interesting that I found regarding the Chinese radio
situation. Any possibility it could be one of the mega transmitters for
hundreds of kilowatts.

I found a posting on asiawaves.net about a station used by Voice of
Russia/Voice of America. This transmitter is in the Far East of Russia near
Vladivostok which is far north and far east in Russia.

648 kHz
1000 kW RUSSIA Ussuriysk Voice of Russia / Voice of America (VOA)
Languages: Chinese, Korean
Directional antenna, azimuth 230 degrees Aug 2007