"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.