I was catching similar results last night at around the same time from
Ventura, Ca. Radio Cultural Coatan was armchair copy, Radio Verdad was
putting in a very good signal, and I was catching some fair audio from Voice
of Guyana on 3291.1 (I usually can zero beat a carrier, and sometimes get
some very weak audio). Unfortunately, I had to rush out to attend a
meeting, so I didn't have time to log, etc. But what I was hearing was FAR
better than normal for these bands!

Drake R8B, 50 foot random wire phased with an Alpha Delta dx-swl sloper
through an MFJ 1026.

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*John Beattie*

"John Beattie" wrote in message hlink.net...
I was catching similar results last night at around the same time from
Ventura, Ca. Radio Cultural Coatan was armchair copy, Radio Verdad was
putting in a very good signal, and I was catching some fair audio from Voice
of Guyana on 3291.1 (I usually can zero beat a carrier, and sometimes get
some very weak audio). Unfortunately, I had to rush out to attend a
meeting, so I didn't have time to log, etc. But what I was hearing was FAR
better than normal for these bands!

Drake R8B, 50 foot random wire phased with an Alpha Delta dx-swl sloper
through an MFJ 1026.

Hi, John - I had similar results Tuesday night after 0330 - R. Verdad
was again a good copy, maybe better than the night before. As you
did, I noticed V. Guyana also, but no strong audio here. These
solar-geomagnetic storms are good for something after all.

My set up antennawise is similar to yours in many ways - I have the
DX-Ultra (the dipole) phased through the MFJ-1026 with the random wire
antenna. I hope to have up my 75-meter loop soon, to see what that
does for these signals.

73,
Bruce Jensen