From Moab, Utah

Arrived here yesterday morning to a terrific dust-windstorm. Cold front with snow is blowing into Colorado from the northwest. It was a cold night camping last night. Excellent signal out of WBAP-820, Dallas-Ft. Worth on the truck radio. Denver stations KOA-850 (50KW), and KHOW-630 (5KW) strong at night and well into late sunrise period. Still looking for WWL-870, in New Orleans. I tried many times from Quartzsite to catch WWL, to no avail. Will head eastward over the Rockies and the continental divide tomorrow!

Gettin' Short

15360 Khz, 0117 UTC, Thailand, BBC relay to Asia in English. Great signal early evening here (local time 1817) on the Kaito 1103 with a 15 ft. wire. Good coverage of the economy, including audio excerpts from Congress. Why can't we have some AM radio (other than NPR), here in the states, with coverage like this?

Picked up 20 feet of one-inch PVC yesterday to use as an unsupported vertical antenna. Will string some wire along the length of it and feed it with the RF Systems magnetic balun. Plan to do some testing this weekend.

One week from today I head east across the U.S. back to Rochester, New York by way of Denver. Will be doing some AM DXing along the way. Should be interesting!

120 Meter Loggings

Nice signals out of Australia this morning on 120 meters. All with Eton E1 and 60 ft. longwire. Parallel programming on all three stations.

2310 Khz, 1127 UTC, Australia, ABC NT Service, Alice Springs. S-7.
2325 Khz, 1132 UTC, Australia, ABC NT Service, Tennant Creek. S-5.
2485 Khz, 1137 UTC, Australia, ABC NT Service, Katherine. S-5.

Wish I had more time to look for Indonesians on the 60 meter band.

49 Meter Loggings

The 49 meter shortwave band has some fabulous propagation these days, particularly at this point in the sunspot cycle. DX can be heard here in North America just before, during, and after local sunset from locations literally around the world. Signal strengths are excellent too. All below received on the Eton E1 with a 60 ft. longwire.

6290 Khz, 0010 UTC, Radio Cairo, Egypt. Low and muffled modulation as usual.
6195 Khz, 0015 UTC, Singapore, BBC relay to SEA, English
6120 Khz, 0220 UTC // 7160 Khz, Iran, Voice of Justice, English.
6070 Khz, 0234 UTC, CFRB/CFRX simulcast, Mississagua, Ontario. 1KW - S-7 in strength!