Category Archives: MF

Rare Peruvian Radio Carraviz heard in London

Yesterday I heard the rare Peruvian Radio Carraviz OAU72 from Juliaca at 0357 on 1570 kHz following a tip-off from Paul C:

Despite the distorted audio you can clearly hear the “La Voz de la Liberacion” id at 03:57:55. Receiver as ever was the Perseus SDR and a 10x4m Flag antenna with home-brew dual binocular toroid balun.

Beauty of MF dxing is that you never know when a new rare one will pop up. Normally 1570 is dominated by the Canadian French popster CJLV out of Laval. If Latin America dominates it is usually Bethel Radio from Lima.

NA MF DX Back with a Bang – Zer Radio Mexico heard in London

After almost a  month of very poor or non-existent NA DX  conditions came back this week down south (Scottish dxers  saw a return last week).  On 25 November at 0629 I had a personal first – XEARZ-AM Zer Radio was coming into London on 1650 kHz with easy listening music and “Zer Radio 16-50” ids as can be seen below:

Finally, a welcome back home to Paul C after his hospital stay. Take it easy Paul but keep those dx-ears of yours available!

 

 

 

Return of North American MF DX

After the poor conditions week before last and start of last week NA DX came back towards the end of the week.  Nothing spectacular but some reasonable signal strengths from the East Coast regulars. Morning of Friday 11 October saw the New York stations coming through with above average strength. Video below shows how WINS 1010, WBBR 1130 and WLIB 1190 were sounding in London.

 

 

 

 

X-Band in Carcassonne

Conditions have been very poor for the last week or so despite some F2 noted on 10m and US repeaters on 10m FM  being audible in the late afternoons. Just before the the sun erupted again and disturbed MF conditions started I recorded the X-Band as heard in our rural dx location outside Carcassonne. The video shows how quiet it was with audio from 1640 WTNI Biloxi MS, 1670 WPLA Dry Branch GA, 1630 KCJJ Iowa City IA and 1620 Radio Rebelde Cuba. 

Receiver is Perseus SDR with 300m BOG (Beverage on Ground).  Conditions went rapidly downwards the following nights with nothing of interest making it through.