Report from Dxpedition in Zion, Pa USA
October 15-16, 2010


Attendees:
Don Moore (host)

Brett Saylor

Antennas:
780' terminated BOG @45 deg
960' terminated BOG @50 deg
500' unterminated BOG @15 deg
320' unterm BOG @170 deg


Radios:
Perseus
SDR-IQ
Drake R-8

All times in UTC
times prior to 0000/2400 UTC, date is 15 Oct 2010
times after 0000 UTC, date is 16 Oct 2010
(t) = tentatitve
(p) = presumed

Audio files are here

Logs:


162 France Inter - 0100 music, talk by a woman in French

171 RMI Morocco - 0100 Arabic music

189 Ras 2 Iceland - 0100 rock music, talk by man in Icelandic

198 BBC Radio 4, UK - 2300 Talk by a woman in English

234 RTL, Luxembourg- 2315 Pop music, French DJ

252 Alger Chaine Algeria and RTE Ireland - 0100 news in French over presumed Ireland

531 Alger Chaîne 1 Algeria - 2300 time pips (5 low, one high) with another set of pips heard underneath, then talk by man and woman in Arabic; seems like the dominant station on 531 now


549 Alger Chaîne 1 Algeria
- 2259 appears to be // 531 but weaker

555 Radio ZIZ
- 0308 Caribbean music, talk by DJ in accented English

558 RNE, Spain -
0108 Weak Spanish talk // 585

560 WHYN Springfield MA -
0400 with ID under  WJLS-WV

567 RNE, Spain
- 0108 Weak Spanish talk // 585

576 RNE, Spain
- 0108 Weak Spanish talk // 585

585 RNE, Spain
- 2259 with "Don't Rock the Boat", news by M and W

594 Radio Sim, Portugal (p) - 
0108 Man talking in Portuguese,  then into "Singing in the Rain" followed by more similar mx.

603 France Info
- 0108 Man/woman in French

610 WGIR Manchester NH
- 0400 w/ID

612 UNID
- 0110 Very weak audio

621 RNE Canary Islands/Spain
- 0108 Spanish talk // 585

639 RNE, Spain
- 0000 time pips // 855, 585

657 UNID
- 0128 Had some weak mx for a few minutes when the slop adjacent frequency slop went away briefly

675 Radio Maria, Netherlands - 0108 Instrumental mx & ID; 0300 almost operatic-sounding music (but also religious sounding)

684 RNE, Spain - 0300 time pips, musical TOH sounder //855

693 BBC R5 Live, UK - 0300 talk by two men in British accented English, ID at TOH then news; 0356 with discussion of Bollywood film festival

711 France Info - 2256 Faded up for about two minutes with weak French talk // 792

738 RNE Spain - 0300 TOH time pips, musical sounder and pres news

747 Radio 5, Netherlands - 0300 very eclectic, scarey orchestral music, time pips and talk in pres Dutch by man; 0318 light mx & ID at 0322. Nice steady signal much of night.

747 RNE5, Spain - 0301 // 684 with tlk in Spanish by woman, briefly over Netherlands

756 Deutschlandfunk -2300 weak with TOH ID

765 RSR Option Musique, Switzerland - 2240 Swiss folk music

774 Middle East Radio, Egypt - 2241 Arabic talk and Middle East mx. Weaker by 2324.

774 RNE, Spain - 0357 Spanish talk // 855

783 Radio of the Syrian Arab Rep (1st Program) - 0105 // 828 with Arabic talk between a man and woman, seemed to be a drama program. Also in at 2247 and while not as strong as later, at 2251 this was briefly blowing away the domestic on 780 - even when tuned to 780 in AM mode. 

792 France Info - 2247 French talk // 837

819 UNID - 0102 Very weak talk by man/woman. Possibly Arabic.

828 Radio of the Syrian Arab Rep (1st Program) - 0100 // 783

837 France Info - 0400 French talk // 945

861 R Reloj Cuba - 0210 off frequency with "RR" morse code and news in Spanish

855 RNE, Spain - 0000 (heard well throughout the night) with Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive", 6 time pips (5 short, 1 long) talk in Spanish //585

855.012 unID (Romania?) - 2252 mixing with Spain, sounds like talk in a Romance language.

864 France Bleu, France - 2300 talk by a woman in FR

864 Egypt (p) - 0059 with Koran singing by man, over top of France for a while

873 AFN, Germany (t) - 2300 snippet of English talk by a man; heard here last December at this time

882 BBC Radio Wales, Wales - 0400 with talk by man in English

909 R5, UK - 2300 talk in English; an unID (Romania?) also hrd under UK around 0259

920 WHJJ Providence RI - 0400 with ID

936 Radio of the Syrian Arab Rep (1st Program) - 0059 // 783 with Arabic music

945 France Info, France - 0100 slow instrumental and vocal music in French

954 Cesky rozhlas, Czech Rep - 0300, 0400 with tune, time pips, ID and music

954 Onda Cero Radio, Spain - 0001 Weak Spanish talk faded up for a few minutes

981 UNID 0342 - Weak Middle-Eastern type mx

990 CBW w/CBC Radio 1, Manitoba Canada - 0500 ID and news at top of the hour

999 unID - 2300 Arabic singing briefly popping through IBOC noise; Morocco or Saudi Arabia?

1053  Radio Iasi, Romania - 0258 with choral Romanian national anthem, over TalkSport UK

1062 DR P5, Denmark - 0342 Interval signal several times, into talk by man then woman in presumed Danish.

1089 Voice of Russia, Russia (p) - 0257 test tones ~ 7 sec long each, under Talksport, to 0300. Couldn't hear any ID due to IBOC noise

1089 Talksport, UK - 0144 Totally blowing away domestic on 1090; 0356 with phone-in sports talk show in English

1098 RNE, Spain - 0342 Weak Spanish talk

1107 UNID - 0342 Weak talking by man. Possibly Arabic.

1116 SER, Spain - 0000 UTC Talk by a man in Spanish //1179 weaker

1125 UNID - 0342 Weak talk and jazzy mx. Thought could be in Spanish but not // 1098.

1134 Glas Hvratske, Croatia - 2219 English news by a man and woman, weather, ID as "Voice of Croatia"

1152 Radio Romania Actualitati, Romania - 0253 with excited sports announcer, // 1179 weaker

1161 UNID - 0214 Weak talk by woman

1206 France Info, France - 0400 talk by man in French

1251 Voice of Africa, Libya - 0000 Flute music then into pres news by woman in Arabic, mentions of Libya

1314 Antena Satelor, Romania - 0254 Radio Romania interval signal, anthem into talk

1341 BBC Radio Ulster, Northern Ireland - 0300 talk between two men in British accented English

1377 France Info, France - 2301 up briefly with talk by a man in FR

1413 RNE, Spain - 0300 time pips, musical sounder, ID and talk by man in Spanish

1422 Deutschlandfunk, Germany - 2300 with talk by a man in German

1521 BSKSA, Saudi Arabia - 2300 with time pips (5 short, 1 long) ID into pres news in Arabic

1530 WVBF Middleborough MA - 2300 with ID under football game on WCKY

1557 France Info - 0243 Woman in French

1575 Radio Farda, UAE (p) - 0240 presumed with fast pop music in Arabic

1584 ??? - 0000 strong carrier but little audio; snippet heard sounds Middle Eastern, so maybe Iran?

1590 WGBW DX test, Two Rivers, WI - 0533 with bugle calls, IDs at 0557 and 0600. Poor signal. 550 miles. QSLd by station GM within several hours of report via email.