DX News - October 1999
This is a compilation of all the logs and news items that have appeared on this site in October 1999.
Some external links may no longer be valid though they did work at the time of writing.
DX News - October 1999This is a compilation of all the logs and news items that have appeared on this site in October 1999.
Some external links may no longer be valid though they did work at the time of writing.
October 29 - November 1, 1999
Propagation - Nothing noted. Apart from increased power by Rare FM on 87.7 now splattering across 87.6 all the time ... and Rinse FM at the weekend very strong on 87.55 giving "shouts" to Hayes. Rather reduced the ability to dx.
October 28, 1999
Propagation - 87.6 MHz ... Sporadic E again. This time to Spain and Portugal. OK I'm beaming SE, but I still got some IDs ... Cadena Cien (weak) ... Onda Cero (good).
11.00 87.6 E Cadena Cien, Cordoba YL Cadena Cien ID poor MH
11.27 87 6 E Onda Cero, Plasencia YL/OM ID, jingle ID E2EE ONDACERO good MH
then lots of QSB reducing signal quality, until
11.45 87.6 E Onda Cero, Plasencia YL talk E2EE ONDACERO good MH
12.14 87.6 POR un-id YL talk in Portuguese brief MH
12.27 87.6 POR un-id OM advert brief MH
October 26 - 27, 1999
Propagation - Nothing noted.
October 25, 1999
Propagation - 87.6 MHz ... not many meteors overnight.
01.41 87.6 ? un-id tone MH 03.38 87.6 I likely RAI YL talk MH 05.01 87.6 I likely RAI YL talk MH 09.06 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) OM very briefly 5201 MH
October 24, 1999
Propagation - 87.6 MHz ... not many meteors, but Sporadic E to Italy in the late afternoon. Here's the first clip of RAI, the second clip of RAI and the un-id language one.
06.10 87.6 TUN ERTT, Zarzis. 7202 MH 16.40 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) YL with football 5201 fair MH 17.12 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) OM 5201 RAI_MF1_ good MH 17.25 87.6 ? un-id OM in un-id'd lang MH 19.22 87.6 CZE R Impuls, Brno. 2203 MH
October 22 - 23, 1999
Propagation - Nothing noted.
October 21, 1999
Propagation - 87.6 MHz ... Good strength ping from Tunisia, also a brief but strong one from Italy later on. Belgium faded in briefly around 0450 as usual.
01.01 87.6 TUN ERTT, Zarzis. OM talk 7202 INTER___ good MH 01.19 87.6 ? un-id OM in German MH 03.36 87.6 I un-id YL in Italian MH 03.38 87.6 ? un-id OM in East European lang MH 06.19 87.6 I un-id OM in Italian MH 06.44 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) YL talk 5201 RAI_MF1_ brief MH 21.24 87.6 CZE R Impuls, Brno. pop music 2203 MH 23.03 87.6 CZE R Impuls, Brno. YL talk 2203 MH
October 20, 1999
Propagation - 87.6 MHz ... Sweden popped up nicely, Tunisia was very brief, RAI not bad and one un-id in the morning sounding East European.
03.34 87.6 S SR-1 (multi-tx) YL with sport (football) E201 MH 04.16 87.6 TUN ERTT, Zarzis. OM 7202 MH 06.40 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) OM talk 5201 MH 08.47 87.6 ? un-id ... sounded East European MH
October 19, 1999
Propagation - 87.6 MHz ... Belgium fading in and out during the night and day, best around 0300-0600. Some meteor pings, but all too short. One at 0222 had tone, others just snatches of music, most in the 0115-0230 period. Some minor pings this evening. Late evening ping to Italy (RAI), and Czech Rep (Impuls).
18.50 87.6 ?? un-id YL in German MH 20.04 87.6 I un-id OM in Italian MH 22.24 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) OM talk in IT 5201 MH 23.32 87.6 CZE R Impuls, Brno. pop music 2203 MH
October 18, 1999
Propagation - Belgium fading in and out all night and most of the day, though too weak to RDS. Several meteor pings noted overnight, but most too short to be useful. Interesting ones were this one, sounding Arabic at 0304 UTC, this un-id'd one at 0746 sounding Czech, and this one RDS-ing as R Impuls at 1028.
03.04 87.6 ?? un-id very brief sounded Arabic MH 07.46 87.6 ?? un-id sounding Czech MH 10.28 87.6 CZE R Impuls, Brno music 2203 MH
October 17, 1999
Propagation - Nothing noted ... obliterated by Rinse FM again.
October 16, 1999
Propagation - No meteor last night, 87.6 was occupied by Rinse FM (London pirate) from 0100 onwards. But they did get swamped by a Sporadic E opening !!! in the late morning.
11.04 87.6 I Radiosa, Matera. 20 minutes reception 5446 RADIOSA_ MH
Multiple PS Names
_RADIO__ RADIOSA_ *SEMPRE* *CON_TE* LIVE_SU_
INTERNET CON_HSH_ _GRANDI_ EMOZIONI Sa 13:15
11.23 87.6 I Rete Italia (AR) or (BZ) 5212 MH
October 15, 1999
Propagation - Didn't get home from work til almost midnight (local time), and thus just missed the meteor ping of the day.
22.20 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) strong ping 5201 RAI_MF1_ MH
Propagation - No meteor pings last night were strong enough for RDS, but one at 0125 gave a tiny bit of audio.
I've also converted the RTBF and HR3 AIFF files of yesterday into RealPlayer files ... try these and see if they work ... RTBF-RealPlayer ... HR3-RealPlayer.
October 14, 1999
Propagation - No meteor pings noted this morning, due to tropo signals. RTBF and HR3 were fighting for dominance all night. Belgium came in first with its usual just above the noise signal, but Germany then dominated 0530-0730 with long slow fades.
Belgium then made another bid for supremacy 1200-1400, with even its PS Name showing on the Sony.
I'm going to see about making RealAudio files as an alternative to AIFF due to filesizes. Any other suggestions?
04.00 87.6 BEL RTBF-1, Leglise. YL with ID, music p/f MH 06.00 87.6 D HR3, Biedenkopf. Weather, ID, Nachrichten, music D363 fair MH 12.30 87.6 BEL RTBF-1, Leglise. 6351 PREMIERE MH
October 13, 1999
Propagation - Last night worked, so tried it again. Just one RDS + audio match from RAI, and one briefer un-id OM ... sounding Czech.
00.23 87.6 ?? YL talk very brief unid language MH 00.57 87.6 ?? brief song MH 01.32 87.6 ?? brief bit of music MH 02.11 87.6 ?? brief bit of music MH 02.45 87.6 ?? poss R Impuls, Brno OM talk MH 02.55 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) music 5201 MH
October 12, 1999
Propagation - Recorded 87.6 all night too see if there were any pings that the RDS software wasn't picking up. Three obvious pings from RAI with RDS and audio, and just two other discernible snippets of audio which were far too brief to be of any use. Here are the three RAI clips ... clip 1 ... clip 2 .. clip 3.
00.14 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) YL talk 5201 MH 01.36 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) OM talk 5201 MH 03.02 87.6 ?? un-id OM in possible German but too brief MH 04.25 87.6 ?? un-id music very brief MH 06.00 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) YL talk 5201 MH
October 11, 1999
Propagation - RAI with a couple of pings.
03.37 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) YL talk 5201 MH 05.05 87.6 D un-id OM in German MH 05.09 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) YL talk 5201 MH
October 10, 1999
Propagation - R Impuls with a snippet of a song.
21.18 87.6 CZE R Impuls, Brno. Song 2203 _IMPULS_ MH
October 9, 1999
Propagation - R Impuls fair burst in the morning.
09.44 87.6 CZE R Impuls, Brno. 2203 _IMPULS_ MH
October 8, 1999
Propagation - Nothing noted.
October 7, 1999
Propagation - One brief meteor ping this morning.
05.34 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) 5201 MH
October 6, 1999
Propagation - One brief meteor ping in the morning.
05.39 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) 5201 MH
October 5, 1999
Propagation - One brief meteor ping in the morning, and a strong one late on.
08.01 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) 5201 MH 23.33 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) good burst 5201 RAI_MF1_ MH
Websites - The Radio Authority have a very usable A-Z listing of Analogue radio providers.
Websites - Yet more links and corrections to my UK Commercial station RDS page.
October 4, 1999
Propagation - Several usable meteor pings today.
06.13 87.6 CZE R Impuls, Brno 2203 MH 14.36 87.6 I RAI-1, Monte Cavo (RM) 5201 RAI_MF1_ MH 18.44 87.6 CZE R Impuls, Brno 2203 MH
October 3, 1999
Propagation - Nothing noted.
October 2, 1999
Propagation - One brief meteor ping.
06.20 87.6 S SR-1 (multi site) E201 MH
Websites - I've added some more website links to my UK Commercial station RDS page.
October 1, 1999
Propagation - One brief meteor ping.
00.06 87.6 CZE R Impuls, Brno 2203 MH
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