Even though there was a power cut in Cuba almost everywhere in the country, Radio Rebelde could be heard this morning, October 20, 2024 around 0530 UT via the 10 kW transmitter in Santa Clara on mediumwave 1550 kHz in Salzburg.

Perseus/Jaguar, 200 mt Beverage.

Quite good signals in the medium wave band today.
The first Japan reception of the season was particularly good.

2024-10-03

1430 0355 CAN CHKT, Toronto Island (ON) 6735 km
1480 0359 USA WPWC, Dumfries-Triangle (VA) 6968 km
1550 0400 USA WAMA, Tampa (FL) 8124 km
1500 0400 USA WFED, Washington (DC) 6915 km
1390 0400 USA WEGP, Presque Isle (ME) 5821 km
1130 0400 USA WBBR, New York/Carlstadt [NJ] (NY) 6592 km
1360 0402 USA WDRC, Hartford (N) (CT) 6435 km
1680 0405 USA WTTM, Lindenwold (NJ) 6720 km
1560 0405 PNR Radio Adventista, Llano Bonito (pnm) 9449 km
1610 0430 CAN CHRN, MontrÈal (QC) 6241 km
1540 0430 USA KXEL, Waterloo (D) (IA) 7615 km
1510 0430 USA WLAC, Nashville (TN) 7750 km
1280 0430 CAN CFMB, MontrÈal (QC) 6254 km
1650 0431 CAN CKZW, MontrÈal (QC) 6250 km
1570 0435 CAN CJLV, Laval (QC) 6258 km
1690 0445 CAN CHTO, Toronto (ON) 6724 km
1200 0502 USA WOAI, San Antonio (TX) 9018 km
1107 1600 AFG Radio Afghanistan, Kabul/Pol-e Charkhi (kab) 4820 km
1359 2000 CHN CNR1 Zhongguo zhi Sheng, Tacheng=Qoqek/XJTS634 (XJ) 5086 km
1143 2000 TWN Taiwan Ch¸ Yuyeh Kuangpo Tientai, Baisha (PG) 9224 km
1134 2000 J JOQR NCB Bunka Hoso, Tokyo/Kawaguchi (kan-tok) 9308 km
1242 2000 J JOLF NBS Nippon Hoso, Tokyo/Kisarazu (kan-tok) 9359 km
1566 2010 KOR FEBC Korea/RFA/VOA/Radio Teos, Jeju=Cheju (FEBC) (jej) 8802 km
1206 2015 CHN Yeonbyeon Joseonmal Bangsong, Yanji/Longjing (JL) 8165 km

Perseus/Jaguar

Beverage 200 mt. > 335° USA
Beverage 200 mt. > 145° East-Africa
K9AY++ 30 mt. >  70° Asia
K9AY++ 30 mt. > 250° South America

Signals from Asia are still very weak in the medium wave band at the beginning of autumn. That’s why I was very pleased to see some stations from India here in Salzburg at the end of transmission around 1730 UT today, September 10, 2024. (Perseus/QRO.cz – K9AY++)

747 1733 IND Akashvani, Lucknow A (UP) 6224 km
810 1735 IND Akashvani, Rajkot A (GJ) 5794 km
918 1730 IND Akashvani, Suratgarh (RJ) 5518 km
972 1735 IND Akashvani, Cuttack A (OD) 7084 km
990 1730 IND Akashvani, Jammu A (JK) 5344 km
1071 1730 IND Akashvani, Rajkot (GJ) 5771 km
1206 1725 IND Akashvani, Bhawanipatna (OD) 6905 km

Yesterday I fitted two protection cartridges from Hamparts.shop to the Beverage for the winter instead of the large lightning chokes. I also made the terminals and supply line to the box from the Beverage more solid, so all the aerial work is done for this year. https://hamparts.shop/surge-protection-f-female.html

Regional Radio from Narni, Umbria has always been heard weakly on medium wave 1440.000 here in Salzburg in recent months. For a few weeks now, a much stronger station has been used in the evening on 1439.986, which makes Radio 208 from Denmark, which is always easy to hear, almost inaudible on the MiniWhip until it closes at around 22 UT.
Both stations are exactly in the opposite direction, so I can ‘switch’ them 100% with my Beverage. A good example of how efficiently a Beverage works in its preferred direction.

This morning I was able to hear the successor station to WCBS from New York for the first time in Salzburg. WHSQ, New York/High Island could be received here on 880 kHz at around 04:00 UT.

Since today I have been using a new GPSDO coupler instead of the inductive cable wrap to bring my reference signal cleanly into the Perseus for calibration. Thank you Reinhard for the brilliant idea and realisation!