00:45 UTC / 7:45pm ET 41m L4.5 G10 R5 China Radio International English language broadcast. 7425kHz weak signal, very noisy but not drifting. I strung up a longer antenna today, so this is coming in on an 82’ wire -> 9:1 unun -> RG8X to the receiver.

I was listening to China radio international when I heard this weird tone. It sounds like a cartoon laser weapon. I kinda sounded like a stronger tone then a weaker tone responding to it. You dont noticed that in the video since I wasn't recording at that part but idk. Any thoughts or answers are appreciated

China Radio International's English language service on 9645 KHz at 12:40 UTC 01 DEC 2024. Powerhouse signal received in the Pacific Northwest, USA using RSPlay's RSP-1A/SDRuno with a 20 meter length end fed random wire antenna.

Received in Upstate NY. The Russian language broadcast of the Voice of Korea. Hooked to a 23 foot C.Crane reel antenna. Great signal tonight for this station. December 1st 2024.

Without making any changes, I installed the antenna as high as I could and as far as the coaxial cable allowed. I live in the capital of my country (Asunción, Paraguay) very close to the area with the highest concentration of people and all kinds of noise generators.

I was surprised how well it works on certain bands, the example video was on 31m and they are transmissions I had never captured, I also had good results on 25m and 41m. Other bands with a lot of background noise.

With my long cable I don't have the same results on the mentioned bands, but the long cable has better reception where the MLA-30+ is poor. My next job will be to replace the coaxial cable with a better one with BNC connectors and I will see if I can eliminate the 5V USB source, which according to what I read, generates a lot of noise.

My radio is a D-808, now I'm looking into some SDR options, maybe to test and practice, I bought the RTL-SDRv4

17810 and 15195 kHz, ~0330 UTC on Nov. 29, 2024.

📻 Qodosen DX-286 with random wire 11 metres long clipped to the telescopic antenna, listening indoors in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

32.567 MHz at 0050 UTC from the Pacific Northwest, USA using SDRplay RSP-1A/SDRuno with 20 meters length end fed random wire antenna.

I have always included the higher HF, including the lower VHF portion in my daily shortwave listening habits. In 1963 I purchased my first shortwave radio, a multiband portable GE. By the time I was in high school I had found a couple better receivers, a Hallicrafters SX-11 Super Skyrider and an S-20R Sky Champion. Both tuned above 30 MHz, the S-20R up to 44 MHz. My forays above 28 MHz included tuning up to 42.92 MHz, our old State Police frequency. During periods of low solar activity only the locals, like pagers at 35 MHz, the Highway Department and State Police were audible. But during each 11 year cycle's peak there was some excitement to be heard between 30 and 44 MHz! During the late 1970's to early 1980's I was able to receive transpacific audio signals from both Russian and Chinese lower television channels via F2 Layer propagation. The low channels in Far East Russia and China had frequency assignments between 42 and 54 MHz. I was using an 8 element log Periodic Yagi antenna tuned for 46 - 54 MHz. I was young and starting my career and could not afford a multi-format TV monitor, which would have allowed me to receive the entire video signal, not just the audio. I was plenty happy with just receiving the audio though.

Today, many years later all has changed on those frequencies. I still spend time at the Dial between 30 and 44 MHz, although these days it's pretty slim pickin's. The old low band Russian and Chinese analog television stations have gone digital and migrated to UHF. The pagers, highway maintenance, and State Police have all moved to UHF/P25.

Yesterday afternoon I caught this very interesting signal, almost 200 KHz in width, coming in between 32.450 and 32.650 MHz. It was propagating just above the MUF, via the F2 Layer. I received the signal between 0040 - 0110 UTC, centered around 4:50 o'clock PM local. Propagation hasn't changed over decades where I live and I'm quite familiar with the behavior of the upper HF spectrum during Fall and Winter. Propagation at 5 PM local favors to the west, Hawaii, Guam, Japan, and later into China, Vietnam, Mongolia, and finally central Russia if the Solar Flux is high enough and there is a low K-Index.

I looked for the signal again today, and sure enough it faded in about 0015 UTC, or 4:15 PM local time. Very strong about 0040 UTC, it had faded out by 0100 UTC.

Anyone have an idea as to what this signal might be? It looks and sounds a bit like some of the Over the Horizon Radar, especially the ones for tracking meteors. It just that the bandwidth seems too wide. Your thoughts are most welcome.

Good reception tonight for Radio Educación. They typically play one or more album sides with only rare interruptions. CFRX from Canada has also been coming in well on 6070 kHz. Have Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate.