shortwave scanning, august 2017

To get reacquainted with shortwave listening, I scanned some of the broadcast bands during daytime, assisted by short-wave.info for identification. These receptions were at home via my battery-powered Tecsun PL-310 connected to ceiling-mounted random wire antennas. I've provided quick impression SIO codes to describe the reception quality.

2017-08-21 -- 2101-2148 UTC

10000 : WWV (no WWVH) -- SIO 353
11635 : HM01 number station -- SIO 454 (credit: priyom.org)
11930 : too faint to copy; likely Radio Martí (Spanish)
12050 : EWTN-WEWN (Spanish) -- SIO 353, moderate fading
13740 : Radio Havana Cuba (Spanish to South America) -- SIO 252
15000 : WWV (no WWVH) -- SIO 353
15120 : Voice of America (Bambara) -- SIO 353
15610 : EWTN-WEWN -- SIO 242
15760 : Overcomer-WHRI -- SIO 555
17540 : NHK World Radio (Portuguese to South America via WHRI) -- SIO 454

2017-08-23 -- 0000-0040 UTC

7385 : WHRI -- SIO 252
7520 : WWCR -- SIO 252
9370 : WWRB -- SIO 353
9455 : WRMI -- SIO 222
9475 : WTWW -- SIO 454
9955 : WRMI -- SIO 252
10000 : WWV -- SIO 555
11520 : EWTN-WEWN -- SIO 353
11670 : Radio Havana Cuba (Spanish to South America) -- SIO 353
11760 : Radio Havana Cuba (Spanish non-directional) -- SIO 353, significant fading
11840 : Radio Havana Cuba (Spanish to Central America) -- SIO 353
13740 : Radio Havana Cuba (Spanish to South America) -- SIO 454
15000 : WWV -- SIO 555 15120 : CRI (Spanish to Asia) -- SIO 252
15230 : Radio Havana Cuba (Spanish to South America) -- SIO 252

2017-08-25 -- 2302-2327 UTC

9350 : WWCR -- SIO 353
9370 : WWRB-Overcomer SIO 252
9475 : WTWW -- SIO 353
9505 : WHRI-Overcomer -- SIO 252
9980 : WWCR-Overcomer -- SIO 454
10000 : WWV -- SIO 555
11670 : Radio Havana Cuba (Spanish to South America) -- SIO 353
11760 : Radio Havana Cuba (Spanish non-directional) -- SIO 353
11825 : WRMI-Overcomer -- SIO 151
11880 : Radio Havana Cuba -- SIO 252
11930 : Radio Martí (Spanish) -- SIO 252
12050 : WEWN-EWTN (Spanish) -- SIO 555
13650 : CRI (Portuguese to South America) -- SIO 454
15000 : WWV -- SIO 252
15230 : Radio Havana Cuba (Spanish to Central America) -- SIO 252
15610 : WEWN-EWTN -- SIO 353

2017-08-27 -- 1758-1838 UTC

9370 : WWRB-Overcomer -- SIO 252
9475 : WTWW -- SIO 232
9655 : KNLS (Russian; at 1758 UTC) -- SIO 454
9965 : Firedrake (versus RFA) -- SIO 212
10000 : WWV -- SIO 353
11635 : HM01 -- SIO 252 (credit: priyom.org)
15000 : WWV -- SIO 252
15000 : WWVH -- SIO 252
15760 : WHRI-Overcomer -- SIO 555