Heard in Fredriksfors Nov 17 - 20 - better times to come?

November 17th. continued to be woefully poor conditions. Hardly any signals at all, at least none that there was reason to fight for an ID on.

18th. there was more activity on the medium wave – but not quite as I thought. In the lower part there were a few from Btazil plus the occasional Argentina and Paraguay, roughly as expected, but not good. In the upper part, however, signals from Bolivia were surprising, also some Peruvians and Colombia. Unstable and noisy.

19th. even a little better on the upper part of the band. The great joy was of course Honduras on 1340 – admittedly so weak and noisy that I would not have had a chance to find it if I had not had the help of Sim's recording. Also a first NA in a long time (1550).

20th. it seemed like someone had put a wet blanket over the 285-degree antenna. There were "lots" of signals during most of the night, mixed Colombia and east coast NA but also some other usual LA. However, nothing exceeded "mumble level" in strength and at best you could tell whether English or Spanish was being spoken. Possibly a little better at 06 on high frequencies, for example Carraviz 1570, Uniminuto 1580 and BBN 1590 were cominh up then if I could wait a bit for an id...

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Nordamerika

1550 19.11 0200 WRHC Coral Gables FL ”The Word” . Åtminstone en till engelskspråkig skymtade JE

Centralamerika/Västindien

1340 19.11 0430 HRCO Cadena Radial Samaritano, Comayaguo – musiken gick fram, genom att jämföra med Sims fina inspelning kunde jag också höra vad som var id, men alldeles för svagt och brusigt för att vara användbart (1340,006) JE

1440 19.11 0100 HIAK R Impactante, Santa Domingo gick ”bäst” av flera JE

1440 19.11 0500 YNRM R Maranatha, Managua id-ade JE

1530 19.11 0038 WUPR Utuado PR ”Exitos 15-30 AM” och ”WUPR Puerto Rico” kan jag urskilja i ett brusigt anrop – tack för tipset TN/FD JE

1560 19.11 0500 HO.. R Adventista, Llano Bonito – soundern gick igenom alldeles utmärkt (1559,993) JE

Sydamerika

1360 18.11 0201 OAX7R R Sicuano, Sicuano JE

1450 19.11 0458 HJNL Alerta Manizales, Manizaes inte stark, men ensam med ljud JE

1470 19.11 0200 HJII AWR Esperanza R . Medellin – massor av colombianer men de flesta för svagt och stört, men ”Radio Mundial Adventista” var rejält stark. JE

1480 18.11 0200 R Pan de Vida, El Alto svag men kom upp läsligt bitvis (1480,097) JE

1500 18.11 0200 R Tawantinsuyo ,Laja överraskade – stängde ungefär 02.09 (1500,031) JE

1500 19.11 0300 HJUW R Maria Colombia, Manizales (1499,990) JE

1520 18.11 0400 OCU5F Bethel R. Huanta den som bäst tog sig igenom röran här (1519,938) JE

1560 18.11 0205 R Luz del Mundo, La Paz – inte precis det jag väntade efter vad som kunnat höras på senare tid. JE