Heard in Fredriksfors Dec 29 - 31 - Back again after the storm

On December 29^th. I was up and running again, the power was back but the storm felled lots of trees and all the antennas except 285 with the reverse direction of 105 degrees are heavily damaged. 285 degrees is at least intact, however I still don't know if it is partly knocked to the ground or hanging up. Nothing audible until around 03 when some of the most common NA stations started to come through. On high frequencies then came the usual South Americans, best at 05.

30^th. Very noisy. A few NA with WHBY 1150 as the best At 06 some mixed LA with decent strength but poor sound and still far too noisy.

31^st. the last night of the year was just as sad as the previous ones. I got a little hope at 02 - 03 when it "simmered" a little on the band. NA signals, but too weak and too noisy to be of any use and long before 04 everything was gone..No trace of WNAM 1280 and their "DX test" before closing for good. A few "uninteresting" LA at 06...

 

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Europa

1431 29.12 0400 R 210, Veluwe var det med testprogram (Golden Oldies Radio-program) kunde Andree Bollin på RealDX berätta. (1431,018) JE

Nordamerika

1110 31.12 0200 WBT Charlotte NC med sport – byter format 7 januari JE

1150 30.12 0004 WHBY Kimberly WI var först ut för natten (tillsammans med Harbour Light) JE

1280 31.12 0100 CFMB Montreal QC med ”väldig” styrka i förhållande till hur bandet lät i övrigt JE

1560 31.12 0200 WFME New York NY med musik och ett brusigt id JE

Centralamerika

1560 29.12 0501 R Adventista, Llano Bonito JE

Heard in Fredriksfors Dec 24 - 28 - Bad conditions and storm

December 24^th. there were some weak signals from Brazil at 00. At 02 and a couple of hours ahead a little more southerly signals especially Argentina, but not particularly good. Bad towards the morning with some usual from Brazil weak at 07.

25^th. very poor signals, possibly with a little overweight for Colombia and Puerto Rico.

26^th.some Colombians and probably also Puerto Rico, most of it too weak to sort out. After 04 also a few NA east coast but blurred signals.

27^th. it was different, but not good. Almost no signals from Latin America all night. Instead NA, "best" between 00 and 03 but quite blurred signals and a lot of fading. After 04 nothing but noise.

28^th. nothing recorded due to power outage caused by storm “Johannes”. Very extensive damage was caused throughout the region, leaving us with fallen trees and torn antennas and, it seems, only one antenna (285 degrees with a backswing of 105) intact!

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Nordamerika

1100 27.12 0300 WTAM Cleveland OH JE

1180 27.12 0300 WHAM Rochester NY med id före nyheterna JE

1230 26.12 2359 CFFB Iqaluit NU med id före nyheterna JE

1530 27.12 0000 WCKY Cincinnati OH med ESPN JE

Sydamerika

1100 26.12 0100 HJCN BBN R, Bogotá med id JE

1130 25.12 0154 YVRI R Ideal Maiquetia med id. (1129,996) JE

1140 24.12 0300 CB114 R Nacional, Santiago inte stark och en del långfading men hörbar (1140,124) JE

1160 24.12 0300 LU32 R Olavarria, Olavarria med nationalsång men väldigt svag. JE