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These logs are excerpts from my daily
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also VHF/UHF, sometimes utility, ham,
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And compiled weekly along with
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LISTENING DIGEST:
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All my MW DX reports starting August
2011 are archived in this forum with
open access:
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?6543-MW-DX-from-Enid-OK-by-Glenn-Hauser/page77
[over 368,000 views! as of August 9, 2019]
All times and dates strictly UT. Rx:
mostly DX-398 with internal antenna
only or PL-880; NRD-545 with ALA-330S
inside E-W or inside randomwire N-S;
Nissan stock caradio
as specified; ICR-75 with 100-foot E-W
longwire.
** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, July 18 at 0604, JBA carrier, surely from R.
Kiribati. Too late for anything from Eurafrica in the summer, but not
too early for propagation from Xmas Island. Last trace of 846 heard
here (along with several others) was April 29 at 1121-1128.
At 0607, I also have a JBA carrier noticeably off-frequency minus from
774-; not sure what that could be. Surely not Iran or Indonesia as in
http://mwlist.org/mwoffset.php?khz=774
(Glenn Hauser, OK, LISTENING DIGEST)
** KIRITIMATI. 846, August 1 at 0532, JBA carrier vs storm noise
level, presumed R. Kiribati, 10 kW, rather than anything from Europe
this late where there are only *3* stations on 846 ranging from 0.3 to
1 to 3 kW, in Ireland, Denmark, and Italy.
Just when is sunset at London=Ronton, the main town on Xmas Island? I
normally consult gaisma.com, but it`s wrong! Based on wrong longitude
for this place:
``London, Kiribati - Basic information
Latitude: +1.99 (1°59'24"N)
Longitude: +157.78 (157°46'48"E)``
claiming Aug 1 SS at 19:41 local - 12h = 0741 UT
It`s at 157+ WEST, NOT EAST!!! Off by some 46 degrees, which makes all
the other info about it wrong.
Kiribati is a very ``large`` country, widely separated island groups.
Kiritimati is the most easterly, in fact in the western hemisphere,
where it should be east of the Dateline, but to keep the country in
the same day, DL has been pushed eastward. Total population only about
100 K. Yet Kiribati encompasses three timezones, UT +12, 13 and 14,
which only a few other countries in the world can match or exceed (not
including the largest, India and China).
Wikipedia and Geohack present the correct coordinates:
1° 59′ 0″ N, 157° 28′ 30″ W
Now I go to
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/kiribati/kiritimati
where the timezone is shown as UT +14
and the current sunset time at:
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/kiribati/kiritimati
is 18:41 local - 14h = 0441 UT
Now that makes a lot more sense for 846 kHz being positioned for
nighttime propagation, even an hour earlier than I was hearing it:
not, until two hours later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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