Friday, January 15, 2010

Observations during Solar Eclipse

Monitoring Observations at Hyderabad of 49 & 41 Meters during partial Solar Eclipse

Partial solar eclipse was there at my location in Hyderabad today 15 January 2009 at 0600-0945 UTC (10.30 am to 3.15 pm IST). During the time of solar eclipse, it was like cloudy weather here and I monitored the broadcast bands. Enhanced reception was noted on 49 and 41 Meter bands and stations not heard usually at the time were also heard.

Here are some monitoring observations of 49 Meters :

Freq(kHz) -- Station -- SIO

5770 Myanmar 151
5915 Myanmar 252
5935 Unid 151
5965 Unid 151
5970 Unid 151
5990 Unid 151
6020 AIR Shimla 252
6035 Bhutan 151
6040 AIR Jeypore 555 (off air till 0823)
6100 AIR Delhi DRM
6110 Chinese 444
6130 Chinese 151
6175 Unid 151
6190 AIR Delhi Hum 251
6200 Chinese 151

Important observations of today on 7 MHz are as follows:

7230.4 242 Voice of Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Movement (with lot of hum) Pakistan sign off at 0841 after Allahoo Akbar (from tune in at 0753). It is scheduled at 0745-0850 as per WRTH 2010 but not heard lately.

7230 AIR Kurseong is not heard for many days now. After they left Chinese station was heard on 7230.

7250 0800 Koran recital, Dhaka? after AIR Gorakhpur left air at 0800.

Live commentary of Total Solar Eclipse was noted on 7290 Thiruvanthapuram in Malayalam & 7380 Chennai in Tamil.

AIR Port Blair was also not heard on 7390.

AIR Guwahati was noted testing with Hindi Film Tunes on 7420 from 0930 when my local station AIR Hyderabad left the same frequency.

Other air Channels were noted as usual on the usual 7 MHz frequencies but with a little better reception as was Malaysia on 7295.

(Jose Jacob, Hyderabad via dx_india yg)

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