{"id":22939,"date":"2016-12-21T16:16:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T20:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=22939"},"modified":"2016-12-21T16:16:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T20:16:24","slug":"transatlantic-medium-wave-dx-3-canadian-stations-rarely-heard-in-oxford-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/transatlantic-medium-wave-dx-3-canadian-stations-rarely-heard-in-oxford-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic medium wave DX: 3 Canadian stations rarely heard in Oxford, UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canadian-rarities.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22943 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canadian-rarities.jpg\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canadian-rarities.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canadian-rarities-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canadian-rarities-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canadian-rarities-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/canadian-rarities-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/VL-Logo-w-tagline-Colour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22956\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/VL-Logo-w-tagline-Colour-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/VL-Logo-w-tagline-Colour-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/VL-Logo-w-tagline-Colour.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/VOWR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22955\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/VOWR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CBC-Radio-One-1140-AM-300x133.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22957\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CBC-Radio-One-1140-AM-300x133-300x133.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi there, I thought I&#8217;d share with you, three recent catches from Canada that I had not previously heard here in Oxford, UK, over the past 18 months of DXing. The first is VOWR, a religous station in Saint John&#8217;s, Newfoundland and Labrador. At the time of reception their TX power was 2.5 kW, thus a really pleasing catch. 800 kHz is such a difficult channel to DX in Europe due to heavy adjacent channel QRM, but the brilliant selectivity of the Elad FDM DUO operating via\u00a0the FDM-SW2 software performed really\u00a0well, producing mostlyy intelligble audio on LSB with an audio bandwidth filter of 2.1 kHz. <em>Below is an embedded video and text link.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nd5UPa8og8I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nd5UPa8og8I\">MW DX with 200 m Beverage: VOWR 800 kHz, St. John&#8217;s, N&amp;L, first reception, with ID<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next reception video is CHHA <em>&#8216;Voces Latinas&#8217;<\/em> from Toronto on 1600 kHz. This was the biggest surprise because this channel at the start of the X-band is dominated by The Caribbean Beacon, Anguilla. In fact, I would go so far as to say I&#8217;ve never heard anything else but Anguilla on 1600 kHz. The only difference in this reception is that it occurred <em>relatively<\/em> late in the morning for me &#8211; around 7:45 am. To catch CHHA for the first time, with a very clear ID was great, I hope to hear them again soon.\u00a0 <em>Below is an embedded video and text link.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/33fiW1RqeLU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=33fiW1RqeLU\">Medium wave DX: CHHA Voces Latinas, 1610 kHz, Toronto, first reception<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, a reception video of CBC Radio 1, transmitting on 1140 kHz. CBC are very often herad at my shack in Oxford, in fact, I see at least one carrier, usually with audio most evenings\/mornings and often multiple signals are present across 600, 750 and 1400 KHz. However, their transmission from Sydney, Nova Scotia had never been copied previously and so this was a pleasing catch. <em>Below is an embedded video and text link.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CfIQOb73260?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CfIQOb73260\">Medium wave DX: CBC Radio 1, 1140 khz, Sydney, Nova Scotia, first reception <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Thanks for reading\/watching\/listening and I wish you all great DX!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>Clint Gouveia\u00a0is the author of this post and a regular contributor to the SWLing Post. Clint actively publishes videos of his shortwave radio excursions on his YouTube channel:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UChtXnzopFIr6wTIA6QwIeLw\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Shortwave Log<\/a>. Clint is based in Oxfordshire, England.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, I thought I&#8217;d share with you, three recent catches from Canada that I had not previously heard here in Oxford, UK, over the past 18 months of DXing. The first is VOWR, a religous station in Saint John&#8217;s, Newfoundland and Labrador. At the time of reception their TX power was 2.5 kW, thus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,3607,56,433,26,746,158,304],"tags":[15,5744,968,2774,374,5580,432,3678,5746,5747,5745,5743,5266,5471],"class_list":["post-22939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-antennas","category-broadcasters","category-mediumwave","category-radios","category-recordings","category-software-defined-radio","category-videos","tag-canada","tag-chha","tag-elad","tag-fdm-duo","tag-medium-wave","tag-medium-wave-dx","tag-mw","tag-mw-dx","tag-sydney-nova-scotia","tag-toronto","tag-voces-latinas","tag-vowr","tag-wellbrook-ala1530","tag-wellbrook-loop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5XZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21363,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/medium-wave-dx-logs-wmex-cfrb-cjbc-wnyc-warv-wrca-wwru-received-in-oxford-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":22939,"position":0},"title":"Medium wave DX logs: WMEX, CFRB, CJBC, WNYC, WARV, WRCA, WWRU received in Oxford, UK","author":"Clint Gouveia","date":"September 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi there, here is a selection of North American medium wave stations logged\u00a0in Oxford UK, over the past couple of weeks using the Elad FDM DUO and Wellbrook ALA1530 active loop antenna (indoors). \u00a0A quick list of stations logged follows below - with URL links which will take you directly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antennas&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antennas","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/antennas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"elad","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Elad-1024x559.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Elad-1024x559.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Elad-1024x559.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20328,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/medium-wave-dx-cbc-radio-1-gander-1400-khz-remarkably-clear-signal-in-oxford-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":22939,"position":1},"title":"Medium Wave DX: CBC Radio 1 Gander, 1400 kHz, remarkably clear signal in Oxford UK","author":"Clint Gouveia","date":"August 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"CBC Radio 1, Gander, heard in Oxford UK A really great signal from CBC Radio 1 Gander - the best I've ever heard on this or any other medium wave frequency, complete with a clear station ID and very much out of season so-to-speak. I can't remember recording any Medium\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21692,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/medium-wave-dx-colombia-peru-ecuador-and-venezuela-heard-in-oxford-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":22939,"position":2},"title":"Medium wave DX: Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela heard in Oxford, UK","author":"Clint Gouveia","date":"October 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi there, I thought I would share a few recent medium wave DX catches from South America. In the past month or so, I've managed to record signals from Colombia, Peru, Venezuela and one that I'm particularly happy about - Ecuador, which is rarely reported in Europe. 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