This is a very interesting question. I will listen tonight on 1510.
In the meantime, the only answer I have after 14 years of ULDX is WMEX (former WWZN) from Boston, MA. Today I checked the FCC data, and results for "W", "C", and "X" ( USA-East, Canada/Cuba. and Mexico) turned up nothing else broadcasting in Spanish/Portugese.

Also, WMEX has been silent, with a new application to the FCC to reduce power to 10000 Watts day and 100 Watts night. The usual power is 50000 Watts day and night pointed at Europe... and over the years several people from Europe (especially England and France) reported hearing WWZN before the call-sign changed to WMEX. That change occured in 2016.

As a side-note 1500 and 1520 are also heard in your region, 1500 might have a baseball game on, and 1520 will talk sports or have a hockey game on late at night (even past midnight), your time. 1130 is WBBR and has been heard in Europe, along with 1110, 1140, 1170 and 1180 (All east-coast USA, or nearby).

Regards
Paul S. in CT FN31nl

612 unID (4QR?) weak carrier signal at 1204-1205.

747 JOIB barely audible talk at 1149; poor talk at 1152-1153.

774 JOUB poor talk at 1138-1139 and 1152-1153.

828 unID (JOBB?) heterodyne 1146-1149.

972 unID (HLCA?) weak heterodyne at 1156-1157.

1116 unID (4BC?) weak signal traces at 1206-1211.

Receiver: Skywave with 8-inch FSL.

Richard Allen, 

near Perry OK USA.

hi

new station for me here in France (start of the season)
Latina station in Spanish 1510 khz with lots of dancing music, who can it be ?
also Bloomberg faint on 1130.

Thanks

Patrice
Beauvais, France
Tecsun PL380 + AN200 mini loop

Today at lunch time I spent some time at Kings Park at the bottom of Park Street with my new 3" FSL aerial (Thanks to Gary). This was a mid day session in the middle of town, my focus was on the bottom half of the band.

531 - 3GG Warragul
540 -7 SD Scottsdale
549 - 2CR Cumnock
576 - 2RN Sydney
594 - 3WV Horsham
612 - 4QR Brisbane
621 - 3RN Melbourne
630 - 2PB Sydney
648 - 2NU Tamworth
693 - 3AW Melbourne
729 - 5RN Adelaide
747 - 7PB Hobart
774 - 3LO Melbourne

Photos and video of 3GG being received are here: https://ultralightradiodxingtasmania.blogspot.com/2019/09/loggings-13092019.html
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Thanks Paul,

I'm happy that you are having fun with the new 3 inch Baby FSL!

For those wondering what this new antenna design looks like and how it performs, Paul's FSL was the one chosen for a YouTube signal-boosting demonstration posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZtYli09mTg

Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)  
 

Stephen, Paul, Jay, Vimal and Dennis,

Thanks you all for your comments on the Innovative Ferrite Antenna article, which are much appreciated!

Stephen, when I first saw the view of the Pacific from the Rockwork ocean cliff in Oregon, it reminded me of seeing the Pacific from the window of a 747 Jumbo jet 30,000 feet above the ocean :-)

I couldn't resist driving up and looking over the cliff edge, which surprisingly hasn't been fenced off despite the danger. And it wasn't long before I was pushing my luck way past the breaking point by setting up FSL antennas on the cliff edge at 3AM, wondering what this awesome location would provide in the way of transoceanic results. It didn't take long before I was routinely tracking down various New Zealand stations that had never been heard at Grayland over three decades-- including some that have still haven't shown up with even a trace there.

The transoceanic DXing advantages of rich farm soil have been proven over and over both in our Ultralight group and among spectrum capture DXers. At the IRCA convention I finally had the chance to meet Nigel Pimblett, an awesome DXer from Alberta who gets outstanding Australian results with his Perseus-SDR and broadband arrays on rich farm soil. Some Australian stations like 585-2WEB tell me that the strongest recordings they have ever heard of their signals come from my FSL's on the Rockwork cliff, and Nigel's broadband array in Alberta. When Nigel and I finally met each other it was like two long lost friends, who shared a special bond despite using radically different antennas and locations. Great fun! :-)

73, Gary


 

Today I had a small amount of time to test out my new 3" FSL aerial (Thanks to Gary). This was a mid day session in the middle of town, I called past a local park during my lunch break and set myself up on a picnic table. 

 

As my time was limited, I didn't get to spend as long doing this as I would like but I was able to start to learn about some of the amazing features of this aerial and the best way to place / tune it. 

 

My testing so far seems to suggest that having my Teach PR130 leaning against it (as shown in the below photo) produces the best results.

 

I logged a few stations on various frequencies, the below are a few standouts.

 

531 - 3GG (Warragul)
5000W 
380km:
While I am often able to hear this station during the day, adding the power of the 3" FSL aerial takes a noisy signal to a whole new level with my TEAC PR130 struggling to handle the large increase in signal level.

 

585 - 7RN  (Hobart) 
10000W 
168km:
This is one of my "check" frequencies, a low 1 -2 signal level gets blown up to a strong 5 with this added to the mic.

 

1323 - 5DN (Adelaide)
3300W 
1040km:
Another station that I often check but struggle to hear during the day, the 3" FSL aerial brings a signal out from the noise that while not very strong, is well worth listening to.

 

1584 - 7SH (St Helens) 
100W 
95km:

Photo: https://ultralightradiodxingtasmania.blogspot.com/2019/09/loggings-12092019.html
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Despite increasing solar activity this morning I was able to hear weak TP signals (LSR at 1206).

612 unID (4QR?) weak het beside KCSP and XEBX 610 QRM at 1159; stronger from LSR.

702 unID (2BL?) het with XEGD 700 QRM at 1209 until 1223.

774 JOUB poor signal at 1004-1008, barely audible fading in and out to 1020.

828 JOBB weak het with unID XE (XELN?) QRM at 1150 , faded in with poor signal at 1152-1153.

Receiver: Skywave with 8-inch FSL.

Richard Allen, 

near Perry OK USA.

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Looks like a perfect fit!

Jay

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Oh yes, regarding flat-land/fertile soil DXing locations, during a long road trip and DXpedition I made to Manitoba, Canada - and all the way back westward to BC in September 1993, I rolled out a few end-fed wires in remote farm-fields where I could park for the night in my camper-van, and I was astounded at the strength and numbers of hets from the 9 kHz "splits" and caught some audio from a few DU stations too.  Also, in the evenings, some TA signals on MW and LW were audible with fair signals (the usual big TA sigs) - the 198 BBC signal was a telltale "wavery-carrier" (their phase-shift carrier time signal) and would appear by sunset.  I knew this all was due to the very flat-land terrain (low-angle skip!) and high-conductivity soil to boot.

In August 1996 from west-central Manitoba, during a combined "Natural ELF-VLF radio" recording expedition and LF-HF DXpedition, I rolled out a long, maybe about 1200-foot long "Beverage" wire pointed north-east (very arduous to do so in the thickly treed and boggy land there near Grass River Provincial Park but I could get it elevated a bit off the ground), and the TA's blasted in nightly, especially one evening - 30 August 1996, when the auroral-oval had "retreated" far southward, leaving TAs skipping into the "hole" of the oval thus the strong receptions.  The proximity to Hudson Bay and also the very flat terrain there made it somewhat like being by the seashore!

73 - Steve

Marvelous article, Gary!  What a lovely pic of your cliffside (Oregon) DXing site and the very blue sea -  I can hear the singing hetrodynes now!  Way back in the early-mid. 80s when I rolled out long (1100 ft. / 330m) Beverage antennas from a tent-DXing site atop Mount Vision (Inverness Ridge) in the Point Reyes NS - Marin County, Calif., the additional altitude of 1100 feet above sea-level (thus a much greater view out to the distant horizon) really ENHANCED TP DX - especially DUs and Hawaiians, compared to the near sea-level beachside DXpeditions.  It is possible the much farther-view of the horizon allows for the really low-angle "combined constructively-phased groundwave-skywave" effect to occur - TP signals would stay in post sunrise for longer periods compared to the near-sea level sites at Abbotts Lagoon and North Beach (all within Pt. Reyes National Seashore).  As such, I think that really FAR OUT horizon view in your photos in this article is also an added factor WHY TP DX is so superior there (as it was atop Mt. Vision for me).

73 and thanks a lot!,

Steve McGreevy

www.auroralchorus.com

It has been a few months since I reported on the results of what I now call my “OFSL” or “Open Ferrite Sleeve Loop” that I had constructed around a 16 oz. / 453g size Folgers “Classic Roast” plastic jar, in that the six 200mm (R40C1 type) are not adjacent to each other as I have seen of Gary’s designs, but are widely spaced around the jar (I had only ordered six of the rods for initial testing/experimentations).

The OSFL loop - previously I’d dubbed “the Ugly Duckling FSL”  - employed an external (and large/heavy) old Soviet 60-600 pF var. cap. that is designed for transmitting with widely spaced rotor/stator plates), and it was rather “kludgy” to rotate easily.

It occurred to me that a smaller open-air var. cap. could be mounted inside the jar’s red lid along with a small SPDT switch to switch in the off-center tap of the Litz winding and some fixed “padding” caps of about 330pF.  As such the loop is “dual-band” and goes down to about 340 kHz just incase I wish to use it in the upper NDB band and in the former Maritime segment (430-510 kHz).

The result(in the photos) is a very robust and quite water-resistant OFSL that is lightweight and marvelous for taking on Expeditions - even just into a knapsack as I walk out of my small town into a noise-free location.

In-yard comparisons with a considerably larger air-core “diamond” loop find that the OFSL has vastly higher-“Q” (sharper tuning) and it also has higher-gain than the larger stand-mounted diamond open loop due to its larger induction-field and the advantages of Litz wire.

I can’t wait to take this on a flight to Hawaii (maybe this November 2019) on a DXpedition tentatively planned in a similar fashion to Gary’s Kona (Big Island) Hawaii DXpeditions.  

Include a couple of photos for presentation here.  The OFSL makes AM stations with “barely audible audio” in the daytime to clear/clean copy provided there is no local noise nor QRN (such as 740 KCBS, 620 KIGS, 1070 KNX and many others).  Tests were made with one of my two trusty Sony ICF-SW6700GR portables.  I can imagine with a modified ultralight portable with switchable pass-band filters, this would be even more superb for coastal DXpeditions!