AIH91 report Day 7 and 8 – Friday/Saturday 14./15.12.2018
Last two days went with Tromsa K-index in the bottom: zero/one. It also means that propagation was quite boring – now Great Lakes and Canadian dominants were really loud on the band. About Canadians: we finally got IDs from 530 kHz CIAO Brampton ON. “Ciao” was audible on several mornings, usually with one or two Cubans (Rebelde and probably Encyclopedia). On Friday 14th MW band opened to West really early – 1140 and 1400 were there already after 19z. We still need to check our recordings but we noticed several daytimers/daytime power stations like 1360 WWOW Conneaut OH and 1510 WRRD Waukesha WI. On Saturday morning Japan was also very early – we could hear 0859z regional programmes from NHK1 and then 0959z local IDs.
We “closed” our station local time in the afternoon and set up few “cold stations”: laptops and hard disks for Aihkiniemi owner gang. Then 12½ hour drive back to Vaasa with one pizza stop in Rovaniemi. Another Aihkiniemi adventure was behind. Now next 12 months we spend by listening to our recordings and sending reception reports. See you next year!
Pizzastop. Reindeer, bacon and kebab. Huge size. at Memo’s Restaurant, Rovaniemi.
