Summer in North America this year did not bring with it very much in the way of activity or excitement on the short wave broadcast front. The higher bands were largely 'dead' for much of each 24-hour period. It was not uncommon to tune through great swaths of frequencies and not hear a single signal! Many nights I cruised 60m and did not find even one audible signal between 4.750 and WWV on 5.000! It often seemed that short wave had shrunk to just 49, 41 and 31m from an hour or two after sunrise straight on into the evening! Hopefully we have now passed through the worst of these dreadful conditions and can look forward to significant improvements soon! The summer did bring with it the return of one old friend - Mexico's Radio Universidad, XEXQ, from San Luis Potosi on 6.045MHz. The schedule appears to be largely confined to the local daytime, although there have been one or two reports of reception around 0300. Most logs, though, have been around 1200 when the station signs on.
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