Entering Twilight

This has nothing to do with vampires.

Having recently surveyed the tropical bands, I have spent many greyline hours this week working my way up the dial, looking for stations in the 49 m and 41 m shortwave broadcast bands. Since these two bands are much more popular than the previous four, I will not list all of the frequencies on which I found signals. Instead, here are the transmitter sites from which I heard content with reasonable audio quality:

Anguilla, in the Caribbean
Cerrik, Albania
Anchor Point, Alaska
Ascension Island, in the Mid-Atlantic
Alice Springs, Australia
Brandon, Australia
Shepparton, Australia
Brasilia, Brazil
Calgary, AB
Ottawa, ON
Vancouver, BC
Beijing, China
Fuzhou, China
Hohhot, China
Jinhua, China
Kashi-Saibagh, China
Nanjing, China
Xian, China
La Habana, Cuba
Issoudun, France
Sirjan, Iran
Chiba-Nagara, Japan
Ibaragi-Koga-Yamata, Japan
Goyang, South Korea
Hwaseong, South Korea
Tainan, South Korea
Kanggye, North Korea
Kujang, North Korea
Pyongyang, North Korea
An obscure spot in the desert near Al Jahra, Kuwait
Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Tinian Island, North Mariana Islands, NE of Guam
Rangitaiki, New Zealand
Bacau, Romania
Kigali, Rwanda
Singapore
Nakhon Sawan, Thailand
Udon Thani, Thailand
Kouhu, Taiwan
Paochung, Taiwan
Dhabbaya, United Arab Emirates
Monticello, ME
Vandiver, AL
Greenville, NC
Cypress Creek, SC
Vado, NM
Hialeah, FL
New Orleans, LA
Lebanon, TN
Nashville, TN
Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Considering how much DXers lament the passing of the glory days of international broadcasting, this is much better than I expected. I heard some of these with an Eton E1 but the others were on a Perseus SDR. Without the latter, the above list would have been much shorter, not so much because of that radio's performance but because of its recording ability.

I hope that new DXers find these results encouraging.