A quick tune around the 21MHz band with the Icom and inverted vee revealed, amongst some unidentifieds, the following:
March 3, 2010 LIBYA 21695 @ 1328 Voice of Africa, Sabrata in Swahili. OM with mentions of Libya and Africa. then full ID in Swahili by OM (with echo!). S-Meter: S9 SAUDI ARABIA 21600 @ 1346, BSKSA, Riyadh In Arabic. OM chanting. Some fairly shallow QSB. //21460. Carrier abruptly switched off in mid sentence at 1355. S-Meter: S9+30 21460 @ 1354, BSKSA, Riyadh In Arabic, // 21600 (but 15dB weaker), until 21600 carrier off at 1355. OM Chant continuing on 21460. S-Meter: S9+10 21640 @ 1332, BSKSA, Riyadh In Arabic. //21505. OM interviewing(?) another OM on what sounds like a telephone. Into YL talking over some classical/Arabian type music then 2nd YL joined in. S-Meter: S9+40 21505 @ 1351, BSKSA, Riyadh In Arabic, // 21640 (but 10dB weaker). Appears to be some kind of play with vocal exchange between YL and OM, then alarm clock bleeping (!). Into OM talking over typical Arab music. S-Meter: S9+30 SPAIN 21610 @ 1344, Radio Exterior de España, Noblejas In Spanish. //21540, 21570. OM in rapid talk. Occasional comments from another OM. Then YL with ID before OM again. Peaking 9+20dB but rapid QSB S-Meter: S8 21570 @ 1347, Radio Exterior de España, Noblejas In Spanish. YL talk then OM. Rapid QSB. // with 21540 and 21610 but signal weaker. S-Meter: S7 21540 @ 1350, Radio Exterior de España, Noblejas In Spanish. //21610, 21570 but considerably weaker than either of the other frequencies. S-Meter: S4 73 de Sean Gilbert Buckingham, Bucks. IO92MA Web: http://www.hfradio.org.uk RX 1: IC756PRO, CI-V, SEM Multifilter RX 2: Racal RA1792 ANT 1: Inverted Half size G5RV @ 10m agl ANT 2: Wellbrook ALA1530+ @ 3m agl ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
