Chris Martin mwoz-listalla: "Great going there with your 729kHz catch. You've got a newly commissioned New Caledonian. I tuned it last night and paralleled it to Noumea 666kHz. It has a satellite delay on the feed but sure is same px. Today I rang the C.E. of TDF in Noumea and he told me it was commissioned in the second week of September. It's location is on the north east coast of New Caledoina at Touho. He could not tell me its transmitter power off the top of his head. I suggest you send the reception report to TDF in Noumea as they are the ones with the QSL cards - well they were ten years ago when I visited them. FR3 weren't very interested when I called in and they sent me up the hill to the TDF facility. Good catch Pat.
I would say that there is a further story here due to a change in approach. Some 20 years ago FR3 had a 4Kw transmitter on 1260kHz at Mt Aoupinie. It was a temporary service for about a year whilst the extensive FM network across New Caledonia was established. A very high mountain range runs the length of the island. For years now the FM network is the main link to the population. 666kHz on Saint Marie Island (Noumea) at times is fed from Paris as the Republics main program. What I heard last night on 729 / 666 was talk back and music with English lyrics - stuff like Bob Dylan." ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tsekkaa HCDX:n uusi www sivu: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- DX mailing list [email protected] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/dx _______________________________________________ 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://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
