>While I do hear Diego Garcia on occassion on 13254 USB I have not heard nor >seen any reports for some time of the AFN station on 4319 USB and 12579 USB.
Hello Steve and the rest of the list. Hearing the 13 MHz Diego utility station is not a good propagation indicator to use for reception of the two AFN broadcast frequencies. The 4 MHz freq is used during local darkness hours at Diego and we are in daylight during that time. Result - no path. The 12 MHz (and yes, I know it is on a marine MIS freq) is used during their daylight hours and our best shot to hear that would be in the evening hours short path or a long path during the early morning EST. Given the current state of solar conditions, reception would be difficult at best. Also please keep in mind that these are not true broadcasters like the old days when AFRTS used VOA xmitters. These are feeder broadcast and there is no guarantee on schedule or that they will be broadcasting at any given hour. In my talks with Navy broadcast officials over the last few years, the overseas broadcast transmitters are much more spotty in their scheduling than the CONUS and near CONUS broadcasters. They really didn't explain why. They left me with the impression that due to the workloads on their transmitter farms sometimes they take the lower priority AFN transmissions off the air. To use a quote "Operational Tempo." Hope that explains things a bit. 73 and good hunting to all, Larry Van Horn -- N5FPW WUN Club Military/Goverment Monitoring Columnist Grove Enterprises Technical Support Department Monitoring Times Assistant Editor/Milcom Columnist Telephone: V-828-837-9200/F-828-837-2216/800-438-8155 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of N8KDV Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HCDX] Diego Garcia While I do hear Diego Garcia on occassion on 13254 USB I have not heard nor seen any reports for some time of the AFN station on 4319 USB and 12579 USB. Though shown on their web site, does anyone know if AFN is still actually using those frequencies? I last heard 4319 back in October of 2000. Steve Lare Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is coming out! Preorder yours now! Only $20.97 through us. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.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://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is coming out! Preorder yours now! Only $20.97 through us. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.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://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
