We've had the last three days off here in Kabul for the Eid al Fitr holiday and it's been a lot of fun just DX'ing! Looks like I picked up all the religious and clandestine DX today.
QTH: Kabul Afghanistan Receiver: WinRadio G303e Antenna: 100m longwire 7245, TAJIK, V. of Tajik, in AR (? according to sked, but sure didn't sound like AR...maybe accent), 2 Oct at 0400. S4 signals until tx'er faulted off at around 0403, then back at S3 and lower modulation. Dunno what tx'ers they are using, but the old Brown Boveris we had at VoA Tinian during my stint there used to always choke and puke if the mod levels went too high (it's a protective circuit actually), so maybe this happened here - or someone leaned on the emergency shutdown switch (that happened too!). Does anyone have a valid email address for Voice of Tajik? 7460, USA, R. Payam-e Doost, in Farsi to Iran. OM talk with nice instrumental mx at 0312 on 02 October. S/off right at 0315 after a string of IDs. Nice strong signals, S4 without any jamming. This is the Bahai'i Faith getting their 2 cents in. 11530, CLAN, Denge Mezopotamya, in Farsi at 0435 jammin' with pop music on Oct 2. S4 sigs and no QRM and only light QSB. Call me crazy, but the music sounded like a combo between traditional Arab, Judas Priest and Sparks! I actually sat and listened for awhile. 12035, CLAN, SW R. Africa, in English at 1743 on Oct 2 with reporters and discussions about the situation in Zimbabwe. I remember a year or so ago they were almost forced off the air due to lack of funds. How fortunes have changed! Signal was weak (not beamed towards my area), but no interference to be heard (again possible that I just can't hear the QRM - or that Zimbabwe is too bankrupt to run the jammers!). I still occasionally look lovingly at my QSL from the old Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation.... 13810, GERMANY, Bible Voice Broadcasting via Nauen, 1659 with Horn IS into Tigrinya programming on 02 Oct. Signal was weak but otherwise in the clear, so it was intelligible. They were aiming at East Africa, so it's a decent catch for me off the side lobe of T-Systems' antenna. Listing in WRTH is under Canada for headquarters. OM annxr was going to town with what seemed to be a real fire and brimstone sermon, interspersed with African gospel chanting and music. 15230, AUSTRALIA, CVC The Planet, in English with gospel rock countdown at 0930 GMT on 2 Oct. Very slick production with PSAs including one where the announcer lists over twenty reasons to give someone why you do not want to have sex, including this gem: "I'm not old enough," and the more structured: "I'm concerned about my future education and earning possibilities," and "money isn't that important to me." The PSA was almost two minutes long. Gotta hand it to the Holy Rollers, they got all the bases covered. Wonder how this is working for them? Very good signal with some fading. 73, Al Muick "There never was a good war, or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 November 1789, in Works (1882) vol. 10, p. 11 ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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
