QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m longwire ACC: Palstar MW-550P mediumwave preselector
1170 UAE, R. Sawa in AR heard at 17.51 on 26 Oct. 800kW. Interviews and news in Arabic. Fair signal. 1323 CHINA, CRI heard in English talk and commentary at 17.26 on 26 Oct. Signals weak but pulled out of the dirt by MW-550P. Power at 100kW. Played a lot of 70s/80s pop music. 1332 PAKISTAN, PBC Lahore, Program in Urdu with interviews and light music, heard at 17:18 on 26 Oct. Weak signals even with MW-550P pre-selector. 6137.5 UNID, Shortly after I rolled off of 6140 below around 14.00, there appeared a strange set of carriers between PBS Xizang and R. Pakistan. At first I thought it was some sort of multichannel UTE, but it sounded like 1 KhZ test tones, but I couldn't zero-beat it. Turns out it's a spur! AND (!) it needs FM wide (6 kHz) to be received at any intelligibility. Not true FM, but more like angle (phase) modulation. Sounds like Hindi, but the one song was almost south-seas like. The music had wow and flutter to it like it was off one of the older Studor 10 inch reel machines. Male and female announcers in light-hearted banter. No time pips on the hour and the last song before the hour sounded like Curly Howard trying to sing opera. 6140 PAKISTAN, R. Pakistan World Service, s/on at 13.30 in Urdu on 26 Oct. Not even listed on their new B08 sked on their website, yet there they were. S4 sigs until beat down by PBS Xizang on 6130. Stumbled across this while looking for R.Gloria Intl. via Wertachtal. Tuned in at 1315 and there was nothing but a 1 kHz test tone (nice sidebands!) at about S3/S4, so I hung out, waiting for something to happen. 13.27 R. Pakistan World service signed on. Not even so much as a carrier or a heterodyne from Gloria was detectable. Interesting evening for DX. I was really disappointed about not being able to hear R. Gloria International and the Latvia Today show on 9290 appears as only a weak carrier here which I am just able to zero-beat. I guess I can't have everything! 73 de Al "After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." - Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California ---[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
