QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 200m Longwire/Randomwire ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
4795 KYRGYZSTAN, Kyrgyz R., heard at 0000 on 17 Nov with news and commentary in Kyrgyz language. Audio muffled and modulation a little low with low hum on carrier. S5 signals with S3 QRM from ubiquitous China on 4800. 4810 INDIA, AIR Bhopal, heard with test tones at 0019 on 17 Nov. Satrted "Song of India" IS at 0022 and ID and s/on choir at 0025. Kind of weak signal, about an S3 with some slight splatter from China on 4810 (China has no concept of occupied bandwidth). Checking this as follow-up to my report of Armenia from previous day. At 0130, time pips were heard and the usual Akhashvani ID from AIR. Yesterday, the signal was different as was the language and there were no time pips at 0130 (India is GMT +05.30). I could attribute the program change to it now being a weekday. Now the question is why was Armenia on yesterday? Mistake or special program or no reason at all? I will check some more this week and definitely next Sunday and hopefully we will soon have an answer! 6240 MOLDOVA, R. DMR (or PMR if you prefer), heard at 2315 on 27 Nov. with close of German program into English then French with classic soviet-style non-news. Talk about the glorious teaching of Bulgarian language and culture in Moldova and the fact that the announcer himself determined that over 95% of Bulgarians did not want to join the EU. Yes folks, they were happy with their poverty-line existence! Good signals here in Kabul, about S4 6300 CLAN, R. Nac. de la RASD, heard at 2230 on 27 Nov in AR with interviews up to the last few minutes then some mx. Continued in SP at 2300 with much livelier pgm of pop mx. 9290 LATVIA, Latvia Today (finally!!) heard at 14.13 on 16 Nov. with some rock music, station IDs by OM and talk by a YL. Signal was extremely weak and only faded up occasionally but finally enough to get details for QSL. I had to use synchronous detection. For me this is really rare, and I am quite pleased. 9290 LATVIA, R. Waves Intl. relay heard at 1516 on 18 Nov with pop music and talks by male DJ with station IDs. Much lower modulation and signal strength than Latvia Today beforehand, but I still think I got enough details for a QSL. Again had to use synchronous detection. 73s de Al "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - St. Augustine ---[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
