QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 200m Longwire/Randomwire ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
1215 GEORGIA, Georgian Public Bcst., heard at 2044 on 08 Dec in Georgian w/many mentions of Tbilisi. Tk/commentary by OM/YL and full ID after dead air at 2100 w/ID as "Radio Eerti." Mixing it up real good with co-channel Iran, but Georgia winning most of the time with its 125 kW. Fairly strong signal but mixing and deep fades. Every single email address on their website gets rejected as "does not exist" as does the one from WRTH 2008. Does anyone have a working email addy for them? Thx! 1413 OMAN, BBC Relay Station, heard at 2010 on 08 Dec with historical pgm of music and clips from 1968. Excellent signals. This pgm brought back a lot of memories. 7245 TAJIKISTAN, VoT, heard at 0945 on 08 Dec with "EG" program consisting of continuous pop music and one EG annx at 0951. Tajik programming started at 1000 with some pretty dramatic martial mx, thundering ID by OM, into soviet-style national anthem and long-winded station ID by OM/YL. Good sigs w/minor QRM from 7240 and splattery PBS Xizang. 7585 CLAN, Free North Korea R., heard 1500 on 08 Dec in KR w/long talks by OM/YL, many mentions of Hangkuk. Fair sigs w/moderate jamming and QSB. 9415 CLAN, Dem.V.of Burma heard at 1450 on 08 Dec in BR with listener comments on the telephone and talk by YL/OM. Excellent sigs w/o QRM. 11825 AUSTRALIA, RA heard 1400 on 08 Dec w/nx in Mandarin and station IDs. Fair to good reception but fading deeply by 1415. I miss the good old days when you could hear them in English everywhere. They were one of my favorite stations to listen to. 11870 PHILIPPINES, R.Veritas Asia heard at 1327 on 08 Dec with annx by YL in EG that there was a Hindi pgm coming up. Same annx given by OM in HI, then into HI pgm w/Father John. Very strong sigs w/no QRM. 15540 AUSTRALIA, HCJB Australia heard at 1230 on 08 Dec w/EG religious programming and IDs. Poor sigs but no QRM. Hard to dig out of the grass. Xmsn aimed at SEA. ================= QSL Report: AUSTRALIA, HCJB, 15540, f/d "Summer in Australia" eQSL in about 14 hours for the above log! eMail came from one "Margaret." I think I could get to like this eQSL thing.... ================ Conditions sure were a little weird yesterday (the 8th) with fluttery propagation all over mediumwave and many bands fading out early. The first snow had been threatening Afghanistan, but seems to have passed us over. Best 73 de Al "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." - Mahatma Gandhi ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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