QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 200m Longwire/Randomwire ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
1152 PAKISTAN, PBC Rawalpindi, heard 1857 on 01 Jan in UR w/call-in show. Very strong sigs w/100kw 1377 ARMENIA, VoR Sodruzhestvo relay s/off w/ID and IS at 1758 on 01 Jan in RU, tx'er off for 30 secs and then TWR relay IS into unid lang. A two-fer! Easy logging at 1000kW for Armenia on mw. Very strong sigs, w/some minor QRM from Iran 1431 DJIBOUTI, R. Sawa relay, heard at 1743 on 01 Jan in AR with US soul mx and talk. Very good signal with 600kW. Some QRM from co-channel Iran. 1494 CHINA, PBS Xinjian, Chinese graveyard channel at 1555 on 01 Jan, in CH talk with commercials before the top of the hour. This one is dominant, but there are 5 stations listed, all low power of around 1kW. Full ID on the hour. Fair sigs but fighting it out co-channel. 1503 TAJIKISTAN, VoR Sodruzhestvo relay, heard at 1547 on 01 Jan with what can best be described as Russian show tunes and occasional DJ chat. Heard one song which was the basis for the IS from the old R.Station Peace and Progress in the 70s. That brought back some memories! Good sigs with an occasional deep fade. This is listed as only 7kW. No sign of 500kW Iran! This trend could really make me a happy man... 1566 INDIA, AIR National Channel, heard at 1530 on 01 Jan w/EG news and commentary. Banging signal with 1000 kW. I understand this does a pretty good job of covering SAsia. Nice to find a freq where Iran gets stepped on for a change. 4795 KYRGYZSTAN, Kyrgyz R., heard at 2327 on 01 Jan w/KG talk by YL announcer and RS/KG vocals. Excellent sigs and no QRM. My Kyrgyz work colleagues just roll their eyes when I mention hearing the station. They are not very impressed by their national radio! 4895 MONGOLIA, Mongolian R. 1st Pgm, heard at 2318 on 01 Jan w/MO talk by squeaky-voiced YL and western-style mx beds. Good sigs. //4830 7140 INDIA, AIR Hyderabad, heard at 0357 on 01 Jan with Hindi commercials and station ID. Fair sigs considering the time of day and frequency. 7450 GREECE, ERT3 Makedonias, heard at 0408 on 01 Jan with Greek easy-listening mx and very little talk. Only one station ID. Good sigs and no QRM. They appear to be alone on this freq. At least until the Chicoms discover it. //7475 Apparently national program carried on ERT3 as traditional VoG channel also carrying it at a time when they are not supposed to be on. 7690 UNID, Spy Station w/YL repeating "Echo Zulu India" over and over at 0433 on 01 Jan. Slightly clipped English accent. Rumor has it this is Mossad. Fair sigs and no QRM. Finally went into "Message, Message" and gave encrypted message in apparent 5-letter groups. Thought these days were over.... Tx'er in RCSSB yet audible on both USB and standard AM. Message ended at 0445 and bubble jammer appeared on 7692. Too little, too late, guys. 7749 AFGHANISTAN, RTV Afghanistan. Must be a serious mis-tune or their harmonic filters are burnt through. Now being heard on 7th harmonic as well at 0452 on 01 Jan. Pol-e-Charki located at least 20km away from me. 8484 KOREA, HLG Seoul R., coastal CW station, heard at 2350 on 01 Jan running CQ marker as: CQ CQ CQ DE HLG HLG HLG QSX 8 MHZ. Very strong sigs. 10kW. 9526 INDONESIA, VoI, heard at 1335 on 01 Jan with EG show, several nice and clear IDs by YL. This is beamed at 3° with 50kW per AOKI, so again, I appear to be off the side of the beam, but good levels nonetheless. 11530 CLAN, Denge Mezopotamya, heard at 0525 on 01 Jan playing The Internationale! Full marching band style. Local level sigs. I am quite surprised to hear this on a station supposedly looking for a "free" Iraq. I will have to check their political statement. 12005 SRI LANKA, DW DRM, heard at 0850 on 01 Jan in GM with people discussing their history as children with diaries. I tell ya, when you can actually receive DRM and demod it consistently, the experience is quite nice! Very strong signals, but gone at 0858. Oh well, it was a nice experience. 13720 UAE, Sudan R. Svc., heard at 0554 01 Jan in EG w/talks on the media's role in democracy until multilingual IDs at 0559 and tx off at 0600. Good sigs apparently off the side of the beam. Apparently, one of my guards took a liking to the grounding cable for my generator for use as a battery cable in his car. This caused the sudden ruination of mediumwave at 2350 local on New Years' Eve. He is now free to repair his vehicle without the benefit of my employ. I have replaced the cable, but something is still not right with the generator as everything below 1 MHz is still essentially pfutsch! A replacement genset is to be delivered sometime next week, but mediumwave is kind of handicapped until then. Aside from that, I've had an excellent day of DX, ranging from broadcast to spy stations to utes. I hope everyone else has had the same. I did manage to scrounge some pork and sauerkraut for lunch (thank you ASI International for the invite!) as well as a case of John Smith's ale from my friends at the British Embassy. 73s de Al Muick "It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power." - John Adams, 1788 ---[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
