QTH: Pattaya, Thailand RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m Longwire/Randomwire ACC: none
7210 07 SEP, 0837 UTC, CHINA, PBS Yunnan (Tent.) heard with male/female announcer, but I could not ID the language. Possibly vernacular? Not supposed to be here at this time, but definitely NOT AIR Kolkata. Plenty of traditional Chinese-style music, so doubtful CRI. Fair signals, no QRM. 7295 07 SEP, 0810 UTC, MALAYSIA, RTM Traxx FM, heard with R&B, Soul and DJ patter in English with good signals. Second check at 0900 UTC reavealed almost 6dB increase in signal level. Possible change in antenna or transmitter power? 7325 07 SEP, 1010 UTC, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Wantok Radio Light, with English/Pidgin religious programming but being hit hard by CRI in Japanese. Fair signal level 8400 07 SEP, 0917 UTC, CHINA, Firedrake jammer heard with the traditional jug band doing the mashed potatoes over Sound of Hope, which may or may not have actually been there! Well, this was the first day I actually got any DX done here. Too busy having fun and nursing hangovers otherwise. I must say it is such a relief to be out of Afghanistan, even if just for 9 days. The food is good and plentiful and the beer is cold, and the rest, I will leave to your imaginations. There was a minor disaster as one obstreperous Afghan security official confiscated a roll of litz wire I had planned to use as an antenna as well as a BNC female to SMB male adapter just because he felt like it. Rather than roll around on the floor with the guy and see one of their prisons up close and personal, I chose to let him have it and continue on my way. I have not been able to find the adapter here, but I did manage to find some fine wire which inserts nicely into the SMB female connector on the WinRadio. It's not correct and it's not right, but it is working and I am happy. Alright, I'm off to tear up the town a little bit and will DX some more hopefully in the late night hours when I get back. I have to say that so far, the electrical noise is not one tenth as bad as I had imagined or been led to believe. We'll see what happens when the place goes full-tilt-boogie in a few hours. 73s and I'll hoist a few cold ones for ya! Al "Half a truth is often a great lie." - Benjamin Franklin ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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
