QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m Longwire/Randomwire ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
4895 12 OCT, 1837 UTC, CLAN (SOUTH AFRICA), Zimbabwe Community Radio with upbeat music and DJ patter with both male and female DJs. Several station IDs. Moderate signal strength, no QRM and moderate fading. 5010 12 OCT, 1802 UTC, MADAGASCAR, Radio Madagasikara with bizarre drum music and male vocals until station ID in presumed Malagasy at 1813 and talk until suddenly off air at 1815. Never heard at this signal level before and on full AM! S9+ on a good evening for Africans. This has been a good night for African stations. It was a really nice opening and I hope it will occur again soon (or better yet, stay for a couple of weeks!). At first I thought Madagascar was AIR Trivandrum (the full name is a mouthful!) come back on after I had heard it sign off at 1740 earlier, but then I heard the language, and it was definitely not Hindi, and the music did not sound like anything I have heard on an AIR station. Malagasy sounds more like Bahasa Indonesia to me. I wonder if they have been working on their TX since they usually pop up on USB, but tonight was full-bore AM with a marvelous modulation level. I'll be checking again tonight and hopefully the conditions remain long enough for me to get a better logging of this. They are supposed to be on until 1900, but maybe there was a tx problem as they did appear to go down in mid-sentence. On another note, thanks to all who have helped me with the HEB QSL issue. I have gotten several snail mail and email addresses and I will definitely email them to determine which snail mail address is correct. Best 73s, Al "Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians." - Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986) ---[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
