QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m Longwire/Randomwire ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
531 16 OCT, 1536 UTC, INDIA, AIR Jodphur in English news with stomping signal. S9+ and way over the co-channel Iranian stations. Slight fade and low-level QRM from Iran. I also submitted a reception report via their online form at: http://www.allindiaradio.gov.in/recepfdk.html and we'll see how that works. 567 16 OCT, 1754 UTC, RUSSIA, Radio Rossii, Volgograd, in Russian playing old showtunes, into time pips and ID in Russian on the hour. This is a 1000kW operation according to WRTH. Good signal levels with moderate fading and very little QRM. So I was piddling about on mediumwave last night, and got a couple of surprises, as above. Also upgraded Ubuntu on my Netbook from 10.04 to 10.10 last night and am rather uncomfortable with the new layout. Also having trouble with audio in WINE. I was hoping to use the netbook for DXpeditions and travel, since my main laptop has lots of valuable data on it and is a heavy old beast (much like myself). No matter, I'll solve it, but if anyone has experience in WINE and the ALSA drivers, I'd love to hear from you. I think Iran on 531 must have been on low power, as normally they dominate the channel, unless it was just weird propagation conditions, which is also entirely possible! ;-) 73s and good DX to all! Al "Democracy is an abuse of statistics." - Jorge Luis Borges ---[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
