29 August 2012: Went out to the SGLs to listen for 2 reasons; wanted to get a
nice
recording of Zanzibar, and to check my repairs to the BOG coax connectors and
verify everything is working properly. Unfortunately Zanzibar wasn't on.
Since I
haven't been doing any listening for a week (no antenna's at home), I don't know
how long Zanzibar has been off. On a positive note, the coax lead-in seems OK.
Signals seemed kind of weak though. I had the Perseus set at 10db attenuation
at
first but then switched it off. There also appeared to be areas of noise too.
Don't
know why. I was surprised to hear a number of decent signals on 41 meters
already
by 2015. That's 3½ hours before sunset. Wonder how early they were coming in.
Of
course 49 meters was dead except for CRFB.
RX: Microtelecom Perseus SDR with ARR preamp.
ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 90°
QTH: Pennsylvania State Game Lands #26
Duration: 1915-2015 UTC
Solar Indices: Solar Flux = 118 A Index = 4 K Index = 1 No storms.
WX: Sunny with Cumulus clouds. Near 80°
14959.76 Salem Estereo 1919-2000 seemed like a pgm of rel. mx and M host.
Pretty
lax about deadair between songs and annmnts. A really nice peaks at 1949, but
died
in a matter of 3 seconds. Caught canned ID at 1950 by M though, then canned
dialog
by W and M. Was getting some annoying QRM from UTE bursts all around this freq.
(29 August)
15850 Galei Zahal 1919-2000 good signal w/Blues mx and M host repeating the
EG
lyrics. Got nice canned ID jingles at 1957-1959. 3 minutes of nx at 2000
ending
w/ID, brief mx filler, then discussion by several men. Good. (29 August)
7255 V.O. Nigeria 2009 tlk by M in FR w/ment of nationale. Afro Hi-life mx
at
2011 recheck, followed by W in FR. Decent signal. Suddenly went off the air at
2012. (29 August)
7345 RTV Tunisia 2017 W studio host in rapid AR tlking to M. Pretty good
signal for this time of day. (29 August)
11820 BSKSA Holy Koran Svc 2025 Koran recitation, then M anncr at 2026 in AR
including a nice ID, then M anncr followed by another w/ment of Saudi Arabia.
//11915, both good. (29 August)
73 Dave Valko
Dunlo, PA, USA
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