QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 200m Longwire/Randomwire ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
1557 TAIWAN, Family Radio, Kouhu, heard at 1430 on 22 Dec. w/EG pgm "Open Forum" w/the older fellow, who was getting a real earful from some of the listeners that called in. Co-channel Iran was off for some reason (probably tx issues as a dead carrier came on now and again) and everything underneath could be heard. WYFR had some severe fades that lasted minutes but always came back up with fair sigs, along with some of the regional Chinese stations that are normally blocked. Air distance between Kabul and Taipei is 3171 miles. Nice catch for me, even at 300kW. This furthers my disbelief in the 1500kW rumor of Qatar on 954. 5860 KUWAIT, R.Farda relay, heard at 1355 (actually "seen" before heard) on 22 Dec. w/pop FS music and big UGLY carrier with 20kHz + occupied bandwidth. This was splattered far and wide, making the spectral display resemble a public toilet. They ought to fire the engineer responsible for this (sorry, professional pride getting in the way here). Thankfully, they left the air at 1358, just a couple of minutes before their scheduled s/off @ 1400. Best 73 de Al Muick "The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own - The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die." - General orders, 2 July 1776, in J. C. Fitzpatrick (ed.) Writings of George Washington vol. 5 (1932) p. 2 ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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