QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 200m Longwire/Randomwire ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
1107 AFGHANISTAN, RTVA, seems to have cleaned up its act. Monitoring last night indicates that its modulation problems have been fixed and it's now well within its allotted occupied bandwidth of 9kHz, and the spectral display no longer looks like mush. The harmonics are also gone except for a slightly detectable 3rd harmonic which can just barely be seen. Gone too are the spurs. I hope someone else had a chance to log this. It started snowing and raining yesterday morning and continues. While this may be responsible for damping arcs between its antennas, I truly believe that the issue was tuning. We'll see what happens when drier weather returns. It's a rather curious coincidence that this got fixed after a write-up in Glenn Hauser's DXLD. Perhaps someone in charge at RTVA is a reader or had the info forwarded to them. No time for DX last night as I took delivery of my completely overhauled genset and had to oversee its installation and wiring. I did some brief scanning and everything seems quiet, however a newly commissioned city power transformer a couple of blocks away (only for the politically higher-ups though) is causing some hash on MW and LW. Perhaps I can persuade one of these Taliban types to rocket the thing so I have some quiet on those frequency ranges... Best 73 de Al Muick "Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though for but one year, can never willingly abandon it." - Edmund Burke ---[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
