Hi Al,
I have checked both the harmonic frequencies here in Finland during the last
few days but haven't been able to hear it or see a carrier.
73, Mauno
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From: "Albert Muick"
To:
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 5:56 AM
Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick - 03 January
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
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