...is a technical fault, but I caught one yesterday. (It happens to the best of broadcasters, even me :) )
I usually listen to the 0000UTC 9730khz broadcast but had some free time the other day, so I decided to try your late afternoon 2030UTC broadcast. I tuned to 11850khz on Wednesday August 23rd 2017 at 2030UTC, doing a quick comparison during the interval tune, 11850 was a bit stronger and less noisy then 9610khz, which also had a station the same or nearby channel chattering/interfering in the background I set my radio on 11850khz and started recording. News stories during this broadcast included the French president paying an official visit to Romania on Thursday and about 4000 more US troops being committed to Afghanistan, followed by the sports report at 2041UTC. Just before 2045UTC, a segment on Organic foods in Romania begins, however this is where the technical fault occurs. Well, shortly after this segment begins. A little bit before 2046UTC, the male host, "Vlad" is interrupted by the carrier suddenly dropping and the transmitter going off. I was upstairs when this happened and came back down to my radio gear, switching to 9610khz about 90 seconds later. I checked the 11850khz signal when the interval tune was playing at about 2056UTC and it was fine. I am not sure how long 11850khz was off the air for. The 9610kh signal seemed a bit better then it was almost 20 minutes prior at sign on. I would give this broadcast an overall SINPO rating of 45444. Therer was a bit of noise and fading, but the signal overall was pretty good, about S8 to S9 Here's a recording of what I heard, including the transmitter on 11850khz shutting off and my switch over to 9610khz about 90 seconds later. https://app.box.com/s/mvrz6ikh20pj39vk6xbk0tv7r2jkjabn Equipment used: JRC NRD 535D, 25 foot long by 10 foot tall magnetic loop antenna in the shape of a volleyball net, connectec to a Wellbrook ALA100LN controller head, an EmTEch ZM2 antenna tuner, a DXEngineerinf HF PreAmp and a TEcsun ICR100 digital recorder. Warren, Pennsylvania USA _ 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
