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June 27th 04, 01:28 AM

From: (LW)

(Michael Bryant) wrote ...

Anyone have an idea who's the broadcaster on 17650 at 0415 UTC?

Ok Professor, let's take it to 'em.

How long did you listen to the broadcast? From your past experience
in SWL, did you give it time to arrive at a useable identification?

Gotta allow for fairness here. The professor strikes me as a good
candidate for "dxace" already. Other issues aside, he does pull in
some good catches.
"Iff'n he hadda hunnert foota wahr uppa good'n tall tree" he'd
probably out-do us all.

I will admit that my listening habits are unconventional. I don't have a lot of
time to dedicate to DXing and my present location makes a hundred foot antenna
impossible. SW programming and news seems pretty boring, though I do enjoy
exotic music.

The thing I seem to be most interested in, right now, is detecting when
propagation conditions allow late night reception on higher frequencies. For
example, around 0400 UTC, I'm able to pick up broadcasts from Asia/Oceania,
along with Middle East and South Asian broadcasts. Timing of these openings
seem to slowly shift with conditions and seasons. I just like to see what stuff
is coming through on 13-21 MHz. I'm not listening to send reception reports. I
want to quickly identify a station and move on to see what's coming through in
the rest of the band.

When I run across a station I can't identify, I'll leave a receiver parked on
that one, trying to ID that one, while looking across the band with other
receivers seeing what else is popping up at that specific time. Multi-tasking,
including quick log notations.

In terms of the broadcaster on 17650, I probably spent about 20 minutes trying
to ID the station. The male speaker was clearly speaking French, possibly w/
slight Afro-accent, and made serveral references to Nacional Radio or Radio
Nacional. I checked Passport, ILG, HFCC, and EiBi and can't seem to identify a
likely candidatebroadcaster. Though the signal strength was good, it wasn't
there last night.

Just though I'd ask. I probably shouldn't have bothered. Enjoy the Profit, LW!

Michael Bryant, WA4009SWL
Louisville, KY
R75, S800, RX320, SW77, ICF2010K,
DX398, 7600G, 6800W, RF2200, 7600A
GE SRll, Pro-2006, Pro-2010, Pro-76
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