uncle arnie wrote:

running dogg wrote:

It used to be that I could hear morning prayers from Saudi Arabia on
15170 starting around 0300-Passport says it's a three hour broadcast,
but it usually fades out around 0430-0500 as the sun rises over Saudi
Arabia. So I tried it last night, and there was nothing. I tried SSB,
and there was no hint of a signal. I used to listen to this station
every so often for a while after 9-11, but I hadn't tuned in in about a
year to a year and a half. It would be weak but readable, but conditions
have been so terrible lately that I'm not surprised that I can't hear
it. What a winter-I've barely been able to hear the BBC, much less
anything not beamed my direction.

Where are you located? I've head quite good BBC to americas, BBC to Africa,
Australia to pacific, Japan, China and a few others for the past 10 days or
so. I'm at 53N 102W, in Saskatchewan. Listening with an R75 and 100m
(~110 yds) of wire. Most of this listening is around 0400 and then again
round about 1200 UTC. (evening and morning here locally)

I'm listening around 0300 on 5975 and 9525 khz. I keep getting a racket
on 9525 that drowns out the BBC that must be coming from somewhere in my
immediate vicinity. Someone suggested dimmer switches, and while I don't
have any I can't speak for any of the neighbors. 5975 seems to come in
good, although it has a level of noise that makes it necessary to listen
with SSB. I'm located in Sacramento, California, about 90 miles inland
from San Francisco. I'm using a FRG-8800 with about 50 feet of wire. I
haven't tried any of BBC's other streams. Maybe I'll do that tonight.


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