Thanks Great Geoff

I have mailed you off list.

Mike.


"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote in message
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Mike wrote:

I was just wondering if there are any SWLs in the middle east?
What's it like to be a SWL there?

dxAce wrote:

Well, the food is different.

Is it? We have MacDonalds, Dominos, Pizza Hut here. We did have Dunkin'
Donuts
and Starbucks, but they went out of business. :-)

As for SWLing, it is very different. Here I am at the intersection of
eastern
and western Europe. Depending on many factors, sometimes I hear signals
from
the east, sometimes from the west, sometimes both.

There are lots of local stations but most are in Arabic which I don't
understand.

There are no receivable time standard stations. The 80 meter ham band
ends at 3850 and 40 meters at 7100, so the broadcast stations in the
higher parts of those bands come in loud (meter pining) and clear.

Since we are in relatively the same time zone e.g. GMT+2, the programs
make more sense. The evening news is in the evening, etc.

A few stations from the Orient, but I don't pay attention to them.

VOA comes in loud and clear. I used to think their party line was "America
is perfect, everyone else is not", then I started to watch Fox News. :-)

Nothing on LF, though about 8 or so years ago I was able to receive
something on 208 kHz. It was an Arabic broadcast and no, it was not an
image or intermod.

It seems like no one regulates AM and FM broadcasts, you you get stations
all over the dial, sometimes fighting for the same channel. We do get
BBC on 629 and 1323 am, but I get a better signal on shortwave.

FWIW, the numbers stations I hear are NOT groundwaves.


Geoff.
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