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running dogg wrote:
With BBCWS service to the Americas all but cut off, I decided to try the
frequencies for East Asia and West Africa for reception of The World
Today at 0300. The Asian frequencies are 15280, 17760 and 21660 and NONE
of them were audible. 21660 was totally silent and 15280 and 17760 had
occasional bits of signal popping up but nothing listenable.

Here in Seattle yesterday/Sunday, 15280 and/or 15360 provided a passable
signal (S1 - S3) from about 0:00 to 2:00. Later on in the year around
the summer solstice, 15360 often provides a resonable signal around
07:00-09:00.

Then I
tried the freqs for West Africa, listed as 6035 and 7160. 7160 had some
sort of data transmission dominating the frequency, not surprising since
this is a ham band in NAm. 6035 was actually quite listenable with
occasional fading. I am in California, so the audibility of 6035 was a
surprise. BBC website says this is from tx's in South Africa-quite a
long way to go! Apparently 6035 is the best bet for evening audibility
of The World Today.

But paths like that often depend on time of year and quit working, often
quite abruptly.

Spot check at 16:12 Monday morning show 7160 and 6195 coming in very
well. S6-S7. 9740's empty, though. I think they've moved that up
to the 11 MHz band. Time to download the charts.

Mark Zenier
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