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Old February 24th 10, 03:52 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default Voice of Nigeria - what's up with their audio?

On Feb 24, 4:10*am, Joe from Kokomo wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
I was home sick today, so I was listening to V. Nigeria on 15,120 KHz
from about 2000 to 2100z. *A potent signal to say the least, would
have been easy armchair copy except for one thing - their audio is
terrible. *The sound is either muffled, or overmodulated, or the high
tones are omitted, or something, but the distortion makes an otherwise
great African signal almost unlistenable much of the time. *Any ideas
what their problem might be?


Technical incompetence?


Perhaps ;-) but like I said, I'd hate to see their engineers get fired
(or worse)...it's probably something an hour and $5 worth of parts
could fix - or maybe just turning a knob.