On Feb 23, 9:12*pm, wrote:
On Feb 23, 9:50*pm, 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?

Thanks,
Bruce Jensen

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *This is a problem they had for a long
time. *My guess : * equalization is way overdone. *The low frequencies
are dominant and human speech sounds like rumbling elephants. Some
D.Welle transmissions used a similar technique over the years. *May be
V.of Nigeria is doing the same. On the other hand, overmodulation may
cause something very similar,perhaps. *It does make extended listening
very uncomfortable.

!!! Just remembered -

Interesting that you mention DW in the same breath as V. Nigeria -
right after I ended with Nigeria yesterday, I tuned into DW's evening
(UTC) English transmission from Rwanda. Not only was the signal
wonderfully strong, but the audio quality was superb, 180 opposite
Nigeria's mush. It was almost FM-Hi-Fi quality. It was not pure joy,
though - I was rather hoping for a better signal from their Sri Lanka
relay.

I do seem to remember that Radio Berlin Int. used to have somewhat
squashed highs too, but that was a long time ago (1970s and 80s) and I
may not recall correctly.

Bruce