I've noticed them a few times in the last few weeks. My "20" is a few
miles south of the Pentagon, where I maintain a VHF listening post to
monitor air traffic at Andrews AFB - AF1, Marine1, that sort of stuff.
I generally hear them between 2000 and 2100 UTC, which is 3 p.m. to 4
p.m. EST.

The first time I heard them, a few weeks ago, I thought they were
Australian, from the accents. They play pop music. They remind me of a
station I used to listen to twenty years ago. I think it was called
"Radio 5," something like that. They were in Capetown, and I used to
hear them about 1 a.m. on the east coast of the US. That would be the
middle of the day in RSA. They were especially strong in the winter.

Primetime says CVC International is in Zambia. It also says the
broadcasts are aimed at Africa, so the electromagnetic wave thingies
are flying a right far piece beyond the target audience.

http://www.primetimeshortwave.com/time.txt

Google also comes up with these hits:

http://www.primetimeshortwave.com/africa.txt

Online Music, Shortwave Radio, Streaming Media - CVC.TV
http://www.cvc.tv/go/fuseaction/sche...n/lang/english

The website says the target area is NW Africa. Why they would be
broadcasting in English to that region, I do not know, as it is
largely Francophone.

Please give them a listen. See what you think.

On Jan 17, 4:41*pm, Beloved Leader
wrote:
The first time I heard them, a few weeks ago, I thought they were
Australian, from the accents.
....

Primetime says CVC International is in Zambia.

Well, maybe they are Australian after all, and it's the transmitter
that's in Zambia.
http://www.cvc.tv/go/fuseaction/imag...n/lang/english

There's a website where you can file your reception report.

http://www.cvc.tv/go/fuseaction/rece...n/lang/english

Beloved Leader wrote:

Beloved Leader wrote:

The first time I heard them, a few weeks ago, I thought they were
Australian, from the accents.

....


Primetime says CVC International is in Zambia.


Well, maybe they are Australian after all, and it's the transmitter
that's in Zambia.
http://www.cvc.tv/go/fuseaction/imag...n/lang/english

There's a website where you can file your reception report.

http://www.cvc.tv/go/fuseaction/rece...n/lang/english

Here is what I heard on 13590 kHz at 2350 utc:
http://www.cybertheque.org/homebrew/...08_2330utc.mp3

Repeated about every five minutes. Speculation (yet another opportunity for
spirited discourse)?

Michael

msg wrote:

Beloved Leader wrote:

snip

Here is what I heard on 13590 kHz at 2350 utc:

http://www.cybertheque.org/homebrew/...08_2330utc.mp3

Repeated about every five minutes. Speculation (yet another opportunity
for
spirited discourse)?


I should have mentioned 2.8 kHz filter, USB. Listening to this sound
and comparing with the 'aussie drifter' sound, it seems to be very
similar, just different duty cycle, on a different band.

Michael