On Feb 24, 3:58*pm, bpnjensen wrote:
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- Hide quoted text -

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DW does not have a good signal lately ( budget cutbacks+poor
propagation), at least over here on the east coast. In better times
they ALWAYS had an exceptionally deep bass and their transmitted
badwith seemed to be somewhat wider than the usual 5KHz,like everybody
else suppose to. Original Grundig receivers (the real Satellits and
older tube stereos, not the current products) certainly emphasized
lows as well and it was their main audio characteristic. RBIntl was
awful in every respect- I really couldn't stand them, audio was never
one of their strong points. Glad they are gone,what a disgrace...