Diverd4777 wrote:

-More Strange propagation

At 03:00 UTC I was listening to 7.415 WBCQ & John Lightning;listening to Called
- in Conspiracy Theories & Michael Jackson Jokes, on a faint signal when the
broadcast changed to military -type music.
repeated three times, then annnounced it was "VOA Africa"

Dan

Nothing strange about that. The VOA signs on 7415 at 0300.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

Steve:
Yes, at 0300, On The Other Side Of The World
VOA, Via Botswana fires up its Transmitters;
The transmitters, 100 KW, in Gaborone, Botswana,

http://www.brookes.ac.uk/worldwise/d.../www00028.html

(a " Must I Travel THERE ?! " type place from the look of it,
major exports being Hepatitis & Polio )

are actuallly closer to The South Pole than Rural Maine, where WBCQ's 50K watt
transmitters are located.

Just Found it odd that this ionospheric condition occured...


Dan



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writes:



Diverd4777 wrote:

-More Strange propagation

At 03:00 UTC I was listening to 7.415 WBCQ & John Lightning;listening to
Called
- in Conspiracy Theories & Michael Jackson Jokes, on a faint signal when
the
broadcast changed to military -type music.
repeated three times, then annnounced it was "VOA Africa"

Dan

Nothing strange about that. The VOA signs on 7415 at 0300.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

Diverd4777 wrote:

Steve:
Yes, at 0300, On The Other Side Of The World
VOA, Via Botswana fires up its Transmitters;
The transmitters, 100 KW, in Gaborone, Botswana,

http://www.brookes.ac.uk/worldwise/d.../www00028.html

(a " Must I Travel THERE ?! " type place from the look of it,
major exports being Hepatitis & Polio )

are actuallly closer to The South Pole than Rural Maine, where WBCQ's 50K watt
transmitters are located.

Just Found it odd that this ionospheric condition occured...

Dan

I guess you've got to realise that at times you are going to wind up in WBCQ's skip
zone ( I think you are in NY) as the band goes 'long'. At that time, VOA's signal
is sure to come in over WBCQ's signal. Happens here from time to time, though many
times I am able to hear VOA underneath WBCQ no matter what.



In article , N8KDV
writes:



Diverd4777 wrote:

-More Strange propagation

At 03:00 UTC I was listening to 7.415 WBCQ & John Lightning;listening to
Called
- in Conspiracy Theories & Michael Jackson Jokes, on a faint signal when
the
broadcast changed to military -type music.
repeated three times, then annnounced it was "VOA Africa"

Dan

Nothing strange about that. The VOA signs on 7415 at 0300.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm