Radio Congo
 

Radio Congo on 5985, seemingly with a crash start at 0430, opening
announcement and into hi-life music. Co-channel interference from an yet

unid'd station, but a good signal overall. 11 January 2004

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

N8KDV wrote:

Radio Congo on 5985, seemingly with a crash start at 0430, opening
announcement and into hi-life music. Co-channel interference from an yet

unid'd station, but a good signal overall. 11 January 2004

The co-channel interference (though weak) was WYFR, in Spanish beamed to the
Caribbean until 0445. Then at 0455 WYFR came back up on the frequency with a
killer signal, *0500 with Mandarin beamed to Asia.

I'd forgotten how much I disliked WYFR! I recall sitting around with other
DX'ers at DXpeditions in the 80's fantasizing about launching an assault on
their transmitter site, and taking the transmitters out. Pesky little
devils. At times I think they have around 10 transmitters going out of
there. Reminds one of the old days when Radio Moscow occupied a lot of
channels, much as the Chinese do today.


Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

Thanks Steve -- I read the frequency as 5.984.969 (this
on my JRC 301 A).....great surprise to hear this in such a
crowded place...

From: N8KDV
Organization: NASWA-America's Oldest SWBC Club
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:41:13 -0500
Subject: Radio Congo

Radio Congo on 5985, seemingly with a crash start at 0430, opening
announcement and into hi-life music. Co-channel interference from an yet

unid'd station, but a good signal overall. 11 January 2004

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B