RRI Fak Fak 4789.98
 

Monitoring RRI Fak Fak on 4789.98 here this morning after 1315, nice
signal, but still have the annoying CODAR radar interference. Many
mentions of Indonesia by both man and woman announcers prior to 1330,
then into music after 1334.

Nice to see them here as they are known to be inactive at times on this
frequency. Killer signal, which always seems to build here after dawn,
which is normally the case for the Indos, at least from my listening
vantage point.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

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

N8KDV wrote:

Monitoring RRI Fak Fak on 4789.98 here this morning after 1315, nice
signal, but still have the annoying CODAR radar interference. Many
mentions of Indonesia by both man and woman announcers prior to 1330,
then into music after 1334.

Nice to see them here as they are known to be inactive at times on this
frequency. Killer signal, which always seems to build here after dawn,
which is normally the case for the Indos, at least from my listening
vantage point.

They seem to play the same distinctive tune just prior to s/off at 1400.
I'm not sure if it's 'Indonesia Raya' which is the National Anthem, as it
doesn't sound like an anthem, but it may be. I'll have to look for a sound
clip.



Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

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

"N8KDV" wrote in message
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Monitoring RRI Fak Fak on 4789.98 here this morning after 1315, nice
signal, but still have the annoying CODAR radar interference. Many
mentions of Indonesia by both man and woman announcers prior to 1330,
then into music after 1334.


Yes, I got the ID's this morning as well. Some of the mx sounded like
country & western ? I wonder if that is popular in Irian Jaya land?

I ended up on the RX350 in SAM or Sync with the bandwidth set to 1.950 &
the PBT at -0122 to help with the CODAR. I use USB or LSB most of the time
but playing with SYN this time.

73, Ken

Ken Wilson wrote:

"N8KDV" wrote in message
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Monitoring RRI Fak Fak on 4789.98 here this morning after 1315, nice
signal, but still have the annoying CODAR radar interference. Many
mentions of Indonesia by both man and woman announcers prior to 1330,
then into music after 1334.


Yes, I got the ID's this morning as well. Some of the mx sounded like
country & western ? I wonder if that is popular in Irian Jaya land?

Might be, seems pretty popular on the other side of the island in PNG.



I ended up on the RX350 in SAM or Sync with the bandwidth set to 1.950 &
the PBT at -0122 to help with the CODAR. I use USB or LSB most of the time
but playing with SYN this time.

73, Ken

4,789,980 cycles per second. How do I align my dx 394 so it is in better
alignment ? My receiver can go down to 100 cps.

"N8KDV" wrote in message
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Ken Wilson wrote:

"N8KDV" wrote in message
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Monitoring RRI Fak Fak on 4789.98 here this morning after 1315, nice
signal, but still have the annoying CODAR radar interference. Many
mentions of Indonesia by both man and woman announcers prior to 1330,
then into music after 1334.


Yes, I got the ID's this morning as well. Some of the mx sounded like
country & western ? I wonder if that is popular in Irian Jaya land?

Might be, seems pretty popular on the other side of the island in PNG.



I ended up on the RX350 in SAM or Sync with the bandwidth set to 1.950
&
the PBT at -0122 to help with the CODAR. I use USB or LSB most of the
time
but playing with SYN this time.

73, Ken

Ah, those were the days, when many of us were in the wilderness
of inexact frequency readout!


From: "Maximus"
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:26:44 GMT
Subject: RRI Fak Fak 4789.98

4,789,980 cycles per second. How do I align my dx 394 so it is in better
alignment ? My receiver can go down to 100 cps.

"N8KDV" wrote in message
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Ken Wilson wrote:

"N8KDV" wrote in message
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Monitoring RRI Fak Fak on 4789.98 here this morning after 1315, nice
signal, but still have the annoying CODAR radar interference. Many
mentions of Indonesia by both man and woman announcers prior to 1330,
then into music after 1334.


Yes, I got the ID's this morning as well. Some of the mx sounded like
country & western ? I wonder if that is popular in Irian Jaya land?

Might be, seems pretty popular on the other side of the island in PNG.



I ended up on the RX350 in SAM or Sync with the bandwidth set to 1.950
&
the PBT at -0122 to help with the CODAR. I use USB or LSB most of the
time
but playing with SYN this time.

73, Ken

"Maximus" wrote in message
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4,789,980 cycles per second. How do I align my dx 394 so it is in better
alignment ? My receiver can go down to 100 cps.


Max,

I wouldn't worry about it. Their transmit Freq probably moves around a bit.
My RX350 is .021mhz high on WWV.

I just got in a habit of zerobeating.With the Integrated amp & Heil proset
headphones ....I use.... I have to be within .020 or I get a beat note.

When I was a teenager....back in 1976 or so..... I used a DX-160.Yeah Baby.
Biggest challenge was not hearing the station. It was finding the correct
Freq.

73, Ken

"Maximus" wrote in message link.net...
4,789,980 cycles per second. How do I align my dx 394 so it is in better
alignment ? My receiver can go down to 100 cps.

I developed a technique for aligning the 4 oscillators of the DX-394
using only a 25kHz (or lower) harmonic marker generator, a software
audio spectrum analyser that reads audio frequencies accurately and my
ears. It's described in the DX-394 special interest group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RADIOSHACKDX394/. With a modification to
the 2nd local oscillator, I achieved an accuracy of +/-100Hz across
the entire tuning range of the DX-394. For AM reception, you don't
need this kind of accuracy but it's a great help with SSB.

Tom

I took an elementary electronics course once. We had to build and align an
AM transistor radio. We had an oscilloscope and an oscillator and got mine
aligned pretty well. The parts quality varied from person to person, so some
radios were a little anemic, others would really punch a hole in the silence
S. Mine did pretty well. But of course I do not have an oscilloscope or
oscillator now. I do the zero beat thing. I also have some stereo headphones
if I really am intent upon identification. My hearing was pretty bad by the
time I left vietnam, and has since gotten worse, so the headphones make a
big difference. So how do they make receivers with such fine and stable
frequency readout ?

"tom Holden" wrote in message
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"Maximus" wrote in message
link.net...
4,789,980 cycles per second. How do I align my dx 394 so it is in better
alignment ? My receiver can go down to 100 cps.

I developed a technique for aligning the 4 oscillators of the DX-394
using only a 25kHz (or lower) harmonic marker generator, a software
audio spectrum analyser that reads audio frequencies accurately and my
ears. It's described in the DX-394 special interest group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RADIOSHACKDX394/. With a modification to
the 2nd local oscillator, I achieved an accuracy of +/-100Hz across
the entire tuning range of the DX-394. For AM reception, you don't
need this kind of accuracy but it's a great help with SSB.

Tom