Anyone have an idea who's the broadcaster on 17650 at 0415 UTC? The signal was
pretty good. Service was in French. Male with multiple IDs for R. Nacional, but
no clear mention of a country.

Any ideas?


Michael Bryant, WA4009SWL
Louisville, KY
R75, S800, RX320, SW77, ICF2010K,
DX398, 7600G, 6800W, RF2200, 7600A
GE SRll, Pro-2006, Pro-2010, Pro-76
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Michael Bryant wrote:

Anyone have an idea who's the broadcaster on 17650 at 0415 UTC? The signal was
pretty good. Service was in French. Male with multiple IDs for R. Nacional, but
no clear mention of a country.

Any ideas?

Sure, take a bit more time with the station! From your logs you don't seem to take
much time trying to figure out who's who.

Here's the example:


17600 0412 ISRAEL, KI-Tel Aviv. YL w/ wx for Iraeli cities, ID. Good.

17650 0415 ??? OM in French, multiple IDs for R. Nacional in French. Good.

17670 0417 SRI LANKA, RF Afgh-Irana Wila. 2OM in Dari. Fair, but very clear.

Best thing to do is park on 17650 for a while and try to figure it out... I know
that might be difficult for you (given your short attention span), but give it a
try!

You might just become a dxAce!

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

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

Good advice!

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Michael Bryant wrote:

Anyone have an idea who's the broadcaster on 17650 at 0415 UTC? The
signal was
pretty good. Service was in French. Male with multiple IDs for R.
Nacional, but
no clear mention of a country.

Any ideas?

Sure, take a bit more time with the station! From your logs you don't seem
to take
much time trying to figure out who's who.

Here's the example:


17600 0412 ISRAEL, KI-Tel Aviv. YL w/ wx for Iraeli cities, ID. Good.

17650 0415 ??? OM in French, multiple IDs for R. Nacional in French.
Good.

17670 0417 SRI LANKA, RF Afgh-Irana Wila. 2OM in Dari. Fair, but very
clear.

Best thing to do is park on 17650 for a while and try to figure it out...
I know
that might be difficult for you (given your short attention span), but
give it a
try!

You might just become a dxAce!

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

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

ocom (Michael Bryant) wrote ...

Anyone have an idea who's the broadcaster on 17650 at 0415 UTC?

Ok Professor, let's take it to 'em.

How long did you listen to the broadcast? From your past experience
in SWL, did you give it time to arrive at a useable identification?

Gotta allow for fairness here. The professor strikes me as a good
candidate for "dxace" already. Other issues aside, he does pull in
some good catches.
"Iff'n he hadda hunnert foota wahr uppa good'n tall tree" he'd
probably out-do us all.

From: (LW)

(Michael Bryant) wrote ...

Anyone have an idea who's the broadcaster on 17650 at 0415 UTC?

Ok Professor, let's take it to 'em.

How long did you listen to the broadcast? From your past experience
in SWL, did you give it time to arrive at a useable identification?

Gotta allow for fairness here. The professor strikes me as a good
candidate for "dxace" already. Other issues aside, he does pull in
some good catches.
"Iff'n he hadda hunnert foota wahr uppa good'n tall tree" he'd
probably out-do us all.


I will admit that my listening habits are unconventional. I don't have a lot of
time to dedicate to DXing and my present location makes a hundred foot antenna
impossible. SW programming and news seems pretty boring, though I do enjoy
exotic music.

The thing I seem to be most interested in, right now, is detecting when
propagation conditions allow late night reception on higher frequencies. For
example, around 0400 UTC, I'm able to pick up broadcasts from Asia/Oceania,
along with Middle East and South Asian broadcasts. Timing of these openings
seem to slowly shift with conditions and seasons. I just like to see what stuff
is coming through on 13-21 MHz. I'm not listening to send reception reports. I
want to quickly identify a station and move on to see what's coming through in
the rest of the band.

When I run across a station I can't identify, I'll leave a receiver parked on
that one, trying to ID that one, while looking across the band with other
receivers seeing what else is popping up at that specific time. Multi-tasking,
including quick log notations.

In terms of the broadcaster on 17650, I probably spent about 20 minutes trying
to ID the station. The male speaker was clearly speaking French, possibly w/
slight Afro-accent, and made serveral references to Nacional Radio or Radio
Nacional. I checked Passport, ILG, HFCC, and EiBi and can't seem to identify a
likely candidatebroadcaster. Though the signal strength was good, it wasn't
there last night.

Just though I'd ask. I probably shouldn't have bothered. Enjoy the Profit, LW!


Michael Bryant, WA4009SWL
Louisville, KY
R75, S800, RX320, SW77, ICF2010K,
DX398, 7600G, 6800W, RF2200, 7600A
GE SRll, Pro-2006, Pro-2010, Pro-76
(remove "nojunk" to reply)

Michael Bryant wrote:

From: (LW)

(Michael Bryant) wrote ...

Anyone have an idea who's the broadcaster on 17650 at 0415 UTC?

Ok Professor, let's take it to 'em.

How long did you listen to the broadcast? From your past experience
in SWL, did you give it time to arrive at a useable identification?

Gotta allow for fairness here. The professor strikes me as a good
candidate for "dxace" already. Other issues aside, he does pull in
some good catches.
"Iff'n he hadda hunnert foota wahr uppa good'n tall tree" he'd
probably out-do us all.


I will admit that my listening habits are unconventional. I don't have a lot of
time to dedicate to DXing and my present location makes a hundred foot antenna
impossible. SW programming and news seems pretty boring, though I do enjoy
exotic music.

The thing I seem to be most interested in, right now, is detecting when
propagation conditions allow late night reception on higher frequencies. For
example, around 0400 UTC, I'm able to pick up broadcasts from Asia/Oceania,
along with Middle East and South Asian broadcasts. Timing of these openings
seem to slowly shift with conditions and seasons. I just like to see what stuff
is coming through on 13-21 MHz. I'm not listening to send reception reports. I
want to quickly identify a station and move on to see what's coming through in
the rest of the band.

The higher frequencies will propagate much better over the pole at night this time
of year. If one looks at a grey line map, the distance to daylight is never very
far away to the north and the higher frequencies after propagating through the
daylight will many times 'punch through' the very short darkness path.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

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

ocom (Michael Bryant) wrote ...

I will admit that my listening habits are unconventional.

Unconventional is good, Professor. Sometimes thinking outside the box
can lead to unusual catches, no?

I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to DXing and my
present location makes a hundred foot antenna impossible.

Well if that ever changes, let me know. If I can, I'll be there to
help pull up "the biggie". A promise is a promise. I have a
home-made "ez-hang" and I'll donate the wire. Such a deal. Shucks I
bet we could even get Steve to call a truce long enough to come help.
Hey this is RADIO we're talking about here.

Here's a trick question, Professor - would you rather put up an
antenna, or go to a Komrade Klinton book signing at B&N? Ha ha ha ..
gotcha.

When I run across a station I can't identify, I'll leave a receiver parked on
that one, trying to ID that one, while looking across the band with other
receivers seeing what else is popping up at that specific time.

Sounds reasonable to me. Probably one of the best ways to find out.
Even Passport and WRTH can't stay up with all that's out there.

Just though I'd ask. I probably shouldn't have bothered.

Awww come on - that's what this ng is for. Guys ask in here all the
time.

Enjoy the Profit, LW!

I don't listen to him. I "use him" to yank chains.

LW wrote:

ocom (Michael Bryant) wrote ...

I will admit that my listening habits are unconventional.

Unconventional is good, Professor. Sometimes thinking outside the box
can lead to unusual catches, no?

I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to DXing and my
present location makes a hundred foot antenna impossible.

Well if that ever changes, let me know. If I can, I'll be there to
help pull up "the biggie". A promise is a promise. I have a
home-made "ez-hang" and I'll donate the wire. Such a deal. Shucks I
bet we could even get Steve to call a truce long enough to come help.
Hey this is RADIO we're talking about here.

Might do that.

In article ,
dxAce wrote:

LW wrote:

ocom (Michael Bryant) wrote ...

I will admit that my listening habits are unconventional.

Unconventional is good, Professor. Sometimes thinking outside the box
can lead to unusual catches, no?

I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to DXing and my
present location makes a hundred foot antenna impossible.

Well if that ever changes, let me know. If I can, I'll be there to
help pull up "the biggie". A promise is a promise. I have a
home-made "ez-hang" and I'll donate the wire. Such a deal. Shucks I
bet we could even get Steve to call a truce long enough to come help.
Hey this is RADIO we're talking about here.

Might do that.

Yeah, then all Bryant would have to do is buy some of the radios he
claims to own. I would be surprised if he owned just one of the radios
in his signature.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

dxAce wrote ...


Might do that.

Aha ! ! ! ! ! First it was Snoopy and the Red Baron who stopped the
shooting long enough to share a Christmas toast ( you do remember the
Royal Guardsmen, don't you ? ).

Now Steve is willing to lay it down long enough to string an antenna.

In Kentucky, at that.

Nothing like a good antenna party to cement a few new friendships.

I'm quite the peacemaker, yes?