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September 7th 04, 01:06 PM
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dxAce wrote: dxAce wrote: John Plimmer wrote: Congratulations and well done on some superb logs as usual, especially from suburban Puyallup. RRI Serui is interesting. I see that it is now moved from 4606.6 to 4605! - I think reception in U.S. is favoured by the fact that the Serui TX has the large mass of Irian Jaya mainland behind it and the high mountains. In my empirical experience this would favour transmission to your QTH as some of the transmitted signal would bounce off the mountains in your direction. Received here in Montagu at 2100 utc, bang on local Serui sunrise. Very faint though and confirms it's 500 watt power. Only managed a very faint RRI "Radio Republika Indonesia" ID. Signal was barely readable and only came in for about ten minutes. OTOH I received RRI Fak Fak also at 2100 utc booming in quite clear with excellent ID's on 4790 Khz. According to my theory Fak Fak is located on a large bay with its outlook pointing directly to South Africa and mountains behind the TX favouring reception in my area. This is also confirmed by the fact that the signal is so strong here that it gives the impression that the TX power is much more than the listed 1 Kw, but bear in mind that it is not received in the U.S. at all. Why would you say Fak Fak is not received in the U.S. at all? It is reported here from time to time. In fact, I believe it is them that I have here at 1200 on 4789.95 or so. That should have been 1100. I don't think the mountains have a lot to do with it. dxAce |
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