BBC transmitter problems on 5975?
 

I was doing the dishes at about 0100 and trying to listen in on the BBC on
5975 with my Sat. 800, and they were barely pushing S-3. I was just
listening again at 0130 on my JRC 545 and their signal was +20 for a moment,
then it dipped down to about S-9 with just static during the news headlines.
They came on again in the middle of the headlines report about 10 seconds
later. The transmission seems to be OK again at 0137.

Did anybody else experience this?

In article Hf36d.3050$ek.2029@okepread03,
"mike0219116" wrote:

I was doing the dishes at about 0100 and trying to listen in on the BBC on
5975 with my Sat. 800, and they were barely pushing S-3. I was just
listening again at 0130 on my JRC 545 and their signal was +20 for a moment,
then it dipped down to about S-9 with just static during the news headlines.
They came on again in the middle of the headlines report about 10 seconds
later. The transmission seems to be OK again at 0137.

Did anybody else experience this?

That signal goes up and down quite a bit on the hour and half hour. Some
times it goes off all together for a few seconds. When they did this
often times my old R8 sync would drift off during the break and then
howl when the signal came back up.

They are either switching transmitters or antennas during these times.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

In article Hf36d.3050$ek.2029@okepread03, "mike0219116"
writes:

Subject: BBC transmitter problems on 5975?
From: "mike0219116"
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:37:39 -0500

I was doing the dishes at about 0100 and trying to listen in on the BBC on
5975 with my Sat. 800, and they were barely pushing S-3. I was just
listening again at 0130 on my JRC 545 and their signal was +20 for a moment,
then it dipped down to about S-9 with just static during the news headlines.
They came on again in the middle of the headlines report about 10 seconds
later. The transmission seems to be OK again at 0137.

Did anybody else experience this?


As a matter of fact, Yes.
Our dishwasher broke, so at 00:01, I Was doing the dishes; trying to listen to
the BBC 0n 5.975;
- Very poor signal,
thought something was afoot, so switched to 15.385 ( Radio exteria espania (
Spain, in English)) Good newscast...
Dishwasher fixer guy will arrive later today ... dunno about the BBC..

Dan

The BBC doesn't really place a high priority on HF. This is the 21st
century and those big tubes cost as much as a house.

On 28 Sep 2004 11:10:46 GMT, (Diverd4777) wrote:

In article Hf36d.3050$ek.2029@okepread03, "mike0219116"
writes:

Subject: BBC transmitter problems on 5975?
From: "mike0219116"
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:37:39 -0500

I was doing the dishes at about 0100 and trying to listen in on the BBC on
5975 with my Sat. 800, and they were barely pushing S-3. I was just
listening again at 0130 on my JRC 545 and their signal was +20 for a moment,
then it dipped down to about S-9 with just static during the news headlines.
They came on again in the middle of the headlines report about 10 seconds
later. The transmission seems to be OK again at 0137.

Did anybody else experience this?


As a matter of fact, Yes.
Our dishwasher broke, so at 00:01, I Was doing the dishes; trying to listen to
the BBC 0n 5.975;
- Very poor signal,
thought something was afoot, so switched to 15.385 ( Radio exteria espania (
Spain, in English)) Good newscast...
Dishwasher fixer guy will arrive later today ... dunno about the BBC..

Dan

David wrote:

The BBC doesn't really place a high priority on HF. This is the 21st
century and those big tubes cost as much as a house.

What does that have to do with a scheduled transmission and that there may have
been some kind of fault and/or antenna switchover?

Please explain.

dxAce
Michigan

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



On 28 Sep 2004 11:10:46 GMT, (Diverd4777) wrote:

In article Hf36d.3050$ek.2029@okepread03, "mike0219116"
writes:

Subject: BBC transmitter problems on 5975?
From: "mike0219116"
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:37:39 -0500

I was doing the dishes at about 0100 and trying to listen in on the BBC on
5975 with my Sat. 800, and they were barely pushing S-3. I was just
listening again at 0130 on my JRC 545 and their signal was +20 for a moment,
then it dipped down to about S-9 with just static during the news headlines.
They came on again in the middle of the headlines report about 10 seconds
later. The transmission seems to be OK again at 0137.

Did anybody else experience this?


As a matter of fact, Yes.
Our dishwasher broke, so at 00:01, I Was doing the dishes; trying to listen to
the BBC 0n 5.975;
- Very poor signal,
thought something was afoot, so switched to 15.385 ( Radio exteria espania (
Spain, in English)) Good newscast...
Dishwasher fixer guy will arrive later today ... dunno about the BBC..

Dan