dxAce wrote:

bpnjensen wrote:

I'm not sure if they are using any low powered transmitters anymore.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I'm not certain either. As recently as a few years back, they were
using something like a 15 or 25kW xmtr on 19m (15425, IIRC), but since
have (1) upgraded to 80 kW or thereabouts and (2) apparently abandoned
that frequency. Now I hear them on 31m using the 80 kW, same
timeframe, coming in *about* as good as they used to around sunset on
the older lower power xmtr. Of course, I was able to hear some Sri
Lankan hams on 20m about the same time as the 19m transmissions, so I
presume that frequency and time was a sweet spot for both the
transmitter, the propagation and the receiver/antenna system (my
DX-Ultra antenna is a honey on 19m, its best wavelength). It still is
a sweet spot for signals from that part of the world to here, even with
the sunspot cycle at it's current near-minima state.

I remember them having a program of older pop music which was interesting to
listen to considering where it was from.

I just checked the QSL's and actually 'discovered' yet another from Sri Lanka.

This one is for reception of the Radio Monitors International DX Program
broadcast by SLBC 11735 kHz, 35 kW, v/s Jose Jacob (1983). It's a Radio Monitors
International QSL.

The AWR QSL 11735 kHz signed by Jose Jacob also shows 35 kW (1983). It also has
an AWR stamp reminiscent of the old EKKO stamps attached.

The SLBC QSL 9720 kHz does not show a transmitter power (1987).

I also found one VOA QSL for 15250 via Colombo, Sri Lanka (1992).

dxAce
Michigan
USA