Is it a pirate or regular station?

Lucky

"Lucky" wrote in message ...
Is it a pirate or regular station?

Lucky

What kind of music did you hear?

In this band, especially here near the City, I get a handful of images
from powerful local MW stations; I get one regularly on 3980, which is
very annoying, but it's a 50-kw station less than two miles away built
on the same Bay plain where I reside ("common ground" so to speak) and
it's in my face with little recourse.

I also hear harmonics from another station, KFAX, on multiples of 1100
kHz - same situation, powerhouse just 2 miles away.

Could you have heard some MW images or harmonics getting through?

Bruce Jensen

"bpnjensen" wrote in message
om...
"Lucky" wrote in message
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Is it a pirate or regular station?

Lucky

What kind of music did you hear?

In this band, especially here near the City, I get a handful of images
from powerful local MW stations; I get one regularly on 3980, which is
very annoying, but it's a 50-kw station less than two miles away built
on the same Bay plain where I reside ("common ground" so to speak) and
it's in my face with little recourse.

I also hear harmonics from another station, KFAX, on multiples of 1100
kHz - same situation, powerhouse just 2 miles away.

Could you have heard some MW images or harmonics getting through?

Bruce Jensen

I heard foreign sounding music and then someone speaking in French. It
sounded like a pirate to me. It wasn't in a professional format that's for
sure. I was surprised to hear it on 3965 that's why I posted it.

Lucky

3965 kHz is within a SW broadcast band. It's very common to hear many
SW AM stations from 3900 - 4000 kHz during the dark hours.

On 16 Nov 2004 12:19:32 -0800, (bpnjensen) wrote:

"Lucky" wrote in message ...
Is it a pirate or regular station?

Lucky

What kind of music did you hear?

In this band, especially here near the City, I get a handful of images
from powerful local MW stations; I get one regularly on 3980, which is
very annoying, but it's a 50-kw station less than two miles away built
on the same Bay plain where I reside ("common ground" so to speak) and
it's in my face with little recourse.

I also hear harmonics from another station, KFAX, on multiples of 1100
kHz - same situation, powerhouse just 2 miles away.

Could you have heard some MW images or harmonics getting through?

Bruce Jensen

"Lucky" wrote in message ...
"bpnjensen" wrote in message
om...
"Lucky" wrote in message
...
Is it a pirate or regular station?

Lucky

What kind of music did you hear?

In this band, especially here near the City, I get a handful of images
from powerful local MW stations; I get one regularly on 3980, which is
very annoying, but it's a 50-kw station less than two miles away built
on the same Bay plain where I reside ("common ground" so to speak) and
it's in my face with little recourse.

I also hear harmonics from another station, KFAX, on multiples of 1100
kHz - same situation, powerhouse just 2 miles away.

Could you have heard some MW images or harmonics getting through?

Bruce Jensen

I heard foreign sounding music and then someone speaking in French. It
sounded like a pirate to me. It wasn't in a professional format that's for
sure. I was surprised to hear it on 3965 that's why I posted it.

Lucky

WELL THEN...

Could it be this? (from EiBi schedule...)

3965 kHz 0400-0500 UCT F Radio France Int. French NAf

Bruce Jensen

bpnjensen wrote:

"Lucky" wrote in message ...
"bpnjensen" wrote in message
om...
"Lucky" wrote in message
...
Is it a pirate or regular station?

Lucky

What kind of music did you hear?

In this band, especially here near the City, I get a handful of images
from powerful local MW stations; I get one regularly on 3980, which is
very annoying, but it's a 50-kw station less than two miles away built
on the same Bay plain where I reside ("common ground" so to speak) and
it's in my face with little recourse.

I also hear harmonics from another station, KFAX, on multiples of 1100
kHz - same situation, powerhouse just 2 miles away.

Could you have heard some MW images or harmonics getting through?

Bruce Jensen

I heard foreign sounding music and then someone speaking in French. It
sounded like a pirate to me. It wasn't in a professional format that's for
sure. I was surprised to hear it on 3965 that's why I posted it.

Lucky

WELL THEN...

Could it be this? (from EiBi schedule...)

3965 kHz 0400-0500 UCT F Radio France Int. French NAf

Well, that's at 0400-0500 UTC, and his reception was at 2327 UTC...

However, it appears as though France does use 3965 at 2327 per the new HFCC sked (which often needs
to be taken as someones dream), but it shows DRM at that time, which may or may not be the case.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I'll try to give the freq a listen later on today.



Bruce Jensen

Lucky wrote:

Is it a pirate or regular station?

I'm hearing what appears to be Radio France International on the frequency
(3965) in French at 2120.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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

dxAce wrote:

Lucky wrote:

Is it a pirate or regular station?

I'm hearing what appears to be Radio France International on the frequency
(3965) in French at 2120.

And at 2200 they go into Chinese.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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

dxAce wrote:

dxAce wrote:

Lucky wrote:

Is it a pirate or regular station?

I'm hearing what appears to be Radio France International on the frequency
(3965) in French at 2120.

And at 2200 they go into Chinese.

Nothing noted here after the Chinese language program signed off at 2300.


dxAce
Michigan
USA

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

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Lucky wrote:

Is it a pirate or regular station?

I'm hearing what appears to be Radio France International on the frequency
(3965) in French at 2120.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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


I'm sure of the time I heard it too. But, I guess you're right and that's
what I heard. It just sounded like a pirate station to me when the music was
being played and there was talking in between. Maybe they were just
discussing the song?? shrug

Lucky