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[HCDX] Logs for Al Muick 12 October 2010
QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan
RX: WinRadio G303e
ANT: 100m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
4895 12 OCT, 1837 UTC, CLAN (SOUTH AFRICA), Zimbabwe Community Radio with
upbeat music and DJ patter with both male and female DJs. Several station
IDs. Moderate signal strength, no QRM and moderate fading.
5010 12 OCT, 1802 UTC, MADAGASCAR, Radio Madagasikara with bizarre drum
music and male vocals until station ID in presumed Malagasy at 1813 and talk
until suddenly off air at 1815. Never heard at this signal level before and
on full AM! S9+ on a good evening for Africans.
This has been a good night for African stations. It was a really nice
opening and I hope it will occur again soon (or better yet, stay for a
couple of weeks!).
At first I thought Madagascar was AIR Trivandrum (the full name is a
mouthful!) come back on after I had heard it sign off at 1740 earlier, but
then I heard the language, and it was definitely not Hindi, and the music
did not sound like anything I have heard on an AIR station. Malagasy sounds
more like Bahasa Indonesia to me. I wonder if they have been working on
their TX since they usually pop up on USB, but tonight was full-bore AM with
a marvelous modulation level. I'll be checking again tonight and hopefully
the conditions remain long enough for me to get a better logging of this.
They are supposed to be on until 1900, but maybe there was a tx problem as
they did appear to go down in mid-sentence.
On another note, thanks to all who have helped me with the HEB QSL issue. I
have gotten several snail mail and email addresses and I will definitely
email them to determine which snail mail address is correct.
Best 73s,
Al
"Government is too big and too important to be left to the
politicians."
- Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
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