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Re: Radio Australia, missing transmissions

Mark Zenier <mzen...@eskimo.com>

In article <dc96c825-ebbf-4929-9435-8fe137c05...@p3g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,

bpnjensen <bpnjen...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Mar 8, 7:45 am, mzen...@eskimo.com (Mark Zenier) wrote:
>> Both last night (March 8, 8:00 UTC and later) and the night before
>> Radio Australia seems to be two transmitters short.

>> Missing were the transmissions on 9590 kHz (8:00 UTC to 16:00?)
>> and 9580 kHz (8:00 to 14:00), 7240 kHz (14:00-17:00?).
...
>I guess I noticed the same thing, but I was too sleepy and ready to
>crash to pay much heed - I just chalked it up to poor band conditions
>(which were not quite that bad, since RNZI on 31m was decent if not
>stellar). I hung it up shortly after 0800, so I cannot vouch for
>anything in the wee hours.

Well, 9590 was back today. And 6020 is still a mess at 13:00.

>You didn't happen to give Mongolia a try last night, did you, by
>chance? It's that time of year...

There used to be a whole string of their regional stations on 5 Mhz,
but I thought that they had been shut down, so I've not tried recently.
(One really quiet night a couple of decades ago they were all there
laid out just like in Passport).

There's also a whole lot more noisy electronics in my neighborhood since
then, making that band a bit irritating to monitor, even with a noise
canceler box.

Mark Zenier mzen...@eskimo.com
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