Re: [HCDX]: AFN strong on 1503 kHz !

[Gert Nilsson <gert.nilsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Listened to this station 21.30-00.30 last night with an S8 signal. Best on
beverages pointing to western Europe. I thought it was too strong for Azores
Lajes Fields but you never know. Lots of sun activity and very disturbed
conditions which use too make reception from stations far south to be heard.
Also heard with similar conditions on October 16!

Karel Honzik wrote:

> An unknown transmitter relaying AFN (Armed Forces Network, USA) heard last
> night (NOV 13/14) by me here in the middle of Europe on 1503 kHz. Sport
> (game) programming // AFN 873, 1485 ...
>
> The signal was very strong at night - S9 +20 dB, almost no fading.
>
> In the morning (NOV 14) there was still a strong signal at 0640 UTC, strong
> in peaks but with deep fade outs. Then within ca. 10 minutes (0650) the
> station faded out completely!... It returned briefly with a very weak signal
> at 0658 UTC but faded out again within less than a minute...
>
> At that time there were the following stations audible on the frequency:
>
> 1503.00  Radio Crna Gora (Monte Negro) - several IDs
> 1503.04  Radioteleviziya Zavidovitchi (Bosnia Hercegovina) - nx at 0700, ID
> at 0715
>
> Although their signals were quite weak, fading in and out, I do not think
> that AFN was relayed by Zavidovitchi (although some SFOR or foreign services
> are relayed by this site). At one moment there were 3 signals audible - 2
> stns speaking Serb/Croat and the AFN.
> There was also Beograd 202 on this frequency before the war, but it is
> inactive, I am quite sure.
>
> It seems - from my location - that the AFN transmitter is independent of
> those mentioned and that it broadcasts from a site situated more easterly
> than (former) Yugoslavia.
> BTW - I have not noted such strong signal on 1503 kHz before.
>
> I would like to mention also something else - and it has nothing to do with
> the AFN - one phenomenon for which I like the MW band (you never know what
> is waiting for you over there):
> - still on 1503 kHz, at 0730 UTC I suddenly noticed that BBC Radio
> Stoke-on-Trent faded in! The station was not audible for the last hour at
> all, suddenly it came in, weak but I could hear the BBC news at 0730.
> Maybe the Sun was coming up at that time in Stoke-on-Trent? It was 1h 15min
> after the Sunrise in my location.
>
> GOOD DX,
>
> Karel Honzik
> the Czech Republic
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