Ditto here 180 miles northwest in Battlefield, MO-- monitored and taped occasionally clean audio off and on from 2005 to 2056 CDT (0105-0156 UT), with man and woman in studio talking in distinctively Slavic-sounding language, much like what I've heard on Croatian Radio on shortwave, with occasional music interludes, and occasional interviews with what sounded like correspondents on the phone. Also heard what sounded like references to "Hvratska" or "Hvratski" (Croatian for "Croatia"). May try to put together either a CD of clips or send 'em an email with MP3 attachments of the audio I recorded--Croatia's a pretty good verifier, aren't they? I'm with Bruce on this one, as far as logging goes--given the language I'm hearing on this one, the fact that he was hearing similar program material within my general geographic region, and the fact that it's been hugely dominant on the East Coast lately, what else could it be *but* Croatia? Did have to battle slop from KWKH-1130 that was only semi-nullable. In the extraordinarily good TA conditions in the mid-1990s, when I QSLed the Saudi on 1521 and Norway-1314, I *never* got decent audio on 1134--the past several days it's been a regular, and I finally had a chance to get upstairs to the Yaesu, the Quantum QX Pro loop, and the tape machine! Also noted occasional audio on 1206 (music only), and consistent but not particularly loud carriers/hets on 1089, 1215 and 1314. Not really noticing much if anything lower on the band, and while I *think* there was a carrier on 1521 (i.e. a 1-kHz het), there's too much overmodulated racket from local KLFJ-1550 to tell much of anything that's going on between about 1480 and 1620 kHz! Randy Stewart Battlefield (right outside Springfield) MO Yaesu FRG-100B; Quantum QX Pro loop -ORIGINAL MESSAGE- Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:27:03 -0500 From: Bruce Winkelman <bdwink@xxxxxxx> Subject: [IRCA] 1134-Croatia audio in Tulsa To: ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, IRCA Mail List <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, NRC List <am@xxxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <4351AC67.3040906@xxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Finally able to pull out some audio from the het I've been hearing lately on 1134.... Tonite between 2000-2020CDT 15OCT05 had YL and OM talking in an unID language w/occasional music, both instrumental and vocal. Best signal strength at 2005CDT with YL in unID language. Some deep fades when the sync lost the signal but mostly at a fair level. Croatia in the logbook! Bruce Winkelman AA5CO Tulsa, OK R8, Quantum Phaser 2 -1 30ft +/- wires
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