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- Subject: Re: [IRCA] TP report from Masset for January 1 2019
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 17:01:07 +0000 (UTC)
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1566 is the only Indian I have heard in Massachusetts. That was 10 or more years ago. It was heard on two different occasions at the salt marsh site in Rowley, MA (42.7436 N / 70.8367 W).
Others not too far from me have logged 1071 in more recent times. I don't have that one yet. That channel is filled with a lot of Middle East stations right in the way and the IBOC hash mostly from 1080 WTIC (and secondarily from 1060 KYW) can be awful.
1566 is a rough channel with huge 1560 WFME NY on one side and the 1570 WUBG/CFLV combo on the other side. Slop mayhem. Even the Benin station on 1566 is typically difficult DX. There are also low power UK stations on the channel; I have no luck with those. Maybe if I go to the beach ...
I don't think I've heard much of 1566 India on European SDR's in the few times I've bothered to try. So maybe there is some degradation of the station's capabilities. To confuse things more, I think one of the 1566 UK stations runs Indian / Bollywood stuff.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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AIR 1566 used to be a powerful dominant station in Newfoundland, but in the last 2 years we have not heard it at all.
Something has happened to their transmitter / antenna.
And if anyone is thinking conditions are to blame, over 40 Indians have been heard from Newfoundland although of course not all in the last few years.
Chuck
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From: IRCA <irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:01 PM
To: Patrick Martin; Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] TP report from Masset for January 1 2019
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In both places I also tried to match your reception of 1566-AIR, but the frequency is locked down by 3NE in the Cooks, and by 1570-KUAU splatter in Hawaii. I think that the key for west coast DXers to track down India is to be aware that almost all of the big gun AIR stations switch to an English news format at 1530 UTC, with all of them in parallel. Because of this 927-AIR and 954-AIR were both received in Kauai in November. 657-AIR was also received in Bengali in the Cooks, but only by some serious luck.
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
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