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Meteo report for Mini Transat 2021, 17800

Wednesday, November 03 2021



FRANCE 17800.095v kHz Nov 1 at 1501 UT, MiniTrans.
At yacht race marine weather in French, meteo, after a bit of music, S9.
Carrier is audibly and visibly wobbling, plus/minus at least 7 Hz, centred
more or less here but difficult to pinpoint. I wonder if clients get a
discount for a defective Issoudun transmitter or even know about it.

Others continue reporting the DRM version at 1700 UT on 17795-17805 kHz.

Chris Mackerell-NZ, says, "If they use the "DRMcast" stuff again you won't
be able to decode it without borrowing one of the special "suitcase" re-
ceiver / decoders from one of the yachts. Cheers, Chris".
Well, I had no problem decoding it with an ordinary KiwiSDR.

And Hansjoerg Biener, Germany, says, "On earlier occasions, DXers were
told that neither TDF nor organizers of the race were interested in re-
ception reports from outside"
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, hcdx and wor Nov 2 / 3)

FRANCE 17800.063v centered on Nov 3rd.
'Mini-Transat La Boulange' in French via TDF Issoudun faulty transmitter.

Signal around 15.13 UT Nov 3rd - but shift / hopps up and down 30 to 40
Hertz
distance, noted S=8-9 signal in southern Germany.

But yesterday on Nov 2nd noted a centered 'data block' like DRM transmission
17795 to 17805 kHz
from TDF Issoudun broadcast center, in remote SDR unit at NJ state of USA
at 16.30 UT on center string visible of
17799.330 kHz. - Left me very astonishing.

[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 2 / 3)

TURKEY Similar bad faulty function transmitter nearby on
17720.006 kHz Voice of Turkey Emirler in Arabic, S=9+20dB at 15.05 UT

10 x 100 Hertz distance apart strings EITHER SIDEBAND seen, result in
a bad annoying whistle hererodyne wobbling tone.

7285.006 TUR VoTurkey Emirler, 04 – 05 UTC English language, strong
S=9+50dB POWERHOUSE signal to NoEaAF/NE/ME
04.42 UT on Nov 3rd, and

6125.016 kHz towards EUR/NoAM target also 04 - 05 UT, heard at 04.46 UT.

11815.008 kHz TRT Emirler in Turkish, at 15.03 UT on Nov 3rd, S=9+40dB
or -38dBm powerhouse signal in western Europe southern Germany.

[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 3)

----- Original Message -----
From: Arthur Pozner <aspozner@gmail.com>


Sent: Monday, November 01, 2021 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [WOR] Meteo report for Mini Transat 2021, 17800



Today, Nov.1 they finally got a normal sounding voice speaker and a real
live speakerine (for the English) report.

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 1:28 PM JColes0727 <jcoles0727@rogers.com> wrote:

I received Minitransat TDF in Ottawa, Canada today and yesterday around
1700UT in DRM. Weather forecasts in French and English. The voice is
gender-ambiguous, might be computer-generated.

Received with AirspyHF+ and MLA-30 antenna using gqrx and decoded with
Dream.
DRM mode was 8.08kbps EEP aac Mono. Signal occupies only 10kHz bandwidth.

Gqrx shows the frequency as 17795. Does this count as 17800 because the
"DC frequency of DRM signal" (shown in Dream) is 5kHz?

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