Raido Thailand’s issue is... it’s a poor frequency choice for North America
at the tune of day they’re doing it plus they beam over the pole to try and
achieve this, I think.

I wrote a long letter years ago to the director with some suggestions.

What did I get back? A blank QSL card

Paul

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 12:36 PM Chris Lobdell <crlobdell1@gmail.com> wrote:

> Myself and my neighbor Mark Carlsen both in NE Mass [18 miles north of
> Boston] have been monitoring Thailand on 15590 at 0000 for a few weeks. On
> 2 or 3 occasions the signal was a strong almost S9 with full readability
> then at 0030, it dropped about 3-4 S units due to the beam change. The
> other days there was no signal at all, not a trace of carrier except 1 time
> I heard them for a few minutes at 0000 then the signal faded out.
>
>
>
> Chris Lobdell
>
>
>
> *From: *<NASWA@groups.io> on behalf of "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <
> walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com>
> *Reply-To: *<NASWA@groups.io>
> *Date: *Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 3:16 PM
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> Hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "NASWA@groups.io" <NASWA@groups.io>
> *Subject: *[NASWA] Radio Thailand
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>
>
> Interesting to note, but not many people in the US can hear them..
>
>
>
> Radio Thailand does switch from a 6 to 30 degree azimuth beam at 0030UTC ,
> as scheduled during the middle of the English hour long broadcast
>
>
>
> They remain on 15590 for Thai at 0100UTC and are supposed to switch to a
> 38 degree azimuth beam and are usually very good about switching ... but on
> Saturday Apr 10 at 0100UTC They didn’t switch.
>
>
>
> They did switch at 0030 and at 0200UTC when they go back to English though
>
>
>
> I record the 0000UTC Broadcast and can see/hear the switch at 0030 on my
> recording.. a 15 second complete carrier drop then sign back on with a few
> seconds of no audio is obvious.
>
>
>
> That drop and loss of audio at the VOA site in Thailand didn’t occur at
> 0100Utc today
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