Re: [IRCA] Kona, Hawaii DXpedition-- More Exotic DU Recordings

[d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx]

<<< Re 540, Samoa. In the past they were always seriously undermodulated, even 
when I was on a trans-Pacific cruise a few years back, and visited Apia. 
The transmitter building and antenna looked like they needed a facelift, 
and I was shooed away when asking about the station or whether I could 
visit. Not entirely sure whether that modulation is any better now 
compared to the past. Or the usual, that the music modulation is great, 
compared to poor, undermodulated announcements. Thanks for sharing, Gary! 
73, Walt >>> 

Now that you mention it, Walt, it did seem like the voice modulation on 540 was somewhat weaker than the music modulation. I made about ten recordings of 540-Samoa while in Kona, but all of the strong ones were with music, and I had to really search around for the two voice recordings. Like in the clip with the Samoan worship music, there seemed to be a great delay between the music and an announcer's voice (which was usually at a lower level). Maybe they needed time to flip a switch to an old-fashioned microphone? 

Gary 


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From: "Volodya S" <canswl@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 10:11:16 AM 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Kona, Hawaii DXpedition-- More Exotic DU Recordings 

Re 540, Samoa. In the past they were always seriously undermodulated, even 
when I was on a trans-Pacific cruise a few years back, and visited Apia. 
The transmitter building and antenna looked like they needed a facelift, 
and I was shooed away when asking about the station or whether I could 
visit. Not entirely sure whether that modulation is any better now 
compared to the past. Or the usual, that the music modulation is great, 
compared to poor, undermodulated announcements. Thanks for sharing, Gary! 
73, Walt 


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> 540 2AP Apia, Western Samoa This 
> station features a lot of Samoan music with both male and 
> female announcers, and dominates the frequency in Kona at 
> night as long as it transmits. Unfortunately it doesn't 
> follow the listed PAL sign off time of 1000, but runs past 
> this time routinely, making it tough to track down an exact 
> sign off time. My guess is that it signs off sometime 
> between 1030 and 1100. The following MP3 is of S9+ level 
> Samoan Christian worship music at 0931 on 4-9. This 
> overwhelming signal was one of the most awesome recorded 
> during the entire DXpedition 
> https://app.box.com/s/8ejvx8s7udh5ibtqymtxs5ew65mquqcl 
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