[IRCA] Middle Eastern listening

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

Recently, my wife and I visited our daughter in Qatar.   Most of the time was taken up with family visiting and exploration of  part of the world that was quite unlike home.  Part of the exploration, however, was performed by an RF Space SDR-14 receiver driven by a Wellbrook ALA100 single turn loop antenna.   Quite a number of 190kHz wide files were recorded for a couple of minutes around the hour and half hour, not so much for DXing, as to get a flavor of the local band in Doha, Qatar and in Dubai, UAE.   With luck, they might provide some background for identifying DX that might be heard outside the Middle East.   (we may have to wait for the next solar minimum here in western North America though)
  
The files can be found at 
http://www.4shared.com/dir/33283068/89d677f/sharing.html

They are identified in the filename by "Doha" or "Dubai" depending on the listening location.   After the location is the center frequency of the file, followed by time and date of recording.  I haven't had too much time to go through these yet, though ID's on stations from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Iran and Tajikistan (VoA-972, but that's supposed to be the transmitter site) have been noted without much effort.   

If you don't own an RF Space receiver, you can download the Spectravue software to play the files from:

http://www.moetronix.com/svdownload.htm

and it will give a taste of listening with a software defined radio if you haven't already experienced it.  There's other software that will play the files, but Spectravue was written specifically for this family of receiver.

best wishes,

Nick


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Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada  

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