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[HCDX] Logs for Al Muick - 28 January
QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan
RX: WinRadio G303e
ANT: 200m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
9550 VIETNAM, Voice of Vietnam, heard at 1559 on January 28 with the
sign-on of their English service to Africa, into news. Good signals and no
QRM.
9559.7 CLAN (ETHIOPIA), Voice of Democratic Alliance, heard at 1536 on
January 28 in Kunama with some rapid-fire talk, reggae music and many
mentions of Eritrea. Reception was fair and peaked to just better than good
quite often. Frequency drifting +/- 600 Hz from nominal 9560. Website is
www.erit-alliance.com and NOT .org as listed in WRTH 2009. Email addresses
are on the website, however the first one listed needs to have "www."
dropped from it.
9880 CLAN (JAPAN), Furusato no Kaze, heard at 1435 on January 28 in
Japanese with talks by male/female announcers and some piano music with a
choir. Positive station ID by female announcer at 1442. Very weak signals.
So, it seems we may never hear from Radio Solh again. According to Glenn
Hauser's logs for 28 January, Solh has disappeared from Rampisham, and it
could well be that new policies from Washington have closed it down. I have
not heard them on 6700 in days, but if they have shut that down, perhaps
there is still some infrastructure left on Kandahar to be seen.
I've gotten another new generator and this one is quite nice, hardly any
hash, and has to be one of the quietest gensets I have ever heard. On the
other hand, city power is slowly but surely winding its way into my
neighborhood, courtesy of Uzbekistan. No ideo of when our guesthouse will
be wired back into the grid.
Harmonics and spurs from RTV Afghanistan and BBG on 1107/1296 have been
almost non-existent in recent days, however, it has been a snowy, rainy,
muddy mess here, so the true test will be when everything dries out. I have
full confidence that the guys at BBG are on top of any issue that might
exist.
Other than that, nothing much happening here, except there is a city-wide
alert for more IEDs.
73s de Al Muick
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and
sincerity of Hollywood."
- Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California
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