[A-DX] Last chance to hear Seychelles relay

[Eike Bierwirth]

Noch ein paar Minuten laufen die Seychellen auf 12095 (35322) und 
schwächer auf 15420 (25311)... stärker kommt das Programm freilich via 
Ascension auf 15400 (55433).

73,
Eike
Wiesbaden
Perseus SDR + DX10-pro Aktivantenne



Am 29.03.2014 01:14, schrieb Wolfgang Bueschel:
> ... noch ein Link auf die BBC Relaisstation Seychelles.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/srmartin/sets/72157627864492592/
>
> http://binged.it/QpgTEg
>
> 73 wb
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Bueschel"
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 11:56 PM
> Subject: [A-DX] Fw: [BDXC-UK] Last chance to hear Seychelles relay
>
> Re Africa logs von heute Abend.
>
> hier eine Mail von Chris, der (noch) bei der BBC arbeitet.
>
> Morgen noch mal SEY zu-hören.
> Die Azimuth sind ja nicht Menorca-Münsterland freundlich, eher was für
> Kigali.
>
> Noch lieben Gruss an unseren SEY-Volker im Saarland.
> 73 wb
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <>
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014
> Subject: [BDXC-UK] Last chance to hear Seychelles relay
>
>> A reminder that Saturday is the
>
>> last day of operations
>
>> of the BBC's Indian Ocean relay. The schedule is as follows:
>> 0400-0600 BBCWS in English on 15420 and 12095
>> 0600-0800 BBCWS in English on 15420 and 17640
>> 1100-1130 BBCWS in Somali  on 15530
>> 1400-1500 BBCWS in Somali  on 15420 and 17690
>> 1500-2000 BBCWS in English on 15420 and 12095
>
>> The last transmission has been coming into the UK nicely recently on both
>> frequencies.
>
>> On a personal note, I'll be sorry to see this relay station go, as it
>> served me very well when living in Kenya, especially before the BBCWS FM
>> relays opened.  I first lived to Kenya in 1987, the year before the
>> Seychelles relay opened. Although I can't say that reception of BBCWS was
>> difficult then, at certain times of the day the signals from the UK,
>> Cyprus or Ascension were not as good as one would have liked. This all
>> changed when Seychelles came on stream. It is an ideal one-hop distance
>> away from Kenya and gave superb reception, especially when using the
>> higher frequencies on which there is almost no selective fading and low
>> background noise (those were pre-computer days!). It was one of those
>> cases where a solid SW signal is just as good as a strong local MW one.
>>
>> The SW schedule used to be much more extensive than it is now, with both
>> transmitters on the air in English most of the daytime on 15420 and
>> 17885.
>> This was overkill (at least in Kenya) as both frequencies were
>> ultra-reliable. You could even hear, very faintly in the background, some
>> control tones. When I mentioned this to a UK-based BBC engineer he was
>> amazed as he said the tones were at a very low level that and were
>> intended only to be detected by equipment. The designers had told the BBC
>> that no humans would be able to hear the tones on shortwave.
>>
>> Chris
>
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