[A-DX] Last chance to hear Seychelles relay

[H. Denzel]

73 Harald

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 29.03.2014 um 21:11 schrieb "Friedrich-Walter Adam" <>:
> 
> Hat jemand die eMail_Adresse für die Station? Habe sie leider nicht notiert, war glaube ich hier schon mal im Gespräch.
> 
> 73 F-W
> 
>> Gesendet: Samstag, 29. März 2014 um 20:45 Uhr
>> Von: "Eike Bierwirth" <
>> Betreff: Re: [A-DX] Last chance to hear Seychelles relay
>> 
>> 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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