[A-DX] Last chance to hear Seychelles relay

[Friedrich-Walter Adam]

Danke Harald
 73 F-W

> Gesendet: Samstag, 29. März 2014 um 21:13 Uhr
> Von: "H. Denzel" <>
> Betreff: Re: [A-DX] Last chance to hear Seychelles relay
>
> 
> 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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