[A-DX] Last chance to hear Seychelles relay

[Wolfgang Bueschel]

SEYCHELLES    QSL BBC Seychelles relay.
Mein Bericht ging an <jose.tambara @ babcock.sc>
Jose Tambara (Senior Engineer) ist auch der VS.
(Kurt Enders-D, A-DX March 2)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Friedrich-Walter Adam" <>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [A-DX] Last chance to hear Seychelles relay
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