[A-DX] Last chance to hear Seychelles relay

[Friedrich-Walter Adam]

Danke Wolfgang

73  F-W

> Gesendet: Samstag, 29. März 2014 um 21:15 Uhr
> Von: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <
> Betreff: Re: [A-DX] Last chance to hear Seychelles relay
>
> 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
> 
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