BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

A beam heading of 79 degrees is also shown for Sitkunai transmissions via
a brand-new dipole antenna, which as such has no beam, just two nulls to
either side (which is avoided in the HQ design by mounting the two legs of
the dipole in a right angle). No idea why they do this, other dipoles like
the ones of the Berlin-Britz site are considered ND as well.
Be that as it may: Trouble is that this new dipole antenna is for 6/7 MHz,
cf.
So will they stretch it to the limit and squeeze out the 4 MHz signal
somehow, or have they simply built yet another dipole for 75 metres (as it
was done in the mid-nineties to move 3995 from Juelich to Wertachtal; here
the 4 MHz antenna built for this purpose is a HQ design)?
And the referenced page also raises the question how in the world Sitkunai
can run a 130 degrees azimuth. Hardly with the choice of antennas
described there, and these details have been confirmed as correct not long
ago.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Sept 29)
1700-1730 UT co-channel, -- on 3955 kHz at 1700-1759 UT also YFR as non-
dir service via Wertachtal to central Europe. 3960 kHz in B-08 at 1430-
1530 in Russian, 1530-1730 in Belarussian.
Some change on IBB relay via Sitkunai Lithuania at 79 degrees antenna in
October.
9490 RFA Uighur 0100-0200
9635 R Liberty Tatar Bashkir 0300-0400 and 0500-0600.
(Gordon Brown-UK, NWDXC Sept 29)
Former Dutch Pirate KBC Radio - Another frequency change starting October
5. Transmission to North America will be broadcast on 6145 kHz instead of
6110 kHz. This affects our broadcasts on October 5, 12, and 19, at 0200-
0259 UT
(Eric // Sep 27, KBC Radio forum as above via dxld)
MAURITANIA 783 R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott, 2205-..., 21 Sept, Arabic,
prayer; 34443, QRM de E. // to 4845. A noisy carrier from the east, surely
SYR, persists almost every evening; no content but some AC like noise.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 30)
MEXICO c.f. BC-DX #879 inquiry under Mexico.
Regarding Radio Mexico International's transmitter site, wouldn't the
WRTVH geo coordinates work, assuming they are accurate? Such as the 2006
edition International Transmitter Sites on page 689?
If correct, why would one not just have just referenced that?
(Terry L Krueger-FL-USA, dxld Sept 23)
These WRTH 2006 tables are taken purely from ITU Geneva database, which
are sometimes 30 to 40 years old from USSR era etc.
ACCURACY - That geographic coordinates material differs sometimes up to
150 miles/200 km, like vailed UKR_Mykolaiv_Luch_Posad-pokrovskote site,
which is settled in USSR/ITU lists as SMF Simferopol Crimea.
Notation should be as 23 degr 27' 30" E, for higher precision, the seconds
are specified with a decimal fraction. An alternative representation uses
degrees and minutes, where parts of a minute are expressed in decimal
notation with a fraction.
A lot of that database is wrong in detail, sometimes in order to vail the
old communist hardware sites.