BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Getting the sychronisation right on 6075 & 9545 kHz must be a nightmare.
Working out the time delays of the different programme circuits will be a
problem, but I guess it will be solved soon.
At present conditions are not good for reception from the South Asian
area. I can barely hear DWL via Trincomalee on 11935 kHz at 2045 UTC and
All India Radio on 11620 & 11715 kHz is not there at all. So maybe my
first thoughts about the DWL changes are premature. I had better observe
for a few days more!
(Barry Hartley-NZL, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 1)
The Wertachtal contract between DWL & T-systems [13 x 500 kW units] site
ended last night at 2400 hrs UT [Dec 31].
Outsourcer at DWL Bonn cut the contract at final date, the remaining Nauen
site contract (4x500kW) last til 2016y I guess.
Instead VTC (ex Merlin) London-GB installations will be used WORLDWIDE in
future, luckily to the DWL budget, on lowered dumping price level.
Problems:
DRM - no Wertachtal 3995 anymore. Albions at Skelton Scotland couldn't
provide DRM equipment on Jan 1st date. DRM mornings via Woofferton
swEngland 7275, and afternoon via Vienna Moosbrunn site 9655 or 9815.
DRM 3995 at nighttime via Sines-Portugal then, 1600-0800 hrs UT.
At present the DWL technicians doing well to get a positive syncronisation
of common frequencies 6075, 9545, and 13780 to get together different
Nauen / U.K. Senders / Sines Portugal signals.
(wb, Jan 1)
Before 2000 UT DW 6075 was a disaster here in mid Sweden as well. A very
bad dual site echo made any listening very unpleasant, despite a very
strong signal. At about 25 seconds before 2000 UT DW left the frequency
completely, and the first transmitter to appear after the break made it to
about S=9+10dB. I guess this was RMP. The second transmitter arrived
rather late, but was much stronger, fading between S=9+20 and S=9+50. The
echo during fades now is very slight and not annoying.
At my location 6075 has always been plagued by an unacceptable echoing
during night hours.
(later) Here in mid Sweden the 6075 signal is S=9 to S=9+10dB, and that is
a little better than its has been during daytime previously, but still not
good. 6085 DRM is usually inaudible for a few hours during midday, giving
room for TWN + Chinese jammers and the often ailing Krasnoyarsk buzzer.
TWN has a much softer (unprocessed) audio compared to the Mainland
jammers.
(Olle Alm-SWE, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 1)
My guess is that 6075 is too low in frequency from Skelton at midday for
most of Europe. A similar effect was noted in the reverse direction (via
WER) on this frequency - and especially on 6140 (JUL?).
6140 wandered over all three sites during recent years. In the nineties it
originated from Nauen, via the 1964 vintage DuS antenna system. The
contract for the belonging 100 kW transmitter expired in 2000, so probably
in this year the frequency moved to Juelich. There it was run with a
rotatable log-periodic antenna (the one at present used for Brother Scare
on 6110 kHz). Finally in 2004 or 2005 the frequency again moved to
Wertachtal from where it was on air until yesterday.
(Kai Ludwig-D, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 1)