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BC-DX 756 22 Apr 2006
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AFGHANISTAN 9344.997 at 1610 UT, Voice of Peace, Bagram with Afghan non-
stop mx and nx together with politics every half hour. Weak. Israel and
Holland usually cover this frequency. Bagram is rather stable on 9344.9974
kHz.
(Stig Adolfsson-SWE, SW Bulletin April 16,
translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for dxld)
ALBANIA [c.f. RT schedule in BC-DX #755]
(NG) The new freq schedule did come into effect last night and operated
successfully. Here's what I heard ...
1800 UT Serbian - new 6225 kHz was heard with a good signal peaking over
9+10dB on my meter. There was some slight interference from the non-
broadcast station using about 6229 kHz and I could also hear a
unidentified pop mx station using 6220.9 kHz. This was almost certainly a
pirate station and it does not seem to operate on a daily basis at this
time. There was continuous fading resulting in some distortion. In SINPO I
estimate the Tirana txion to be 44533+. I felt that audio level was a
little low and slightly distorted too. My guess is that reception will
have been good within the target area. And by the way, I also heard about
five mins of the German programme on 6225 before the tx was finally
switched off at about 1819 UT !
(DC) Yes, this Monday in evening time, I went to Central Apparatus of
Radio Tirana to verify the studio schedule and in my office asking also
Shijak to pay attention in executing the changed A06ALR schedule. And by
the way, like you, I also heard about five mins of the German programme on
6225 kHz (ground wave) before the tx was finally switched off at about
1819 UT. I immediately called up to my monitoring staff on sce to cease
the txion as scheduled. After this incident, I also observed home all