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KILLER SIGNAL!! 9775kHz VOA Via Botswana To N. Africa

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

This is Voice of America on 9775kHz via Botswana to N. Africa, beamed at 340 deg. azimuth in the 0300UTC hour Jan 19th. Look at that killer signal and massively low noise floor!

Well, here's a look at why it's so good..... follow the 340 deg. az line.. where does it go? within a few hundred miles east of me and as one engineer put it, it's probably a pretty wide beam... and a few hundred miles in HF isnt much.

Plus, it's probably a bit enhanced as it travels because it comes real close to or goes over the pole.

This is why I get excited about HF DX... way outside the target area, yet in exactly the right place for a killer signal!!

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It's in English at that timeslot, BTW. Nicely done. Their 31M signals weren't that bad during spring/summer evenings many years ago when I still had a hint of interest in SW. 19m midday wasn't very easy. Of course, the VOA transmitters (relaying Chinese programming or other Asian languages) in east Asia and Saipan were jammed constantly by Firedrake.
 
crainbebo said:
It's in English at that timeslot, BTW. Nicely done. Their 31M signals weren't that bad during spring/summer evenings many years ago when I still had a hint of interest in SW. 19m midday wasn't very easy. Of course, the VOA transmitters (relaying Chinese programming or other Asian languages) in east Asia and Saipan were jammed constantly by Firedrake.
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I've heard some of the RFA stuff pretty well.. it sails over the jamming and hits me... mainly the stuff that comes form Kuwait or oman.... i'm too close and off the back for stuff from saipan, etc yo escape the jamming.

VOA's 15580 can be just as good in the summer as 9775 in the winter
 
VOA Botswana's 350KW transmitter's beam just skirting the Pole, and aimed right at the Yukon..... incl. AK and the PNW. It's always amazing and fun to hear something that's the closest thing to a signal from the Antipodes hitting this part of North America -- regardless of the power of the transmitter. It's fun to hear that part of the world here.

Usually when I hear Botswana, Swaziland or the outlets aiming at Africa from Madagascar there is a bit of Polar flutter (for lack of a better description) at my location -- very fast fading, probably because the Auroral radio zone is affecting the signal.
 
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