tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691683.post-1061441062556515242003-08-20T22:44:00.000-06:002007-12-29T17:53:21.105-07:00It is now Wednesday evening, August 20th, 2003 and I decided to sit down in front of the Grundig Satellit 800 radio at 9 PM this evening (03:00 UTC) to tune around the different shortwave radio broadcast bands and heard the following stations. "Voice Of America" with news commentary broadcasting on 9.575 Mhz at 9:10 PM MDT (03:10 UTC) Then I tuned into "China Radio International" at 9:40 PM MDT (03:40 UTC) on 9.610 Mhz as well as on 9.790 Mhz. I believe the 9.790 broadcast was coming from a relay transmitter up in Sackville, Canada and the 9.690 Mhz transmission was coming from a transmitter in Spain which was a weaker signal. Then I tuned in to "Taiwan Radio International" at 9:45 PM MDT (03:45 UTC) and they were on three different frequencies, 5.950 Mhz, 9.680 Mhz, both of which I believe are being retransmitted by WYFR in Florida and 15.215 Mhz (Which had seperate programming content ) which could be coming directly from a transmitter in Taiwan. All the signals were at a good S-9 level. The "BBC" World Service was very strong on 11.835 Mhz with a 10 Db over S9 average signal level at 9:55 PM MDT (03:55 UTC) They were doing some commentary program called Outlook. <br /> <br />At 10:00 PM MDT (04:00 UTC) I tuned into the three different frequencies given for Radio Israel on 9.435 Mhz, 15.640 Mhz and 17.600 Mhz and was not able to hear anything at all. The radio conditions this evening were not all that great! Radio Israel normally comes on the air at 04:00 UTC with an English Language broadcast for 15 mints. I then quickly tuned across the 20 meter Amateur Radio band and heard a number of SSB conversations going on and also heard some CW activity on the low end of 20 meters. Anyway, that is my report for this evening. Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06367695759865565406noreply@blogger.com