RE: [HCDX]: PNG 4890

["Thomas B. Roach" <sigint@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe ('m on a different West Coast.

At 1117 UTC on Monday 4/3/2000 UTC I clearly heard PNG on 4890.001 KHz
with a signal strength of between -90 to -95 dBm. The male speaking was
giving a Bible lesson on Jeremiah 33 with several "amen" types grunting
in agreement as is often done on such broadcasts. There was some QRM
[slight] from what was probably some sort of digital signal that almost
sounded like a jammer. Signal was SINPO 33343 I am fairly certain I
could have heard this signal on my NRD-525 with a longwire. I have it
recorded on DAT or so my written records indicate.

Such are the vagaries of propagation.

Tom Roach
Watkins-Johnson HF-1000
Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper
listening about 50 miles East of Sacramento, California



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Don
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 06:46 AM
To: hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [HCDX]: PNG 4890


4890 has been "not heard" here on the W coast of NA for 2 nights.
Here's a logging from 9675 two nights ago:

Papua New Guinea 9675 Karai National Radio 0655 APR 3. M anncr with Pop
mx
program. ID as Karai National Radio at 0653, then into a short public
service announcement "transmission reduction in broadcasting due to the
transmitter work. We are now broadcasting from 6 A.M. to 10 P.M.
Daily" )
Then back into PNG Pop Mx (local Pidgin Pop and Country Western with
wailing
guitars). ID ToH as both NBC and Karai National Radio, Into News Brief
in
English by M. More music at 0704. At 0707 another mention that they were
only transmitting 6 AM to 10 PM and that this was "necessitated by
transmitter work....very important transmitter work" . A few moments
later
the transmission turned into a garbled mess - poor modulation(did the
transmitter finally go?). Not heard on 4890; 9675 not normally audible
here
in PacNorWest at this time since last October (Nelson-OR)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Jary" <jary@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Hard Core DX" <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 2:13 AM
Subject: [HCDX]: PNG 4890


> No sign on Port Moresby 4890 tonight (0900 UTC). The regionals still
> appear to be on, though at a fairly low level this early on in the
> evening.
>
> Richard
>
>
>

snip...


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