View Full Version : Vatican Radio on 1611 kHz
FritzWue
17-11-2007, 09:06
Not bad this morning with the usual slow deep fading intervals.
FritzWue
17-11-2007, 17:11
Getting better at this time of year:
FritzWue
19-11-2007, 09:26
Propagation is not so good today.
Only 30 Min. Log. Reception with 15m long wire. Very good result !
FritzWue
23-11-2007, 15:21
Ahaus-A31-A30-Osnabrueck
...most time with high speed! :D
Good results last night.
Simone
FritzWue
27-11-2007, 07:49
Fading was starting early today.
mitajohn
01-12-2007, 00:11
Hi all,
A good result tonight.
FritzWue
01-12-2007, 09:19
Unattended morning log, ~95% CDA
mitajohn
03-12-2007, 16:16
Hi all,
Deep dropouts due to fading.
I also experienced deep Fading dropouts this morning. The log is just 34 minutes long.
mitajohn
04-12-2007, 22:13
Hi all,
A pretty good result tonight.
FritzWue
05-12-2007, 18:39
Hanau-A45-Florstadt
Very good reception on the road northeast of Frankfurt.:)
FritzWue
06-12-2007, 09:40
Slow deep fading later in the morning
mitajohn
07-12-2007, 14:01
Hi all,
A pretty good result last night.
mitajohn
10-12-2007, 15:18
Hi all,
An unattended log, not a good one.
FritzWue
10-12-2007, 22:16
Good result tonight. :)
FritzWue
11-12-2007, 08:02
Typical deep slow fading notches
Perfect reception ! Longwire antenna without any matching.
mitajohn
12-12-2007, 08:39
Hi all,
Bad results here.
Quite good for one hour and 40 minutes. Later in the morning some quite deep fade-outs caused interruptions in the audio.
mitajohn
21-12-2007, 14:07
Hi all,
A very short perfect log.
mitajohn
21-12-2007, 16:21
Hi all,
Many dropouts due to fading.
mitajohn
23-12-2007, 17:24
Hi all,
A short (22mins) but perfect log.
90 Min. daytime reception with longwire-antenna.
mitajohn
26-12-2007, 09:47
Hi all,
A partially unattended log.
mitajohn
26-12-2007, 22:20
Hi all,
An unattended log (60 mins).
mitajohn
29-12-2007, 08:54
Hi all,
An unattended log (172 mins). There were some periods of good results.
mitajohn
30-12-2007, 09:06
Hi all,
An unattended log for about one hour last night.
mitajohn
04-01-2008, 13:34
Hi all,
An unattended log last night. Not too bad.
mitajohn
15-01-2008, 16:13
Hi all,
All dropouts due to fading. The rest was very good.
Vatican on 1611 kHz suffer much less from Fading compared to RAI on 846 kHz.
See RAI just before this log here:
http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?p=45002#post45002
Again it is interesting to compare 846 kHz to 1611 kHz: Here is 1 hour 40 minutes of 100% CDA. The distance to the TXs are almost the same and the 846 kHz channel is free from QRM here.
One and a half hours from this morning. About 86% CDA most dropouts due to Fading.
mitajohn
18-01-2008, 09:51
Hi all,
A perfect (SQ: 99.96%) result last night for 38 mins.
One (unattended) hour from this evening. 99.95% CDA, a little less than in Athens.
mitajohn
20-01-2008, 22:11
Hi all,
One hour log using the loop indoors.
Very good results here. Log is 65 minutes starting at 21:14 UTC.
Here one hour log too.
Sometimes deep fading. 95.84% Audio.
Quite good this morning. From about 08:20 UT the conditions weakened.
mitajohn
25-01-2008, 01:09
Hi all,
A quite good result tonight.
44 minutes from this morning with 75% CDA. The conditions were not that good this morning compared to before this winter.
mitajohn
26-01-2008, 10:22
Hi all,
Not good last night.
68 minutes from this morning but not soo good as usual; only 49% CDA.
FritzWue
28-01-2008, 16:12
Daytime log, not bad at 1170 km distance. :)
At noon there was one hour with 100% cda! :cool:
Back to normal again, 85 minutes with >98% decoding. Three sharp peaks in the Doppler indicate local problems (HDD start, closed an application, and switched off the BPF in Dream). The audio drop-out at 08:04 was a TX or propagation problem.
mitajohn
30-01-2008, 23:34
Hi all,
A quite good result tonight.
mitajohn
31-01-2008, 23:07
Hi all,
SQ: 99.14% for 72 Mins.
Even with a longer antenna the result did not improve at all. Probably a propagation problem.
mitajohn
01-02-2008, 13:23
Hi all,
My previous result (some minutes before) was a better one.
4140 seconds with 100% CDA. :) 19 meter long antenna.
mitajohn
02-02-2008, 00:55
Hi all,
A result for 209 Mins tonight.
Not quite such a long log, but mine starts roughly at the same time last night. 100% CDA. Perfect.
mitajohn
04-02-2008, 22:37
Hi all,
A not good result tonight due to fading and QRM. The channel is not clear any more.
FritzWue
05-02-2008, 09:39
The true winter conditions are over.
mitajohn
05-02-2008, 22:26
Hi all,
Due to the signal strength, I got a good result tonight.
mitajohn
06-02-2008, 23:30
Hi all,
A good result tonight for two hours.
65 minutes perfect reception from this morning.
mitajohn
08-02-2008, 09:53
Hi all,
An auto-log with no good results. At 23:16 a jump in the SNR recorded.
mitajohn
09-02-2008, 09:28
Hi all,
An auto-log with bad results.
mitajohn
10-02-2008, 22:56
Hi all,
74 Mins of almost perfect results tonight.
FritzWue
11-02-2008, 08:34
Propagation conditions are back to normal again.
mitajohn
11-02-2008, 23:06
Hi all,
A 90 Mins log but with not so good results compared with that ones in my yesterday's report.
mitajohn
15-02-2008, 22:34
Hi all,
A semi-unattended log.
FritzWue
16-02-2008, 07:56
slow deep fading
mitajohn
19-02-2008, 22:21
Hi all,
One hour log tonight, not good due to fading.
About 50 minutes from this morning with 94% CDA.
mitajohn
20-02-2008, 22:04
Hi all,
A 60 mins reception with some minor problems tonight.
mitajohn
22-02-2008, 00:34
Hi all,
A mostly unattended log for 200 mins with SQ: 99.42%.
mitajohn
23-02-2008, 01:31
Hi all,
Another unattended log.
FritzWue
23-02-2008, 09:25
...not bad
FritzWue
25-02-2008, 09:13
Quite good until half past nine local time.
FritzWue
26-02-2008, 08:06
A lot of fading this morning.
mitajohn
28-02-2008, 00:33
Hi all,
Here is a quite good result.
mitajohn
29-02-2008, 10:06
Hi all,
Severe decoding problems at the beginning of the log, after 23:50 much better.
mitajohn
01-03-2008, 07:09
Hi all,
This is an unattended log. Not a good one.
FritzWue
02-03-2008, 16:16
Very good mediumwave propagation today!
Good reception this morning except for a weaker period around 8 UTC.
mitajohn
03-03-2008, 22:45
Hi all,
Good results tonight for 90 mins.
FritzWue
05-03-2008, 08:29
The winter conditions/ long nights are gone:
mitajohn
05-03-2008, 14:24
Hi all,
The last night's results. SQ:99.08%.
mitajohn
10-03-2008, 00:33
Hi all,
Tonight's results. SQ:99.01%.
FritzWue
10-03-2008, 07:55
An early end today:
mitajohn
13-03-2008, 13:10
Hi all,
Last night's result. A more or less typical one.
mitajohn
13-03-2008, 23:02
Hi all,
A result for 120 mins.
mitajohn
19-03-2008, 13:14
Hi all,
An unattended log.
Just 30 minutes with 100% CDA while I was browsing Googleearth.
FritzWue
22-03-2008, 10:05
Good today until 08:20 UTC:
FritzWue
28-03-2008, 08:53
Not good today:
Quite good until 08:50 UTC when the fade-outs became more frequent.
mitajohn
03-04-2008, 22:30
Hi all,
Except of a bad period at beginning of the log due to co-channel AM QRM the rest result was quite good.
mitajohn
05-04-2008, 08:12
Hi all,
A very good result tonight, SQ: 99.0%.
mitajohn
06-04-2008, 00:34
Hi all,
Another very good result tonight, SQ: 99.76%.
mitajohn
07-04-2008, 23:06
Hi all,
The results got better after 20:57.
50 rather good minutes from this morning.
Very good and stable Signal last night.
mitajohn
03-05-2008, 01:47
Hi all,
An unattended log.
mitajohn
17-05-2008, 02:45
Hi all,
A nearly perfect result tonight.
mitajohn
19-05-2008, 23:36
Hi all,
An unattended log for 128 mins.
mitajohn
05-06-2008, 22:28
Hi all,
All dropouts due to fading.
mitajohn
06-07-2008, 00:33
Hi all,
A very good result tonight.
Hello,
Despite the fact it's in the middle of summer, in terms of MW propagation, I had a pretty good signal from Vatican Radio on this out of band frequency; 1611 kHz.
Just a short log, < 10 minutes, it started with a good SNR of 23 dB at 20:47 UTC. But it dropped to around 11 dB some 8 minutes later. Hence CDR at 70 %.
FritzWue
22-07-2008, 07:38
Too much attenuation in summer at that starting time.
FritzWue
04-09-2008, 09:09
Summer seems to be gone soon:
mitajohn
13-09-2008, 00:43
Hi all,
Summer here stays a bit more...
petecchiaro
14-09-2008, 07:41
about 20min log night time reception taken from
SEREGNO (N45.648989, E9.203683)
Receiver Sony 7600GR modified for DRM indoor ferrite antenna
About one hour from this morning. The slow Fading causes drop-outs.
High SNR, no comments otherwise. :(
Good receiving conditions until 8 UTC.
The signal became weaker around 0730 UTC.
Relatively good for my poor equipment ...
Could be compared with a "normal" listener.
FritzWue
12-11-2008, 16:24
The winter conditions are back:
mitajohn
12-11-2008, 23:39
Hi all,
A problematic result tonight.
mitajohn
14-11-2008, 09:03
Hi all,
Too much fading and co-channel QRM last night.
FritzWue
14-11-2008, 10:54
Not bad at daytime:
mitajohn
15-11-2008, 01:49
Hi all,
The results tonight.
Good reception, but some dropouts due to slow Fading.
FritzWue
27-11-2008, 08:42
Good SNR with slow fading, signal peaks at S9+25dB:
FritzWue
27-11-2008, 16:13
Good reception in the afternoon with DREAM set to 5650 kHz center frequency:
FritzWue
30-11-2008, 05:58
Unattended log:
FritzWue
30-11-2008, 15:10
Relatively good reception of Radio Vatican on mediumwave at good strength in the afternoon over 1170km.
Even our local pirates avoid the papa frequency! :)
Even the Morphy Richards with its ferrite antenna and the modded AC Power Supply played some opera without interruptions in the late afternoon here.
An hour from this morning with several fade-outs. About 82% decoded audio.
First log with my small radio on 1611 KHz. A rather perfect result for this.
Perfect results last night.
Simone
FritzWue
07-12-2008, 16:26
Afternoon log, not bad:
FritzWue
11-12-2008, 16:22
...even better today:
40 Min. Log.
Almost perfect reception!
mitajohn
13-12-2008, 00:19
Hi all,
A result for an hour.
FritzWue
15-12-2008, 16:27
99% CDA for over two hours in the afternoon at 1170 km distance. :)
Typical slow and deep fading.
FritzWue
18-12-2008, 16:13
High SNR, slow deep fading:
FritzWue
25-12-2008, 14:35
Merry Christmas to everybody at Vatican Radio!
I gave myself a christmas present: First test drive with my new DRM carradio setup.
86% CDA mobile vs. 99% CDA at home when driving around locally at daytime
and 1170km TX distance on mediumwave, not bad. :D
A three and a half hours unattended log from this morning.
90 Min.Log with very good result.
FritzWue
03-01-2009, 16:16
Good signal in the late afternoon, 28.3 dB SNR average at 1170km distance! :)
...even stronger than the local dutch pirates! :D
FritzWue
05-01-2009, 16:15
99.5% CDA for the last 1h 10min in the afternoon:
FritzWue
09-01-2009, 17:25
14:50-15:40 UTC: Essen center-B224-A2-A31-Gescher
15:40-16:10 UTC: parking at home
FritzWue
14-01-2009, 17:54
Gescher-A31-A30-Osnabruck
FritzWue
15-01-2009, 17:56
Muenster North-A1-A43-Nottuln
FritzWue
27-01-2009, 21:33
Cologne/Leverkusen-A3-near Duesseldorf
A 5 hours long log from the morning hours of the 30th Jan.
FritzWue
03-02-2009, 16:14
Quite good at daytime for this time of year:
FritzWue
06-02-2009, 08:25
Duelmen - Gescher
mitajohn
07-02-2009, 00:35
Hi all,
A result for more than 3 hours.
FritzWue
08-02-2009, 16:30
Strong signal in the afternoon, but our local dutch a.m. pirates are sometimes stronger:
FritzWue
14-02-2009, 10:25
Delmenhorst-A28-Leer-A31-Schuettorf
FritzWue
17-02-2009, 20:15
Muenster-A1-B475-Glandorf
Very good at about 1200km distance!
FritzWue
05-03-2009, 20:09
Coesfeld-B525-A43-A1-Unna
FritzWue
16-03-2009, 16:16
Slow deep fading in the afternoon:
FritzWue
17-03-2009, 08:16
After 09:00 local time signal is going down now:
mitajohn
06-04-2009, 00:37
Hi all,
Here's a result for 70 mins.
mitajohn
11-04-2009, 23:02
Hi all,
The results for tonight.
mitajohn
16-04-2009, 00:39
Hi all,
One major dropout only, log about one hour.
FritzWue
18-04-2009, 08:15
Daylight reception comes to an early end here now in April:
mitajohn
03-06-2009, 22:42
Hi all,
A 30 mins log, almost perfect.
mitajohn
06-06-2009, 00:38
Hi all,
A perfect result for 50 mins.
mitajohn
08-06-2009, 01:17
Hi all,
An almost perfect result tonight for more than 3H.
mitajohn
10-06-2009, 00:46
Hi all,
Some decoding problems tonight.
mitajohn
11-06-2009, 02:38
Hi all,
A result with some problems.
mitajohn
12-06-2009, 00:44
Hi all,
Here's an unattended log for more than 3H.
mitajohn
13-06-2009, 02:39
Hi all,
A perfect result tonight.
mitajohn
14-06-2009, 08:40
Hi all,
Another perfect log for 50 mins.
Perfect results here too.
Simone
mitajohn
17-06-2009, 03:51
Hi all,
The splatters from the AM TX on the adjacent channel produced decoding problems, after 22:18 the result was perfect.
mitajohn
25-06-2009, 03:46
Hi all,
Some minor decoding problems tonight.
Perfect apart from the two dropouts at the start.
Simone
mitajohn
02-07-2009, 00:39
Hi all,
Decoding problems tonight.
Perfect results here last night.
Simone
mitajohn
03-07-2009, 00:34
Hi all,
After 22:04 the result was perfect.
mitajohn
04-07-2009, 01:26
Hi all,
Just a perfect result tonight.
mitajohn
08-07-2009, 01:09
Hi all,
Some dropouts tonight.
Quite good results last night.
Simone
mitajohn
16-07-2009, 07:37
Hi all,
When the co-channel QRM stopped I got a perfect result until the end.
mitajohn
20-07-2009, 00:52
Hi all,
An almost perfect result tonight.
A short but perfect log. Some Fading in the beginning.
mitajohn
03-08-2009, 00:34
Hi all,
One major dropout.
mitajohn
04-08-2009, 02:36
Hi all,
Here is an unattended log. No idea what happened between 22:00 - 22:30, may be QRM.
mitajohn
07-08-2009, 00:41
Hi all,
A perfect result for 39 mins.
mitajohn
11-08-2009, 00:04
Hi all,
An unattended log tonight.
mitajohn
14-08-2009, 00:38
Hi all,
A mostly unattended log with some dropouts.
30 Min. log
Stable reception with longwire antenna. Only on small drop-out by rapid fading.....
A challenge through the different QRM I have been "blessed" with lately...
50 Min. Log with good result. 2 dropouts by fading.
FritzWue
21-09-2009, 09:11
Wintertime is coming, reception with typical slow deep fading periods:
FritzWue
31-10-2009, 16:17
Reception is getting better, Vatican Radio is even stronger than the local dutch AM pirate stations above the mw-band. :)
mitajohn
02-11-2009, 00:23
Hi all,
An almost perfect result.
mitajohn
03-11-2009, 16:30
Hi all,
A result for 73 mins. Until 15:05 there was a strong co-channel QRM, then the results affected by fading and local electrical disturbances.
mitajohn
05-11-2009, 16:27
Hi all,
A 30 mins result with a lot of fading.
mitajohn
06-11-2009, 00:23
Hi all,
A 60 mins result. Only some minor dropouts, an almost perfect result.
FritzWue
06-11-2009, 17:02
Bright sun in the sky and Radio Vatican at 1200 km distance on mediumwave. :D
mitajohn
08-11-2009, 00:28
Hi all,
A lot of problems tonight.
mitajohn
12-11-2009, 16:38
Hi all,
Not bad for an afternoon reception on MW at 1000 km and back lobe.
mitajohn
13-11-2009, 00:27
Hi all,
An almost perfect overscheduled result tonight.
mitajohn
14-11-2009, 00:29
Hi all,
An almost perfect result with some decoding problems around 23:50.
mitajohn
14-11-2009, 16:20
Hi all,
69 mins of an evening reception on MW.
FritzWue
14-11-2009, 16:26
Longer daytime log here, 84% CDA for almost 8 hours:
FritzWue
20-11-2009, 07:43
Short nighttime log, good reception:
mitajohn
24-11-2009, 00:19
Hi all,
A 90 mins result tonight.
FritzWue
24-12-2009, 16:12
Four hours in the afternoon:
FritzWue
26-12-2009, 17:23
Mobile DRM reception reports soon to come back. :)
FritzWue
31-12-2009, 02:28
Lotte (west of Osnabruck)-A30-A31-Gescher
FritzWue
05-01-2010, 20:31
Gescher-A31-Haren
mitajohn
07-01-2010, 00:09
Hi all,
A perfect result.
FritzWue
10-01-2010, 16:21
A longer log of 105 live in the afternoon:
FritzWue
12-01-2010, 07:01
Melle-A30-Bad Oeynhausen
Reception fading later in the morning:
mitajohn
21-01-2010, 23:43
Hi all,
A result for one hour.
FritzWue
28-01-2010, 14:43
Gescher-B525-A43-A1-Muenster North
Too much noise in Muenster
mitajohn
05-02-2010, 23:15
Hi all,
An almost perfect result for 80 mins.
FritzWue
12-02-2010, 12:04
Typical slow deep fading with regular dropouts:
mitajohn
17-02-2010, 00:07
Hi all,
A perfect result for 90 mins.
Almost perfect result. Small SNR dip at 2300 UTC.
mitajohn
20-02-2010, 16:14
Hi all,
The last 15 mins of the transmission, I was late.
mitajohn
23-02-2010, 00:11
Hi all,
A perfect result for two hours.
FritzWue
24-02-2010, 09:38
The usual up and down at daytime. Reception only possible with vertical T-Antenna.
FritzWue
05-03-2010, 09:16
Gescher-A31-A2-A45-Luedenscheid
Big problems with interference from many high voltage lines between Dortmund and Hagen.
mitajohn
25-03-2010, 00:08
Hi all,
An almost perfect result for 31mins.
mitajohn
02-04-2010, 00:30
Hi all,
One major dropout.
mitajohn
20-04-2010, 00:45
Hi all,
A result for 45 mins.
mitajohn
28-05-2010, 01:57
Hi all,
Here's a result for 2 hours.
mitajohn
31-05-2010, 00:27
Hi all,
65 mins log of Vatican Radio with some decoding problems.
mitajohn
04-06-2010, 01:44
Hi all,
A 3 hour log. Some problems at the beginning, then almost perfect.
mitajohn
10-06-2010, 00:26
Hi all,
A 2H15 log, perfect.
mitajohn
14-06-2010, 00:38
Hi all,
A perfect result for 2 hours.
FritzWue
09-08-2010, 01:10
Radio Vatican is doing fine on mediumwave:
radio vatican fine reception at night.:)
FritzWue
21-08-2010, 08:16
The nights are getting longer.....
Good mono audio at only 15 kbps.
FritzWue
22-08-2010, 07:11
Unattended nighttime log, good reception:
While I was preparing for 9.630 kHz last night, I tuned past 1611 kHz on the RF-B60. There was a strong and stable signal with good decoding around 23 UTC.
mitajohn
22-08-2010, 23:51
Hi all,
When QRM stopped at 20:59 the results got much better.
mitajohn
24-08-2010, 07:04
Hi all,
An unattended log for almost 2 hours.
mitajohn
03-09-2010, 00:49
Hi all,
An almost perfect result for 2 hours.
FritzWue
17-09-2010, 08:02
Not bad at 1170 km distance:
FritzWue
18-09-2010, 08:08
70% CDA during the first hour:
mitajohn
28-09-2010, 09:11
Hi all,
A result for about 3H with a lot of problems.
mitajohn
29-09-2010, 07:25
Hi all,
Much better results tonight.
mitajohn
13-10-2010, 09:26
Hi all,
An unattended log.
FritzWue
17-10-2010, 05:43
Unattended log:
FritzWue
22-10-2010, 08:25
Getting better, had to leave :
FritzWue
22-10-2010, 18:27
Werl-A44-Unna
Just the last minutes of the transmission in bright sunshine.
FritzWue
23-10-2010, 09:07
Interference from my neighbor's electric fence.
FritzWue
31-10-2010, 16:25
1170 km on mediumwave in the afternoon, not bad at all. :)
Zipped MP3 audio sample attached.
mitajohn
04-11-2010, 07:29
Hi all,
A 114 mins log. At 1073 km and in the back lobe, not bad at all.
FritzWue
04-11-2010, 16:25
Hi all,
A 114 mins log. At 1073 km and in the back lobe, not bad at all.
Hi John,
where is the info about any beaming direction for the 1611 kHz transmission?
I can only find this:
http://www.radiovaticana.org/ted/sched_eur1.asp
Again not bad in the afternoon:
FritzWue
05-11-2010, 03:19
Unattended log:
mitajohn
05-11-2010, 11:30
Wrong message please delete it. Thanks
FritzWue
07-11-2010, 16:22
Longer afternoon log:
FritzWue
10-11-2010, 17:29
1. Gescher-A31-Gladbeck
2. Lembeck-A31-Gescher
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