Rai / Radio Vatican on 26060 kHz

[drmdab]

Wow, some DRM now on this frequency Please find a short log attached.

[FritzWue]

Unfortunately my SDR cannot set the filter wide enough, so no SDC data and no audio.

[Digger]

Same problem here.. No label despite sometimes a good SNR. Heavy Fading and lack of decoded audio made me cut the log short.

There is quite strong Es activity over Europe today.

[Digger]

Again 26060 with RAI Radiodue as the first label, Vatican as second, then celp and the fourth service was Journaline. Too much Fading to catch anything but the labels.

[mitajohn]

June 12

Hi all,

E-sporadic, a couple of minutes ago I received this...

[mitajohn]

June 12

Hi all,

The signal is still here (14:58) but my RX cannot cope with it.

[Digger]

Nice Sporadic E today, anyway it was possible to "see" 26060 for over an hour. The audio won't work, it comes through rather chopped. The audio pattern looks like mitajohn's here too.

[Digger]

Some sporadic E this morning towards the South.

[Digger]

31st July

And again this morning. The fade-outs were were rather log.

PS: Wrong antenna info in the plot; I used the gamma-match 25 MHz Dipole here.

[mitajohn]

Aug. 04

Hi all,

I got again only the label of this TX.

[FritzWue]

I was lurking for Sao Paulo on 26040 kHz when I saw a panadapter signal on 26060 kHz.
It was in mode A/ 18 kHz.
The Power SDR software only allows max. 10 kHz bandwidth.
Maybe that was the reason why I could not decode the station's name.
The strange thing is that the station ID E24104 is different from E05202 reported before.
Later I tried the software in spectroscope mode and 48 kHz sampling rate, but then the signal was too weak for decoding.

[petecchiaro]

dear FrizWue yesterday at 15:24:20UTC at Vatican Radio I changed the transmission mode from A/10kHz to A/18kHz for test pourpose. However I can not explain the difference in the programme ID.

thank you!

[Digger]

I also saw the station ID E24104 today. There was no label (at least I did not get it) and the Mode A / 18 kHz did not produce any audio with Dream. The signal disappeared soon after I started the log.

... but came back after a while...

[simone]

Hi petecchiaro,
the service ID is correct for Vatican Radio, the other ID that Fritz was refering to was used for one of the other services some time ago (Radiodue).
Simone

[petecchiaro]

you are right Simone but I believed that the service ID was received these days (it is more than 1 year that Radiodue is out)