Voice of Russia on 15780 kHz

[Andrew]

Hi Simone, Carsten and Thomas and other DRMrs,

the settings were not changed last 2 weeks.

It is planned to change our frequency to 9480 kHz for second part of broadcast from 13:00 till 17:00 UTC since August 23-rd.
Other part of broadcast is left without changes - on 15780.


Best regards,

Andrew.

[DL1HTF]

Hi Andrew,

First, today the receipt of the radio program German language was well in. The reception suddenly then got bad. Have you experimented? I have checked my antenna. The antenna works excellent.

Greeting Thomas, DL1HTF

[carknue]

Hi Andrew,

very strange. Reception now seems to be as good as last year. Quite strong signal and a extreme high SNR, that we know only from your transmissions. The signal completly faded out between 15:37 and 16:01 UTC.

[DL1HTF]

Hi,

Here is my reception report on about three hours. It is the complete German language radio program in today's morning.

Altogether, the reception was good. I have enjoyed listening

Greetings Thomas, DL1HTF

[Andrew]

Hi Carsten and Thomas,

It is pleasant to hear about improvement of reception, but these settings were kept for 2 last weeks and nobody experimented at the time that you pointed (15:30-16:00 UTC on August 20-th). It seems to be variations of propagation conditions - short waves...

I am already in holiday, I have to leave for a couple of weeks, therefore a break in my replies at the forum is probable.

Best regards

Andrew

[DL1HTF]

Hi Andrew,

I also think that this was due to the propagation conditions. You are right -- short wave ...

I wish you a restful vacation.

Best regards
Thomas, DL1HTF

[Jos]

Hi Andrew,

Now is it your turn for holiday.

We will read you back in about three weeks .

Kind regards and a nice holiday.

In attachment the last 45 min.before your holiday.

Jos

[Andrew]

Hi Thomas and Jos,

thanks for your kind wishes. Glad to meet you, Jos, after your holiday. I see the reseption in Belgium is not bad in the evening.

Let's see what it will be on 9480 kHz since August 23-rd (look at my declaration above). There will be another antenna compared to 15780 used last 2 weeks.

See you later and 73s for all DRMrs

Andrew.

[carknue]

Hi,

here is my report from yesterday. Quite unstable if you look at the SNR graph, but it was on a high level, so mostly no problems. There was a break between 12 and 13 UTC.

[Owdjim]

15780 kHz

First time ever I've seen signs of this frequency here in NZ. Is there something new with the antenna or transmitter, or is it just favourable reception?

Still far too poor for any decoding.

Cheers, Chris

[dk8cb]

Hi,

today, I tried to listen to the german programme of VoR. But unfortunately, despite good signal strength, a perfect spectrum and a perfect impulse response, I got only a very low SNR. It improved a bit later, but it was not as it should be expected.
I would like to know why this was so. Are there any ionospheric effects the software is unable to compensate for? Is the signal already bad at the transmitter or does something happen at the antenna?

My report is attached.

Roland

[Owdjim]

15780 kHz

Finally I was able to decode a little bit of Voice of Russia audio here in NZ today :-)

It was not a lot - bit's of the Russian National Orchestra & VoR English programme - but it is the first time I've been able to get any audio here.

What I could decode seemed to be very good audio quality.

Cheers, Chris

[Owdjim]

15780 frustration!

How is this log for DRM listening frustration - I have a nice audio recording of several minutes of test tones! By 06:00 it had faded completely.

Cheers, Chris

[Andrew]

Hi Chris,

probably it was the successful confluence of circumstances that the reception in New Zealand was possible. Central and West Europe was officially assigned as the target, though our antenna used at the moment for these transmissions has beam direction 240 degrees.

Best regards and 73,

Andrew.

[Owdjim]

15780 kHz

Hi

Managed to decode some snippets of a Russian language lesson today.

Cheers, Chris