Taiwan

Post by **163GW** » 13 Oct 2008, 18:27

Radio Taiwan International is on 3.965Mhz (7.20pm) at a staggering +40db signal!!!
Don't be fooled though, it's probably coming from a relay in Europe at that strength!

edit: The frequency was taken over by Radio Australia at 7.30pm....same signal strength.....definitely from a European relay, possibly a BBC relay station within the UK I'd guess, given the signal strength.

If the BBC World Service turns up on this frequency later this evening, then that'll be the answer, eh?

Post by **crusty** » 13 Oct 2008, 18:57

Fluctuating between +20 and +60 and then suddenly died exactly at the moment of posting?

Crusty

Post by **163GW** » 13 Oct 2008, 20:06

Radiio Australia went off the air here at about 8 o'clock, the end of their transmission to European listeners I guess, I'll have another listen tomorrow and see if the broadcasts from Taiwan and Australia have the same schedule?

Interesting to hear news from the other side of the world though, and their take on things.

Post by **5thElement** » 13 Oct 2008, 21:29

Im not sure it'll be a BBC transmitter, they've allready stopped transmitting on shortwave to Europe

You can regularly hear these kinda stations every day, and yeah, alot of them are from relays in europe (i've noticed alot are in germany) they nearly always pack huge signals from massive 100kw+ transmitters with antennas that take up the size of a football pitch lol

Imagine plugging your hf rig into one of those lol

Post by **163GW** » 13 Oct 2008, 21:32

I wish!

That's a good point though. When all the major broadcasters cease using short wave and switch to satellite and so on.......what'll we listen to on short wave? When all broadcast, maritime, aircraft, military and the rest is via satellite........

It'll be a long time coming I guess (we won't be around then) but what will future SWL's have left to listen to?

Only radio amateurs and Cbers.

jazzsinger · Post by **jazzsinger** » 13 Oct 2008, 22:56

god help them

Post by **G0TVJ** » 13 Oct 2008, 23:05

163GW wrote:
It'll be a long time coming I guess (we won't be around then) but what will future SWL's have left to listen to?

PLT?

Neil

Post by **163GW** » 13 Oct 2008, 23:20

Oh yes, sorry Neil.

50Hz buzz from PLT.

But we'll all be dead by then I hope!

jazzsinger · Post by **jazzsinger** » 13 Oct 2008, 23:49

they couldn't invent a death ray so the american government invented plt to drive us all mad.even more lethal than friendly fire or haarp.

Post by **163GW** » 14 Oct 2008, 00:06

Just watching Bush on TV drives me mad George!

Why is the US election campaign on OUR news so much then? No mention of the Bengali elections, or the Canadian ones?

Or the Icelandic elections for that matter........now THAT might be interesting!

Post by **dean_aberdare** » 14 Oct 2008, 07:47

The Radio Taiwan broadcast mentioned on 3965 comes from Issoudun in France with 250kw power output. Im glad you asked this Leighton as you know this is something that I have a lot of interest in, ie.Broadcast Stations. :-) Please note schedule is due to change at the end of the month to the Winter 2008 schedule which usually means the programming comes forward an hour and some frequencies may also change.

3965 F Radio Taiwan Int. Issoudun English 1800-1900 250 i
3965 F Radio Taiwan Int. Issoudun German 2100-2200 250 i
3965 F Radio Taiwan Int. Issoudun Spanish 2000-2100 250 i
9800 F Radio Taiwan Int. Montsinery Spanish 0200-0300 0 i
11600 F Radio Taiwan Int. Issoudun English 1600-1700 500 i
11600 F Radio Taiwan Int. Issoudun English 1600-1700 500 i
11705 F Radio Taiwan Int. Issoudun Russian 1700-1800 500 i
11755 F Radio Taiwan Int. Issoudun French 1900-2000 500 i
15225 F Radio Taiwan Int. Issoudun Russian 1400-1500 500 i
15690 F Radio Taiwan Int. Issoudun English 1700-1800 500 i

Post by **163GW** » 14 Oct 2008, 10:03

There we are lads, good job we've got our resident expert SWL on here! Thanks Dean!

Post by **5thElement** » 14 Oct 2008, 13:02

Also explains the massive signal...quarter of a million watt output!!

Post by **JamesA** » 14 Oct 2008, 13:52

You really wouldnt want to get in the way of the would you!

Post by **dean_aberdare** » 14 Oct 2008, 17:58

:-) Another good one to listen for as Ive mentioned before is Radio New Zealand on 7.145 between 7am-9am local time

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