ARLA/CLUSTER : Polisario Front MW & SW.

[Carlos L.R. de A.Gonçalves]

Dear Anker,

Here's just this observation.

7460 Polisario Front, Rabuni (?), 01 SEP, 1733-..., Spanish, talks, music,
almost no audio 1743-1748, Arabic 1800, fq announcements (3 fqs), web; S
9+50 dB.   Noise bursts approx. every second till 1748; I tried U/LSB and
the latter provided a cleaner reception.   So Spanish prgr is now probably
1700-1800, but I must confess I keep forgetting to observe this operation
right at 1700 or shortly prior to that.    I listened to their prgr today,
02 SEP, and audio was clean.

700 Polisario Front, Tindouf (?), 01 SEP, 1820 (fade in)-..., Arabic, folk
songs, talks; 25442, but only poor~fair performance till late in the
evening.  Today (02 SEP, 1835) for instance, it's barely detected, with most
of the QRM coming from ALG 702.     Having said that, I must conclude the
obvious: reception up here in the capital is worse than down on Algarve's
west coast, even comparing almost equal K9AY antennae: an elevated or
raised 25 m / loop one here in Lisbon vs. an on the ground 2x25 m / loop on
the coastal place.

1550 Polisario Front, Tindouf (?), remains off.

73,
Carlos.