Diego Garcia AFN Feed 4319 USB 2245 - 01/12/13

[ChrisLobdel]

AFN doing pretty nicely with pop music program. 2245 SIO: 343

[Pigmeat]

Nice catch, Chris.

It's the optimum time of year to hear them. If there is an "optimum" time to hear a signal from an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean halfway around the world.

I wonder if the recent solar flare made auroral propagation possible?

[ChrisLobdel]

Yup, it is. I remember an opening that I missed by a day from the Maldive Islands back in the late 1970's, they had a 60 mb outlet that was heard around 0000. I heard about it a day later and tried for about 60 nights in a row but it never propagated again.. Fellow BADXer Jerry Berg got a very nice QSL from that.

Speaking of Diego Garcia,  they QSLed my reception from September with a full data card and bumper sticker. Address:  AFN, Broadcast Center, 23755 Z Street, Building 2730, Riverside, CA 92518, card signed by  Tansy Nguyen, ZCC (SW), USN

PDF copy attached.