I just heard BSKSA's religious broadcast direct from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 13710 at 1545 UTC. According to EiBiView, that's at a distance of 11672 km. over the polar route. It wasn't the strongest signal, and I can't understand Arabic, but at least I was able to identify the station. This was on my ATS-909X with 23 ft. of wire indoors. On my R75 using the same wire antenna the signal was about the same strength, approx. S7. I could still hear it on the portable with the just the whip antenna, but much weaker, of course.
I think I'll stop looking for broadcasts that are only in a language I can understand (English or German), and start listening to every kind of foreign broadcast I can find (other than those raging evangelists). At least it's something to do during these days of bad propagation. If there's interesting music, so much the better, because that's what I've always liked the best about shortwave listening ever since I discovered it during my teen years.
I think I'll stop looking for broadcasts that are only in a language I can understand (English or German), and start listening to every kind of foreign broadcast I can find (other than those raging evangelists). At least it's something to do during these days of bad propagation. If there's interesting music, so much the better, because that's what I've always liked the best about shortwave listening ever since I discovered it during my teen years.
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