SIBC 5020kHz & Radio Vanuatu 7260kHz

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

Around 0945-1000UTC Sunday August 28th here in alaska, I tried tuning into SIBC 5020 with my Tecsun PL880, 225 foot long wire, EmTech ZM2 Antenna Tuner and DXEngneering RPA-1PLUS HF Preamp.

Setting the audio at 2.3khz and I could barely hear them.. signal was ok, modulation was a bit low. Setting audio to 3.5khz or more resulted in SIBC being splattered into oblivion by WRMI 5015 and Radio Rebelde 5025

Radio Vanuatu 7260khz was woefully undermodulated as well. If they ran 110 percent modulation, they would have a fairly decent signal here. Tonight, I also had some digital RTTY sounding noise most of the night too, which made Radio Vanuatu even a bit more unpleasant then usual to listen to.,