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Offline East Troy Don

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Adventist World Radio via Sri Lanka
« on: December 01, 2018, 2205 UTC »
9540 KHZ @ 21:41 UTC 1 Dec 18 (15:41 CST Local) in Chinese.  Male announcer to 21:44 when he engaged in a lengthy interview with female to 21:54.  Musical interlude to a different female announcer at 21:55.
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Re: Adventist World Radio via Sri Lanka
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2018, 0715 UTC »
There obviously was a reception path of some sort between North America and Sri Lanka today. I caught this same broadcast, though earlier in the hour, and was surprised at how relatively strong it was -- to the point where I was double-checking schedules to make sure this wasn't coming from China instead of AWR via Trincomalee.

When I tuned in at 2120-2128 UTC, it sounded like a male preaching in Chinese. The signal was fair bordering on good, but there was an annoying interference whistle and moderate fading, along with daytime atmospheric noise. Overall, though, a very fair signal for this station.
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