Voice of Mongolia off of shortwave?

[glimmer twin]

They no longer seem to be on SW. They have always been an exceedingly difficult catch for me. When was the last time anybody heard them? Schedule is /was:


0900-0930 on 12085 U-B 250 kW / 178 deg to SoAs English
0930-1000 on 12085 U-B 250 kW / 178 deg to SoAs Mongolian
1000-1030 on 12085 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg to EaAs Chinese
1030-1100 on 12085 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg to EaAs Japanese
1400-1430 on 12015*U-B 250 kW / 178 deg to SoAs Mongolian
1430-1500 on 12015*U-B 250 kW / 178 deg to SoAs Chinese
1500-1530 on 12015*U-B 250 kW / 116 deg to EaAs Japanese
1530-1600 on 12015*U-B 250 kW / 116 deg to EaAs English

None of which are on air.

 sked via Ivo Ivanov via dxld

[ChrisLobdel]

I just went to their web site and listened to their 17th Feb English broadcast and they are still announcing 12085 kHz
on it.

Any luck hearing them yet?

[glimmer twin]

Not yet. As I mentioned, they are really hard to hear from the midwest USA & the times for English sort of suck too. 9:00z is 3:00am & I am getting to old for that crap (gotta have at least 5 -6 hours sleep a night ,unliike my party days when sleep was an every third night sort of thing) & by 15:00z I am at work. I'll keep trying though.

[ChrisLobdel]

I hear ya. I did try emailing them but the email addresses in the latest WRTH bounced.  I will have to try them here as well.

[glimmer twin]

The're back.

MONGOLIA    Voice of Mongolia is back on shortwave on Feb.25:
0900-0930 on 12085 U-B 250 kW / 178 deg to SoAs English
Very strong signal on remote SDR in Hong Kong and Spain
There was no broadcasts yesterday Feb.24.

Ivo  via DXLD YG

[ChrisLobdel]

Thanks Keith

[Pigmeat]

I heard AWR's "Wavescan" program last night. Their Australian correspondent brought the VoM situation up. He has sent them a couple of emails they haven't responded to, but noted they have been heard on and off in Oz in the past couple of months.

Poor country, hard winters, constant high winds...... my guess is it's antenna issue.