--- In ultralightdx@..., Paul Logan wrote:
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> Hi Jim,
>
> if you want post / send a recording I hear Farsi / Persian all the time.

Arrgh, I dumped it, but thanks. There was a lot of noise and her voice was monotonic and low in pitch. Just couldn't process it enough to get anything clear. It sure wasn't Portuguese, Arabic or French. Right after TOH there was some kind of gong, not very loud (their modulation seemed low and lacking high frequencies), like something that would separate news items or signal the beginning of a program. Sistan and Baluchestan province (the poorest and most undeveloped region in Iran, according to Wikipedia) has mostly Balochi speakers, and I'm wondering if that was the language, though it's the Iranian national network, so probably Farsi. I'm going to look for it earlier tonight, try to catch it at their sunrise.

73,

Jim, KR1S
http://kr1s.kearman.com/ 

Listening on 783 for Mauritania last night, at 0200Z I heard a woman speaking in a fairly low-pitched voice, with low modulation. It didn't have the cadence of French or Arabic, but I couldn't get anything out of the recording. Checking DX Atlas this morning, I saw that sunrise in Tehran was  at 0201Z! Checking WRTH I found a 100-kW station in Iranshahr, Iran, with SR about 0135Z, so it's possible that's what I heard. Never did hear Mauritania. The way conditions have been going it may be too late in the season for Iran, but you never know.

PL-380 + Hoop Loop, 10 miles west of the Atlantic, 7840 miles west of Iranshahr.

73,

Jim, KR1S
http://kr1s.kearman.com/