Pacific Isles to Mongolia at the turn of a dial

Pacific Isles to Mongolia at the turn of a dial...
“Amid all the gloomy news about shortwave cuts there is some good
news for us as regards to the Pacific Isles region.” writes Andrew
Kirby from Bournemouth.
He says that Vanuatu is expecting some new powerful shortwave
transmitters to arrive soon and that Tahiti is now back on 15170kHz.
New Caledonia can be heard on 7170kHz and also Kiribati is on
9825kHz with a more powerful transmitter. Andrew comments that
the Pacific Islands are an ideal area of the world for shortwave with
one frequency reaching across hundreds of miles of blue sea. “Nothing
fancy, just turning on your radio while relaxing on a beautiful desert
isle.”
Andrew has picked up Rangoon in Myanmar (or Burma) on
5985.85kHz at 1600 UTC with a sign off at 1630 UTC and a signal
strength of two. Equally exotic is Ulaan Baator in Mongolia heard on
12085khz (a frequency it has used for decades) at 0900 UTC. A signal
strength of three and a sign on with “chimes like Radio Beijing used to
have 15 years ago.”
Extract from my monthly column in Radio User