Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Blog Logs

All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on / sign-off*

Angola
4949.85, (presumed) Radio Nacional de Angola Mulenvos, 0148-0207. Portuguese. Ballads with brief announcer. Time pips at 0200 with male/female announcers with news and musical bridges. No discernible ID noted. Signal poor - first time in a while I've logged any usuable audio from this one. (Scott Barbour-NH)

Australia
4910 ABC Northern Territory Service (Tennant Creek), 0824-0830.* English. Pop music with talk by man and woman. Closing announcements by woman at 0830. Poor signal on hot, humid night here, with high noise level. Other NT stations not heard. (Jim Evans, TN)

2368.5, Radio Symban (presumed). 1323-1344, July 25. Mostly Greek music and songs, sounded like a cross between Greek and Middle Eastern sounding repetitive music. Heard announcer in probably Greek. Dave Valko (Dunlo, PA)was also hearing the same type of music here about three hours earlier (exceptionally good reception for the East Coast!)Reception with summertime QRN, but not too bad. Ian Baxter reminds me that after their most current transmitter move, they are now in Leppington, a suburb located in SW Sydney. Audio of 45 seconds of their music posted at:
http://www.mediafire.com/?iw7gr922n6b0maq (Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

Bolivia
4699.96, Radio San Miguel, 0900-0920. Male's Spanish comments between musical selections. Unfortunately, there's so much natural noise this morning that it over powers the signal leaving it at a poor level. (Chuck Bolland, FL)

Brazil
9665.12, Radio Voz Missionária, 0003-0015, Portuguese preacher. Weak. Poor with adjacent channel splatter, // 5939.92 - weak in noisy conditions. Very weak on // 11749.87.(Brian Alexander, PA)

Clandestine
Via Ukraine relay, 11530, Denge Mezopotamya, *0400-0425. Sign on with anthem. Local music and opening announcements at 0403:30. Talk in listed Kurdish. Local pop music at 0409. Local chants. Poor to fair. Mixing with a weak WYFR. (Brian Alexander, PA)

Dominican Republic
6025.03, Radio Amanecer Internacional, 0225-0303.* Christian music. Spanish talk. Weak. Poor quality with adjacent channel splatter.(Brian Alexander, PA)

Guam
11840 KTWR 0845. English religious program ending with address at 0856. Intro and into next program. End of program at 0910 with woman announcer giving station address. Signal weak but readable.(Dave Valko, PA/HCDX)

Guinea
7125, Radio Guineé, 2158-2255.* Tribal chants. French talk. Local Afro-pop music. Abrupt sign off. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA

India
9425, AIR Bengaluru - National Channel, 1435-1500. Wednesday edition of “Vividha” in English Talk given about the great Indian freedom fighter Chandrashekhar Azad. I always enjoy learning more about India via these “Vividha” shows! Fair reception.(Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

Indonesia
3325 RRI Palangkaraya 1130-1145. Lokal berita or announcements by lafy announcer to a rustic flute interlude at 1136 was followed by a man/woman chit-chatting. Vocal music at 1142. Generally fair signal. (John Wilkins-CO/Cumbre DX)

4604.93 RRI Serui(presumed) 1156-1235. Presumed them on their old freq, reactivated recently (tnx Ron Howard for tip). Checked on 23, 24, and 25 July but not there; they were there today (26th) with vocal music to 1200:15, then brief announcement by male announcer. Six pips to 1200:36, then long Jakarta program; back to local programming at 1230. Fair at best and // 4749.96 Makassar, also fair at best. Serui last logged about 2 years ago.(John Wilkins-CO/Cumbre DX)

4604.90, RRI Serui, 1206-1343.*, Similar format as heard July 22. Jakarta news relay which ended at 1229 with choral national anthem (Indonesia Raya). Pop music request show with all the songs in English, 1259 Song-of-the-Coconut Island interval signal then five minutes of Jakarta news followed by national anthem. Easy-listening music request show. Songs in Bahasa Indonesian and English. Signal suddenly off in midsentence - no sign off announcement or Love Ambon tune.(Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

9525.9 Voice of Indonesia. Very strong clear signal. Went off in mid-song at 1055, but back on a minute later. ID jingle at 1058, 9680.09 RRI strong and in Qu'ran at the same time. (Dave Valko, PA/HCDX)

Korea (DPR)
7200 Voice of Korea (Kujang), 0901-0907. Korean. Martial music. Announcements by woman at 0902, followed by talk by man and woman. Poor signal. Slightly stronger parallel noted on 9345. (Jim Evans, TN)

Palau
World Harvest Radio (Medorn), 0851-0859. English. Contemporary religious vocal music. WHR ID by man at 0857, followed by a statement regarding the value of shortwave for gospel radio. T8WH ID and address by man at 0859. Moderate signal strength, the best heard this year, with some fading. (Jim Evans, TN)

Peru
6019.25, Radio Victoria, 0930-0945. With the usual male relaying a sermon in Spanish, accompanied with plenty of splatter and fading. This signal was poor as it needed a notching to clearup the interference. Still audible at 1024 UTC with a fair signal.(Chuck Bolland, FL)

Russia
Radio Rossii (Magadan), 0840-0845. Russian. Talk by man and woman, possibly a drama. Moderate signal strength with some fading. Extremely weak parallel noted on 5940. (Jim Evans, TN)