Friday, December 01, 2006

Blog Logs - China


CHINA

All times UTC
3900, Hulun Buir PBS, Hailar, 1308, Nov 19, Chinese talks, 35232. (Mezin and Kulinchenko)

4800, Voice of China, Ge’ermu, 1040-1108, Nov 11 and 14, Chinese talks, instrumental music, 1100 5+1 time ticks, then ID by W, usual fanfare music with canned ID noted // 4600. Both were poor to fair. (D’Angelo/FCDX and Valko)

4905, Xizang PBS, Lhasa, 2220-2250, Nov 24, Tibetan talks and music, 24322 // 4920 (34333). (Méndez)

4920, Xizang PBS, Lhasa, 0041, Nov 07, Tibetan talks, // 4905, 23432. (Cássio). Also heard 1105-1116, Nov 13, talk and beautiful Chinese vocal, fair with some R Quito slop. // 4905 was poor to fair. (D’Angelo/FCDX)

4950, Voice of Pujiang, 1405-1433, Nov 15, Chinese chit-chat with sound effects, short audio clips, and an occasional pop song. A few bars of "Take Me Home Country Roads" (not John Denver's version) was played at 1405 and again at 1425; perhaps this is the theme song of the program; after each "Country Roads" clip there was an adv that ended with the English phrase "SNG[?] Advertising, your better source." Good signal, rising above the band noise and // 5075, which was just fair, and 3280, which was approaching fadeout. (Wilkins in DXplorer)

5050, Guangxi FBS, Nanning, 1056-1200, Nov 11, 18 and 19, Songs and soft orchestra music, ann in Vietnamese. Switch to Cantonese language at 1200, 24322, possible heterodyne from ARDS, Australia. We heard the same station last year on 9820, but we never have noted it on

5050. (Mezin and Kulinchenko, Herkimer in Dxplorer and Valko)

6090, China Business R, Geermu, 1040-1100, Nov 11 and 13, talks in Chinese with multi-lingo IDs at 1044 including one in English. No sign of Caribbean Beacon. (D’Angelo/FCDX and Bolland)

6200, Xizang PBS, Lhasa, 1117, Nov 11, talk //4905 which was just a tad stronger and clearer. (Valko)

9820, China Business R, Xi’an, 1025-1045, Nov 12, mostly talking in Chinese and some pop Chinese songs, 1027 usual ID: "China Business Radio. Your Radio", poor to brief period of fair //

6155 (fair). By 1045 CBR had dropped down and I was instead hearing Guangxi Foreign BC Station, clearly //5050, in Vietnamese, playing traditional Chinese music, signal continued to improve by 1055 and could not detect CBR under Guangxi at all. Suggest that we need a positive ID here or a clear parallel to be sure of what we are hearing. (Howard)

(Source: DX Window # 312/Anker Petersen)