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Saturday, March 10, 2007

More shortwave observations via Indonesia

INDONESIA
RRI-Sorong with talks in Indonesian and English by male/female and English pop songs heard from 2135 to 2158 UTC, next the common interval signal of RRI and ID at 2200 UTC and fade out in the nx. [4874.6 ? wb.]
Voice of Indonesia with strong signal in Spaish on 11785 kHz, but no traces at 2000 UTC. for English program on 23 February. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 26)
4749.96 RRI-Makassar at 1345-1402* UTC on Feb 24. Some sort of high drama with emotional dialogue; a female announcer intervened w/commentary from 1348-57 UTC, then back to the drama; suddenly went off in mid-shout at 1402. Good signal. After RRI left the air, noted a couple of stations in the vicinity of 4750 kHz but too weak to read anything. (John Wilkins, CO USA, DXplorer Feb 25)
4604.95 RRI-Serui on Feb 26 at 1319-1329 UT. 35433 Indonesian, Jakarta news relay to ID at 1323, Talk. (Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Mar 2)
4789.99 RRI-Fak Fak on Feb 26 at 1334-1400* UT. 44444 Indonesian, Music and talk, 1357 Love Ambon, 1358 Cloosing announce, 1400 sign off. (Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Mar 2)
9526 Voice of Indonesia, at 0853-0901 on March 4, English segment, pop song, "News in brief", ID's, fair.
9680 RRI-Jakarta, at 1005-1025 on March 4, KGRE program in English with Kevin, Cheryl and the KGRE science adviser, Fiona, talking about Steve Irwin, with a song about him ("He Changed Our World"), story about an orangutan being returned from Australia to Sumatra, mostly fair, light QRM/WYFR.(Ron Howard-CA-USA, DXplorer Mar 4)
v11784.918 Voice of Indonesia with a little bit Hertz higher today, Noted with fair signal from around 1500 UT, when I switched in. RRI-Jakarta at same time on 11860.008, but QRM by RAI Rome 1530-1625 UT co-channel. Today Feb 27th at 1545 UTC RRI-Jakarta on 11860.007, and VoINS 11784.866 kHz. But somewhat weaker signal today, compared to previous days. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 26/27)
Poor signal of Voice of Indonesia at 1515 UT on 11784.923/865/864.5 kHz. RRI Jakarta on 11860.007/.006 kHz. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX Mar 2/3/4)
(Source: WWDXC Top News (BC-DX # 797 via Wolfgang Bueschel)