Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Blog Logs


Todays round of shortwave logs are from the fine folks of MARE, who love to DX all hours of the day and night! Best of DX!
Gayle VH

ALGERIA:
6300 Radio Nacional Saharaui (Rabouni). 2342-2400*. 6/16. Arabic. OM with impassioned talk with mx backgrounds followed by ethnic instrumental mx. Several IDs. Into orchestral mx (NA?) and off at 2400. Fair. (Wood, TN)

ANGUILLA:
11775 University Network via Caribbean Beacon. 1707. 6/16. Mrs. The late Dr. Scott calling for donations and balancing the budget of her organization. VG (Wood, TN)

AUSTRALIA:
15240 Radio Australia (Shepperton). 0341-0346. 6/17. EE OM with enlightening listener call in show on the finer points of the regulations of Australian Rules football. Good (Wood, TN)

BELGIUM:
9970 RTBF (Wavre). 0434. 6/9. French. 2 YL announcers with commentary and pop music. Fair. (Wood, TN)

CANADA:
9815 Bible Voice; 0040 in Bengali. Good signal. English ID & Canadian address at 0045 s/off. 1st time BV heard. (LC 18 June) 13775 ORF Austria (Sackville). 1521-1531. 6/10. English. YL announcer talking about a museum in Vienna that had a pay per call telephone service dealing with adult oriented literature from the 18th Century. VG. (Wood, TN)

CZECH REPUBLIC:
9415 Radio Prague (Litomysl). 2230-2243. 6/?. English. OM with business news followed by Ian Willaby and items about Central Europe. Fair (Wood, TN)
11600 Radio Prague. 2155-2157*, 6/?. English. The tail end of Czech Book program with OM announcer, Ian Willaby. S/O announcements, address and interval signal. Signal very good. (Wood, TN)

GREAT BRITAIN:
12035 Voice of the (Zimbabwe) People; 1856-1859*, 12-June; M cmtry in EE re Zimbabwe/SW Africa; close w/native song. Presumed relay site. SIO=353. Hi/Low tones continued to 1900:10. (Frodge-MI)

HUNGARY:
6040 Radio Budapest; 0100 w/Spotlight, all about Hungarian scientists. No annc about impending closure but didn't expect one. Lousy reception, best in LSB. Good signal at 0230 on 6195 w/prgram report. (LC 18 June)

RUSSIA:
12070 Voice of Russia; 1904-1910+, 12-June; News to 1908 then feature on Russia Day commemorating the 12-June-1990 formation of the Russian Federation; VoRWS IDs. All in EE. SIO=353+ (Frodge-MI)

SEYCHELLES:
15420 BBC relay (Victoria, Mahe). 0346-0356. 6/17. English. YL/OM with discussions of the economics of world food demand & supply. Poor (Wood, TN)

UKRAINE:
7440 Radio Ukraine Int'l; 0010-0018+, 12-June; Ukraine Today, M&W news & cmtry in EE; ID @0011. SIO=4+34-, wind howl QRM--USB takes it out. (Frodge-MI)
(Source: Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts-Tip Sheet #450 via Harold Frodge)