Saturday, September 15, 2007

Blog Logs



All times UTC // frequencies kHz - parallel frequency

Antarctica
15476 LRA-36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel (tent.) 2056-2103* Could only hear individual announcements by lady announcer, then male and ending with a song. ending with song. No chance to copy. Just too weak. Seemed to stay on for a couple minutes before the plug was pulled around 2303:30. (Valko, PA 3 Sept.)

Ascension Island
BBCWS Relay 7160 0459 English SIO 333 Sept 7 OM with ID at 0459 and then into a newscast at 0500. (MacKenzie-CA).

Bolivia
4690.2 Radio San Miguel (presumed) 1003-1025 Apparent news program with actualities, some quite long but all at a lower level than the announcers mic level. Seemed like a remote broadcast after 1018. Male announcer sounded like the one I heard in the past. Faded pretty quickly after 1025. Audio has the 'feel' of a spur, and thought this might be a Rebelde spur at first. (Valko, PA 3 Sept.)

Bolivia
6134.798, Radio Santa Cruz, 1002-1015 Just faded in out of the "blue", ith a male in Spanish comments. At 1005, typical folkloric music presented. At 1007 ID given over music. At 1008 a second male comments which sounds like a political discourse. The music changes at that time to what sounds like a "protest" song. What's goiing on? At 1019 canned ID as, "... Radio Santa Cruz". By 1018 this signal has improved to armchair quality. Signal is fair to good to armchair.(Chuck Bolland, September 9, 2007)

Brazil
6105, Radio Cultura,(Pres), 1011-1026 In with a male in Portuguese language religious comments. This is steady and at a good level, covering any other signals on the frequency. This is definitely a Brazilian, but which one is the problem? Both Radio Cultura and Filadelfia are listed on this freq. Signal starting to fade by 1021.(Chuck Bolland, FL September 9, 2007)

Canada
Radio Japan Relay-NHK 6110 0510 English 333 Sept 7 Female/male with program announcements //15195 SIO 333]via Japan. (MacKenzie-CA).

Chile
CVC 15410 2325 Spanish 444 Sept 5 Classical music to 2329. Then an ID and more classical music-Flight of the Bumble Bee and at 2337 Piano classical music. (MacKenzie-CA).

Ecuador
HCJB 9745 0437 Spanish SIO 444 Sept 7 Male announcer with program comments with music in the background. (MacKenzie-CA).

Guam
Adventist World Radio-AWR 15320 2333 Vietnamese 444 Sept 5 Two OMs telling a story followed by comments at 2346. //11980 [SIO 333]via Guam. (MacKenzie-CA).

Honduras
3339.96 Radio Misiones Internacional. 1008- Lively SP Religious music. 1015 lady announcer in slight echo, and back to music. 1032 canned male announcer very briefly with station ID finally, then back to music of lively Latin American, srong signal but extremely weak modulation. Makes it tough to ID. Still on the air while Hurricane Felix was making landfall. (Valko, PA Sept.)

Indonesia
9680, RRI Jakarta, 0950-1055, Sept 15, back on the air for Ramadan. Were they saving their transmitter for Ramadan or have they been doing repairs/maintenance for the past nine weeks? Heard in Basha Indonesia, pop song and ballad, choral anthem, top of the hour into Ramadan program, brief Islamic music, two OM in long conversation about Ramadan and Islam, Jakarta phone numbers given to call or send "SMS" text, on-air phone conversations, reciting from the Qu'ran. Poor to fair till top of the hour due to QRM from CNR-1 (1000*) on 9675. From 1000-1055 was fair-good, then covered by *1055 of CNR-1 (jamming CBS Taiwan). Unfortunately during Ramadan the Kang Guru Radio English (KGRE) program here on Wed. & Sun. (1000-1020) is usually preempted. (Ron Howard-CA)

Indonesia
4869.93 RRI-Wamena 1135-1145 With a weak signal, noted steady pop music being broadcast. (Chuck Bolland, September 15, 2007)

Indonesia
11785, Voice of Indonesia,1559-1617, Sept 9, after a strong WHRI signed off at 1559, heard usual recorded loop of music and ID ("From Jakarta, you are listening to the Voice of Indonesia"), fair,into programming in Arabic (reciting from Qur'an, etc.) // 9524.96 (strong).(Ron Howard-CA)

Malaysia
7295 Traxx FM 1055 "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel", and into another Dance song. Nice English ID jingle at 1100, one short and one long time tick, then female with news. Not as strong as yesterday and it seemed disturbed as well. (Valko 2 Sept.)

Myanmar
5040.59, Myanmar Broadcasting System, 1104-1115, With a thshold signal, noting steady music here. Believe I can hear a woman n comments also. As mentioned, the signal is threshold. (Chuck Bolland,FL September 8, 2007)

Peru
6019.49 Radio Victoria 0717-0900 Usual religoius programming with male/female announcers. Lady preaching was on the verge of tears!! Instrumental music at 0724 and male announcer with time check and mentions of Frontera. Then different male with mention of Christiana and internacional. 0725 time check and canned program promo by male over music ending with address in Bolivia. Religoius program continued after 0730 with same male/female announcers. 0753 exact same promo as heard earlier at 0725. Religoius program continued. 0814-0816 deadair, then choral music, and program continued. Big broadcaster signed on on 6020 at 0859 wiping out the signal. Fair strength but some slop QRM. //weaker 9720. Interesting that Brian Alexander and I heard this independently of each other at the same time. (Valko, PA 2 Sept.)

Russia
Voice of Russia-VOR 9435 0445 English SIO 333 Sept 7 OM with comments about Grandfathers plus some folk music. Female announcer with comments on a book club. //
13775 [333]. (MacKenzie-CA).

Saipan
Radio Free Asia-RFA 15585 2318 Chinese SIO 333 Sept 5 YL with comments plus an OM.Some QRM via KTBN-Utah in English. //15485 [433] and 15430 [444]. (MacKenzie-CA).

USA
Radio Taiwan Relay 5950 0518 Chinese SIO 444 Sept 7 Two YLs with comments.
(MacKenzie-CA).

Zanzibar
11735 Radio Tanzania Zanzibar 2051- Arabic music at tune-in, 2054 male anncr in Swahili with brief announcement. Musical bridge to nice clear ID then talk by different male in Arabic and Swahili. Studio male announcer returned at 2058 with announcement including another ID. 2059 short instrumental to national anthem and off at 2100. Good signal. (Valko, PA 2 Sept.)