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Sunday, December 02, 2007

BLog Logs


Austria
At same time span around 1330-1345 UT noted 3 x ECHOS today, ROIMoosbrunn 17855, and DWL via Moosbrunn in Pa/Da to AFG on 13855 kHz. AlsoRFI Russian on 15605 kHz noted with 3 echo's at 1400 UT, Thur .(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 29)

Bulgaria
6000 On Wed Nov 21, at 0910-0915 UT s/off Radio Varna Bulgaria noted with mx + ID on 6000 kHz mit O=2 [near Vienna Austria].(Herbert Meixner-AUT, A-DX Nov 22) Maybe Varna tx maintenance day ? wb.

China
4460, CNR-1, 1054-1105, Nov 23, Mandarin. OM and YL at tune- in. Pips/IDand CNR jingle music at 1100 followed by presumed news headlines andads/promos thru tune-out. Poor as was \\ 4800 kHz.(Scott R. Barbour-NH-USA, hcdx Nov 27)

Cuba
Re: Radio Havana Cuba. Noted RHC Spanish service as usual on 15370 kHz at 1300-1500 UT, fair level S=7-8, clear audio. No RHC on 15230.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 29)

Cyprus
7270 Additional new BBC WS in English noted at 1900-2000 UT viaCyprus site straight east, towards NE/ME/CeAS and SoAS. REE Noblejas inArabic to AF/NE noted underneath around 1915 UT.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 27

Equatorial Guinea
15190 Radio Africa in English, discussion on aids figuresnoted around 0920-0930 UT with S=5, scheduled 0700-1200 UT. Noted againafter a break in past weeks.(wb, Nov 29)

Finland
Family Radio is currently audible here with a good signal on 963 kHz viaPori, Finland. First reported yesterday by Peter Kruse in Germany. This MWtest is reportedly at 1900-2000 in English.(Dave Kenny-UK, BrDXC-UK Nov 22)

Germany
Very good reception here in Bulgaria for Europa Radio 700 in German:1000-1200 6005 (55544) on Saturday Nov.24. No txion on Sunday Nov 25 !(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX Nov 26)

Kazakhstan
7490 YFR in German via Almaty, very strong carrier S=9+30dB,but tiny low audio of only about 10% modulation level. 1800-1900 UT. From1900 UT similar via Samara-RUS 7240, see under Russia.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 27)

9310 1300-1400 41,49,54 A-A 200kW 132degr, Burmese?and I guess that the Family Radio transmission in listed Burmese at 1300-1400 and heard - just about - on 9310 kHz, will also be from one of theweak modulated transmitters. EiBi lists 200 132 Almaty-Nikolayevka.(Noel R. Green-UK, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 28)

Laos
6130 National Radio Vientiane observed s/on 2156 with sung anthem (pres.)and anncts incl. frequencies, off at 2322; at 0008 on again and observedto 0430 UT, then 0745-1530 s/off, but possibly continuous; local stn levelhere.(Gerhard Werdin-THA, touring in and around Chiang May in NoThailand, wwdxcBC-DX Nov 24)

Morocco
5860 Briech. VOA / PRW collision on 5850 kHz fixed! I'velistened to VOA Croatian on Nov. 22 at 1930-1945 UTC on a NEW frequency of5860 kHz with excellent reception. Finally they moved from 5850 kHz, whereVOA [via Morocco] had a collision with Polish R Warsaw [via Juelich,Germany].(Dragan Lekic-SER, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 24)

Palau
9965 Voice of Hope (T8BZ) verified with a full data "Voice ofHope World Network" card in 148 days from v/s Ben Chan, T88BC, EngineeringManager. He included a High Adventure sticker and some mint Palau postagestamps.(Rich D'Angelo-PA-USA, DXplorer Nov 24)

Saudi Arabia
I've also been hearing a station slightly off-channel 11855 mixing with WYFR. My bet is that it's Saudi Arabia - Jeddah - the second programme. It's too weak at 1300 for me to measure the frequency - and is QRMed later - but this transmitter always operated off frequency when on 25m. I doubt that Iranawila will be operating off frequency enough to cause a
heterodyne on a regular basis. (...) (Noel R Green-UK, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 24)

Yes, checked the Jeddah 11855 channel at present at 1100 UT Nov 24th. Tiny signal and audio under threshold as always, could only detect spoken conversation reception of Jeddah was much better southerly when touring in Spain !

Measured again 11854.90 kHz at 1100 UT. I guess also, that's Riyadh's 2nd programm on registered channel.

That's seems to be the daytime frequency in B-07. Jeddah on A-07 in October was always on 9675 kHz also on late mornings and noon. But heard nothing on 9580 and 9675 kHz today, the usual Jeddah channels.

Nearby heard the BUZZY Riyadh 500 kW beast on 11935 this morning 1050 UT, scheduled 0900-1200 UT. Noted FOUR carriers, when switched the E1 to SYNC SSB mode, at x.20, x.10, x.00, and -x.90 kHz. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 24)

South Africa
17580 NHK via Meyerton-AFS. From 1355 UT onwards opening procedure, two different tones occured, lower and higher tones heard, each 6 seconds apart. In peaks S=7 signal in Germany. At 13.59:33 UT NHK music box carillon started. Time pip at 14.00:06 UT, was 6 seconds delay. En ID, English news. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 29)

Swaziland
3240 TWR at 0325 UT on Nov 20, fair-good with religious talk in Ndau; into songs at 0327 UT. In the same time period the following African stations were at fair to very good levels:
3320 R. Sondergrense; 3396 R. Zimbabwe; 3355 BBC Meyerton; 4930 VOA Botswana.
(Jim Ronda-OK-USA, DXplorer Nov 25)
(Source: WWDX Top News/BC-DX #836 via W.B., Germany)