Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Blog Logs - Clandestine

All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on sign-off*

4880, SW Radio Africa, via Meyerton, 1715-1845. News, interview and talks in English, SINPO 33333. Utility QRM, but no trace of jamming. (Korinek in DXplorer, Mille and Sommer)

4885, Voice of Iranian Kurdistan, via Al-Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, 0242-0300. Kurdish announcement and songs, SINPO 33443 QRM R Clube do ParĂ¡. (Petersen)

5895, Radio Mada Internationale. Scheduled daily 0400-0430 and 1700-1730. The station supports the deposed president Marc Ravalomanana, but apparently not connected with the domestic station called Radio Mada that has been on the air since 1995. There are also broadcasts every three hours from 0300 on the website at http://www.radiovazogasy.com/ . The station is an initative of Tiako I Madagasikara (I Love Madagascar, TIM) which is a political party in Madagascar founded by a group of individuals on Jul 03, 2002 to support President Marc Ravalomanana, website: http://www.tim-sfv.ch/ . It is now the largest party in the National Assembly of Madagascar with 106 of 127 seats, after the parliamentary election held on September 23, 2007. (Berg and Sennitt in DXplorer).

6220, Al Quds TV (so far of unknown origin ) may be the same, as I found described in some old newsletters of "El Dial" published in the Dec 1991 issue: "Al-Quds R, now appears on 5910,
in parallel with 630 and 702 MW at 0600-1100 and 1300-1730. It is suspected that the transmitter is in Syria and confirming P.O. Box 5092, Damascus (Syria). Is operated by Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberartion of Palestine (PFLP) and was heard for the first time in July 88. They say that recently changed to 580 or 5990". Publiced in Jan 1992: "Confirms Al-Quds Radio in 5910, ann 5900 and 5990 in Arabic 0600-1100 and 1300-1700, with segments in the 0800 Hebrew, Russian and English at 0845 to 0915.". Publiced in Feb 1992: "Al-Quds R verified with QSL in 60 days and complete data from: P.O. Box 5092, Damascus, Syria". (Romero, Mar 19)

6300, National Radio of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic, Rabouni, 1900. Arabic talk, SINPO 35333. (Petersen in Dakar, Senegal). Also heard in Europe at 1725-2059. HasanĂ­a Arabic talks, IDs, annonced broadcasts on internet, local folk music, 45544. (Boc16, Mille and Romero)

6600, Voice of the People, Gimpo, South Korea, 1810-1813. Korean, SINPO 23332. (Mille)

7550, Open Radio North Korea, via Gavar, Armenia, 2110-2120. Korean ann, pop melodies, SINPO 24432. (Romero)

9490, Democratic Voice of Burma via Wertachtal verified an electronic report with a full data e-mail attachment in 121 days from Media Broadcast from v/s Michael Puetz. The reply noted, "Please send your answer and reception reports to QSL-Shortwave@media-broadcast.com. You can find the active MEDIA BROADCAST (DTK) schedule at www.media-broadcast.com/en/radio/kurzwelle.html ". (D’Angelo, Mar 22)

9830, Radio Dabanga, via Wertachtal, Germany, additional frequency since Mar 03 scheduled daily at 0430-0527 to the Darfur region of Sudan in parallel with 7315 and 13800. (Sennitt via Zacharias, Mar 04). Heard in Spain at 0525-0527, Mar 05, Arabic close down ann, ID: "Radio Dabanga" and interval signal, 35443. (Romero). But in Denmark not even a carrier was audible on 9830. (Petersen)

9880, Furusato no Kaze, via Darwin, Australia, *1430-1459.* Interval signal to Japanese talk, chimes in background with man speaking at 1452. Choral music at 1453, announcement and web address at 1455, fair. (Ronda)

9930, Xi Wang Zhi Sheng (= Sound of Hope), via Palau, 1327-1330. Chant-like music in Chinese, fair-poor. (Ronda)

15350, Radio Bilal, via Samara, Russia (p), 1700-1800, Su, Amharic, ex 9610. Broker TDP. (Gupta). Heard 1710-1730. Amharic talk in a very noisy band, 25132, blog http://ethio-bilal-radio.blogspot.com/ . (Petersen and Romero)

15650, Miraya FM, via Rimavska Sobota, *1500-1525. Group singing opening followed by time pips at 1501 (!), ID, opening ann and news in English. Arabic programming commenced at 1512. Poor to fair with plenty of noise. (D'Angelo)

17550, Voice of Tibet, via Madagascar, *1400-1427. News and commentary in Tibetan (presumed). Signal was good. (Bolland)
(DSWCI/DX Window # 373 via A Petersen)