Monday, November 13, 2023

New monitoring observations from Canada

 


Listening at my DXing site outside of the city, with a CommRadio CR-1a and a Wellbrook ALA-1530LN loop

All times UTC

25695USB U.S. PIRATE Mix Radio International at 2120 Nov. 11, with oldies pop music, including Love Is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar and at 2130 I Wish It Would Rain Down by Phil Collins. Good. A sudden dip in strength at 2145 and continued to fade into the nois.e. - Thanks to tip by Walt Salmaniw's tip.

9800 GERMANY Adventist World Radio at 2154, Nov. 11, Twi language listed, male singers in African language to 2158 announcements by woman, ID for AWR. Poor.

9610 TURKEY Voice of Turkey at 2206, Nov. 11, in English, speaker into Turkish music. Poor.

5960 TURKEY Voice of Turkey at 2302, Nov. 11, in English, man with news. Poor.

11825 PHILIPPINES BBC at 2304, Nov. 11, in English, woman with World News. Good.

5995 MALI Radio Mali at 2336, Nov. 11, with African hi-life style music, occasional male or female announcers in French to suddenly off at 0002. Poor-fair.

9410 UZBEKISTAN BBC World Service at 1316, Nov. 13, in English with a report on the Israel-Gaza war. Poor.

13635 TURKEY Voice of Turkey at 1333, Nov. 13, in English, woman with news. Poor.

12095 UAE (DUBAI) Radio Prague at 1500, Nov. 13, signing on in Russian with ID, woman with news. Good.

9840 VIETNAM Voice of Vietnam at 1503, Nov. 13, in English, man with news. Poor.

9410 OMAN BBC World Service at 1504, Nov. 13, in English, woman with news. Very poor with QRM.

11710 KOREA, D.P.R. Voice of Korea at 1516, Nov. 13, in English, woman with political talk, criticizing the US and UN. Fair, //9435 fair.

11880 ESWATINI Trans World Radio at 1524, Nov. 13, in Somali (listed), man preaching to 1527, song briefly then man with contact info and website twr.org. Fair.

15550 MADAGASCAR Radio Tamazuj at 1544, Nov. 13, in Sudanese Arabic, man with mention of Radio Tamazuj and frequent mentions of Sudan. Very good.

9400 BULGARIA Overcomer Ministry at 1601 in English with contact info, into Bible reading. Fair.

21630 ASCENSION BBC at 1604, Nov. 13, in English, woman with news to 1606, ID. Fair, //17640 Oman was poor, 7445 Madagascar was also poor.

11885 VIETNAM Voice of Vietnam at 1607, Nov. 13, in English, man and woman with news. Good.

11850 UAE (DUBAI) Voice of America, Nov. 13, 1628 music began, 1630 drums and welcome to Voice of America, into news about and for Sudan, in English, scheduled 1630-1700. Fair.

13830 MADAGASCAR Vatican Radio at 1635, Nov. 13, in English, man with news, 1638 woman announcing “the church alive in Africa today”, followed by man talking about the Catholic Church. Fair, //15565 from Vatican was good with some dual path echo.

11660 ESWATINI Trans World Radio at 1648, Nov. 13, in listed Borana Oromo language for Mondays, male speaker, indigenous song, preacher, mentions of “Christos”. Good.
(Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada)