The Cross Radio revises broadcast schedule

Special thanks to Ron Howard for keeping me updated on the revised operating schedule for The Cross Radio. After extended antenna problems, Galcom engineers have assisted the station in returning to the air. The Cross Radio is a ministry of Pacific Missionary Aviation, on the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. Station Manager, Sylvia Kalau advises listeners the station is currently operating for the following tentative schedule.

All times UTC/ broadcast daily, targeted to Asia

English
0000-0100 4755
0100-0200 4755
0200-0300 4755
0300-0400 4755
0400-0500 4755
0500-0600 4755
0600-0700 4755
0700-0800 4755
0800-0900 4755
0900-0930 4755
2130-2200 4755
2200-2300 4755
2300-0000 4755
(revision 2/8/2011 from former 24 hour schedule)

Reception reports are acccepted by email to pohnpei@pmapacific.org . Station address: Pacific Missionary Aviation, The Cross Radio, P.O. Box 517, Pohnpei FM 96941, Federated States of Micronesia.

Website: http://www.pmapacific.org/

Logging
4755.44, The Cross Radio clearly off the air Feb 7 during checks at 1318 + 1348 + 1403 + 1429 + 1443. Jim Young (CA) heard them last night (Feb 7 UT): "The Cross was in very early tonight, first heard audio nearly 30 minutes earlier at 0642! At 0713 they are strong! Measured frequency tonight is 4755.452". Will have to see what tomorrow brings. Am happy that I already have two nice verifications for this one!
(Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

Additional news on The Cross

Listener's contnue to log Micronesia's The Cross radio station from Pohnpei. Thanks to all of those that have sent me additional loggings and station information. The following was released today.
Gayle VH

Website: www.pmapacific.org/

Contact info:

PMA Guam

P.O. Box 96932

Hagatna, Guam

Email: info@pmapacific.org

Religious broadcaster, The Cross, from Pohnpei, on 4755, is now running 24-hrs, simulcasting the FM service on 88.5 Here in Melbourne, really good signals from as early as 0700, right through our night to fade-out at around 1935.

The shortwave facility has recently been reactivated and upgraded with the commissioning of a new antenna and feeder.

Looking at postings in hobby news groups worldwide, reception has been widely reported in the Americas in the span from around 0605 to 1300, even on the East Coast!

I'd be interested in knowing the overall span of reception at your location, especially in Europe and Asia.

Pohnpei is relatively close to northern Australia, sitting in the UTC+11 time zone, not far from Papua New Guinea.

Regards from Melbourne!

Bob Padula

logging
Micronesia
4755.45, PMA The Cross Radio (Pohnpei), 0710-0736, 2/2/2011, English. Apparent syndicated religious program with talk by a man. Request for donations at 0720 along with an unintelligible web site. Joined by a woman at 0721 with info about their ministry and request for funds. Contemporary religious vocal music 0724 to 0736 tune out. Weak signal with fading and increasing local noise made program content extremely difficult to understand. Heard on my PNG/South Pacific oriented wire. At the same time also heard weak audio on SIBC's 5019.9 carrier. (Jim Evans, TN)

Hi Gayle,
Thanks for getting the word out about the reactivation of the Cross Radio. Sent this log thru to Cumbre, but not posted there yet, so thought I would send this on to you directly. Nice that this station now makes it over to the east coast.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Ron Howard
California

4755.44, The Cross Radio. Randomly from 1313 to tune out at 1502, Feb 3. Non-stop contemporary Christian songs (soul, pop, ballads, etc.) in English. IDs (local time checks, frequencies [both FM and SW] and often given by young girls [Angel, Tanya, etc.]) IDs given near top and bottom-of-the hour, but seems their clock is off by 1-2 minutes.

www.mediafire.com/?yg19uuoi5nh92op contains audio of various IDs heard today (the best one is the last one). Reception much better than yesterday. Nice to see this making it over to the east coast. If only 1 KW, then the antenna they have been working on for some years now is really fabulous! (Ron Howard, CA)

The Cross Radio reported on shortwave again

Micronesia
4755.45, The Cross. Randomly from 1317 to tune out at 1644 UTC. Feb 2. Non-stop contemporary Christian songs in English, except for IDs also in English; poor to fair.

1330 – young girl: “Hi. My name is .. I listen to the Cross Radio”

1431 - young girl: "Hi. This is . . (gives name). The world is tuned
to ... the Cross Radio. You will like it"

1558 – young girl: “This is . . . on 88.5 FM”

1602 – man: “This is the Cross Radio. Please stay with us. We will be back in a minute” (open carrier for about a minute, then continued with their religious songs).
Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

4755.45, PMA "The Cross Radio", 1152-1325, Feb. 2. Programming consisted mostly of ballads, with occasional announcements by very professional sounding male announcer. I suspect this may have been a syndicated Christian music program. Caught their ID just before the top-of-the hour by a young sounding female, "You are listening to the Cross Radio." Despite freezing rain at the time, this is the strongest I have heard them, and I was surprised that they were still audible as late as 1325 UTC, although the peak in reception was around 1200. Thanks for the tip on the Kageyama BCL bulletin board: http://6103.teacup.com/akage/bbs/ SINPO 24222. (Maroti-NY)

My earlier post (Jan 31) New changes from the Pacific reported on shortwave covered the original news. Pleased to see Ron has heard this station as well.

Jan 31, 2011 post
A report by a Japanese listener in a newsgroup advised that the religious broadcaster "Cross Radio Pohnpei" is again being heard on shortwave, using 4755. and observed on Jan 29 from 0946 until signoff at 0934. Pohnpei is one of four States in the Pacific, part of the Federated States of Micronesia, administer by the USA. The broadcaster had commenced shortwave broadcasts some time ago but had not been heard until now.