Time for some great logs to begin a new week. Thanks to all the contributors. Contributions are always welcomed to my above email address.
Gayle VH
ARGENTINA. 15343.8, Radio Nacional, 2221-2248 June 2, interview in Spanish, Beatles singing "Ruby Tuesday", BoH 2+1 pips, "Nacional" IDs, Bosa Nova music. Fair-good reception, no QRM. (Ron Howard-CA)
ASCENSION ISLAND (broadcasting to Liberia). 9525, STAR Radio,
0727-0731 June 2, "STAR Radio with music of our land, coming to you from Monrovia, Liberia", enjoyable selections of Liberian music and singing. (Ron Howard-CA)
ASCENSION ISLAND (broadcasting to Sierra Leone). 9525, Cotton Tree News (CTN) via Ascension, 0731-0800* June 2, back again with their full programming; starts with drums, in English (news items about Fourah Bay College and its' "180 year tradition", a United Nations
workshop, etc.), difficult to understand accent, IDs "This news comes to you from CTN, Freetown", repeat of news in their local languages, new sign-off announcement, something like: You have been listening to the news from CTN in English, Krio, Limba, Mende and Temne, on 9525 kHz short wave everyday. No QRM from Voice of Indonesia, as they were heard today up on 11785 at 1001. (Ron Howard-CA)
BOLIVIA. 6134.8, Radio Santa Cruz, 0240-0313*, June 1, Spanish talk, ads, jingles. ID at sign off. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
BRAZIL. 6089.95, Radio Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo, 0020-0100, June 1, Heard with Anguilla off the air with Portuguese talk, short
music breaks. Possible radio-drama. // 9645.22 - both frequencies very weak. Poor in nomal summer static. (Brian Alexander, PA)
CHINA. 10300 Firedrake/music jamming, 0950 June 2, good, // 18180 fair. Probably the 24 hour type firedrake, as both still heard at
1545. (Ron Howard-CA)
CLANDESTINE. 9485, Shiokaze - Sea Breeze via Taiwan, *1300-1305,June 2 (Sat.), piano IS, in English, "This is Shiokaze Sea Breeze, from Tokyo, Japan", YL with details about the abductees, poor with jamming noise & QRM 9480. (Ron Howard-CA)
CLANDESTINE
9485 Shiokaze Two, 1300-1315, May 27, Korean?, instrumental music, announcement by male, music and short talks by male, 24332 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina)
CUBA. 15190, Radio Havana Cuba. 1310-1320 June 2, with Spanish programming, first time I have noted them here, fair. (Ron Howard-CA)
EGYPT. 12270.03, Radio Cairo, 0105-0200*, June 1, Very weak 2nd harmonic. 2 x 6135.015. Spanish talk. Arabic music. Poor distorted audio. (Brian Alexander, PA)
GUINEA. 7125, RTV Guineenne, Conakry, 0705-0730, June 1, local African music. French announcements. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
INDONESIA. 9680, RRI Jakarta, 1000-1020 June 3 (Sun.), Kang Guru Radio English program, competition to identify a mystery sound, repeat of the interview Kevin did with young Indonesian actor (Nicholas Saputra), song by Aussie singer Stephanie McIntosh and also "The Others" sung by the Dukes of Windsor, gives the KGRE address to write in for their free magazine (P.O. Box 3095, Denpasar 80030, Bali), fair-good reception. (Ron Howard-CA)
LIBERIA. 9525 Star Radio 0705 mostly talks in a local language. Some hilife song at 0718+ with short ID by speaker Poor signal 24422.
At 0732 start of CTN with news after 0733 Abt 0747 with mentioning on education , still in a local lang . Boy in a VN lang at0750 mentioning nalulu . Again education mentioned on 0757. `You've listened to news ..' in English on 0759 signal nearly the same as in Star radio (Zacharias Liangas June 2 Retziki THS Greece)
MALAYSIA. 6049.65, RTM-Asyik FM, returned again after being off the air for several weeks. First noted again on May 30, heard through June 2 around 1130-1230, mostly with on-air phone calls, singing ID
jingles. Very nice to have them back again. Heard with the usual het. While they were off I tuned in to try to determine what causes this het, but could only detect a very faint carrier on 6050.0 but too weak to tell anything about it. (Ron Howard-CA)
MEXICO. 9599.26, Radio UNAM? 0935-1000, June 1, Tentative. Reactivated? Classical piano music. Opera music. Spanish announcements
at 1000. Very weak. (Brian Alexander, PA)
NIGERIA. 6089.84, Radio Nigeria, Kaduna, 2230-2300*, May 31, Heard with Anguilla off the air. Vernacular talk, traditional African
music, drums, chants. Sign off with short National Anthem. Weak. Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
RUSSIA. 7320, Radio Rossii via Magadan, 0926-1004 June 2, OM in Russian playing opera and classical music, 0959 sound of rooster, jazz ("Take Five") and R. Rossii IDs, ToH 5+1 pips, noted strong warble/pulsating noise/audio here. Parallel to: 5920 (fair-good, no warble) via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, 5940 (fair-good, no warble) via Magadan and 7200 (poor with warble) via Yakutsk. Thanks to Noel Green (UK) for his kind assistance with this log. (Ron Howard-CA)
TAIWAN. 7325, Radio France International., 1021-1030* June 3, in Chinese with pop song, off in mid-song, fair. Looking for Wantok Radio Light after sign-off but no station heard here. (Ron Howard-CA)
Gayle VH
ARGENTINA. 15343.8, Radio Nacional, 2221-2248 June 2, interview in Spanish, Beatles singing "Ruby Tuesday", BoH 2+1 pips, "Nacional" IDs, Bosa Nova music. Fair-good reception, no QRM. (Ron Howard-CA)
ASCENSION ISLAND (broadcasting to Liberia). 9525, STAR Radio,
0727-0731 June 2, "STAR Radio with music of our land, coming to you from Monrovia, Liberia", enjoyable selections of Liberian music and singing. (Ron Howard-CA)
ASCENSION ISLAND (broadcasting to Sierra Leone). 9525, Cotton Tree News (CTN) via Ascension, 0731-0800* June 2, back again with their full programming; starts with drums, in English (news items about Fourah Bay College and its' "180 year tradition", a United Nations
workshop, etc.), difficult to understand accent, IDs "This news comes to you from CTN, Freetown", repeat of news in their local languages, new sign-off announcement, something like: You have been listening to the news from CTN in English, Krio, Limba, Mende and Temne, on 9525 kHz short wave everyday. No QRM from Voice of Indonesia, as they were heard today up on 11785 at 1001. (Ron Howard-CA)
BOLIVIA. 6134.8, Radio Santa Cruz, 0240-0313*, June 1, Spanish talk, ads, jingles. ID at sign off. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
BRAZIL. 6089.95, Radio Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo, 0020-0100, June 1, Heard with Anguilla off the air with Portuguese talk, short
music breaks. Possible radio-drama. // 9645.22 - both frequencies very weak. Poor in nomal summer static. (Brian Alexander, PA)
CHINA. 10300 Firedrake/music jamming, 0950 June 2, good, // 18180 fair. Probably the 24 hour type firedrake, as both still heard at
1545. (Ron Howard-CA)
CLANDESTINE. 9485, Shiokaze - Sea Breeze via Taiwan, *1300-1305,June 2 (Sat.), piano IS, in English, "This is Shiokaze Sea Breeze, from Tokyo, Japan", YL with details about the abductees, poor with jamming noise & QRM 9480. (Ron Howard-CA)
CLANDESTINE
9485 Shiokaze Two, 1300-1315, May 27, Korean?, instrumental music, announcement by male, music and short talks by male, 24332 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina)
CUBA. 15190, Radio Havana Cuba. 1310-1320 June 2, with Spanish programming, first time I have noted them here, fair. (Ron Howard-CA)
EGYPT. 12270.03, Radio Cairo, 0105-0200*, June 1, Very weak 2nd harmonic. 2 x 6135.015. Spanish talk. Arabic music. Poor distorted audio. (Brian Alexander, PA)
GUINEA. 7125, RTV Guineenne, Conakry, 0705-0730, June 1, local African music. French announcements. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
INDONESIA. 9680, RRI Jakarta, 1000-1020 June 3 (Sun.), Kang Guru Radio English program, competition to identify a mystery sound, repeat of the interview Kevin did with young Indonesian actor (Nicholas Saputra), song by Aussie singer Stephanie McIntosh and also "The Others" sung by the Dukes of Windsor, gives the KGRE address to write in for their free magazine (P.O. Box 3095, Denpasar 80030, Bali), fair-good reception. (Ron Howard-CA)
LIBERIA. 9525 Star Radio 0705 mostly talks in a local language. Some hilife song at 0718+ with short ID by speaker Poor signal 24422.
At 0732 start of CTN with news after 0733 Abt 0747 with mentioning on education , still in a local lang . Boy in a VN lang at0750 mentioning nalulu . Again education mentioned on 0757. `You've listened to news ..' in English on 0759 signal nearly the same as in Star radio (Zacharias Liangas June 2 Retziki THS Greece)
MALAYSIA. 6049.65, RTM-Asyik FM, returned again after being off the air for several weeks. First noted again on May 30, heard through June 2 around 1130-1230, mostly with on-air phone calls, singing ID
jingles. Very nice to have them back again. Heard with the usual het. While they were off I tuned in to try to determine what causes this het, but could only detect a very faint carrier on 6050.0 but too weak to tell anything about it. (Ron Howard-CA)
MEXICO. 9599.26, Radio UNAM? 0935-1000, June 1, Tentative. Reactivated? Classical piano music. Opera music. Spanish announcements
at 1000. Very weak. (Brian Alexander, PA)
NIGERIA. 6089.84, Radio Nigeria, Kaduna, 2230-2300*, May 31, Heard with Anguilla off the air. Vernacular talk, traditional African
music, drums, chants. Sign off with short National Anthem. Weak. Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
RUSSIA. 7320, Radio Rossii via Magadan, 0926-1004 June 2, OM in Russian playing opera and classical music, 0959 sound of rooster, jazz ("Take Five") and R. Rossii IDs, ToH 5+1 pips, noted strong warble/pulsating noise/audio here. Parallel to: 5920 (fair-good, no warble) via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, 5940 (fair-good, no warble) via Magadan and 7200 (poor with warble) via Yakutsk. Thanks to Noel Green (UK) for his kind assistance with this log. (Ron Howard-CA)
TAIWAN. 7325, Radio France International., 1021-1030* June 3, in Chinese with pop song, off in mid-song, fair. Looking for Wantok Radio Light after sign-off but no station heard here. (Ron Howard-CA)