Today's shortwave Blog Logs, represent logs from, Brian Alexander, Tom Banks, Peter Ng, GJoe Wood and Stewart Mac Kenzie. Contributions are always welcome for the magazine or blog, and may be directed to my above email address. Your kind words and support have made Shortwave Central, Milcom Monitoring Post and Btown Monitoring Post the most widely read radio blogs on the web. Thank you blog readers!
Frequencies in kHz, all times UTC. Logs English unless otherwise stated // parallel frequencies. * sign-on - sign-off *
Ascension Island
Radio Japan/NHK relay. 9655, 2215. Japanese service. SIO 333. Program comments past 2250, // 17825 (SIO 444) via Japan, 13680 (SIO 333) via Japan and // 11910 (SIO 433) via Japan. (S MacKenzie, CA)
Brazil
Radio Clube do Para 4885, 0434. Portuguese text by male announcer‛s echo effect. Upbeat Brazilian music during fair aignL. (J. Wood, TN).
China
China Radio International 9815, 2225. Chinese text to choir music and lady announcer‛s comments. Anthem at 2230 to return of Chinese programming. (S MacKenzie, CA)
Ecuador
Radio Chaskis 4909.19, 1004-1015. Spanish program announcements to lively Ecuadorian music. Station identification at 1007. Poor to fair signal. (B Alexander, PA)
Eritrea
Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea 7100, *0353-0410. Asmara program to sign-on with interval signal to talk in unidentified language at 0359. Weak signal throughout. (B Alexander, PA)
Ethiopia
Radio Fana, Addis Ababa, *0257-0325. Interval signal to opening announcements at 0302 with station ID and into Horn of Africa style music. Station now noted on three frequencies. Good signal but notes adjacent channel splatter // 7210 weak and under BBC // 6109.9 weak under Trans World Radio. (B Alexander, PA)
Ethiopia
Voice of Tigrey Rewvolution 5980, *0356-0420. Sign on with interval signal. Talk in unidentified language at 0358. African music but mostly announcer talk. Fair signal // 6185 very weak under Vatican Radio. (B Alexander, PA)
Gabon
Radio Gabon 4777, *0543-0600. Sign-on with brief fanfare and opening French announcements with station ID. Possible news headslines to Afro pop music at 545. Fair signal. (B Alexander, PA) Afrique Numero Un 9580, 2210. SIO 333. Announcers news comments. (S MacKenzie, CA)
Guatemala
Radio Verdad 4052.5, 0415. Spanish text with station ID. Religious inspirational talk over organ music. Fair signal. (J Wood, TN)
Honduras
HRMI via Teguigalpa 3340, 0406. Spanish. Christian music to canned station ID at 0412 amid fair signal. (J Wood, TN) HRMI 3339, 0935-0950. Spanish pop music to ballads and religious tunes. "Radio MI" ID at 0937 and 0948 amid fair signal quality. (B Alexander, PA)
Japan
BBC World relay 11945, 2253. Chinese/English programming. "BBC World Service" identification at 2300 followed by world news. (S MacKenzie, CA)
Malaysia
Traxx FM 7295, 0300. Announcers world news segment to station identification. Malay pop music program . Excellent signal here in southern Malaysia. (P. Ng, Malaysia)
Rwanda
Deutsche Welle relay 9775, 2320. German service including news, text and DW program segments. SIO 444. (S MacKenzie, CA)
Singapore
Mediacorp 7235, 0314. Malaysian music request music program. SIO 454. (P. Ng, Malaysia)
South Africa
Radio Sondergrense via Meyerton 3320, 0340.6. Afrikaans. Male/female chat with nondescript pop music but including some English ones. Good. (J Wood, TN)
Syria
Radio Damascus 12085, 2305. Spanish. Text and music during fading and poor signal. (S MacKenzie, CA).
Taiwan
Radio Taiwan International 11635, 2235. RTI identifications and segment on Tiwanese customs. SIO 433. (Tom Banks, TX)
Tanzania
Radio Tanzania-Zanzibar 11735, 1800-1810. English news to ID "Spice FM>" Back to Swahili text and local music at 1810. (B Alexander, PA)
Photo - Ascension Island flyover/World QSL Book