All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on sign-off*Australia
6080, Radio Australia. 1436-1440. Program about the actor Peter Finch, fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
Bhutan
6035, BBS. Continues to loss audio during their English segment. At 1411 heard "That was the news from BBS", their usual EZL musical selection, weather forecast: rain tomorrow and cloudy, gives the national temperature, rechecked at 1433 to find only the BBS open carrier; Sept 3, audio stopped at 1421 (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
6035, BBS, 1406-1425. News in English, usual ID "You are listening to the news from the Bhutan Broadcasting Service",announcements, into long talk, Fri. scheduled for talk on Buddhism, poor (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
Bolivia
4555, Radio Virgen de Remedios(tent.), Tupiza. Spanish 2241-2250 relaying “Bolivia en Contacto”,2248 “la reforma agraria”. From 2250 amateur radio interference, so until this time SINPO 23433. Checked later at 2316, was a religious ceremony (Luico Otavio, Brazil/Cumbre DX)
China
Coverage of the closing ceremony of the Beijing Paralympic Games.
CNR-1 live coverage Sept 17, in Chinese, with speeches in English heard in the background, Paralympic Games Anthem played, checked for parallel CNR-1 stations at 1211 tune-in, found all of these in parallel: 4460 (Beijing, good), 4800 (Beijing, fair-poor), 4820 (Tibet, fair. This was not // to other Tibet frequencies. After 1330 was not //), 5030 (Beijing, good), 7105 (Xian/Xianyang, weak), 7110 hijiazhuang/Huikou, fair), 7230 (Xian/Xianyang, fair), 9500 (Shijiazhuang/Huikou, fair), 9630 (Lingshi, weak), 9810 (Nanning,good). Unable to hear 4750, as covered by a strong RRI on 4749.93. Parallel coverage of most of these stations randomly noted till 1523 tune-out.
6060, Sichuan PBS-2, 1211-1515*, Sept 17, relay of CNR-1 with the usual 5 second delay, // 7225 and 9740. Fair reception the whole time.
7225, Sichuan PBS-2, 1211-1516*, Sept 17, relay of CNR-1 with the usual 5 second delay, // 6060 and 9740. After 1500 good reception, after a strong VOA signed-off. Ran one minute past 6060 sign-off.
9740, Sichuan PBS-1, 1211-1523, Sept 17, relay of CNR-1, // 6060 and 7225. Poor reception the whole time under BBC.
Stations with their regular programming (no relay of CNR-1, no coverage of closing ceremony):
3280 Shanghai PBS/Voice of Pujiang (//4950 and 9705)
4830 CHBC
4900 Voice of Strait
4940 Voice of Strait
4905 Tibet (// 4920 [AIR QRM] and 6200). They have fixed the terrible
audio I heard Sept 6.
5050 Voice of Strait
5050 Guangxi FBS (// 9820)
6065 CNR-2/CBR (// 6155, etc.)
(Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
3900, PBS Hulun Buir, Hailar. Chinese 0942-0950 slow-soft Chinese style with female choir at mid-song, Announcer duo talks. From 0947 amateur radio overlapped Hulun Buir, but this was the stronger signal heard this year on 3900, some 3905 Papua QRM 33433 (Lucio Otavio, Brazil/Cumbre DX)
India
4775, All India Radfio-Imphal, 1347-1400. Vernacular service to subcontinent music, fair (light CODAR QRM). For over a month this has been noticeably off the air. Heard Sept 16 testing their transmitter, with just an open carrier. Today was the first day they are back with programming (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
Indonesia
4749.94, RRI Makassar, 1456-1459*. Bahasa Indonesian. Pop song, fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
9680, RRI Jakarta, 1427-1451,. Good signal, in Bahasa Indonesian. Ramadan programming, mentions "RRI Jakarta, the Voice of Islam".Assume reference to VOI program that is carried on many Indonesian stations http://voi.gaulislam.com/voice-of-islam/. Unusual reception, in that Firedrake normally dominated over RRI at this time period (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
Voice of Indonesia 11784.83v, 1440-1502*. Malay and English. Pop songs and ballads, continues to say the English program will follow and to stay tuned, today even started the English segment by telling what was to be on the program, off in mid-sentence, good reception (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
Malaysia
7295, Traxx FM via RTM, 1503-1516. "The News Roundup at 11 PM from the RTM News Center at Kuala Lumpur", singing Traxx FM jingle. Pop songs, almost fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
Mexico
4800, XERTA, México City. 0921 Spanish romantic music,0922-0929.Instrumnetal pop rock music selections to instrumnetal piano music until 0934.(Lucio Otavio, Brazil/Cumbre DX)
Myanmar
9730.76v, Myanma Radio. 1422-1436. Minorities and Educational Service, English language lesson, read and explained a series of sentences, followed by over 27 questions and answers about the sentences just read, poor, usually has better reception. Sept 16 noted 1509* (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
New Zealand
6170, Radio NZ Int'l, 1441-1451. English and vernacular, various music, good reception (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach,CA, Etón E1)
Peru
4825, Radio Sicuani, Sicuani. Spanish/Quecha. 0915-0926 OM talks dominant in Quecha, alternating maybe local pop music. Weak, from 0922 quick decay SINPO 23432 (Lucio Otavio, Brazil/Cumbre DX)
3329.6 Radio Ondas del Huallaga Nonstop Peruvian camposina mx from 1006 tune-in. Then 1015 full canned ID announcement over music. Canned announcement by same male and into band Peruvian national abthem 1016-1018. 1019 nice short ID by woman announcer and into more music. Still going at 1033 check with dead air after song. Canned ad block about 45 seconds later. Fair but CHUQRM. Would be easy and 100% copy w/out CHU. Freq drifted down 40 hz. (Dave Valko, PA/Cumbre DX)
5039.2 Radio Libertad de Junin Peruvian campo music start at 1024. 1028 national anthem and M announcers voice-over echo anmnts ending with ID. Announcer shouting briefly with mentions of Junin, then more pleasant Peruvian harp campo music. Live male announcer during check at 1039 with mentions of Junin, musica, and ID,then back to tinkly harp music at 1040. 1042 live male announcer with time check. Mentions of amigos and Peruana. Clear but not really strong. (Dave Valko, PA/Cumbre DX)
Solomon Islands
5019.86, SIBC (presumed), 1329-1354, Poor reception, struggling around threshold level, but can say it was clearly in English and sounded like British accents, so assume relay of BBC. In the recent past when I checked here I only found an open carrier with no audio, so today was a big improvement. As we get more into the DX season this should become more readable, just as Bhutan/BBS hasimproved recently. (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
5019.86, SIBC, 1327-1350. Poor reception,CW/Morse Code QRM, slightly above threshold level, with BBC relay in English. Announcers' conversation, 1329 BBC theme music, clear BBC ID,news headlines (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)