All times UTC // parallel frequencuAudio clip from Radio Jordan
This morning I recorded this audioclip of Radio Jordan on 11810 KHz at 0700 UTC at: www.hb9gce.ch/Radio%20Jordan_20081208_065101_11810.mp3 (HB9GCE, Andy Stumpf Carl Andreas/playdx2003)
Bolivian logs
6155.26, Radio Fides, 1028-1035 With a male in Spanish comments briefly followed my typical music. Signal was poor to fair. (Chuck Bolland,FL December 7, 2008)
6134.82, Radio Santa Cruz, 1031-1040 Just talking here with a male and female in Spanish language comments. Noted an ID by the female. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, FL December 7, 2008)
China logs
3303 USB, Zhoushan Maritime Meteorological Radio, *1400-1412*, Dec 5, IS (Kenny G instrumental music - "Forever in Love"), woman in Chinese with assume the maritime weather conditions, poor/QRN. After hearing them on Sept 29 and 30, I never heard them again until today. Their current website is <>, where I find no schedule or reference to SW. The only reference to 3303 I can find is at their former website
4830, China Huayi BC, 1551-1600*, Dec 4, in Chinese with call-in program (answered calls with traditional greeting: "Ni Hao" [pronounced: Nee HaOW]), 5+1 pips, man starts talking and quickly signed off, fair, heard every day with decent signal, on from *1200.
9530, Firedrake, 1516, Dec 4, strong signal, // 6105 and 9000 (Ron (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
Five new audio bits
Delta Rado Dutch pirate 6310 KHz
Radio Euromust Dutch pirate 1655 KHz
Radio Marti 15330 KHz
Voice of Malaysia 15295 Khz
Caz Radio Netherlands 828 Khz
http://blog.libero.it/radioascolto/
(Francesco/HCDX)
France frequency update
Frequency change of Radio France International in Hausa from Dec. 8:
0600-0630 new freq 6135 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg, x6170 // 7220
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 8/DX Mix News #550)
India Zee News ties up with Voice of America
One of the biggest public broadcasters in the US.
According to the company, Voice of America is expected to give Zee News an advantage over its competitors by providing it unprecedented access to the US market. The alliance will help Zee News in featuring stories of Indian interest from all across America.
Zee News will air a five-minute daily segment named America LIVE, which will be a part of the 8 a.m. news bulletin. In addition, Zee News will also telecast relevant stories in the afternoon (2:00 p.m.) and prime time news bulletin News Top 10.
(Source: www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/12/04/stories/2008120451621800.htm/ Sakthivel, India)
Peru log
6173.9, Tawantinsuyo, 1021-1030 Noted a very weak, threshold signal here with a person in comments. (Chuck Bolland, FL December 7, 2008)
RFE/RL protests removal from Kyrgyz airwaves
of report by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website on 7 December Bishkek: In an indication that Kyrgyzstan’s brief experiment with pluralism may be ending, authorities in this Central Asian country confirmed on Friday that RFE/RL radio and television broadcasts have been taken off the air.
“The suspension, which began on October 8, was initially portrayed as a payment dispute, but we have since traced the payments and confirmed deposit and receipt,” said RFE/RL President Jeffrey Gedmin. “Ten weeks have passed. Our programmes remain off the air. Kyrgyz officials have refused to meet with us to resolve the situation. Frankly, we expected more from a country trying to prove its reformist credentials in the region.”
Melis Eshimkanov, director of state-owned UTRK, gave his first public acknowledgement of RFE/RL’s situation yesterday in remarks to Reuters after announcing the suspension of the BBC’s local service, also on contractual grounds. UTRK is the only nationwide Kyrgyz-language broadcaster in Kyrgyzstan, and has long aired RFE/RL radio broadcasts and prime-time television programmes.
The original suspension of RFE/RL programming coincided with local elections in Kyrgyzstan on October 5, which exposed political turmoil in the country and galvanized public criticism against President Kurmanbek Bakiyev for concentrating power.
RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service, known in Kyrgyzstan as Radio Azattyk, broadcasts three hours of radio programming a day and produces two weekly prime-time television news shows, “Inconvenient Questions” and the youth-oriented “Azattyk Plus”. The Service is extremely popular in Kyrgyzstan - recent surveys by Intermedia show that 40 per cent of all Kyrgyz adults either listened to Kyrgyz Service radio broadcasts or watched its television shows at least once a week.
(Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website, Washington, D.C., in English 0000 gmt 7 Dec 08 via BBC Monitoring/R Netherlands media Network Weblog)
Romania frequency update
Frequency changes or Radio Romania International to WeEu:
1100-1156 new freq 11970 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg, x17845 \\ 15150 15255 17790
1200-1256 new freq 11970*TIG 300 kW / 307 deg, x11940 \\ 9690
1300-1356 new freq 11970 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg, x17745 \\ 15105
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 8/DX Mix News #550)
Solomon Islands active on 9541.53
SIBC Honiara 9541.53, 0645-0710. Dec 1 Pop music and island tunes to ID at 0700 and into news read by male/female. Very weak signal about an hour before Honiara sunset, occasionally dropping back into the noise. Hopefully the signal will improve in the next hour. Thanks to Craig Seager for tip. SIBC is reportedly drifting from 9450 to 9452 kHz. Good to find them on 31 meters again! (Atkins-WA) bI checked my Perseus files this morning, and SIBC did indeed improve in strength to fair by their 0800 ID & newscast. (Guy Atkins, Puyallup, WA USA/HCDX)
You Tube video clip from movie The Boat That Rocked
Trailer for the forthcoming movie set around 60's pirate radio is now
on YouTube:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XnQc3lO4JDs&fmt=18
(Mike Barraclough, UK/worlddxclub)