Blog Logs

Today's shortwave BLOG LOGS, represent a portion of additional logs recently cut from my Broadcast Logs column in Monitoring Times magazine www.monitoringtimes.com/ , due to space constraints. Contributions are always welcome for the magazine or blog, and may be directed to my above email address. Thanks very much to the contributors and blog readers for your kind words and support.
Gayle VH

All times UTC, frequencies in kHz, English unless otherwise indicated // parallel frequencies * sign-on - sign-off *

Ascension Island
Cotton Tree News, 9525, 0730-0740. Program sign-on and announcements. Newscast items for SINPO 343333 / 24332. (A Slaen)

Star Radio 9525, 0720-0729. Programming targeted to Liberia. ID and program announcement by lady announcer. Brief music tune to sign-off, SINPO 34333. (A Slaen)

Belgium
RTBF Wavre, 9970, 1130-1151. French service with commercials and station ID at tune-in. Banter between announcers to pop ballads. Fair signal quality (S Barbour).

Bolivia
Radio Emisoras Pio XIL, 5952.50, 0036-0045. Bolivian music followed with Spanish comments from announcer. Signal good. (C Bolland)

Radio San Miguel, 4699.52, 2230-2235. Spanish programming including ID, local, and national news briefs. SINPO 24332. (A Slaen).

Bulgaria
Radio Varna, 6000, 2230-2300.+ Bulgarian text to local lite pop music, but mostly continuous talk. Signal poor with weak co-channel QRM from possibly Brazilian station (B Alexander).

Brazil
Rádio Nove de Julio, São Paulo, 9820, 0743-0800. Portuguese programming with "Clube do Pasarinho." Several station identifications. (A Slaen)

Clandestine
South Korea, Voice of the People, 6517.99, 1105-1125. Korean text to local music. Signal weak but readable, // 6600 weak but readable // 3911.99 very weak (B Alexander).

Cyprus
Cyprus Broadcasting Corp., 6180, *2215-2245.* Station sign-on with Greek music, followed by Greek announcements, Signal fair with adjacent channel splatter // 7210 strong but QRM from China // 9760 good (B Alexander).

Ethiopia
Radio Ethiopia, 9704.18, 1950-2101.* Horn-of-Africa style music to Amharic text. Possible news at 2000 to variety of US pop ballads, rap and country music. Sign-off with national anthem at 2059 // 7110 (both frequencies fair-good) (B Alexander).

Guatemala
radio Cultural Coatan (presumed) 4779.99, 0028-0035. Local Guatemalan music at tune-in. At 0032 music paused by announcer's comments amid CODAR interference. (C Bolland)

Indonesia
Voice of Indonesia 9525.9, 1045-1100. Programming with local Indonesian music. Station ID to theme music at 1058. Mandarin service at 1100, signal fair-good, decreasing to poor-weak at 1330 recheck. (B Alexander).

Voice of Indonesia, 9525.88, 1038-1042. English feature by lady announcer over instrumnetal music with identification. Additional ID promo then into music program for fair signal quality (D Valko).

India
All India Radio-Chennai, 7270, 1203-1215.* Listed service as Tamil. Hindi music observed to brief announcer's items between selections. Sign-off announcements at 1213, signal fair-poor (S Barbour).

All India Radio-Kuresong, 4895, *1129. Vernacular text to Song of India interval signal. Not much else noted as usable under CODAR interference. Indian music at 1132, signal poor (S Barbour).

All India Radio (presumed), 6045, 0045-0059. Lady announcer in Nepali with program comments to 0057. Brief additional announcer comments for good signal strength despite co-channel frequency splatter. (C Bolland).

Liberia
ELWA, 6070, 2245-2302.* Religious music to talk at 2300. Staiiton sign-off with national anthem at 2301. Signal very weak under a strong Romanian, weak but in the clear when Romania signed off at 2257 (B Alexander).

Mali
RTVM, 7284.58, *0800-0815. Sign-on with flute interval signal and french identificaiton announcement. Vernacular talk at 0801. Signal fair // 9635 on the air at 0803 with a fair to good signal quality (B Alexander).

Mauritania
Radio Nauritanie, 7245, 1026-1037. Announcer in Arabic to music and distinctive local string music. Signal good at this time to 1059-1100 announcements by announcer over music. Sounded like a tone denoting at 1100. Local stringed music bridge, followed by possible news headlines by announcer. Programming returned with chat and local music (D Valko).

Mexico
Presumed station as Candela FM Merida, 6104.75, 1117-1130. Spanish text from announcer with interspersed Spanish music under brutal band noise. Signal unusable by 1130, very poor - this one is proving to be a touch catch. (S Barbour)

Monaco
Trans World Radio, 9800, 0838-0850.* Usual religious programming fare to new program at 0845. Station's contact info and URL to interval signal at sign-off. Signal fair // 6015 via Wertachtal. Signal good, running about one second behind 9800 (S Barbour).



Myanmar
Myanmar Radio, 9730.79, 1504-1534.* Long series of equations with some English words, short introduction to program in vernacular, into all English with language lessons. Noted, "this talk is for first year students at the University of ....." (Myanmar?) Lessons continued until off the air with the usual indegineous music. Signal fair-poor, though recently heard slightly higher than normal. (R Howard).

North Korea
KCBS Pyongyang, 2850, 1206. Korean. Male/female host with chat observed under co-channel QRM for poor signal quality (S Barbour).

Voice of Korea 11710, 1345-1355. Programming with local music to news, commentary and ID. Signal poor-weak, very weak on // 9335 (B Alexander).

Slovakia
IRRS, 9510, *1230-1300.* Choppy station ID at sign-on. Dover Street program with Chicao blues music. IRRS contact info at 1246 into religious program including California contact info. More info for IRRS to interval signal at sign-off during poor signal quality (S Barbour).

Contributors:
Brian Alexander, PA
Scott Barbour, NH
Chuck Bolland, FL
Ron Howard, CA
Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina
Dave Valko, PA/Cumbre DX