All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on sign-off*Australia
6020, Radio Australia, Shepparton, *0900-1315. A few bars of Waltzing Matilda IS into Pidgin service. English service at 1100 lasting until tune-out. Good signal throughout except during the 1228-1314 UTC Vatican Radio via Philippines. No sign of Radio Gaúcha during the 0700-1315 UTC recordings. (Brandon Jordan, TN/HCDX)
5995 Radio Australia in English and Pidgin to the Pacific with just 10 kw. 0935. Om with news of the Pacific, including several mentions of Papua New Guinea. Barely making it above the noise. (Bruce Barker, PA)
4835, ABC, Alice Springs,0810-0830, Tune in to English comments. Music at 0812 followed by more Phone in calls. Signal fair, as plug pulled at 0830 exactly. Chuck Bolland, FL)
4910, ABC, Tennant Creek, 0822-0830. Music at tune in, followed with comments from males phone calls. This may be // with ABC Alice Springs. Signal is muffled and poor so not absolutely certain. Plug pulled at 0830 exactly. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
Bolivia
6024.99v, (tentative) Radio Patria Nueva, La Paz, 0850-1134 fade-out; weak carrier-on at 0850, unsure if modulated. Signal slowly increasing until peaking from 1030 to 1045 UTC, coinciding with sunrise in La Paz. Threshold audio with woman speaking is possible Spanish, best in LSB to avoid R Marti mess on 6030. Fading until the carrier finally dropped below noise floor at 1134 UTC. Transmitter slowly drifted downward to 6024.98 kHz at fade-out. (Brandon Jordan, TN/HCDX)
6085 Radio San Gabriel, La Paz. Religious music and then into preacher in Spanish with several mentions of Jesus and San Juan. (Bruce Barker, PA)
5952.46, Emisoras Pio XII, 0220-0231* Noted a male in Spanish language comments. Can't determine what the venue is of the comments. At 0226 traditional type music is presented. After the music a small drama is presented, it could be an AD, don't know at this point. The splatter is rather heavy while the signal is poor. "... kiloHertz onda media ..." Live ID which I missed by a male and this was the closing comments. The station went down at 0231.(Chuck Bolland, FL)
6134.83, Radio Santa Cruz, 1018-1030 Not much of a signal in the mornings anymore. Noted a program of music and some comments from a male. This was after the signal faded in to a threshold level. In better times, RSC would be at at least a good level with armchair quality. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
4835, Radio Virgen de Remedios, Tupiza. Spanish at tune-in 2312 a religious ceremony with that reverb from inside of a church, finally, after the ceremony, a definitive ID by male at 0014 “Radio Virgen de Remedios”. I heard until 0018, after much religious talks this week end. Sometimes much noise but getting stronger SINPO 24322 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Brazil)
Brazil
4985 Radio Brasil Central, Goiania. 0910. High-energy DJ in Portuguese bubbling just above the noise, playing easy listening music, ads and station slogans. (Bruce Barker, PA)
6010 Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, 0940. Beautiful Portuguese ballads. Noted interference from another station on frequiency, but could neither ID it nor null it out. (Bruce Barker, PA)
6019.66 Radio Gaucha, Porto Alegro, 0840. Five-minute block of ads, canned station promos, and station ID. Theme from Goldfinger, then into soft Portuguese ballads. Should be 6020. (Bruce Barker, PA)
9999,96 Observatorio Nacional, Río de Janeiro, 2004-2008. Portuguese. Pips signal to station ID and announcement. QTR every ten seconds by female as; "Observatorio Nacional........16 horas, sete minutos, 10 segundos", SINPO 35443. Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina)
Canada
6030, CFVP, Calgary, 0613-0645. Barn Dance Saturday Night show, country music, a few ads, multiple "Classic Country AM 10-60". Rather weak but nicely readable and stable signal in the UTC Monday morning UTC absence of R Marti. (Brandon Jordan, TN/HCDX)
6160 CKZN St. John's, Newfoundland, 1015. Announcer in English with Labrador Morning' program. Marine weather and then into CBC news. Signal fading from arm chair to threshold and a pretty annoying flutter to boot. (Bruce Barker,PA)
China
9890, CNR-8, 1429 + 1441, Assume in scheduled Kazakh; mostly talking with some music; good reception; // 9645 (good), 9630 (fair) and 9420 (poor). Seems they must have dropped 7120 from their schedule (Ron Howard, CA)
Colombia
6009.96v, La Voz de Tu Conciencia, Lomalinda, 0700-fade out - Programs of easy listening vocals and instrumentals, low key talks, inspirational sounding radio dramas. Nominally at equal levels as co-channel R. Mil up to almost an hour after 1110 UTC sunrise in Lomalinda, although better modulation gave Conciencia the edge. Transmitter very slowly drifting between 6009.95-.97 kHz. (Brandon Jordan, TN/HCDX)
6035, La Voz de Guaviare, San José del Guaviare, 0859-1030; transmitter cut-on at 0859 in mid song. Ballads with male announcer between songs with IDs. Full ID at 0957, also mention Radio Cadena Nacional. Young female voice at the top of the hour with a long monologue with constant mentions of Santa Maria. Slop from the mess on 6030 kHz began affecting readability at 1000 UTC, and station beginning to fade by 1015 UTC. Transmitter started on 6030.1 kHz and had slowly drifted down to a few Hz above 6030 by 1000 UTC. (Brandon Jordan, TN?HCDX)
Ethiopia
6030, Radio Oromiya, Addis Ababa, 0415-0435. Vaguely Horn of Africa type music at tune in and lasting until 0430, then brief musical bridge, Radio Oromiya ID then talk by multiple speakers in presumed Oromo, possibly news. Poor to fair levels in the UTC Monday morning absence of R. Marti + jammers. (Brandon Jordan, TN/HCDX)
India
4970, AIR Shillong, 1322-1335. Back on the air today. Scholastic program with students being verbally given a question in English with multiple choice answers, students picking the correct answer; 1333 back to the studio; "This is the North Eastern Service of All India Radio broadcasting from Shillong on 60.36 meters on shortwave, corresponding to 4,970 kHz."; sports news in assume Hindi; fair. (Ron Howard, CA)
Indonesia
9525, Voice of Indonesia, 1045-1100. Noted weak signal with music and comments from a female announcer. Lot's of noise on the band, but bearable. Signal was poor. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
9680, RRI Jakarta, 1055-1100, With steady Islamic music at tune in. Signal is poor with the usual noise. At 1100, Taiwan pops up on the same frequency blocking everything. Normally, this would not be a problem, but Taiwan is being relayed via Okeechobee, Florida's WYFR transmitters, I surmise? Thus, my QTH is only about 20 miles away as the crow flies, so the freq is blocked. (Chuck Bolland,FL)
9525, Voice of Indonesia, 0950-1000 At tune in, notice a male in possibly Korean(listed) language comments. At 0954, music is presented until the hour. At 1001 a female introduces the station and gives frequeuncies, URL. "The Voice of Indonesia, the sound of ..." News followed the intro. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
9680, RRI Jakarta, 1003-1015 This signal isn't as strong as that on 9525, but 80 percent readable. Noted a male in comments. At 1003 he announcer's ID and then continued in a long discourse in Indonesian language. The signal continued to drop into the noise, but would pop back immediately. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
Iran
6095, Voice of Islamic Republic, 0240-0250 Noted a male in steady Pashto language comments with place names such as "India" and "Pakistan". Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland,FL)
Laos
6130, LNR, 1420-1435. “Hi, I am Max”, “Hello, my name is Kathy”, “Welcome to New Dynamic English”; lesson “Do You Speak Spanish” with guest Maria Alvarez; moderate QRM from Xizang PBS/Tibet (Ron Howard,CA)
Malaysia
6049.61, Radio Suara Islam/Voice of Islam via RTM; 1532-1544. "Malaysia" jingle; in vernacular; “Radio Suara Islam, Kuala Lumpur”; regular Monday educational segment, today featuring “Universiti Putra Malaysia, U-P-M”; this university had its origins back with the School of Agriculture founded by “John Scott”; played nice selection of songs; good reception (Ron Howard, CA)
Mexico
6010, XEOI, R. Mil, México D.F., 0700-1315; mainly musical content, Radio Mil jingles, brief chatter. Good signal level but lack luster modulation usually gave the upper hand to co-channel Colombia until they began to fade. Transmitter stable a few Hz above 6030 kHz. (Brandon Jordan, TN/HCDX)
Peru
6047.19v, (pres.) R. Santa Rosa, Lima, *1111-1250 fade-out; audio only started being heard a few minutes ofter the transmitter was turned on. Decent carrier but only just slightly above threshold audio, man in possible Spanish with low-key religious sounding monologue. Much slop from booming HCJB on 6050. Transmitter steadily drifting, up to 6047.22 kHz by carrier fade-out at 1250. (Brandon Jordan, TN/HCDX)
Philippines
6020, Vatican Radio, Palauig, 1228-1314. Sudden cut-on at 1228 with Chinese service. At times at equal levels, but usually underneath co-channel R Australia English service. (Brandon Jordan, TN/HCDX)
Russia
5940, Radio Rossii, 0940-0950, Russian comment to Russian music. Signal barely audible, however all is not lost. Tuned into 7320 KHz with a good signal in parallel possibly? (Chuck Bolland, FL)
7320, Radio Rossii, 0950-1005. Program of music and Russian comments from a male and females. On the hour, canned ID's as, "Radio Adygeya ..." possibly? Actually the ID sounded like "Radio Ah-key", phonetically speaking. Following the ID, news presented for good signal quality. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
5920, Radio Rossii, Petropavlovsk-K., 0815-0850, Noted a series of programs in the Russian Language by both male and female persons. At 0825 noted an ID by a male as, "...Radio Rossii, programma ...". This followed by more comments from a female. Rossii remains the dominant station on this frequency with a good signal until 0842 At that time WBOH's signal begins to fade in taking over the freq by 0845. Prior to that, WBOH had been in the background. So the rest of the time the signals became a audio "seesaw" so to speak. Rossii went from good to fair while WBOH went from poor to good and I just went! (Chuck Bolland,FL)
5940, Radio Rossii, 0850-0900, Male in Russian with program comments at tune in. Tried to compare 5940 and 5920, but Rossii no longer audible on 5920 at 0854. The male on 5940 continues to talk getting closer to the hour. Signal was fair but with splatter. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
Thailand
6040, Voice of America, Udon Thani, 1157-1314. Transmitter on at 1157 into Chinese programming at 1200. Weak and noisy but steadily improving to almost fair by 1314 tune-out. (Brandon Jordan, TN/HCDX)