Sunday, July 25, 2010

Blog Logs

All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on/ sign-off*

Bolivia
4409, Radio Eco, Reyes, 2243-2251 Romantic Spanish music, female talks in Spanish. (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Brazil/Cumbre DX)

4796, Radio Lipez, Uyuni, 0950-0957 local Pop music. At peak SINPO 34422 but after 0952, weaker signal as SINPO 24422 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Brazil/Cumbre DX)

4716.6, Radio Yura Yura, 0033, July 5, Spanish. Music and a bit of talk. Poor under band noise. (Scott Barbour-NH)

4905, Radio Anhanguera Araguaina, 0055-0110. Portuguese. Ballads with announcer between selections. SIgnal weak-poor.(Barbour-NH)

6134.82 Radio Santa Cruz 1055-1100.+ Religious program ending. Man with canned ID at 1056 announcing freqs of 960, 6135, and 92.? FM "desde Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia." Flute music to 1100, then into another program. Fair but deteriorating quickly. (John Wilkins-CO)

Clandestine
Via Samara, Russia, 15350, Radio Bilal, *1800-1830+. Sign on with opening ID announcements and Amharictalk. Variety of local chants, some Mid-East style music and local tribal music. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)

Ecuador
4899.94, La Voz Del Saquislli y Libertador,(presumed) 2335-2359. Flute music at tune in. Can hear chatter by persons in French mixing as the music continues. Music continues until 2345 and beyond. Music stops at 2357 and believe is followed with a national anthem type music, station still on the air after the hour with more music.(Chuck Bolland, FL)

Gabon
9580, Afrique No. 1 Moyabi, 1810. French. Male announcer with news. Sound-bites to IDs in passing. Signal fair. (Scott Barbour-NH)

Guinea
4899.94, Radio Conakry,(presumed), 2336-2359. Noted various persons in French language comments mixing with Ecuador on same frequency. Signal of Conakry was threshold. Still hearing the comments at 2358, but unable to make out any details. (Chuck Bolland, FL)

7125, Radio Conakry, Conakry-Sofon, 0752. Hilife music, 0756 abrupt sign off. 25532, (lob-B); 2229-2241 Afropop with lyrics in French and vernacular, 2235 abrupt music break returning some 10 seconds later with same kind of music. SINPO 34433. (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Brazil)
7125, Radio Guineé, 2220-2323.* Afro-pop music. French announcements. Abrupt sign off. Fair, but occasional amateur radio interference. (Brian Alexander, PA)

India
4970, AIR Shillong, 1235-1315. Another day of decent reception. DJ in English playing pop music, songs by Tina Turner, Bon Jovi, Enrique Iglesias, etc. Local IDs. (Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

4800, AIR Hyderabad, 0044. Vernacular. Hindi music, signal poor-fair with CODAR splash via 4805.(Scott Barbour-NH)

Indonesia
Anomalies for Monday (July 19), 1208-1230. 3344.96, RRI Ternate (presumed) not // with the Jakarta news. The audio was muffled so not able to confirm in Bahasa Indonesian. Fairly sure was not // to the speech on RRI Fak Fak, but was a long talk. Did not sound anything like the PNG station. 4789.96, RRI Fak Fak also not // to the Jakarta news. Carrying a long monotonous talk/speech in Bahasa Indonesian with no breaks.

Was a good day for RRI reception and heard the normal Jakarta news relay followed by choral national anthem (Indonesia Raya), which ended at 1230, on these parallels: RRI Palangkaraya (3325), RRI Kendari (3995), RRI Makassar (4749.94), RRI Wamena on4869.93 and RRI Jakarta (9680). After 1230 no longer //. (Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

4604.90, RRI Serui, 1233. Non-stop easy-listening songs in English, “Top of the World” by Carpenters, “The Ballad of High Noon”, 1300-1310: song of the Coconut Isles interval signal and Jakarta news relay followed by choral national anthem (Indonesia Raya). Checked again at 1330 to found them off the air. Thanks to Atsunori Ishida’s blog for the alert that they had returned. (Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

9525.89 Voice of Indonesia 1300-1401. English transmission with program lineup, then news. Audio was lost around 1315 with just open carrier until 1345, when audio came back on (music), 1401 out of English and into Bahasa Indonesia with warta berita. Strong.(John Wilkins-CO)

4749.96 RRI Makassar(presumed) 1200-1210. Song-of-the-Coconut Island internval signal at 1200, then Jakarta relay a half-minute later. Poor signal. (John Wilkins-CO)

Liberia
4025, Star Radio, 0636-0646 male and female in English talks "Liberia", short African music. Static noise, unreadable SINPO 25332 (lob-B) ; 0638-0649 male and female in English talks, "Liberia..economic condition", male in studio talking with male outside. At tune in SINPO 35333 but quickly deterioring, (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Brazil/Cumbre DX)

Malaysia/Sarawak
7270.01 RTVM 1254-1330. Phone call (dedication?), followed by Eric Clapton song. Two pips to 1300, then presumed news. Long talk segment followed past 1330 -sounded like Bahasa Malaysia but can't be sure. Generally fair. (John Wilkins-CO)

Mexico
6009.96, Radio Mil, 0030-0100. Futebol game. Spanish announcements. ID. Poor to fair. Covered by Radio Sweden 6010 via Sackville at 0100.(Brian Alexander, PA)

Nigeria
15120, Voice of Nigeria Lagos, 1752-1805. Arabic/English. Male announcer with talk and music bits. Talking Drums and off at 1758. Back at 1759 with Talking Drums. ID announcement of English service to local Nigerian news followed by "[Lime?]Light" program at 1805. Fair signal. (Scott Barbour-NH)

Papua New Guinea
3915, Radio Fly, 1334. Recently my best chance to hear this has been here, as // 5960 normally has moderate interference from China. Heard with poor reception playing pop song in English and could confirm // (Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

Peru
4746.90, Radio Huanta Dos Mil, 0023-0035. The noise is blasting away as a male in Spanish language comments. Signal is very weak and the noise is unforgiving. (Chuck Bolland, FL)

4826, Radio Sicuani, Sicuani, 0958-1010, Male on music in Spanish, time announcements, messages to listeners, outside talks, ads of a medical center "cirurgias, implantes!". SINPO 34432, (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Brazil)

4955, Radio Cultural Amauta Huanta, 0112-0128.* Spanish. Ballads with announcer between selections. Pulled the plug mid-song. Signal poor-fair. (Scott Barbour-NH)

Pirate
6950.59 AM, Radio Ronin Shortwave, 0303-0320.+ Station IDs. Music by Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Beatles and others. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)

Thailand
6765.1USB Bangkok Meteo 1203-1220.+ Usual three-language rotation of weather broadcast, with in terval signal between segments. One cycle (3 bcsts,3 IS), lasted about 18 minutes. Fair and about equal to // 8743U at tune-in but by 1220Z, 8743 was considerably better as 6765 was on the decline. (John Wilkins-CO)

Tibet
Xizang PBS via Lhasa. Since April 28 these have been off the air: 5935, 7240 and 7450 in Chinese and 4920, 5240, 6110, 6200 and 7255 in Tibetan.

At 1324 on July 19 noted 4920 was // 4905. Believe I actually observed their first day of being back on the air July 18, but was only briefly noted during a scan through. Can confirm that 6200 was still off the air July 19.(Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

Uganda
4976, UBC Kampala, 0347-0403. English. Ad string at tune-in, male/female announcers with banter and a passing mentions of Uganda. Another ad string at 0401 into news. Signal poor-fair at best. (Scott Barbour-NH)