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Blog Logs Issue # 6
Language services as indicated.
// denotes station heard on a parallel frequency
*Sign-on Sign-Off*/ frequencies kHz
Monitored 13 May - 13 June 2024
All times UTC
Longwave
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| Mongolian Radio 209 LW |
Mongolia
164 // 209, Mongolian Radio 1, 1335-1400. Lady announcer’s Mongolian text. Brief fanfare at 1345 as text continues. Asian easy-listening vocals to 1359 time-tip signal. Fanfare repeated into the news script. (Van Horn/Kiwi Philippines SDR) Website: http://www.vom.mn
Mediumwave
Argentina
760, Radio Atlantica, Mar del Plata 2206. Spanish programming featuring Spanish romantic music and station info by announcer. SINPO 34543 (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo, Brazil).
Bolivia
600, Radio ALCO (tentative) 2348. Lady announcer’s Spanish as Cuba’s Radio Rebelde faded down. Radio ALCO is a prominently Catholic station. Rare reception in southeast Brazil. SINPO 13321. Also heard by DXer Marcio Molossi in Xavantina, Brazil. (Grimm)
Brazil
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750, Rádio Jovem Pan News, Brasilia, 2204. Soccer sports news. SINPO 34543 (Grimm).
820, Rádio Jauense, Jau 2240. Brazilian music to Jauense identification. SINPO 25422 (Grimm).
890, Rádio Difusora, Bento Goncalves 0435. Brazilian music to clear station ID, SINPO 25432 (Grim)
930, Rádio Cidade, Caxias do Sul 0440. Classic pop tunes from Paul McCartney to station ID. SINPO 24422 (Grimm).
990, Rádio Contemporánea, Rio de Janeiro 0452. News bulletin by male/female duo. SINPO 33543 (Grimm).
1080, Rádio Deus é Amor, Juiz de For a 0456. Christian broadcaster and mention of “Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor. SINPO 24432 (Grimm).
1250, Nossa Rádio, Vespasiano 0240. Christian broadcasting station Igreja Internacional da Graca de Deus. SINPO 35433 (Grimm).
1340, Rádio Jornal da Manhã, Ijui 0231. News about floods in Rio Grande do Sul. SINPO 34433 (Grimm).
Paraguay
1080, Radio Monumental, Chcoi, 2258. Spanish station info and talk by announcer. SINPO 14321 (Grimm).
Uruguay
850, Radio Carve, Montevideo 0225. Spanish programming including “Carve” ID. Local commercials and announcer’s talk. SINPO 25542 (Grimm).
1170, Radiomundo, Montevideo 2345-2350. Local commercial “Montevideo, Banco Republica.” Station ID, “esta es Radiomundo 11-70, su radio.” SINPO 34533 (Grimm).
Shortwave
Antarctica
15476USB LRA 36-Radio Nacional Arcángel, Base Esperanza 1835-1917. Thursday afternoon program conducting interviews with military personnel serving at Antarctica. Music tune to “LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel..” Noted program as “Nuestras Voces al Mundo.” SINPO 15421 (Manuel Méndez, Spain/BDXC).
Austria
11870, AWR via Moosbrunn relay. Persian service covering religious programming and announcer’s text. SINPO 25442. Transmission noted to Iran. (Grimm). http://awr.org
Bolivia
3310, Radio Mosoj Chasqui, Cotapachi, 0023-0028. Quechua comments and programming. SINPO 15422 (Méndez). Heard 0110-0135 in Quechua with very nice Bolivian music. (Van Horn/Airspy HF+Discovery)
Botswana
5925, USAGM/VOA relay via Selebi-Phikwe 0320-0350. Music program featuring techno, rock, disco pop and rap vocals. Station ID 0320. Fair signal on // 6080. Gio Serra, Italy/NASWA/NLD Twente SDR). Noted on 6080 at 0315 with interview of female presidential candidate in Rwanda // 5925, 4930 very poor (Harold Sellers, BC Canda) http://www.voanews.com
Brazil
4885, Rádio Clube do Pará, Belém 0100-0130. Fair signal for Portuguese national news and sports roundup. (Méndez).
5940, Voz Missionaria, Camboriu 2320-2340. Portuguese religious program with fair signal, SIO 323 (Frank Hilton, SC/Kiwi FL SDR).
6150, Radio Saturno, Belo Horizonte 0442-0527. Brazilian songs to Portuguese comments and program “Faixa Brasil.” Station ID “Radio Saturno, Faixa, Brasil.- Radio Saturno a sua melhor compahia.” SINPO 14322 (Méndez).
11815, Rádio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte 2003-2019. Brazilian music and comments. Station ID “Inconfidencia de Rádio.” SINPO 25432 (Méndez).
China
4800, Voice of China, Golmud, Qinghai, 1735. Chinese service SINPO 35232, heard on // 6080, 6125 and 7230.
4820, Xizang PBS, Baiding, Tibet 1745. Chinese announcements to regional Chinese music, heard on // 7240.
11740, China Business Radio, Lingshi, Shanxi 1240-1250. Chinese conversations // 11785. SINPO 25232 and 35333. (Anker Petersen, Denmark/NASWA).
Clandestine
11510, Radio Dengê Gel via Tashkent, Uzbekistan relay 0330. Kuridsh music and text. SINPO 25432 (Grimm). http://denge-gel.org/
6090, Radio Tamazuj via Issoudun, France relay 0342. Sudanese service to program feature with text about Sudan. SINPO 25541. (Grimm). https://radiotamazuj.org/en
11935, Republic of Yemen Radio, 1650-1710. Announcer’s Arabic text to ID format at 1700 into traditional Arabic music with vocals and additional Arabic text. Station airs in support of Yemeni president Hadí, possibly from Aden or Saudi Arabia. (Van Horn/Kiwi Qatar SDR)
15505, Radio Ndarason International 0604 via Woofferton, UK relay. Kannada text and talk from male/female hosts. Transmission targeted to West Africa. SINPO 25542 (Grimm). https://ndarason.com/en/
Denmark
15700, World Music Radio 2132 via Randers. International pop music to station info. SINPO 15431. Transmissions targeted to Europe (Grimm).
Ecuador
6050, HCJB Pichincha 0343-0500* Spanish religious programming. Station info at 0457, into Ecuadorian music, national anthem and closedown at 0500. SINPO 25432 (Méndez).
Germany
11960, AWR at 0339 in Oromo service and English language lesson to 0340. Oromo sone selection and religious text to trumpet signal (Sellers)
3955, Pop Shop Radio via Channel 292, 1600-1620. Closing German programming at 1559 to 1600 sign-on. Pop Shop ID from host Tony into classic pop tunes – Mr Big Stuff, Lonely Teenager, Trouble and Here is Where Your Love Belongs, and more tunes. Thank you Pop Shop, for the QSL. (Van Horn/Twente NLD SDR) Reception report email: radiopopshopradio@gmail.com
3975, Shortwave Radio, Winsen, 1810. English announcements to pop music. SINPO 4544.
3985, Shortwaveservice, Kall-Krekel, 1815. German conversations and music. SINPO 35232.
3995, HCJB Deutschland, Weenermoor, 1820. German religious hymns to organ music and German service. Heard on // 5920. SINPO 35333. (Petersen) Logging 0025-0100 with German religious format of text and vocal hymns (Jonathan Porter, AL)
15690, USAGM/Radio Farda via Biblis 0607. Persian service with male/female announcer’s discussion. Middle Eastern instrumental music. Transmissions targeted to Iran. SINPO 25532 (Grimm).
3955, Texas Radio Shortwave via Channel 292, 1858-1927. Closing of German programming to sign-on. Yellow Rose of Texas signature sign-on tune. Station ID and upcoming program preview over Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Texas Flood tune. Program featured music of Blind Yellow Jefferson and Led Belly. Thank you TRSW for the QSL (Van Horn/Twente NLD SDR).
6075//3955 Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, 1900-1925. Opening ID and program preview which was interview and music from Clay Ross of American Patchwork Quartet. (Van Horn/Twente NLD SDR)
Liberia
6050, ELWA Radio, Monrovia *0600-0620. Open today with English religious music. Station identification, info on station. Additional religious songs. SINPO 25422 Also noted 0556 sign-on, monitored to 0611. (Méndez). http://www.elwaministries.com
Madagascar
6065, AWR via Talata Vololondry relay 0320-0330. Fair-poor signal for religious bible scriptures.
17700, Trans World Radio India relay 1310-1320. Listed as Hindi service.
11825, World Christian Broadcasting 0405-0415. English service including Middle Eastern discussion. (Hilton).(Sellers).
Malaysia
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11665, RTM Malaysia/RTM Wai FM, 1135-1205. Excellent signal for presumed Malaysian service. Announcer’s new script format to fanfare melody and single jingles to Asian pop music vocals. Additional station IDs, info about a festival, station on Facebook and TicTock. Canned WAI FM ID to more chat. (Van Horn/Kiwi Philippines SDR). http://www.rtm.gov.my
Mali
5995, ORTM-Radio Mali 1900-1925. French/vernaculars with African highlife tunes to station ID. Noted on 9635 1750-1759 sign-off. The same format included French ID, station info, and close down. SINPO 34443. (Hilton).
Mongolia
12095, Voice of Mongolia 1322-1335. Japanese service with “Voice of Mongolia” Japanese service” to web address, station info to interval signal. Listed Mongolian service began at 1330 with the same preview routine. Nothing was heard on the reported 4895 kHz. Longwave service as indicated above (Van Horn/Kiwi Philippines SDR) Website: http://www.vom.mn
Netherlands
6170, Radio Delta. 1754-1830. Pure Dutch program with DJ format. Program on Sunday was the Finnish Report, Good Morning Europe, Erik’s Shortwave Serenade, and The Record and It’s Story. Thank you, Radio Delta for the QSL. (Van Horn, Twente NLD SDR) Website: http://www.radiodelta.am
5955, Radio Veronica, 2228-2250. Slow and lively music from various genres. Noted on USB/LSB synch with fair signal quality (Seera/NASWA/NLD Twente SDR). Noted in Dutch 0430-0450. “Radio Veronica” ID with disco and rock tune (Wright).
New Zealand
11725, Radio New Zealand Pacific, Rangitaki 0450. Rock music to “Radio New Zealand” ID. Transmissions are targeted to the Pacific and Oceania. SINPO 35333 (Grimm).
Heard on 11725 at 1231, in presumed Pidgin service to English talking social media used in New Zealand. Mostly fair signal (Bob Brossell/NASWA) 17675 at 0307 with news and sports report to Pacific Waves program (Sellers). https://www.radionz.co.nz
Peru
4775, Radio Tarma, 0021-0032. Peruvian music and ID as “Radio Tarma nuestra major musical en Radio Tarma.” SINPO 25432 (Méndez). Monitored 2350-0020 with fair signal of Spanish text and regional Peruvian music via Kiwi FL SDR. (Sam Wright, MS).
4820, Radio Senda Cristiana, Cotahuasi, Arequipa 0022-0031. Spanish religious programming and comments. SINPO 15421 (Méndez).
Philippines
17820, Radyo Pilipinas at 0201. English service with sign-on, schedule, station announcements, music, and newscast // 15640 barely audible. (Sellers).
Romania
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9730 Radio Romania International. Romanian vocals to 0100, ID during Romanian service. Presumed news items during very good signal (Ed Cichorek, NJ/NASWA).
11725 at 1202 with a news bulletin including the latest from Gaza for mostly poor signal (Brossell, WI/NASWA). 9740 in English at 0312 with news for poor signal quality (Sellers).
United Arab Emirates
9655, TWR Africa relay via Al-Dabbiya 0336. Amharic service of Christian programming. SINPO 25422, transmission targeted to Ethiopia (Grimm). https://twr.org/africa
United States
5085, WTWW Lebanon, TN 0045-0058. Tune in to talk on ‘quack medicine’ to 0056. Truth to Ponder with Bob Brenan promo followed by promo for Thunderbolt West Media and ID for program Ancient World Radio on WTWW.” (Van Horn/Airspy HF+Discovery)
5950, Radio Catface via WRMI 0259-0323. Closing classical music program to WRMI station ID, station info and web address. Fanfare opens the program to the “cat’s meow” sound effect. Station ID to music from Moloko, Kokoroko and Paparuda the Shaman and the Artist by Danaga Radio. Station ID, “send your reception reports to” radiocatface@gmail.com Additional music and MSK info. (Van Horn/Airspy HF+Discovery)
Zambia
4965, Voice of Hope-Africa 1840-1900. English service including scripture reads from 1st Peter to promo for Ray Jensen’s Pro-Life promo. Religious music instrumentals to station info and ID. Program on Gospel of Luke. Thank you for the QSL. (Van Horn/Kiwi South Africa SDR). http://www.voiceofhope.com
(QSL graphics from Teak Publishing Archives)
