Blog Logs - Asia

A sample of loggings from the latest DX Window

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

China
4820, Xizang PBS, Lhasa, 1720. Chinese talks and music, SINPO 44444, much stronger than India's AIR Kolkata (presumed) which only showed traces of its presence. (Mezin)

4920, Xizang PBS, Lhasa, 1711. Traditional song, SINPO 43433, with India's AIR Chennai underneath. //4905 where no significant interference noted, SINPO 44433. By the way, 4905 remained still on later at 1805, while 4920 was already silent. (Mezin)

5030.00, CNR-1/Voice of China, Beijing, 1030-1045. Chinese comments. Signal was threshold during the period, but checked 6175 and noted parallel program, so this helped pull out the signal on 5030. China was fair by 1045. (Bolland)

6150, CNR-1/Voice of China, 1047-1055. CNR-1 was the dominate station on this frequency // 6175, but a second station underneath is heard, which probably is Taiwan? CNR1 is definitely doing its' job. if they are here to block Taiwan. (Bolland)

6175, CNR-1/Voice of China, Beijing, 1040-1050. Chinese comments sounds like news with break aways to other individuals who comment. Signal here was fair and mixing with a Portuguese language station which turned out to be WYFR which went off the air at 1045. Much better, since China is in the clear now with a good signal. (Bolland)

7245, CNR-2/China Business Radio, Beijing, 1430-1500. “This is a new Saturday edition of ‘English Evening’. From this Saturday on, each week we will introduce you to a new movie.” New format and time (ex: Sa 1300-1400),sound bites from the movie “Confessions of a Shopaholic”, along with plot summary, followed by “Studio Classroom Worldwide.” Signal fair-good. (Howard)

7350, CNR-11 (Tibetan Service), 1430-1500. Holy Tibet program to distinctive canned commerciaals, that I have not heard for many months, for the medical massage clinics in Lhasa, gives phone numbers, says Lhasa clinic located in white building, door number 33, licensed students trained by doctors from Beijing medical massage clinic, foreign experts visit Lhasa to also train the students, giving cost for one massage for foreigners “and for local people about 55 Renminbi and it takes one hour." They speak English, Tibetan and Chinese at the clinics. Tourism of Tibet (American tourist talking about the “great weather in Lhasa." Program
segment Eyes on Tibet to Tibetan music. Parallel on 6010. Enjoyable program! (Howard)

India
4810, All India Radio-Bhopal, 1724.Traditional Indian music. SINPO 33433. (Mezin)

4880, All India Radio-Lucknow, 1716. Talks and music, moderate strength, but badly interfered by clandestine SW Radio Africa (via Meyerton relay) that had nearly the same signal level. (Mezin)

4920, All India Radio-Chennai, 0035-0050, Jul 22. nglish news from Delhi, fascinating live report from current Total Solar Eclipse // 4800 and 5010, 0040 Indian songs, same SINPO noted at 0056, 45344.(Petersen)

Indonesia
9524.89, Voice of Indonesia, Cimanggis, Jakarta, 1010-1100. Local melody and comments in what sounds like English briefly, poor. (Bolland). Also at 1645, Jul 25,talks in Bahasa Indonesia, 33433. (Liangas).

*1800-1815, Spanish, ID: "La Voz de Indonesia, el programa internacional de la Radio República Indonesia", "La Voz de Indonesia, desde Yakarta", talks, 32322. (Méndez)

Malaysia
7130.52, Sarawak FM, Kuching (presumed), 1144-1230. Pop music program, continuing to 1205, then Qur'an recitations.Program back to music at 1215 with pop/rap, ect. Check after 1230; no break at 1300, ID not heard. (Wilkins in Dxplorer)

Singapore
3915, BBC World Service relay, Kranji, 2102-2105. Talk in English, SINPOn 24332. (Mille)
(DSWCI/DX Window # 382 via Anker Petersen)

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The following additional logs were excluded from my Broadcast Logs column in Monitoring Times magazine at www.monitoringtimes.com/ for space contraints. Special thanks to the contributors. Submissions for the magazine or blog are always welcomed at the above email address.
Gayle Van Horn

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

Australia
ABC Northern Territory Service (Alice Springs) 2310, 1204-1215. Pop music tunes to announcer chat. Poor signal noted with fading // 2325 slightly weaker // 2485 barely there (Bolland).

Bangladesh
Bangladesh Betar 7250, *1228-1235. Flute interval signal and muffled talk at 1230. Could not make out any additional details due to audio quality, low modulation and amateur radio interference. An overall very poor signal quality (Alexander).

Bhutan
BBS (presumed) 6035, 1402-1418. Heard in English with usual BBS musical bridge, but lost to PBS Yunnan when they started playing the traditional Chinese music (Howard).

China
Central People's Broadcasting Station 4750, 2350-2359. Weak signal quality during Chinese comments to 2355. Signal very poor (Bolland).

Central People's Broadcasting Station (presumed) 9675, 0945-0955. Chinese comments over music program for fair signal quality (Bolland).

China Huayi broadcasting Company (Fuzhou) 4830, 1224-1229. Chinese programming, poor but steady signal quality. Station heard on subsequent recheck at threshold level (Evans).

China National Radio 1 (Beijng) 5030, 1216-1218. Chinese from male/female announcer duo. Poor signal with fading. Appeared to be in parallel with weak signal on 5945 kHz (Evans).

China National Radio 1, 7185, 1349. Used as jamming against Taiwan, the echo was not apparent; clearly // 5030 (Howard).

China National Radio 1 9680, 1349-1353. Fair reception, heard with echo (they were operating more than one jamming transmitter and out of synch, causing an echo). Parallel on 5030; several other stations under them with poor reception, one in Chinese (possibly Taiwan, intended for the jamming) and perhaps the other was RRI-Jakarta (Howard).

China National Radio 2/China Business Radio 9810, 1158-1210. Chinese chat to local pop music. English ID as, "China Business Radio" at 1201 and back to Chinese talk. Fair signal, much weaker on // 6090, 7245, 7315 and 7375 (Alexander).

Voice of Pujiang (Shanghai) 4950, 1226-1236. Programming of Chinese music for threshold level signal. Heard the next day with announcer's Chinese text and similar quality signal (Evans).

Voice of the Strait (Fuzhou) 4900, 1222-1227. Chinese programming including occasional Chinese musical bridges, joined by lady announcer at 1223. Continued Chinese music at 1225. Poor signal noted with some fading. Noted on next-day recheck at 1223-1230 with pop music and lady announcer's presentations (Evans).

Clandestine-Shiokaze Sea Breeze 5985, *1400-1403. Before their sign-on observed strong jamming (pulsating noise, assume from North Korea). Mixing with Myanmar, after sign-on signal was a mess with jamming and Myanmar and Shiokaze mixing together - seemed to be in Japanese (Howard).

Indonesia
RRI-Jakarta (presumed) 9680, 1130-1150. Pop music program to 1137, followed by announcer's Indonesian comments. Noted interference from co-channel station in Chinese, possibly from Taiwan (Bolland).

RRI-Jakarta 9680. Kang Guru Indonesia program with random checking between 0800-0822. Only carrier at 0800 and below threshold level. Heard in English at 0820 talking about next week's programming. Clear mention of Kang Guru and giving the usual end of program announcements. Signal very poor and only able to catch a few words (Howard).

RRI-Kendari (presumed) (Kendari) 3995.04, 1245-1251. Bahasa service for station announcements. Observed threshold level signal, up and down in noise with amateur radio interference (Evans).

RRI-Manokwari (Manokwari) 3987.05, 1136-1204. Bahasa service including pop music tunes to brief announcements at 1159 followed by the station's Song of the Coconut Island interval signal. Newscast at 1200. Signal quality poor initially, improving to good after 1155 (Evans).

Voice of Indonesia, 9525, 1122-1130. Language lessons at tune-in until 1123. Assume this program in Chinese. Program comments over background music. Signal of fair quality (Bolland)

Japan
NHK/Radio Japan 9690, 0950-1000. Female announcer's Indonesian text for presumed newscast to 0954. Fair signal quality (Bolland).

NHK/Radio Japan 9710, 0955-1005. Steady musical interval signal mixing with Radio Australia's Tok Pisin broadcast. Station identification at 1000, followed by newscast. Signal fair despite sharing this frequency with Radio Australia (Bolland).

Laos
Lao National Radio 6130, 1415-1427. Two lady announcer's French conversation, which agrees with their program schedule. English lesson as Functioning in Business followed by Sport Analyze program for Friday and Saturday.Observed interference from assumed China's PSS Xizang from Tibet (Howard).

Northern Marianas Islands
Radio Liberty relay 9520, 0915-0930. News and commentary in Russian. Signal very good (Bolland).

Myanmar
Myanma Radio-Minorities and Educational Service, 5915, 1425-1512.* Vernacular segments of reading long list of numbers and segment on "Psychological testing, part one" and "how well did you do?" Back to vernacular text. At sign-off the usual brief selection of indegenous instrumnetal music. Stations' sign-off times vary considerably day-to-day, but about 1512 is a frequent time for them to sign-off. Station mixing with China Radio International (Howard).

Myanma Radio 5985, 1404-1414. Station mixing with Shiokaze, both about equal strength, but with no jamming observed. Myanmar Defense Forces BS on 5770 fair in Vernacular language with indegenous singing. Signal was poor (Howard).

Myanma Radio 5985, 1450-1536. Programming in vernacular in presumed Burmese songs. Noted in English at 1530 into news (ceremonies held in Yangon attended by Minister of Information. Several mentions of "Myanma Radio and Television." Station ID as, "this news comes to you from Yangon, Myanma Radio" followed by mention of "the weather news issued at 7 pm." Noted the ansence of their usual slogans and patriotic pep talk but instead went straight into their music program. (Howard).

Myanmar Defense Forces BS via Taunggyi 5770, 1431-1445. In vernacular with easy-listening pop songs and ballads. Signal almost fair. Seemed to be a very weak station under this one (Howard).

Myanmar Defense Forces BS via Taunggyi 5770, 1513. Noted earlier report this was in USB, today noted signal in conventional DSB mode. Could hear all three in AM, LSB and USB. Programming in vernacular service with a fair signal quality (Howard).

North Korea
Korean Central BS (presumed) 9665, 0938-0950. Korean service including program segments and martial march music, interspersed with announcer's comments. Poor signal quality. (Bolland).

Voice of Korea, 9650, 0930-0940. Announcer's Japanese program comments to choral style music. Fair signal quality (Bolland).

Philippines
Radio Pilipinas/VOP 15285, 0211-0251. English service. Dateline and Today in Philippines History programs. Station identification as; "Radio Pilipinas Overseas Service, the Voice of the Philippines." Update Mindanao program. Observed signal as mostly fair, but with moderately strong hum noted (Howard).

Radio Veritas Asia 9615, 1120-1135+. Observed religious music at tune-in to 1122. Brief announcers' Chinese comments followed by extended Chinese discourse (religious sermon ?). Signal experienced fading while remaining at a fair level (Bolland).

Singapore
Radio Netherlands (Kranji) 6120, 2303-2310. Bahasa service from announcer duo. Poor signal quality // 9525 (Tinang) noted with a slightly better signal quality (Evans).

Sri Lanka
Radio Free Afghanistan-Radio Azadi 9990, 1120-1331.* Talk in unidentified language. Brief instrumnetal music breaks and "Radio Azadi" identifications. Program interviews and phone chats. Reception poor at tune-in, gradually improving to good at 1135-1215. Signal poor-weak in noisy conditions by 1300 (Alexander).

Taiwan
Radio Taiwan International 7185, 1130-1145+. Male/female announcers' Chinese comments. Station // 9680 where Taiwan has been interfering with Indonesia. Signal on 7185 very good, signal on 9680 poor (Bolland).

Thailand
Radio Thailand 15275, 0218-0231. Good reception in English for the "Global News" and "Take on Thailand" about going to temples and monasteries to take meditation classes. Chimes signal and into Thai service (Howard).

Radio Thailand 12095, 0058-0105. Caught close of English broadcast with theme music, gongs, English ID and anthem. Thai service commencing at 0102. Signal surprisingly good, strong signal (Alexander).

Vietnam
Voice of Vietnam (Son Tay) 9840, 2333-2340. English news read by male/female announcers. Station identification at 2340. Signal obseved as weak with slight improvement by 2340 (Evans).
Contributors
Brian Alexander, PA
Chuck Bolland, FL
Jim Evans, TN
Ron Howard, CA

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

China
4950 Voice of Pujiang 1422-1444 Feb 24. Live coverage and/or analysis of some event to 1430., followed by a mix of chat and music. Fair signal but noisy band. // 3280 and 5075, both poor in noise conditions. (John Wilkins-CO)

4940, Voice of Strait, 1516-1530, March 1. “Focus on China” Sunday program in English with news item about a high school conference held in China; ID “This is the Voice of Strait. If you want more information on China, please write to Box 187, Voice of Strait, Fuzhou, Fujian, zip code 350012, P.R.C.” Chinese service at 1530 for the first time I heard a het here, assume caused by either All India Radio or VOS being slightly off frequency, best in USB to get away from the het (Ron Howard, CA)

India
4700, All India Radio (location?), 1330 + 1454-1517, March 2. Here again, with assume another error in entering the frequency, but by who? Suppose it could be AIR Hyderabad entering 4700 instead of 4800, but for me 4800 is covered by strong CNR-1, so I am unable to confirm
their absence there. First heard on Feb 27 and not since then, till today. 1330 below threshold level. Checked again to find this steadily improving. Assume in Hindi talk, Music at 1500 to music program of indigenous chanting/singing, progtram switched at 1512 over to New Delhi programming (series of ads, followed by the news in assume Hindi); after 1512 was // 9425
(Ron Howard, CA)

Indonesia
3987.06 RRI Manokwari. Pop Ballad at 1058 to announcer ans three-note 3 note piano (with echo) played three times. Time signal ticks to lady announcer, and nice site identification into news segments and mentions of "Manokwari, Indonesia," and RRI. Amateur radio operators on 3987.5 causing massive interference. (Dave Valko, PA/ DXpedition 6 March/Cumbre DX)

3976.06 RRI Pontianak 1332-1406 Feb 26. Assorted vocal music, only one brief announcement by male announcer at 1349. At 1400, one-and-a-half minutes of local five-note interval signal on piano. Local news. Fair signal with noted amateur radio interference. (John WIlkins, CO)

524.96 Voice of Indonesia Glad to see this one back on here with male's newscast in Indonesian
1200. Voice of Indonesia station promo with web address at 1226. Strong. (Dave Valko, PA/DXpedition 6 March/Cumbre DX)

9524.98, Voice of Indonesia, 1335-1404, March 6, English talk about economic developments in Indonesia. Local music. Closing English announcements at 1402 and into Malay at 1403. Fair signal, stronger than usual. (Brian Alexander, PA)

9525.0, Voice of Indonesia, 1330-1404 + 1502-1506*, March 4. Returned here yet again! Started out very poor against a strong Firedrake & CNR-1 jamming on 9530, till they went off at 1400; full VOI IDs at 1402 and 1502; news in English till suddenly off (Ron Howard, CA)

9525.0, Voice of Indonesia, 1321-1329 + 1435, March 5. Pre-1400 reception was poor due to strong Firedrake and CNR-1 jamming on 9530. Post-1400 reception was fair (Ron Howard, CA)

Japan
3925 Radio Nikkei 1317-1330* Feb 26. Japanese talk from announcer to 1328, then
presumed national anthem. Program close-down announcement at 1329 with several JOZx callsigns given with powers and frequencies. Good signal. (John Wilkins, CO)

Laos
6130, Lao National Radio. A change from their normal schedule. March 3 & 4, from 1416 to 1433, without the usual foreign language programs (English lesson on Tue. and French on Wed.), but instead just playing Southeastern Asian music and songs (Ron Howard, cA).

Malaysia
6099.70, Voice of Malaysia (presumed), 1442-1455*, March 4. Sounded to be in scheduled Burmese (definitely a Southeastern Asian language), along with easy-listening songs. SIgnal poor (Ron Howard, CA).

Malaysia/Sarawak
7270.39v, Wai FM via RTM, 1410, March 4. They continue their daily slight drift up in frequency, which is a good thing, as they have better reception the more they are away from QRM on 7270.0 (Ron Howard, CA)

7270.36v, Limbang FM and Wai FM via RTM, 1356-1433, March 2. All in vernacular. DJ playing pop songs to two pips at 1400. Newscast, at the end of which heard ID for “Limbang FM”. Noted after 1405 DJ playing pop songs, with many on-air calls. Many station ID' as, “Wai FM” (pronounced “Why FM”). This time period is much better, due to less QRM before 1430, but with QRN. After 1430 noted usual chanting (do not believe it was reciting from the Qur’an). Seems that Limbang FM is still being relayed via Wai FM, probably from about 1315 to 1405, but needs better confirmation as to the exact times. Audio streaming at www.rtmsarawak.gov.my/. Could not find the Wai FM website that was available in early 2008, the one that showed their schedule (Ron Howard, CA)

7270.40v, Limbang FM and Wai FM via RTM, 1342-1412, March 5. Clear “Limbang FM” ID with just one frequency given in MHz. Pop song to two signal pips at 1400. Shortened news ending at 1403, with a final “Limbang FM” identification. Program begins with their Wai FM programming of pop songs and has many “Wai FM” ID's. Signal quality almost fair. This has indeed become a regular one for me again (Ron Howard, CA)

Myanmar
5770 Myanmar Defense Forces BS (tentative) Just a carrier here at 1129. Possibly a little music very weak at 1155. (Dave Valko, PA/ DXpedition 6 March/Cumbre DX)

Papua New Guinea
3290 Radio Central. Local music from announcer at 1110. (Dave Valko, PA/ DXpedition 6 March/Cumbre DX)

3305 Radio Western 1151 Song anmnt ("Oh Stella") via announcer. Song started and suddenly dropped down, then back up later. Engliag at 1155 into announcement by male announcer with greetings to listeners, followed by Celine Dion "You Made Me Love You" still going at 1159. Recheck two minutes later and was playing an instrumental guitar song, then deadair at 1204*. Missed sign-off announcement, if there were indeed any. Good signal.(Dave Valko, PA/
DXpedition 6 March/Cumbre DX)

Philippines
9615, Radio Veritas Asia, 1130-1155*, March 6, talk in listed Mandarin. Some inspirational music. Sign off with English ID announcement at 1155. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander,
PA)

Singapore
6120 Radio Nederland relay via Kranji. 2303-2310, 3/3/2009, Bahasa. Man and woman talking. Poor signal. Parallel 9525 (Tinang) noted with slightly better signal. (Jim Evans, TN)

Solomon Islands
9541.50, SIBC, 1512-1542, March 4. Surprised how well this was heard just after my local sunrise. BBC news and “World Briefing”; never any local announcements; 1542 covered by very strong sign-on of a real BBC station, via Singapore on 9540.0, with recorded loop that I am unfamiliar with: “This is the BBC. There are no programs on this channel at present. Details of all our services are at BBCworldserice.com”; 1545 subcontinent musical fanfare and into
scheduled Tamil (Ron Howard, CA)

Taiwan
6150, Radio Taiwan International, (presumed) 1040-1050. Noted a male/female host with Chinese comments. Brief music between topics. Signal never improved beyond a poor level. (Chuck Bolland, FL March 7, 2009)

Vietnam
9840 Voice of Vietnam via Son Tay, 2333-2340, 3/3/2009, English. News read by man/female. Station identification at 2340. Weak signal with slight improvement by 2340. (Jim Evans, TN)