All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on sign-off*
11/2/08 0009 6145 R. Japan 44444 EE (SINPO/English)
11/2/08 1314 9450 R. Poland 55555 EE, news
11/2/08 1410 15745 1Africa/CVC 34323 "Open Studio"
11/2/08 1613 15605 R. France Int'l 55545 EE,news, sports in detail
11/2/08 1647 11665 BBC 55544 EE, formula one racing
11/2/08 1700 11745 SW Africa 55545 World events
11/2/08 1803 6055 Voice of Russia 45544 EE, news // 6245
11/2/08 1811 11620 All India Radio 44444 nuclear technology talk
11/2/08 2100 11690 Deutsche Welle 53444 RTTY on 11690 tune 11692
11/2/08 2130 7145 R. Romania 55555 special on 70th anniv.
(Source: H. Woering, MA)
Argentina
11710.81v, RAE, 0013-0105, Nov 4. Tango music, "R-A-E" IDs spelled out, plus "RAE Buenos Aires" in Japanese till 0100, then English, fair-poor, best in USB (R. Howard, CA)
Bolivia
6075, Radio Kausauki Coca, (presumed) 0950-1040. It's getting tough to hear this station here. The freq is occupied with others and has back ground noise inhibiting reception. Anyway, noted a male in Spanish language comments at 0950 for a minute or two, then the signal faded out. At 1002, copy returned with a female talking which was followed with fading again. At 1011, signal returned for a few brief moments then faded again. At 1029 music was heard, but believe that was coming from Radio Rossii which is on the freq and which took over by 1035. Bolivia was poor to nil during the period. (C.Bolland, FL)
6134.83, Radio Santa Cruz, 1040-1100. I can always count on RSC to be audible around this time. At tune in, noted a male in Spanish language comments. He is joined by a female at 1044. Signal remained poor however. (C. Bolland, FL)
6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 0100-0114*, Nov 1, Spanish talk. Ads. Spanish ballads. Local music. Many IDs. Sign off with local ranchero-style tune with many mentions of Santa Cruz in the lyrics. Poor to fair with adjacent channel splatter. (B. Alexander, PA)
6134.81, Radio Santa Cruz, 0011-0020. Noted an ID being given as I was tuning by, so t hought I'd log this then with a canned ID by a male, "... transmite Radio Santa Cruz ..." Then a female comments briefly and music follows. Signal was good. (C. Bolland, FL November 2, 2008
6155.23, Radio Fides, 2350-0015. Prior to the hour, noted a male in Spanish language comments over and with music. On the hour, time ticks while comments continue. At 0002, a second male talks briefly and gives ID as, "...Radio Fides...". Following this, the program becomes call in production with music and telephone calls all contributing to the confusion. Signal however, was good. (Chuck Bolland, FL November 1, 2008)
Brazil11780, Radio Nacional do Amazonia, 0205-0210, Nov 1. Portuguese talk. IDs. Lite instrumental music. Good. No //s heard.(B. Alexander, PA)
Canada
6030, Calgary - CFVP relaying CKMX (AM 1060), 1412-1421 + 1603-1612, Nov 2. All infomercials (omega 3 super pills, etc.), fair-poor (R. Howard, CA)
Chad6165, RNT, 2210-2231*, Oct 30, French talk. African hi-life music. Sign off with national anthem. Poor with some co-channel QRM and adjacent channel splatter. (B. Alexander)
ChinaFiredrake: Nov 2 & 3 on 6105 // 9000 // 9530. At 1510 + 1516 (earlier had caused QRM for Voice of Indonesia on 9525.90); Nov 2 on 9000 noted the usual 1600* - *1605 (R. Howard, CA)
6185, China Huayi Broadcasting,(pres) 1050-1100 Noted a female in Chinese language omments with only a brief interruption from a male at 1054. At 1056, I loose continuity when either a second station on the freq begins broadcasting or China turns to music which is mixing with the second station also in music. At 1100 nothing is certain since the freq becomes a tangle of signals twisted togather making listening impossible. At 1103 it is evident that the "top gun" in this mess is Mexico which either faded in all of the sudden or came on the air with music. I can hear China way down under Mexico with a threshold signal by 1105.(C. Bolland, FL)
Croatia
(non). via Germany, 7375, Voice of Croatia, 0300-0320,Oct 31, English “Croatia Today” news & current affairs program with news, sports & weather. Local pop music at 0314. Very good. Very weak on // 3984.97 - via Croatia. (B. Alexander, PA)
6165, Voice of Croatia, 0700-0704, Oct 31. Three minute English news bulletin. IDs. Lite instrumental music at 0704. Very good. Weak // 9470, 11690 - both via Germany. (B. Alexander, PA)
Eritrea7100, VOBME, *0354-0400, Nov 1. Interval signal to talk at 0400. Covered by noise jammer at 0400. (Brian Alexander, PA)
7175, VOBME, *0354-0415, Nov 1. Interval signal to talk at 0400. Horn of Africa music. Poor to fair. (B. Alexander, PA)
Equatorial Guinea15190, Radio Africa, 2205-2228, Nov 3. Sounded like Tony Alamo preaching, fair, no QRM (R. Howard, CA)
6250, Radio Nacional, Malabo, 0505-0600,Oct 31. Variety of African choral music, folk music, Afro-pop music. Spanish announcements. Radio Malabo ID. Fair. (B. Alexander, PA)
France15605 Radio France International 1605-1630. English to East and Central Africa. News by lady until 1618 followed by two sports programs in succession. At 1630 announcer gave time check "It is 1630 UTC or 5:30 p-m in Paris. This is Radio France International." Tuned out. Beat the band signal. (B. Barker, PA)
Greenland(Via Global Tuners in UK) Kalaalit Nunaata Radioa via OZL Radio Tasiilaq on 3815U hrd from 2041 to 2114 abrupt sign off after news bulletin and music. Best signal ever heard from any receiver location, almost like a power increase - SINPO 44544 with no "foghorn" ute QRM typical of 2007/2006 receptions. Could be a possible catch on ECNA as night condx get earlier. Woman announcer 2041 to 2050.5 (sounded like reading numbers at times), program tones 2050.5, woman announcer to 2051 then pop music tunes to 2100. Canned OZL announcement by woman (tent.) at 2100 followed by program interval isgnal and into news bulletin by woman (with remote reports) at 2100.5 to 2109. Progfram interval signal again and then instrumnetal music to 2110. Woman announcer 2110-2110.5 fol by two accordion inst pieces to abrupt off at 2113:50. Also heard on Global Tuner Sweden from 2021 to 2041 but much weaker and with high background noise and long-term fading. What sounded like choral music from tune in to 2030 with a long fade followed by a woman announcer fading in again 2038 until switched to the UK site. (B Churchill, CA)
India
4760 All India Radio-Leh, heard at 15.07 on 19 Oct. with good quality signals, but deep fading. Heard several telephone interviews, some traditional music and caught a full station ID at 15.30. I was SO hoping this was Port Blair on the same freq, but I guess that will take some more hard core DXing! (A. Muick, AFG)
4895 AIR Kurseong, heard at 13.38 on Oct. 19th with strong signals but deep and fluttery fading with station IDs, news and commentary and subcontinental music. (A. Muick, AFG)
4950 AIR Srinagar, heard at 13.26 on Oct. 19th, with surprisingly weak signals for 50kW and the closeness compared to other AIR stations being heard. Possible antenna orientation or terrain issues. Heard with IDs, excited talk, call-in show and pieces of music in between features. Signal became entirely useless at 13.44. (A. Muick, AFG)
Iran
6120, Voice of Justice, 0131-0203, Nov 4, in English, reciting from Qur'an, short promo for Islam, news (much about the anniversary of the 1979 capture of hostages at the US embassy, etc), commentary about Iran-India cooperation agreement, "Join us tomorrow for a detailed analysis" of the US elections, started out poor, fair by tune-out (R. Howard, CA)
Indonesia
9525.9, Voice of Indonesia, 1255-1315+, Nov 1. Tune-in to choral music. Talk in unidentified language. English ID at 1305 & into English programming with news at 1307. Poor. Weak but better than usual with a somewhat readable signal. Only a threshold signal when checked at 1350. (B. Alexander, PA)
9525.92, Voice of Indonesia, 1100-1115. I was nonchalantly listening to VOI here when their signal dropped of the air at 1104. It stayed off for about a minute and then came back with a female already into the news. So I thought I'd report it for prosperity or whatever. Eventhough the signal was fair, I couldn't make out the language being used? (C. Bolland, FL November 4, 2008)
9680, RRI Jakarta, 1113-1120. At tune in here, noted a male and female in Indonesian comments for a minute or two, then a short promo break and back to live comments between two males. Signal was fair.(Chuck Bolland, FL November 4, 2008)
Japan
12045 NHK World Radio Japan. Heard 16.40 on 25 Oct. in Japanese with a Karaoke game show. Rather interesting program and S5 signals all the way. (A Muick, AFG)
Mexico6185, Radio Educacion, 1103-1110. As mentioned, this came on the air with music until 1105 when National Anthem is presented. Following that, ID and a series of canned promos. At 1109 more ID's along with time. "... Radio "Educacion?" ... Nacional Radio ...". At 1110 Mexican music presented. Signal was fair. (C. Bolland, FL)
6184.95, Radio Educacion, Mexico City, 0050-0105, Nov 1. Spanish talk. Lite instrumental music. Spanish ballads. IDs. Fair but some adjacent channel splatter. // 1060 - weak under KYW- Philadelphia. (B. Alexander, PA)
North Korea
[non]. 5910, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze, *1400-1430*, Nov 2, 3 and 4, (1357 sign-off of R. Nederland) clearly heard even with moderate noise (jamming?) which is on well before and after Shiokaze. After Shiokaze signed-off heard Anthem, reciting from the Qur'an, into Arabic (Iran?) (R. Howard, CA)
Malaysia
7270, Wai FM and Limbang FM via RTM(tentative). November-02 0833-0842 Male/female announcers with talk to romantic music. QRM from, presumed, PBS Nei Menggu. 22322 (lob-B).
Pakistan
6140 Radio Pakistan World Service. Sign-on at 13.30 in Urdu on 26 Oct. Not even listed on their new B08 sked on their website, yet there they were. S4 sigs until beat down by PBS Xizang on 6130. Stumbled across this while looking for Radio Gloria Intl. via Wertachtal. Tuned in at 1315 and there was nothing but a 1 kHz test tone (nice sidebands!) at about S3/S4, so I hung out, waiting for something to happen. 13.27 Radio Pakistan World service signed on. Not even so much as a carrier or a heterodyne from Gloria was detectable. (A Muick, AFG)
Papua New Guinea3905, Radio New Ireland, Kavieng. November-02 0750-0802. Local music (female choir), 0752 lady announcer talks returning to a local music (like a ballad), 0757 lady talks, 0758 male talks with reverbed voice like an ads, 0800 local music. 34233 (lob-B).
Philippines9615, Radio Veritas Asia, 1118-1130. Noted a female person in Mandarin comments over background music. At 1121 a second female joins in. This is probably a recorded segment since it seems like they are reading a script simular to what we see and hear with our local TV news. So assume it would have been prepared earlier. Signal was fair. (C. Bolland, FL November 4, 2008)
Russia7200,Radio Rossi(presumed), Yakutsk. November-02 Russian scheduled 0822-0831. Male/female annoucners with talk to instrumnetal music. Weak signal SINPO 23322 (lob-B).
Tajikistan4765.05, Tajik Radio 1, Yangiyul, Dushanbe, 1450-2001* and *2300-0100, Oct 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28, Tajik programmes of talk and local music, closed at 2001 with no formality. Opened again at 2300 with something like "Sikobordoran" (probably meaning "Good Morning") said several times by man and woman and they played a heavy rock record the Tajikian style to wake up listeners! Then followed poetry and "normal" folksongs. At 0100 ID: "In jo Dushanbe...." and national hymn by choir, 45333 with transmitter hum, ex 4635 which was no longer heard. Listen to recording: www.ratzer.at/audio.php , click mp3 Audiodatei, 2,8 MB. (DX Window/Bueschel, Petersen, Ratzer and Savolainen)Best wishes from Björn Franssopn, Gotland, Sweden
Thailand15275, Radio Thailand, *0200-0230, Nov 3. English service on with bell/chimes, local news, history of the royal family, business news, several promos (Bangkok Airway, etc.), announced for WNAm, as usual gives wrong time ("10:00-10:30" their local time and "0300-0330 GMT"), fair (R. Howard, CA)
7255, Radio Thailand, 1108-1130 Noted a male in Thai language news and comments until 1114. At that time a series of ID's both in English and Thai. "This is HSK9, Radio Thailand's World Service, Broadcasting from the public relations department, Bangkok." Following this, more comments in Thai language. Signal was good. Referring to the callsign mentioned in the ID, more than once I've heard a station ID using a callsign and each time they just say the letters. It would be much easier for the older listeners like myself, if they pronounced the callsign using the Phonetic Alphabet. For example the above would be given as "Hotel Sierra Kilo 9". At 1130, the VOA starts broadcasting in Oriental language from Thailand. (C. Bolland, November 2, 2008)
Tunisia12005 RTT Tunis, heard 17.01 on 25 Oct. I Arabic with a call-in show with female host then male giving some PSAs and IDs with guitar music backdrop. Very slick production. Many mentions of Tunis all with a very nice S4 signal.(A Muick, AFG)
Zambia
13650 CVC 1630-1700. English with usual soft rock gospel music with Top-40 style DJ mixed with station promos. Audio lost at 1637 and returned in three minuntes. At 1645 gave phone # as +277-8278-5300 followed by ID as: " No. 1 Africa - CVC. One Life, One Way, One Africa." Music until 1657 then abruptly off without mentioning new frequency. Should have switched freqs to 9420 at 1700, but a check showed no signal. (Barker-Broomall, PA)
Zimbabwe
(non). via United Kingdom, 11745 NF, SW Radio Africa,1715-1730, Oct 31, “Newsreel” program with talk about human rights violations in Zimbabwe. Talk about cholera outbreak. IDs. New Frequency. ex-12035. Very good. (B. Alexander, PA)
ContributorsBrian Alexander, PA
Chuck Bolland, FL
Bruce, Barker, PA
Bruce Churchill, CA/Cumbre DX
Björn Franssopn, Gotland, Sweden/DX Window
Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA
Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, SP Brazil/playdx2003
Al Muick, Afghanistan/HCDX
Harold Woering, MA
Text of report in English by heavyweight liberal Russian newspaper Kommersant website on 12 November
