6155.12 BOLIVIA R. Fides 0010-0100 pgm called “Fides, La Paz Informa” with +/-10 min. segments by M and W anncrs separated by ad blocks, including one for bank, ID/promos, and the same instru. mx that sounded like it came from the movie “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid”. 0100 long choral jingle/song w/5+1 long time ticks, and into next pgm. Fairly decent on peaks and a little distorted. Also had a het from pres. AIR Aligarh. (21 May)
17580 CLANDESTINE (FRANCE) V.O. Khaatumo Just missed the s/on and tuned in at 1700 during the opening anmnts M in Somali w/ment of website www.codkakhaatumo.com. Brief chant, then same M returned. 1702 brief HoA mx, then M host again and speech by M to 1710. Discussion by M and W for 5 min. then another live in-the-street tlk to 1720, and into HoA choral mx. Another tlk feature at 1722 followed by live speech, and M anncr host but cut off as signal left the air. Fair at best but fady. (21 May) 15700 PAKISTAN R. Pakistan Found here at 1736 after leaving V.O. Khaatumo. Press feature by W in apparent Urdu w/ment of Pakistan and soundbite of M tlking. 1738 end of feature w/fanfare, then into subcont. mx. Same W returned between songs at 1742, 1750, 1753, and 1756. Went off in mid-song at 1759.32. Up to fair on peaks. (21 May) 15730 PAKISTAN R. Pakistan Per tip from John Cooper, found here w/OC on at 0112:58, then audio up in mid-pgm at 0113:30 w/pgm of “roomy” sounding tlk by M and vcl singing by M kind of sounding like the Koran, and hosted by another M anncr. 0159 usual ToH fanfare, 3 time ticks, then W w/nx ID intro, nx headlines w/instru. mx between each item, then nx in detail. Ended w/ID, and off at 0210:24. Poor but there. (22 May) 7175 ERITREA V.O. the Broad Masses of Eritrea OC w/tone at 0255, then usual guitar IS w/occas. IDs starting 0255:57. Horrible QRM from SP AM Hams right on the freq at this time. Finally clear ID at 0258:50. Into pgming at 0300:45 w/studio M anncr in pres. Amharic. Into HoA mx at 0302 past 0305. Very nice signal when the Hams weren’t on. (22 May) 7200 ERITREA V.O. the Broad Masses of Eritrea IS w/occas. ID sequence already going at 0255. Beautiful signal but Ham net just blasting it out. In fact at 0258:25 one Ham said he tlked to the guys on 7205 that said there was a SW stn there (obviously Sudan) and hoped the same thing didn’t happen there on 7200. Another Ham responded that it could be Japan or somewhere else. Pgm start at 0300 w/M and W anncrs in pres. Tigrinya. 0304 HoA mx, and the tlk segment. Too bad the freq wasn’t clear. (22 May) 7205 SUDAN R. Omdurman/SNBC Excellent signal w/Ham QRM at 0255 t/in. Clear then at 0256 w/canned anmnt by M over AR mx. 0257 studio M w/AR ID, then tlk by diff. deep-voiced M for 2 min., 5+1 echoed time ticks, same deep-voiced M w/nice ID, usual fanfare, and into nx, and Ham came on testing his audio w/”hello radio”. Still excellent at 0333:10 w/ID by M end tlk feature, then into great lcl vcl mx. About the best ever heard Sudan here. (22 May) 13725 FRANCE R. France Int. Signal on at 0558:50 and audio up 10 sec. later w/M cmntry in EG abt conflicts in Syria/Iraq. 4 time ticks over instru. mx at 0600 and ID “You’re listening to ‘Paris Live’ on R. France Int.”, then into nx by M. 0609:45 ID, website, and e-mail info. Then more nx stories. Another ID by M at 0629:50, another ID w/nx at 0630. Good signal and 100% copy. Nice to finally hear RFI in EG again, especially since I never recorded it years ago. (22 May) No sign of 7290 RRI Nabire today at 0830. (22 May) 15485 PAKISTAN R. Pakistan 1340 very weak w/what sounded like the Koran. Nearly inaudible 3 min. later but still getting some audio at times until it went off at 1354. Came back on at 1412:30 w/QRM from pres. 15487 V.O. Tibet. Noted tlk by M at 1419 but barely there. Mx at 1426, and off at 1429:50. (22 May) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop and 153 foot triangular Delta Loop antennas. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
