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Today's Topics:
1. Brandon Jordan African Logs - April 10--11 (Brandon Jordan)
2. big L today & mali? (Zacharias Liangas )
3. The Shortwave Report 04/10/09 Listen Globally!
(Zacharias Liangas )
4. India: HCJB goes mainstream with Easter story (Zacharias Liangas )
5. Seoul radio stations broadcast news to North Korea
(Zacharias Liangas )
6. Ultimas escuchas (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
7. LOG (Jorge Freitas (Yahoo))
8. ENC: [Bulk] [DX CLUBE PR] LOG (Jorge Freitas (Yahoo))
9. SIBC, Victoria, Marfil Estereo (Dave Valko)
10. KBS International (Manuel M?ndez)
11. Re: Brandon Jordan African Logs - April 10--11 (update)
(Brandon Jordan)
12. Re: ClewistonUSa, Log Sun Morn (Robert Wilkner)
13. Re: Clewiston............... (Robert Wilkner)
14. Pirata 6305 NO ID, ingl?s, buena m?sica
(JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
15. Brandon Jordan Logs - Apr 10-11 part 2 (Brandon Jordan)
16. Seoul radio stations broadcast news to North Korea (Arnaldo)
17. EiBi A09 (Eike Bierwirth)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:10:19 -0500
From: Brandon Jordan <bcdx....@gmail.com>
To: cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com, d...@yahoogroups.com, HCDX CONTRIBUTIONS
- LATEST <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, na...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HCDX] Brandon Jordan African Logs - April 10--11
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** EQUATORIAL GUINEA - FERNANDO POO R Malabo, Malabo, Apr 11, *0538-0630
- on in mid-song with back to back pop dance music until 0603, female in
Spanish with Radio Malabo, then male with with some sort of monologue
during fading signal. Signal initially pretty good but useless by 0630.
Occasional utility QRM on high side.
** ETHIOPIA 5990.4v R Ethiopia, Geja, Apr 11, 0248-0430+ - transmitter
turned on at 0248 on 5990.32 kHz and drifting upward 200 Hz to 5990.52
kHz by the time I lost the carrier in the noise floor after 0515 UTC or
so. Weak with no audio heard except during 0320-0330 period when music
was heard // 7110v.
** ETHIOPIA 6110.0 R Fana, Addis Ababa, Apr 11, *0253-0500 - Transmitter
on at 0253, poor with possible IS from 0257, beginning to rapidly
improve from 0318 with excellent ethnic vocals with announcer in
presumed Amharic until the top of the hour. Nice Radio Fana ID at 0400
then possible news by male speaker until 0408 as signal began to slowly
starting to fade. Back to music then into monologue by male from 0414.
NHK via Sackville ends the party at 0500 and by the time she vacates
frequency at 0528, Fana is just a very weak carrier bobbing along
slightly above the noise floor.
** ETHIOPIA 7110.1v R Ethiopia, Geja, Apr 11, 0258-0450 - transmitter on
at 0258 on 7110.11 and slowly drifting downward. I couldn't verify
modulation until beginning 0318 as signal strengthened rapidly with very
nice local instrumental music, male and female announcers in presumed
Amharic from 0330, magazine style format with musical interludes,
mentions of Addis Ababa, Ghana. Vocal from 0405 by which time the
transmitter had drifted down to 7110.06. A second transmitter came on at
0406 on 7110.01 and then the original transmitter dropped off after 15
seconds or so of simultaneous broadcasting. While the signal had faded
somewhat, it was clear this second transmitter has slightly better
strength, modulation and is relatively stable. Strangely enough, they
switched back to the original transmitter on 7110.06 at 0439 which was
much weaker, and then back to stronger 7110.01 again at 0443! This is
not the case of the transmitter suddenly jumping 50 Hz as both
transmitters are clearly overlapping 10 seconds or so. Station really
hanging in there, I didn't totally loose audio until about 0530 UTC, and
the carrier still effervescing at the noise floor at 0610, well over 2
hours after sunrise at the transmitter! If I wasn't experiencing
stronger than normal electrical QRN on 41 mb this night, this would have
been an excellent signal during peaks.
** MALI 5995 (presumed) Mali Radio, Bamako, Apr 10, 2235-0000* -
snippets of audio noted from 2235, better from 2330 with female
announcer in French, pop African vocals, male at 2358 with possible
sign-off announcements, likely NA then transmitter off as RHC on 6000
devastates this frequency.
** MALI 5995 (presumed) Mali Radio, Bamako, Apr 11, *0548-0800*-
transmitter on at 0548 with local vocal with drums and stringed
instruments, female at 0600 with greetings then back into interesting
ethnic vocals. Audio beginning to fade from 0615, but carrier hung in
long enough to verify 0800 sign-off. Cuba slop on high side until 0701,
by which time Mali has faded way down.
** ZAMBIA 5914.99 ZNBC, Lusaka, Apr 11, 0230-0405 - transmitter turned
on at 0230, broadcasting a 1 kHz tone from 0231 until 0241, then "Call
of the Fish Eagle" IS until an off-frequency BBC via Meyerton on 5914.98
from *0257-0332* in listed Swahili spoiled the signal. Not very nice of
them. ZNBC clear from 0332 with a very poor signal but improving toward
the top of the hour as the sun was rising over Lusaka. It was not to be
as an on-frequency DW via Rampisham in listed Russian signed on at 0400
again spoiling the signal, although by this time ZNBC had strengthened
enough to give it a run for its money.
** UNID 6024.96v Apr 11, *0419 - Noticed a transmitter firing up at 0419
on 6024.966 and slowly fading down to 6024.952 kHz. Carrier only, too
weak for audio, slight peak from 0530 and fading rapidly from 0630, into
noise floor by 0700. Could this be FRCN Enugu?
--
Brandon Jordan - Memphis, TN, USA
Perseus SDR + Wellbrook ALA100
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:07:57 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] big L today & mali?
Message-ID: <49e1e7ad.3172.26e...@greekdx.otenet.gr>
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Happy easter!
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/216
9770 Big L 0916 with nearly no signal or just S2 At 0940 with S4 or 252x2 .
0949 man with ID and song 'pop corn' so far the signal is merely marginal
with very short peaks to S4 (less than 2 minutes )Liangas April 12
5995 Mali? /ZWE? 1925 with talks by man in VN and with signal S9 or
44434 Abrupt sign offon 1937 Liangas April 11
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:39:10 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] The Shortwave Report 04/10/09 Listen Globally!
Message-ID: <49e1eefe.6846.437...@greekdx.otenet.gr>
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The Shortwave Report 04/10/09 Listen Globally!
by Dan Roberts ( outfarpress(at)saber.net )
Thursday Apr 9th, 2009 5:08 PM
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a
shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files-
broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China,
Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (April 10) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast
quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)
(NEW! If you have access to Audioport.org there is a higher quality version
posted up there {26.7MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-
info&uid=904&nav=&;)
This week's show features stories from China Radio International, Radio
Netherlands, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
>From CHINA- Chinese President Hu Jintao sent condolences to the people
of Italy following an earthquake which killed at least 260 people- an
earthquake last May in China killed over 70,000. Following a satellite launch
by North Korea, the UN Security Council considered sanctions but took no
action. In Prague, US President Obama called for reducing the global
nuclear arsenal. Iranian President Ahmadinejad said he would welcome
genuine talks with the US. The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former
President Bush had his sentence reduced from 3 years to 1.
>From NETHERLANDS- Radio Netherlands has eliminated shortwave
broadcasts to North America. The decision is based on their surveys that
find very few listeners in N America. If you ever listen to RN on shortwave,
please let them know- by email to letters [at] rnw.nl or send them a letter to
Radio Netherlands Worldwide, PO Box 222, 1200JG, Hilversum, The
Netherlands.
There have been calls for a criminal investigation into the death of a non-
protestor walking by police during the G20 protests in London. Rawanda
marked the 15th anniversary of the start of a genocide that resulted in the
death of 800,000 people in 100 days. Peru's Supreme Court has convicted
former President Fujimori of human rights abuses and sentenced him to 25
years in prison.
>From CUBA- The US administration is increasing the use of drones to carry
out strikes in Pakistan. Cuban President Raul Castro met with the members
of the US Congress Black caucus this week, led by Barbara Lee from
California. The International Red Cross stated that US medical personnel
were deeply involved in the CIA torture of prisoners held overseas. The top
UN official in the Gaza Strip called on Israel to ease restrictions on the flow
of goods into the territory, while the US delivered a massive shipment of
arms to Israel. The White House is expecting Israeli President Netanyahu to
allow the further expansion of settlement building in Palestinian territory.
>From RUSSIA- 40 Palestinians were wounded in attacks by Israeli settlers in
the West Bank. A review of the international response to last week's NATO
summit in Strasbourg.
There is an article about the Shortwave Report by Cassandra Roos on line
at-http://www.campusprogress.org/soundvision/780/big-stories-shortwaves
I was interviewed for an informative weekly radio show Mediageek, available
at http://radio.mediageek.net
All that plus times and frequencies for listening at home. It's free to
rebroadcast, please notify me if you're airing it and haven't notified me in
the
last month, please mention the website if you only air a portion. If you just
want to listen and have a slow connection, try the streaming version- lower
sound quality but good enough and way easier if you don't have a high-
speed internet connection. If streaming is a problem because of your slow
connection, download the smaller file- it takes 20 minutes or less, and will
play swell in any mp3 player application (RealPlayer, Winamp, Quicktime,
iTunes, etc) you have on your computer.
This program will be aired on Friday afternoon at 4:30pm (PDST) on KZYX/Z
Philo CA, you might be able to stream via < http://www.kzyx.org >
There are several other streams that work better- <
http://www.freakradio.org >Freak Radio Santa Cruz now streams this
program on Friday at 9:00am.(PDST)
The Shortwave Report may be downloaded as a podcast from <
feed://http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?series=o
utFarpress+presents > or iTunes (search for "shortwave" in podcasts)
Check out the amazing streams at < http://www.radicalradio.org >
And Radio For Peace International at < http://www.rfpi.org >
I hope you'll listen and air this if you're connected with a radio station. I
am
still wondering how to get financially compensated for the 25 hours I put into
this program weekly- any ideas are appreciated. Any stations rebroadcasting
this (or listeners) are welcome to donate for production costs. You can do so
through the website. Many thanks to those that have donated! No Guilt!
(maybe a little)
link for broadcast edition-
< http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/swr_04_10_09.mp3 >(13.3MB)
link for smaller file and streaming-
< http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml >
?FurthuR! Dan Roberts
--"As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in
the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the
ill,
the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or
hunger."
--Fidel Castro
http://www.outfarpress.com
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06600224598981072865
http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics)
http://zlgr.stumbleupon.com (my social 'bookmarks' )
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://www.youtube.com/zach0gr some videos
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload
http://www.geocities.com/zliangas
http://www.myspace.com/310100806
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854
http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1
........
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:39:11 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] India: HCJB goes mainstream with Easter story
Message-ID: <49e1eeff.9472.438...@greekdx.otenet.gr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
India: HCJB goes mainstream with Easter story
http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/news.aspx?action=view&id=3293
Many of HCJB Global Voice?s 350 media partners will carry special
programming this Easter. But in the UK and India, HCJB Global efforts go
beyond Christian radio to provide compelling programming for secular
stations.
In India, HCJB Global Voice will air two 30-minute dramatized gospel
programmes on two major government FM channels, with audiences
reaching a potential 50 million people. The programmes tell the story of the
life of Jesus ending with His crucifixion, resurrection and ascension. The
first
half of the story will air on Good Friday, and the second half will air on
Easter
Sunday.
The programmes end with a question that listeners can answer via text
message or mail for the chance to receive a surprise gift. Listeners who
supply an address will also be sent a pre-evangelistic, comic-style book in
Hindi along with a programme guide for programmes aired from HCJB
Global-Australia?s shortwave radio facility in Kununurra.
According to a study conducted by the National Readership Studies Council
(NRSC) between 2005 and 2006, the reach of radio broadcasts have
increased by 27 percent in India to 119 million people listening in an average
week. Much of this growth is in the area of FM radio listenership.
HCJB Global in the UK will air two short programmes produced by their
radio department 'Whistling Frog Productions' for two major stations in the
Yorkshire area. Combined, these stations can be heard by almost 180,000
people. One programme is called Final Answer and is a spoof of a popular
TV quiz show. The contestant has four possible answers to the question,
"What?s going to be the number one goal in your life?". The second
programme features the thief who died on the cross next to Jesus talking
about the latest surprise arrival in heaven.
The opportunity to build relationships with mainstream stations and provide
thought-provoking programming for secular radio is a key part of HCJB
Global Voice?s ministry in the UK.
"This is the sort of impact we?ve always wanted to achieve - not just one-off
programmes here and there, but a lasting relationship which changes the
whole output of a radio station," said HCJB Global-UK Director Colin
Lowther.
Evangelistic outreaches such as these are as critical as ever to the media
ministries of HCJB Global. "In the 21st century the resurrection is still our
distinctive message," said HCJB Global President Wayne Pederson. "You
can point to the tombs of most every religious leader in history. But Jesus?
tomb is empty."
Find out more at www.hcjb.org.uk
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
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http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics)
http://zlgr.stumbleupon.com (my social 'bookmarks' )
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://www.youtube.com/zach0gr some videos
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload
http://www.geocities.com/zliangas
http://www.myspace.com/310100806
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http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1
........
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:39:11 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] Seoul radio stations broadcast news to North Korea
Message-ID: <49e1eeff.12283.438...@greekdx.otenet.gr>
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Seoul radio stations broadcast news to North Korea
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-korearadio12-
2009apr12,0,4997077,full.story
John M. Glionna / Los Angeles Times
Lee Seung-han, left, and Choi Seung-hee prepare a broadcast. Open
Radio's most popular show is "Unsent Letters," which relays messages to
North Koreans.
The small operations in South Korea aim to be voices of change by airing
information to counter Pyongyang's propaganda and by passing messages
from friends and relatives to North Koreans.
By John M. Glionna
April 12, 2009
Reporting from Seoul -- They were just a jumble of conversations overhead
on a train. But for South Korean radio station founder Young Howard, they
represented breaking news from a hostile, inaccessible land.
When North Korea recently defied international calls for restraint and
launched a rocket, purportedly to put a satellite in orbit, it wasn't long
before
a covert correspondent there was on her cellphone to editors in Seoul.
People were celebrating a colossal success, she whispered. "If we have
starved, it has been in sacrifice of this glory," she quoted the train
passengers as saying. "The Americans cannot dismiss North Korea's new
weapon."
Howard knew differently: U.S. intelligence reports said the rocket never
made it into orbit. Within hours, Open Radio for North Korea was
broadcasting its own report to listeners across the border.
"News out of Pyongyang violates the basics of journalism," he said. "We tell
the other side of the story."
Howard's station is among half a dozen Seoul-based operations that each
day dispatch news and opinions into North Korea. Some, like Open Radio,
are the work of concerned outsiders. Others are run by defectors, many of
whom use pseudonyms because they know vengeful officials could
persecute family and friends left behind.
Most are small shops with a few reporters, editors and newsreaders. They
broadcast only a few hours each day over fragile shortwave radio bands,
operating on shoestring budgets with private donations.
Considering the shortage of radios in North Korea and the penalty for
owning one, the broadcasters don't know how many people actually hear
their voices. For Howard, it's like putting a message in a bottle and tossing
it
out to sea.
"We don't expect any answers," said the 40-year-old father of three who was
born in Busan, South Korea. "We're just putting information out there in the
hope that people's loved ones will hear."
By far the most popular program for Howard's station is "Unsent Letters,"
which broadcasts messages from outsiders seeking to get word to friends
and family in North Korea.
It's an electronic bulletin board of sorts. Often the missives are sentimental
reminiscences, bits and pieces of memory, raw emotion.
One recent installment told of two South Korean fishermen who family
members say were kidnapped by the North Koreans in the 1970s, never to
be heard from again. The announcer asked for details of the men, then
played a popular song called "Memory of a Drink" in remembrance.
Another message came from a woman looking for word of her father, who
she says was kidnapped 37 years ago. She says she grew up thinking he
died in a shipping accident. But in 2005 she got word that he was alive in
North Korea.
She says she hopes to meet him one day.
"If it is true that he is alive, he would be in old age," she says. "Poor
Daddy!
Seventy-two years old!"
Experts are divided on the role the radio stations play in the lives of North
Koreans. Some call them tools of change, while others say their operators
are frustrated defectors shouting into the wind.
"They might not be able to bring the kind of change that, say, subversive
radio played in Eastern Europe in the 1970s, but they have an effect," said
Andrei Lankov, a professor specializing in North Korean history at Seoul's
Kookmin University.
Others dismiss the dispatches as a stream of invective against North Korean
leader Kim Jong Il and his minions.
"You have to look at the origin of a lot of these refugee broadcasters," said
Brian Myers, an assistant professor at Dongseo University in Busan and an
expert on the North's propaganda.
"What somebody from the poorest part of North Korea says is not relevant
to the elite in Pyongyang," he said. "It's like if someone from Appalachia fled
the U.S. and began broadcasting their opinions into the U.S. from Canada. I
don't think they do a very sophisticated job."
Howard became interested in the nation's plight while a student in China. It
was the 1990s and North Koreans were enduring a devastating famine.
"They were starving to death, and yet they were still praising Kim Jong Il," he
said. "I realized that the problem was not in people's stomachs but in their
brains. They needed information."
Howard launched his station in 2005, and there were problems from the
start. The South Korean government resisted giving him a license, worried
that the upstart anti-Pyongyang stations would further complicate relations
between North and South.
North Korea presented problems as well. Early on, Howard said, a Russian
company, under pressure from Pyongyang, canceled a contract to transmit
his broadcasts.
Today, Howard transmits from an undisclosed country. With a staff of 15,
including four defectors, Open Radio broadcasts daily, offering hourlong
programs with material from volunteer producers.
Defectors who are now radio journalists insist that the medium is the best
way to influence events back home.
Kim Dae-sung, station director for Free North Korea Radio in Seoul, says his
life changed in 1996 when, as a young engineer in the North, he bought a
radio on the black market.
It was a Sony, small enough to fit in the palm of his hand. He tucked it inside
his clothes and hid his earphones under a wool cap. He became addicted to
the radio's connection to the world outside.
"I would see things that were wrong in North Korea, but I couldn't speak out,"
said Kim, who uses a pseudonym. "The radio spoke out."
His radio also showed him a way out. One report mentioned a South Korean
consulate that had just opened in a nearby city in China. He defected there
and years later settled in Seoul.
Now, more than half of his 20 radio station employees are fellow defectors.
"Radio changed my life, my philosophy, my ideas," he said.
Concrete rewards for the radio operators' efforts are infrequent but
inspirational, like the day Howard heard from a North Korean defector in
China who said he had been a frequent listener to his station.
"I realized," Howard said, "that someone out there was hearing us."
john.glio...@latimes.com
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06600224598981072865
http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics)
http://zlgr.stumbleupon.com (my social 'bookmarks' )
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://www.youtube.com/zach0gr some videos
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload
http://www.geocities.com/zliangas
http://www.myspace.com/310100806
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854
http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1
........
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:46:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <jmromero782...@yahoo.es>
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: [HCDX] Ultimas escuchas
Message-ID: <523692.48679...@web25703.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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Saludos cordiales.
ESLOVAQUIA 9510 IRRS Milano, Rimavska Sobota, 09:36-09:40, escuchada el 12 de
abril en ingl?s a locutor con comentarios en programa religioso con p?blico,
aplausos, SINPO 45444
LITUANIA 9770 KBC Radio, Sikunai, 09:02-09:30, escuchada el 12 de abril en
ingl?s a locutor con comentarios en programa musical, cu?as de ID, anuncian
p?gina de Internet, m?sica pop mel?dica de los a?os 70 u 80, SINPO 45444
NIGERIA 9690 Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu, 09:31-09:35, escuchada el 12 de abril
en fulfulde a locutor con comentarios, referencias a la radio, segmento
musical, SINPO 35443
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
Sangean ATS 909
Antena Radio Master A-108
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:07:06 -0000
From: "Jorge Freitas \(Yahoo\)" <jorgefreitas_...@yahoo.com.br>
To: <radioescu...@yahoogrupos.com.br>, Dxclube Paran?
<dxcl...@yahoogrupos.com.br>, "Hard Core DX"
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] LOG
Message-ID: <200904121206.n3cc6q74011...@tx.kotalampi.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
7290 11/04 2047 (SVK) ESLOVAQUIA, IRRS Milano, *presumida*, EE, desde
Rimavska Sobota, com 150 kW, OM talk como se fosse um serm?o religioso
estilo voz e discurso americano, fiz uma pesquisa no google e encontrei o
seguinte sobre essa r?dio no link traduzido
http://74.125.47.132/translate_c?hl=pt-BR
<http://74.125.47.132/translate_c?hl=pt-BR&sl=en&u=http://www.nexus.org/radi
o.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dradio%2Birrs%2Bmilano%26hl%3Dpt-BR%26sa%3DG&usg=ALk
JrhgNix0EhND8aUgXqf64avTZlepB_A>
&sl=en&u=http://www.nexus.org/radio.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dradio%2Birrs%2Bmi
lano%26hl%3Dpt-BR%26sa%3DG&usg=ALkJrhgNix0EhND8aUgXqf64avTZlepB_A , em meio
a forte QRM de emissoras n?o identificadas, as 2056 UTC mx pop (gospel?), as
2100 UTC fim tx, #gravado#, 22332 (JJFS-Feira de Santana BA-Brasil)
12025 11/04 1716 (IND) INDIA, All ?ndia Radio, *presumida*, em hindi, desde
Panaji, com 250 kW, sequ?ncia de mx t?pica, 25332 (JJFS-Feira de Santana
BA-Brasil)
73 e boas escutas
Jorge Freitas
SWL1023B
Skype jorge.freitas.fsa
Blog: http://www.ipernity.com/blog/75006
Escutas: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006/home?t=74925
<http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006/home?t=74925&c=6&s=uploaded>
&c=6&s=uploaded
Feira de Santana Bahia - Brasil
12?? 15' 1.57" S 38?? 58' 40.30" W
Degen 1103
Antena Dipolo de 16 metros e balum 4:1 em toroide.
Dire??o Leste/Oeste
"De Certa forma, as pessoas s?o como esponjas; elas t?m a tend?ncia de
absorver o que est? ? sua volta. ? muito f?cil adotar, mesmo sem querer, as
atitudes, os padr?es e os tra?os de personalidade daqueles com quem temos
muito contato" Portanto procuremos sempre ser uma pessoa melhor a cada dia.
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:36:19 -0000
From: "Jorge Freitas \(Yahoo\)" <jorgefreitas_...@yahoo.com.br>
To: "Hard Core DX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Dxclube Paran?
<dxcl...@yahoogrupos.com.br>, <radioescu...@yahoogrupos.com.br>
Subject: [HCDX] ENC: [Bulk] [DX CLUBE PR] LOG
Message-ID: <200904121236.n3ccan8q017...@tx.kotalampi.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Colegas,
O link original sobre a r?dio IRRS Milano http://www.nexus.org/radio.htm
.
73
Jorge Freitas
SWL1023B
Skype jorge.freitas.fsa
Blog: http://www.ipernity.com/blog/75006
Escutas: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006/home?t=74925
<http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006/home?t=74925&c=6&s=uploaded>
&c=6&s=uploaded
Feira de Santana Bahia - Brasil
12?? 15' 1.57" S 38?? 58' 40.30" W
Degen 1103
Antena Dipolo de 16 metros e balum 4:1 em toroide.
Dire??o Leste/Oeste
"De Certa forma, as pessoas s?o como esponjas; elas t?m a tend?ncia de
absorver o que est? ? sua volta. ? muito f?cil adotar, mesmo sem querer, as
atitudes, os padr?es e os tra?os de personalidade daqueles com quem temos
muito contato" Portanto procuremos sempre ser uma pessoa melhor a cada dia.
_____
De: dxcl...@yahoogrupos.com.br [mailto:dxcl...@yahoogrupos.com.br] Em nome
de Jorge Freitas (Yahoo)
Enviada em: domingo, 12 de abril de 2009 12:07
Para: radioescu...@yahoogrupos.com.br; Dxclube Paran?; Hard Core DX
Assunto: [Bulk] [DX CLUBE PR] LOG
7290 11/04 2047 (SVK) ESLOVAQUIA, IRRS Milano, *presumida*, EE, desde
Rimavska Sobota, com 150 kW, OM talk como se fosse um serm?o religioso
estilo voz e discurso americano, fiz uma pesquisa no google e encontrei o
seguinte sobre essa r?dio no link traduzido
http://74.125.47.132/translate_c?hl=pt-BR
<http://74.125.47.132/translate_c?hl=pt-BR&sl=en&u=http://www.nexus.org/radi
o.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dradio%2Birrs%2Bmilano%26hl%3Dpt-BR%26sa%3DG&usg=ALk
JrhgNix0EhND8aUgXqf64avTZlepB_A>
&sl=en&u=http://www.nexus.org/radio.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dradio%2Birrs%2Bmi
lano%26hl%3Dpt-BR%26sa%3DG&usg=ALkJrhgNix0EhND8aUgXqf64avTZlepB_A , em meio
a forte QRM de emissoras n?o identificadas, as 2056 UTC mx pop (gospel?), as
2100 UTC fim tx, #gravado#, 22332 (JJFS-Feira de Santana BA-Brasil)
12025 11/04 1716 (IND) INDIA, All ?ndia Radio, *presumida*, em hindi, desde
Panaji, com 250 kW, sequ?ncia de mx t?pica, 25332 (JJFS-Feira de Santana
BA-Brasil)
73 e boas escutas
Jorge Freitas
SWL1023B
Skype jorge.freitas.fsa
Blog: http://www.ipernity.com/blog/75006
Escutas: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006/home?t=74925
<http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006/home?t=74925&c=6&s=uploaded>
&c=6&s=uploaded
Feira de Santana Bahia - Brasil
12?? 15' 1.57" S 38?? 58' 40.30" W
Degen 1103
Antena Dipolo de 16 metros e balum 4:1 em toroide.
Dire??o Leste/Oeste
"De Certa forma, as pessoas s?o como esponjas; elas t?m a tend?ncia de
absorver o que est? ? sua volta. ? muito f?cil adotar, mesmo sem querer, as
atitudes, os padr?es e os tra?os de personalidade daqueles com quem temos
muito contato" Portanto procuremos sempre ser uma pessoa melhor a cada dia.
__._,_.___
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:14:44 -0400
From: "Dave Valko" <djva...@verizon.net>
To: <r...@earthlink.net>, <lyam...@comcast.net>, <srbjr...@yahoo.com>,
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, <cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com>,
<kirk74...@yahoo.com>, "Guy Atkins" <d...@guyatkins.com>, "Nicolas
Eramo" <ner...@gmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] SIBC, Victoria, Marfil Estereo
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reply-type=original
SOLOMON ISLANDS 9541.51 SIBC/R. Happy Isles 0835- Hrd again with a lot
of tlk by same YL anncr. M anncr after 0901, then W returned at 0903. Poor
and just a little readable. Seems like this isn't on the air every day. At
least here at my QTH, its either audible or it isn't noted at all. (6
April)
MALAYSIA 7295 Traxx FM 1058 Pop mx right to the ToH, one short and one
long time tick, fanfare and M w/world nx starting w/M mentioning the "RTM
radio center". 1110 ended with the headlines, and outro mentioning the RTM
radio center and anncr gave his name, then went immediately back to Pop mx.
Fair at best w/some QRN below. (11 April)
PERU 6019.35 R. Victoria 0637 t/in and caught canned anmnt by M
mentioning ".en Lima Peru", ".San Martin ?? corazon de Lima.por las manana
?? y noches, en ?? Lima.Christos", then different M starting w/pgm ID for
"La Voz de la Liberacion" and tlk by M and W then w/ment of Christos. Came
back at 0702 and noted R. Victoria ID and ment of nacional, San Martin,
Arequipa, and onda corta. Fair and basically clear. (12 April)
COLOMBIA 5910.07 Marfil Estereo 0623-0635 pgm of nice LA Pops and
Rancheras. 0634 Canned anmnt, then TC/ID by 2 men between songs as "La hora
en Marfil Estereo.es la una 34 minutes. Este en sintonado Marfil Estereo".
Very nice clear signal but some thunderstorm static noise. Nice audio on
the HQ-129X. (12 April)
73 Dave
Dunlo, PA, USA
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:50:24 +0200
From: Manuel M?ndez <manuelmend...@gmail.com>
To: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [HCDX] KBS International
Message-ID: <49e20dc0.90...@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Manuel M?ndez
Escucha realizada con una peque?a radio anal?gica Sony ICF- SW12 y su
antena telesc?pica
LITUANIA, 9770, KBS International, 0730*-1050 y 1345-1429*, 12-04,
m?sica de sinton?a, locutor, identificaci?n: "KBS International",
ingl?s, "Big L on 1395 kHz Midium Wave", m?sica pop, comentarios en
ingl?s y en holand?s, "Big L Goes, broadcasting on 9770 kHz.", "Sixties
music", cancion de Tom Jones, "KBS, the hight Station on your dial",
canciones de Rod Stewart, "From the Netherlands, you are listening the
Big L Show on 9770 kHz allways from Lithuania" "Seventies music". A las
0830 se?ales horarias, identificaci?n "KBS", "Adrina John", Seventies
and eighties music", Tom Jones "Sex bomb", a las 0930 identificaci?n:
"You are listening to Big L Internatinal on 9770 kHz.". Programa s?lo
en ingl?s, m?sica pop, comentarios, locutor, The Beatles "Lady Madonna".
A las 1345 comentarios en ingl?s, identificaciones, m?sica pop, p?gina
web de la emisora: http://www.kbcradio.eu/ , anuncio de radios:
http://kbcimport.com/. Cierre a las 1429. 45444. (M?ndez)
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:25:25 -0500
From: Brandon Jordan <bcdx....@gmail.com>
To: cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com, d...@yahoogroups.com, HCDX CONTRIBUTIONS
- LATEST <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, na...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Brandon Jordan African Logs - April 10--11
(update)
Message-ID: <49e215f5.80...@gmail.com>
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Update: Frequency here should be 6,250 kHz.
> ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA - FERNANDO POO R Malabo, Malabo, Apr 11,
> *0538-0630 - on in mid-song with back to back pop dance music
> until 0603, female in Spanish with Radio Malabo, then male with
> with some sort of monologue during fading signal. Signal
> initially pretty good but useless by 0630. Occasional utility
> QRM on high side.
--
Brandon Jordan - Memphis, TN, USA
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:23:27 -0400
From: Robert Wilkner <r...@earthlink.net>
To: wghau...@yahoo.com
Cc: Chuck B <ka4...@peoplepc.com>, d...@yahoogroups.com, Logs DSWCI
Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI <l...@directbox.com>,
hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [HCDX] ClewistonUSa, Log Sun Morn
Message-ID: <49e2238f.4080...@earthlink.net>
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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:53:05 -0400
From: Robert Wilkner <r...@earthlink.net>
To: HCDX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Clewiston...............
Message-ID: <49e22a81.9070...@earthlink.net>
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Message: 14
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:06:28 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <jmromero782...@yahoo.es>
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: [HCDX] Pirata 6305 NO ID, ingl?s, buena m?sica
Message-ID: <521234.19540...@web25701.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Saludos cordiales, hoy 12 de abril cuando son las 20:00 UTC estoy escuchando
en 6305 emisora pirata sin identificar, emitiendo en ingl?s con muy buena se?al.
Jos? Miguel
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Message: 15
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:23:53 -0500
From: Brandon Jordan <bcdx....@gmail.com>
To: cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com, d...@yahoogroups.com, HCDX CONTRIBUTIONS
- LATEST <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, na...@yahoogroups.com,
playdx2...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HCDX] Brandon Jordan Logs - Apr 10-11 part 2
Message-ID: <49e24dd9.5020...@gmail.com>
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** CHAD 6165 RNT, N'Djamena, Apr 11, 0417-0459 - transmitter on 6165.14
kHz turned on at 0417 and rapidly drifting downward to 6165.0 by 0427
when they began modulating with very good signal. 0427 with Balafon
interval signal, La Tchadienne National Anthem precisely at 0430, man in
French with ID at 0431 "Ici N'Djamena, Office Nationale de Radiodifusion
et T?l?vision du Tchad", frequency announcement. Hi-life vocals from
0432 to 0450, then lively male chatting over music for a few minutes.
Talks by man and woman from 0452 until reception ruined at 0459 when R
Nederland via Bonaire returns to this frequency. Good strong signal,
slightly distorted modulation except during music. Nice one hour respite
from Bonaire allowing for a excellent prime-time window to Africa, too
bad it couldn't last longer.
** ETHIOPIA (presumed) 9559.5v R Ethiopia, Geja, Apr 11, 1311-1428 -
strong carrier putting a huge het on R Australia 9560. Drifting back and
forth between approximately 9559.3 and 9559.7 kHz, sometime rapidly.
Australia left the channel at 1358 leaving this one in the clear.
Stringed instrumental, very weak. Talk by man after top of the hour, pop
music at 1415, no further audio noted after 1420. Poor.
** ETHIOPIA (presumed) 9704.196 R Ethiopia, Geja, Apr 11, 1311-1428 -
poor, man with monologue until 1330, pop vocal, threshold audio then
fading down, woman noted speaking from 1345. Transmitter stable,
frequency wide open. I had moderate local electrical QRN on this
frequency, otherwise may have been able to positively ID. I'm surprised
Ethiopia is propagating to Memphis during this period.
** INDONESIA 9524.98 Voice of Indonesia, Jakarta-Cimanggis, Apr 11,
1311-1400 - Good signal a tune in, English service with woman reporting
on elections in Indonesia, noting Indonesia is one of the largest
democracies in the world. "Voice of Indonesia, the sound of dignity" ID,
"news and events", pop vocals. Had faded down a bit by the time a
slightly weaker presumed CRI Shijiazhuang signed on 9525.0 at 1357.
** KOREA NORTH 9335 Voice of Korea, Kujang, Apr 11, 1311-1400 - English
with male and female presenting news items, fair to poor with
significant fades and moderate noise. Not intelligible by 1400. LSB best
due to WEWN on 9340.
** MADAGASCAR 11835 R Nederland, Talata Volonondry, Apr 10, *1359-1557 -
Time pips at 1400, English service "This is Radio Netherlands Worldwide"
into news. Poor to fair in USB to avoid WYFR, steady signal throughout,
slightly better by sign-off.
** PHILIPPINES 9400 (tentative) FEBC, Iba, Apr 11, 1311-1330 - Chinese
with woman in monologue, religious vocals, flute music at the bottom of
the hour by which time the signal had faded from almost fair to very
poor. Not // 9430.
** PHILIPPINES 9430 (tentative) FEBC, Bocaue, Apr 11, 1311-1330 -
Chinese with man in monologue, religious music, rapidly fading down at
1325. Format fits but not // 9400. Does FEBC broadcast separate audio
streams on 9400 and 9430?
** ROMANIA 11735 R Romania Int., Tiganesti, Apr 11, *1658-1713 -
Interval Signal, English at top of hour announcing service for Western
Europe, news, etc. Nice signal.
** UK 12095 BBC, Rampisham, Apr 11, 1630-1659 - audio suddenly fading up
right at 1630 with BBC World Service in English with sports news,
multiple good peaks and deep fades before 1659*.
** ZAMBIA 6165 ZNBC2, Lusaka, Apr 11, 0357-0430 - R Nederland via
Bonaire vacating frequency at 0357 leaving Zambia in the clear with weak
threshold signal, rapidly strengthening just before 0414 transmitter
sunrise. 0408 with man and woman announcers with "news today" in heavily
accented English until 0416 then into vocal. Reception marred from 0417
by strong carrier from Chad transmitter coming on 6165.14 and drifting
down until co-channel ZNBC.
--
Brandon Jordan - Memphis, TN, USA
Perseus SDR + Wellbrook ALA100
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Message: 16
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:53:18 -0300
From: "Arnaldo" <sl...@ciudad.com.ar>
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Cc: cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com, playdx2003 <playdx2...@yahoogroups.com>,
DXLD <d...@yahoogroups.com>, bcln...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HCDX] Seoul radio stations broadcast news to North Korea
Message-ID: <005101c9bbb9$17149ae0$f9877...@arnaldo>
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The small operations in South Korea aim to be voices of change by airing
information to counter Pyongyang's propaganda and by passing messages from
friends and relatives to North Koreans.
By John M. Glionna
April 12, 2009
Reporting from Seoul -- They were just a jumble of conversations overhead on
a train. But for South Korean radio station founder Young Howard, they
represented breaking news from a hostile, inaccessible land.
When North Korea recently defied international calls for restraint and
launched a rocket, purportedly to put a satellite in orbit, it wasn't long
before a covert correspondent there was on her cellphone to editors in
Seoul.
People were celebrating a colossal success, she whispered. "If we have
starved, it has been in sacrifice of this glory," she quoted the train
passengers as saying. "The Americans cannot dismiss North Korea's new
weapon."
Howard knew differently: U.S. intelligence reports said the rocket never
made it into orbit. Within hours, Open Radio for North Korea was
broadcasting its own report to listeners across the border.
"News out of Pyongyang violates the basics of journalism," he said. "We tell
the other side of the story."
Howard's station is among half a dozen Seoul-based operations that each day
dispatch news and opinions into North Korea. Some, like Open Radio, are the
work of concerned outsiders. Others are run by defectors, many of whom use
pseudonyms because they know vengeful officials could persecute family and
friends left behind.
Most are small shops with a few reporters, editors and newsreaders. They
broadcast only a few hours each day over fragile shortwave radio bands,
operating on shoestring budgets with private donations.
Considering the shortage of radios in North Korea and the penalty for owning
one, the broadcasters don't know how many people actually hear their voices.
For Howard, it's like putting a message in a bottle and tossing it out to
sea.
"We don't expect any answers," said the 40-year-old father of three who was
born in Busan, South Korea. "We're just putting information out there in the
hope that people's loved ones will hear."
By far the most popular program for Howard's station is "Unsent Letters,"
which broadcasts messages from outsiders seeking to get word to friends and
family in North Korea.
It's an electronic bulletin board of sorts. Often the missives are
sentimental reminiscences, bits and pieces of memory, raw emotion.
One recent installment told of two South Korean fishermen who family members
say were kidnapped by the North Koreans in the 1970s, never to be heard from
again. The announcer asked for details of the men, then played a popular
song called "Memory of a Drink" in remembrance.
Another message came from a woman looking for word of her father, who she
says was kidnapped 37 years ago. She says she grew up thinking he died in a
shipping accident. But in 2005 she got word that he was alive in North
Korea.
She says she hopes to meet him one day.
"If it is true that he is alive, he would be in old age," she says. "Poor
Daddy! Seventy-two years old!"
Experts are divided on the role the radio stations play in the lives of
North Koreans. Some call them tools of change, while others say their
operators are frustrated defectors shouting into the wind.
"They might not be able to bring the kind of change that, say, subversive
radio played in Eastern Europe in the 1970s, but they have an effect," said
Andrei Lankov, a professor specializing in North Korean history at Seoul's
Kookmin University.
Others dismiss the dispatches as a stream of invective against North Korean
leader Kim Jong Il and his minions.
"You have to look at the origin of a lot of these refugee broadcasters,"
said Brian Myers, an assistant professor at Dongseo University in Busan and
an expert on the North's propaganda.
"What somebody from the poorest part of North Korea says is not relevant to
the elite in Pyongyang," he said. "It's like if someone from Appalachia fled
the U.S. and began broadcasting their opinions into the U.S. from Canada. I
don't think they do a very sophisticated job."(LA Times)
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Message: 17
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:08:26 +0200
From: "Eike Bierwirth" <eike.bierwi...@gmx.de>
To: wghau...@yahoo.com, d...@yahoogroups.com,
hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] EiBi A09
Message-ID: <20090412210826.171...@gmx.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Happy Easter!
The EiBi broadcast and frequency lists for the 2009 summer season (A09) can now
be downloaded at
http://www.eibispace.de/
As usual, there is one version sorted by UTC time, and one version sorted by
frequency. Perseus users get the eibi.txt file, and the zip for the radio
explorer is also available.
Please don't hesitate to notify me about updates, mistakes or omissions. Thanks
to all who help!
Good DX!
Eike
Boulder, Colorado, USA
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