Before the logs a quick plug for the New Zealand tourist industry. If you fancy a holiday with a long surf beach as far as the eye can see, crystal clean water with no nasty stinging creatures, wine farms within driving distance, fishing par excellence and great DX for the Americas and parts of Asia and the Pacific, try Ohope Beach on the North Island's east coast- the aptly named Bay of Plenty. Best weather, mid January to mid March.
Although primarily looking for medium wave Dx, the following logs were interesting. All made on AOR 7030 with a 15m long wire. AUSTRALIA 5049.99, ARDS, best heard at 18.03, which is morning in NZ, giving station details and the phone number "8997 3910", weak at best, evening loggings post 10.00 obliterated by Chinese language on 5050 (confirming Guy Atkins observations), although "Oh come all ye faithful" heard the previous evening at 09.54. Look out for lots of hymns to help ID (Norrie, 17th Jan) BRAZIL 3255.04, Radio Dif 6 de Agosto(p), 09.50, weak but distinctive Brazilian language, accordion type music then male almost preaching voice, needs more work and a longer wire! (Norrie, Jan 13th) INDONESIA 2960, RPDT2 Manggarai (p), 11.06, slow Indonesian language with frequent mentions of "radio..." but never strong enough to hear full ID, not // to any of the RRI's (not unexpected), new log for me, only audible the one evening although carrier present most nights (Norrie, 15th Jan) 3344.86 RRI Ternate, 10.33, tuning through band came across this one with about 5 ID's in 30 seconds, fair to good (Norrie, 17th Jan) 4790 RRI Fak Fak, 10.28, playing cover versions of "Venus" (Shocking blue) and "Honky Tonk woman" (RollingStones), strong ID and regular every evening, rock solid on 4790. (Norrie, 17th Jan) 4870 RRI Wamena, 09.36, have seen this reported as Sorong but I heard firm "Wamena" ID with news on (strangely) Andrah Pradesh Indian affairs (Norrie, 16th Jan) IRAN 6160, V of the Islamic Republic (p), 04.39, fair signal with Arabic language (Norrie, 17th Jan) KOREA 3930.05 Korean BC(p), 09.42, little reported station in Korean language, plagued by mild jamming (Norrie 16th Jan) PNG Bandscan revealed following frequencies active Jan 13th at 09.50 most with good to very good signals 3205, 3220, 3260, 3275, 3290, 3305, 3325, 3335, 3365, 3375. 3325 (Bougainville) outlet had news at 10.04 of two policeman being fined 900 Kena for possession of pornographic material, excellent signal (Norrie, Jan 13th). 4890 heard at 19.00,"this is the national broadcasting corporation of PNG" . PERU 5009.67 R Altura, 10.52, lovely signal with announcer proclaiming on countries and places in SA, "Bolivia, ... Santiago..." clear ID as Radio Altura (Norrie, 15th Jan) David Norrie New Zealand ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is coming out! Preorder yours now! Only $20.97 through us. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.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://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt