Greetings to all, Good DX is still available in the mountains of NH. Surprised to hear a couple of PNGs and my first log of Radio Pilipinas in quite some time.
PS: Has anyone logged Radio Damascus, Syria recently? Both 12085 and 13610 at 2100 are swamped by adjacent channel QRM at my location. Are they still on SW? 3365, PAPAU, R.Milne Bay, 1147-1153, March 2, OM and YL w/ talks, very poor, just audible. // 4890. (Barbour-NH) 3385, NEW BRITAIN, R.East New Britain, 1153-1211, March 2, "Bouncy" island music at t/in, talks at 1156 w/ (tentative) mention "PNG", then alternating music and talks until 1211 fade-out. Poor, possibly // 4890 after 1200 but too much fading on both freq's to be absolutley certain. (Also noted weak carriers on 3305 and 3345 around these times.) (Barbour-NH) 3925, JAPAN, R.Tampa/NSWBC, 1051-1103, March 2, Japanese, OM and YL w/ tlks and brief musical bits, diff. OM at 1058, long pip and OM w/ presumed ID at 1200 into news. Poor, fading under QRN. // 9595 weak. (Barbour-NH) 4747.92, PERU, R.Huanta, 1040-1051, March 2, Spanish, OM w/ talks between music, passing mention "Radio Huanta" at 1043. Good at t/in, then fading fast. (Barbour-NH) 5775, ITALY, IRRS, 2034-2046, March 1, English, OM w/ fire and brimstone preaching, full IRRS ID and contact info at 2045 into new religous program, "Transformations" w/ Canadian QTH. Weak, best in LSB. (Barbour-NH) 6025, UNIDENTIFIED, 0301-0330, March 2, English, previously reported Christian oriented programming to Iraq w/ diverse religous music, talks and announcements such as, "..safe new Iraq..", "We love you" and "..you have been under the oppresion of a tyrant..". continous until 0330 when Radio Canda Int'ls Arabic service signed on seamlessly. Poor, fair at best using LSB. Who is this and are they using Sackville relay? (Barbour-NH) 6134.72, BOLIVIA, R.Santa Cruz, 0910-0918, March 4, Spanish, Marching band music at t/in followed by 2 "Radio Santa Cruz" IDs, more music. Very poor, unsettled w/ het from presumed R.Aparacieda, Brasil 6135. (Barbour-NH) 6115, PERU, R.Union (presumed), 0925-0937, March 4, Spanish, Ballad duet at t/in, OM w/ talks thru botttom-of-hour, music resumed at 0935. Poor/weak w/ het, gave up and went back to bed. 0935 UTC = 4:35 EST! (Barbour-NH) 9820, GOA/INDIA, AIR Panaji, *1258-1323, March 2, Sinhala (listed), IS, OM w/ s/on announcement, mention of "Akashvani", frequency schedule and "Phaswar Bharati", music at 1302, long talk from 1306-1316 re Pakistan then Hindi music until t/out. Good at s/on, choppy/fading at tune-out. (Barbour-NH) 9820, CLANDESTINE, VO Oromo Liberation via DTK-Juelich, 1721-1735, March 2, Oromo, OM w/ talks re "democrati" and "Oromo", Horn of Africa music into ID at 1730. Good until QRM splatter via BBC 9825 s/on, then fair at best. (Barbour-NH) 11690, JORDAN, R.Jordan, 1636-1703, March 3, English/Arabic, Relay of FM service w/ pop music program of dance, rap and Arabic pop music. IDs as "Dancing with Radio Jordan, your countries FM", "96.3 FM in Jordan" and "Dance to the beat of Radio Jordan's 96.3 FM". Cut-off at 1700 for pips, YL w/ TC (1700) and ID, "This is Radio Jordan, broadcasting from Amman", news re Arab League media campaign for PSA's regarding womens issues; health, education, etc. Good signal strength but hampered by severe utility QRM, which was reduced by listening in LSB mode. (Barbour-NH) 15190, PHILIPPINES, R.Pilipinas, 1745-1825, March 2, Vernacular/English, 2 OM w/ int'l news re Al-Qaeda, fiscal news re exchange rates and stocks, Solid IDs at 1813 in Filipino and English w/ frequency schedule, Prg intro, "Welcome to.?.PBS.?.edition" repeated several times by OM w/ YL talks in between, (never did get full program name) continuing thru t/out. Poor but improving, best in LSB. No //s noted. (Barbour-NH) QSL: AUSTRALIA, 2310, Alice Springs VL8A, Nice package w/ brief, p/d (frequency and site) verification letter, bookmark, sticker and a fistful of program guides for various ABC services; NewsRadio, Classic FM, Radio National and "All about the ABC" in 22 days for 2 IRCs. V/S, Barbra Lilliebridge, Administration Officer. (Barbour-NH) Scott R. Barbour Jr-Intervale,NH-USA R75, MLB-1, RS longwire w/ RBA balun. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is out! 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
