Here are a few logs including SWRA and RTD "me too" logs. 3310, BOLIVIA, (P)R. Mosoj Chaski, 0009-0032, Mar.22, Portuguese-?, Om and YL in language b/w musical bits, Horn blast at 0018 followed by ballad. More music and talks thru 0030. Poor/weak but improving. No ID noted. (Barbour-NH)
4780, DJIBOUTI, RTD, *0300-0344, Mar.22, Vernacular, Big OC prior to *0300 w/ Horn of Africa music, OM w/ s/on annmts but no ID noted. Call to prayer followed by lengthy talk by OM from 0307-0328. Nice HOA pop-like tune until ID at 0330. News/commentary w/ several mentions of "Kofi Annan". Music at 0343. Good at s/on w/ increasing prop. QRN as the hour progressed. Always a treat to log a new SW country. (Barbour-NH) 11705, "ZIMBABWE" SWRA via Rampisham(?), 1744-1759, Mar.18, Vernacular/English, Talks b/w 2 OM in lang, 2 YLs at 1751 w/ EG interview re "female perspective" of Zimbabwe. Blown out at 1759 by co-channel RFI sign-on. Fair w/ unid. station at t/in eventually slipping under dominant SWRA. (Barbour-NH) 11995, "ZIMBABWE" SWRA via Rampsiham(?), *1800-1814, Mar.18, English/Vernacular, Continuation of EG interview noted on 11705. OM and YL w/ full ID, SW frequency and MW-1197, 24 hr. phone-line: 023-275030 and [EMAIL PROTECTED] PSA re "importance of your vote" and March 31 election. Candidate prg. at 1810 w/ OM in EG and lang. w/ "My name is Jeffrey (last name?), I am the candidate for the MDC". Fair, best listening in LSB. (Barbour-NH) Wonder what happens to these broadcasts after Mar.31? 12140, "SOMALIA", (P)R.Horyaal, *1730-1743, Mar.21, Vernacular, Whisper-quiet OM and YL at s/on, Ko'ran-like chanting followed by talks over and between Horn of Africa musical bits. Poor w/ occasional peaks over ute QRM. (Barbour-NH). Scott R Barbour Jr-Intervale,NH-USA R75, 200' Beverage antennas. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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