Hi Bill, Your catch is KJES, Vado, New Mexico; I've heard them with this very sort of programming before. They are a Catholic broadcaster.
RFO Tahiti has been off 15170v for some years now... perhaps 8 years? At least it seems that long! I sorely miss their music; the only way I can catch them now is via their 738 kHz MW frequency. Fortunately I live in an area where they can be heard with regularity and good strength on coastal DXpeditions. Most evenings I have a het from them on 738 here in Puyallup, which is inland from the coast; I last heard audio out of them from my home location in the Fall of 2004. Tahiti had a 25mb frequency too, but it's been off even longer. Guy Atkins Puyallup, WA USA > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 6:58 AM > To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com > Subject: [HCDX] Logging > > > Greetings, fellow listees: > > A. I am new to the list, having returned to SWLing after a 20 year hiatus. > I don't usually spend any effort on domestic s/w broadcasters, > concentrating > instead on (1) European, and (2) Latin American ones. > > B. However, I heard a station yesterday afternoon that intrigued me. > I stumbled on it at 1810Z, 1 May 05, on 15385. > A man and a woman were reading in English from, ostensibly, > Psalms 109 and > 29. > It went like this: > The Man: "The Voice of Yahweh is strong." > Followed by: The Woman: "The Voice of Yahweh is strong." > The Man: "The Voice of Yahweh is powerful." > The Woman: "The Voice of Yahweh is powerful." > The Man: "The Voice of Yahweh is (...choose any word you want...) > Followed by The Woman: etc > And on and on like this for at least twenty minutes. > After five minutes, the thing was repeated. > > I listened closely but did not hear an ID. The signal was weak but > intelligible. > > At 1835 Z I clearly heard a female vocal "Ave Maria" that sounded > like Karen > Carpenter (Oh how I miss that girl). > > I had to run an errand at 1900, and got back at 1920, hearing a > female duet > on a religious song in Spanish, and still hadn't hadn't heard an ID. > > I am consciously trying to avoid "list logging". I knew that > Daniel Sampson's > Primetime Shortwave shows KJES in English on that frequency, but > still had no > firm information on the weak signal I heard. > > Suddenly, at 1930, a very YL boomed out "Kah Jota Eh Esse", at least five > times louder and stronger than anything that preceded it. > > C. Equipment: Kenwood R1000 and 80 foot long wire > > D. Years ago 15170 was used by a station in Papeete, Tahiti. > Programming was > in French and consisted of "island" music, and was always a > delight to hear. > Does anyone know if they're still there? > > Thanks. > > Bill Wildes > Homewood, Alabama > > ---[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 > > ---[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