Craig Edwards, Adelaide, South Australia
Well it's been an incredibly busy month. Our relocation from Townsville to Adelaide is now complete as my wife and I finally obtained the keys to our house so we could get the two moving trucks full of our junk unloaded. For those who have done an interstate relocation know of the logistical nightmare and endless boxes and boxes or stuff to deal with. Needless to say I haven't had time to write up the loggings from the Townsville to Adelaide via the Northern Territory travelling DXpedition. I'm working at Murray Bridge in their health service, on the down side, I have to drive 90km each way between there and our home in Mawson Lakes (Adelaide) - that's starting to lose it's novelty. The up side is that Murray Bridge is only 70km away from the start of the Coorong - the Mecca of Mediumwave for SA DXers. So on a couple of the Friday afternoons after work I've stayed overnight at a caravan park cabin in Meningie. I've set up a very very basic EWE without coax or a balun as they! are all packed away. Electrically the caravan park in very noisy, despite this on both mornings there were some very promising catches, particularly Djibouti 1539. This park wasn't used as a potential DX site but was rather a nice comfortable cabin with an ensuite to use as a home base. On both Saturdays I went exploring around the Coorong for possible overnight and more isolated DXpedition sites. My wife has given approval for me to stay at the Coorong on some Friday nights so on Saturday mornings I could go for Europe and then drive home and be back to my wife and regular society by lunchtime. Oh well, better go and start typing up those NT DXpedition logs. CE: Craig Edwards, Coorong, South Australia. Dxing from a caravan park cabin in Meningie (150km south of Adelaide). Using Icom R75 (off 12V DC), pre-amp and EWE facing Asia/Europe on April 16th and April 30th 630 2116 RRI Makassar, Sulawesi. Poor under 4QN as the band was just about dead after sunrise, noted with male talks in Indo // 4750 (CE) 666 2045 DZRH Metro Manila, Philippines. Fair over the mush with Tagalog news & weather then canned DZRH IDs (CE) 765 2035 CNR Fujian, China. Fair for only a couple of minutes with typical CNR musical show, noted during a period of dead air after the news on 5CC (CE) 774 2030 RRI Fak Fak, Irian Jaya. Nice signal here with ID and then into music program, easy catch despite big 50kW 3LO powerhouse also on 774 (CE) 909 1141 RRI Sorong, Irian Jaya. Good here in the clear with fairly subdued Indo talks and easy listening music show (CE) 909 2017 VOA, Sebele Pikwe, Botswana. Poor with VOA Africa pgm in EE with surprising no sign of RRI Sorong (CE) 954 1132 DZEM Bulacan, Philippines. Fair at times but only noticed during talkback bits on 2UE, usual Tagalog religious program (CE) 1035 2003 CNR1, China. Fair and in the clear with Chinese musical // 6030 (CE) 1169 1933 IRIB Sarasary, Iran. This one still here off-channel with male talks in presumed Farsi (CE) 1170 2013 DXMR Zamboanga, Philippines. Good here with news items and dramatic music between each piece (CE) 1215 1110 DYRF Cebu City, Philippines. Poor here with religious programming in Tagalog under 4HI (CE) 1233 1948 TWR Cape Greco, Cyprus. Nice signal here in Arabic well over 2NC. Noted at 2125 with possible Radio Canada International ID (but didn't have tape running) in Arabic then into male commentary (CE) 1260 1100 DZEL Lucena City, Philippines. Poor under 3SR with Eagle Broadcasting Corporation ID & DZEL canned IDs (CE) 1260 2043 DXRF Davao City, Philippines. Fair here on a nice peak over mush of 3SR, 6KA and Sawa. News items and DZRH canned IDs so obviously relaying DZRH 666 overnight (CE) 1260 2001 Radio Sawa, Dodecanese Islands. Good strength but big interference from 3SR, noted with news service in Arabic (CE) 1287 2040 DXRC Zamboanga City, Philippines. Fair with series of Super Radyo IDs (CE) 1296 1040 DXAB Davao City, Philippines. Good heard with program from the Vatican about Pope John Paul II in Tagalog (CE) 1323 1858 BBC Zyyi, Cyprus. Poor here with interval signal & BBC World Service news, heard under SEN Adelaide. Fortunately SEN was a wobbly signal and wouldn't surprise me if they are operating well under 2kW. (CE) 1359 1033 Family Radio, Taiwan. Good hear in Indo with sermon over 4WK (CE) 1359 2050 CNR, China. Fair in Chinese // 1035 mixing with Family Radio Taiwan in English (CE). 1386 1358 NHK2 Network, Japan. Fair here over another unid Asian, maybe HLAM. English language lessons then into NHK ID and English news (CE) 1413 2005 BBC Masirah Island, Oman. Poor here with BBC World Service news noted in a slight delay to 2EA also covering BBC WS. (CE) 1449 1924 IRIB Bandar-e-Torkamen, Iran. Poor signal with presumed Farsi chants under 2MG (CE) 1512 2055 DYAB Cebu City, Philippines. Good signal with IDs every few seconds, more IDs than program content - wish more stations did this!!! (CE) 1530 1911 VOA, Pinheira, Sao Tome & Principe. Poor in French here mixing with 2VM (CE) 1539 1845 Radiodiffusion Vision Djibouti, Djibouti. Great surprise to hear this in presumed Afar language with sensational exotic music. Took a wild guess and checked 4780 to find this in // but 1539 was stronger - amazing!!! Heard well throughout the morning, including commentaries at 1915, thank goodness 5TAB 1539 is not 24 hours yet (CE) 1566 2112 AIR Nagpur, India. Good here with typical Indian music show // 9425 (CE) 1575 1830 Radio Farda, Al-Dhabbaya, United Arab Emirates. Nice signal in presumed Farsi with IDs and then into funky music well over 2RF. (CE) 1593 1957 CNR1 China. Big signal here with interval signal then into ID & male talks in Chinese (CE) ---[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 [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
