4939.8, VENEZUELA, R.Amazonas, 0933-0946, July 19, Spanish, Lively SP music and OM b/w selections. Quick ID at 0945. Weak w/ static. (Barbour-NH)
5005, EQ.GUINEAS, RN-Bata, 2252-2255*, July 19, Just caught the end of their lenghty NA at s/off. Fair. (Barbour-NH) 7120, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, (P)Wantok R. Light, 0935-1000+, July 24, Vernacular/English, Ballads in language booming in a t/in. Whisper-quiet OM at 0944; presumably in Pidgin. EG ballads followed and more talks as static levels increased thru 1000 until the signal was useless. Announcers audio still too weak to ID here in ECNA tho still impressive for mid-summer. (Barbour-NH) 9290, LATVIA, R.Tatras Int'l, 2217-2233, July 22, English, Continuos format of pop oldies b/w repeating ID announcments and promos. First annmts was "Greetings to friends in Europe, Latvia, Slovakia, Scandinavia and the Baltics.." w/ mentions of b/cing on the " (??) Satelitte network carrying RTI". The promo was for a July 22nd event featuring the MTV Beach Party Tour. Fair/poor, best listening in USB. (Barbour-NH) 9495, IRAN, "VO Justice", 0140-0152, July 19, English, News and commentaries re Iranian virtues; US and Zionist atrocities. Fair.(Barbour-NH) 9770, SRI LANKA, SLBC, 0101-0118, July 24, English, Fast paced announcer b/w "crooner" ballads w/ Sunday morning greetings and requesting listener calls from India and Sri Lanka. Fair signal tho announcer talks way too fast to fully comprehend. (Barbour-NH) 9965, PALUA, (P)KHBN/T8BZ, 1008-1020, July 24, Mandarin, Continous Mandarin ballads. No IDs or annoucements. Fair. (Barbour-NH) 11735, ZANZIBAR, (P)RTZ, 2044-2100*, July 23, Vernacular, Arabic-style music w/ YL b/w selections. OM at 2055 w/ very weak audio, YL again then NA at s/off. No discernible ID noted. Poor. (Barbour-NH) 11965, "LIBERIA", Star Radio (via Ascencion), 2153-2159*, July 22, English, OM w/ Liberian sporting news; passing mentions of "Star Radio". Cut off mid-sentence at 2159 followed by a snippet of French talks. Wonder what that was?. Fair; best listening in USB. (Barbour-NH) Scott R Barbour Jr-Intervale,NH-USA R75, 200' Beverage antennas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is out. Order yours from 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
