I went with Dario Monferini some days to Bocca di Magra, province of La Spezia in North Italy. Here is our BOC 7 SW log:
date: 19 january - 23 january 2007 RX: AOR 7030, RFSpace sdr-14, CiaoRadio H101 ANT: Wellbrook LFL 1010 khz - day - time UTC - station - details 2325 20+21/01 2039-2110 ABC Tennant Creek, Australia, in // 2485 khz. poor/good 2485 19+20/01 2100-2110 ABC Katherine, Australia, better on 20 jan., good also with Degen 1103 3200 19+22/01 1924-2024 TWR Swaziland, religious talks in English fair/good 3230 19+20+22/01 1929-2035 Family Radio, South Africa, English program. fair/good 3255 19+20+22/01 1950-2040 BBC Relay, South Africa, in English fair/good 3266,4 20+21/01 *2100-2130 RRI Gorontalo, Indonesia, better in USB better, is, id, s/on poor/fair 3273,6 20/1 2035-2045 unid Greek pirate, H 1624,5 x 2, bad audio. fair/good 3320 19+20/01 2030-2100 SABC, South Africa. fair/good 3330 20+21/01 0410-0535 CHU, Ottawa, Canada, pips time signal, id EE & FF fair/good 3335 20...22/01 2015-2106 Radio East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, id 2059, news in English at 2100 poor/fair 3345 19...22/01 2030-2120 Channel Africa, South Africa, in English, good 3390 19+22/01 2038-2045 BBC relay, South Africa fair 3396 19....22/01 2010-2245 ZBC Zimbabwe, Afro pop, vernacular talks, fair/good 3810 22/01 0710-0714 Instituto Oceanografico de la Armada, Guayaquil, Ecuador, pips, id SS poor/fair 3905 19/01 2025-2030 unid, USB, utility presumed in arab, talks fair - occorre attenzione per non fare confusione con la Papua 3905 21/01 2039-2054 R New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 2039-2050 in // 3335 khz Local program 2051 id. poor/fair 3925 20+21/01 *2056-2120 Radio Nikkei, Tokyo, Japan, s. on, is, id repeated for 3 minutes. id, news fair/good 4319 USB 19+20+22/01 1950-2310 AFN, tx Diego Garcia, report news in EE. fair/good 4605 20/01 2132-2145 RRI Serui, Indonesia, local news 2132 poor/fair boc7 4770 19+20/01 1800-1900 FRCN Kaduna, Nigeria, in EE fair 4777 20+21/01 0515-0545 R.TV Gabonaise, Afro pop, FF, fair/good 4780 19...22/01 0410-0516;1700-1906 R.TV Djibouti, phone calls, raggae mx fair/good 4790 20+22/01 2120-2140 RRI Fak Fak, Indonesia, regional news 2130. poor/fair 4835 19+20+22/01 *2130-2205 ABC Alice Springs, Australia, s/on, id, nxs EE //4910, 5025 fair /good 4870 20/01 2119-2124 RRI Wamena (tent.), Indonesia, music. poor/ fair 4873,5v 19/01 2022-2045 unid Greek pirate, H 1624,5 x 3. be carefull ! poor/ fair 4874,6 20+22/01 2125-2140 RRI Sorong, Indonesia, local news 2130, id poor/ fair 4885 19...23/01 2120...0715 R. Clube do Para, Belem, Brasil, one of the few signals from Brasil! poor/fair 4895 21/01 2232-2302 Mongolian radio, home service, in //4830 khz. fai/good 4925 19/01 2159-2207 RRI Jambi, Indonesia, nx RRI National sce. 2200 poor/fair 4950 19/01 1952-1955 R. Nacional Angola, Portugues talks. fair/good 4965 19...22/01 1830-2120 The Christian Voice, Zambia, religious EE gospel songs. fair/good boc7 4976 19/01 1910-1940 R Uganda, Kampala, vernacular progr. fair/good boc7 4985 21/01 2122-2155 R Brasil Central, Goiania, Brazil, fade out 2155. poor/fair boc7 5005 22/01 2245-2255 R Nacional Bata, Equatorial Guinea, in ss, audio muffled fair/good boc7 5025 20...22/01 2005-2045 R. Parakou, Benin. in FF fair/good 5025 19...23/01 2255...0815 R. Rebelde, Cuba, "la emisora de la revolucion". fair/good 5026 19+20/01 1845-2003 R Uganda, Kampala English service, afro pop. poor/good boc7 5030 19...22/01 1840-2305; 0705-0713 R. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in French. poor/good 5066,3 20+21/01 0430-0515 La Voix du Peuple (R. Candip), Bunia, Congo. id French, nxs 0500. fair/good 5100 21/01 0410-0430 Radio Bana, Eritrea, Vernacular talks. poor/fair 5470 22/01 2030-2045 R. Veritas Liberia, talks in English poor/fair 5770 lsb 21/01 1455-1500 Myanmar Defences Forces, talks in burmese poor/fair 5964,9 19/01 1420-1435 RTM Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Suara Islam fm + after 1430 QRM China in Korean 5965 kHz. fair 6000 21/01 1425-1429 City Sound, Singapore, Mandarin program. talks. good 6010,1 20/01 0809-0814 La Voz de tu Conciencia, Colombia, palabras de Dios. poor/fair 6049,6 19/01 1425-1435 RTM Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, syik fm program + PBS Tibet China QRM 6050 khz ( //7385 khz) fair/good 6055 19+20/01 2025-2050 R Rwanda, afro pop, dj in Swahili, phone calls. good 6185 20/01 0805-0810 R.Educacion, Mexico, Vatican Radio s/off at 0804. poor/fair 6220 19...22/01 1900-0105 Mystery Radio, Italian pirate, ids jingles, pop electronic mx. fair/good 6458 20+22/01 2040-2330 R. National Saharaui, problems with Utility marine. fair/v.good 6485,9 18+19/01 1934-0000* R. National Saharaui, in Arab then in Spanish 2315, free channel, but moved to 6458 khz. fair/v.good 6973 19...22/01 1555-2205 Galei Zahal, Israel, // 1287 kHz. News & songs. good 7185 19+20/01 1415-1630 R. Bangladesh, in hindi, with QRM CBS Taiwan in Mandarin. fair/good 7235 19+20/01 1415-1510 R. Warna, Singapore, Malay service, web url, id yl. fair/good 7270 19/01 1420-1433 RTM Kuching, Malaysia, in Iban, popular songs. fair/good 9610 21/01 *1000-1030 AWR Italy, tx Julich, Germany, Italian dx program "Studio Dx" nr.186, with Scaglione good 9704,15 20/01 1755-1805 R. Ethiopia, home service, talks vernac. live chanting. fair/good 9705 20/01 1645-2000 la voix du sahel, niger, news in french & vernacular. fair/good 11735 20/01 1615-1640 R Tanzania, Zanzibar, id, news, local program, in Swahili. good 11860 19+20/01 1500-1538 RRI Jakarta, Indonesia, National program, pop music good We observed very poor conditions towards south america on SW bands. the reason may be the prolongued very low solar activity, always standing below 80 solar flux value. Better signals from asia and africa. 73 Giampiero Bernardini Milano Italy ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. 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