7 October 2013: There was some nasty static crashes no doubt from the approaching cold front. And the rains came while I was listening. It was really difficult to hear with the heavy rain falling on the roof of the Jeep!! Propagation was probable relatively normal. LAs weren't anything special. The 4709.99 station was no better either. I was really surprised how well 19m was doing. I've never had good reception using a BOG. Highlights would be Nabire, Bougainville, and Bangladesh.
RX: Microtelecom Perseus SDR with ARR preamp. ANT: 315' Beverage (BOG) at 0 degrees. QTH: Pennsylvania State Game Lands #26. Duration: 0900-1300. Solar Indices: Solar Flux = 107 A Index = 2 K Index = 3 No storms. B2 X-ray Flux. 8 mhz MUF over all of Canada at 0830. WX: Cloudy then rain starting at 1046. Windy and 65 degrees!! PERU 4747.1 R. Huanta Dos Mil Noted a carrier already on at home at 0820 before I left, and when I started listening at 0900. Didn't hear any audio though. Campo mx at 0933 however. 0941 M anncr DJ on w/TC and tlk, and back to mx at 0942. 0956 ad block w/many many ments of Huanta. Still running ads when it suddenly went off at 1003:19. Back on at 1006:08 w/ads continuing. Not all that strong. (7 Oct.) INDONESIA 7289.945 RRI Nabire 0902 Koran already in progress. 0905 soft-spoken M anncr, and into AR-style Pop mx. Signal not very strong but clear and fairly quiet. Best ever heard. 0910 another similar song. 0913 sounded like the song started skipping, was turned down, fixed, and resumed!! More of the same nonstop mx until M anncr returned at 0928:40. Sounded like choral singing very briefly then, and signal suddenly cut off at 0929:11. Glad it stayed in so late. This was worth the trip all by itself. MP3 recording at https://app.box.com/s/rkjacuta32v90ob2gw2g (7 Oct.) BRAZIL 4865.02 R. Verdes Florestas 0949 usual daily rel. pgm w/muffled soft-spoken M. Amens. Running way late to 1005. Finally full canned ID at 1005:45. Just fair. (7 Oct.) PERU 4810 R. Logos In the clear at 0950 when the massive UTE just above went off. Nice campo mx w/beautiful flute solo. 0951 M w/TC only, then diff. M on w/ment of "...a hora ?? palabra de Dios...". Looked like I'd get a good recording, then the UTE started up again at 0952:12. (7 Oct.) UNID. 6160.068 UNID. This was not CKZU as I thought. At 1015 found both CKZN and CKZU virtually together and audible with CKZN on 6159.967 and CKZU on 6159.972. No way to get audio on 6160.068. Not there at 1151 though. Who's here?? (7 Oct.) PERU 4955 R. Cultural Amauta 1034 playing "El Condor Pasa", then live M anncr in apparent Aymara, then back to somber choral mx, and 1038 more voice-over tlk w/"Amen". Fair. Has been improving lately as sunset is moving up. (7 Oct.) MALAYSIA 7295 Traxx FM 1046 "Love Fool" by The Cardigans, 1047 M DJ w/song amnt and took phone call, then back to mx w/"You've Got a Friend" remake. 1059 canned ID and website by W, then fanfare, and into nx. (7 Oct.) PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3325 NBC Bougainville 1113 end of tlk by M in Tok Pisin (nx??). W anncr w/segment intro and classical mx, then tlk by M w/ment of PNG and province, and had a soundbite of M speaking. 1117 classical mx again and W anncr w/outro. Into Pop mx. 1118 tlk by W w/ment of today, "...radio station....", computer, "...of you want help...", Internet, 1120:10 ment of Bougainville, population, New Guinea. She was immediately followed by M at 1121 w/ment of corporation, government, radio, and possibly R. Bougainville at 1123:55, and at 1124:35 "...antenna ?? Kieta radio station FM...". W returned and at 1125:05 ment of "....radio station, NBC Bougainville ?? station ?? radio station providing service ?? people ?? program...", and 1125:45 another ment of Bougainville, "...developement long communitiy long Bougainville". 1126 then same M w/ment of information, network, commission, August, "all night long", evening, program, community center, Bougainville. 1130! W again briefly over instru. mx w/ment of managment, NBC, member, document, "...leading newspaper...", program, Bougainville, developement ,and "We hope you...". 1133 ad or promo w/choral singing and deep-voiced M muffled. 1134-1137 current Dance mx. Stronger than Madang at 1135!! 1138 M DJ w/TC and ment of program, some sort of jingle at 1139, M returned briefly, then into Pop ballad past 1141. Didn't think this would get as good as it did. Peaked 1125-1130. No audiable or visual (in the display) sign of Palangkaraya. MP3 recording at https://app.box.com/s/mek8427d1kwsov7coj8r (7 Oct.) PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3260 NBC Madang Nat. nx by W to 1107, then immediately into regional nx w/out missing a beat. 1116 ad then stn ad political pgm giving rates and times and starting out w/"Radio Madang...." and ended w/ment of Radio Madang. 1117 studio M in muffled audio w/TC, mx briefly and cont. w/ments of broadcast and "...FM band...", ment of Madang, pgms "Country ??", "Outbreak", and NBC, and phone #s 76709887 and 76659803. Read probably every PSA they had in the stn to 1136!! Had a promo w/medley of Pop songs. Into Reggae song, then M anncr returned at 1139. MP3 recording at https://app.box.com/s/3qpn6hc00bqmff175dz7 (7 Oct.) No sign of 9745 V.O. Han today. IRAN 15151.35 V.O. Islamic Rep. of Iran Way off freq at 1146 w/ID by W anncr, fanfare, then next pgm. (7 Oct.) AUSTRALIA 4835 ABC Alice Springs 1207 good signal w/end of upcoming song anmnt and into said song. WWCR off. (7 Oct.) 7270 INDIA AIR Chennai One of the few freqs in 41mb clear of Ham QRM. 1210 studio M anncr briefly in between Indian.songs. 1213 fast-tlking M anncr again mixed w/mx, and of of course Hams came on and missed s/off. (7 Oct.) PAKISTAN 15730 R. Pakistan 1223 not too bad w/mid-east mx. Went off at 1300. (7 Oct.) CLANDESTINE 15562 V.O. Tibet (Tajikistan) *1230 start up w/usual soft melody and opening by M in Tibetan. Very strong signal but it took about a minute for the audio to come up to 100% for some reason. (7 Oct.) TURKEY 15450 V.O. Turkey On the air late at 1231:51, and audio on w/nx already in progress at 1231:57. Good. (7 Oct.) BANGLADESH 15105 Bangladesh Betar Incredible signal. 1228-1300. Usual routine. Pgm segments included "World Children Day", and "Tidbits(??) Bangladesh". Anncing 7250 khz. MP3 recording at https://app.box.com/s/ofazyrmu4nsj8fvinahd (7 Oct.) KUWAIT 15090 R. Azadi Nice ID/promo by M at 1229:40. Strong. (7 Oct.) 73 Dave _ 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. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
