15590 CLANDESTINE (TAJIKISTAN) R. Free North Korea Signal already on at 1229 and start of the usual soft instru. BBC mx prior to xmsn. 1230 immediately into R. Free North Korea w/instru. mx and pres. voice-over opening anmnts by W in KR, fanfare, and into feature by what sounded like the same W anncr. Poor, but up to fair on very brief peaks. (8 May)
15630 CLANDESTINE (BULGARIA) R. Ranginkaman (Rainbow) Signal on the air at 1553 and pgm start at 1600 w/opening by W in Farsi w/sked and ment of “kilohertz” and ending w/what sounded like a website. Immed. into tlk feature by M. Mx at 1607 for a short time. W over Classical piano mx at 1613, then into another tlk feature w/nice peaks. Went off at 1630. Heavy deep QSB and mixing w/co-channel Greece which was weaker for the most part but was on top when Ranginkaman faded. In fact the Greece IS could be hrd equally briefly at 1600. Made for a tricky reception. Also slop QRM from 15610 WEWN blasting away. Glad this finally added a higher freq. The lower freqs in the 49 and 41 mbs during the day are imposs. (8 May) 9545 SOLOMON ISLANDS SIBC Found here again at 0945 w/island Pop mx, ad block, W anncr, Reggae song, 1000 promo w/ments of SIBC, usual calliope ToH signature at 1001, then M w/EG nx starting w/ID. W w/more nx to 1025, then back to mx. Came back at 1153 and still there w/QRM from 9550 China. Usual inspirational message feature leading up to s/off, cut off for canned closing ID anmnt by W, NA to 1202, deadair, then at 1205 audio came back w/Pop mx which Hasagawa stated was relay of Wanton FM 96.3. Hrd occas. anmnts and ads but had faded and too difficult to copy. Very gradually getting weaker and finally lost audio at 1410, but the signal was still there to at least 1630!! Mauno said it went back to SIBC/R. Happy Isles at 1900, and that it was back on 5020 at 2000. (11 May) No sign of 3290 V.O. Guyana this morning. (13 May) 4824.93 BRAZIL R. Cancao Nova 0827 end of ZY Pop rel. song, then Rooster crowing, TC, and canned anmnts to 0830 starting w/poss. ID/promo, ments of Brasil, Sao Paulo. 0830-0833 live M anncr w/ment of Sao Paulo, Santa Maria, Fatima, Corazon, etc. 0833 Rooster and TC again, then back to mx. Live studio W anncr. 0838 W w/ment of what sounded like “…radio telecomunicao….”, and also ment of Sao Paulo, Brasil, and partial e-mail “…nova.com”. Found // to the (R. Cancao Nova 96.3 FM) webstream at 0848 w/”Maria” song. Webstream was 1:07 behind. Rooster and TC again and another song. 0851 W anncr tlking w/M guest giving many ments of Fatima. Glad to finally ID this. S.F.= 163, A Index = 15, K Index = 6 with G2 geomagnetic storm. (13 May) 4810 PERU R. Logos OC on at 0851:00, and long choral NA start at 0853:25. 0856 M w/ID and freq, then canned ID w/call, another short canned anmt, and live M w/speech briefly and into beautiful rustic flute mx. In the clear w/out the UTE on, but ever-present CODAR QRM. Poor signal amid geomagnetic storm. (13 May) 3290 V.O. Guyana found back on the air at around 2350, but very weak. Much weaker than 3320 Sonder Grense. (13 May) 3290 V.O. Guyana very weak at 0945 check this morning. Must be running low power again. (14 May) 2899.75H USA KWHW, Altus OK (2X1450 harmonic) Found w/reasonable audio at 0946. 0947 end of wx by live M anncr giving temp and ID as "....high of 83. That's the forecast on ?? Country KWHW". The word before "Country" is possibly "Pure" per its given slogan, but I'm not 100% sure. Went into a C&W version of “Crazy” by Aerosmith then. More C&W songs followed. Seemed to go over 1000 ToH w/out ID, but it seemed there was one later around 1003. Its listed as only 668 watts. This 2nd harmonic would put the fundamental on 1449.877. That's quite a bit off freq. I don't see anything there. Surprised to ID this. (14 May) 4810 Logos in the clear at 0955, but not very strong. (14 May) 7259.94 VANUATU R.V. Caught the usual conch shell blowing signature at exactly 1001:00, then into pres. nx by M. Better than it has been lately but not good enough to copy. (14 May) e-QSL in from DP07 Seefunk from Reiner Dietzel in 1 day. Filled out an actual hard-copy QSL, then sent a picture of it as an attachment to his e-mail. (14 May) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S and 153 foot triangular Delta Loop _ 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
