Here's some logs from the last month. I don't bother sending out regular daily logs because it was taking up too much of my time everyday and lets face it, not many care what I have to sya, and that's OK:) I do still send out short dialy notices/tips and save the big, regular written up logs for the good stuff like this.
Paul Walker Warren, PA JRC NRD 535D, 25 foot long by 10 foot tall Volleyball net shaped magnetic loop antenna connected to a WEllbrook ALA100LN controller head, an EmTEch ZM2 Antenna tuner and a DXEngineering HF PreAmp. Also, a PAR AM Broadcast filter and MFJ common mode choke if needed due to nearby 5KW WNAE 1310. 4850 BRAZIL, Radio Difusora Roraima September 4, 2017 at 0313UTC. Playing what I would classify as older Brazilian/Portuguese music, kind of like what classic country would be in the USA. S7 or so signal with moderate fading and minor noise. NEW LOG! (Walker-PA) 4885 BRAZIL, Radio Clube Do Para Brazil, August 26 2017 at 0103UTC. S9+10 or so near Armchair signal, with only minor fading and noise. A Portuguese language song followed by promotional announcement or ads (I can't tell which) and then a full station ID, giving the call letters, frequency and location of all the stations they simulcast with. Although I do not speak or understand Portuguese, I heard several mentions of "kilohertz" during the station id along with a mention of "tropical"(60 meter band, 4885khz is the tropical band!) so I figured out what this was on my own but had a member on another list translate the complete id for me. NEW LOG!(Walker-PA) 4950, ANGOLA, Radio Nacional De Angola. August 28, 2017 at 2305UTC. Female Portuguese speaking announcer with Portuguese language music. S6 to S7 signal but sever noise and moderate fading. The smart phone app "Shazam" however identified all the songs in the clip! NEW LOG! (Walker-PA) 5952.45 BOLIVIA, Emisoras Radio Pio XII Sligo XX, September 12, 2017. 0200UTC Very poor audio quality but decent S5 or so signal. Only thing listed on 5952 and known to be off frequency. Heard music and talking but couldn't identify it. I recorded audio for about 40 minutes to see if I could pull anything useful out of it. Right before the station signed off at 0230UTC, I heard a male clear as mud say "Radio Pio" NEW LOG! (Walker-PA) 9800 EGYPT, Radio Cairo, September 10, 2017 at 2200UTC. News, features and music with actually pretty decent transmitter modulation, good S8-S9 signal and pretty decent, fairly understandable audio quality! Radio Cairo has been having a few good spurts of good audio and signal lately. One day I heard the English service on 9895 instead of 9800 and another day, heard English on 9885. Oops! (Walker-PA) 7255, NIGERIA, Radio Nigeria. September 1, 2017 at 2047 with what appears to be Nigerian music and french language talk by the announcer. S5 signal, severe noise and severe fading (Walker-PA) 9810 IRAN, Voice of The Islamic Republic Of Iran Broadcasting, September 15, 2017 at 1926UTC with English service, male giving station name and frequency information followed by middle eastern sounding music. Very poor S5 to S6 with lots of noise and fading. (Walker-PA) 11815 BRAZIL, Radio Brasil Central September 13, 2017 at 2356UTC With several Portuguese language songs. I even heard "Good times" by Chic. They do seem to slip in the occasional English language oldies/adult contemporary tune. S8 signal or so with minor noise but moderate fading and atmospheric mush. (Walker-PA) 15140 OMAN, Radio Sultanate Of Oman, Thumrait. September 16, 2017 at 1530UTC. Relaying 90.4 Oman FM, with "Attention" by Charlie Puth playing followed by on air personality Ricky Esquvail giving a shout out to Paul Walker listening in Pennsylvania. S7 signal but severe noise and fading. Short audio clip here: https://goo.gl/UVGRGk (Walker-PA) 15590, THAILAND, Radio Thailand World Service. September 1, 2017 at 0011UTC. Ad break including ads for Bangkok Airways, a local restaurant/hotel and the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Then, world news with stories including France's Prime Minister comment on the North Korea missile crises. S7 signal but light atmospheric noise and lots of short deep choppy fades. (Walker-PA) _ 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
