CHINA 9540 CNR1 jammer 0948 tlk by M in CH, //9730. Looks like both of these are jamming Sound of Hope. 9540 stronger. 9730 goes off at 1000 but 9540 stays on. (7 August)
ALASKA 9655 KNLS 1000 usual opening of EG w/IS twice, EG ID w/QTH, then IS again, and start of EG pgm. (7 August) BRAZIL 6134.683 R. Aparecida Same long list of stns carrying the Aparecida pgms ending w/IDs and ID jingle song by womens chorus at 2302. Fair and clear as Santa Cruz hadn't faded in yet. (7 August) BOLIVIA 4409.796 R. Eco (pres.) Sounds like LA mx at 0114. 0116 M anncr very briefly but hard to tell if it was SP, then back to mx. A pretty noisy evening. A lot of uptempo songs w/accordion. 0125 M anncr again. 0127 sounded like a canned anmnt. (8 August) INDONESIA 7289.94 RRI Nabire (pres.) Possible mx around 0921, then soft-spoken M anncr from 0937 recheck to 0945, and back to mx. M returned at 0950. 0956:25 native singing, then more upbeat song 0957:00. M anncr briefly at 1000. More somber mx at 1001:30 w/W voice-over. W ended tlk at 1012:30 and back to mx plainly audible. Pleasant W vcl song at 1030. Mx 1033:40. And getting mx at 1101 and M anncr at 1102 shortly. Mx 1118:00. Was still going w/what sounded like drums at 1130. Surprised and glad this was on throughout. (8 August) MICRONESIA 4755.58 The Cross R. 1027 Christian Pop mx. Finally a clear ID by M at 1035 w/intro for "The Edge" pgm segment". Best heard yet since last season. Not as noisy as it has been. (9 August) THAILAND 5875 R. Thailand Int. 1115 caught "This is HSK9..." canned ID by M in EG, then into Cambodian pgm. Very nice signal and fairly quiet for a change. Easily as good as the 31mb outlet with the Malaysian program to 1215. The 15590 EG broadcast at 0000 was rather poor. (9 August) BRAZIL 11916.195 R. Gaucha Tlk pgm w/sev. men anncrs. Occas. ad block. From 2327:40-2328:35 hrd three IDs. Good signal. (9 August) BOLIVIA 6024.98 R. Patria Nueva Found the carrier on at 0801. Hard to tell if there was any audio due to the jammer on 6030. (10 August) PIRATE (NA) 6925 V.O. the Abnormal 0038 "Spam" Monty Python skit followed by "Spam" Weird Al parody of "Stand" by REM. Frank Zappa song. Nice clear ID by M, then another song. Strong. (11 August) BOLIVIA 4716.695 R. Yura 0112 nice signal and not too noisy. Campo mx. 0016 M anncr. TC. Seemed to take a phone caller. 0119 TC by diff. M, and more voice-over tlk. (11 August) PERU 4747.627 R. Huanta Dos Mil Series of canned anmnts at 1005 but wasn't there at 1001, so must have signed on between those times. 1011:55 ID by M during presumed usual nx pgm. LAs doing a little better this morning. (12 August) MICRONESIA 4755.57 The Cross R. "Love is the Answer" remake at 1030, 1032 usual ID intro for "The Edge" segment, said pgm, then back to Christian Pop mx. ID outro for spiritual message segment at 1045 recheck. Even better than 9 August and best signal since last season . (12 August) Uploaded a few more reception videos to Youtube which may be of some interest. Here are the links should you care to watch; http://youtu.be/gIIz971eWGE 2 Brazilians on 4885.012 and 4885.025 http://youtu.be/-IbQcFQYi1I RRI Nabire staying on late http://youtu.be/-yZYO9_5Upg The Cross Radio with station identification http://youtu.be/XSBBLbOIMUY Nice reception of Radio Thailand World Service http://youtu.be/9KA-c0G22ME Big signal from The Voice of the Abnormal http://youtu.be/R9Tb7kaoOeA Radio Voz Missionaria, including jingle station identification http://youtu.be/1MKGAHz8H0Y 15050 AIR Khampur going off, 15040 AIR Bengaluru coming on http://youtu.be/9VccUV55v1U Just a bit of weak audio from presumed Radio Eco http://youtu.be/KExH3kMMSqQ CNR1/Firedrake on 14920 and 14980 kHz http://youtu.be/1SpoZFdlCHg An older reception from January of Republic of Yemen Radio 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
