5940 RUSSIA R. Rossii Magadan 0745-0802 Dec 12 RR; Two W announcers in discussion, joined by M; mx bridge & promos at 0758; pips & ID at ToH; W announcer w/ nx; fair w/ lite 5930-MGS splash. (Barbour-NH)
5995 MALI RTV Malienne Bamako 2156-2211 Dec 11 FF; Indigenous mx; announcer at ToH; discussion via phone w/ different M; mx at 2211; poor. (Barbour-NH) 6010 BRAZIL R. Inconfidencia Belo Horizonte 2217-2227 Dec 11 PP; Ballads; "Inconfidencia!" zinger at 2224; brief announcer into familiar sounding '70s cover tune; good. (Barbour-NH) 6035 UNIDENTIFIED 1212-1231 Dec 13; On the Cumbre DX Facebook page, Alokesh Gupta posted that BBS-Bhutan was on the air from 1100 after an AIR engineer had worked on their transmitter; M & W announcer in unid language; "tinny' strings & wind instrument bit poking thru at 1218, 1221 & 1223; ballad at 1226 & talk at BoH; v. poor under band noise w/ local sunrise well underway at my locale; probably PBS Yunnan-China but will definitely be monitoring this frequency from now on! Victor G. posted an nice audio clip, recorded after my monitoring, on the India DX Association Facebook page. (Barbour-NH) 6155 BELARUS R. Belarus Minsk 2240-2300* Dec 11 RR; Two W announcers w/ banter; folk like mx; ID in passing at 2254; brief announcer & mx bridge at 2258; W announcer into brief mx at 2300, then pulled the plug; fair-poor. (Barbour-NH) 6250 N. KOREA PBS Pyongyang Pyongyang 1137-1143 Dec 13 KK; M announcer at t/in; up-beat anthem at 1139; ballad at 1142; fair. (Barbour-NH) 7420 CHINA Nei Menngu PBS Hohot 1155-1205 Dec 13 CC; W announcer thru ToH; M & W announcer over mx at 1202; presumed nx at 1203 w/ remote rpt; poor; //9520-fair. (Barbour-NH) 7425 KUWAIT VOA 2233-2238 Dec 12 EE; Obama soundbites re Iraq & Afghanistan; voanews.com URL & promos; more nx re Syrian gov't ; fair in ECCS-LSB; //7560-same. (Barbour-NH) 7620 CHINA CNR-5/V. of Zhonghua Bejing 1105-1113 Dec 13 CC; W announcer & mx bits; CNR fanfare; brief ballad at 1109; announcer over mx; fair as was //5925. (Barbour-NH) 9730 VIETNAM V. of Vietnam Hanoi-Sontay 2050-2103 Dec 12 EE/FF; W announcer w/ soundbites in (P) Vietnamese w/ EE translation; lite, jazz-like ballad; W announcer at 2057, cut off mid-sentence; IS at 2100 into FF service; M & W announcers w/ nx; fair at t/in; booming signal after 2100. (Barbour-NH) 9835 MALAYSIA presumed RTM Sarawak FM Kajang 1109-1133 Dec 12 listed Malay; W announcer at t/in; mx bridge at 1110 & tentative jingle ID; ballads & pop mx; M & W announcers at BoH; mx at 1133; fair; would really like to check //11665 but freq dominated by CRI from 1100. (Barbour-NH) 9840 VIETNAM V. of Vietnam Hanoi-Sontay 1042-1102, Dec 12 listed Indo/JJ; M announcer w/ talk; lenghty format of W announcer between mx bits; off at 1058; back with Japanes service at *1100; fair at best; //12020-good; after 1100, 12020-inaudible & 9840-fair. (Barbour-NH) 9890 CHINA CNR-13 Lingshi 1114-1134 Dec 13 listed Uighur; Alternating M & W announcers between mx bits; talk over dramatic mx & police sirens at 1128, sounds like a radio drama promo; lite mx at BoH & M announcer w/ ID; CNR fanfare into M talk; fair-good; //9420-poor. (Barbour-NH) 13590 ZAMBIA CVC Lusaka 2012-2023 Dec 12 EE; Contemporary relg mx; M announcer w/ "Kickstart" prg; question re definition of love; CVC promos; more mx; listener (e-mail?) from Zimbabwe; talk re "Kickstart on 1Africa Radio" Facebook page; good. (Barbour-NH) 15120 NIGERIA V. of Nigeria Ikorodu 1817-1833 Dec 12 EE; W announcer w/ "Beyond Poverty Lines" prg re "broken populations & broken economies"; soundbites from various gov't officials; prg ID at 1828 & VoN ID in passing; filler mx; Talking Drums at BoH into new prg, whose name I did not copy; fair. (Barbour-NH) 15140 OMAN R. Sultanate of Oman Thumrait 1936-2002 Dec 12 AA; M announcer between mx bits; occasional talk by M announcers via remotes; mx fanfare at ToH & (P) ID; NA "The Sultans Anthem" into M announcer w/ nx; poor at t/in; much improved by 2000. (Barbour-NH) Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ 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
