4780, DJIBOUTI, RTD Atta, 0308-0333, Nov 3, Arabic. M announcer w/ talk; passing ments. of Djibouti & numerous "Salama"; HoA-like mx; ID at 0331 into presumed nx; fair at best. (Barbour-NH)
5030, BURKINA FASO, R. Burkina Ouagadougou, 2043; 2356-0001*, Nov 3, French. Announcer w/ sounded like a "live" Q & A press conference; re-check at 2356 w/ acoustic mx; announcer w/ s/off ancment at 2358 followed by presumed NA; fair. (Barbour-NH) 5030, CHINA, CNR-1 Beijing, 1106-1115, Nov 6, Mandarin. Various announcers w/ ads/promos; ID at 1108; M & W announcers w/ talk; good. (Barbour-NH) 5050, CHINA, presumed Beibu Bay Radio Nanning, 1102-1123, Nov 7, Mandarin/presumed Vietnamese. Announcers over mx at t/in; followed by M & W announcers between/over mx; at times w/ talk in (P) Vietnamese; f-p; becoming noisy around 1120; no English noted. (Barbour-NH) 6937, CHINA, presumed Yunnan PBS Kunming, 1124-1139, Nov 6, vernacular. W announcer w/ brief talks between very nice, instrumental/wind mx; poor & f/out; best in ECCS-LSB mode; also noted 1132, Nov 7, w/ mx into M announcer; quickly lost under noise floor. (Barbour-NH) 7365, THAILAND, R. Thailand Udon Thani, 1325, Nov 4, Mandarin. Battling for dominance w/ strong co-ch. Mandarin station; (P) CNR-1 Shijiazhuan; Thailand IS at 1330 & still clashing thru BoH; fair-poor. (Barbour-NH) 9780.05, YEMEN, YRTV Sanaa, 1902-1933, Nov 5, Arabic. Presumed nx at t/in; mx & talk w/ M & W announcer w/ occasional echo fx between mx bits; fair; no chance here in NH to check for listed 1800-1900 English; strong 9780-RFE/RL in Russian via Wertachtal that hour. (Barbour-NH) 9835, CHINA, Xijiang PBS Urumqi, 1143-1157*, Nov 7, Mandarin. Two W announcer w/ banter; M announcer joins at 1146; announcer over mx at 1155 then pulled the plug at 1157 sharp; good; //7260-poor, which continued thru ToH; thanks to Harry Brooks for pointing out Xijiang switches to B09 schedule Nov 9. (Barbour-NH) 11870, PHILIPPINES, R. Veritas Asia Palauig, 1336-1400, Nov 4, listed Hindi. Radio drama followed by M & W announcer between mx bits; wind/strings at 1400 & "Radio Veritas Asia..." ID announcment; good. (Barbour-NH) Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA NRD-545, RX-350D, MLB1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole. ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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