3249.34, HONDURAS, R.Luz y Vida, 1121-1134, Jan.27, English/Spanish, OM w/ EG religous talks, YL w/ over-lapping SP translation, ID at 1124, mx prg at 1126 w/ pop-like music and ballads, Fair. (Barbour-NH)
3925, JAPAN, R.Tampa, 1137-1154, Jan.27, Japanese, Piano recital at t/in, then OM w/ long talk beginning at 1140, still going at tune-out. Poor, // 6055 audible w/ HCJB, 6050 "splatter". (Barbour-NH) 4052.47, GUATEMALA, R.Verdad, 0457-0508, Jan.24, Spanish/Englsih, Religous ballads, YL and OM w/ Spanish and English ID announcement at 0502 then back to music. Fair w/ static bursts. (Barbour-NH) 4635, TAJIKISTAN, Tajik Radio (presumed), 2252-2317, Jan.26, Tajik?, Folk-like vocal and instrumental music at t/in, OM at 2300 w/ presumed ID followed by up-beat,dance-like music then 2 announcers, brief dance music, announcer then choral music. Presumed news beginning at 2303 w/ OM and YL b/w brief musical bits, field reports. Poor/weak, fading out at 2317 under tolerable noise level. (Barbour-NH) 4760, LIBERIA, ELWA Radio, 2215-2231*, Jan.26, English, Contemporaray religous ballads, whisper-quiet announcer at 2229 followed by NA. Rough copy w/ static. (Barbour-NH) 4800, CHINA, CPBS,Geermu, 2233-2250, Jan.26, Manadarin, OM and YL w/ talks and banter, breif musical bits. Fading in as "sweeper" QRM lessens. (Barbour-NH) 4810v, MEXICO, R.XERTA, 1126-1151, Feb.1, English/Spanish, Contemporary religous music in English, swithced to Spanish at 1140, YL w/ "canned" IDs in Spanish at 1130, 1140 and 1142 tho too much transmitter hum,"sweeper" QRM and muffled audio to get good copy on either of the three. Kept shuffling the dial between 4809-4810 in .01 kHz increments, unsure if the signal or the interference was drifting. (Barbour-NH) 4830, HONDURAS, R.Litoral, 0441-0503*, Jan.25, English/Spanish, Religous prg. "Searchlight" w/ Thanksgiving Day broadcast, OM at 0456 w/ Spanish ID and s/off announcements. Fair. (Barbour-NH) 4902.68, BOLIVIA, R.San Miguel, 1021-1033, Jan.30, Spanish, OM w/ talks and PSA, more talks and field reports re "policia programa". ID at 1030. Good w/ lite static. (Barbour-NH) 4940, VENEZUELA, R.Amazonas, 0958-1019, Jan.30, Spanish, Music w/ "canned" IDs at 1005 and 1015, brief "zingers" between musical selections. OM w/ remote, lots of cheering and crowd noises. Weak but clear. (Barbour-NH) 5030, PERU, R.Los Andes, 1123-1138, Jan.31, Spanish, Music and ballads w/ breif talks b/w selections, several breaks in audio, "zinger" ID at 1125, Fading out under static. (Barbour-NH) 5860, CHINA, VO Jinling, 1155-1218, Jan.31, Mandarin, Ballad at t/in, pips (5+1) YL w/ ID, "Jinling zhi Sheng", brief musical bits w/ talk overs until 1204 followed by OM w/ long talk b/w brief jazz-like musical bits continuing thru tune-ouot. Fiar w/ mild QRN and fades. (Barbour-NH) 6185, CHINA, Huayi B.C. Company, 1154-1218, Jan.27, Mandarin/English, Announcers w/ lite banter and talks over music, ballads and EG ID, "This is F.M. ??. China Huayi Broadcasting Company". Fair at t/in, fading by tune-out. No sign of co-channel R.Educacion, Mexico who apparently signed off a bit early. (Barbour-NH) 9820, INDIA, AIR Panaji, 1307-1322, Jan.27, Hindi music and talk w/ fair signal, // 7275 AIR Chennai poor, // 15050 AIR Delhi good tho w/ open-carrier only at initial tune-in. (Barbour-NH) 11770, NIGERIA, VO Nigeria (presumed), 1903-1920, Jan.27, French, News w/ field reports, Afropops and French language ballads, tlks begining at 1914 re "West Africa". No ID noted. Fair w/ "splatter" via 11765 VOIRI (Barbour-NH) 15125, ASCENSION ISLAND, FEBA Radio, 1838-1848, Jan.27, French, Religous talks and instrumental music, ID at 1845 into new prg. Poor, mixing w/ co-channel REE via Costa Rica. (Barbour-NH) QSL: SPAIN: "Espanoles en la Mar" via REE, 11625, f/d QSL letter and form letter, both in Spanish, "RN 5" and "RNE En Carnaval, Seamos gente 10" stickers in 16 days for 1 IRC and an English report to the Espanoles en la Mar, Apartado 1233, 38080 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Island address. V/S, Mary Cortes (Barbour-NH) 73 and Good DX, Scott R Barbour Jr-Intervale,NH-USA R75, MLB-1, RS longwire w/ RBA balun. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is out! Only $20.97 through us. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.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://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt