Greetings to all, Finally getting to spend some quality time at the receiver after a busy February school vacation work week. (All work and no play makes Scott a dull boy.) The plus side to it is that everything sounds "new" after a week away!
3300, GUATEMALA, R.Cultural (presumed), Feb.23, 1046-1053, Spanish, Music noted under excessive static and QRN, short talk then back to music at 1053. Very por, noisy. (Barbour-NH) 3306, ZIMBABWE, ZBC/R.Zimbabwe, 2146-2203*?, Feb.23, Vernacular/English, Reggae music in EG, including a version of "Whiter shade of grey" w/ OM talk over in Vern. Choral like music at 2159 abruptly engulfed in noise at 2203. No ID noted. Unsure if sign-off or just excessive noise but nothing else noted after listening for several minutes. Fair signal hampered by excessive static. (Barbour-NH) 3306, ZIMBABWE, ZBC/R.Zimbabwe, Feb.24, Vernacular, Continuos instrumental Afropop music w/ OM talk over at each songs end. Signing OM w/ choral accompaniment at 0132 and 0200, possibly a "jingle" ID tho no mention of Zimbabwe. Fair signal w/ much less static and fading as my prior 2146-2203 log. (Barbour-NH) 3976, KALIMANTAN, RRI Pontianak, 1016-1030, Feb.23, Indonesian, Indo music and talks, presumed ads/announcements at 1028 followed by preseumd ID at 1030, immediately over-taken by amatuer traffic. Weak/poor. (Barbour-NH) 5046.87, TOGO, R.Togolaise, 2046-2108, Feb.23, French, Afropop-like music and brief talks, wind instrumental at 2100 w/ tentative ID mentioning "Togo", more wind and drum music into talks w/ 2 OM. Clear but weak, slowly improving by t/out. Thanks to Jari S. tip (Barbour-NH) 7270, INDIA, AIR Chennai, 1201-1222, Feb.24, Continuos Hindi music w/ YL briefly on the fives; 1210, 1215 and 1220. Solid ID at 1215. // 7270 Mumbai just audible. Weak w/ mild ham chatter on occasion. Not as strong here as the service to Sri Lanka was but then if I am reading my DX info correctly this frequency is now targeting NW India. (Barbour-NH) 9525, INDONESIA, VO Indonesia, 1115-1132, Feb.24, English/Mandarin/Japanese, Ballads at tune-in, OM w/ English ID and web address info, YL in Mandarin at 1129 with Jakarta postal address. Japanese service at 1130 w/ ID and talk over music. Fair at tune-in, deteriorating by 1130. (Barbour-NH) 9750, MALAYSIA, VO Islam/VO Malaysia, 1047-1103, Feb.24, Indonesian, Ballads w/ YL between selections, YL w/ singing "Saura Islam" jingle, wind and percussion instruments at 1100 into OM w/ news. Fair/fluttery signal. (Barbour-NH) 9770, SRI LANKA, SLBC, 1230-1243, Feb.24, English, YL w/ frequency schedule at t/in, Disney movie soundtrack music, "Can you feel the love tonight"; "A whole new world" and other children's music, "This old man (came rolling home)" and "Skip to my Loo, My Darling". Poor/weak, deteriorating by tune-out. (Barbour-NH) I have heard this same type of childrens music format on SLBC earlier this winter, in addition to country/western music and Frank Sinatra/"Big Band" era music on different days. Does SLBC feature certain musical styles for each day of the week? I will check my log book to see if the last time I heard the childrens music program was also on a Tuesday (NH local time). 15070, PAKISTAN, R.Pakistan, 1222-1229*, Feb.24, Mandarin, Ko'ran-like singing/chanting at tune-in, OM in Mandarin at 1225 until NA at 1228. Poor. // 11570 stronger but disrupted by intermittient air horn-like QRN blasts. (Barbour-NH) QSLs: CANADA/CUBA: China Radio Int'l via Sackville and Havana, 9700, 9580, Nice package containing f/d "Jinggan Mountains, Jiangxi, Dawn at Ciping" card, stickers, colorful paper pennant and personal note on a "CRI, China's Endangered Rare Animals" card depicting the Slow Loris in 22 days for 1 IRC. Not the first package from CRI but definetly the most attractive. (Barbour-NH) GERMANY: infoRADIO/Rundfunk-Berlin Brandenburg via Sudwestrundfunk, 7265, p/d (date & frequency) "rbb" logo card w/ station stamp and blank "Sender Freies Berlin" studios card in 18 days. V/S, Illegible (Barbour-NH) GUAM: AWR, 15495, f/d "3 Wise Men" cd w/ site in 26 days from UK address for rpt sent to Guam address. (Barbour-NH) RUSSIA: Radio Vlaanderen Int'l via Irkutsk, 9945, f/d, "Aalst, Belfort" card in 40 days for $1 (returned). (Barbour-NH) USA: WINB, 9320, f/d red, white and blue card w/ schedule in 26 days for SASE (used). V/S, Fred W. Wise. (Barbour-NH) Scott R Barbour Jr-Intervale,NH-USA R75, MLB-1, RS longwire w/ RBA balun. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ---[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