2310, AUSTRALIA, VL8T Alice Springs(t), 1013-1030, Oct.5, English, Acoustic ballads w/ OM b/w selections, (t) "ABC" ID at 1015, again at 1030 followed by news. Poor/weak, no //'s noted. (Barbour-NH)
3235, BRAZIL, R.Guarja Paulista, 2238-2304, Oct.3, Portuguese, OM w/ talks and music, (t) ID over music at 2300. Fair at t/in, buried under static at t/out. // 5045-fair. (Barbour-NH) 4845, BOLIVIA, R.Municipal, 0917-0932, Oct.5, Spanish, Anthem-like vocal music, OM w/ ID in passing at 0930. Weak under QRN. (Barbour-NH) 4919, ECUADOR, R.Quito, 0245-0302, Oct.7, Spanish, Nice mix of SP music, canned ID at 0300. Weak/poor. (Barbour-NH) 5925, VIETNAM, VOV-3, 1008-, Oct.8, Hmong, Familiar format of YL w/ news, mx bridge at 1010 followed by OM and YL w/ musci prg. Fair at t/in though soon buried under 5920-WBOH slop. (Barbour-NH) 6080, R.Singapore Int'l, 1103-1117, Oct.3, English, "RSI" ID at end on nx bulletin, "Connections" prg. re houseboat living. ID at 1113 followed by commentary re UN, Iraq and illegality of US-led war. Yawn!. Fair at best w/ co-channel Mandarin "wailing banshee" vocals (CH jamming?). // 6150-poor. (Barbour-NH) 6134.8, BOLIVIA, R.Santa Cruz, 0911-0917, Spanish, Lively SP music w/ quick IDs b/w selections, full ID at 0914. Fair. (Barbour-NH) 6115, PERU, R.Union(p), 0936-0950, Oct.5, Spanish, OM w/ music and talks, YL at 0940 w/ same. Poor/weak under QRN. (Barbour-NH) 6125, CHINA, CPBS-Shijiazhuang, 2137-2148; 2155-2205, Oct.5, Mandarin, 2 announcers w/ "sing-song" talks. Poor w/ 6130-RAI slop. Re-check at 2155 after RAI s/off to clearer signal. Various OM and YLs w/ promos over music. Choral mx, pips(5+1), OM and YL w/ (p) ID at 2200. Fanfare w/ brief talks followed by anthem-like music and ballads. Fair w/ mild slop via RFE/RL-6130 2200 s/on. (Barbour-NH) 7320, RUSSIA, R.Rossii-Arman, 1038-1053, Oct.7, Russian, Continuous talks b/w 2 OM. Fair and improving. // 5940 weak under Gene Scott-5935 slop. (Barbour-NH) 12085, MONGOLIA, VO Mongolia, 1007-1031, Oct.6, English, YL w/ long talks; able to make out the occasional EG word; b/w ballads. ID over music at 1029, distinct IS followed by (p) ID for listed Mongolian service. Fair signal though "muddy" vox audio, probably due to propagation as a 1055 re-check revealed a clearer signal. (Barbour-NH) Scott R Barbour Jr-Intervale,NH-USA R75, MLB-1, RS longwire w/ RBA balun. ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is out! 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