4319U, DIEGO GARCIA, AFN, 0010-0020, Mar.1, English, "Sports By-line" prg. w/ Dennis Rodman interview, PSA's re "Homeland Security". V.poor. (Barbour-NH)
4799.9, GUATEMALA, R.Buenas Nuevas, 1048-1104, Feb.27, Spanish, OM w/ music and talks, full ID announcement at 1102. Fair. (Barbour-NH) 4930, BOTSWANA, VOA, 0410-0422, Feb.28, English, URL at t/in, Commentary re Asian college students; U.S. healthcare syste. Poor. (Barbour-NH) 7300, THAILAND, R.Thailand, 1116-1129*, Feb.27, Khmer/English, OM w/ talks in lang and stringed instrumentals. IS at 1128 w/ EG announcement mentioning Khmer language and Bankok b/c times. Cut-off at 1129. Fair. (Barbour-NH) 7455, ALBANIA, R.Tirana, 0037-0047, Mar.3, English, YL w/ news re Albanian politics; mx prg. at 0345. Very weak, poor. // 6115 not much better. (Barbour-NH) 9920, PHILIPPINES, FEBC-Bocaue, 1235-1302, Feb.28, Vernacular, OM w/ lengthy talks b/w music bits. YL at 1259 w/ contact info for "Manila, Philippines". IS at 1300 then OM w/ big drop in audio. Fair. (Barbour-NH) QSLs: "AUSTRALIA", 9765, CVC Int'l via Juelich, Big old envelope containing a very professional looking, lamintated CVC folder called a "DX Pack". Inside was a f/d card, personal letter, SW info w/ coverage maps, business card and "Profile" sheets of various CVC services. In 27 days for 1 IRC. V/S,"Dallas"(his Aussie nickname!). Wonder how much it costs to print and mail these out? (Barbour-NH) POLAND, 9525, R.Polonia, f/d "Gdansk-The Neptune Fountain" card, personal letter and schedules in 69 days for 1 IRC. V/S, Rafal Kiepuszweski-Editor,EG Service. (Barbour-NH) "TAIWAN", R.Taiwan Int'l via Issoudin, 11850, Sharp looking, "Flying Heavenly Lanterns" card with the only correct data being the date! Wrong UTC and freq(1600-1700 UTC; 11815 kHz). Ooh..they did get the language right but not for the time and frequency the verifier listed. I now have 4 blank or error-ridden QSLs from this station. Does anyone at RTI know, much less care, what their broadcast/frequency schedule is? Also received newsletter, schedule(ha!) and report form in 26 days for 1 IRC. (Barbour-NH) Scott R Barbour Jr-Intervale,NH-USA R75, 200' Beverages, MLB-1, DTS-4 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
