PIRATE (NA) 6925U "Happy Halloween" 1550-1614* A lot of SFX. "Happy Halloween", "Get out", "I'm gonna get you", "The mean man is coming", etc. Never did hear a legitimate ID. Strong. Just a few days late. (Valko 5 Nov.)
PERU 4965.81 R. Santa Ana 0926-1002 Already on this morning w/tinkly OA Harp campesino mx. Canned shouted anmnt during song by M w/ment of Peru. Promo at 0927 w/roosters and Cuckoo clock. Nice Huayno 0932, live M anncr in Aymara. The anncr made a baby crying SFX!!! Disney-like song at 0944. 0947 another canned promo by M w/laser shooting and Cuckoo clock SFX. Ment of Santa Ana. "Musica" promo by M at 1000 w/song clips and nice ID. (Valko 8 Nov.) ECUADOR 4909.2 R. Chaskis (pres.) Seemingly OC as early as 1047. What sounded like very very weak audio at times. Master audio control on the mixer board not turned up?? (Valko 9 Nov.) PERU 4824.48 LV del la Selva 1015-1045 Great signal this morning. Some sort of tlk feature w/M and W hosts over mx. Think the pgm was called something like "En Penida Salud". Some laughing. Clapping SFX. Greeted listeners at 1023. 1026 sev. pgm outro promos. Then 1028-1033 ads w/one including the song "Call Me" by Blondie. Apparent pgm intro "Hoy un Aviso Politico Contratado". 1033 into live M anncr, then sev. OA Pop-like songs 1034-1043. 1043 Canned nx pgm promo anmnt by W and M w/SFX and nice ID. Fantastic signal. Best hrd in a long time. Slight Codar was the only problem. (Valko 10 Nov.) CHINA 5050 Guangxi PBS 1058 end of tlk by M, soft instru. mx, 1100 more instru. mx, ID by M, then tlk for abt 1 minute. Brief fanfare mx bridge and W anncr tlk (pres. nx) past 1110. Best hrd in a very long time and het QRM from pres. Australia below. (Valko 11 Nov.) CHINA 4800 CPBS 1059 canned anmnt by W over soft instru. mx, 1100 5+1 time ticks, then ID by W, usual fanfare mx w/canned ID by M, sounded like intro by M over mx. Tlk by W over mx and many canned ad-like anmnts. Into CH mx at 1108. Amazingly strong stunning signal!! Obviously related to the present G2 level storms and high solar indices. Of course some Codar QRM. (Valko 11 Nov.) TIBET 6200 Xizang PBS 1117 Tlk by M and W, found //4905 which was just a tad stronger and clearer. Very nice Asian reception this morning. (Valko 11 Nov.) LAOS?? 4678.28 LNR, Xam Nua?? Could only get a carrier here at 1150. Just not quite strong enough. (Valko 11 Nov.) AUSTRALIA 2310 ABC/VL8A 1135 End of ABC nx by W w/ID at end, canned "ABC Local Radio" promo/ID w/piano, back to history pgm. Great signal. Audio sounded like a local station on the HQ-129X!!! (Valko 11 Nov.) All for now. 73 Dave ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0953586499/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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