Thanks to Bob Wilkners phone alert, noted a very nice Andean opening last evening. I managed to hear several stations that are normally rather difficult.
PERU 5602.54 R. La Voz de los Andes Tuned in right after Bobs call at 0047 and caught nice rapid OA campesino mx with a lot of voice-over anmnts by M. Thought hrd ments of Puno and a definite ment of radio. 0102 TC and anmnts over instru. electric guitar OA mx. Ment of "...capital de Lima...". End anmnt at 0106 w/ment of Selva. 0110 M again beginning w/TC, ment of manana, local, and Peru. Sounded like ID at beginning of anmnt at 0116 but it was rapid and slurred. Clear ment of radio then another poss. slurred ID. 0117 definite ID after TC. Then ment of "Radio La Voz" about 30 seconds later. 0124 t/out. Fairly strong but modulation wasn't 100%. Would've been much more readable if mx under anmnts was lower volume. Better on T2FD. (Valko 28 Jan.) PERU 4485.94 R. Frecuencia VH 0129-0143 Outstanding signal!! Clear. Mix of instru. OA campesino mx and M anncr. Beautiful flutes and women vcls at 0132. 0135 TC, song anmnt, ended w/ment of sintonia. 0141 M w/apparent song dedication and beautiful clear ID, song anmnt, and Huayno. Very nice and not hrd this well in a long time!! Good LA evening!! A little stronger and clearer on Windom. (Valko 28 Jan.) BOLIVIA 4409.81 R. Eco (pres.) This coming in too at 0137 check. Tuned back at 0204 and hrd Ranchera-sounding LA Pop song and other LA Pops. 0210 W anncr w/TC and long anmnt. Back to mx at 0212. Unfortunately it suddenly left the air at 0217:13*. Would have liked to stay w/this earlier but too much other things to listen to!! (Valko 28 Jan.) PERU?? 5700 R. Frecuencia San Ignacio?? Around 0055, hrd just plain tlk in SP by W. The signal was so strong I couldn't believe it was San Ignacio and was thinking it must be a spur. So I did a scan of the lower end of 49 meters to get a // but didn't hear any. I didn't stay with it and wonder if it really was San Ignacio. (Valko 28 Jan.) BOLIVIA 4716.76 R. Yura 0150-0203 End of lively LA song, soft-spoken M anncr, then LA Pop power ballad. 0157 rustic band song. 0159 M again briefly w/ment of sintonia but no ID noted. End of song, then canned ID anmnt by M over flute mx w/onda corta and onda media freqs given. 0202 shorter canned ID anmnt by same M followed by instru. NA. (Valko 28 Jan.) ALGERIA 6300 R. National Saharaui is now here from 0700-0900. First heard yesterday pre-2200 UTC. Strong signal. Will make it tough for European pirates around this freq before 0900. Not to mention the fact Cuba has a very strong spur here before 0700. (Valko 28 Jan.) BRAZIL 4894.87 0730 end of soft ZY contemporary mx. Live M anncr w/what sounded like ment of "IPB" followed by "R. Novo Tempo" ID jingle by womens chorus. 2 ads then back to mx at 0732. Fair signal w/slop QRM from Clube do Para on 4885 below. (Valko 28 Jan.) (The last 2 loggings were made on a Europirate micro-DXpedition using a 315 foot BOG directed to Europe) 73 Dave ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.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