ZANZIBAR - 6015, Voice of Tanzania - Zanzibar, aka the former RTZ, well heard 0300-0340+ 1/30, thanks to Ron Howard's tip! Decent African propagation this nite but more importantly, fqy nice and clear other than the awful splatter from 6020. Sig fair to occasionally fading-in to good level. Checked fqy 0258 and could detect carrier but not hear anything -- missed any IS -- but realized about 0300 YL anmts suddenly there, in progress, very muffled. Signal faded up so that at 0301.20 Islamic call to prayer very well heard, muzzein sadly chanting for about 5 minutes with long pauses between verses. 0306 thru bottom of the hour, OM giving speech or narrative, excited at times, either a political or religious exhortation. Quick mx interlude 0316 broke in, and then OM speech resuming. YL with possible news at bottom of hour, also hearing echoey, excited man, possible taped sports report or the like. 0341 orch mx with YL, probably ad. Gotta hand it to the R8B on this one, rig did well: the AM sync detection mode seemed to really pull this out of the mud at times. Never heard Zanzibar on this fqy before and, in fact, had not heard Zanzibar in 30 years, since the days when RTZ hung out on 3339 kHz and Mr. Omar M. Omar delighted in teasing DXers with letters that explicitly non-verified. Again, thanks again for the tip to Ron Howard, the Nomad DXer of the Asilomar Beach State Park! (R Perry, Illinois)
BOLIVIA - 6134.77, R. Santa Cruz, 1009-1045+ 1/30, good time to tune as usual 6135 QRM (initially) absent early morning. Sounded like remote newsfeed at tune-in, 1018 brief musica folklorica break and then OM ancr 1019 and into romantic guitar ballad. 1021 local time ck and mentions of ". . . boliviano . . .La Paz" and "musica del campo" and then into extremely rustic musica folklorica segment. Yelling/singing women a capella with only percussion accompaniment. 1027 taped ID by OM & YL, clear mention ". . . Radio Santa Cruz . . . onda corta . . ." 1029 ads and another ID 1029.46, into slow huayno-type ballad by OM with accordianlike instrument. QRM coming up at this point and big het, but still able to follow until 1045 tune out. (R Perry, Illinois) MEXICO - 6010, Radio Mil, daily visitor morning and night, heard 1/30 booming in 1035 with OA pops, DJ wishing folks muy buenos dias and formula ID as "Esta escuchando . . . Radio Mil, desde Mexico!". Signal holds up well after daybreak locally, heard still hanging in there past 1300 GMT. (R Perry, Illinois) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 6025.06, tent. Radio Amanecer, Santo Domingo, 1202-1240+ 1/29, OM SS at tune-in talking about "La Familia . . . nuestro salud . . . Republica Dominicana . . ." Fair to good sig, very deep fades and lots of side splatter. 1211 mx breaker by OM with t/ck. Sig fading by 1215 when OM mentioned "iglesia" and "Dominicana". 1222 thot caught the ID for R Amanecer but not 100% sure. Still going at 1240 with piano mx poss hymn. This one needs more work. (R Perry, Illinois) UNID LA (HONDURAS?) - 3250.1, Unid. fading up at 1130 on 1/29, YL and OM in dialogue, weak and hard to tell lang but cadence could have been SS. Suspecting R. Luz Y Vida, Honduras and will keep at this fqy. (R Perry, Illinois) UNID LA (DOM REPUBLIC?) - 5954.24, "La Voz de ____ " ID heard at 0055 1/29 with terrible het and slop. Back at 0427 recheck with LA romantic vocals and again, at 0430, YL ID as "La Voz de ____". Can't make it out. There are some reports of a "Radio Republica" on this precise off-fqy, too, from Costa Rica but too early to say. (R Perry, Illinois) UNID (AFRICAN?) - 4780, 0445-0510, Unid African? Boomy audio. OM anmts at top of hr for 3 mins, then into mainly nondescript instrumental music, but there was one chantlike, very ethnic selection interspersed -- almost sounded like Thai hilltribe type stringed instrument with vocalist. Fair sig at times but rather muffled and couldn't read the lang. Could have even been EE. Interesting one to retry. (R Perry, Illinois) ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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
