Finally repaired one of my Beverages which had been out of service for a bit. Works like a charm now. Just need my LDG DTS4 antenna switch to arrive from Universal and I'll be all set for wintertime DXing.
2310, AUSTRALIA, VL8A-Alice Springs, 1036-1102, Oct.18, English, YL w/ music prg. "ABC TV" promo at 1045. Commentary re "political correctness effective in altering linguistic behavior". Very interesting. Music thru ToH with music prg. promo on "783 ABC Alice Springs". Fair at best. // 2485 VL8K Katherine-poor. Both outlets appearing regularly at my QTH lately. (Barbour-NH) 4747, PERU, R.Huanta, 1021-1037, Oct.17, Vernacular, Quecha music and talks. Quick ID at 1022. Fair tho quickly faded under static. (Barbour-NH) 4780, GUATEMALA, R.Cultural, 1111-1135, Oct.17, Spanish, Religous talks, choral music and full ID annmt at 1129. Fair. (Barbour-NH) 4780, DJIBOUTI, RTD, 2101-2134, Oct.17, Vernacular, Continuos talks by OM w/ numerous ments of Allah and Ramadan. Brief music at 2130 followed by presumed radio drama. Poor under static. (Barbour-NH) 4784.5v, MALI, RTV Malienne, 2148-2207, Oct.17, French, OM w/ FR talks and Arabic-style music bits. Talks b/w percussion beats thru ToH. Very poor, difficult to get a lock on the frequency. // 5995-poor/fair. Nothing heard on 4835. (Barbour-NH) 5470, LIBERIA, R.Veritas, 2203-2215, Oct.18, English, Pop ballads by Whitney Houston and others. OM b/w selections. Fair at best tho very weak announcer audio. (Barabour-NH) 6055, RWANDA, (P)R.Rwanda, 2053-2100, Oct.17, French, OM in heavily accented French. Hilife music at 2059 then crushed by co-channel NHK-R.Japan s/on. Weak under static. 6165, CHAD, (P)RNT, 2024-2053, Oct.17, French-?, OM and YL w/ FR sounding talks and Afropops. Drums at BoH. Fair tho battling for dominance w/ strong co-channel Croatia. 7125, GUINEA, RTV Guineenne, 2222-2300, Oct. 17, French, OM w talks and Hi-life music. Presumed news from 2230-2240. Russian Int'l Radio carrier at 2252, overtaking frequency at 2300. Fair. (Barbour-NH) 7255, NIGERIA, VON, 2131-2201, Oct.18, French/Vernacular, OM and YL w/ FR talks over native music. Fanfare at 2158, ID, drums then OM in language. Fair and improving. (Barbour-NH) 7290, CHINA, CNR-Beijing, 1237-1253, Oct.17, Mandarin, Various announcer w/ talks b/w musical bits. // 7305-Shijazhuang. Fair. (Barbour-NH) 9745U, BAHRAIN, (P)R.Bahrain, 2103-2129, Oct.18, Arabic, Continuous Arabic music, very weak. Wiped out by co-channel HCJB s/on at 2129. 15050, INDIA, AIR-Delhi, 1208-1215*, Oct.17, Vernacular, Hindi duets, YL w/ s/off anmts and freq schedule. Fair. (Barbour-NH) Scott R Barbour Jr-Intervale,NH-USA R75, 200' Beverage antennas. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/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://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt