Some items from a wet and rainy Monday and crisp autumn Tuesday. DX appears to be improving here in the White Mountains.
2310, AUSTRALIA, VL8A-Alice Springs, 0948-1004, Sept.26, English, Local music w/ talk over, ABC promos, wx forecast for entire continent. Song "Midnite Moon" thru ToH, quick ID at 1003 then more mx. Fair using USB. // 2325-VL8T poor. (Barbour-NH) 3291.28, GUYANA, GBC, 0128-0147, Sept.27, English, YL and OM w/ discussion on "family structure". Prg. credits, YL thanx guests, "3rd part of discussion next Monday". Music bridge at 0140 into PSA, ad re home saving plan. Brief anncr at 0141 into a presumed recording of a live event w/ ancr. congratulating winners. Signal crushed by het tone at 0146. Poor/weak w/ flux audio. (Barbour-NH) 5985, CONGO(REP),(T)RTV Congolaise, 2049-2100, Sept.26, French, OM w/ talks over and b/w Hi-life music, tent.ID at 2055. Fair/poor signal prior to being crushed at 2100 by 20 kHz wide "hash", presumably DRM? (Barbour-NH) 6080, SINGAPORE, RSI, 1109-1125, Sept.27, English. Jingle ID at t/in, YL w/ ID, 49m frequencies, prg. hilites and TC. Rough copy of 2 OM mentioning Indo gov't, Singapore and Australia. Promo for "25 Minutes". YL re history of Singapore architecture and its modern day threats. Mentioned RSI website for full transcript. More promos and ID. Poor but audible using LSB. (Barbour-NH) 6249.8, KOREA(DPR), Pyongyang BCS, 1040-1101, Sept.27, Korean, Ballads until YL and OM at 1054. Instrumental at 1058, Pips at 1100, OM w/ presumed ID and talk. Fair. (Barbour-NH) 7220, VIETNAM, VOV, 1127-1139, Sept.27, Mandarin/Russian. Tail end of Mandarin svc. Minute o' silence into Russian at 1130 w/ YL over music. Presumed news w/ occasional soundbite w/ RS translation. Fair, becoming choppy w/ USB chatter by t/out. (Barbour-NH) 7270, INDIA, (P)FM Gold-AIR Chennai, 1140-1204, Sept.27, Vernacular. Continuous format of Hindi duets w/ OM in lang. b/w selections. No ID noted. Fair. (Barbour-NH) 7875U, AUSTRALIA, ABC-WA, 1056-1106, Sept.26, English, "PM" prg w/ economic news re Aussie land council; hurricane effects on oil industry. Trivia quiz re "English Premier League" into ABC News at 1100 re Aussie Homeland Security. Fair/poor. (Barbour-NH) 9445, UNIDENTIFIED, 0040-0103, Sept.26, Vernacular, OM w/ lenghty talks, "Amen" at 0055. Fanfare/caliope-like music and YL w/ contact info "POB 588.." and what sounded like "Huayani" URL mentioned radiozz.org (at least it sounded like "zz"). OM at 0059 thru t/out. PPWBR lists TWR via Uzbekistan but I cant find a listing anywhere else for this time. Good signal. (Barbour-NH) 9775, ARMENIA, VO Armenia, 1823-1845*, Sept.26, German/English. End of GM service, IS, ID/schedule for EG service. News re Sept.25 elections, constitutional reforms. Commentary re Armenian and Azerbaijan national security affairs. Music then contact info at s/off. "MuddY" audio, fair at best using USB. (Barbour-NH) 11735, ZANZIBAR, RTZ, 1849-1916, Sept.26, Vernacular. Hi-life music, OM w/ "Hi Sauti Tanzania Zanzibar" ID at 1900. Drums/pips followed by news; Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq and Zanzibar mentioned. ID at 1910. More drums then different OM w/ talks. Music at t/out. Fair/good. (Barbour-NH) 15430, "RUSSIA", Golos Rossii-Radiokanal Sodruzhestvo (via Juelich), 1445-1459*, Sept.26, Russian. Full IDs at t/in! 2 OM w/ talks re Estonia, Belarus and Ukraine. Acoustic music at 1457, cut off at 1459. Fair/good. (Barbour-NH) 15660, "ETHIOPIA" Tensae Ethiopia VO Unity (via Samara-?), *1500-1513, Sept.26, Vernacular, HoA music bits w/ OM b/w items. OM w/ talks at 1502 thru t/out. Fair at best. (Barbour-NH) Scott R Barbour Jr-Intervale,NH-USA R75, 200' Beverage antennas. Go Red Sox! __________________________________ 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://dallas.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