Merry Christmas! May you find that elusive DX signal under your tree, lol. 3921.17, GUYANA, GBC, 0140-0204, Dec.18, English, OM w/ mx prg. Talk re various musical artists and holiday greetings. Fair/good. (Barbour-NH)
3945, IRAN, VOIRI, 0207-0216, Dec.19, Vernacular, Announcer w/ numerous ments. of "Islam", mx bridge followed by talk re "Iraq". Fair. Need USB to avoid LSB chatter. (Barbour-NH) 4498.15, BOLIVIA, R.Estambul, 1006-1022, Dec.19, Spanish, Music with solid ID at 1010. Various announcers over music at 1017. Poor/fair, noisy by t/out. Pleased to log this for the first time! (Barbour-NH) 4796.33, BOLIVIA, R.Mallku, 0953-1003, Dec.22, Spanish, Continuous SP music w/ nice ID at 0956. Poor. (Barbour-NH) 4960, INDIA, AIR-Ranchi, 1135-1203, Dec.20, Vernacular, Talks by OM and YL b/w Hindi music bits. Ads featuring "doorbell" effects and URL I couldn't fully copy. Hindi ballads at 1150. Nice ID at 1200 then "doorbell" ad again. Mx intro and OM at 1202. Fair at t/in then slowly fading. (Barbour-NH) 5054.6, COSTA RICA, Faro del Caribe, 0141-0204, Dec.19, Spanish, OM w/ SP Christmas music, talk b/w selections. ID at 0202. Poor/fair w/ lots of slop via 5050-WWRB. (Barbour-NH) 5960, RUSSIA, RS Tikhy Ocean, *0935-1000*, Dec.23, Russian, IS, Usual format reported by others w/ OM ID, YL w/ talks, occasional OM and music. Poor w/ 5955 slop. Too weak to detail at my location. (Barbour-NH) 8743U, THAILAND, Bangkok Meteorological Radio, 1224-1247, Dec.19, Thai/English, Weather forecasts in Thai(2 to 6 mins. in length) and English(2 mins. in length) w/ 2-minute(+/-) IS b/w segments. Several ID announcments w/ schedule and frequencies. Poor/fair. (Barbour-NH) 9799.88, YEMEN, Republic of Yemen Radio, 1945-2005, Arabic, OM hosting phone-in program. Pips/ID at 200. Fanfare followed by OM. Poor, whisper quiet signal. (Barbour-NH) 11735, ZANZIBAR, RTZ, 1922-1943, Dec.20, Vernacular, Music at t/in, News at 1927 w/ mentions of Uganda, Malawi and Dar-es Salaam. Music at 1932 w/ YL b/w selections. Booming! (Barbour-NH) 11850, POLAND, R.Polonia, 1318-1336, Dec.19, English, News re Polish politics. "News from Poland" prg. Contest at 1326 re traditional Polish Xmas dinner. Correct answers via e-mail win Xmas "goodie bag". Music/talks featuring Henrich Goresky(sp-?). "Soundcheck, 20 minutes of Polish music" at t/out. Poor/fair. (Barbour-NH) Scott R. Barbour Jr-Intervale,NH-USA R75, 200' Beverage antennas, MLB-1 antenna. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/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