Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Blog Logs


All times UTC

Gabon
15475 Africa Number One (Moyabi), 1724-1735, 2/26/2008, French. Pop music with talk by man. Very good signal, the best non- NA signal heard this afternoon. SINPO 44444.(Jim Evans, TN)

4778, RTV Gabonaise, 0546-0600 Noted Hilife music with a female breaking in to coments in French every once in awhile. At 0955 after more comments be a number of individuals, a single female comments in length. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, FL March 3, 2008)

Indonesia
3976 RRI (Pontianak), 1152-1155, 3/1/2008, Bahasa. Slow pop music with talk by man. Poor signal with heavy ARO interference (SINPO 22222). (Jim Evans, TN)

4604.9 RRI (Serui), 1150-1200, 3/1/2008, Bahasa. Talk by man followed by slow pop music at 1155. Talk by man at 1200 (probably news).Poor signal (SINPO 24222). (Jim Evans, TN)

9526 Voice of Indonesia (Cimanggis), 1215-1230, 3/1/2008, Japanese. Rock music. Talk by woman over music at 1226. Good signal (SINPO 33333), deteriorating slightly at tune out.(Jim Evans, TN)

Kazakistan
7560 WYFR (Almaty relay), 1228-1233, 3/1/2008, Vietnamese (per schedule). Talk by man with a few bars of music. Very marginal signal, at noise level. (Jim Evans, TN)

Malaysia
7295, Traxx FM via RTM, 1623-1703, March 8, in English, DJ playing music variety of ap/pop/rock/disco songs. Frequent updates with the results of the general election, 1700 two pips, "Here is the 1:00 AM news update from the RTM News Center, Kuala Lumpur" with more election news, website still "Under Construction". (Ron Howard, CA)

Morocco
15345 RTV Marocaine (Nador), 1732-1735, 2/26/2008, Arabic. Man and woman talking. Good signal with slightly off frequency interference from presumed Argentina. SINPO 32333. (Jim Evans, TN)

Nigeria
Nigeria, 4770, Radio Nigeria, 0615-0630 Noted persons in local language comments. Did not sound like English. However, with the noise and weak signal, it was difficult to pick out the details. (Chuck Bolland, FL March 3, 2008)

Papua New Guinea
3335 Radio East Sepik (Wewak), 1132-1135, 3/1/2008, Pidgin(?). Talk by man and woman with short musical segment. Poor signal (SINPO 23222). (Jim Evans, TN)

Peru
5939.20, Radio Melodia, 1034-1045, Hearing a male in Spanish comments. Signal is very weak and often covered by splatter from adjacent signals. No other details. (Chuck Bolland, FL March 2, 2008)

Rwanda
6054.50, Radio Rwanda, 0600-0615, Heard various persons in French language comments, probably news. Signal was fair to poor. (Chuck Bolland, FL March 3, 2008)

Vietnam
7220 Voice of Vietnam (Son Tay), 1210-1230, 3/1/2008, Chinese. Talk by man and woman with short musical bridges. Selection of traditional/classical music prior to announcements by woman at 1227. Unmodulated carrier to 1230 start of Russian language program with talk by man. Poor but readable signal (SINPO 24222). (Jim Evans, TN)

Zambia
13590 CVC International (Lusaka), 1829-1840, 2/26/2008, English. Identification by man followed by pop music. Ten second carrier drop at 1833 followed by news read by man. Music resumed at 1835. Good signal (SINPO 34333).(Jim Evans, TN)

4965, CVC, 0448-0458:30*, March 8, in English; rap and easy-listening Christian songs, talking about religion, singing "Radio Christian Voice" jingle at sign-off; fair-good. (Ron Howard,CA)

5915, ZNBC/Radio 1, 0247-0301, March 8, Fish Eagle interval signal to choral anthem, drums and singing, in vernacular, fair. (Ron Howard, CA)

6165, ZNBC/Radio 2, 0247-0301, March 8, Fish Eagle interval signal to instrumental anthem, drums and singing, poor under heavy QRM. (Ron Howard, CA)