Friday, October 19, 2007

Blog Logs


Thanks to contributors Brandon Jordan, Stewart MacKenzie, Harold Frodge, Jim Evans and Wendel Craighead for their shortwave loggings. Contributions are always welcome for the magazine or blog, and may be directed to my above email address. Thanks very much to all the contributors for your kind words and support.


All times UTC - frequencies in kHz. English unless unless otherwise stated // parallel frequencies. * sign-on - sign-off *

Albania
China Radio International relay 9570, 0312. Chinese service with news and features SIO 333. (S MacKenzie, CA).

Bolivia
Radio Eco 4409.8 (tentative log) 0042-0102.+ Low-key Spanish vocal tunes to announcers Spanish promos. Poor copy and almost buried. (H Frodge, MI)

China
China Radio International 13690, 0312. Chinese service for SIO 322. Male announcers text and comments. China‛s CPBS on 11750, 0310 in Chinese. (S MacKenzie, CA)

Djibouti
Radio Djibouti 4780, *0304. Station sign-on immediately into Koran recitations followed by Arabic text. S9 signal despite static and slow fade by 0315. (B Jordan, TN)

Ecuador
HCJB Global 9780, 0256-0324. Announcers text during German service. Station identification at 0327 followed by sign-off. SIO 44/ (S MacKenzie, CA)

French Guiana
Radio France International relay 17630, 2115. Spanish news and comments. SIO 333. Music program at 2117. (S MacKenzie, CA).

Germany
Voice of Croatia relay 9925, 0248. Croatian service with SIO 232. Folk music to segments on news. (S MacKenzie, CA)

Guatemala
Radio Buenas Nuevas 4799.77, 0254-0424* and 0859-1230 - sign-off at 0424*, then transmitter turned back on early at 0859 and dead air until 0924. Non stop music instrumentals until 1000, followed by dead air until transmitter left the air at 1002. Back on at 1015 with instrumentals until 1024 sign-on announcement. Signal still audible at 1230 with good signal. CODAR interference throughout. (B Jordan, TN)

Radio Cultural Coatan 4780, 0108-0121.+ Spanish announcements on events between lively bumper music between items. Station ID at 0119 as "Radio Coatan" without mention of Cultural. Local campo music amid SIO 323, despite QRM, no sign of sweeper which is strong on 5785. (H Frodge, MI)

Indonesia
Voice of Indonesia 9525, 1813. German service covering news and features. SIO 333. Indonesian music program. (S MacKenzie, CA)

Japan
Radio Japan/NHK 9835, 1820. Japanese service with SIO 444. Announcer duo trade news and comments. Program sign-off at 1859 // 15355 via Gabon. 17825, 2101 // 17870 SIO 333 via Canada, 11855 SIO 333 via Ascension Island. (S MacKenzie, CA).

Kuwait
Radio Kuwait 11675, 0310. Arabic program of text, music and special feature segments. (S MacKenzie, CA)

Morocco
Voice of America relay 15580, 2124. Rock music vocals to announcer;s presentation of American Gold program ID at 2127. VOA News at 2130, back to rock music at 2136. // 15410 SIO 333. (S MacKenzie, CA)

New Zealand
Radio New Zealand 13730, 0310. Newscast covering Pacific items to weather forecast. SIO 444. (S MacKenzie, CA)

Nigeria
Voice of Nigeria 15120 via Ikorodu 1710-1747. Announcers text on the Nigerian economy. Various interview and reporters segments. Moderate signal strength. SINPO 34333. (J Evans, TN)

North Korea
Voice of Korea 13760, 0250-0308. French text via announcer and Asia music. SIO 333. (S MacKenzie, CA)

Northern Marianas
Radio Free Asia 15160, 0302. SIO 232. Chinese programming including news and presumed editorial from male/female duo. (S MacKenzie, CA)

Peru
Radio Victoria 9720, 2335-0009. Religious sermon in Spanish to station ID and mentions of Lima and "onda Corta" several times. New religious program at 0007and ID as, "la programa de Dios Radio Victoria." Present with interference via China Radio International sign-on at 0000
(H Frodge, MI)

Portugal
Deutsche Welle relay 9825, 0252-0317. German service with announcer duo‛s comments about parliamentary sessions. "Deutsche Welle" identification at 0318. (S MacKenzie, CA)

Russia
Voice of Russia 13645, 0405. Voice of Russia Worldwide News covering the news topics from the world. SIO 444. (S MacKenzie, CA)

Russia
Deutsche Welle via Petropavlovsk (tentative) 15640, 2259-2350. German news at 2300 into program about a pop music festival in Berlin at 2317. Fair strength until fading began about 2345. Sespect this might be via Petropavlovsk since parallel frequencies remained constant as did other 19 meter band stations. (W Craighead, CO).

Taiwan
Radio Taiwan International 15290, 0258. Chinese. Comments from story on the Taiwan Network amid jammer interference in the background. (S MacKenzie, CA).

United Kingdom
BBC World Service 13640, 2158. Announcer‛s sports update to BBC identification. Japanese station under BBC causing interference. (S MacKenzie, CA).