Sunday, November 09, 2008

DXpedition loggings

Another Radio Camp has come and gone. Attendees this time were Brian and Muriel Smith, Mark Coady, Bernie Rataj, Charlie Diamond, Paul Goliboski, Ed Verner, John Figliozzi and myself. Reception was fairly good this time. Here are a few of my loggings. More will be in the next issue of the ODXA's Listening In.
Harold

Shadow Lake Radio Camp, Stouffville, Ontario
Loggings by Harold Sellers
November 7-9, 2008
Eton E-1, 200 ft wire or G5RV antennas

All times UTC //parallel frequency *sign-on sign-off*

Argentina
11710 RAE. Interval signal to 0100 s/on in Spanish, many RAE "Rye" IDs. Then ³This is RAE.² Spanish/English announcements and into English programming. (Poor Nov 8 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)


Bangladesh
7250 Bangladesh Betar tentatively at 1229 with instrumental music, time pips, 1230 man with announcement and talk, but too weak to understand. (Weak Nov 9 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Bolivia
6135 Radio Santa Cruz at 0914 in Spanish with male chorus singing a song about Radio Santa Cruz. 0915 ID with echo effect. (Good Nov 9 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Bonaire
17810 Radio Netherlands at 2038, interview with official from Nigerian health organization. (Poor Nov 7 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Croatia
6165 Voice of Croatia at 0702 with promo announcements for their English broadcasts, music. 0705 Croatian. (Good Nov 8 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Cyprus
9760 CBC at 2115 with guitar music s/on, man with ID in Greek. 2216 woman introducing program, which began with a chorus singing spirited song. (Good, //7210 fair with QRM Nov 8 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Djibouti
RTD Djibouti at 0310 Islamic recitation and then man in Arabic. (Weak Nov 9 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Egypt
6255 Radio Cairo at 2115 with sign-on in English, frequencies, theme music, program lineup. (Very good Nov 7 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

6850 Radio Cairo at 2336 with a program about Islam. (Weak due to low modulation Nov 7 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Ethiopia
9704 Radio Ethiopia at 1952 with vocals, male announcer in Amharic, 2000 woman with announcements, fanfare music. Another station came on at 2000. (Fair, 7110 good Nov 7 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Germany
9450 Polish Radio at 1332 with ID, piece on Polish history in recognition of November 11th Polish independence day. (Good Nov 8 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Greece
7450 Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias at 2018 with nice Greek folk music. (Good Nov 7 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

India
9705 (Goa) All India Radio at 2254 with Indian music. 2304 sounded like news in English. (Poor Nov 7 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp) 2243 IS started. (Poor Nov 8 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Kuwait
11990 Radio Kuwait at 1934 man and woman discussing the constitution of Kuwait: The System of the Government. (Exc. Nov 7 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Libya
17725 Voice of Africa at 1401 ID "This is Voice of Africa from the Great Jamahiriyah.", self-promoting announcements, schedule. //21695 poor. (Fair but improving Nov 8 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Madagascar
11655 Radio Netherlands at 1858 with announcements and promos, Interval signal to ID, schedule and continue past the hour with news. (Fair Nov 8 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Moldova
7305 (Pridnestrovie) Radio Netherlands at 0617 in Dutch with mentions of Netherlands. (Fair Nov 8 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Nigeria
15120 Voice of Nigeria at 1944, woman, ID and music. (Poor due to low modulation Nov 7 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Philippines
9435 FEBC Radio Int¹l at 2228 with musical tune and repeated ID in Bahasa Indonesia, 2030 s/on. (Fair Nov 7 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Sao Tome
4960 Voice of America at 0436 with political analysts discussing recent presidential election. (Fair Nov 8 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

South Africa
17770 Channel Africa at 1500 Sing-on to ID, pause and then joined sports report in progress. (Good Nov 8 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

7215 Trans World Radio at 0326 with interval signal and "you are tuned to the international service of Trans World Radio." 0330 sign-on in language. This is a 15-minute transmission to East Africa. (Weak Nov 9 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

7215 Trans World Radio at 0326 with interval signal and IDs, :You are tuned to the international service of Trans World Radio." 0330 s/on in language. This is a 15-minute transmission to East Africa. (Weak Nov 9 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Thailand
9810 Radio Thailand 1232 man and woman with program lineup, news. (Poor Nov 9 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Syria
9330 Damascus Radio at 2105 man and woman in English, with Arab and world news. (Poor Nov 7 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)

Uganda
4976 Radio Uganda at 2125 with vocals, male announcer in vernacular. 2148 check, in English with woman. (Poor, CODAR QRM Nov 7 Harold Sellers, ODXA Shadow Lake Radio Camp)
11710
(Harold Sellers, Ontario, Canada via ODXA)