[HCDX] More Summer DX

BOLIVIA: R Nueva Esperanza 6585,36 kHz 0113 UTC with decent signal June 16. Religious programme most propably in Quechuan mentioning "Nueva Esperanza"

BRAZIL: Big number of Brazilian stations heard in the 60- 49-, 31- and 25 meter bands. Here´s few of them:

-5970 kHz 2335 UTC R Itatiaia, Belo Horizonte with quite poor reception. Football, of course! June 18

-6020 2310 R Gaucha, Porto Alegre. Very nice reception with football commentary. June 16

-6040 0135 R Clube Paranaense, Curitiba giving "Radio Tupi"-ID! Was Tupi or Paranaense?! June 16

-6170 2335 R Cultura, Sao Paulo playing classical music without IDs. June 18

-11725 2145 R Novas de Paz Curitiba with religious programming. Noted almost all the 25 mb Brazilian outlets. June 23

ISRAEL: Galei Zahal - Israel Defence Forces Radio. It was a big surprise to me hear this station on so many MW-frequencies, all of them in parallel with 6973 kHz. The frequencies were: 1224- (Beersheba), 1287- (Tel Aviv) and 1368 kHz.(2 stns) Unfortunately I didn´t manage to hear Arutz Sheva. I tried both 1143- and 1593 kHz. I found R Mayak, Murmansk on 1143 kHz and R Yunost from Sochi on 1539 kHz. I was listening 2210-2245 UTC. June 23

GREECE: Several ERT outlets heard, the most interesting being KERKIRA ISL. on 1008 kHz 2346. The Dutch station was off. Others were Zakynthos 927 kHz, Komotini 1404 kHz, Rhodes on 1494 kHz and Chania 1512 kHz. Also heard an UNID pirate station on 1610,4- and 1613,7 kHz in two different nights. It´s the same station.

CYPRUS: R Canada International broadcasting in Arabic on 1233 kHz via Cape Creco tranmitter. Heard several times 2115 UTC with strong signal. Must be coming from Cyprus.

-990 kHz R SAWA fighting with DLR Berlin. Heard around 2130 UTC.

CROATIA: Voice of Croatia in English on 1134 kHz 2215 UTC in parallel with 1125 kHz. Later Spanish heard.

TOGO: Glad to note RTV Togolaise is active once again. Heard this old friend on 5046.7 kHz 2115 UTC. June 17

AUSTRALIA: VLA8 Alice Springs on 4835 kHz struggling with Mali 2132 UTC. No positive ID. Must be Alice Springs. WRTH gives bc hours 2130-0830 UTC. Never heard this station before. June 15.

UNID: Religious programme on 1539 kHz til 2130 UTC. After that "nacht musik". So tx is in Germany. Unfortunately my attempts to find info from EMWG failed for some reason. I couldn´t download the file.

UNID giving "Radio Continental"-ID on 6155,05 kHz 0107 UTC. Maybe I missheard, reception was poor. Could be Banda Oriental from Uruguay?

UNID: 828 kHz. R Svoboda-ID here 2143 UTC. QTH?

DX-ing was fun in North Karelia in spite of bad weather we experienced. Last summer was hot and dry, this has been so far wet and cool. I enjoyed DX-ing with "proper" outdoor antenna and excellent rx. We´ve booked the same place at least for a week August 2004!!!

73´s de Jouko

Jouko Huuskonen

Kesaelahti/Turku

SUOMI-FINLAND

RX: AOR 7030+

ANT: 30 m lw