[HCDX] Correction - 2 NEW Radio Sawa logs

[aurel chiochiu <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just received an e-mail from a DX`er called Bob Montgomery that did point to me the Radio Sawa transmitter on 12010 was from Marocco not from the Phillipines (the PWBR do not list any Maroccan station on this channel, and the Phillipines seemed to me the most likely outlet of all the stations listed on 12010 in PWBR). I will try to obtain the WRTH as it may be more precise than the PWBR. Right now I listen to Médi Un 9575 on the Umea web-controlled receiver (http://194.165.225.6/sfors/) as my Sangean 606 is unusable due to the weak batteries that I have (It turns off by it`s self with a E message). Here is the corrected report of this afternoon SW DX loggings:

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Hello to all of you !

This afternoon I managed to re-install the long-wire in our own back-yard
wich I didn`t manage to do since I returned from the summer camp near Quebec
City were my Sanyo radio broked (I taked it instead on our travels to
New-Bruntswick and Île-Bizard) and managed to pull in this while sitting on
our table in the back-yard, on the patio:

12010 MAROCCO, Radio Sawa via VOA AUG 24 2137-2154 - playing "You Got It
(The Right Stuff)" by New Kids on the Block from 1988 followed by a jingle
featuring short bits of AA and international pops with mention of "Arabia
Saudia", followed by an Arabic pop tune, then "Sawa" jingle followed by
Jennifer Lopez - Glad, then Radio Sawa jingle followed by nx, then Arabic
pops presented by a male announcer. Fair to very good reception, //12040
wich had only poor-fair reception. Both NEW ! (Chiochiu-QC)

12050 EGYPT, Egyptian Radiom, Kafr Silîm-Abis AUG 24 2155 - Only PRESUMED !
(darn I could have gotten an ID if that stupid Sangean with it`s weak
batteries didn`t turned off) with traditionnal AA song followed by apparent
nx. Didn`t even know if they had pips and ID at the top of the hour. Very,
very good reception and would have been new for me. (Chiochiu-QC)

Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu
Sangean 606 rx w/long-wire antenna in the back-yard, DX`ing from a table on
our patio

I did read in the IDXD bulletin of NRC that Radio Sawa is a radio station
run by the Americans in Iraq who program a mixture of new Arabic pop songs
and modern international pop music, like Jennifer Lopez, but I didn`t
believe I will hear them someday. My Sangean 606 is really sensitive and
selectif on SW, unlike my first SW radio I did got as a gift for my 13 years
in 2000, a poor Realistic DX-351 multi-band radio wich aside from not having
good gain at all for receptions of SW broadacsters below the "good" level of
signal, had the selectivity so poor, that I sometimes thought I did not even
had a filter. It also overloaded very easily on the extremely strong major
international broadcast signal like the VOA.

I also noted Medi Un on 9575 with traditionnal Arabic music at good level
with moderate splatter from Africa Numéro Un on 9580 at around 2132 UTC
before I came accros the Radio Sawa outlets. And before DX`ing Medi Un, I
heard tentatively the Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran on 11885 and CHU
on both 3330 and 7335 with poor to fair signals, so they are back to
full-power. Unfortunatly, I can`t DX anymore now because all the batteries
we have are weak and the sound on my Sangean is distortionated and often it
witches off by it`s self with a reverse 3 message (E) for Error and I can`t
turned it on for minutes in a row. This is sad, because I found a power
supply on our  patio where I connected a portable radio with microphone tape
recorder and managed to record a very little bit of the 12010 Radio Sawa
program until the radio switched off by it`s self ! I also managed to record
a traditionnal Arabic tune from presumably Egyptian Radio on 12050, but the
Sangean 606 switched off toward the end of the song and now just a song out
of nowhere doesn`t make any sense on a tape that absolutely need to contain
station IDs from the signals I hear.

Bogdan
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