[HCDX] Grayland, WA loggings 3 - 5 October, 2003

[Walter Salmaniw <salmaniw@xxxxxxx>]

All Loggings from Grayland, WA  (3 5 October, 2003).

A mixture of LW/MW and SW loggings.  My own personal highlight is the new 
aboriginal Australian near Darwin.  A most difficult catch. Enjoy!



PERU 6020.28, 0408-, Radio Victoria Oct 3 Gradually building strength 
throughout the evening with Spanish talk, and lots of adjacent 
spatter.  Best using LSB.  SIO 3-3-3.  Nice ID at 0458, and again a full ID 
at 0500.  Into NA at 0501.  Then went into a short Spanish choral hymn, and 
then into a Spanish homily by the Pope.  SIO after 0500 upto 4-4-4.  Still 
there at 0525n tune-out. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

COLOMBIA 6010.179, 0538-, Voz de tu Conciencia Oct 3 Very strong signal 
with contemporary Spanish Christian vocals.  ID at 0545 and Spanish 
religious talk by male. SIO 4-4-4, but need to use USB to avoid het from 
6010.  No ID at TOH. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

ALASKA 930, 0616-, KTKN Oct 3 Dominant on this frequency with EZL music, by 
Eagles, etc.  Very good. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

AUSTRALIA 5049.94, 0913-, ARDS (Aboriginal Resource Development Service) 
Oct 3 I'm certain this is what I'm hearing from after 0900 tune-in.  Very 
low level with talk in what sounds to me like Australian accented 
vernacular language, with short musical piece at 0515, and then same male 
speaker.  Too weak so far to positively identify, but absolutely not the 
Chinese station (China is still in daylight this time of year).  Also 
they're not sked until 1000.    I'm hearing best on NW oriented 
Beverage.  USB avoids a pulsed tone heard on the edge of LSB (presumably 
ocean wave research Radar).  Signal gradually improving over the 
hour.  Spoiled at 0945 by oriental fishermen, and Chinese sign-on at 1000. 
(Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

SOLOMON ISLANDS 5019.88, 1023-, SIBC Oct 3 Local news in Pidgin English 
about economic aid from Australia and Japan.  English segments as 
well.  Into English religious segment at 1033 by Australian accented 
minister.  Very good as usual. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

KOREA (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF) 3559.89, 1034-, Voice of Korea Oct 3 Usual 
cold war propaganda in English about the revolutionary workers party of 
Korea, etc.  Good reception.  Parallels noted:  9335.14 (very good), 
11710.02 (good to very good), 11735.16 (good) and 13650.06 (very 
poor).   Listeners who can stand listening for the whole transmission 
should be awarded a medal!. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

AUSTRALIA 11750, 1051-, HCJB Australia Oct 3 Good reception of English 
religious program about Romanian ministers under communism. (Salmaniw, 
Victoria, BC)

TIBET 9490, 1113-, Tibet PBS Oct 3 Holy Tibet program presented by the same 
YL I've heard in previous years in English at fair level, but use LSB to 
avoid splatter.  Parallels are: 4905 (good level),  4920 (poor under 
cochannel), 5240 (poor), 6200 (fair), and 7385 (poor).  Still going at 
0720, so sign-off of English program varies from 15 to 30 minutes. 
(Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

VIETNAM 6378.81, 1141-, Radio Lai Chau Oct 3 Presumed logging of this 
station at fair to good strength except for static crashes with gentle 
Vietnamese sounding vocals.  Have to use LSB to escape utility noise.  Talk 
by YL at 1159:35.  Then OM at TOH with possible ID, once only (sounded 
official anyway), and into Vietnamese music. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

VIETNAM 5035.05, 1206-, Dai Tieng Noi Vietnam Oct 3 H'mong service with 
distinctive music, and talk by YL.  Music is fairly strong, but talk much 
weaker modulation.  Best using USB, but suffers from some splatter from 
'space zapper' pulses.  Parallel to weaker 6165. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

KOREA (REPUBLIC OF) 1566, 1259-, HLAZ Oct 3 FEBC with S9 + 5 signal in 
Japanese.  Very much like a local!. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

PNG 3335, 1323-, Radio East Sepik Oct 3 Huge signal from Wewak, on much 
later than normal.  At least equal to 4890 (in fact relaying Port Moresby), 
with a late night call in program.  Earlier in the morning, very few PNGs 
were noted on the air....the worst I've ever noted, with no more than a 
small handful audible. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

AUSTRALIA 2485, 1437-, ABC Katherine Oct 3 Heard with fair strength with 
ABC programming, parallel to MW 639!  (thanks to John Bryant for the tip!). 
(Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

IRAN 9635, 1609-, VOIRI Oct 3 Fair to good reception of English program 
with cultural topics by YL.  Parallel to:  9720 (good), 7245 (fair), and 
11775 (poor). (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

AUSTRALIA 9580, 1707-, RNZI Oct 3 Pacific regional news from RNZI 
concluding at 1707, then ID and into sports program.  Nothing heard last 
night and overnight on any RNZI freq, so presumably still off the 
air.  Spoke with coach of a  NZ basketball team, the Breakers playing in 
the Australian league.  SIO 4-5-5.  10:00 am local, so not a convenient 
time generally for me.  Fair only on recheck at 1809 after the news from 
RNZI. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

UZBEKISTAN 7190, 0100-, Radio Tashkent Oct 4 Poor reception of their 
English broadcast with IS and into ID.  9715 obliterated here. (Salmaniw, 
Victoria, BC)

KOREA (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF) 15180, 0111-, Voice of Korea Oct 4 Very good 
reception in English, and exactly on frequency with good modulation....very 
unusual for Pyongyang.  // to:  13760.0 under VOA Delano, but would 
otherwise be strong.  11735.09 (good with a little buzz and unstable 
frequency). (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

PERU 5940.12, 0119-, Radio Bethel Oct 4 Presumed logging with Spanish talk 
and mostly light vocals at weak strength. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

UNITED KINGDOM 9795, 0226-, Wales Radio International Oct 4 Pleasant 30 
minute variety show via Rampisham.  Good review of Wales culture, food, 
trade issues, holidays.  Mentioned many www sites pertaining to Wales at 
the end of the program.  Good reception overall.  Weekly program?. 
(Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

IRAN 9910, 0229-, Kol David Oct 4 Strong reception with instrumental music 
at tune-in until 02:31 when ID'd as 'Kol David', and into Hebrew news. 
(Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

AUSTRALIA 5049.96, 0855-, ARDS (Aboriginal Resource Development Service) 
Oct 4 Tried again for this this morning with overall better reception and 
clear enough to know this is not in English.  Long talk by male past 0900 
without anything resembling an ID, and into a vocal (? religious) and then 
into more talk.  Thought I heard the word 'radio' mentioned, though not 
sure.  Discussion between two males.  LSB has a strong utility.  Monitored 
past 1000.  Propagation definitely favours the southern path, as it's still 
at least the strength of the CC station which signs on at 1000.  Reception 
would have been quite decent if not for the almost continual loud ute on 
LSB channel, causing some USB noise as well, necessitating narrowing the 
filtering to an unpleasant degree. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

PNG 3204.98, 0918-, Radio West Sepik Oct 4 Normally one of the stronger 
PNGs heard at 0917 with NA followed by Tok Pisin announcements 
rapidly.  Then switched to English at 0920  'Thank you very much.  It's 
wonderful to be back....'.  Spoiled by ute. Heard at 0917 with NA  and Tok 
Pisin talk, and into English.  Then at 0922, a press conference in English 
countering allegations of corruption by a parliamentarian.  Good overall, 
but spoiled by a utility cochannel on upper side.  'a long and difficult 
time for my family'....Other PNGs: 2410  off the air 3219.98:  Same Russian 
fishing net heard in past with the same women as I've heard in past on 
upper side.  weak audio on LSB audible.  Rechecked at 11:38 with fair to 
good C & W music.   3235:  Fair to good with Tok Pisin news 'Provincial 
labor office'.... 3245:  obliterated on both U/LSB by very loud utility. 
3260:  Radio Madang with very tinney audio but fair to good overall.  Good, 
but with same phone quality audio at 11:39.   3275:  Loud tones only. 
3290:  Loud utility. 3305:  Nothing audible 3315:  Nothing heard 
3325:  Possibly there but dominated by Indonesian.  Het 
present.   3335:  Radio East Sepik with same program as 3205.  Fair to good 
in English about same corruption scandal. Very strong at 
11:43.   3345:  Indonesian only heard here. 3355:  weak carrier only 
audible.  Nothing at 11:44.   3365:  weak audio, phone quality.  Possibly 
the PNG. Pretty strong carrier but barely audible hymn in 
background.  Possibly a ute with an open carrier over PNG.  Will have to 
remain possible only for Radio Milne Bay. Nope, a good signal at 11:55 
recheck with 70s oldies.    3375:  Radio Western Highlands (?) cochannel 
with Brazilian and ute.  Messy frequency.  All by itself at 11:48, with 
mentions of Western Province and Port Moresby with muddy audio, in English. 
(Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

ECUADOR 4920, 1134-, Radio Quito Oct 4 Strong signal well over Tibet 
cochannel, with Spanish devotional. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

PNG 3365, 1200-, Radio Milne Bay Oct 4 Into National news at 12:00:30 at 
end of an oldie 'knock three times and I'll meet you....'.  Good 
reception.  Rest of bandscan:  3375:  Radio Western Highlands, good 
reception with National news relay.  3385:  off air.  3395:  off air.  3905 
off air.  4890:  5-5-5 with National news. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

INDONESIA 3515.48, 1235-, RSPK Ngada Oct 4 Thanks to Chuck Hutton for 
alerting me to this one, which I missed yesterday.  Typical Indo sounded 
tx, with talk by male with some CW interference.  Fair reception. 
(Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

CHINA 1322.93, 1242-, CRI Oct 4 Fair to good at times in Russian with 
mostly music of all genres with talk in Russian, with mentions of 
'Kitay'.  ID at 12:45 by YL. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

RUSSIA 153, 1250-, Radio Rossii Oct 4 Komsomolsk with fair reception with 
what sounds suspiciously religious.  'Dosveedanya dorogiy radio 
slushatalee' at 0852. // 180 Petropavlovsk (poor), 243 Razdolnoe fair to 
good, 279 (good +, at 1258 with ads for upcoming programs on Radio Rossii, 
ie Dr. Blues)  At 1300 Moscow TC for 1700, and into Russian 
news.  Impressive signal.  This has to be Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. (Salmaniw, 
Victoria, BC)

JAPAN 828, 1320-, JOBB NHK 2 Osaka Oct 4 Nice ID in JJ just as I tuned them 
as 'Osaka JOBB'.  Good reception. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

JAPAN 774, 1336-, JOUB NHK2 Akita Oct 4 Very very strong with English 
lesson.  //to 1017 Fukuoka. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

RUSSIA 648, 1354-, VOA relay Ussuriysk Oct 4 Excellent reception in 
Korean!. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

PHILIPINES 1512, 1442-, DYAB Oct 4 Nice ID in English 'standing down 
transmission'.  Caught in on MD recording!  Fair/good. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

MYANMAR 5985.81, 1552-, Radio Myanmar Oct 4 Good signal with EZL 
instrumental music.  Seems to me they're back on this split frequency after 
being on exactly 5986 for a while.  Wonder why?. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

ETHIOPIA 9561.02, 1602-, Radio Ethiopia Oct 4 Sign on at 1600 with a 
harp-like instrument, then mentions of 41 meter band in English.  A 
difficult spot on the dial.  Modern  western instrumental at 1203 when 
rechecked. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

TIBET 9490, 1630-, Tibet PBS Oct 4 Holy Tibet confirmed on at this time in 
English, about equal to cochannel probable VOR.  //7385 fair, but in the 
clear.  4905 (poor), 6200 best. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

AUSTRALIA 6230, 1634-, VMW Wiluna Oct 4 Coastal weather station, with good 
reception of weather forecasts for Australian coastal locations.  Ended 
with ID at 1647. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

PHILIPINES 15190, 1730-, Radio Pilipinas Oct 4 Strong reception with 
sign-on of Filipino language programming.  Mentioned later '11.72 
MHz'.  Initial ID was in English. 11.720 was even stronger at 5-5-5, vs 
4-4-4.  Nothing on third sked freq of 17720. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

FRANCE 17635, 1737-, Voice of Africa Oct 4 English news at good levels 
ending with ID at 13:38 into French.  Stronger than // 17695.  Both 
frequencies have Arabic music cochannel in background ?source?. (Salmaniw, 
Victoria, BC)

ZANZIBAR 11734.1, 1757-, Radio Tanzania Zanzibar Oct 4 Already in English 
when tuned in at 17:57 with African accented male, so difficult to 
follow.  Much adjacent splatter.  Finished about 17:58:30.  Drums/xylophone 
at 17:59:30.  Time pips at TOH.  Much splatter from 11735, but 'Dar es 
Salaam' heard.  Seems still to be in English, though.  Pretty much 
impossible to follow after TOH, unfortunately.  Will have to check what 
program was being bx in English before 1800!  Monitors closer to the action 
please take note. As the program went on, became easier to follow with most 
words understood by 1808, but still weak, buried in the noise.  At some 
point they switched from English, but sure exactly when.  Fair to good 
reception with talk by same OM at 1814. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

ICELAND 13855, 0305-, AFRTS Oct 5 Fair reception with public service 
programming.  No parallels noted (others in the network were all in 
parallel to eachother, however). (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

AUSTRALIA 5049.98, 0858-, ARDS (Aboriginal Resource Development Service) 
Oct 5 Third time lucky!  Much noisier morning.  Tuned in just in time to 
get the MD recording and hear a positive ID for ARDS after a short choral 
piece, and then a monotone by OM.  Apart from that difficult to understand 
anything more.  Best reception on west or nw Beverage.  At 9:08:30 went 
into another choral piece.  Should just be entering grayline at 
transmitter.  Use USB only to avoid loud utility on LSB.  Same OM back at 
09:13:30.  Rechecked at 0957 with much weaker signal, but same OM and into 
similar gentle choral at 0958:30  No ID at TOH and the Chinese came on to 
make further listening impossible. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

PNG 3290, 0934-, Radio Central, Boroko Oct 5 Two PNGs in addition on the 
air this morning compared to the last two mornings:  Radio Central with 
fair/good reception but use USB and notch to avoid ute tones.  Nice s/off 
announcement by YL in Tok Pisin followed by NA.   Also on this morning, 
3355 Radio Simbu, Kundiawa with Tok Pisin at 0928 with mentions of 
'program' and 'shortwave frequencies' at good reception quality.  I checked 
them right after 3290 signed-off to hear their s/off announcement by OM in 
Tok Pisin followed by the NA.    A het is heard on 2410, but if on, Radio 
Enga usually fades in later.  Nothing when rechecked several times by 1200. 
(Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

RUSSIA 153, 1022-, Radio Rossii, Komsomolsk Oct 5 Good to very good 
reception this morning with Russian programming.  Best of the three 
mornings.  180 poor.  189 good.  234 Arman, Magadan good.  243 Razdolnoe, 
Primorskyi Krai poor/fair.  279 Yuzhno Sakhalinsk good. (Salmaniw, 
Victoria, BC)

ALASKA 209, 1035-, CYT  Yakataga, AK 60.05N, 142.29W Oct 5 Volmet with the 
following announcement:  'The transcribed aviation weather broadcast is 
suspended ... 1400 zulu.  ....contact flight service station or 
1-800-weatherbrief.'  Fair/good.  Another weakly heard is on 385 with 3 
listed beacons in Alaska. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

MALAYSIA (SABAH) 1475, 1140-, Suara Malaysia Oct 5 Presumed logging with 
weak talk by YL.  Poor to fair. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC)

Walter (Volodya) Salmaniw, MD
    Victoria, BC, Canada




Walter (Volodya) Salmaniw, MD
    Victoria, BC, Canada 


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