Hi Bruce, Nick and Nigel,
The programming on the 648 kHz station from 1430-1500 this morning sure
sounded a lot like the VOR of last year. The Chinese announcers had somewhat
elderly voices, and at 1458 there was apparent Russian music. I didn't
check any parallels, like Nick did. Of course, the signal took a deep dive at
the top of the hour (1500).
73, Gary
In a message dated 11/6/2009 3:25:27 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
At 21:43 11/6/2009, you wrote:
The following schedule for Voice of Russia Chinese service appeared in
DX Listeners Digest recently:
1800-1900 12000 7330 7300 5930 1251 648 585
1900-2000 12000 7330 7300 5930 1251 648 585
2000-2100 13590 12000 7300 5930 1251 1080 801 648 585
2100-2200 12000 7300 6045 1251 648 585
The times are apparently those of China, so they would be 1000-1400 UT.
This is the B09 schedule, which took effect in late October, just in
time to not be included in the current PAL
Only problem is that both Gary and I heard 648 after 1400UT, Bruce....
Nick
Hmmm... interesting. I found the schedule posted on the Voice of Russia
website - http://chinese.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=pek&w=56&p=
It's in Chinese, of course, but the Google translation tool says the
times are 1800-2200 Beijing time and took effect October 25. Maybe
someone at VoR goofed when they converted from Moscow time to Beijing
time? Maybe someone other than VoR?
Bruce