[HCDX] March 20 Logs

[Brian384875@xxxxxxx]

** ARGENTINA. 6060, RAE, 1015-1030, March 20, Presumed with
Japanese  talk. Spanish music. Poor, quite distorted audio. No //s
heard. (Brian  Alexander, PA) 
 
** BOLIVIA. 6155.27, Radio Fides, La Paz, 1035-1045, March 20,
Spanish  talk. Short music breaks. ID. Weak but readable. Very weak
by 1045. (Brian  Alexander, PA)
 
** BRAZIL. 11780, Radio Nac do Amazonia, Brasilia DF, 0320-0329*,
March  20, Portuguese talk. Promos. Announcements. Short music 
breaks. Abruptly  pulled plug mid-sentence. Sign off time varies greatly.
Fair to good signal.  (Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** ETHIOPIA. 7165, Voice of Peace & Democracy, via Radio  Ethiopia
transmitter, *0356-0432*, March 20, sign on with instrumental  music
and ID announcements. Talk in Tigrinya at 0400. Some Horn of Africa  
music. Co-channel QRM at 0400 from a weak VOBME & a strong 
noise  jammer which covered Ethiopia. Poor to fair on // 9559.59v - in 
the clear  but drifting up to 9559.73. Mon, Wed, Fri only. VOBME can
sometimes be heard  on this frequency on the other days. 
(Brian Alexander, PA)
 
** ETHIOPIA. 9704.19, Radio Ethiopia, *0259-0315, March 20, sign 
on  with electronic keyboard IS. Amharic talk at 0300. Horn of Africa 
music at  0302. Echo announcements. Very weak. Fair signal on 
// 7110. Threshold  signal on // 5989.99 - weak but readable at 0334 
check. (Brian Alexander,  PA) 
 
** ETHIOPIA [non]. via Samara, Russia, 9485, Radio Xoriyo  Ogadenia,
*1700-1730, March 20, sign on with Horn of Africa style music &  ID
announcement. One minute of Qur`an at 1702. Somali talk. Short 
breaks  of Horn of Africa music. Fair. Very weak on // 7530. Mon, Fri
only. (Brian  Alexander, PA) 
 
** EURO-PIRATE. 6874.00, Radio Playback Int, 0245-0300, March 
20, very  weak with pop music. ex-6850. Apparently moved away from 
6850 to avoid  Egypt. (Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** INDONESIA. 9524.97, Voice of Indonesia, 0952-1010, March 20,
on the  air at approximately 0952 with talk. Very weak. Too weak to 
identify the  language. IDed by hearing their usual theme music at 
1000. Stronger signal  at 1303-1315+ with English news. IDs. But still 
an overall poor signal due  to noise & adjacent channel splatter. 
(Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** IRAN. 7160, Voice of Justice, 0154-0205+, March 20, tune-in  to
English news. IDs. Current affairs program at 0158 about President  
Obama & the Middle East. Good. Strong. // 6120 - fair with some 
weak  adjacent channel splatter from 6125. (Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** SUDAN [non]. via IRRS-Slovakia, 15650, Miraya 101 FM, 
*1458-1513,  March 20, sign on with local African music. Time pips, 
IDs & English  news at 1502. Time pips are always 1 or 2 minutes 
past the hour on this  station. Gave website as _www.mirayafm.org_ 
(http://www.mirayafm.org) .  
Arabic at 1513. Fair to good over a weak Greece. (Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
 
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA,  U.S.A.   
Equipment:  TenTec RX-340, two 100 foot longwires 
 
 
 


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