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15344.19 ID of RAE Buenao Aires in French at 2028 UT on July 24, S=9
signal here in Europe. Much stronger than REE and RTM Nador on even 15345
kHz.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX July 24)
AUSTRALIA 2485 VL8K Katherine 1137-1205 July 23. Program of old blues
mx, slide guitar numbers, etc, hosted by YL. Fair signal.
4835 VL8A Alice Springs 0806-0830* July 25. Man & woman in discussion;
one phone chat or interview; two mx breaks; switched to 2310 kHz at
0830:40 UTC. Was // 4910, which switched about 10 seconds later to 2325.
Both 4 mHz freqs fair; the lower freqs heard but weakly. 5025 not heard
due to Cuba's dominance.
(John Wilkins-CO-USA, DXplorer July 27)
BENIN Just had an interesting email from Radio Parakou: - According to
Mr. Eric Biokou, the chief engineer of Radio Parakou, the station uses a
RIZ transmitter manufactured in (what used to be) Yugoslavia and installed
in 1995. The transmitter can be heard most evenings in Sweden on 5025 kHz
and is rated at 10 kW. Radio Parakou also has two 1970's transmitters
which are broken and which cannot be repaired as spare parts are not
available.
(Christer Brunstroem-SWE, dxld July 27)
BOTSWANA 4930 VOA via Moepeng Hill. F/D 50th Anniversary/"Botswana Relay
Verification" card in 23 days for f/up via Washington. Did not receive a
reply to the original report which was sent direct via Selebi-Phikwe.
(John Wilkins-CO-USA, DXplorer July 27)
BULGARIA R Varna 9900 kHz at 0100 UT w/nx in Bulgarian. Mx afterwards.
Fair as usual. On UT Monday 23 July.
(Liz Cameron-USA, wwdxc BC-DX July 24)
9900 - UTC Sun to Mon night only, 2100-0300 to zones 28,29,38,39.
CANADA 6030 CFVP Calgary 1224 July 16. YL with "Classic Country
Traffic," time check for "6:25," an "AM 1060" jingle, then back to more
C&W music. Signal was fair at best and bothered by co-channel QRM from a
CH-lang station which was gaining and took over the frequency a few
minutes later as the band was beginning to fade out.
(John Wilkins-CO-USA, DXplorer July 22)
CHINA 6155 CNR-2/CBR, 1300-1400, July 23, hour program mostly in
English: 'This is English Evening on China Business Radio', hosted by
Eric, song 'Every Breath You Take' by Sting, talking about weddings,
'Career Focus. In tonights edition of Smith's Business close-up ...',
segment 'Studio Classroom Worldwide', fair-good. MP3 audio available at:
(Ron Howard-CA-USA, JPNpremium July 28)
CHINA/TAIWAN The SOH 24-hour service has begun to use new frequency of
16500 kHz (x18180) at 1011 UT on July 22. Until 1011 UT on 16480 kHz. I
was not able to receive on 18180 kHz on July 21.
Firedrake is not transmitted on 15000 kHz on July 22. I presume,
monitoring station of Chicom cannot receive SOH by QRM of BPM.
Now operating:
Network 1 on 7300, 9200, 10300, 13970
Network 2 on 15000, 16500
Satellite on sub carrier on Eutelsat W5.
cf.
(Shigenori Aoki-JPN and Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN, NDXC, wwdxc July 22)