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(Srebnick-NJ-USA, hcdx Mar 14)
RUSSIA 5890 Shiokaze. F/D blue and white card with COMJAN acronym,
printed frequency, and handwritten "thank you" note with date and time; no
site indicated. The card contains a lot of other printed text, all in
Japanese, which I will try and get translated. Rec'd in 11 days via WRTH
address.
(John Wilkins-CO-USA, DXplorer Mar 16)
7200 R. Sakha on Mar 14 at 0910-0921 UT. 44444 Yakut and Russian, 0910 UT
IS, ID, Music, News, Local program from 0910 UT, // 7345 kHz.
(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Mar 17)
11840 R. Free Southern Camerrons on Mar 12 at *1800-1815 UT, 45444
English, 1800 UT sign on with ID, IS, Song, Opening announce, Talk,
// Sun[?] Only.
(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Mar 17)
English, rather Sat UTC 1800-1900 only, via Armavir-Krasnodar-RUS 200 kW
at 235 degr. (wb)
SAO TOME 4960 Voice of America, at 0413-0427 UT on Mar 10, report on
energy situation followed by TC at 0415 UT and VOA African News Now ID at
0415 UT. Fair.
(Rich D'Angelo-PA-USA, DXplorer Mar 12)
SOUTH AFRICA 3345 Channel Africa, at 0400-0413 UT on Mar 10, man
announcer with English news, 0408 musical bridge followed by a woman with
ID and story about the Congo. Another ID at 0411 UT. Fair.
(Rich D'Angelo-PA-USA, DXplorer Mar 12)
CRI relay, 6100 kHz, full data card in 46 weeks, v/s Ying Lian (English
Service).
R. Okapi relay via Sentech, 11690 kHz, full data card via the Swiss
address in six months, v/s Nihada.
(Vashek Korinek-AFS, DXplorer Mar 11)
3230 SW Radio Africa.
Tuning the tropical bands tonight I found a "new" signal on 3230 kHz
around 0305 UT on Mar 17 with accented English and frequent mentions of
Zimbabwe. Talk in English discussing Zimbabwe elections, brief mxal
interludes between political discussions. Finally caught a couple of IDs
around 0325 UT. A man began talking to political figure via a phone line
around 0330 UT. Still there at 0350 while typing this. Fair signal but
fairly noisy with moderate fading. Wonder how long this has been back on
SW?
(Rich D'Angelo-PA-USA, DXplorer Mar 16)
I'm hearing it here too at 0334. Singing definitely, bothered by lots of
noise but not a bad signal. S7.
(John Figliozzi-USA, DXplorer Mar 17)
3230 0300-0500 57N,53NW MEY 100kW 005deg USA MNO MER
3230 1900-2100 53SW,57N MEY 100 000 USA YFR MER
SPAIN Pals (Girona) - Thirteen radio towers that sced a U.S. govt SW
facility in Spain for many years will be blown up next week, according to
a local newspaper. Radio World readers are familiar with the Playa de Pals
facility from a story published in 2003 by former managing director for
Spain of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty David Hollyer.