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Burkinabe Ministry of Information and the Republic of China's embassy in
Burkina Faso, was held on Tuesday, 9 May 2006, at the Centre. Cooperation
between Radio Taiwan International (RTI) and Radio Burkina, instituted in
2002, has unceasingly borne fruit. [Passage omitted]
The 100 kW tx was installed in Sector 9, Gounghin Ouagadougou. Having a
range of 150 km, broadcasting on mediumwave freq of 747 kHz. RTI President
Feng-Jeng Lin spoke at the ceremony to praise the excellent cooperation
between the two institutions. [Passage omitted].
(Sidwaya website, Ouagadougou-BFA, 12 May via BBCM via dxld)
CHAD 6165 RD. Nationale Tchadienne, N'Djamena, obs'ed 1930-1942, 19
May, French, end of newscast, wsestern pops; 53442, QRM de HRV.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX May 25)
CHINA 4000, 1444-, Nei Menggu PBS May 19 Good reception with Chinese
programming. Parallel to 4620 (poor) and 6045 (very good). No sign of RRI
Kendari just above this frequency. Mongolian sce is listed on 4525 (good
reception), 4785 (fair), and 6195 (good under cochannel BBCWS ...I think
this is SNG, but references not in front of me).
3280, 1334-, Voice of Pujiang May 19 Straight 5-5-5 signal with very
modern programming with many mentions of Shanghai. At 13:35 a pop song in
English (I didn't recognize it),interrupted several times by a young
sounding female. A real contrast to KCBS, North Korea!.
(Walter (Volodya) Salmaniw-B.C.-CAN, hcdx May 23)
Greetings from Shanghai,
Have been able to do a little listening but nothing heard in the way of
real DX. Conditions are not as bad as I thought they would be as far as
the electrical noise of the city is concerned, but 90% of the stations are
with Chinese lang programming (no surprise there), also with a fair number
of Russian lang stations. Not much else noted so far.
9620 // 11800 // 11835 // 11845 // 15500 // 15540 // 15570, CBR/CNR-2, May
25, 0541-0803, Chinese programming, light Chinese pop songs, at every :45
heard English ID: "China Business Radio - Your Radio", ToH just C.B.R.
English ID. Fair-good.
(Ron Howard, Shanghai-CHN, DXplorer May 27)
(later) Regarding the on-going discussions about Taiwan-China on 15285:
I believe your observations and comments about 15285 being CHINA were to
the point and very accurate. From here in China (PRC) it is easy to find
more//freqs, which I think helps a lot with the identify of these
stations. CHINA/CNR-1 was heard on all the freqs with dominating signals.
Have listed what had QRM or what was in the clear. Impossible to say what
station(s) caused the QRM, possibly it was Taiwan (RTI) on some of the
freqs, but CNR-1 was just too strong to tell what was beneath them.
May 25, from 1113-1150, Chinese programming, talking a lot about Shanghai,
heard a type of theme mx that I have heard before on CNR stations, when
they seem to give an ID.
5030 (clear) // 6030 (QRM) // 7230 (clear) // 7345 (clear) // 9680 (CNR
had echo + QRM) // 9780 (QRM) // 11665 (QRM) // 11680 (QRM) // 11965 (QRM)
// 15285 (QRM + jamming).
So based upon the programming I heard and the fact that 5030 was clearly
parrallel to all of them and is certainly CNR-1, it seems fairly certain
that all these freqs were from China.
(Ron Howard, Shanghai-CHN, dxld May 27)
COLOMBIA 6010.1 LV de tu Conciencia, Lomalinda, obs'ed 2217-2225, 20