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42 49 39 N 23 13 33 E
(wb, SW TX site shortwavesites via wwdxc BC-DX Aug 29)
Congrats, our regular contributor for decades, Rumen Pankov from Sofia-
Bulgaria reached his 60th anniversary of birth on August 28th, 2006. Still
keep your ears on the Kurdish language and NE/ME radio scene. (wb)
CANADA R Prague via Sackville-CAN relay planned in B06 season as
follows:
5990 kHz at 0330-0400 and 6000 kHz at 2330-2400 UT. (wb, Aug 31)
CHINA 11700 Firedrake at 1501 UT on 8/26 occasionally surfacing through
the noise. Co-channel station in apparent Fr. The target would seem to be
Taiwan-based Ming Hui Radio (not heard).
(Gerry Dexter-WI-USA, DXplorer Aug 27)
6937 Yunnan PBS (pres) 1213-1229 Aug 26. Program of local hill vocals,
with some traditional CH mx in the mix, as well; the regional mx is
reminiscent of what is heard on Burmese and Hmong stations, which makes
sense, since Yunnan borders on these areas; at 1229, an "IS" on a rustic
woodwind instrument, followed by YL with talk in lang; good signal but
wiped out at 1245 by the "roaring" Ute station that is usually present on
this freq.
(John Wilkins-CO-USA, DXplorer Aug 27)
3900 Hulun Buir PBS, Hailar, 1055+ Aug 20, Mandarin, talk by male, SINPO
14341.
5050 Guangxi FBS, Nanning, 2313+ Aug 19, CH, mx, anmt, talk by female,
SINPO 25332.
(Arnaldo Slaen-ARG, DXplorer Aug 27)
Google Earth Imagery.
ITU/HFCC location HLR Hailar site CHN 49N02 119E45
noted some masts at
49 11 N 119 43 21 E
ITU/HFCC location NJG Nanjing site CHN 32N02 118E44
some masts seen at
32 00 54 N 118 42 46E
(wb, SW TX site shortwavesites via wwdxc BC-DX Aug 29)
7270.08 PBS Nei Menggu (presumed), Aug 30, 1014-1048, in
assume Mongolian, fair, // 7210 & 9750. NHK also heard on 9750 // 11815.
In the past I have noted PBS at about 7270.15, just as John has reported,
but today seemed lower. No sign of Wai FM, but maybe a little early to
catch them. Thanks to Mauno and John for their input.
(Ron Howard-CA-USA, DXplorer Aug 30)
Here's what I heard a bit later this morning on those freqs:
7270 Wai FM/RTM 1215-1303 Aug 30 presumed with the usual "chanting"
program to 1259; at 1300 went into possible nx - thought I heard "berita"
but could not even tell if lang was BM or the usual Iban. QRM was worse
than usual this morning from hams and from the 7270.15 station and signal
strength was down a bit, as well.
7270.15 - Still no ID and very low audio in spite of a decent signal; the
het was about equal in strength to RTM on 7270. Monitored from about 1215-
1330 UTC. Still measured on 7270.15 here. The audio was too low to tell
from my location if it was // to 7210.
7210 - Tuned in at 1246 to vocal mx, followed at 1250 by long talk between