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Loggings => Shortwave Broadcast => Topic started by: Ron - Calif. on September 07, 2022, 1026 UTC
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Sept 7 - After 0659* UT on 7932 kHz., I went looking for Vanuatu. Not on the usual frequencies.
Found Radio Vanuatu on new 8620.22 kHz., as measured on my old Eton E1 (am sure someone can
get a more accurate measurement!); mostly fair; // 4310.11 (poor) // 12930.33 (very poor).
0705-0716 UT: News/sports in Bislama.
0731-0801: Interview in English about investments (talking about gov't bonds, National Bank, low interest
rate loans, interest rates, "Investments not all in one basket," etc.).
0802+: Speech in Bislama about domestic violence in Vanuatu, violence against women, Vanuatu's Women
Center, etc.
Wonder how they are coming up with these strange frequencies?
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On a KiwiSDR in New Zealand tonight I hear them on 7932 kHz and nothing on the frequencies you heard on September 7. I also wonder how they came up with these frequencies? 7932 kHz isn’t anywhere near the broadcast bands.
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Radio Vanuatu goes off the air on 7932 kHz., at 0659* UT. Then switches frequencies from 0700 UT to fundamental
4310.188 kHz // harmonics 8620.377 and 12930.564 kHz., as measured today (Sept 9) by Wolfgang Bueschel.
Here in California, the 2nd harmonic (8620.377) is always the best heard, with the other frequencies poor to very poor.
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VANUATU. Sept 10 observations:
7932, Radio Vanuatu heard 0633-0659* UT. At 0633: The usual segment of messages, but today was in French, instead of the
usual Bislama; 0637 the segment ending with the usual indigenous drums; 0638 till suddenly cut off at 0659*, with Island songs.
8620+, Radio Vanuatu, *0659 UT, suddenly started 10 seconds after 7932 went off the air:
0701-0712 UT: News/sports in Bislama (interesting sound bite of an historic address made to a crowd in Vanuatu, back on
April 7, 2018, during the visit of Prince Charles, when he was given the title and name of honorary high chief Mal Menaringmanu;
ending his address with "Vanuatu, you number one!". My audio posted at https://bit.ly/3qu7Rss ). This audio clip was separately
repeated again at 0739.
Ron
Asilomar State Beach, Calif. (near Monterey)
Etón E1, external antenna: 30m long wire