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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Soloman Islands 9545 0630-0730 25 January 2014

« on: January 25, 2014, 2054 UTC »

that is one flipping nice catch!    Maybe I stand a chance of hearing it yet. 

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: The Mighty KBC 7375 kHz Jan 18, 2014 0000Z

« on: January 19, 2014, 0154 UTC »

I have it too.  Lovely show as always, but my bias is legendary by now. Stronger after 1 UTC when 40 meters opened up. 

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Re-arranging the FM band

« on: January 15, 2014, 0103 UTC »

... *shudders*  I say again, thank God for international, public and community radio.  Really. 

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Is this the end of the wire for RadioShack?

« on: January 15, 2014, 0100 UTC »

Chipping in here too.  I got my DX-398 as an eighteenth birthday gift in September of 2002.  Yes, you now know my age.    I still have it, and it still works perfectly well almost twelve years later.  The last segment or so of the antenna is broken off and the battery compartment door went missing at a NASWA get-together the summer before last due to me dropping it someplace when changing batteries, but neither of those is a real issue at all.  The sensitivity on MW and LW really is excellent with that little radio; if I'm doing any serious MW or LW DX, chances are I'll fish it out. 

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Spy Numbers / Re: E 25 still alive :)

« on: January 15, 2014, 0053 UTC »

They're using that song on a numbers station?  Oh jeez.  I know it's patriotic and fitting and whatever else but... ah crums.  I love that song!  Grumble grumble grumble... 

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: the Mighty KBC 7375mhz

« on: January 05, 2014, 1733 UTC »

It's generally Dutch and English they switch between, actually.  If you hear a KBC Imports advert and it's not in English, that's what it is.  And Nauen's in Germany... 

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Logs: JAN 04-05

« on: January 05, 2014, 1730 UTC »

I had PCJ as well!  Same details as you.  glad I wasn't the only one dealing with a godawful noise floor.  that was definitely the Family radio theme music at the end of the transmission, too.  that'd be the connection between WRMI and the old WYFR transmitter site kicking in. 

If I'm not guilty of threadjacking, here's what I had this morning, log-wise: 

11880, PCJ Radio International, 1350-1430.  Greetings to listeners around the world - India, Japan, Malaysia, Germany, Denmark and Italy among the locations given - a phone call to a listener in India, conversation about Chinese new year with a station staff member in studio, music, and a contest drawing for a pocket shortwave receiver.  the first person selected didn't pick up their phone, so the winner was the second person drawn; someone in Texas, USA.  WRMI ID and Family Radio theme music before off at 1430.  Signal fair to good at best, subject to one awful noise floor.  SINPO 43343. 

15330, Radio Veritas Asia, 1440-1457.  Talk in listed Urdu, mostly by a female presenter, and music programming.  Off as scheduled at 1457.  Signal fair at best, contending with a loud noise floor.  SINPO 33333. 

15340, Radio Habana cuba, 1440-1500.  Male and female presenters giving a list of the countries that had the most contact with RHC during 2013, complete with lists of listeners who'd written in and music specific to each country.  4, 3, 2, 1 went Venezuela, Spain, Brazil, and cuba itself.  New year's greetings at program's end, then into a feature report on medicine.  Signal very good, SINPO 54454. 

15535, Radio Dabanga, 1603-1622.  conversation in sudanese Arabic, first between a presenter in studio and a phone interviewee, then between a second host and several listeners in succession, each with a telephone ring sound effect and a clear 'hello'.  Contemporary Arabic-language music near tune-out.  Clear spoken and singing Radio Dabanga IDs at 1607.  Signal fair to good, SINPO 44344. 

Plus Firedrake on 12045, a weak Radio Free Chosun, and someone on 9680 who didn't sound like the usual CNR1 rubbish.  Could Taiwan have gotten through in the clear?  Light Mandarin pop music and mellow talk in a male voice.  Taiwan, or... 

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Pirate From Chile to test ----

« on: January 04, 2014, 1310 UTC »

I saw this too late to even try for the Chilean.  Darnit!  I love that they've taken inspiration from RNW, though.  Yo se exactamente que es esa inspiracion, porque me siento al mismo manera. 

I hope they test again, and use a frequency that isn't stomped on by China.  Good luck, eh? 

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Re-arranging the FM band

« on: January 04, 2014, 1306 UTC »

The same top 40, classic rock, and either Christian religious adult contemporary (funny how you can tell that genre just by the music, even before the singer starts in, isn't it?) and sportscasters.  Blurgh! 

Thank God for the CBC, NPR, and local community stations.  that's all I'm saying. 

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Re-arranging the FM band

« on: January 03, 2014, 1226 UTC »

Clearchannel wouldn't stand for it. 
This is sounding better and better.  XD 

I like the idea that all the lovely public radio stations get to keep their current assignments, save the handful above 92mHz, in this imagined setup.  So says she in a state with what's been termed a crackerjack setup for public broadcasting.  *biased!* 

Just as a hypothetical, would noncommercial stations on frequencies above 92mHz be allowed to keep their places on the dial?  I'm thinking of a local WPR station on 107.9 here, as well as a certain public radio outlet in Michigan on 104.1 that I can sometimes get from the marshland.  Gotta love E-skip and tropo, eh? 

Curious daydreamer is curious. 

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MW Loggings / Re: 530 AM stations

« on: January 03, 2014, 1214 UTC »

That classical station sounds like, though without an ID I can't say entirely for sure, Radio Enciclopedia from Cuba.  The other one doesn't seem like Rebelde from the same country, given your description of the content, but maybe?  I'd suggest matching a 530 signal to 5025 on SW, but Rebelde doesn't sign on until later on shortwave.  Pretty sure someone here said they took storm damage. 

Could there be a Radio Progreso outlet on 530?  Or maybe you had somebody from XE-land (Mexico).  All I can say for sure is, none of those was Jil FM from Algeria!  XD  that's 531 anyway.  some day... sigh. 

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Radio Magic Eye (Moscow) will be on air on 31st of December 2013

« on: January 01, 2014, 0125 UTC »

Did anybody have any luck hearing this?  I frakked up the time, so missed it. 

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: 0145z mighty kbc on 7375am.

« on: December 28, 2013, 0809 UTC »

I had them on December 26, still christmas Day here in the States.  It was definitely a good signal, SINPO 44344-ish into the Wisconsin marshland (my parents' place).  For whatever reason, that was the only night KBC came in well during their string of Wolfman broadcasts.  No idea what was going on there, but I'm glad I heard it once. 

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Shortwave Broadcast / Norddeutscher Rundfunk Gruss An Bord, 9925kHz, 2100Z 12/24

« on: December 26, 2013, 0827 UTC »

Did anybody else hear this one?  I was up north for the holiday and didn't have the laptop with me, so ran with the only frequency I could recall for certain.  I caught it - regional instrumental music to a program of carols and hymns interspersed with religious teaching or stories in German - but what would have been a fair signal was badly splattered on by Brother Scary on 9930.  Blah!   

Still pleased I heard this for the second year running, even if last year had better reception by far. 

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Radio Rebelde missing from 5025 ??

« on: December 26, 2013, 0822 UTC »

I'd been wondering where the heck Rebelde had gone!  This explains it.  Thanks folks! 

Also, not sure it's worth much, but I've only been able to manage a carrier and the weakest of unintelligible audio when trying for Progreso, and I've tried quite a few times.  No clue what's up there.  It's a shame; I'd like to snag that one on SW once.  My only proper Progreso catch remains an amazing one on 880kHz, *over and flattening* WCBS, during a wild night of many Latin American signals.