Helliniki Radiophonia

[East Troy Don]

9420 KHZ @ 0402 UTC 13 July 19 in Greek.   STRANGE but very entertaining mix of music.  Big band type song with female vocals followed by a type of Latino Rap genre with male vocals.  Then back to the more traditional Grecian music genre.    Just bizarre.   Strong, steady signal.

SINPO: 3+ 4 4 4 4
TX:  Avlis, Greece
TARGET:  N. America

[Rizla]

I heard them last night on 9420 kHz, out in the glorious RF-pollution-free boonies, and enjoyed some of the most fantastically beautiful music I've ever heard. Signal was incredible, 555, I thought it must be a relay from the usual US suspects... Anyhow the music was varied, from haunting vocals to hammer dulcimer to strange stringed instruments. I couldn't place it, I kept thinking "Balkans"... which it is, sort of. 

Introductions via shortwave to music you never imagined possible is an underrated joy of the hobby.

[East Troy Don]

The signal out of Alvis is one of the now all-to-infrequent surprises to today's  SWL DX'er.  I have, on numerous occasions, picked up Radio Helliniki on the 79 year old Mantola tube with nothing more than 3 feet of speaker wire as an antenna cuz I never got around to long-wiring the old tuber.
Go figure.