SWL Logs

[vamtnlion]

SWL Logs for the week of 4 Feb 2013 (* denotes tuned in broadcast in progress)

7 Feb

*0100 – 0200-?  11.780 MHz         Brazil     Radio Nacional da Amazonia       Portuguese        OM, YL taking turns with conversation and what sounds like news, pop/Brazilian music                    SINPO 55444 Really strong, booming signal – best Brazilian recently – armchair copy!

*0100-?                11.765 MHz         Brazil     Super Radio Deus e Amor            Portuguese        OM talking, sounds like preaching                SINPO 34333      Listenable, moderate signal with some fading.  Fairly consistent signal strength.

9 Feb

*2350-0000         6.925 MHz USB                  Pirate – Channel Z           English  Typical rock music (Rush, etc.), strange rants                SINPO 45333  Decent, steady signal

0000-?                   6.930 MHz AM                   Pirate – Lady GaGa Radio             English                  Music, rants       SINPO 44444 Strong signal

10 Feb

*0250-?                4.885 MHz           Brazil     Radio Clube do Para        Portuguese        Latin/Brazilian music, pop music remixes (Madonna), echoey station IDs SINPO 45233 Pretty good signal, very listenable but suffered from “swiper” QRM (maybe QRM internal to home, not sure)

*0319-?                9.665 MHz           Brazil     Radio Voz Missionaria    Portuguese        Excited OM talk, preaching perhaps, religious/gospel music, Latin-like vocals SINPO 24222  OK signal but suffered from hampering fading on occasion but had some very strong signal strength peaks

*0340-?                4.950 MHz           Angola  Radio Nacional de Angola             Portuguese        Canal A  program – adult contemporary music, smooth vocals       SINPO 15222  Tough listening due to weak signal strength and static crashes but able to make out the music

*0404-?                9.420 MHz           Greece                 Voice of Greece               Greek                   YL announcer, great ethnic/Greek music    SINPO 44333 Found this VOG frequency while looking for DW broadcast from Rwanda.  Great signal quality – way better than VOG on the 41 meter band.  Very enjoyable music to listen to.

*2211-?                7.495 MHz           Algeria                  Radio Algerienne             Arabic                   Holy Quran Service, Arabic chants/music     SINPO 32322 Decent signal but suffered from QRM from WBCQ on 7.490 – had to use AM Synch USB to improve signal quality.

*2215-?                7.345 MHz           Tunisia                  Radio Tunissienne           Arabic                   OM talk, conversation, Arabic music                                SINPO 34333 Best signal found recently for Tunisia but fading worsened as time went on.

[glimmer twin]

I finally got some audio out of the Angola signal on 4949.76 on the 10'th also. I've seen several other logs from this night. I had been trying for a while to get anything more than a weak carrier. Good conditions for Africans last few days.

[thebeav]

Nice log there vamtnlion. You've been busy....

Paul