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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Flag this message Europeans on 41 and 49 meters

Did a bit of hunting for European signals on the 41 and 49 meter bands
during the pre-sunrise period this morning and was able to log the
following:

VATICAN CITY - Vatican Radio on 5885 from Santa Maria di in Spanish around
2124. Fair to good, relatively interference free signal subject to moderate
levels of atmospheric noise and suffering from occasional deep propagational
fade.

PORTUGAL - Deutsche Welle relay on 6075 via Sines in German at 2135, Fair to
good signal plagued by some unidentified same channel interference and
moderate to severe levels of atmospheric noise.

MOLDOVA - WYFR (Family Radio) relay on 6240 via Kichinev in English at about
2140.
Only a fair but relatively interference free signal further troubled by
moderate to severe levels of both atmospheric noise and propagational fade.

GERMANY - Radio Liberty relay on 7165 via Wertachtal in Byelorussian at
2145, This relatively interference free signal exhibited fair to good
strength and was troubled by only slight levels of noise. Unfortunately the
signal was subject to intermittent spells of deep fade.

More later.

Best Regards,

T.C. Patterson
Cebu Philippines

Monday, January 19, 2009

31 meter Band Reception - Philippine Sunrise Monday, January 19, 2009 10:31 AM

January 19, 2009 10:31 AM



Hello All,
Continued my surveillance of the 31 meter band during the sunrise period here in the Philippines this morning. From 2200 to 2300 on January 18 the following are among the stations heard. CRI, CNR and other such pests have been ommitted from the listing.
NORTH KOREA - Voice of Korea on 9345 from Kujang in Mandarin;
THAILAND - BBC World Service relay on 9465 via Nakon Sawan in English;
PHILIPPINES - VOA relay on 9490 via Tinang in English;
SOLOMON ISLANDS - SIBC on 9542 from Honiara in English; *
VIETNAM - VOV on 9550 from Hanoi-Sontay in Mandarin; **
JAPAN - Radio Japan (NHK) on 9560 from Yamata in Korean;
UNITED STATES - Radio Marti on 9565 for Greenville, NC in Spanish; ***
N. MARIANA ISLDS (US) - RFA relay on 9570 via Tinian in Cantonese;
MOROCCO - Radio Mediterranee Int'l on 9575 from Nador in Arabic;
JAPAN - Radio Nikkei One on 9595 from Tokyo-Nagara in Japanese;
RUSSIA - Vatican Radio relay on 9600 via Petropavlovsk-K in Mandarin;
AUSTRALIA - Radio Australia on 9630 from Darwin in Indonesian;
TAIWAN - Xi Wang Zhi Sheng on 9635 from Tanshui in Mandarin;
NORTH KOREA - Voice of Korea on 9650 from Kujang in Japanese;
AUSTRALIA - Radio Australia on 9660 from Brandon in English; ****
INDONESIA - RRI Jakarta on 9680 from Cimanggis in Indonesian;
UNITED STATES - WYFR (Family Radio) on 9690 from Okeechobee, FL in
Portuguese; *****
NIGER - Voix du Sahel-Niamey 0n 9705 from Niamey in French;
RWANDA - DW relay on 9720 via Kigali in Indonesian;
SINGAPORE - BBC World Service relay on 9730 via Kranji in Indonesian;
SINGAPORE - BBC World Service relay on 9740 via Kranji in English;
TAIWAN - Voice of Han on 9745 from Kuanyin in Mandarin;
PHILIPPINES - VOA relay on 9780 via Tinang in Special English;
SOUTH KOREA - Radio Korea Int'l on 9805 from Kimjae in Indonesian; and
PALAU - KHBN (High Adventure Ministries) on 9955 from Medorn in Mandarin.
Notes:
* S7 to S9 signal from a 6 kW transmitter.
** No sign of Radio Havana which has been a major player in my earlier
noted North American/Caribbean longpath window during the sunrise
period.
*** Assumed longpath reception from North America.
**** S9 signal from Bandon's 10 kW transmitter.
***** WYFR/Okeechobee must be assumed to be longpath reception from
North America.
Later,
T.C. Patterson
Cebu, Philippines

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Latest loggings

A notable station from the Middle east which I heard for the first time here in San Jose,Antique central Philippines for the first time last December 24,2008 @ 1200 UTC in the frequency of 15250 Khz is Radio Jeddah from K.S.A. in English of the Broadcasting Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.I understand that the broadcast intended to Liberia and Zambia but the S-I-O Rating is quiet good of 3-2-3 to 3-3-3. maybe the transmission is what they called "OFF THE BACK OF THE BEAM".

T8WH Palau of the World Harvest Radio noted on 15680 kHz from 0230-0400 UTC with religious programming S-I-O 3-3-3 sometimes with interference.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

PilipinasDX

Philippine DX News No.22December 14, 2008Hello everyone and welcome to the November edition of Pilipinas DX. This is report Number 21 and I’m Henry Umadhay in Antique, Central Philippines.Glad to be back and thank you for tuning bye.Finally it’s Christmas! With all the festive sights and sound of Christmas all around it is but appropriate to wish you a Merry Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year . In Filipino “ Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong taon sa lahat”. In Ilonggo “ Malipayon nga pascua kag mahamungaya-on nga bag-ong tuig sa tanan”.In today’s Pilipinas DX News. We have few items. Our first topic about Competitions.Radio Taiwan International “I show” Radio Competition. The new competition kicks off as RTI celebrates 80th anniversary. To join, all you have to do is produce a 15 minute program about Taiwan in either English or Japanese. Just by joining in the “I show” Radio competition, you have the chance to win one of the prizes totaling $NT 1,000,000 or (15,000 US Dollars).To find out more, visit http://rti.im.tv/englishRadio Japan world interactive Haiku Competition Everybody is invited to send their Haiku entries until February 15th. Haiku, a seventeen syllable poem of three lines arranged in lines of five, seven, and five syllables. These brief but beautiful poems describe bits of life, strikingly beautiful scenery, or lovely things that appeal to the senses. Send entry to the following email address:nhkworld@nhk.jp. Write wi in the subject.For our DX NewsWorld harvest Radio acquired the facilities of the Voice of Hope owned by High Adventures Ministries in the Island of Palau. The former call-sign KHBN now WVOH of the world Harvest Radio. My only QSL from Voice of Hope in 1995. I can hear the English programs from 0230-0400 UTC in the frequency of 15680 kHz.B08 Filipino Service Broadcast ScheduleChina Radio International Serbisyo Filipino1130-1200 11700 kHz daily1200-1230 11700 & 12110 khz daily1430-1500 12110 kHz dailyDZRP Radio Pilipinas OverseasFilipino Service1730-1930 UTC 15190 kHz & 9395 kHzEnglish Service 0200-0330 UTC 11880, 15285 & 15510 kHzReception LogsNovember 1, Deutsche Welle on 9785 in English via Trincomalee @ 0010 UTC S-I-O 4-4-4November 2, AWR on 11780 in English @1030,S-I-O 3-3-3November 3, DW Radio on 17710 in English via trincomalee @ 0900 S-I-O 4-4-3November 8, CVC Australia on 17820 in Indonesian @ 0544 S-I-O 3-3-3November 8, FEBC Philippines on 15450 in Mandarin @ 0555 UTC S-I-O 3-3-3November 8,Radio Nikkei 1 Japan on 9595 in Japanese @ 0612 UTC S-I-O 3-3-3November 8, Radio Netherlands on 12065 in English @ 1005 S-I-O 4-4-4November 9, Deutsche Welle on 17520 in German @ 0915 S-I-O 3-4-3November 16 Deutsche Welle on 11820 in Bengali via Kranji, Singapore @ 0115 S-I-O 3-3-3November 17, KBS World Radio Seoul, South Korea on 9570 @ 0810 S-I-O 4-4-4November 22,Voice of Russia on 17805 in English @ 0734 S-I-O 4-4-4November 23, Radyo Pilipinas Overseas on 15285 in English @0215 S-I-O 3-2-2November 23, Radio Prague on 11600 in English @ 1400 S-I-O 2-2-2November 30 Radio Netherlands in Indonesian on 5860 @ 2234 S-I-O 5-5-5November 30, China Business Radio on 9515 in Chinese @2300 S-I-O 4-4-4November 30, Radio Exterior de Espaňa on 9535 in Spanish @2300 S-I-OAnd before I end allow me to Congratulate our friend Md. Salahuddin Dollar as one of the official monitors of KBs World Radio for 2009 and of course yours truly.And friends, if you want to get the transcript of today’s Pilipinas DX news, please visit http (colon - double-forward slash) pilipinasdx (dot) wordpress (dot) com. That’s http (colon - double-forward slash) pilipinasdx (dot) wordpress (dot) com. OR, you may want to send us your comments, suggestions, reception logs, and information’s to pilipinasdx@yahoo.com. That’s P-I-L-I-P-I-N-A-S-D-X for PilipinasDX [at] yahoo [dot] com.This has been Henry Umadhay for Wavescan in Antique, Central Philippines saying… Mabuhay! At Maraming salamat po!