All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on /sign-off*
Australia
4835 VL8A, Alice Springs NT, 2133-2159. 4910 below; SINPO 45343 deteriorating fast. On \\ 4910, 5025.
4910 VL8T, Tennant Creek NT, 2132-2157. News, weather report and announcer's chatter to music. SINPO 44332. SIgnal deteriorating fast, \\ 4835, 5025.
9580 Radio Australia, Shepp. VIC, 1027-1125. English targeted to the Pacific. Asia-Pacific program to news headlines. Interviews, newscast at 1100. SINPO 35433. Signal ws deteriorating and interference de GAB at 1100. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 4)(BCDX 963/Top News)
2485 VL8K Katherine 1118-1131. Country & western music with lady hosting. ABC news at 1130. Fair/poor signal this morning. (John Wilkins, CO)
Bahrain
9745USB, (presumed) Radio Bahrain Abu Hayan, 0227-0303. Arabic. Contemporary music continous to 0300. Presumed ID announcement at 0303 then back to music. Signal fair at tune-in. Fading observed to poor/barely audible by 0300. (Barbour, NH)
Bolivia
6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 0916-0930, At tune in, noted steady CP local music. "5 en manana (Morning) y 16 minutos ..." lengthy comments in Spanish follow by a male, while the signal remains at a good level. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
5952.40, Radio Emisoras Pio XII, 1015-1030. Had trouble tuning this in for a few minutes. Seemed like there was no audio, eventhough the carrier was reasonably strong. At about 1020 finally got some audio with two males in Spanish with comments. At 1031 thought they were going into music, but was just a couple of bars as far as I could tell. Spanish comments continued. Signal was fair.(Chuck Bolland, FL)
6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 0949-1005. Noted a male and female in Spanish language comments. At 0952 local type music presented. At 1000 a male commences what seems to be an announcement. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
5952.41, Radio Emisoras Pio XII, 1025-1035. Threshold audio signal during female announcer's Spanish comments. Signal very difficult to hear due to extreme fading. I had checked this earlier (1005) and it wasn't on the air or hadn't faded in yet? By 1031 all I could hear was the carrier since the audio had faded into the noise. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
Brazil
5939.96, Radio Guaruja Paulista, (presumed) 0902-0910. Male's Portuguese noted for on-air conversation in studio. No sign of the Russian station yet. Signal for Guaruja was noted as poor. Rechecked at 0925 and Guaruja still holding the frequency. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
Chad
6165 R Dif. Nationale Tchadienne, N'Djamena, 2137-2158. French talks, ID, songs, and African music. SINPO 32432/35443. (Alexander Beryozkin St.P.-RUS in dswci DX Window May 5) ... in the gap when Croatia co-channel off at nighttime, and fade in on 7120 kHz at 1515 UT, noted also at 1720 UT, by (Nils Schiffhauer DK8OK, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 9/10)(BCDX 963/Top News)
China
9170, CNR6 (Beijing 491) (presumed), 1314-1316. Chinese. Talk by woman occasionally peaking above the noise. Threshold level signal with fading. (Jim Evans, TN)
5050, Guangxi Beibu Bay Radio (Nanning 954) (presumed), 1058-1137. Vietnamese. Music as slow contemporary. Signal beeps and announcements by male announcer at 1100 then followed by more music. Announcements by woman at 1130, then talk by man/female duo. Initially signal was moderate signal was declining to poor. Weak station heard below them on 5050. Possible second frequency found on 9820 with similar music program, but not strictly in parallel. (Jim Evans, TN)
7315, CNR 2 (Xian 594), 1116-1133. Chinese. Talk by man and woman. Signal noted as poor to moderate with little fading. (Jim Evans, TN)
Clandestine
15410, Radio Y'Abaganda, via Issoudun at 1709. Program repeating service telephone announcement as, "we are sorry, you have reached...", pause and then programming kicked in with two men in Swahili. This broadcast is on the air Saturdays only, 1700-1800 UT. Poor.(Harold Sellers-BC-CAN, dswci DXW May 5)(BCDX 963/Top News)
Costa Rica
5954.15, ELCOR transmitter testing?, at 2310-0005.+ Tentative with non-stop English and Spanish pop ballads by Shakira and others. Brief Spanish announcement at 2341 UT. Good level but poor to fair overall signal quality due to adjacent channel splatter. Very difficult after 0000 UT due to adjacent channel splatter. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Germany
13710 Came across of Saturday only transmission of "Evangelische Missions" at 1100-1130 UT in Russian language to all Russia and CIS states. M&B Nauen site, 250 kW at 20 degrees, S=9+20dB signal. Bible reading. Nice back lobe signal.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 8) (BCDX 963/Top News)
15160, LWF Voice of Gospel (Nauen), 1330-1334. Burmese. Flute music followed by station announcements from announcer, followed by traditional Burmese instrumental music. Poor but steady signal. (Jim Evans, TN)
Guam
9585, Trans World Radio/KTWR (Agana) (presumed), 1302-1311. Karen-Sgaw (per the station schedule). Religious talk by man and woman in Asian language. Poor signal with both high and low side broadcast interference. (Jim Evans, TN)
Guinea
7125 Radio Guinee, Conakry Sonfonya, 1217-1409. Vernacular. Folk music songs to French newscast prior to 1300. African pop music. SINPO 35443 at best, occasional amateur radio interference. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 4)(BCDX 963/Top News)
Guyana
3289.99 Voice of Guyana, 0800-0900.+ English. ID and frequency announcement at 0800 with IDs as "National Communications Network" and "Voice of Guyana". English religious programming at 0803 with local choral music, religious talk and Hindi vocals. Voice of Guyana ID at 0836 UT. Qur'an at 0837 UT. ID and station frequency announcement at 0842. Lite instrumental music at 0843. DJ talk at 0845 UT with personal Mother's Day greetings sent out. Poor to fair. Better than usual. Nice to hear quite a few ID announcements. Modulation during the religious talk portions appeared to be a little weak.(Brian Alexander, PA/DXplorer May 9)(BCDX 963/Top News)
3289.97, Voice of Guyana, 0915-0940. Noted male's English comments during broadcast.
"you're listening to the Voice of Guyana ..." at 0931. Followed with 'canned' commercials and promos. Fair signal quality. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
3289.9, GBC Georgetown, 0804. English. BBCWS relay regarding Russian coal mine blast. Futbol news and BBC identification into business news. Fair signal quality. (Scott Barbour, NH)
Hungary
3975, Hungarian Radio, via Jaszbereny, at *0400-0423 with musical opening and flute music to station ID. News in Hungarian at 0405. Numerous remote reports before jingle ID at 0420 UT. Fair to good signal with slight amateur operators interference.(Rich D'Angelo-USA, dswci DXW) (BCDX 963/Top News)
India
11840, All India Radio (Delhi - Kingsway), 1147-1150. Chinese. Talk by man and woman, alternating at approximately one minute intervals. Poor but steady signal. (Jim Evans, TN)
Indonesia
9525.87, Voice of Indonesia, 1036-1050. Noted a female in English language comments with
music. "... from the Voice of Indonesia ..." by female. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
4869.93 RRI Wamena 1200-1220.+ Out of music into talk at 1200 with no station SCI intervak signal or intro. Presume Jakarta program since // to 3325 and 3344.96. All freqs noted as poor. Also heard next day (6 May) with Jak program at 1200. (John Wilkins, CO)
Malaysia
7295, RTM, Kuala Lumpur, (pres)1040-1100. Tune-in to female announcer, possibly in news with comments, followed by music. Signal was rather weak, so not sure if I heard English. After a few minutes of music, the female returns in comments. Still couldn't be certain on the broadcasting language. Signal observed as poor. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
7270, RTM via FM, 1005-1020. Female's program comments. Not sure of the language the female is speaking however. Some music heard earlier too. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
7295 Traxx FM via Kajang 1242-1312.+ Pop music hosted by lady announcer in English.
Time pips signal at 1300 followed by news, I think. Back to music at 1310. Fair signal at best. (John Wilkins, CO)
Niger
9704.99 LV du Sahel, Niamey, 2150-2301.* French and vernacular talk. Variety of local flute music, Afro-pops, rustic local tribal music and lite instrumental music. Qur'an at 2254 UT. Sign off with short flute IS and national anthem at 2259. Poor to fair signal.(Brian Alexander, PA)
Russia
5929.99, Radio Rossii, 0908-0930. Noted Russian language comments from both male and female during the period. At 0910 some music presented, but only as break in the format. The carrier of this station was good, but the audio needed a lot of help. It was very poor. What's that situation referred as? Over Modulated maybe? (Chuck Bolland,FL)
12065 Voice of Russia (Chita-Atamanovka), 1308-1315. English. Talk by woman to male's mention of Russia, the United States, and Voice of Russia. Signal very poor with fading which made it difficult to understand more of program content. Talk by man at 1315 with signal down to threshold level. (Jim Evans, TN)
WYFR Family Radio (Novosibirsk) relay, 1250-1300.* Thai. Closing announcements by man followed by WYFR theme and internval signal. Signal gone at 1300. Poor but steady signal. (Jim Evans, TN)
Sri Lanka
15105, Deutsche Welle (Trincomalee) relay, 1251-1256. Indonesian. Contemporary music as instrumental. Talk by woman at 1252 with short pop vocal music bridges. Talk by man at 1256. Poor signal, barely above the noise. Possible parallel noted on 11770 with similar signal. (Jim Evans, TN)
11905, SLBC (Ekala), 1220-1230.* Tamil. Local music with short announcements by a woman. Announcements at 1230 followed by end of broadcast. Did not switch to Hindi per schedule. Initially poor to moderate signal on a clear frequency, gradually decreasing in strength. (Jim Evans, TN)
Sudan
7200, Radio Omdurman Al Fitahab, 0230-0250. Arabic. Wailing voices which sound like Call to Prayer. Brief male announcer. Echo effect and passing mentions of Sudan at 0248 followed by talk. Signal fair over co-channel from Iran's VOIRI. (Scott Barbour, NH)
Suriname
4989.99, Radio Apintie, 0938-0950. Noted a male in Dutch with program comments. Canned promo at 0941 to a possible station identification for poor signal quality. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
Australia
4835 VL8A, Alice Springs NT, 2133-2159. 4910 below; SINPO 45343 deteriorating fast. On \\ 4910, 5025.
4910 VL8T, Tennant Creek NT, 2132-2157. News, weather report and announcer's chatter to music. SINPO 44332. SIgnal deteriorating fast, \\ 4835, 5025.
9580 Radio Australia, Shepp. VIC, 1027-1125. English targeted to the Pacific. Asia-Pacific program to news headlines. Interviews, newscast at 1100. SINPO 35433. Signal ws deteriorating and interference de GAB at 1100. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 4)(BCDX 963/Top News)
2485 VL8K Katherine 1118-1131. Country & western music with lady hosting. ABC news at 1130. Fair/poor signal this morning. (John Wilkins, CO)
Bahrain
9745USB, (presumed) Radio Bahrain Abu Hayan, 0227-0303. Arabic. Contemporary music continous to 0300. Presumed ID announcement at 0303 then back to music. Signal fair at tune-in. Fading observed to poor/barely audible by 0300. (Barbour, NH)
Bolivia
6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 0916-0930, At tune in, noted steady CP local music. "5 en manana (Morning) y 16 minutos ..." lengthy comments in Spanish follow by a male, while the signal remains at a good level. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
5952.40, Radio Emisoras Pio XII, 1015-1030. Had trouble tuning this in for a few minutes. Seemed like there was no audio, eventhough the carrier was reasonably strong. At about 1020 finally got some audio with two males in Spanish with comments. At 1031 thought they were going into music, but was just a couple of bars as far as I could tell. Spanish comments continued. Signal was fair.(Chuck Bolland, FL)
6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 0949-1005. Noted a male and female in Spanish language comments. At 0952 local type music presented. At 1000 a male commences what seems to be an announcement. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
5952.41, Radio Emisoras Pio XII, 1025-1035. Threshold audio signal during female announcer's Spanish comments. Signal very difficult to hear due to extreme fading. I had checked this earlier (1005) and it wasn't on the air or hadn't faded in yet? By 1031 all I could hear was the carrier since the audio had faded into the noise. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
Brazil
5939.96, Radio Guaruja Paulista, (presumed) 0902-0910. Male's Portuguese noted for on-air conversation in studio. No sign of the Russian station yet. Signal for Guaruja was noted as poor. Rechecked at 0925 and Guaruja still holding the frequency. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
Chad6165 R Dif. Nationale Tchadienne, N'Djamena, 2137-2158. French talks, ID, songs, and African music. SINPO 32432/35443. (Alexander Beryozkin St.P.-RUS in dswci DX Window May 5) ... in the gap when Croatia co-channel off at nighttime, and fade in on 7120 kHz at 1515 UT, noted also at 1720 UT, by (Nils Schiffhauer DK8OK, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 9/10)(BCDX 963/Top News)
China
9170, CNR6 (Beijing 491) (presumed), 1314-1316. Chinese. Talk by woman occasionally peaking above the noise. Threshold level signal with fading. (Jim Evans, TN)
5050, Guangxi Beibu Bay Radio (Nanning 954) (presumed), 1058-1137. Vietnamese. Music as slow contemporary. Signal beeps and announcements by male announcer at 1100 then followed by more music. Announcements by woman at 1130, then talk by man/female duo. Initially signal was moderate signal was declining to poor. Weak station heard below them on 5050. Possible second frequency found on 9820 with similar music program, but not strictly in parallel. (Jim Evans, TN)
7315, CNR 2 (Xian 594), 1116-1133. Chinese. Talk by man and woman. Signal noted as poor to moderate with little fading. (Jim Evans, TN)
Clandestine
15410, Radio Y'Abaganda, via Issoudun at 1709. Program repeating service telephone announcement as, "we are sorry, you have reached...", pause and then programming kicked in with two men in Swahili. This broadcast is on the air Saturdays only, 1700-1800 UT. Poor.(Harold Sellers-BC-CAN, dswci DXW May 5)(BCDX 963/Top News)
Costa Rica
5954.15, ELCOR transmitter testing?, at 2310-0005.+ Tentative with non-stop English and Spanish pop ballads by Shakira and others. Brief Spanish announcement at 2341 UT. Good level but poor to fair overall signal quality due to adjacent channel splatter. Very difficult after 0000 UT due to adjacent channel splatter. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Germany
13710 Came across of Saturday only transmission of "Evangelische Missions" at 1100-1130 UT in Russian language to all Russia and CIS states. M&B Nauen site, 250 kW at 20 degrees, S=9+20dB signal. Bible reading. Nice back lobe signal.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 8) (BCDX 963/Top News)
15160, LWF Voice of Gospel (Nauen), 1330-1334. Burmese. Flute music followed by station announcements from announcer, followed by traditional Burmese instrumental music. Poor but steady signal. (Jim Evans, TN)
Guam
9585, Trans World Radio/KTWR (Agana) (presumed), 1302-1311. Karen-Sgaw (per the station schedule). Religious talk by man and woman in Asian language. Poor signal with both high and low side broadcast interference. (Jim Evans, TN)
Guinea
7125 Radio Guinee, Conakry Sonfonya, 1217-1409. Vernacular. Folk music songs to French newscast prior to 1300. African pop music. SINPO 35443 at best, occasional amateur radio interference. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 4)(BCDX 963/Top News)
Guyana3289.99 Voice of Guyana, 0800-0900.+ English. ID and frequency announcement at 0800 with IDs as "National Communications Network" and "Voice of Guyana". English religious programming at 0803 with local choral music, religious talk and Hindi vocals. Voice of Guyana ID at 0836 UT. Qur'an at 0837 UT. ID and station frequency announcement at 0842. Lite instrumental music at 0843. DJ talk at 0845 UT with personal Mother's Day greetings sent out. Poor to fair. Better than usual. Nice to hear quite a few ID announcements. Modulation during the religious talk portions appeared to be a little weak.(Brian Alexander, PA/DXplorer May 9)(BCDX 963/Top News)
3289.97, Voice of Guyana, 0915-0940. Noted male's English comments during broadcast.
"you're listening to the Voice of Guyana ..." at 0931. Followed with 'canned' commercials and promos. Fair signal quality. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
3289.9, GBC Georgetown, 0804. English. BBCWS relay regarding Russian coal mine blast. Futbol news and BBC identification into business news. Fair signal quality. (Scott Barbour, NH)
Hungary
3975, Hungarian Radio, via Jaszbereny, at *0400-0423 with musical opening and flute music to station ID. News in Hungarian at 0405. Numerous remote reports before jingle ID at 0420 UT. Fair to good signal with slight amateur operators interference.(Rich D'Angelo-USA, dswci DXW) (BCDX 963/Top News)
India
11840, All India Radio (Delhi - Kingsway), 1147-1150. Chinese. Talk by man and woman, alternating at approximately one minute intervals. Poor but steady signal. (Jim Evans, TN)
Indonesia
9525.87, Voice of Indonesia, 1036-1050. Noted a female in English language comments with
music. "... from the Voice of Indonesia ..." by female. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
4869.93 RRI Wamena 1200-1220.+ Out of music into talk at 1200 with no station SCI intervak signal or intro. Presume Jakarta program since // to 3325 and 3344.96. All freqs noted as poor. Also heard next day (6 May) with Jak program at 1200. (John Wilkins, CO)
Malaysia
7295, RTM, Kuala Lumpur, (pres)1040-1100. Tune-in to female announcer, possibly in news with comments, followed by music. Signal was rather weak, so not sure if I heard English. After a few minutes of music, the female returns in comments. Still couldn't be certain on the broadcasting language. Signal observed as poor. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
7270, RTM via FM, 1005-1020. Female's program comments. Not sure of the language the female is speaking however. Some music heard earlier too. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
7295 Traxx FM via Kajang 1242-1312.+ Pop music hosted by lady announcer in English.
Time pips signal at 1300 followed by news, I think. Back to music at 1310. Fair signal at best. (John Wilkins, CO)
Niger
9704.99 LV du Sahel, Niamey, 2150-2301.* French and vernacular talk. Variety of local flute music, Afro-pops, rustic local tribal music and lite instrumental music. Qur'an at 2254 UT. Sign off with short flute IS and national anthem at 2259. Poor to fair signal.(Brian Alexander, PA)
Russia5929.99, Radio Rossii, 0908-0930. Noted Russian language comments from both male and female during the period. At 0910 some music presented, but only as break in the format. The carrier of this station was good, but the audio needed a lot of help. It was very poor. What's that situation referred as? Over Modulated maybe? (Chuck Bolland,FL)
12065 Voice of Russia (Chita-Atamanovka), 1308-1315. English. Talk by woman to male's mention of Russia, the United States, and Voice of Russia. Signal very poor with fading which made it difficult to understand more of program content. Talk by man at 1315 with signal down to threshold level. (Jim Evans, TN)
WYFR Family Radio (Novosibirsk) relay, 1250-1300.* Thai. Closing announcements by man followed by WYFR theme and internval signal. Signal gone at 1300. Poor but steady signal. (Jim Evans, TN)
Sri Lanka
15105, Deutsche Welle (Trincomalee) relay, 1251-1256. Indonesian. Contemporary music as instrumental. Talk by woman at 1252 with short pop vocal music bridges. Talk by man at 1256. Poor signal, barely above the noise. Possible parallel noted on 11770 with similar signal. (Jim Evans, TN)
11905, SLBC (Ekala), 1220-1230.* Tamil. Local music with short announcements by a woman. Announcements at 1230 followed by end of broadcast. Did not switch to Hindi per schedule. Initially poor to moderate signal on a clear frequency, gradually decreasing in strength. (Jim Evans, TN)
Sudan
7200, Radio Omdurman Al Fitahab, 0230-0250. Arabic. Wailing voices which sound like Call to Prayer. Brief male announcer. Echo effect and passing mentions of Sudan at 0248 followed by talk. Signal fair over co-channel from Iran's VOIRI. (Scott Barbour, NH)
Suriname
4989.99, Radio Apintie, 0938-0950. Noted a male in Dutch with program comments. Canned promo at 0941 to a possible station identification for poor signal quality. (Chuck Bolland, FL)
4990, Radio Apintie Paramaribo, 0211-0225. English. Bad covers of Elton John and Chris DeBurg tunes.Signal weak with lite band noise. (Scott Barbour, NH)
