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Mosquito Coast DX News   29 January 2017   

Last logs from Australia. Warm here in the  80sF with light rain. Conditions about average on the  tropical bands.  Notice Brasil seemingly silent on 4915  -  rlw


——  Dan Sheedy——
5025 R. Rebelde 1432-50 20 Jan. Rebelde once again staying audible quite late in the morning (closing in on 10A in Havana).  (Dan Sheedy)

6050 Asyik/Salam FM 1444-1503* 19 Jan., 1428-1501* 20 Jan. Nice to have 'em back--off since mid-Dec.--slightly undermodulated & somewhat weak, but the TOH 1+1 pips/TC/Salam jingle & Negara Ku come through OK.  (Dan Sheedy)

6090 unID 0059-0110+ 21 Jan. With DGS off for a few days, PT chat/promos/ads/hip-hop tunes surfacing u/ CNR2 (Geermu)--maybe Bandeirantes, but not enough to really ID.  (Dan Sheedy)

7405 "Ex-R/S YHWH" (religious pirate) 0214-36+ 21 Jan. Fair signal with usual anti-religious establishment programming..wish he'd play that creepy song from the old R/S YHWH days.  (Dan Sheedy)

9585 TWR (Manzini) *1453-1500+ 17 Jan. With usually loud RA-9580 not propagating well, TWR's IS/ID loop & start of (p) Malagasy programming snuck in.  (Dan Sheedy)

11665 Wai/Sarawak FM 1533-1605+ 22 Jan. Another Malaysian back from walkabout with EG C&W (Hank Locklin), rock (CCR), & standards (Sinatra) mixed with some ML pop to TOH, then switch to Sarawak FM //9835 with 1+1 pips/TC/Negara Ku/Sarawak jingle into ML metallic rock.  (Dan Sheedy)

17640 African Pathways Radio (Mahajanga) 2029-35 22 Jan. Fair signal with "This Day in History", website contact info, program preview for the next 1/2 hour ("Creation Moments: Could Leviathan Be A Dinosaur?", featured hymn: "Just As I Am", bio of a Christian martyr) & request for comments to www.africanpathwaysradio.org or p-mail to 605 Bradley Court, Franklin, TN 37067.  (Dan Sheedy)

Equipment
Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL380/6m X wire [v2.0]——



———Mark Coady———

Shortwave Loggings for: January 26, 2017
All loggings are in English unless otherwise stated.

7355 NEW ZEALAND RNZI at 1307 with a man hosting "Dateline Pacific" news magazine with correspondent reports – Poor to Fair and noisy Jan 26 Coady-ON

11670 INDIA AIR at 2120 // 9445 with a man reporting on the 68th Republic Day Parade celebrating India's independence from Great Britain in 1949 and a woman talking about the comments of the Prime Minister – Very Good Jan 26 Coady-ON

12075 VATICAN VOA at 2113 in French with a woman hosting an English language lesson with a man saying some of the English phrases – Very Good Jan 26 Coady-ON

12095 ASCENSION ISLAND BBC at 2105 // 9915 and 11810 with "Assignment" reporting on RP Leipzig which has only been in the German Bundesliga for eight years and their football-crazy fans – Good Jan 26 Coady-ON – Leipzig was in the former East Germany so this is a bit of a success story

13670 CHINA CRI at 1320 with a radio drama with background music as two young men talk and deal with growing up and their future plans then a woman in English and a man in Chinese joining the drama at 1324 – Fair to Good until fading out by 1327 Jan 26 Coady-ON

Equipment   

Coady-ON: Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR4 Receiver, Drake TR7, Kenwood TS440S, and YouKits TJ5A Transceivers, AEA AT-300 and MFJ-941E Manual Tuners, LDG Z-100 Plus Auto Tuner, 40 meter and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles

————Robert Wilkner———-
2325  Australia   VL8T Tennant Creek  NT,  1205 to 1230 threshold at first, then better audio , one music bridge 1216   28 January (Wilkner)  This best with noise reducing antenna - rlw

2485  Australia,  VL8K Katherine NT, 1200 to 1230 fading up with om at 1203  and yl 1207. One of the last logs of this one, sadly  28 January (Wilkner)

2598U Canada CJH-22 Riviere-au-Rernard  0055  to 0105   om " NW five knots "   "78 latitude" 29 January (Wilkner)

2850  North Korea, Korean Central Broadcasting Station  1209 om or yl?  to 1215   28 January. Using the  EF-SWL to experiment with low band signals  (Wilkner)  http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/3707

3310 Bolivia Radio  Mosoj Chaski,  Cochabamba  0050 to 0100 in Quechua with yl fair  signal using noise reducing antenna 29 Jan (Wilkner)

3915  Singapore,  BBC News items US and Poland  2325 - 2330 weak signal   - 26 January (Wilkner)

4055 Guatemala, Radio Verdad  1215 om in Spanish  1233 Marimba music , very good signal 28 January (Wilkner)

4835 Australia, VL8A Alice Springs, NT  1223 to 1230  with variety pgm, being clobbered in 4840 so using  1.6 lsb with the  Icom 746Pro  28 January (Wilkner)

4925.2 Brasil    Radio Educação Rural, Tefé, AM noted 0050 to 0105 om in Portuguese with poor signal   29 January (Wilkner)

5910 Colombia  Alcaraván Radio,  Puerto Lleras 0055 to 0117 beautiful vocals with strong signal -5-5-5  on 29 January (Wilkner)

5952.4  Bolivia Pio XII, Siglo Veinte  noted 0040 to 0052 using lsb to pull out yl in language and Spanish 29 January (Wilkner)

6070  Canada CFRX Toronto 0100 to 0111  "…news stories around Canada "  29 January (Wilkner)


6195   Singapore,  BBC News items  2330 to 2335   superior to the  80 meter signal same time  - 26 January (Wilkner)

Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, Florida
Icom 746Pro - Drake R8 - NRD 525 -Sony 2010XA - 60 meter dipole,  EF-SWL,  noise reducing antenna