From the Logbook....


4820   INDIA.  AIR - Kolkata. At about equal strength to the channel-sharing PBS Xizang at 1310 with softly spoken Hindi talks and occasional brief music interludes.

4840   INDIA.  AIR - Mumbai. Heard after the WWCR s/off at 1300 with Hindi talks and occasionally brief musical moments. Fair strength and best heard using USB to reduce the impact of ABC Alice Springs 4835.


 7295   MALAYSIA.  RTVMalaysia - Kajang. This is usually a tough one for me to hear due to the two powerful and rather noisy China outlets on 7290. However, I dug it out of the mush at 1115. This is the Traxx FM Service in English with pop songs and announcements. At 1129 there was a time check as "29 minutes past 7". Malaysian and world news at 1200. Pleased to log this one.

7295   FRANCE.  R. Algerienne - Issoudon.  Arabic service into Central Africa at 0540, weak signal with Arabic songs. S/off 0557.

7295   FRANCE.  RFI - Issoudon.  S/on 0600 for the 30 min service in Hausa to Africa. Poor signal but gradually improved before the end of the program.

7405   USA.  R. Marti - Greenville. Fair signal with a music program at 0620 in the Spanish service.

7445   TAIWAN.  RTI - Paochung. English service to SE Asia at 1150. Difficult listening due to China on both sides of this frequency. S/off 1200 after full ID and frequency info.

11780 BRAZIL. R. Nac. da Amazonia, Brasilia. Fair reception in our mid-afternoon today at 0450 with pleasant easy listening songs. ID at 0514 as "Radio Nacional, Brasilia". Wouldn't have heard this a few weeks ago at this time! Autumn (Fall) coming soon!! :-)
15105   BANGLADESH.  Bangladesh Betar - Dhaka. English service s/on 1230 with the news and a big fat hum on the audio. Otherwise a fair signal and only slight QRM from China 15110. At 1245, the audio (and hum) completely disappeared for a minute while the carrier remained. Hum still present when audio returned. Intermittent audio for the remainder of the broadcast, s/off 1300.
‎15745. SRI LANKA. Ekala txer site. Presumed to be this at 0445 for the extended Sunday service in English. Very weak in the noise and at one point disappeared all together before eventually returning. I think Sundays are probably our best chance to hear this with the later s/off.




17650   IRAN.  VOIRI - Zahedan.  Arabic service with quite distorted modulation at 0530 s/on. Much clearer signal (but not necessarily stronger signal!) on // 17820.

17660   UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.  R. Japan - Dhabbaya. Half hour English service to Europe, 0500-0530 with a lovely signal.

17830   PAKISTAN.  R. Pakistan - Islamabad.  Urdu service s/on at 0500, fair signal cutting through the noise with local popular songs.


17870   EGYPT.  R. Cairo - Abu Zaabal.  A carrier of fair strength but with an abysmally weak audio level at 1232 for the English service to SE Asia. What's the point?

21500   ROMANIA.  RRI - Tiganesti.  Chinese service at 0505.

21600   IRAN.  VOIRI. Russian service at 0510. Nice signal.

 Rob VK3BVW

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