FROM THE LOGBOOK: MALI, KUWAIT, BRAZIL and more!

FROM THE LOGBOOK:
MALI, KUWAIT, BRAZIL and more!

Over the past few days, I've been monitoring plenty of new frequencies for international broadcasters. A list of these will be posted up on the MEDXR Blog in the next 24 hours, so keep a watch out for that. However, along the way, there have been some really good DX signals coming through as well.  Perhaps some of these will be of interest to you, too!

 5995   MALI. R. Mali - Kati. Plenty of carrier but audio was down at 2110 with local songs and French anncts, overall reception was poor on Apr 2.
6050   KUWAIT. R. Kuwait. This was a bit of a surprise! Kuwait running the English service on the normally Arabic General Service outlet at 2025 with old pops and disco. Is this something new or old news??!! ID'd at 2040 announcing the English MW, FM and SW 15540 outlets but no mention of 6050 kHz. Announced 15540 kHz as being in the 25mb - oops!! Time check as 11:50pm and into news before s/off anncts and anthem at 2058. Then at 2100 it fired up again with unscheduled Arabic news until 2110 when they suddenly flicked off the switch. Also heard on the normal 15540 outlet but much strong here on 6050 and pleasant listening on Apr 4.

 6055   RWANDA. R. Rwanda - Kigali. Pretty scratchy audio quality with an interview program at 2030. Haven't heard it sounding this bad before! However, it was a strong signal on Apr 4.

 7205   FRANCE & CHINA. RFI - Issoudun in French to WAf and CRI - Xian in English to SAf at 2145, fair signals and both at equal level here. I was hoping they'd fix this problem for A14, but alas hope faded once I tuned in this morning! Obviously, they think it's such a great frequency that neither broadcaster is willing to give it up…..or something like that!! Maybe it's just not a problem in the respective target zones, although I find this hard to imagine, depending on where you live in that magnificent continent!! Apr 2. 
9630   BRAZIL. R. Aparecida - Aparecida. Fair signal with lots of pops, recorded anncts, IDs and shouting at 0915 to past 0935. Nice to hear this as it was a difficult and often intermittent signal last year. No sign of CNR 1 on Apr 2.

 9635.77   VIETNAM. VoV - Son Tay. The National Network 1 service with ID at 0937 followed by a discussion/interview program in Vietnamese, fair and in the clear on Apr 2.

 9645.4   UNIDENTIFIED. A het and faint music programming noted at 0945, beating against CNR 1 400 Hz below. Believe it might be R. Bandeirantes on Apr 2.

 13850   EGYPT. R. Cairo - Abis. Honestly, this was one of the worst transmissions I have ever heard from this broadcaster. Good strength but breaking up badly, often off-air for seconds at a time, and totally unreadable at 0513 in Arabic. Instead of locking up innocent Australian journalists without charge, they'd be better spending their time fixing this service to enable them to communicate their message in a way that listeners can copy! Apr 2. 

 15120   NIGERIA. VoNigeria - Ikorodu. Arabic service with ID at 1739 as "Huna Nigeria", then continuation of a news program. A weak signal but quite readable at a time when the band is usually very quiet, Apr 4.

 15235   SOUTH AFRICA. Channel Africa - Meyerton. Heavily accented English service to WAf at 1746, "Channel Africa" ID at 1743 and into the "Africa Digest" program, weak but readable on Apr 4.

 15540   KUWAIT. R. Kuwait. I rarely hear Kuwait's only English transmission, as I'm not often listening at 1800 s/on. By 1805, it was into a full-on religious program about Islam as the only true religion. Very good signal on Apr 4. Later heard on the same day with unscheduled news in Arabic at 2100 until suddenly off at 2110.

 73's and have a great weekend everyone!!

 Rob Wagner VK3BVW

Comments

  1. AnonymousApril 9, 2014 at 3:08 PM

    Yes it's a big surprise since the english program of radio kuwait only aired at 18.00 - 21.00 UTC on 15.540 kHz (beamed to Europe & North America)

    Full schedule : http://www.media.gov.kw/FR/Default2.aspx?pid=4

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    1. Rob WagnerApril 13, 2014 at 7:42 AM

      I checked again this morning (2030 UTC) and 6050 appears to be back to normal with the usual Arabic programming. So, the change on Apr 4 seems to have been a switching error by the engineers. :-)

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