Mount Evelyn DX Report

LOGBOOK: A FEW QUICK TIPS I've been very busy over the past few days, so the loggings below are from a few days ago. And…..I'm off on a week's holiday to the south east coast of Victoria. No radios but lots of photography….I hope. See you when I get back! 3215   USA. WWCR - Nashville TN. Fair at 0930 with religious programming on June 21. 3945   VANUATU. R. Vanuatu - Port Vila. Radio play/theatre piece in Bislama at 1032, poor signal and running // 7245 which was the better signal. No sign of R. Nikkei at that time, June 21. 7210   VIETNAM. VoV - Buon Ma Thuot. VoV 1 network with light discussion/interview program at 1005, cheesy Vietnamese pop song at 1021. Fair signal and improving, running // 9635 which was the stronger channel at that time. But nothing heard on the other outlets of 5975 or 7435 on June 21. Watch out for PBS Yunnan s/on at 1055 7280   GERMANY. R. Farda - Nauen. S/on 0030 in Farsi, good signal for 10:30am local time, June 21. 7335...

TOMORROW ONLY!!    BBC WINTER SOLSTICE SPECIAL BROADCAST The annual BBC Winter Solstice Broadcast to the British Antarctic Survey team  is occurring tomorrow,  June 21 at 2130 to 2200 UTC . It's always such a lovely broadcast, the way shortwave radio used to be!! - a very personal approach to broadcasting. If you get the opportunity to check out this once-a-year transmission, do so! The following frequencies will be operating: 7350 kHz via the Ascension transmitter, 250 kw, beaming 207 degrees 5875 kHz via the Woofferton transmitter, 250 kw, beaming 184 degrees 5985 kHz via the Dhabayya transmitter, 500 kw, beaming 203 degrees A previously advertised frequency of 9890 via Woofferton appears to have been dropped from the schedule. My thanks to Dan Ferguson from the Shortwave Broadcast Schedules Yahoo Group for this update. Best of luck with it everyone! And if you hear the  transmission in YOUR part of the world, reply to this pos...

LOGBOOK:   HOT AFRICAN AND LATIN AMERICAN DX!! Considering that propagation conditions have been quite variable in the past few days,  it's been pleasing to see that the winter DX has continued at Mount Evelyn. Earlier in the week, solar flux numbers reached 175 at its highest point but is now tracking around the 111 mark. So we've had impressive signals coming through on the higher frequencies on one day, but some poor signal propagation on other days. There have also been a few solar storms thrown in for good measure! However, it pays to keep trying, even in poor conditions, because often some surprise signals can make it through to the receiver! This post continues on from the one posted about a week ago, entitled Plenty of South American DX . 3310   BOLIVIA. R. Mosoj Chaski - Cochabamba. Briefly heard at 0915 with lively music and talk at quite a reasonable level through the noise, but faded and quickly disappeared by 0925, June 10. And again on June 1...

RADIO MADAGASIKARA - 6135 kHz Surprise Weekend Reception! Some lovely reception of Radio Madagasikara on this not-often-heard frequency of 6135 kHz here at Mount Evelyn. Here's the logbook entry and some audio clips of the transmission: 6135   MADAGASCAR. R. Madagasikara - Ambohidrano. Short "Radio Madagasikara" ID between a delightful music program of East Afro pop songs at 2135. Co-channel QRM from CRI's Croatian service between 2110 and 2130, then Madagasikara became the dominant station on the freq. A very solid signal, with a late weekend schedule on June 14. Running parallel with the usual 5010.29 kHz also heard, but the 60mb outlet was weaker by that time of the morning. 6135 kHz appears to be a far more stable frequency, too.  AUDIO CLIP #1 AUDIO CLIP #2 AUDIO CLIP #3 73 and good DX to you all. Rob Wagner VK3BVW

Radio Verdes Florestas - Cruzeiro do Sul LOGBOOK: PLENTY OF SOUTH AMERICAN DX! In southeastern Australia, wintertime has just arrived….along with some great DX! It was especially good to see some early morning Brazilian DX  in the 60 and 49 metre bands, with signals travelling south of Brazil, across the Antarctic and up into Mount Evelyn. Here's some listening observations from the past few days: 3310   BOLIVIA. R. Mosoj Chaski - Cochabamba. Briefly heard at 0915 with lively music and talk at quite a reasonable level through the noise, but faded and quickly disappeared by 0925, June 10. 4774.91   PERU. R. Tarma - Tarma, Junín. Noted around 1035 with chat and occasional songs, not strong and should improve over the next few weeks, June 11. 4865   BRAZIL. R. Verdes Florestas - Cruzeiro do Sul. I had the radio on in the background, sitting on this empty freq while I worked on the computer. Then over about five minutes around 1045, this station fa...

OBSERVATIONS: INTERNATIONAL RADIO  FOR DISASTER RELIEF This week's special tests in International Radio for Disaster Relief (IRDR) conducted by the HFCC proved to be an interesting exercise, at least from a shortwave listener's perspective! As observed here at Mount Evelyn, the exercise appeared to have mixed results.  Focused on the Jakarta Media Summit, the trial was designed to demonstrate the potential usefulness of high-powered shortwave broadcasting in disaster relief. Here's how the HFCC describes the motivation behind the IRDR tests: The International Radio for Disaster Relief project is capable of becoming a permanent part of global shortwave coordination that is already in existence. The system is automated: It checks on any changes or additions in the database every ten minutes. If any changes are detected, the processing starts automatically, the global database is updated and any possible incompatibilities or "collisions" identified...

LOGBOOK:   RADIO CANDIP - CONGO D.R. and lots more! 5066.33   CONGO, DR.  R. Télé Candip - Bunia. Another rare sighting of this one at 1845 (last time heard was Jan 21 this year) in French with alternating male and female speakers expressing strong views on ……something! Then several lively Afro pop songs from 1858. Extremely weak signal, fading in and out, hard work digging it out. Finally lost reception around 1905, May 27. Click here to see original blog feature story from January,  including audio clip. 5915   PHILIPPINES.  VOA - Tinang. Korean to EAs at 1920 with ID, flattening poor old co-channel Zambia. NF ex 5900 and good signal on May 8. 5925   BULGARIA.  KBS World R. - Kostinbrod. German service now here at 1935, NF ex 5885, fair signal May 27. 5939.83   BRAZIL. Voz Missionária - Camboriú. Now that R. Rossii has gone, the Brazilian can be heard past 0900. Noted on May 28 at 1010 with dual announcers in a dis...