Mount Evelyn DX Report

  DX QUICK TIPS January 29, 201 Reception conditions have not been good, but there are signals to be heard if you can set yourself up in a quiet location where manmade noise is not too impactful. From monitoring done here at Mount Evelyn, there's a good selection of countries represented in the list below. RIG : Yaesu FTDX3000 ANTENNAS : 100m horizontal loop, 30m delta loop, and an inverted vee for 14 MHz All times in UTC, all frequencies in kHz // = The same broadcast simultaneously on another frequency i.e. in parallel. 3320   D.P.R.KOREA. PBS Pyongyang Pansong - Pyongyang. Choral/operatic music at 1833, fair signal, Jan 27. ⭐ 3325   INDONESIA . RRI - Palangkaraya. A good signal for the German service at 1827, // the much weaker 4750 outlet. Jan 27. ⭐ 3480   KOREA REP. Voice of the People - Kyonggi-do, Koyang. Korean commentaries at 1837, good signal but with slight siren jamming in the background. // 3910, 3930 also heard but with heavy jamming there, Jan 27. 47...

SPOTLIGHT: JAPAN’S PRIVATE SHORTWAVE STATION (This post is an edited version of an article I wrote for "The World of Shortwave Listening" column of The Spectrum Monitor magazine - December 2020 issue. Further details on this excellent publication are available at www.thespectrummonitor.com ) In North America, the concept of a private broadcaster operating on the shortwave bands is nothing new. Listeners in the U.S. have plenty of options with WRMI (Okeechobee, FL), WWCR (Nashville, TN), WBCQ (Monticello, ME), and the long-time WINB (Red Lion, PA) are just some of the many operators that spring to mind. And many long-time listeners will recall WNYW and KGEI having closed down decades ago. In Canada, CFRX (Toronto, ON) and CFVP (Calgary, AB) are still heard with shortwave relays of their AM outlets CFRB and CKMX respectively. But in this era of shortwave closures, it is remarkable that Japan’s only private commercial shortwave broadcaster, Radio Nikkei, is still on the air. And...

DX QUICK TIPS January 12, 2021  Reception conditions on the HF bands have been fair to average at Mount Evelyn over the past week. Here are some of my monitoring observations: 4930   BOTSWANA. VoA - Moepeng Hill. English to SAf with Afro-pop/rock music programming at 2035. Fair signal, s/off 2100, Jan 5. 👍 4965   ZAMBIA. Voice of Hope Africa - Lusaka. English to SAf with a weak signal, 2040 pop-rock music, 2045 Guidelines for Living. Frequency and s/off annct at 2100. Then concluded with a test tone until 2103. Jan 5. 9405   PHILIPPINES . FEBC - Bocaue. Mandarin to EAs at 2247, very weak signal on the 9MHz delta loop, Jan 10. 👍 9430   TAIWAN. R. Taiwan Int’l - Paochung. S/on 2300 in Korean to EAs, settled on this freq after a few days of tests in early December, weak signal, Jan 10. 9450   PHILIPPINES. FEBC - Bocaue. 2300-2330 in the Iu Mien language to EAs. The Lu Mien people are a recognised ethnic minority in China. Lu Mien speakers can be found in ...

SPOTLIGHT: VOICE OF BEIBU BAY RADIO (This post is an edited version of an article I wrote for "The World of Shortwave Listening" column of The Spectrum Monitor magazine - December 2020 issue. Further details on this excellent publication are available at www.thespectrummonitor.com ) Think that China Radio International and China National Radio are the only two Chinese stations to be heard on shortwave? That’s understandable as they provide what seems like blanket coverage of the shortwave broadcast bands. But there is something else!  Broadcasting from Nanning, capital of the Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi, China is the Voice of Beibu Bay Radio (a.k.a. Voice of Guangxi Beibu Wan). Although listed as running only 15 kW, this station can be regularly heard in most parts of the world on its two frequencies of 5050 and 9820 kHz. Yet, many listeners are unaware of its existence. The station schedule includes the following languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, and Thai. ...