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DX QUICK TIPSApril 2, 2021RON HOWARD'S MONITORING NOTES
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As always, my thanks to Ron for his detailed observations of the Asian and Pacific DX scene!
AUSTRALIA. 5055, Radio 4KZ - Innisfail QLD, on March 31, at 0915 UT. Pop song; Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"; heard at a level that allowed for easy IDing of songs.
CHINA. 4900 & 4940, Voice of Strait - Fuzhou, 0908+ UT, March 31. Tuned in to find prominent open carriers, long before their programming audio started.
7345, The Voice of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (CNR7), 1200 UT, April 1. Time pips and full ID with distinctive "FM" references, identical to Amano's informative posting: https://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:4805. Formerly was CNR1 here. My audio is at http://bit.ly/3fzjOIP. (Rob: Most probably in Cantonese)
9630, CNR17 - Lingshi. From 1716 to 1725 UT, on March 31. In Kazakh, with an English language lesson; the usual multi-language intro ("Hi. Hello. Nǐ hǎo [Chinese for "Hello"], How are you?," "Welcome to RSR[?]"); strong whistling; "Monday evening we went to . . ," "Last day of the year," "We went to the town center to welcome the New Year," etc.; not very readable; unable to hear // 6145.
VANUATU. March 30 (Tuesday), heard Radio Vanuatu (harmonic), CNR2 and CODAR mixing together at 0508 UT, on 11835; with RV playing island music; noted CNR2 going off the air after the 0600* time pips; yes, CNR2 is not always on past 0600+. On March 31, did hear them on long after 0600+. Not sure just what the CNR2 schedule is? Which days have 0600*? Happy to still find CNR2, at BoH, with their usual brief English ID - "This is C-N-R Business Radio," which is not given at ToH.
KOREA SOUTH. new 9475, National Unity Radio - Tamsui, 1249-1250 UT, on April 1 (Thursday), ex: 7200. Brief Chinese language lesson; started and ended with Joyce Chu singing "Hao xiang ni - I Miss You“; mostly in Korean; gave a few words in Chinese and a sentence using the words; poor, as N. Korea jamming had already started here by 1150. This seems rather strange to me, as the whole time they were on 7200, they were never jammed (not even once!).
PHILIPPINES. 15190, R. Pilipinas - Tinang, *1730-1929* UT, March 31. Started out very poor, but later was mostly fair; in Filipino/Tagalog with long segment about the Philippine national COVID-19 vaccination plan; // 9960 (unusable) // 12120 (partly readable).
TAIWAN. 9410 // 9774, Fu Hsing BS - Kuanyin. 0859* UT, March 31. In Chinese and playing some music; at 0843, had a brief language lesson, with words being repeated, but too weak to tell the language; poor reception, but improving by sign off. (Rob: See STATION NEWS AND DX QUICK TIPS - March 20, 2021)
THAILAND. 5875, R. Thailand - Ban Dung, 1139 UT, April 1. Still hearing Thai at this time, so the new schedule has not started yet!
Ron Howard
Asilomar State Beach, Calif., USA
Equipment: CR-1, antenna: 30m long wire
73 and have a great weekend everyone,
Rob Wagner VI3BVW
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