DX QUICK TIPS
May 9, 2021

OK. It's a very busy day here today. This is a quick "no-frills" post from Ron Howard (USA) and myself! 😊

Firstly, from Ron Howard:

RAMADAN 2021 - This year have recently been checking the former RRI frequencies for any new activity. None noted on 3344.86 (RRI Ternate), 3905 (RRI Merauke), 4789.98v (RRI Fak Fak), 4869.9 (RRI Wamena), 4925 (RRI Jambi) nor 7289.92 (RRI Nabire). In past years, Ternate often reactivated just for Ramadan, but no longer so. (May 3)

AUSTRALIA. 5055, Radio 4KZ, on May 1, noted cutting off at 1303:50* UT.

BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar (External Service), 1250-1258 UT, May 1. In English and mixing with CNR1; thanks to Dr Hansjoerg Biener, who on March 29, via WOR iog, first reported that BB had corrected their long standing audio problem. Yes, heard today with clear audio; giving the history of Pakistan/Bangladesh relations and about the 1974 agreement between them, as well as the India/Bangladesh water agreement of 1975; at 1258, with the closing announcement to tune in again tomorrow and then the start of test tone. Not very readable due to CNR1 QRM and VOI was not noted.

INDONESIA. 3325, Voice of Indonesia, via Palangkaraya, with rare reception on May 3. At 1043 UT, already on the air; normally starts about *1100; also rare to have audio today, in English till 1100; into stilted Chinese with the news; 1211, after the news in Japanese, the usual patriotic song “Bagimu Negeri” (For You Our Country); 1300, intro to English; "National News" (Indonesia has just received a large shipment of beef from Brazil, etc.) and "moving onto the International News"; commentary about projected figures for future carbon emission reductions; 1315, "Today In History" (this date in 1973, Australian Patrick White won the Nobel Prize in Literature; this date in 1985, Ellyas Pical, was first world boxing champion from Indonesia; this date in 1993, UN proclaimed the first World Press Freedom Day); better than semi-readable.

KOREA SOUTH. Checked on April 28 (Wednesday), for frequencies for this week:

Voice of the People: 3480 // 3910 // 3930 // 4450 // 6520 // 6600, at 1135 UT.

Echo of Hope - VOH: 3985 // 4880 // 5995 // 6245 // 6350 // 9095, at 1128 UT; start of an English language lesson.

National Unity Radio, 9475, from 1249 to 1250 UT, on April 28. Brief Chinese language lesson; started and ended with Joyce Chu singing "Hao xiang ni - I Miss You“; mostly in Korean; a few words in Chinese and a sentence using the words; "Wǒmen Tándélái" (we share the same view or we understand each other); N. Korea no longer jamming this frequency, so nice reception. My audio at http://bit.ly/3xvEgRv .

Voice of Freedom, still remains buried on 6045, under very strong super jamming from N. Korea, from 1140+ UT, on April 28; totally unusable signal. No jamming on 6135 nor on ex VOF frequency of 5920, which is a nice clear frequency.

TAIWAN. 9774, Fu Hsing BS, from April 22, including May 3, have noted the absence of their transmitter on 9410; clearly not broadcasting recently. Am only hearing them on 9774, before 0900 UT.

Ron Howard (Asilomar State Beach, Calif.) CR-1, antenna: 100' long wire

And from here at Mount Evelyn, (SE Australia):

4775.04 PERU. R. Tarma - Tarma, Junín. Largely contemporary pop music programming with Andean modal influences at 1045. IDs at 1100 and echo anncts. Weak signal and gone by 1110, May 8.

4990 CHINA. Hunan PBS - Changsha. Believed to be this low powered (10 kW) outlet in Mandarin at 1115, a mix of talk and light music. Weak signal, May 8.

5010 USA. AWR - Okeechobee FL. Spanish preaching at 1120. Fair signal, May 8.

5040 INDIA. AIR - Jeypore. Music and anncts at 1225, possibly in the Oriya language (definitely not Hindi). News in Hindi at 1230, but the station suddenly disappeared at 1232 and still nothing at 1240. Retuned at 1251 and found the station had returned with Indian songs. May 4.

5060 CHINA. PBS Xinjiang - Urumqi. Mandarin commentary at 1220, fair signal, May 4.

6015 ROMANIA. RRI - Galbeni. Romanian to SEu at f/in 0415, fair signal by s/off 0457. Back again at 0500 in French. This and the next few logs are typical of the reception conditions with the 49mb opening up as we approach winter here in Australia. May 5.

6155 GERMANY. AWR - Nauen. French to NAf 0430-0500, fair signal, May 5.

6155 AUSTRIA. R. Oesterreich Int’l - Moosbrunn. S/on 0500 German to Eu, fair signal, May 5.

6165 GERMANY. R. Japan - Nauen. Russian to Eu 0430-0500, weak signal, May 5.

6185 CHINA. China Huayi BC - Fuzhou. News reports in Mandarin at 1145, time pips and ID at 1200. Fair signal but heavy QRM from the RTI/CNR mess on 6180, May 4.

7260 VANUATU. R. Vanuatu - Emten Lagoon. Island songs and Bislama anncts at 0450, fair signal and being heard earlier in the afternoon as we approach winter, May 5.

7295 FRANCE. R. Algeriennne - Issoudun. Big signal at 0515 in Arabic to WAf, May 5.

Gotta go!!

Cheers, folks!

Rob Wagner VK3BVW