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ODXA DX REPORT
June 29th 2015
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be published. All DX tips are in English unless otherwise noted and all dates and
times are in UTC. Newer tips are in blue and older ones are in black.
This past weekend was Field Day in North America which is a joint venture with the
American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC). Local
ham radio clubs set up emergency stations powered by generators, batteries, solar
panels, and the like and operate for 24 hours to demonstrate how ham radio can
replace the communications infrastructure in an emergency whether local or nationwide and we have a lot of fun doing it. In rain drenched conditions I was helping my
club, the Peterborough Amateur Radio Club, set up and operate VE3RB and
VE3KRG. You may have heard a lot of us especially if you were DXing between 7.1
and 7.3 MHz. And this coming Wednesday is Canada Day which means the RAC
Canada Day Contest for the 24 hours from midnight. Expect a lot of Canadian and
American hams to take part.
2325 AUSTRALIA VL8T (ABC Tennant Creek) at 1023 with male blues vocals and
a man and woman with talk – Barely audible Jun 3 Wilkner-FL
2485 AUSTRALIA VL8K (ABC Katherine) at 1015 with a man and woman with talk
and into music – Barely audible Jun 3 Wilkner-FL. Also at 1110 with a man and a
woman with a current events program – Fair with static crashes Jun 16 Barton-AZ
3200 SWAZILAND TWR at 0426 // 4775 with soft music and a woman with
announcements over music and into a Bible program at 0430 - Poor May 27 SellersBC
3289.94 GUYANA Voice of Guyana at 0900 with a man talking about a local
contest and into rock instrumentals and slow 60s ballads then a preacher at 0915 –
Fair Jun 20 Wilkner-FL
3310 BOLIVIA Radio Mosoj Chaski at 1010 in a local language with a woman
with long talks then joined by a man at 1020 – Fair Jun 17 Wilkner-FL
3320 SOUTH AFRICA Radio Sonder Grense at 0434 in Afrikaans with ads and
male and female DJs - Fair May 27 Sellers-BC
3345 SOUTH AFRICA Channel Africa at 0438 talking about South African culture
- Fair May 27 Sellers-BC
4055 GUATEMALA Radio Verdad at 0957 with soprano vocals over marima music
and into choral hymns – Good Jun 19 Wilkner-FL. Also at 0604 in Spanish with ID,
address over xylophone music, then closing announcement in English at 0606
mentioning “end of our transmission” and “goodnight” then national anthem - Fair
June 27 Sellers-BC
4699.9 BOLIVIA Radio San Miguel at 0120 in Spanish with talk about futbol
with long pauses between talks – Good Jun 20 Wilkner-FL
4747.5 PERU Radio Huanta 2000 at 1028 in Spanish with a man with talk –
Weak Jun 19 Wilkner-FL
4774.9 PERU Radio Tarma at 1000 in Spanish with local Peruvian music – Poor
with static crashes Jun 1 Wilkner-FL
4785 BRAZIL Radio Caiari at 0957 in Portuguese with a jingle then choral music
and into Brasopops – Fair Jun 3 Wilkner-FL
4810 PERU Radio Logos at 1000 in a local language with beautiful Peruvian flute
music accompanying vocals – Good with CODAR Jun 19 Wilkner-FL
4835 AUSTRALIA VL8A (ABC Alice Springs) at 1204 // 2325 and 2485 profiling a
pop music album and a promo at 1206 for “The Country Hour” - Fair June 1 SellersBC
4930 BOTSWANA VOA at 0445 with ID and a feature on World Heritage Sites Poor May 27 Sellers-BC
4955 PERU Radio Cultural Amauta at 1010 in Spanish with a man with talk –
Weak Jun 2 Wilkner-FL
5020 SOLOMON ISLANDS SIBC at 1155 playing a Country song and interrupted
at 1156 for “Welcome to the evening devotion” then sign-off at 1200 with “You have
been listening to the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Happi Isles”
then frequencies and meters and “Good night, everyone” and national anthem at
1201 - Good June 1 Sellers-BC
5952.44 BOLIVIA Radio Pio XII at 0100 in Spanish with a man with talk
seemingly about the Copa America futbol championship – Fair Jun 20 Wilkner-FL
5995 MALI Radiodiffusion-TV Malienne at 0559 in French signing on with
national anthem and a woman with announcements and African vocals - Poor June
27 Sellers-BC
6050 ECUADOR HCJB at 0452 in Spanish with a song by children followed by
another song and national anthem at 0457 to close - Fair May 27 Sellers-BC
6070 CANADA CFRX (Toronto, ON) at 0905 with local ads and news of the
murders in South Carolina – Fair Jun 20 Wilkner-FL. Also at 0608 with ID and talk
about people favouring old technology such as cook books - Fair June 27 Sellers-BC
6090 JAPAN NHK World Radio Japan at 1055 with IS and into a woman with
talk in Russian at 1100 – Very Good Jun 14 Barton-AZ
6105.3 BOLIVIA Radio Panamericana at 2330 with Copa America futbol
coverage between Chile and Bolivia // 12365 (via Chile) – Poor Jun 19 Wilkner-FL
6145 SOUTH AFRICA Channel Africa at 0516 with a woman with news - Fair
May 27 Sellers-BC
6160 CANADA-NEWFOUNDLAND CKZN (CBC St. John's) at 0255 ending Stuart
McLean's “The Vinyl Cafe” with program sign-off and a folk song then “This is CBC
Radio One 89.9 Happy Valley-Goose Bay” ID at 0259 and a program promo and into
“CBC News” at 0300 – Very Good Jun 10 Coady-ON
6170 NEW ZEALAND RNZI at 1325 with a man presenting pop music – Very
Good Jun 12 Barton-AZ
6173.9 PERU Radio Tawantinsuyo presumed the one at 1010 in Spanish with a
man with talk – Poor with deep fades Wilkner-FL
6185 MEXICO Radio Educacion at 0306 in Spanish with rustic Latin American
female vocals with fiddle accompaniment then a woman with talk at 0309 followed
by a man at 0310 with ranchero-like music bridges and into ranchero-like male
vocals at 0315 – Fair Jun 10 Coady-ON
7205 SUDAN Sudan Radio at 0229 in Sudanese Arabic with Qu'ran recitations
then a man with brief talk and into unaccompanied local vocals – Good with ARO
QRM Jun 17 Forsythe-WI
7445 ASCENSION BBC at 0654 with IDs for “Weekend” and BBC then a program
preview. - Fair June 27 Sellers-BC
7445 TAIWAN RTI at 1100 with Andrew Ryan with opening announcements and
news – Very Good Jun 14 Barton-AZ
7460 PHILIPPINES VOA at 1450 in Korean with a man with a commentary then
closing announcements at 1459 and Yankee Doodle IS – Fair to Good Jun 14
Barton-AZ
8989 NICARAGUA El Buen Pescador in USB at 2340 in Spanish with a male
preacher – Fair Jun 4 Wilkner-FL
9390 THAILAND Radio Thailand at 1316 with gong IS and a man with “This is
Radio Thailand World Service” and into Mandarin program – Very Good Jun 8
Barton-AZ
9445 INDIA AIR at 2201 // 11670 with a woman with news then “This is All India
Radio giving you the news” at 2205 – Fair Jun 19 Coady-ON - // 7550 not heard
and 11740 (via GOA) was covered by CNR2 - ed
9460 CHINA CRI at 1217 with “People in the Know” talking about China’s UN
peacekeeping efforts - Poor with het best on USB June 1 Sellers-BC
9515 TURKEY Voice of Turkey at 0302 with a man and woman with news – Very
Good May 31 Coady-ON
9550 IRAN VOIRI at 0020 with IS of soft music at 0020 and into Spanish
program at 0023 – Good June 3 Robinson-ON
9580 AUSTRALIA Radio Australia at 1040 with Queensland vs. New South Wales
State of Origin rugby coverage – Very Good May 27 Forsythe-WI. Also at 1000 //
12065 in Tok Pisin with a man with talk – Very Good Jun 9 Barton-AZ
9665 BRAZIL La Voz Missionaria at 0027 in Portuguese with a male preacher to
0030 and into another preacher - Fair to Poor June 3 Robinson-ON. Also at 0155
with a number of messages first in Portuguese then in English to multiple IDs at
0200 and into a popular hymn – Good Jun 4 Forsythe-WI
9690 NIGERIA Voice of Nigeria at 0613 in presumed Hausa with many mentions
of Nigeria and a possible speech - Fair to good June 27 Sellers-BC
9700 NEW ZEALAND RNZI at 1031 with a “Nine to Nine” report on how telephone
companies were mandated to battery back-up alarm systems but it has yet to be
implemented – Very Good Jun 22 Coady-ON
9730 ROMANIA RRI at 0019 // 11800 with “The History Show” with a man and a
woman with a retrospective on a massacre of protesting workers by Nicolae
Causescu in the 1980s – Very Good Jun 16 Coady-ON
9800 GUAM KSDA (AWR) at 1225 in Cantonese (scheduled Sun-Thurs) with a
hymn and instrumentals then OC at 1229 then closing in English at 1230 with “This
is Adventist World Radio, the Voice of Hope, KSDA, Agat, Guam” - Fair June 1
Sellers-BC
9810 INDIA-GOA AIR (Panaji) at 1245 in listed Telugu with some very interesting
type of Asian music and off – Poor to fair June 1 Sellers-BC
9830 TURKEY Voice of Turkey at 2201 with a woman with sked and into a man
and woman with news – Very Good May 25 Coady-ON
9850 ALBANIA Radio Tirana at 0133 with a woman with news then ID at 0141
and into folk music – Good May 31 Coady-ON
9900 UZBEKISTAN TWR India at 0035 in listed Bengali with a man with talk
then ID and address at 0043 - Good June 3 Robinson-ON
9925 EAST GERMANY The Mighty KBC at 0142 with the usual fare of pop oldies
and KBC Import ads and DJ chatter – Very Good May 31 Coady-ON
11560 PRIDNESTROVIE Radio Miraya at 0534 with a man talking about star
football players - Very good but audio breaking up repeatedly May 27 Sellers-BC
11670 INDIA AIR at 2207 // 9445 with a woman with Ravi Shankar instrumentals
then ID at 2120 and a man with an interview of a male subcontinental musician –
Good Jun 17 Coady-ON – usual //s 7550 and 11740 (via GOA) not heard – ed
11711v ARGENTINA RAE at 0200 with multilingual ID and into French program
“La Connection Francaise” - Fair with static May 29 Forsythe-WI
11740 JAPAN NHK World Radio Japan at 1215 with “Japan Focus” - Very Good
Jun 16 Barton-AZ
11810 ASCENSION ISLAND BBC at 2106 // 9915 with “Hard Talk” featuring an
interview with Don “American Pie” McLean – Very Good May 25 Coady-ON
11810 SOUTH KOREA KBS World at 2204 with pop music and banter from two
DJs – Weak to Fair with CNR8 Jun 14 Forsythe-WI
11820 SAUDI ARABIA BSKSA at 2204 // 11915 in Arabic with Qu'ran recitations
– Fair Jun 14 Forsythe-WI
11915 TAIWAN RTI at 1045 in listed Indonesian with a man and woman with talk
and traditional music – Fair Jun 19 Barton-AZ
12000 VIETNAM Voice of Vietnam at 1230 ending Chinese service and into a
woman with talk in Russian – Very Good Jun 16 Barton-AZ
12005 ENGLAND Voice of Vietnam at 0101 with a woman with news from
Vietnam – Very Good May 31 Coady-ON
12095 SOUTH AFRICA BBC at 0621 with a sports report then over to an item
about the Rwandan genocide - Fair June 27 Sellers-BC
12365 CHILE Radio Cooperativa in USB at 2345 // 6105.3 (via Bolivia) in
Spanish with Copa America futbol coverage between Chile and Bolivia – Very Weak
Jun 19 Wilkner-FL
13600 CHINA CRI (via Xian) at 1238 // 13575 (via Urumqi) in Russian with a
woman talking over background Chinese music - Fair June 1 Sellers-BC
13660 ENGLAND BBC at 1932 with a feature on everyday life in Nigeria with
interviews and apparent dramatic reminscences – Very Good Jun 21 Coady-ON
13725 FRANCE RFI at 0602 with news about terrorist attacks. - Fair June 27
Sellers-BC
13765 VATICAN Vatican Radio at 0628 with IS and an African choral song at
0630 then “This is the Africa Service of Vatican Radio” and into English half hour
program - Fair June 27 Sellers-BC
15105 ENGLAND BBC at 0632 with BBC News ID and into “Weekend” program Fair June 27 Sellers-BC
15120 NIGERIA Voice of Nigeria at 0459 with “Nigerian Popular Music” then
contact information – Good with a slight whine on audio May 27 Sellers-BC
15180 NORTH KOREA Voice of Korea at 1228 in Korean with a woman with
apparent news and ID at 1231 - Fair to Good May 31 Robinson-ON
15450 SPAIN REE at 2101 // 15490, 17715, and 17850 in Spanish with a man
and a woman with news – Very Good Jun 21 Coady-ON
15470 PHILIPPINES Vatican Radio at 1233 in Chinese with a man preaching
followed by a woman with talk - Good May 31 Robinson-ON
15550 AUSTRALIA Reach Beyond Australia at 1238 in Chinese with male vocals
then an ad for music and closing announcements and English ID at 1244 then signoff at 1245 - Fair May 31 Robinson-ON
15580 BOTSWANA VOA at 1841 with “Music Time in Africa” featuring reggae and
Afropops – Good Jun 14 Coady-ON
15595 VATICAN Vatican Radio at 0635 with Catholic Church news followed by
European news including quoting the Pope at 0643 then closing announcements Fair June 27 Sellers-BC – sked for this one is 0630 – 0645 - ed
15680 CHINA CRI at 1640 with a woman presenting lively pop music – Fair to
Good Jun 12 Barton-AZ
15720 GUAM KSDA at 1540 in listed Kannada with music and a male preacher –
Fair Jun 13 Barton-AZ
16100 CHINA CNR1 at 1245 jamming the Voice of Hope in Mandarin with a man
with talk and ads – Excellent Jun 12 Barton-AZ
17840 AUSTRALIA Radio Australia at 0049 with a promo for “Reporters Without
Borders” then “The Book Club” discussing “The Dream of the Red Chamber” - Very
Good May 27 Coady-ON
17855 SPAIN REE at 2112 // 15450, 15490, and 17715 in Spanish with three
men with excited football coverage with crowd noises and stadium announcements
in the background – Very Good Jun 7 Coady-ON
Thanks to our contributors:
Rick Barton in Arizona; Mark Coady in Ontario; Carlie Forsythe in Wisconsin; Joe
Robinson in Ontario; Harold Sellers in British Colombia; Robert Wilkner in Florida
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
I don't use a lot of abbreviations in this column, preferring to use complete words
and phrases, but here are some you may encounter:
ACI – adjacent channel interference (frequency usually 5 kHz apart); AIR – All India
Radio; BBC – British Broadcasting Corporation; BSKSA – Broadcasting Service of
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; CCI – co-channel interference (same frequency);
CODAR - Coastal Ocean Dynamics Applications Radar (the swooping sound on the
tropical bands); CRI – China Radio International; DRM – digital shortwave radio;
DW – Deutsche Welle; het – heterodyne interference; ID – station ID; IS – interval
signal; LSB – lower sideband; OC – open carrier; PNG – Papua New Guinea (when
the appropriate radio country is cited); QRN – noise; QRM – man-made
interference; QTH – location; RFE/RL - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; RRI –
Radio Republic Indonesia or Radio Romania International (depends on the logging);
RTI – Radio Taiwan International; RTTY – radio teletype; TC – time check; USB –
upper sideband; UTE – utility station; v (when used after a frequency) variable
frequency meaning it drifts or is not exactly on frequency; VOA – Voice of America;
VOIRI – Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran; // (#) - parallel (frequency)