Sunday, September 8, 2013

08.09.2013 - broadcast logs (Part 1)

1330: Excellent signal on 17820 kHz from RTE Radio One coverage on the All-Ireland Hurling finals. Commentary until 1345, followed by interruption for commercials and reading letters from listeners all over the world, even one from Kampala, Uganda! RTE News at 1400 and more coverage on the finals afterwards. Any suggestions for the transmitter site of this broadcast? SINPO: 55555

1400: The usual excellent signal from the Sunday-only transmission of Beacon of Hope on 15205 kHz out of Germany. Gospel music into a Christian prayer, reading listeners from Germany, Nova Scotia and Pennsylvania. The rest of the program was reading the Book of Revelation. SINPO: 55555

1405: Radio Taiwan International in Russian out of Issoudun with the usual very good signal. News item about the US position on the Taiwan sovereignty. Why the U.S. should comment on the Taiwan-China relations at all?

1410: Very strong signal from Voice of Korea in French. Communist marches into news with the usual audio mix-up. Couldn't recognize the other language underneath because of the noise, probably coming from the jammers that are transmitted from the same site (Kujang). SINPO: 55553

1415: Huge signal on 15410, non-stop talk in Chinese. Frequency lists show this is the usual suspect - China Radio International in Chinese, 500kW from Kashi. SINPO: 55555

1417: Radio Belarus in Belarusian on 11730kHz is a bit undermodulated, as always. Does anyone care about it? Local estrada music at the time I tuned in. SINPO: 55554

1420: Radio Sultanate de Oman is putting a huge signal on 15140kHz. English service with a kind of a radio play. In the recent months, the signal of Oman's all transmissions improved drastically. It seems they have done some work on their antenna systems or have increased power. All their transmissions are putting huge signal into my QTH, no matter what band or time of the day. However, the 15140 kHz broadcast is suffering  from splatter from the IRIB VOIRI scratchy audio on 15150 kHz which is even stronger.

1425: A quick look at the 13 meters band shows that most of the stations there are booming in. 21505 Saudi Arabia, 21515 Spain, 21540 Kuwait, 21610 Spain are with excellent signal. 21630 from Ascension is putting a quite good signal. Empty carrier on 21665 for a few minutes, then off.

1743: BBC World Service with good signal on 17830 kHz, 250kW from Ascension. Excellent programming including "Sports world". SINPO: 45444

The equipment used was Sony ICF-7600D portable with 20 meters wire antenna.

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