Monday, November 06, 2006

Blog Logs - Ontario DXpedition


Here's a few loggings from our Shadow Lake Radio Camp near Stouffville, Ontario this past weekend.

May receiver was an Eton E-1 and my antenna a 100 ft wire.


11735 TANZANIA-ZANZIBAR, Radio T-Z at 1958 with man in Arabic, 2000 woman in Swahili, sounding like news. 2003 music and talk. 2058 re-check to hear marching band with national anthem and off abruptly. (Good Nov 3 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

13680 CUBA, Radio Nacional de Venezuela at 2325, Spanish, program about Panama, 2329 station address. (Fair-good, //15250 good Nov 3 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

3290 GUYANA, GBC at 0020, BBC program about divided Cyprus. 0057 re-check, a religious program. (Fair-good Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

11710 ARGENTINA, RAE at 0159 IS and man with ID in Spanish, time pips to 0200. Man and woman with umpteen IDs in Spanish, finally beginning English programming at 0203 with program preview and news. (Outstanding signal Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

7250 ARMENIA, Voice of Russia at 0200, tones, 0203 finally on with programming, news, repeating headlines at 0208. (Fair Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

4915 BRAZIL, Radio Nacional, Macapá at 0417 in Portuguese with ID as ³Radiodifusora² and mention Macapá, into pop music. (Good Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

11565 USA (HAWAII), KWHR World Harvest Radio at 0725 with ³Dxing with Cumbre², narrated by Marie Lamb. (Fair Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

6135 BOLIVIA, Radio Santa Cruz at 1014 with Andean music, male and female announcers in Spanish, mentions of Bolivia, 1033 ID. (Fair Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

9525 W.GERMANY, Radio Polonia relay at 1305, man with news, 1306 ID. Very severe QRM from Voice of Indonesia; had to use narrow bandwidth and PBT to pull the signal out. (Poor Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

15140 OMAN, Radio Sultanate of Oman at 1400, bells, woman ³This is the Sultanate of Oman. The time is 6:00 pm.² (Good Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

17725 FRANCE, Voice of Africa (Libya) relay at 1403, man and woman with many ³Voice of Africa, from the Great Jamahiriyah² IDs, music. (Poor, //21695 very poor Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

15680 GERMANY, WEST, CVC at 1648 pop music and man with program ID for ³Chat Back at CVC², another program ID at 1652 and address in Australia. (Very good Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

15120 NIGERIA, Voice of Nigeria at 1700 signing on in English with woman giving ID and schedule. Preceding music had been strong; she was very weak. 1702 ³Africa Hour² with host Steven. Back to normal modulation for him. (Good Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

11092.5 ST. HELENA, Radio St. Helena at 2012 with special broadcast. Greetings to Japan and acknowledging e-mails from many countries. Played pop songs. Several plugs for RSH mediumwave channel of 1548 kHz. Listened until 2052. (Good Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)

6165 CROATIA, Hrvatska Radio at 2025 in Croatian with pop music and occasional announcements. 2100 tones, fanfare music, ID and into news. (Good Nov 4 Sellers-Shadow Lake DX Camp-ONT)
(Source: Harold Sellers/ODXA)