My DX Archive: April 2001

THE Late August Bank Holiday [in the UK] is upon us and the weather has been kind; Typing this at 1730 UTC on Sunday and it is HOT. So grab yourself a cool drink with these memories of radio broadcasts from the month of April 2001.
Broadcasts heard March 2001 can be found here.
Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz). Transmission power in watts or kiloWatts (kW). Logs transcribed from the original notes.

April 2001: Short Wave

• 3 April [2001]: 1944 UTC: 6065 kHz: Radio Sweden Strong to good reception. English to Europe, Africa, Middle East 'Sixty Degrees North' Sunspots / Coronal activity. 'Media Scan': Public broadcasting bill, digital broadcasting. Web, music.
• 13 April: 1137 UTC: 17650 kHz: Deutsche Welle in German 'Radio E' discuss Voice of the Mediterranean in Malta, Radio Alpha in Portugal, Paris and BBC World Service. Strong to good reception. Sunrise Radio, London.
• 13 April: 1200 UTC: 18950 kHz: Radio Norway International Strong to fair reception. Station ID.
• 13 April: 1252 UTC: 18960 kHz: Radio Sweden Music. Strong to fair reception. English to North America via Hörby, 500 kW 'Sixty Degrees North' Female host interviews female tourist in Stockholm. Gaby Katz.

Cover of HCJB March 2001
Schedule, marking 70 years of
HCJB. Photo by Duane Birkey.

• 13 April: 1330 UTC: 21455 kHz: HCJB Good reception. English to America 'Family Life Today' Male host on air on Good Friday. [Note: These broadcasts were heard on Good Friday, 13 April, 2001. The beginning of the Easter weekend of that year] E: english @ hcjb.org.ec
• 13 April: 2026 UTC: 3985 kHz: Radio Wonderful via Radio 510 International Good to fair reception. Male host speaking English and German. Postal address: Radio 510 International, PO Box 510, 4010 Basel, Switzerland www. radio510 .org Music: Outkast 'Miss Jackson'.
• 13 April: 2058 UTC: 5000 kHz: NIST Radio Station WWV Strong to good reception. nist.radio @ boulder . nist . gov
• 14 April: 1209 UTC: 12095 kHz: BBC World Service Strong to good reception. English to Europe and North Africa 'Wright Round The World' Steve Wright. Music: Five 'Keep On Movin'', Ace of Base 'Always Have, Always Will'. Dedications. Music: Shaggy 'It Wasn't Me'.
• 22 April: 1102 UTC: 13850 kHz: Radio Ezra Good to poor reception. English to Europe, Middle East (North Africa and North America?) via Wavre, Belgium. Male speech regarding the Sabbath (Sundays) // 15440 kHz. ID: 'Ezra: Water into Wine'. water - into - wine .com
• 29 April: 1056 UTC: 13850 kHz: Radio Ezra with John D. Hill. Tone signal from transmitter. 1059 UTC: Music with station ID, website address, music with station ID. Speech - break in transmission at 1101 UTC. Good reception. Back on air: speech regarding baptism. ID at 1105 UTC, at 1107 UTC, water - into - wine .com

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