My Short Wave Archive: Summer 2008

 TRANSCRIBED from my original notes, here are pieces of news, notes and logs of radio broadcasts heard on the Short Wave band during June and August 2008.

The previous post featuring Short Wave broadcasts, My Short Wave Archive: March 2008, 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.

Receiver used: Roberts R881.

[ June 2008: 'News & notes from the internet!' : Postal address for National Radio Company of Ukraine - Radio Ukraine International, 26 Khreschatyk St, KYIV 01001  Ukraine

E-mail: English section: vsru @ nrcu . gov . ua ]

June 2008 : Short Wave

• [Saturday] 21 June [2008]: 1900 UTC: 5955 kHz: Radio Nederland Wereldomroep  Live commentary from Euro 2008 [football] Quarter Final: Holland v Russia. Dutch language.
  Excellent to good reception.
  Logged to 1925 UTC.

Radio Nederland Wereldomroep postcard.

 August 2008 : Short Wave

• [Thursday] 21 August [2008]: 2130 UTC: 2805 kHz: A spurious broadcast from Radio Sweden!
  Musical ID interval signal 'To The Wide Wide World', followed by intro by George Wood.
• 21 August: 2205 UTC: 3985 kHz: Voice of Croatia  Female speech, male speech, music.
  Spanish language broadcast.
  Logged to 2220 UTC.
• 21 August: 2230 UTC: 4005 kHz: Vatican Radio  Interval signal, English Feature programme with Philippa Hitchen. Tenth anniversary of Omagh bombing, 15 August 1998. Lydia O'Kane interview.
  Good reception.
  English Feature programme to Europe, Europe 1st Programme.
  Bishop Seamus Heggarty.
  Logged to 2240 UTC.

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