My Short Wave Archive: April 2010

 SPRINGTIME 2010, a Thursday evening, listening to Short Wave radio.
Here is what I heard.

The previous post featuring Short Wave broadcasts, My Short Wave Archive: February 2010, 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.

April 2010 : Short Wave

• [Thursday] 8 April [2010]: 1820 UTC: 7220 kHz: Unidentified broadcast: Music in the Spanish language.
• 8 April: 1834 UTC: 7290 kHz: Unidentified broadcast: Male speaking of God, who made everything perfect.  Bible chapters.  English language.  Good to fair reception.
• 8 April: 1849 UTC: 7520 kHz: Radio Tirana  Female announces this is Tirana, Albania.
  Fair to poor reception.  English to Europe and America.  Speech audible, though noise increasing.
  Logged to 1858 UTC.
• 8 April: 1904 UTC: 7550 kHz: All India Radio General Overseas Service  Female broadcaster with news: India and Australia have signed an agreement.
  Fair to poor reception.  English to Europe and Africa.  Poor with noise.
  Logged to 1910 UTC.

• 8 April: 1925 UTC: 7570 kHz: Radio Thailand  Male and female news team broadcast report from BBC News which declares flowers in central England have flowered earlier than in the last century or so.  Trailer for eating out in Bangkok, Thailand.  The El Nino phenomenon.  "This is Radio Thailand news".  Fight against global warming.
  Business news: Hutchinson Telecom CDMA network.  Banking in Asia.  Currency exchange.  State bank of Vietnam.  World Bank says China has helped the region recover from economic downturn.
  Excellent to good reception.  English to Europe via Udon Thani, Thailand.
  Logged to 1945 UTC.
• 8 April: 1958 UTC: 9490 kHz: Family Radio  End of broadcast announcements, including email address.
• 8 April: 2018 UTC: 9645 kHz: Vatican Radio  English language service, announcing frequencies for next broadcast on air.  Off air at 2020 UTC.
• 8 April: 2025 UTC: 9915 kHz: Unidentified broadcast: Music: Lionel Richie 'Hello'.  Speech from the Middle East.
• 8 April: 2033 UTC: 11610 kHz: Radio Netherlands  Female host announced Radio Netherlands website address as the 'EarthBeat' programme closes.
  English to West Africa.
  ID, male host presents 'Reloaded' programme: Website in Holland promotes sexual health awareness for Muslims.
  Good to fair reception.  English to West Africa via Kigali, Rwanda.
  Programming: Anti-Islam politics.  Drugs policy.
  Logged to 2050 UTC.

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