My Short Wave Archive: January 2011

 SHORT Wave radio listening, on the final Saturday of January, 2011.

The previous post featuring Short Wave broadcasts, My Short Wave Archive: December 31, 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.

January 2011 : Short Wave

• [Saturday] 29 January [2011]: 1455 UTC: 7585 kHz: Vatican Radio  Male broadcaster, speech with music, this is the Hindi / Tamil / Malayalan / English block broadcast from Vatican Radio to Asia via Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
  Excellent to good reception.
  Logged to 1510 UTC.
• 29 January: 1556 UTC: 9420 kHz: Unidentified broadcast  "I have been listening to a football based broadcast for a while, appears to be based around the English football leagues, Championship, League One, League Two, also non-league football in England and the Premier and football leagues in Scotland. Seems to be Spanish language?"
  Excellent to good reception.
  Logged to 1610 UTC.
• 29 January: 1613 UTC: 9475 kHz: Radio Australia  Female host with a female guest, speaking about a writer, or writers, I do believe they are speaking about a male writer, "published in 1998", fair signal, "What did they find in the novel..." question.  "A poet, an author, a doctor".
  Good to fair reception.
  English to Asia, Australasia via Shepparton Victoria, Australia.
  Speech: "Into a musical all that time ago". "Thank you for listening...".
  Music, sounds like a song from a musical or stage show.  Female speech, regarding the music "South Pacific".  'Books and Writing' programme.
  Logged [with reception report sheet] to 1630 UTC.
• 29 January: 1650 UTC: 9545 kHz: Deutsche Welle  Female host speaking to a male guest via telephone; Female speech, new feature.
  Broadcast to South West Europe via Nauen. 500 kW. German language.
  Good to fair reception.
  Female speech, joined by male speech at 1655 UTC.
  Logged to 1700 UTC.

[Break at 1700 UTC, 9545 kHz]

• 29 January: 1850 UTC: 9580 kHz: Unidentified broadcast  "Nice music, seems to be in the style of traditional African music, British DX Club shows Radio Australia for this frequency.
  Male voices on this music.
  Good to fair reception.
  I did hear a female voice, speech, I don't think this is an English language broadcast from Australia. [British DX Club] 'HF Logbook' has nothing listed for this frequency...
  Male speech in the French language?"
  Logged to 1900 UTC.

BBC World Service eQSL, received December 2022.

• 29 January: 1911 UTC: 9615 kHz: BBC World Service  Female host, report from a male who is an expert on the workings of Tunisia, following unrest in Tunis recently. Female host links to to female reporter in Egypt, reporting unrest in Cairo; Casualties in Cairo.
  Good reception.
  BBC World Service to West Africa via Skelton, Cumbria, UK (Babcock transmitter).
  'Focus on Africa': Reporter in Ethiopia. Ivory Coast. Rebel forces, Sudanese armed forces.
  Logged to 1928 UTC.
• 29 January: 1936 UTC: 9725 kHz: RTT Tunis, Tunisia  Middle Eastern style music, female speech, brief with echo - Arabic? Music, followed by hearty applause.
  Excellent to good reception.
  Logged to 1941 UTC.
• 29 January: 1948 UTC: 9840 kHz: World Harvest Radio International  Nice music, male speech, live programme devoted to God and the Bible. Reading from James.
  WHRI Cypress Creek [South Carolina] USA to Africa and America.
  Speech regarding Judas. "Abraham said 'I will not take a thread'"
  Fair to poor reception.
  English language. 'Call To Worship' programme? [Use reception report sheet]  Male speech, music.
  Logged to 20:00 UTC.

[Cup of tea time]

• 29 January: 2041 UTC: 9870 kHz: Unidentified broadcast  Middle Eastern Arabic style music, with speech from male and female hosts.
  ['Checked schedules from Iran, Cairo and Kuwait, nothing compatible.']
• 29 January: 2053 UTC: 11615 kHz: Family Radio  Male preacher "What if a child, who died unsaved, faced eternal wrath and torment?" Reference to James 2 Chapter 10.
  This is Family Radio (WYFR) via Ascension Island (to Europe, Africa, Asia, America).
  ID by male "Sowing the Gospel seed, this is Family Radio".  A congregation sings a hymn.
  Excellent to good reception.  English language.
  Male with details of programmes on air tomorrow. Music.
  "Thanks for listening to Family Radio. To God be the Glory". Music.
  Logged to off air at 2100 UTC.

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