My Short Wave Archive: July 2011

 VERY warm welcome, on a cold, snow day (March 9th!) to memories of Short Wave radio broadcasts heard Friday, July 8, 2011.

The previous post featuring Short Wave broadcasts, My Short Wave Archive: May 2011, 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.

July 2011 : Short Wave

• [Friday] 8 July [2011]: 0825 UTC: 17730 kHz: Broadcasting Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia  Poor reception; Propagation on this frequency, with audio, very low power, male speech, possibly music.
  Arabic language, 500 kW to North Africa.
  Logged to 0831 UTC.
• 8 July: 0843 UTC: 17790 kHz: BBC World Service  To Asia via Oman (English service).
  Poor reception.  Barely audible speech; Also music.
  Logged to 0848 UTC.
  [See BBC Eastern Relay Station on Google Maps, below]

• 8 July: 0854 UTC: 17830 kHz: BBC World Service  Fair to poor reception.
  English to West Africa via Ascension Island.
  Male host in heated debate with Prime Minister David Cameron regarding News International.
  Time 'pips' at 0900 UTC, male speech.
  Logged to 0906 UTC.
• 8 July: 0916 UTC: 17880 kHz: Radio Sawa  Female speech, music.
  Radio Sawa via Kuwait; Good to fair reception.
  Arabic speech from female, music ranges from pop to traditional, with vocals.
  250 kW to North Africa.
  Contact details include via Facebook, by phone or email.
  Logged to 0941 UTC.

[Break at 0950 UTC]

• 8 July: 1213 UTC: 21540 kHz: Radio Exterior de Espana  Spanish language, confirmed by ID.
  250 kW to Africa. Excellent to fair reception.
  Programming: ID, female host, ID, male speech, continued speech from female, co-host with male. Politics in Spain. Male speech. Female speech.
  Spanish language to Equatorial Africa.
  Logged to 1232 UTC.
• 8 July: 1232 UTC: 21540 kHz: Radio Kuwait  Male speech.
  Good to fair reception.
  Mixture of male speech and music; Continuing speech by male (Arabic language).
  500 kW to Europe.
  Logged to 1238 UTC.
• 8 July: 1243 UTC: 21610 kHz: Radio Exterior de Espana  Excellent to good reception; Spanish language to Middle East.
  Female host with political news, including UK: 'News of the World' newspaper to publish for the last time this Sunday; Recording of a statement by Prime Minister David Cameron; Speech by male, including mention of Rupert Murdoch.  Speech by male and female. New topic discussion led by female, regarding France and Spain.
  350 kW transmission.
  Logged to 1253 UTC.
• 8 July: 1300 UTC: 21840 kHz: Deutsche Welle  Broadcast comes to a close; German language broadcast.
  Deutsche Welle via Sines, Portugal; German language broadcast; 250 kW to South Asia.

Letter from MIKES Centre for Metrology and Accreditation, Finland, July 2011.

• 8 July: 1310 UTC: 25000 kHz: MIKES Centre for Metrology and Accreditation  (Espoo, Finland)
  Fair to poor reception.
  Time Signal station; Low-power broadcast of a Time Signal, which was a 'tick' every half second.  Signal levels fluctuated; Poor reception.
  Logged to 1316 UTC.

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