JOURNALS should not be neglected, which sadly, this one has been. That's myself reprimanded, so let's move on with today's post, continuing the thread of my logbooks of broadcasts heard via Short Wave radio.
The previous post of the thread, My Short Wave Archive: March 2015, 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.
Note: This post takes us through 2015, from May to November, as some logs later in the year contained little detail, or broadcasts were not heard on the selected listening days.
May 2015 : Short Wave
- [Thursday] 7 May [2015]* : 1540 UTC: 15825 kHz: WWCR Nashville TN [USA] Male speech, reciting a conversation between Jesus and Pilate. This is a Baptist Church / CBC NYC broadcast, also trailers for Words of Hope and Bible Hour.
This is WWCR Nashville TN, good to fair reception, English language broadcast to Europe, Middle East, Americas via WWCR-1 Nashville TN.
Male speech regarding Saul and passages from the Bible. Interference at 1546 UTC from another broadcast, possible overspill from 15820 kHz.
WWCR programming was Tell It From Calvery (David Epstein), on air from 1530 UTC, followed by Radio Bible Hour, on air from 1545 UTC. ID for Radio Bible Hour with their contact details.
ID for WWCR Nashville.
Logged to 1555 UTC. - 7 May* : 1617 UTC: 17790 kHz: Radio Africa (Pan American Broadcasting) Music: Female vocalist with piano accompaniment. Vocals in English.
Fair reception, English language broadcast to Africa via Okeechobee FL (WRMI transmission site) [USA].
Logged to 1626 UTC.
July 2015 : Short Wave
- [Saturday] 11 July [2015]: 1922 UTC: 17855 kHz: Radio Exterior de Espana Music on the 16 metre Band, female speech.
Fair to poor reception, this is Radio Exterior de Espana [Spain] broadcasting to the USA.
Speech in both Spanish and English.
Logged to 1934 UTC.
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| Screenshot of BBC News Hausa, 30 June 2024. |
- 11 July: 1945 UTC: 17885 kHz: BBC World Service Two males in discussion, studio and telephone. Fair to poor reception, this is BBC World Service, on air 1930 - 2000 UTC, 7 days a week, Hausa language broadcast, 250 kW transmission, 55° via Ascension Island to Africa.
Males continue speaking for a number of minutes. Female speech, music to end of broadcast.
Logged to 2000 UTC.
September 2015 : Short Wave
- [Monday] 14 September [2015]: 1455 UTC: 25000 kHz: Tentative reception of a time signal broadcast on this frequency: MIKES [Finland] or WWV [USA]. To 1459 UTC.
- [Tuesday] 24 November [2015]: 2011 UTC: 3415 kHz: Shannon Volmet [Ireland] Continuous weather reports for the airport in Shannon. Female speech.
Logged to 2022 UTC. - 24 November: 2044 UTC: 3955 kHz: KBS World Radio [Seoul, South Korea] Speech from males and females in the German language - This is KBS World Radio, fair to poor reception, German language broadcast to Europe via Woofferton transmission site [UK].
Music, sport update: boxing. Music, male speech.
Logged to 2051 UTC. - 24 November: 2123 UTC: 5000 kHz: WWV [Time signal station, USA] Fluttery signal.
Fair to poor reception. To 2125 UTC. - 24 November: 2128 UTC: 5050 kHz [Spurious broadcast] China Radio International 'Roundtable' programme, English language. Fair to poor reception. To 2137 UTC.
