What a surprise! Heard and recorded just after midnight, Solomon Island Broadcasting Corporation "Happy Hour" appeared on 9545 KHz, loud and clear. Great program in Pidgin, celebrating the New Year with plenty of local music.
Solomon Island, 9545 KHz. . Listed as 10KW.
The American Forces Network [AFN] is the brand name used by the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
AFN Radio short-wave service is provided by the Navy as an option for their ships without the Navy's Direct-to-Sailor [DTS] capability.
Diego Garcia, Chagos Island transmitter was previously received on 12759 KHz . The last night it was heard on 4319 KHz. from 13:20 to 19:53 UTC. Listed as 3KW, on USB mode.
Then on December 28: : much better signal strength but more noise, audible music from 17:15. Best copy from 18:00-18:04, male presenter in Portuguese. Sig. peaking at S6. Music until carrier lost after the local sunrise.
Unfortunately summer time is the worst propagation time to Africa, especially on low bands. However this first reception is encouraging - even more so for the fact that Radio Angola frequency is not co-shared.
Website: Radio Nacional de Angola.
On air since 1985.
Recorded on December 28, 2013 at 16:25 UTC.
Recording of Radio Cuba, 13680 KHz
Heavily jammed with powerful 'white noise' signal. I was lucky to catch the opening of the programme, before the jammer!
ESAT Radio, Bulgaria, clandestine to Ethiopia, in Amharic 15365 KHz.
Website: ethsat.com
Sound of Hope
Station intro recorded here: Sawtu Linjiila - Voice of the Gospel is Radio Ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon.
Furusato No Kaze 9950 KHz
Minghui Radio, clandestine to China
Minghui Radio www.mhradio.org is Falun Gong-affiliated broadcaster.
Recording of the Happy Station PCJ, special Christmas program. Transmitting form Trincomalle, Sri Lanka.
Loud with a fast QSB.
Radio Ergo, clandestine to Somalia, transmitting site listed as Dhabbaya, United Arab Emirates.In Somali, surprisingly strong over the short path.From www.radioergo.com:
"Radio Ergo is on air every day across the Somali-speaking region with original humanitarian news and information in Somali gathered by our unique network of 20 locally based correspondents.
Our focus is on providing a flow of communication between Somali communities and the humanitarian organizations seeking to serve them. As such, examples of Ergo’s reporting include personal stories and discussions with Somalis from all walks of life in villages, towns, displacement or refugee camps, and interviews with aid officials, informational announcements and programming of an advocacy nature.
Listeners can hear Radio Ergo every day across the region on shortwave at 1230-1330 EAT (0830-0930 GMT). Shortwave transmission is a key element of our strategy: in the absence of a national Somali public service broadcaster, and given the difficult political and security environment facing local FM stations in Somalia, shortwave is a sure means of reaching mass audiences across Somalia and the connected parts of the region.
The word “ergo” has great significance and resonance in the Somali language. It carries the essential meaning of mediators or envoys in the interest of people in need, and can also refer to those who mediate in conflicts."
in Pisin language (Papuan Pidgin English) as heard on 9475 Khz.
The song played is titled "Feni Feni" by Edou, a New Caledonian kaneka artist.
Link to Radio Australia Tok Pisin website.
Recording of Radio Xoriyo, 15515 KHzIRRS Station ID
Reports to IRRS Milano, Italy / Nexus- but where is the TX located?
I am not an expert of Horn Of Africa, but according to my very limited research, Radio Xoriyo is an official radio station of Somali Ogaden National Liberation Front, Ethiopia [J.W.X.O.] Radio Xoriyo website
Recording of Radio Djibouti, 4780 KHz
No doubt all but hard core listeners would find the recording useless, however this is what it is and the best that could be pulled out from a transmitter suffering technical issue.
Best reception in USB.
Recording: CRI, Bamako, Mali 15125 KHz
Heard and recorded this morning, via short path.
The best SNR was 13 dB.
Voice of Nigeria, DRM 15120 KHz
V of Nigeria is beaming to Europe, but luckily the transmitting time is from 18-20UTC which is a prime opening time to West Africa.
Full data QSL card, signed and verified.
QSL received for an AWR boradcast on 1177 0KHz. Loud and clear!
Photo: Wavescan executive producr Dr Adrian Peterson speaks at the 2012 annual meeting of the Bational Association of Shortwave Broadcsters (NASB) in Washington, DC.
Issoudun radio site is currently used by (Télédiffusion de France) for short-wave transmissions. The site employ 12 rotary ALLISS antennas fed by 12 transmitters of 500 kW each to transmit short-wave broadcasts by Radio France International (RFI), along with other broadcast services.
What a mighty setup!
All cards were personally signed by Mr. Adrian M. Peterson, N9GWY who is the AWR's DX Editor.
recordng of a decoded DRM signal by Radio Vatican as received in Sydney, 16,340 km away.And here is the spectral shot of the DRM signal:
Here is another DRM station - and this one is running just 1KW of power. Unfortunately not stron enough for full audio decode, but station ID was decoded fine even at SNR of just 3.0dB !
biteXpress, Germany:
To decode DRM you need to downlowad DREAM software: Open-Source Software Implementation of a DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) Receiver under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Here is the DRM broadcasting schedule.
