4976 KHz Radio Uganda, Kampala, Uganda 20FEB2014, 19:50 UTC In English, male and female presenters, station Id before hour. 20:00 British pop song, 20:04> more similar musical items. Audible until 20:17 Overall weak signal. Noisy with tast fading. Country #82
Known as "the time lady", Jane Barbe had weekly audience of over 300 million listeners! Barbe landed her voice to US telephone companies for both time signal and pre-recorded messages.
Even today, long after she passed away, her voice is still on air 24/7, providing an important and valuable service.
For thousands of mariners and sailors with no access to satellite communication, Internet or mobile phones, her voice still provides a comfort on the open seas and path to safe harbour.
Last night I've recorded a 1 minute sound clip of Jane Barbe's voice, a reception of the Time and Frequency standard signal transmitted form station WWVH located at Hawaii.
Click here to listen to Jane's immortal voice.
No wires, no borders: just a pure magic of radio waves...
Request was submitted via DW website.
Thank you DW, auf Wiederhören !
DW Deutsche Welle via Kigali, Rwanda. Loud and clear! Heard daily after local sunrise on 15275 KHz.
Recording of 
Deutsche Welle, Rwanda 15275
The transmitting station was opened by BBC in 1988. Current setup: two Marconi B6132 250 KW transmitters using pulse width modulation. Antenna system are six Marconi 4-band arrays strung across four towers.
Certainly, to receive a proper QSL card would be nice, but the QSL letter is equally appreciated.
6135 Yemen Radio, Sana'a, Yemen. In Arabic, audible form 14:06 UTC to closing down, at 15:02 UTC. The last two minutes under Voice of America from Thailand. Male and female speakers, until 14:25 then a music / vocal. Second half of the program containing mostly what sounded like a religious segment, perhaps Koran reading. Overall, the signal was weak and noisy, as one would expect in the middle of Australian summer. [Country #79]
13840 KHz Radio Romania International, Tiganesti, Romania. 15 JAN 2014 14:29 - 14:57 UTC in Russian. News. S9 loud and clear.
Request was mailed on December 19th to
American Forces Radio and Television Service
NMC DET AFRTS-DMC,
23755 Z St, Building 2730
Riverside, CA 92518-2017
USA
Thank you AFRTS!
[image source AFRTS Facebook page]
Recording of Radio Japan, Uzbekistan 11695 KHz.
A beautiful color card arrived in just couple of weeks time confirming the reception report submitted via NHK website.
Thank you Radio Japan!
DW Deutsche Welle via Kigali, Rwanda. Loud and clear! Heard daily after local sunrise on 15275 KHz.
Recording of Deutsche Welle, Rwanda 15275
Recording of NBC Radio Papua New Guinea, Milne Bay 3365 KHz
Kyrgyz Radio 1 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan . 11/1/2014 17:00-18:00 UTC in Kygryz, two male speakers, mostly talk. Slightly undermodulated, noisy but on a clear channel. Best around 17:10 on USB.
Overall, the band was in a very good shape at sunrise, with the follwing stations heard between 3900-4000 KHz:
3912 Voice of the people of Korea, 11/1/2014 from 17:00 in Korean, male speaker, jammed on USB squeaky whistler otherwise very good copy. S8.
3955 Radio Taiwan Int, Woofferton, UK, 11/1/2014 form 19:02-20:00 (late start) in German, male good copy S8.
3965 VO Isl R IRAN, Kamalbad, Iran, 11/1/2014 17:00-17:49 in Russian, female speaker good copy, clear freq. S9. About Ukraine, South Korea etc. Station ID 17:50 off-air
3965 R Taiwan Int. Issoudun, France 11/1/2013 form 18:00 in English. Time signal , station ID " This is Radio Taiwan International" m+F speaker Weak S4 noisy but on clear ch. Best at 18:34
3975 Vatican Radio, Vatican 11/1/2014 form 19:38 - 19:59 {CL}In Latin, Liturgy, S8.
3985 Echo of Hope, Korea 11/1/2014 form sunset to sunrise, best around 17:00 in Korean, female speaker, 18:56 male speaker, jammed. S9+10
3990 PBS Xinjiang, China. 11/1/2014 17:00 - 18:03 (CL)in Urumqi. Average signal on clear freq. Mostly central Asian / Chinese music. S7
4005 Voice of Islamic R IRAN, Kamalbad, Iran 11/1/2014 form 19:15 in French id Est issues, as of 19:20 mostly instrumental, piano.as of 19:23 Station ID " Govorit Iran" in Russian.
Station website: Radio Trans Mundial, Brasil 11735 KHz
Radio Trans Mundial
Caixa Postal 18113
04626-970 São Paulo SP
BRAZIL
rtm@transmundial.com.br
MIKES transmitter is 100W into a vertical antenna, 25.000 MHz. The time code is same format as DFC77 but it does not contain any ID. Unfortunately I was so excited about this very first reception that I forgot to record it :-(
However I was able to pull six "pips" after the band closed well after the local sunset. The pips are 1000 Hz of the main carrier, on both side bands.
Recording of time signal 25 MHz MIKES, Finland
Here is the link to other time signals received in Sydney.
Founded on December 3, 1941 as Radio Peking, China Radio International [CRI] broadcasts 1,520 hours of programming each day (24 hours in English), including news, current affairs, and features on politics, the economy, culture, science and technology. CRI has the most comprehensive foreign service in Asia with more than 50 shortwave transmitters are used to cover most of the world.
This morning, a loud and clear CRI signal originating from Cerrik, Albania, was heard on 7252KHz just after local sunrise. Program content: news in Arabic.
Recording of China Radio International via Cerrik, Albania, 7215 KHz
This beautiful high gloss QSL card depicts a scene from Kyogen, traditional Japanese comic drama.
For program schedule see www.nhkworld/english
Very good copy in Sydney , solid S8 with antenna pointed via short path to Europe. Male presenter. January 4, 2014. 16:00 - 16:30 UTC.
Recording of Oromo Voice 17850 KHz
From http://oromovoice.org/:
On January 1, 2014, the Oromo Voice Radio (OVR) will commence broadcasting to Oromia at the frequency of 17850 KHz in the 16 meter band. The new, independent broadcast will take place on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. The broadcast service will be provided in two languages: Afaan Oromo (Oromo language) and English.
The OVR broadcast will include, not limited to, the following major segments: news, news analysis, guest interviews, documentary, and cultural shows. In its English broadcast, OVR will reach out to Oromo neighbors for the purpose of exploring and identifying areas of common interests and common strategies, which are relevant to the survival of the peoples in the Horn of Africa during the 21st Century.
The Oromo Voice media website (www.oromovoice.org) will operate and function as the twin media outlet of this new critical and ambitious outreach to the Oromo nation and its neighbors. The Oromo Voice website, in addition to posting all the contents of the Oromo Voice Radio broadcast, will post other relevant educational materials -in that sense, the website will have more expanded educational services.
OVR and Oromo Voice website are owned and operated by the Madda Walaabuu Media Foundation (MWMF), which was established in October 2013 by a collection of concerned community leaders, human rights activists, feminists, attorneys, journalists and intellectuals.
MWMF is a non-governmental, non-partisan, and non-profit organization, incorporated and registered in Washington, D. C., USA
Thank you PMA!
