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Last update — 18 Nov 2007
Weather conditions: a bit of snow cover on the soil (it snowed a day before). Temperature outside was 2 degrees below zero (the same value inside initially, until Alexey kindled the fire). Terrain conditions: slope going down in the north direction. No electricity in this and nearby cottages in this season of year. The massive 6-volt accumulator battery (weight about 10 kg) was used during the former DX peditions, but now it is discharged. We decided not to search for a high intensity current charger; instead, we simply bought 4 Energizers for my Sangean 909 (and also some more good batteries in reserve). Looks like the decision was a right one; batteries performed quite well/
Antennas: We listened to SW until 1100 UTC, then moved to MW. Sunset propagation permitted to listen to many Chinese/Korean/Japanese mediumwave stations. Only a few Indians were discovered. All times are UTC. Local time in Kazan is UTC + 3 hours in winter. Local sunset was at 1257 UTC that day. Online version of the Pacific-Asian Log, which is now at www.radioheritage.net, was used for Asian stations identification. The log, sorted by frequency, follows below.
558 — Xinjiang PBS (China), 1255, in Uighur, commercials, 34333.
603 — KBS 2 (Korea, station HLSA), 1248, lively talk. Suffered from heterodyne whistle caused by local NDB on 602 kHz. We had to move to 605 kHz, otherwise the sound was too boring. 43433.
711 — KBS 1 (Korea, station HLKA), 1210, male voice, weak, 13311.
720 — KCBS (North Korea), 1213, talks in Korean, male and female voices. 34333.
774 — tentatively Hubei PBS (China), 1215, announcements with background music. 24422.
801 — Voice of Han (Taiwan), 1304, female talk and music bridges. Parallel to SW 9745 kHz. Interfered by transmitter in Tajikistan with presumed Dari service of Radio Liberty. Both had signal strength S=2.
819 — KCBS (North Korea), 1307, serious talks in Korean, male voice.
837 — most probably CNR1 (China), 1310, in Chinese, 34333.
882 — TWR via sri Lanka, 1335, language not identified. Decent signal, 43433. Talk, male voice.
945 — CNR1 (China), 1155, in Chinese, 34333. Surely parallel to 11925 kHz.
972 — KBS Liberty 1 (Korea, station HLCA, educational program), 1314, 33333. Interfered by transmitter in Tajikistan; language during talks over it sounded like Pashto, but apparently only music is mixed with HLCA in the recording below.
981 — UNID Chinese station, 1110, dialogs in studio. Definitely not Voice of Han, as completely non-parallel to 9745 kHz. It might be CNR1, by the way, see below.
981 — CNR1 (China), 1208, talks in Chinese. 44333. This time we had the chance to compare the program against 11925 kHz, and both were found identical. Maybe the same CNR1 was catched here at 1110.
999 — tentatively Liaoning Jingji GD (China), 1145, two women in studio. 34333.
1017 — China Radio International, 1146, in Korean, 43433.
1071 — a Chinese station; tentatively Tianjin News Channel, 1339, female talk, music, phone call-in or a report. 34433. Mixed with another weaker Chinese.
1089 — tentatively Liaoning PBS (China), 1115. Other possibilities discarded, as the program was unparallel to both CNR1 (SW 11710, 11925 kHz) and CNR6 (SW 9170 kHz).
1116 — a station in Chinese and Radio Kashmir (Srinagar, India), both with SINPO 33333.
1170 — KBS World Radio, 1059, closing of Korean program, starting with Russian service at 1100. Quite legible at first (33322), but then faded out, clearing the way to VoA Chinese service from transmitter in the Philippines.
1179 — UNID Chinese, 12.17, woman enthusiastically spoke, another man in studio briefly echoed. Was Hubei mentioned there???
1206 — Yanbian PBS (China), 1153, in Korean, 32332. Heard here a couple of years ago as well.
1242 — Nippon Hoso (station JOLF, Japan), 1106, jolly conversation, male/female voices. 44343.
1296 — Voice of America via Kabul (Afghanistan), 1150, in Pashto, 34333.
1323 — a station in Korean, but most probably from Chinese territory, 1151. Might be CRI (but misses from schedule) or Jilin PBS, located not far from Chinese-Korean border. 34322.
1341 — Qazaq Radiosy (Kazakhstan), 1222, nationally-colored pop music, followed by a call-in by a childish (?) voice. 24433.
1350 — Tongliao PBS (Inner Mongolia, autonomous region of China), 1143, male talk. 24322. Identified with help of Victor Rutkovskiy and Sergey Nikishin.
1386 — UNID Chinese, 1128, song, announcements.
1404 — tentatively Hubei PBS, 1139, female voice speaking Chinese. 24322.
1413 — KBC Fukuoka (JOIF, Japan) mixed with Uighur program of Xinjiang PBS (China), 1236. Talks on both stations, SINPO 43433 and 32422 respectively.
1440 — weak signal in Japanese (JOWF Sapporo?) deep under Radio Zvezda (St.Petersburg, Russia), 12.39. Japanese station came with SINPO 21331.
1467 — KBS 1 (Korea, station HLKN), 1241, 34333.
1566 — HLAZ (Korea) in Chinese, 1127, male speaker. 14311. Significantly better at re-check at 1141, when SINPO improved to 34333. 1593 — tentatively CNR1 (China), 1108, talks in Chinese.
4800 — CNR1 (China), 0940, conversation by men and women in studio, in Chinese. 25232. Quite an early opening of the tropical 60 meter band. 4810 — most probably Armenian Public Radio, 0941, song in the USSR style, 15221.
5810 — WEWN, 0727, religious talks in English by a man, 25332.
5835 — WHRI, 0725, talks in English, religious style. 25232. Identified with help of Sergey Nikishin.
5965 — Vatican Radio, 0742, news and comments in English (..Vatican Radio World News..). Interval signal and carrier cut at 0744. Schedule says that Arabic broadcast must start at 0745; probably we left the frequency just before the transmitter returned to life again.
6150 — two Chinese-speaking stations, 1051. We presume those were CBS Taiwan and jamming against it with a domestic CNR program. SINPO 42442 for both. Singapoer not hear at all, by the way.
6165 — UNID station, 1042, songs and announcements in an East Asian language (not Mandarin dialect, we believe). 33443. As far as we know, CNR6 begins its broadcasts here at 1200, while Hmong broadcast of the Voice of Vietnam starts at 1130. That's a riddle.
6175 — CNR1 (China), 1037, talks in Chinese. 34333.
6185 — UNID station, 1032, female voice speaking. 23332, mixed with music from another station. Main candidate is Radio Thailand, scheduled here in Thai at 1000-1100; while music might belong to China Huayi BC.
6195 — Radio Rossii, 1029, announcements and music. 24222, Transmitter in Ulan Ude. 6250 — Pyongyang BS (North Korea), 0943, a solemn song. 33433, interfered by digital communications.
7105 — Radio Tirana, 0752, radio drama in Albanian. 43443. ID in a minute or two after 0800.
7140 — BBC, 0919, in Arabic via Cyprus. Weak and fluttering signal, 22422, mixed with a station with opera-style songs (North Korea???). 7165 — Nei Menggu PBS (China), 0917, a woman in Chinese, music. 35333. 7190 — China Radio International, 0916, in Chinese, female speaker. 22432, badly interfered by another Chinese — Dragon Opera that jammed CBS Taiwan on 7185 kHz.
7210 — Nei Menggu PBS (China), 0909, news in Mongolian read by a man, mentions of Pakistan.
7230 — Xinjiang PBS (China), 0908, male speaker in Mongolian, 53443, bothered by either RTTY or fax. There was another weaker station in Chinese as well — presumed CNR1 via Xian. 7235 — Belarussian Radio 1 (?), 0853, with songs by national singers/groups. WRTH and DBS-9 say that transmitter in Mahilou uses this frequency during the winter season. Power is 5 kW. 7240 — Xizang PBS (China), 0907, male talks in Chinese. 32432.
7245 — Channel Ovozi Tojik (Tajikistan), 0847, national pop music, 45444. Checked again and found news in English in progress at 0903, but SINPO deteriorated to 43433 because of interference from China Business Radio that appears here at 0900.
7260 — Mongolian Radio, 2nd program, 0842, comments in Russian by female voice about corruption in various Mongolian political parties, month of Mongolian-Russian friendship, performance of Russian/Soviet songs on Mongolian stages, etc. 34433. At 0855 returned to the frequency, but Russian announcer has already passed the mike to Mongolian speaker.
7275 — Xinjiang PBS (China), 0840, in Uighur. Folk music, female comments. 55444. 7330 — Voice of Russia, 0808, in English, 24332. Transmitter in Khabarovsk. Opera fragments and presenter's comments — all the way until 0832 and further on (is it not too much for a single radio feature?) 7330 — female voice, 0938, very, very weak. Was it Radiostantsiya Tikhiy Okean??? Parallel 5960 kHz wa completely silent.
7340 — Xinjiang PBS (China), 0754, female talk in Kazakh, 45444.
7345 — Radio Rossii, 0833, talks in studio. 32432, transmitter in Yakutsk. Badly interfered by Xinjiang on 7340 kHz. 7455 — WYFR, 0804, male voice in English, 13321. Suffered from local Morse communications. Broadcast for North America from Okeechobee, USA.
7540 — WEWN, 0802, a tiny female voice, in Spanish for Latin America (according to schedule). 15221.
Comments and corrections are welcome to: dm65dx (at sign) gmail (dot) com.
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