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selections. Good signal.
7450.0 GREECE. Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonais, 2234-2250* Oct 19, man announcer with short talks in Greek language hosting a program
of Greek music/vocals. Woman announcer with ID and sign off routine at 2249 followed by orchestra National Anthem. Fair to good.
9500.0 BULGARIA. The Mighty KBC, *0000-0200* Oct 21, open with ID and Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones. Plenty of IDs, ads for KBC Imports;
also mentioned broadcast was from Bulgaria. Gave e-mail address as themightykbc@gmail.com. Closing announcement at 0158 with e-mail
address followed by instrumental music. Nice signal.
11605.0 GERMANY. Adventist World Radio – Wertachtal, 2053-2059* Oct 27, woman announcer with Arabic talk with brief music segments. Carrier
cut suddenly ending xsmn. Fair.
11690.0 SOUTH AFRICA. Radio Okapi-Meyerton, 0403-0420 Oct 25, man announcer with French talk, several jingle IDs and brief music segments
between talking points. Good signal.
11710.0 CHINA, China National Radio – Beijing, man and woman talking in Chinese; many brief announcements and short musical segments between
items. Fair to good signal.
11735.0 ZANZIBAR. 11735, Radio Tanzania-Zanzibar, 1932-2006 Oct 20, man announcer with Swahili talk and announcements hosting a program
of local music and vocals. 5+1 time pips at 2000 followed by ID and news by a woman announcer. Fair.
11870.0 CLANDESTINE (Nigeria). Radio Biafra London – Wertachtal, 2000-2100 Oct 13, instrumental music opening followed by ID and frequency
announcement by a man announcer commencing broadcast in Igbo language. Some English noted around 3032. Closed with shirt
instrumental music segment. Poor.
11925.1 BRAZIL. Radio Inconfidência – Belo Horizonte, fast paced talk in Portuguese by a man announcer joined by several men talking sports,
several ads and ID at top of the hour. Poor to fair.
11945.0 ROMANIA. Radio Romania International – Tiganesti (presumed), 1518-1527* Oct 13, woman announcer talking in Arabic followed by
instrumental music. Off at 1527 during another talk segment. Very poor.
15190.0 EQUATORIAL GUINEA. Radio Africa – Bata, 1912-1945 Nov 3, usual array of canned English language religious programs without any formal
station IDs or announcements. Poor to fair.
15275.0 THAILAND. Radio Thailand, 0002-0021 Oct 5, man and woman announcers with news in English; frequent IDs (”You are listening to Radio
Thailand news”), ads and promos. Fair.
15445.0 GERMANY. Radio Japan – Wertachtal, 1746-1900* Nov 3, woman announcer with Japanese talk hosting pop music program featuring
English lyric songs including Frank Sinatra with ”My Way”. ID at top of the hour followed by news. At 1805 into more pop music with
Japanese lyrics. ID and closedown at 1859. Poor to fair.
15505.0 BANGLADESH. Bangladesh Betar, 1412-1430* Oct 27, nice selection of local vocals during Urdu language broadcast hosted by a woman
announcer. Fair.
15700.0 ENGLAND, Radio Deutsche Welle via Woofferton, 1238-1259* Nov 7, French program with frequent IDs closing with instrumental version
of ”Baker Street” until carrier terminated. Good signal.
17685.0 ENGLAND. RTE Radio 1 via Skelton, 1604-1632 Sep 23, All Ireland Football Finals with post game coverage , news, weather, ads and
several IDs. Generally poor with fair on peaks.
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Thanks a lot to our club members for your contributions:
MF : Michael Frese, Osnabrueck, Germany. Grundig Yatchboy with telescopic aerial.
PH : Paul Hayes, Limerick, Ireland. ICOM RC 75, Wellbrook 200p , Satellit 450, SONY ICF 7600GR with long wire.
RAD : Richard A. D’Angelo, Wyomissing, PA, USA. Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Lowe HF-150 with Alpha Delta DX Sloper, Datong FL3.
RL : Richard Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada. JRC NRD-535 HF with random long wires.
SG : Siegbert Gerhard, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. AOR AR 7030 with 5m EMF Antenna, YAESU FRG-7700 with 10 m multiband dipole, Sangean
818 ACS and PLL Degen DE 1103 with telescopic antenna.
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Dear Friends,
Welcome to the November edition of Logbook.
Thanks to our regular contributors for their loggings.
Till next time,
Ashok Kumar Bose