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105910, Alcaraván Radio, Puerto Lleras, 0502-0530, 29-07, male, ID: "Esta es la hora en 1530, las 12 de la noche y 6minutos", "Alcaraván Radio, 1530 AM y 5910 kHz, onda corta, desde Colombia, Alcaraván Radio", Latin Americansongs, "Alcaraván Radio, música con acordeón". 34433.(Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Cable antenna, 10 meters, dxldyg via DXLD)CONGO [Brazzaville] - 6115 R. Congo, Brazzaville, 1655-1813 UT on 13 Aug, Vernacular, talks, tribal songs;French prgr at 1800 UT, ID at 1803 UT followed by the news; 25342. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, dxld Aug 15)CONGO DR - 5066.3, R Tele Candip, Bunia, 0316 (not heard so early before), Aug 03, female singer, big MamaAfrica style, soaring voice with Afropop, guitars, very short male speaker ann in French, more songs, long tracks of5-7 minutes, speaker taking greetings from callers in French, more great local music, fair (Graham Bell,Simonstown, South Africa, DSWCI DX Window via WOR 1629, DXLD)CROATIA - 7409.993 Croatian Foreign Radio Zagreb Deanovec, performance of Croatian Big Band music andmodern pop music at 0720 UT Aug 8, S=9+10dB signal strength here in Germany.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 8)CUBA - 9790 CRI Foreign service program via Cuban relay site appeared here around 0430-0440 UT, modernsweet Chinese pop mx singer, S=7-8 fluttery signal across the Atlantic ocean into Europe morning.(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 23)9810, Aug 9 at 0236, RHC Spanish is just barely modulated, but an improvement over no modulation at all lastnight; also unusually poor signal strength.11760, Aug 9 at 1303, RHC modulation is breaking up somewhat; 11750 not until *1303 with OC, then JIPprogramodulation. At 1305, 11760 dumps off the air.11860, Aug 9 at 1308, undermodulated but not breaking up or distorted; however, bothered by bleed from theDentroCuban Jamming Command centered on 11845 against R. Martí, but with noise field extending also down to11830.11760, Aug 9 at 1957 check, RHC`s initial English hour of the day is at first dead air; then some JBM music. Thesignal here is never strong on this one.6050, August 10 at 0519, RHC English is dead air instead, altho OK on 6010 and much weaker 6060, 6125.(gh, DXLD)CYPRUS - All three Zyyi Cyprus outlets of CYBC Limassol in Greek, excellent service with fine audio heardtonight, 2210-2245 UT on Fr/Sa/Su only. 5925* / 7220 / 9760 kHz, all 250/300 kW of power.* NOT on 6135 kHz as AOKI JPN list suggests ... (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 20)DIEGO GARCIA - 4319-USB AFN, at 1322-1344 UT on Aug 8. Phenomenal reception! Perfect graylinereception!! DG sunset 1311 UT, my local sunrise 1319 UT; daily I check here and only hear strong QRM from theNATO STANAG signal (per Al Muick), but that was totally absent today (very rare!); program of C&W songs;listeners calling in talk about the Olympics; "American Forces Network" IDs; military spots (US Marines trainingexercise in the Hawaii; "This is one minute of American history" (San Francisco 1906 quake); promo for "Air Guard";defines A-W-O-L; etc.); back to C&W songs. (Ron Howard-CA-USA, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 8)DJIBOUTI - 4780, Radio Djibouti in Arabic, 2056- 2111. M talk; local chants; M talk; W brief talk mentioning RadioDjibouti; M brief announcements with some local music pauses; same M reading news (mentioning Alqaida, BBC,Iran, Ramadan) till 2108; music pauses & W brief announcement; other M talk; music pause; W talk mentioningDjibouti; heard in SSB with fast QSB & strong statics crashes; almost fair; 07/21.(Giovanni Serra, Roma, Italy, WOR 1628, DXLD)Extension service of the Ramadan: Djibouti on 4780 kHz on the air past 2100 UT. I can't confirm s/off for thesunrise. (S. Hasegawa, Japan, July 27, dxldyg via WOR 1628, DXLD)EQUATORIAL GUINEA - 15190, Radio Africa, Bata, 1548-1555. Female evangelist with fundamentalistreligious talk in English. Very weak signal with minimal fading. Quick check at 1931 found a more excited femaleevangelist. Signal had improved to good. 7/25/2012 (Jim Evans, Germantown TN, RX-340, IC-R75, Perseus,Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire (90'), NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD)