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[k9rzz]

All India Radio broadcasting from Bengaluru in Kannada language. 15,120khz opening up at 0215z

https://youtu.be/_thiAmFiS5I

Also, 11,600khz 0315z Radyoya Denge Kurdistane relayed via France. BIG signal into Wisconsin. If you think there isn't anything interesting to hear on shortwave anymore, then look for this one. VERY cool Kurdish music and very loud. (am recording for Youtube)

 

[k9rzz]

Radyoya Denge Kurdistane 11,600khz 0315z via relay in France.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQDN3IB4zI&feature=youtu.be

 

[Blindguy]

Hearing very clear music and broadcasting on 11.578 at 19:10 EST. I am in Boston, MA. Any clues as to what this is?

 

[ridgescan]

Hearing very clear music and broadcasting on 11.578 at 19:10 EST. I am in Boston, MA. Any clues as to what this is?

That would be in the 2300utc hour, most likely Radio Marti broadcasting from Florida towards South America.. Just guessing. Here is what I use
Short-Wave Frequency Schedule for BBC in ENGLISH at 01:11GMT

 

[Blindguy]

Thanks that is a good resource and will bookmark it.
Frank

 

[majoco]

I know Radio Medi is a flamethrower but this is over the top! S9 + 10db, 9575kHz 0412z/1612local, right on their gray line but not quite got to mine yet. Singing in Arabic, then a girl singing Boy Georges "Do you really want to hurt me" in English to a Reggae beat with hip-hop Arabic male in the background. Weird!

https://soundcloud.com/majoco21/rec-9575mhz-rmediint

 

[ridgescan]

1 good catch Marty! Is that you in there with the grandkids? Nice pic

 

[majoco]

That's me with my stepdaughters kids about 5 years ago. Poor Edward is afflicted with all sorts of food allergies and can't swallow easily so he's on all sorts of vitamins in solution just to keep him growing but he's a happy kid - little Orla is about to start school in October, she's the very opposite of Edward, put it on a plate and she'll eat it and then start looking at yours! A right little tearaway, just a bundle of energy looking for mischief!

 

[HopperD]

That was a good find and what they're broadcasting is very weird as you mentioned, doesn't make much sense.

Cute grand kids majoco. Better watch out, they grow up pretty fast. Before you know it they'll be asking for the keys to the car.

 

[majoco]

Middle of the afternoon in broad daylight and All India Radio is booming in on 11620kHz, 0230z/1430local. Station announcement than a spot of music followed by what I guessed was the news so I cut that bit out of the recording - S9+ with a little fading but otherwise good. Unusual to get good reception from the west when both stations are in daylight.

https://soundcloud.com/majoco21/ais-gos-11620khzwav

 

[HopperD]

Sounds more like Chinese than Indian. There's also the China National Radio 5 and China Radio Int. that uses that frequency but I don't know exactly what time though.

Middle of the afternoon in broad daylight and All India Radio is booming in on 11620kHz, 0230z/1430local. Station announcement than a spot of music followed by what I guessed was the news so I cut that bit out of the recording - S9+ with a little fading but otherwise good. Unusual to get good reception from the west when both stations are in daylight.

https://soundcloud.com/majoco21/ais-gos-11620khzwav

 

[majoco]

There are many languages and dialects in India - AIR also broadcasts in Nepali, Bhutanese, and Mongolian which probably sound more like Chinese than Indian!

Right at the top of this page, K9RZZ said:

All India Radio broadcasting from Bengaluru in Kannada language.

which something that I've never heard of!

(Sorry, "Something of which I have never heard" - b***dy English teachers!)

 

[HopperD]

9/24/2015

Equipment: Grundig Satellit 750, Air Omni UHF/VHF Base Antenna about 40 feet above ground.

Freq: 7295 khz
Program Name: Radio Algerienne
Time: 0550 utc
Local Time: 2250
Country: Algeria
Language: Arabic

Freq: 7445 khz
Program Name: BBC
Time: 0555 utc
Local Time: 2255
Country: Great Brittain
Language: English

Freq: 9595 khz
Program Name: Radio Nikkei
Time: 0605 utc
Local Time: 2305
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese

Freq: 15240 khz
Program Name: Radio Australia
Time: 0610 utc
Local Time: 2310
Country: Australia
Language: English

Freq: 5025 khz
Program Name: Radio Rebelde
Time: 0620 utc
Local Time: 2320
Country: Cuba
Language: Spanish

Freq: 6000 khz
Program Name: Radio Habana
Time: 0622 utc
Local Time: 2322
Country: Cuba
Language: English

Freq: 7405 khz
Program Name: Radio Marti
Time: 0625 utc
Local Time: 2325
Country: Cuba
Language: Spanish
Heard this lady trying to sing, it was pretty awful.

Freq: 9690 khz
Program Name: Voice of Nigeria
Time: 0630 utc
Local Time: 2330
Country: Nigeria
Language: Hausssa

Freq: 9885 khz
Program Name:
Time: 0635 utc
Local Time: 2335
Country:
Language:
Don’t have many details on this one. No ID in the database and couldn’t find any other info. The language sounded like French and the signal was pretty weak and sounded like a news channel with a male and female alternating about every 20-30 seconds.

 

[majoco]

Wondered what I was getting here - listening on my trusty old Heathkit Mohican at the breakfast table (late breakfast - the clocks went forward yesterday but my brain is still on standard time!) caught some Indian music in the 22m band around 13700kHz at 2020z/0920local which suddenly started speaking French. Switched on the computer and sure enough the NASWA spreadsheet said AIR GOS 13640 from Bangalore in French! Good solid signal on the Mohican, would be S9+ on the whip antenna indoors - good quality music too, the bass notes rattling the speaker! Little fading and no interference!

 

[majoco]

Playing down in the mud at the bottom of the pond I found this on 3310kHz at only S3 to 5, Radio Mosoj Chaski from Bolivia 0845z/2145 and only 10kW, plenty of crashes from typical tropo band thunderstorms. Local female voice in the what I think is the Quecha language then some local music with guitars and pan pipes and some male singing.

G33DDC, 60 feet OCFD up 16 feet.

https://soundcloud.com/majoco21/rad-mosoj-chaski-bolivia-0845z-28sep15

Interesting article here....

www.dswci.org/specials/misc/2004_R_Mosoj_Chaski.pdf

 

[HopperD]

Nice catch and nice article. Seems like you're able to pick up some of the most remote places on the planet.

And some people are saying that shortwave listening is dead. In my book not by a long shot.

I like this hobby too and when time permits, I'm searching for hard to catch or the farthest station that I can pick up.

Some countries I've picked up before but haven't listed are Nigeria, China, Japan, Morocco, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, Romania, Chile, Columbia, India and across the pond to Australia - just to name a few. Being on the Western US Coast most of these are fairly easy to pick up.

Playing down in the mud at the bottom of the pond I found this on 3310kHz at only S3 to 5, Radio Mosoj Chaski from Bolivia 0845z/2145 and only 10kW, plenty of crashes from typical tropo band thunderstorms. Local female voice in the what I think is the Quecha language then some local music with guitars and pan pipes and some male singing.

G33DDC, 60 feet OCFD up 16 feet.

https://soundcloud.com/majoco21/rad-mosoj-chaski-bolivia-0845z-28sep15

Interesting article here....

www.dswci.org/specials/misc/2004_R_Mosoj_Chaski.pdf

 

[majoco]

Hi HopperD,

You said

Equipment: Grundig Satellit 750, Air Omni UHF/VHF Base Antenna about 40 feet above ground.

With a 40 foot tower you should try to get a better wire antenna for your HF radio - an airband antenna is not going to do you any good - you're actually receiving the signal on the outer of the coax cable!
The Grundig/Eton/Tecsun is quite a good radio but it's not what most people would call a 'communications receiver'. Sensitivity is easy to come by these days, in fact sometimes there's too much - selectivity, filtering and signal rejection are more important for getting rid of interfering stations and noise.
But first of all - improve your antenna! My OCFD (off-centre fed dipole) is working really well and it's not very conspicuous! Google for OCFD and "Carolina Windom" to see how easy it is to build one yourself although you may a have to buy a un-un transformer.

 

[HopperD]

I've tried several wire antennas and different configurations but they just didn't work well for the area I'm in. I have two antennas; one that I mentioned above and a discone antenna, they both work better than long wire.

But I'll take a look at the one you mentioned and see how that works. I'm always open to suggestions.

Thanks for the advice.

 

[ka3jjz]

Hi Hopper - we have a couple of articles in our wiki that have lots of different ideas on antennas, and a forum dedicated to that topic here (links are blue)

HF Antennas - The RadioReference Wiki

Loops - The RadioReference Wiki

Receive Antennas (below 30MHz) - The RadioReference.com Forums

While this thread is primarily for SWBC loggings, it would be helpful to know precisely what it is you're trying to hear. Being in the LA area, you should be looking to the Pacific and Asia, which are generally more difficult for us on the East Coast. And remember, with radios like the 750, too much antenna is going to overload the radio - won't damage it, necessarily, but you'll start hearing distorted signals as well as stations on bands where they shouldn't be - and I'm sure you want to avoid that

Mike

 

[ka3jjz]

I should include Latin and Central America as targets too...duh...even Mexico is a possibility

It's important to keep in mind that propagation - how signals travel from one point to another around the earth - changes, sometimes several times a day. The sun (or lack of it), and our seasons, have a great deal to do with this. The AE4RV website mentioned on the preamble to the below article has a nice basic explanation

HF Propagation - The RadioReference Wiki

This can be a very complex subject - but you really don't need to be a scientist to understand it. The basics will do just fine.

Mike