[HCDX] Loggings from Victoria, BC

["Walter (Volodya) Salmaniw" <salmaniw@xxxxxxx>]

A few loggings from the past few days.  Not a lot of time this
weekend.  With the gorgeous weather spent the weekend cleaning out
the basement and my electronics area.  Didn't know I had half the
stuff I came across!  Have a good week DXing!.......Walt.

IRAN 12095, 1542-, VOIRI Apr 27 Looking for BBCWS, and found
instead VOIRI 
in Russian with good signal, well over BBC. When switched to N/S oriented
25 m dipole, BBC dominates with sports broadcast. Interesting to see that
having several directional antennae helps at times!. (Salmaniw, Victoria,
BC, Canada)

KOREA-NORTH 9335, 1515-1557*, VOICE OF KOREA Apr 28 English news with a
very North Korean/communist slant 'the great leader, Kim....' and 'to
defend and glorify socialism'. As I was listening, it suddenly jumped
frequency and started to drift slowly upwards from 9355.0 to 
9355.08. Usual distorted signal. Voice of Korea ID at 15:17 at end of
news. Within a few minutes it dropped back to 9355.02. Parallels noted
7505 poor, 11335.04 good, and 11710.10 by far the best, with the latter
two 
reasonably clean audio. At 1525 began the 30th installment of the 
condensed biography of Kim Il Sung(!). Very interesting programming 
;)!!!. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Canada)

MADAGASCAR 7310, 0330-, VOICE OF PEOPLE Apr 28 Listened carefully this
evening. Reception wasn't too bad, with usual brief musical piece, then
I'm quite sure that I heard 'Radio Voice of Peace'. I suppose, though, he
might have said Radio VOP. Could someone in the area confirm the actual
ID 
once an for all?. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Canada)

MEXICO 9704.88, 0323-, R.MEXICO INTERN. Apr 28 Good reception, but 
requiring notch, with English programming and mailbox show, pen pal 
searches. Parallel 11770.14 stronger, but more adjacent splatter. 
(Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Canada)

NETH.ANTILLES 11965, 0513-, Digital Radio Mondial Apr 27 DRM test heard
with irritating white noise splatting across about 10 kHz on each side,
though 11960 HCJBand 11985 DW Bonaire was little affected. Jonathan Marks
gave voice ID, then brief Spanish announcement, then back to the white
noise. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Canada)

NORTH AMERICAN PIRATE 6955, 0504-, Voice of the New World Order Apr 27
Nice 
S7 signal with humorous programming and contact information, giving a
yahoo email address. Went off the air at 0508:20. Mentioned they were in
NYC, which I find hard to believe judging from the good signal strength.
(Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Canada)

PHILIPPINES 9660, 1451-, R.VERITAS ASIA Apr 28 Excellent reception with
Russian religous programming. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Canada)

USA 6945, 0057-, Seattle Free Radio Apr 28 Strong reception, so I assume
they are in fact in the Pacific northwest. Having mike problems. Barely
able to make out the ID, though taped items (Treasure Island, etc) were
very clearly heard. ID at 0057. 'This concludes our broadcast day' over
and over, and multilingual goodbyes, bagpipes, the Last Post, 
etc. Strange! Seattlefreeradio@xxxxxxxxx address. Donations 
encouraged. Website given. Then into the Star Spangled Banner. Suffered
from some feedback. Nasty tone, then '73s everybody, Seattle Free Radio'
and off. (Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Canada)