[HCDX] Spaceman, Uganda (on all night), Cupido, Cultura de Sao Paulo, Altura

[Dave Valko <djvalko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

PIRATE (EUROPE)   3927  R. Spaceman  2302-  DJ Spaceman in GM over pleasant 
German song at t/in w/ment of "...Spaceman number..." and cont. 
anmnt.  2303 into slow German Polka and more voice-over anmnts at beginning 
w/ment of Spaceman.  Song cut off and then an oldie instru.  "Keep Yourself 
Alive" by Queen 2308-2311, and signal off at the end of the song at exactly 
2311:56*.  Pretty decent signal but a tremendous amount of thunderstorm 
static QRN.  Some slight Ham QRM on nearby channels.  Signal nearly 
non-existent on the Windom, but decent on the T2FD.  (Valko 1 Oct.)

UGANDA   4975.97  R.U./UBC  2314-0247, For some reason, this was still on, 
obviously all night.  M at t/in w/ment of Kampala.  Pgmming all Hi-life and 
Hi-life Pops, and one or two remakes of Top 40 songs.  Live M anncr host in 
EG and local language after nearly every song.  Played a canned simple "UBC 
Radio" ID by M during songs.  2319 live M w/"...This is UBC ?? Uganda, ?? 
Kampala and the western...This is the '?? Show' on UBC.  ?? the Reverend ?? 
South Africa".  Nice ID at 2331.  Anmnt at 2359 but nothing special over 
ToH.  0007 ment of " ?? UBC R., you can ....This is the Saturday 
Night....shortwave.  The #1 sound, the #1 in Uganda, and the #1 ??".  Cont. 
w/more of the same.  0218 M w/anmnt including "...Radio UBC, Radio 
Uganda...".  Took a phone call at 0220.  Sounded like an EG anmnt at 
0221.  Great ID at 0223 "...listening to Radio UBC, your number one in 
Kampala Uganda...".  Fair signal w/some slight QRM from presumed Brazil 
below.  Fading pretty badly by 0230, probably more from the propagation 
conditions than morning at the xmtr site.  Last heard at 0247 when the MD 
ran out.  (Valko 30 Sept.-1 Oct.)

PIRATE (EUROPE)   6289.91  Cupido R.  2341-  Operator Rinus put the xmtr on 
the air while chatting with George Maroti and myself on MSN 
Messenger.  Found mx poking through from time to time.  Almost at 
readability threshold.  2353 and 2355 brief peaks sounded like Rock 
mx.  Some pulsing UTE QRM here as usual, and TVI.  (Valko 30 Sept.)

BRAZIL   9615  R. Cultura de Sao Paulo  OC noted as early as 0641, so 
must've just left the xmtr on all night.  Finally on at *0751:18 w/two ZY 
contemporary songs, then full canned ID anmnt by M w/calls, 3 freqs, and 
addr at 0757.  0758-0801 instru. NA, Rooster, and M w/ID and pgm 
intro.  Good clear signal but had faded by s/on.  (Valko 1 Oct.)

PERU   5014.48v  R. Altura  1046-1103, Many ads at t/in.  Campesino 
mx.  "El Condor Pasa" at 1100, then live M anncr shouting "Altura" and 
tlk.  Freq was repeatedly drifting quickly up to 5014.7 then suddenly 
jumping back down to 5014.48.  Fading.  (Valko 1 Oct.)

73        Dave

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