Jan 25 (Wednesday) observations:
Voice of Strait, 4940 remains absent; 4900, still heard from tune in at 1246 till off at 1301* UT.
Shiokaze/Sea Breeze, 5930 // 7280, in KOREAN; not the usual English; from tune in at 1303+ UT.
9774 // 9410 (doing well today against the QRM), Taiwan; playing mostly EZL songs till 1200* UT.
Also noted today:
AUSTRALIA. 4835, "Shortwave Australia," 1346-1406 UT; a good day with faint audio of mostly EZL songs
and occasional announcer (assume IDs); Hiroyuki Komatsubara (Japan) has also recently heard this (still
200W?) station.
BANGLADESH[and non]. 4750, Bangladesh Betar, 1312 UT; test tone till 1313, IS; 1315, time pips and into
assume Napali and subcontinent music; mixing with CODAR and CNR1; unable to hear VOI (Indonesia) on
4749.95, while 3325 (VOI) was mostly just a carrier today.
KOREA SOUTH. 5920, Voice of Freedom, heard a reactivated program, which was last heard in 2018; thanks
to the astute monitoring of Amano (Japan), who first noted the return of this former program, that I
would never have recognized on my own:
"KOREA SOUTH. 5920, Voice of Freedom, 1215-1230, Jan 12.
15-minute program (Everyday broadcast).
The program name is
Korean : 인권 바로알기
Korean reading : Ingwon baloalgi.
In English : Getting to know human rights.
In Japanese : 人権を正しく知る
The schedule for this program is
1215-1230 UTC,
1515-1530 UTC,
2225-2240 UTC.
*Everyday broadcast.
My audio is at https://radio.chobi.net/bbsasia/img/4847.mp3 .
*1215’00“-1215’45“, 1229’00“-1230’00“ UT, Jan 12. (01:45)
Revival since 2018.
It was a 15 minute program back then, too.
2018 audio is at http://goo.gl/VArjR5 .
*TNX! Ron-san
Amano
Saitama at home, JAPAN
ICF-SW7600GR: antenna: AN-12"
So on Jan 25, I tuned into VOF (5920), from 1215 to 1230 to check it out; my audio of SA attached.
Ron
California
5319.mp3
