From news.cs.tut.fi!butler.cc.tut.fi!news.eunet.fi!dkuug!news.eunet.no!nuug!trane.uninett.no!sunic!mcsun!uknet!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail Fri Nov 12 11:07:30 EET 1993 Article: 24319 of rec.radio.shortwave Path: news.cs.tut.fi!butler.cc.tut.fi!news.eunet.fi!dkuug!news.eunet.no!nuug!trane.uninett.no!sunic!mcsun!uknet!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: MOORE@tmu1.mcrest.edu ("Don Moore" ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Subject: LOGGINGS Date: 11 Nov 1993 10:51:39 -0600 Organization: Teikyo Marycrest University Lines: 83 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu LATIN AMERICAN MEDIUM WAVE LOGGINGS 535 TURKS & CAICOS Radio Vision Cristiana 0236-0238 11/6 Presumed the one w/ Spanish religious pgms. Now here, ex 530 kHz. Good signal. 610 HONDURAS Radio America 0239-0241 11/6 w/ sports pgm, //630 kHz. Fair. 620 NICARAGUA: R Nicaragua 0149-0150 11/6 w/ ID noted in passing. On top, but quite a jumble on this frequency. 630 HONDURAS Radio America 0100-0102 11/6 w/ political rally & "vivas" for various Honduran towns. Poor w/ QRM. 650 HONDURAS LV CentAm 0102-0106 11/6 w/ talk on Honduran futbol. Poor. Better & on top at 0147 recheck. 660 MEXICO La Mexicana, XEAR, Tampico 0243-0248 11/6 ranchera mx, TC, ID. Fair. 680 NICARAGUA La Primerisima 0248-0254 11/6 w/ romx, ads, many mentions of "Nicaraguense". Fair - poor. 690 MEXICO XEMA Fresnillo 0106-0114 11/6 w/ OM ID, nortena mx, ad string. Fair & on top. 740 MEXICO UNID 0120-1032 11/6 w/ ballads. ID at 0130 sounded like XELQ. May have given QTH as in Veracruz state. Poor w/ heavy QRM. 740 NICARAGUA Radio Sandino 0156-0157 11/6 Surprised to hear this on this unlisted frequency, but definate ID. Mixing in a jumble of signals. 750 VENEZUELA Radio Caracas 0157-0204 11/6 IDs as "Radio Caracas Radio" (wonder if they have a Department of Redundancy Department ...) & nx. Strong, clear signal without a trace of anything else on the frequency. Best LAm MW signal hrd tonight. 770 COLOMBIA RCN 0126-0128 11/7 "RCN La Radio de Colombia" ID. Fair. 770 MEXICO XEQRV Cd Cardel 0134-0147 11/6 Clear ID as "aqui en QRV", lots of mentions of Veracruz, romx. Announced 5 kw, although WRTH lists 1 kw. 770.6 HONDURAS Radio Norte, San Pedro Sula 0155-0156 11/6 w/ Honduran futbol discussions. USB needed to seperate this from 770 khz, which now had WABC in. Fair. 831 NICARAGUA Radio Zinica 0210-0217 11/6 Presumed the one w/ instrumental mx but no talk. Rpted previously in DX South Florida on this frequency. Fair w/ USB to seperate from 830. 840 NICARAGUA Radio Noticias 0040-0045 11/6 w/ ranchera mx, ID. On top of freq for a few minutes. Good. 900.5 UNID 0213-0224 11/6 w/ traces of Span talk & trop mx. USB necessary to seperate from 900 kHz. 1020 TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS Caribbean Christian Radio 0222-0231 w/ Rel Pgms, ID at 0230. On top of KDKA. 1025 UNID 0317-0320 w/ romx, but very poor due to heavy slop from Mexican on 1030 kHz. Probably the Costa Rican Radio 1020 which was hrd here last year with similar format. SHORTWAVE LOGGINGS 2040 TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS: Caribbean Christian Radio 0246-0250 11/7 OM rel talk in EE. Weak, but clearly // 1020, which was mixing with KDKA, Pittsburg. 2x1020 harmonic & a new harmonic country here. 4825 PERU: La Voz de la Selva 0302-0304* 11/7 Caught end of s/off anmt followed by about one minute of dead air before the carrier was cut. No anthem. Fair. 5020 COLOMBIA: Ecos del Atrato 0256-0301 11/7 w/ tropical mx & ID. Poor. 11785 COLOMBIA: Radio Nacional 1948-1952 11/7 EZL instr mx, ID @ 1950, mentioning onda corta. Don Moore, Davenport, Iowa Receiver: Kenwood R-5000 w/ 400 foot mini-beverage antenna.