MW Band Scanning

G'day All,

Well its been a while since I've done any Shortwave / AM / MW scanning and documented it. I'm always listening with the sony out the back with a hot cuppa coffee and when camping, but I've been slack documenting my encounters. Today while sitting at home, I remembered I had my old SONY XR-5100 AM/FM/SW in car stereo sitting in the cupboard. and thought hey why don't I hook it up to a set of speakers and use it with the Slinky external antenna.

After finding power supply and testing it out to see how compatible or not the antenna impendance matching was going to be from the 50/75ohm slinky, I was quiet pleas with its performance. So waiting for dark to fall, I'm now sitting here with a large scotch, and started at my scanning.

Start down at 531 kHz, Here is my report :) Especially hearing Tasmania's 7BU 558 AM Burnie, it inspired me to document my nights encounters.

BTW I've used the following link [List of radio stations in Australia] for my source of Station ID, but I do try and confirm station ID were possible.

26th August 2009

time	Frequeny (kHz)	Station	SINPO	Description
1102z	549	????	44444
1108z	558	7BU	43344
1144z	576	Radio National - ABC (formerly known as 2FC)	55555	Talking about Monkey brains and 3D.
1147z	594	ABC Western Victoria - ABC	55535	Music - Tambourine Man Covered version by "The Birds". Host starts talking about "Redundancy".
1152z	603	ABC ??	33333	Male talking about storm / wild weather, like an old broadcast or story. - Night Share
1156z	612	4QR - ABC Brisbane	44444	ABC - Talking about Redundancy
1158z	621	3AR - Radio National Network - Radio Electric	44444	Story of little girl in the boat.
1202z	639	Radio 639 and ABC North/West SA	44444	Mostly ABC, but Coffs Habour Radio 639 came in strong for a minute, but ABC won.
1205z	648	ABC New England - Tamworth	55545	ABC news / weather
1207z	666	ABC Canberra	55555	Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile) -
1207z	684	ABC and ???	43444	Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile). Could hear asian singing in background.
1211z	693	3AW - Fairfax Media, 4KQ (possible)	43444	Guys (like commentators) yapping - trivia. Music / singing fading in little.
1215z	702	ABC - Sydney (formerly known as 2BL)	54555	Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile). Fading a little, but came back strong
1217z	729	ABC - Adelaide	54555	Bloke taking about recording sounds.
1220z	738	ABC - Mid North Coast	54555	Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile). Fading a little, but came back strong
1222z	756	ABC - National ?	54555	Talking about some guy and his photography
1223z	765	ABC - National ?	54534	Music, fades a little, but nothing replaces it.
1226z	774	ABC - Mid North Coast	54544	Segemnt on "Global Zero" (Sunday Profile). Fading a little, but came back strong
1227z	792	ABC - National (Brisbane)	54555	Talking about some guy and his photography. bit og static dump.
1227z	810	ABC South East NSW - (Bega / Cooma)	54445	African American in the Space Program - (Speaking Out). There was some fade and music coming in. Static Dumps
1235z	828	ABC Gippsland - (Sale)	54555	African American in the Space Program - (Speaking Out). Static Dumps
1238z	836	ABC - National (Canberra)	55555	Still talking about sound/photography and the concious.
1240z	873	2GB - Macquarie Radio Network	55544	Music, a bit of fading
1243z	883	3YB - Part Of The Ace Radio Network 4BH - Fairfax Media (Easy Listening)	53333	Fading in both Stations, but could hear 4BH music and 3YB classical singing or similar. 4BH has just come in strong and clear.
1243z	891	ABC Adelaide - ABC	55555	Some static dumps
1250z	900	7AD - Grant Broadcasters (id)	54434	7AD ID and Music clear. When fades you can hear some form of electrical humm and other station (???)
1254z	918	2XL (Cooma) (ID)	54434	2XL identified, fading, Another station coming in
1256z	936	ABC Hobart - ABC ABC NewsRadio - (Brisbane)	54434	Both equal signal and doubling over each other
1256z	954	2UE (ID) - Fairfax Media - News / Talk	54555	Cherri - Tarrot Reading. Some fade, static dumps.
1303z	963	??	22222	Channel has too many stations at one time. Hard to pull one out
1303z	972	NewsRadio - (Adelaide)	53333	There is another station there during fadeout, but not sure if its 2DU (Dubbo NSW).
1308z	981	2NM (Muswellbrook)	53333	Music, fading a bit, news comin in.

Well I got just under half way through the band scan. I'm knackered andof to bed. But from the above you can see a stack of ABC News, National Capital City and Regional Stations. Some music stations. But Hey I could hear stations from south (Tassie) and to the north (Brisbane, QLD).

Night All

Mark

The Muppets Show

There is not much I need to say, if you grew up with the Muppets Show you know why I loved it. Starting witht the intro which always seemed to be different, but heres one I found and still piss myself with laughter The Muppets Show Intro

The muppets had many, many special guests, and covered many many songs. Here are some I found and its great to see them again:

1. 12 days of Christmas - Muppets & John Denver

2. Ghostriders in the sky - Johnny Cash & The Muppets Show

3. The Muppet Show - Sax and Violence

4. Wild Thing - Animal

5. The Muppets Sleep Tonight

6. Muppets - She Drives me crazy

7. Muppets - You Don't Want My Love

8. Muppets - To Morrow

9. Muppets Tonight - Dancin' With Myself

10. Muppets Tonight - Dancin' in the Dark

11. Paula Abdul on "Muppets Tonight" - Opposites Attract (Edited)

12. Sandra Bullock The Muppets

13. The Muppets - Never On Sunday

14. Muppets Tonight - Muppets Tonight's Greatest 'Hits'

15. Muppets Tonight - She Blinded Me With Science

16. The Muppet Show - Why Can't We Be Friends

17. John Denver - Muppets Christmas - The Peace Of Christmas Day

18. John Denver - Muppets Christmas - Silent Night

19. The Muppet Show - El Condor Pasa

20. The Muppet Show - Scarborough Fair

21. The Muppet Show - Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover

22. Staying Alive - The muppets show

23. The Muppet Show - The Devil Went Down to Georgia

24. The Muppet Show - You're No Good

25. The Muppet Show - Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

26. The Muppet Show - Julie Andrews

27. Elton John's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" on The Muppet Show

28. Kokomo - The Muppets

29. Leo Sayer & The muppets - When i need you

30. Leo Sayer & the muppets - The Show Must Go On

31. The Muppets with Kylie Minogue - Especially for You

32. Copa Cabana- by Liza Manelli (Muppet Show Segment)

33. John Cleese on The Muppet Show

34. Shirley Bassey Muppet Show

35. The Muppet Show - Bob Hope.

36. Joan Baez at the Muppet Show
- Part 1 Intro
- Part 2 - Honest Lullaby
- Part 3 - Joan is imitating Marlon Brando as the Godfather
- Part 4 - The night they drove old Dixie Down
- Part 5 - Will the circle be unbroken

37. Muppet Show: Act Naturally

38. Muppet show - Down Memory Lane

39. Muppet Show. Gonzo the Great - My Way (ep 4.11)

40. Kenny Rogers' The http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifGambler on the Muppet Show

41. Johnny Cash @ the Muppets singing with Miss Piggy

42. Alice Cooper & The Muppets - Schools Out

43. Muppets - Don Knotts - What a wonderful world.

44. Muppets sing Jim Croce's "Working at the Carwash Blues"

45. Muppets - Great Moments in Elvis History

46. The Muppet Show - Chanson D'Amour

47. John Denver's "Grandma's Feather Bed" on the Muppet Show

48. The Muppet Show - Surfin' USA

49. The Muppet Show - The Happy Wanderer

50. The Muppet Show - You'll Never Walk Alone

51. The Muppet Show - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

52. The Muppet Show - In the Navy

53. The Muppet Show - Hound Dog

54. The Muppet Show - Big Spender

55. The Muppet Show - Run Rabbit Run

56. Muppet Show - Floyd Pepper - "Wicked Game"

57. The Muppet Show - The Gnu

58. The Muppet Show - Poison Ivy

59. The Muppet Show - Roger Moore - Talk to the Animals

More Cold / winter Videos

1. Hard Ice Hill

2. John Deere 6530 snow ploughing / snow plowing

3. Train Snow plowing Mp.435.5

4. NB Southern Railway - Plow Extra Jan 2/08

5. Serious snow removal (Rotary)

6. Railroad Jet Powered Snow Remover

7. Truck crashes through barrier on ice/snow

8. Car Snow Ice - (Very Funny)

Cold weather Videos

Going over some of my video links to the left of ships in rough weather, Multiple Train Engines ploughing their way though snow banks that are huge. Well I had to log some more related videos :)

1. Train vs. Snow in Western Iowa

2. Train Pushing Heavy Snow After Storm

3. Who needs rotary snow plows anyways?

4. Bad weather 21-2-2007

5. Crystal Harmony hit by a big wave

Regards
Mark

Johnny and Marching

G'day All,

As I sit here with a little Scotch with 96.7 QBNFM playing in the background just reading and watching information on engine rebuilding and alike, a song came over the airways and I was just taken by it in way I still can't describe :) Anyway the song was called "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" by Anita Carter. I've not been able to locate a youtube demonstrating of her rendition, however here are two renditions, a slow tempo ( Listen Here ) and fast tempo (Listen Here).

Not sure if it was the slow beat version Anita song, her voice especially for each of her "hurroo, hurroo"

While reading more about these lyrics and the many variations I came across the opposite version "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" - Listen Here. Again many covered version but such as this one - (Listen Here)

Thinks its time for another Scotch :)

Talk with yer all later

Mark

Pittwater to Coffs Habour 2009 Yacht Race

G'day All,

After a fairly terrible time with the 6516 khz frequency for the Syndey to Hobart race, I'm going to see how the we go covering the "28th Pittwater & Coffs Harbour Offshore Series 2009".

I'll be using the Icom R75 located in Canberra, and the Sony ICF-SW7600GR portable radio attached to an inverted V / random length antenna.

The race using Satphone, VHF and HF to provide Position and Safety reports. So ignoring the Sat and VHF side of things here are the following Sked times for HF obtains from the following Racing Instructions:


To make it easier / comfortable to listen to some of these recordings that may have been recording during poor HF conditions, play them with in a mp3 player that has a Graphic Equaliser functionality such as Windows Media Player and set all bar the voice frequencies to off, here is my setting for Windows Media Player:

20090102 2005 Position Report - (Listen Here)

20090103 0005 Safety Report - (Link Here)

20090103 0705 Position Report - (Listen Here - Audio from Sony located in Brisbane)
                                (listen Here - Audio from Icom R75 located in Canberra)

20090103 1405 Position Report - (Link Here)

20090103 2005 Position Report - (Link Here)

(The sked's listed for the 3rd January 2009 above are repeated until end of race).

Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race 2008

That time of year again, I've been broadcasting the primary race frequency and making recordings of the Radio Skeds for Position and Safety, hope you all enjoy and we'll see how the race goes :)

Radios and QTH Background
The primary race frequency 6516khz has been clear as bell since I've been testing my new setup at the Canberra QTH preparing for remote controlling the radio from Brisbane via internet.

Beside the normal bastard of a Shortwave Station that starts broadcasting on 6518khz from 2155 AEST until 0805 AEST the next morning I was fairly happy with the results.

However things went to custard sometime from Xmas-eve and Boxing Day morning, when I logged on to monitor the audio on 6516khz, I was getting blasted with a S2-S4 electrical RFI. Since I'm in Brisbane, I was unable to diagnose or locate the possible source of RFI, except to come to the conclusion that one of the bloody neighbours must have got a new present / device for xmas and has plugged it in and now causes +/- 500khz from 6500 to have a very annoying RFI. All other frequencies I've scanned on the Icom R75 are clear of this RFI noise.

I put up with it for the first day as the fleet when broadcasting could be fairly easily be heard over the RFI. However the next morning when preparing for the 0735 AEST sked, HF propagation between the S2H fleet and the Canberra QTH fell through the floor (and has remained that way through out the race so far!) and had to resort to the Sony ICF-SW7600GR Portable and the Brisbane Special homemade inverted V antenna. This gave me enough signal to monitor the race when the Canberra QTH was crap, and visa-versa Canberra QTH was perfect for the 4483khz frequency.


S2H Radio Schedules

20081226 20:05 Position Report - (Listen Here)

20081226 21:15 Yacht Georgia sinking - Pan Pan / Mayday

   Part 1 - 2008-12-26  21:13 AEST (~47mins 10 Mb) - (Click Here)
            (NB at 21:55 AEST Shorwave Station starts broadcasting on 6518 kHz, it a pain in the ARSE!!!! 
            and the station does not stop broadcasting till 0805 AEST following morning.  
             Not much I can do about it, got the R75 Filters and DSP tuned / configured as best 
             as I could to filter the station out.)

   Part 2 - 2008-12-26  22:00 AEST (~60mins 12 Mb) - (Click Here)

   Part 3 - 2008-12-26  23:00 AEST (~15mins 3 Mb) - (Click Here)

20081227 00:05 Safety Report - (Listen Here)

20081227 07:35 Position Report - No recordings, nothing heard from QTH Canberra except for the annoying interfering Shortwave Station broadcasting on 6518khz since 2100 to 0900, I was however able to hear them on the Sony Portable with a small hookup wire from hear in Brisbane, but was not able to setup any recording via the laptop in time. I'm, going to set up the Brisbane Special inverted V antenna and hook it up to Sony as a backup and get this recording issue sorted.

20081227 12:05 Weather Report - (Nothing of interest and HF was still fairly poor)

20081227 17:35 Position Report - Canberra QTH was a wash out after two afternoon storm came through the region / area (God I hope the house is ok, heard on the news this morning there was flash flooding)

20081228 00:05 Safety Report - Good signal, nothing of interest a few of the yachts that did not report position earlier came in nice and strong.

20081228 07:35 Position Report

   - Audio from Sony SW76000GR - Located at Brisbane - (Click Here)

   - Audio from Icom R75 - Located at Canberra - (Click Here)  

Regards
Mark

Christmas Songs

Having put up the Chrissy lights the other day, I've noticed that while listening to the local radio stations, the lack of feel good Christmas songs especially the traditional one I use to remember when I a fair bit younger :) So with a quick google, I found a website "Christmas Songs" list of Christmas songs, and thought I'd go through them as link them as usual to a video clip from YouTube:

1. A Baby Just Like You - John Denver


2. All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth - Spike Jones


3. Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley


4. Christmas Dinner


5. Christmas For Cowboys - John Denver


6. Christmas In Killarney


7. Deck the Halls


8. First Christmas - Stan Rogers


9. Frosty the Snow Man - Nat King Cole


10. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer - The Irish Rovers, Dr. Elmo


11. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Frank Sinatra


12. Here Comes Santa Claus


13. Holly Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives


14. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Jessica Simpson


15. It's the most wonderful time of the year - Andy Williams


16. I'll Be Home For Christmas - Frank Sinatra


17. Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms


18. Jingle Bells - Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra


19. Jolly Old Saint Nicholas - The Ray Conniff Singers


20. Let It Snow - Dean Martin


21. Mary, Did You Know? - Kenny Rogers and Wynonna Judd


22. Merry Christmas Darling - The Carpenters


23. Must Be Santa - Mitch Miller & The Gang


24. Nuttin' For Christmas


25. O Christmas Tree (Has many Versions - Very funny)


26. Pine Cones And Holly Berries


27. Rocking around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee


28. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry


29. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bruce Springsteen


30. Silver Bells - Dean Martin , Johnny Mathis


31. Sleep Well, Little Children - Kristin Chenoweth


32. Sleigh Ride - Andy Williams, The Ronettes


33. Tennessee Christmas - Amy Grant


34. The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole


35. The Little Drummer Boy - BING CROSBY & DAVID BOWIE


36. The Night Before Christmas


37. The Twelve Days of Christmas - John Denver - Muppets Christmas


38. Up On the Housetop - Gene Autry


39. We Wish You A Merry Christmas


40. White Christmas - Bing Crosby


41. Winter Wonderland - Bing Crosby

Misc:

O Come All Ye Faithful - Nat King Cole

Silver Bells


Wow !!! Thats enough for tonight :) Hope you enjoy the version / cover of each popular Christmas Songs listed above......

Merry Christmas Everyone !!

Mark

Frequencies 6th-December-2008

Using Icom R75 - Slinky Dipole, QTH: Canberra

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station  
13362  0855   45544   USA          AFRTS
5765   0904   45544   USA          AFRTS
7811   0905   45544   USA          AFRTS
2310   0908   25222   AUS          ABC
2325   0909   25223   AUS          ABC
8743   0912   25443   ??           USB - Melody intro, clean frequency, but faint very faint voices talking.
4750   0917   23222   BGD          Bangladesh Betar
6195   0922   22232   G            BBC - (Thailand)
9740   0927   55545   G            BBC - (Singapore)
6020   0930   55555   AUS          R. Australia
6070   0932   34333   CHL          Voz Cristiana
3330   0941   15331   CAN          CHU
7335   0941   43333   CAN          CHU
15555  0945   33333   AUS          CVC International
13630  0948   15331   AUS          CVC International
17820  0949   35544   AUS          CVC International
17635  0951   22222   AUS          CVC International   
17710  0952   55545   D            Deutsche Welle
21840  0954   25522   D            Deutsche Welle
17520  0956   55545   D            Deutsche Welle (Sign off 0958)
17510  0959   55555   IND          All India Radio
5955   1005   43434   CHN          China Radio Int.


9735   2000   55545   D            Deutsche Welle (Tgt East Africa)
6075   2055   55545   RUS          GTRK Kamchatka (Sign off at 2059)
11845  2127   55545   CAN          Radio Canada Int. French (Tgt North Africa) Station ID 2130
17675  2132   45433   NZL          Radio New Zealand Int.
7405   2143   22233   USA          Voice of America. English (Loc KWT) (Tgt AFG) - Co Channeled against Arabic Singing / music / chanting

Sony ICF7600GR Joins the Family

After returning the recently purchased DEGEN 1103 which was faulty with MAJOR overloading and MW coming through all of the HF band. I thought I better hedge my bets for XMAS and finally bit the bullet and bought the slightly (ok alot) more expensive Sony ICF76000GR Portable Shortwave from a USA Ebay Store. It arrived within 6 business day via UPS International Express Post safe and sound and what can I initially say.

Its different :) After getting use to the ergonomic layout of the DEGEN it took a couple of days for me to remember to press "DIRECT" button first then the frequency then ENTER. Unlike the DEGEN the keypad and a few other main buttons aren't light up and so it a little more awkward in the middle of the night to operate with no light. I do miss the jog dial that the DEGEN 1103 has, were as the Sony ICF7600GR using up/down buttons at +/-5hz or +/-1hz. But I knew of this before purchasing the radio and will put up with these little features :)

Apart from that, my initial feel for the SONY is yeah that little buggers does work pretty darn well. The SSB is definitely cleaner and the AM-SYNC well it seems to work. But I've only had a few short band scans with my new toy.

In regards to the DEGEN 1103 replacement, well it arrived the day after I got the Sony, and I quickly opened her up and ran through my test frequency and what a relief. I got a GOOD one, no sign of overloading on the HF and all the test frequencies worked fine.

When I get a bit of time, I'll do a little side by side comparison test, but my feel is I'll probably put the DEGEN 1103 in storage as a spare radio and utilise the Sony ICF7600GR as my primary portable since I've already had a good 18mth usage and fun from my previous DEGEN 1103.

Any ways better get back to the Maria Island 2008 race and other Maritime monitoring.

Regards
Mark

Maria Island Yacht Race 2008

Thought I would see if I could hear the Maria Island Yacht Race This year (http://tashost.com.au/maria_island/index.php). And after finding out that the race primary HF frequency was 2524 khz for all HF traffic, I wasn't confident of getting good reception.

Well after now hearing and recording the 2235 and 0535 sked's, its been tough. I definitely would prefer a primary HF frequency a little higher but hey still a worth the hunt, especially using the ICOM R75 DSP to block / filter the lightening Static Dump and RFI interference from near by sources.

The biggest disappointment was that I was able to hear Hobart Race Control/Check on about 75% copy Readability 3/5. However none of the yacht used HF to relay their position, instead utilised VHF ch81.

Here are the Skeds:

20081121 2235 - (Listen Here)

20081122 0535 - (Listen Here)

20081122 1135 - Nothing Heard (didn't expect to hear 2MHz during the day form hear)

20081122 1635 - Local severe QRM blanket whole HF spectrum S9+

20081122 2235 - A lot of yachts already crossed the line and a few retired, so a couple of position reports. Listen Here.

20081122 0535 - Final sked - Gives weather forecase and attempts to call 3 yachts. 2 do not respond. Listen Here.



Regards
Mark

Frequencies 26-October-2008

Using Icom R75 - Slinky Dipole, QTH: Canberra

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station  
13725  0258   35544   IRN          IRIB Teheran - Sirjan - STID and Sign off 0301
13740  0303   25333   IRN          IRIB Teheran - Ahvaz
13780  0320   35333   CHN          China Radio Int - Kumming
15195  0325   25333   J            NHK Radio Japan - Female Singing and interview, then more singing.
15210  0329   45444   CHN          China Radio Int.
15325  0330   25433   J            NHK Radio Japan - Same broadcast as 15195
15350  0332   25333   CHN          China Radio Int.
15490  0334   25333   ???          Asian Instruments
15720  0336   25222   NZL          Radio New Zealand Int.
17615  0338   53455   ??           Can just hear R Free Asia in background under the jamming Asian Instruments.            
17625  0340   35333   CHN          CNR 2 China Business R.
17650  0341   15221   ??           Male presenter, European language  
17710  0342   33333   CHN          China Radio Int.
17715  0343   24332   IND          All India Radio - Some QRM from 17710
17735  0345   35334   CHN          Jamming Asian Instruments - can hear something in background.
17810  0346   25333   J            NHK Radio Japan
9535   0350   35544   E            Radio Exterior Espana - via Noblejas Spain
9600   0352   25222   CUB          Radio Habana Cuba
9690   0359   35543   CHN          China Radio Int. - via Noblejas Spain - Signed off
9690   0400   15331   ROU          Radio Romania Int. - English - Female voice heard

12290  0404   15332   Maritime Distress - faint traffic heard.

DEGEN 1103 - Died after many hours of use

G'day,

Just a short blurp to say that my DEGEN 1103 broke a few weeks back, which means I've now had it 18mths back. I actually bought two at the time, one for me and one for my brother, and his appears to be still going strong.

My ltitle radio broke in the strangest way, in that while on shortwave, any frequency I was that was ODD number, would be muted, while any frequency I was on that was EVEN was still fine. I opened it up to see if there was any obvious lose connection, but nothing obvious was found.

So Straight onto EBAY and ordered another one. Well it arrived few days back, and guess what ?? It sucked big time. I can only conclude that it faulty in that all through the shortwave band my local AM stations are ghosting very loudly and strongly, and that is just using the internal whip. When I plug in the external long wire antenna the overloading is even worse.

So I've contacted the ebay seller and without any hassles has indicated that he'll replace it with another one and swears that the radio was new from DEGEN. So come Monday I've parcel it up and ship it back.

Fingers crossed that the next one will be ok.

Cheers
Mark

Frequencies 6-October-2008

Using Kenwood R1000 - Slinky Dipole, QTH: Canberra

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station  
9250   2015   25522   EGY          Radio Wadi el-Nil
9280   2035   33333   ???          Arabic Chanting / Praying

Bugger the Topfield PVR5000t (Digital HDD recorder) has become a major source of spectrum noise. The power supply must be having issues. Need to see what I can do. For now if its plugged in and turned on you have a hum at about a beat a second. Turning it to stand by reduces the hum beat / cycle but still have a high noise level / floor. Unplugging it stopped the broad source of wide sprectrum noise. The wife ain't going to be happy with that one. Well while she is still having a sleep in, lets continue with the band scan :)

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station  
9370   2103   25422   USA          WTJC Newport, NC - English male singing
9385   2110   35443   USA          Radio Free Asia - Koren (via Northern Marianas)
9410   2114   25432   G            BBC, (via Skelton Cumbria) Playing Classical Music
9420   2118   24433   GRC          Voice of Greece
9450   2121   14321   USA          Eternal Word Television Network, Inc. - Periodic singing /
                                   music would come through.
9500   2127   23332   AUS          Radio Australia - Co Channel with CRI with fading CRI 
                                   periodically comes through louder than R.Australia
9510   2133   35433   CHN          CNR 2 China Business R.
9545   2135   35534   D            Deutsche Welle (German)

Sad Songs !

Just having the radio on in the background and I heard the song "Ebony Eyes" by the Everly Borthers which got me thinking about Sad Sad Songs, lets see what we can dig up on the youtube archives:

1. EVERLY BROTHERS (EBONY EYES)
2. Everly Brothers - Lightning Express
3. Shangri Las - Leader of the Pack
4. Ray Peterson - Tell Laura I love her
5. Shangri Las - I Can Never Go Home Any More (1965)
6. Jody Reynolds - Endless Sleep
7. James Taylor - Fire And Rain
8. Wayne Cochran - Last Kiss
   
9. Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
10. Jimmy Cross - I Want My Baby Back
11. Mark Dinning - Teen Angel - original song-1960
12. Don McLean - The Grave
13. Don McLean - American Pie
14. Don McLean - Don McLean - Vincent 1972 Live
15. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (original version)
16. David Bowie- Space Oddity Original Video (1969)
17. Bee Gees - Message To You (1973) Live!
18. Neil Diamond - Shilo
19. Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
20. Martina McBride - Concrete Angel
21. Jeff Buckley's - Hallelujah
22. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
23. Johnny Cash - Hurt
24. Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
25. John Lennon - Imagine
26. Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn
27. In The Arms of The Angel (City of Angel music video)
28. Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years
29. Seven Spanish Angels

Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John

Normally when I think Jimmy Dean - "Big Bad John" is the first song of his that pops to mind immediately. That said this morning on the way into work I heard another one of his that I did not know he had done, and what drew my attention this this particular song was the mention of a JFK and a PT boat and the last last set of words of the song referring to " Anyopne named John is ok."

Well the song I'd heard was called "PT-109", have a listen its great :)

As I normally do, I love the feature of YouTube called "related Videoes", lets see what other Songs / Videos that YouTube takes me to:

1. SINK THE BISMARCK ~ sung by Johnny Horton
2. North To Alaska ~ Johnny Horton
3. Jim Bridger ~ Johnny Horton
4. Jimmy Dean - To A Sleeping Beauty
5. Johnny Horton ~ Honky Tonk Man

Totally going off track a little :)

1. The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
2. The Royal Guardsmen - Return of the Red Baron
3. The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy's Christmas

Oh Another song that I heard this morning, and heard before and love it is "Lili Marleen" (Lale Andersen, English Version).

Alison Krauss - What a voice !!!

One of my favourite all time movie is "O Brother, Where Art Thou?". This movie has a bucket load of great songs through out it, but a couple of these songs was done by a female voice that was enchanting and I've been meaning to look it up and thats what I've finally done - Her name is Alison Krauss and as I troll through youtube I see a stack load of her works and they are great: Here are some I've listened too and loved:

Alison Krauss - Down In The River To Pray
Alison Krauss-Gillian Welch - I'll Fly Away
Alison Krauss - When You Say Nothing At All
Alison Krauss-The Lucky One
The Chieftains & Alison Krauss - Molly Ban
Alison Krauss - The Boxer

What kinda mood am I in tonight ?

Thought I'd kick back a listen to a couple of songs I've got linked on my site, and then got in the mood to find more:


1. Firstly how about a wee Rally/War Cry - Scottish national Anthem - (Footy Style)
2. Celtic Woman - Siuil a run
3. The Corries - Scotland The Brave (humorous)
4. The Corries - The Skye boat song.
5. The Corries - The Wild Mountain Thyme
6. Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound
7. Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
8. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (rare)
9. Irish Celtic - The Hills of Ireland
10. Slainte - Wild celtic fiddle piece
11. Slainte - Wild celtic bagpipe piece
12. Johnny Bagpipes
13. THE SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS - Man Of Constant Sorrow
14. The Real Soggy Bottom Boys, Union Station & Alison Krauss
15. Alison Krauss - Down To The River To Pray (Live)
16. Basil Poledouris - Hymn To Red October
17. The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen
18. I belong to Glasgow
19. RFC - Glasgow Rangers
20. Quincy Jones - Self Preservation Society
21 .

Frequencies 20-April-2008

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station
5850   2137   45433   CAN          Radio Canada Int. (French)
5885   2145   33333   CVA          Radio Vaticana (Instrumental Music) ??
5915   2147   44444   ??           Under HFRadio.org it list USA - "New Organisation", Languange unknown. Hmmm.
5975   2155   34433   RUS          VOR
6065   2157   34444   SWEDEN       Radio Sweden Intl - Had to use LSB AM had annoying adj. interference.
                                  Faintly hear possibly China Fading In.

90's Memories / Flashbacks - Part 2

Well Its Friday night, nothing on the normal TV worth watching so back into the swing of things here and lets continue on with the 90's :)

1992 - (1992 Top 100 List)

1. Sir Mixalot - Baby got Back ( I like big butts )
2. Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last
3. Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
5. Shanice - I Love Your Smile
6. Mr Big - To Be With You
7. Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
8. Michael Jackson - Black Or White
9. Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart
10. Guns N' Roses - November Rain
11. Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway
12. CeCe Peniston - Finally
13. Patty Smyth - Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough
14. George Michael Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
15. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
16. Sophie B. Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
17. Technotronic - Move this
18. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
19. Shakespears Sister # 1 Stay
20. MC Hammer - 2 Legit 2 Quit
27. KWS - Please Don't Go
28. Michael Bolton - When A Man Loves A Woman
29. Genesis - I Can't Dance
30. Richard Marx - Hazard
31. U2 - Mysterious Ways
32. The Heights - How Do You Talk To An Angel
33. U2 - One
34. Genesis - Hold On My Heart
35. Arrested Development - People Everyday
36. Genesis - No son of Mine
37. Bryan Adams - Do I Have To Say The Words
38. The Cure - Friday I'm in love
39. Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You
40. Bryan Adams - Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven
41. Snap - rhythm is a dancer
42. Richard Marx - "Take this Heart"
43. Charles and Eddie "Would I Lie To You"
44. Amy Grant - That's What Love Is For
45. Mr. Big - Just Take My Heart


1993 - (1993 Top 100 List)

1. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
2. Tag Team - Whoomp! (There It Is)
3. UB40 - Can't Help Falling In Love
4. Mariah Carey - Dream Lover
5. Snow - Informer
6. Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
7. Billy Joel - The River Of Dreams
8. The Proclaimers - I Gonna Be (500 miles)
9. Spin Doctors - Two Princes
10. Arrested Development - Mr Wendal
11. Rod Stewart - Have I Told You Lately
12. Duran Duran - Ordinary World directors cut
13. Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
14. Duran Duran - Come Undone
15. Ace Of Base - All That She Wants
16. 4 Non Blondes - What's Up
17. Bon Jovi -Bed of Roses
18. Aerosmith - Crying
19. Ugly Kid Joe - Cats In The Cradle
20. Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain
21. Madonna - Rain
22. Inner Circle-bad boys
23. DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince - Boom Shake The Room
24. Inner Circle - Sweat (A La La La La Long)
25. Captain Hollywood Project - More and more
26. Haddaway - What is Love
27. Sting - Fields Of Gold
28. Green Jelly - three little pigs
29. Aerosmith - Living On The Edge
30. Sting - If I Ever Lose My Faith In You

90's Memories / Flashbacks

Well it official I just can't help myself..... After going over the top 100 songs of the last few years of the 80's I have to see how my tastes where in the 90's :)

Looking at the stats I liked 30 odd % of the listed Top 100 songs for 87, 88 and 89 hmmmmm very interesting. Stay Tuned as this is going to take me ages to do, but I got to do it, as it should highlight that Music of today is total SHIT!! so I'm hoping to see a major drop of in songs I like towards the end of the 90's especially.

1990 (High School, Year 8 - 1990 Top 100 List)

1. Wilson Phillips - Hold On
2. Roxette - It Must Have Been Love
3. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares
4. Madonna - Vogue
5. Phil Collins - Another day in paradise
6. Jon Bon Jovi - Blaze Of Glory
7. Michael Bolton- How Am I Supposed To Live Without You
8. Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam
9. Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract
10. Heart - All I want to do is make love to you
11. Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
12. Linda Ronstadt - Don't Know Much
13. Snap - Power
14. Roxette - Dangerous
15. Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire
16. Rod Stewart - Downtown Train
17. B-52´s - Roam
18. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
19. Michael Bolton - How Can We Be Lovers
20. M.C. Hammer - U Can't Touch This
21. Phil Collins - i wish it would rain down
22. Phil Collins - Something Happened on the Way to Heaven
23. Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun
24. Taylor Dayne - I'll Be Your Shelter
25. Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
26. Go West - The King of Wishful Thinking (1990)
27. Technotronic - Get Up! (Before The Night Is Over)
28. Gloria Estefan - Here We Are
29. Faith No More - Epic
30. Jive Bunny and The Mastermixers - Swing The Mood



1991 - (1991 Top 100 List)
1. Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
2. C C Music Factory ☆ Everybody Dance Now
3. EMF - unbelievable
4. Extreme - More Than Words
5. Amy Grant - Baby Baby
6. Bette Midler - From A Distance
7. Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
8. Roxette - Joyride
9. Amy Grant - Every Heartbeat
10. London beat - I've Been Thinking About You
11. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
12. Scorpions - Wind of Change
13. Roxette - Fading like A Flower
14. Extreme - Hole HEarted
15. Michael Bolton - Love Is A Wonderful Thing
16. Rod Stewart - Rhythm Of My Heart
17. Divinyls - I Touch Myself
18. Bryan Adams - Can't Stop This Thing We Started
19. The KLF - 3AM Eternal
20. Enigma - Sadness Part 1
21. Prince - Cream
22. UB40 - Here I Am (Come & Take Me)
23. Seal - Crazy
24. Chris Issak - Wicked Game
25. INXS - Disappear
26. Dee Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
27. George Michael - Freedom '90
28. Rod Stewart - The Motown Song
29. R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People

80's Memories / Flashbacks

Tonight I've decided to start of with what music / songs I first remember actually paying any attention to when I was alot younger to current:

1987 - (Selected from here)
1. Crowded House - Don't dream It's over
2. Steve Winwood - "The Finer Things"
3. Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
4. Suzanne Vega - "Luka"
5. Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
6. Alone - Heart
7. Whitney Houston - "I Wanna Dance with Somebody"
8. Starship - Nothing´s Gonna Stop Us Now
9. Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is
10. Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer
11. Los Lobos - La Bamba
12. U2 - With Or Without You
13. Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
14. Billy Idol - Mony Mony
15. Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red
16. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
17. Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life
18. Club Nouveau - Lean On Me,
19. Madonna - Open your heart
20. Kim Wilde ~ You Keep Me Hangin' On
21. Samantha Fox - Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
22. Genesis - In too deep
23. Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square
24. Michael Jackson - Bad
25. Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive
26. The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong
27. Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right To Party
28. Pseudo Echo - Funky Town


1988 - (Selected from here)
1. Steve Earle - "Copperhead Road"
2. Guns N' Roses - "Sweet Child O' Mine"
3. Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning
4. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
5. INXS - Need You Tonight
6. George Harrison - I've Got My Mind Set On You
7. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
8. Gloria Estefan feat - Anything For You
9. Cheap Trick - The Flame
10. Billy Ocean - Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
11. The Escape Club - Wild wild west
12. Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
13. Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes
14. Phil Collins - Groovy Kind of Love
15. Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy
16. UB40 - Red Red Wine
17. Bon Jovi-Bad Medicine
18. Beach Boys - Kokomo
19. INXS - Devil inside
20. Kylie Minogue - Locomotion
21. U2 - Desire
22. Terence trent d'arby - Sign your name
23. INXS - New Sensation
24. Elton John - Candle in the Wind
25. Foreigner - Say You Will
26. Icehouse - Electric Blue
27. Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
28. Cher - I Found Someone
29. Never Tear Us Apart, INXS
30 . Steve Winwood - Valerie


1989 - (Selected from here)

1. Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
2. Paula Abdul - Straight Up
3. Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings
4. Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
5. Roxette - The Look
6. Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
7. Phil Collins - Two Hearts
8. Roxette - Listen to your heart
9. Simply Red - If you dont know me by now
10. Madonna - Like A Prayer
11. Martika - Toy Solider
12. Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years
13. The Bangles - Eternal Flame
14. Tone Loc - Wild Thing
15. Bad English - When I See You Smile
16. Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
17. Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing
18. Michael Damian - Rock On
19. B-52's - Love Shack
20. Richard Marx - Satisfied
21. Madonna - Cherish
22. Natalie Cole - Miss You Like Crazy
23. R.E.M. - Stand
24. Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator
25. Bon Jovi - Lay Your Hands On Me
26. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am
27. Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
28. Alice Cooper - Poison
29. Donna Summer - This Time I Know It's For Real
30. Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal



Songs that popped in my head during this flash back:

Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love

Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On

Phil Oakley - Together In Electric Dreams

Swinging on a star - Bruce Willis & Danny Aiello

The Drifters - Under The Boardwalk

Ghostbusters - Music Video

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

What am I listening to tonight ?

Looking over lastnight list of music, you probably think WTF from Country to Rammstein. Fact is I have a varied taste and it really comes down to how I'm feeling or, to tell you the truth, what pops in my mind / i remember, like tonight I'm starting of with ENYA, lets see where it takes me :)

Music:

1. Enya - Only Time
2. Enya - Anywhere Is
3. Sgt Barry Sadler - Ballad of the green beret
4. Enya - Sail Away
5. Europe - The Final Countdown (Live)
6. ABBA - Happy New Year
7. ABBA - Super Trouper
8. ABBA - THE WAY OLD FRIENDS DO ( Live '79)
9. ABBA - The Piper (Super Trouper)
10. ABBA - ON AND ON AND ON ( Live Last Concert)
11. The Police - Every Breath You Take
12. The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me
13. Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
14. U2 - Vertigo: Video
15. U2 - With Or Without You
16. U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
17. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
18. U2 - Sweetest Thing: Video
19. The Cramberries - Zombie
20. The Cramberries - Just my imagination
21. The Cranberries - Linger
22. The Corrs - Runaway
23. The Corrs - So Young (Unplugged)
24. Scottish Music (Go the drums)
25. Battlefield Band in concert 2006
26. Scottish Music 2 - Unknown Band
27. The Corries - The Wild Mountain Thyme
28. The Corries Flower of Scotland (1975 ???)
29. The Corries Scotland The Brave (humorous)

Video:

1. Apocalypse Now - smell of napalm
2. Ghostbusters 2 - Court Scene "DOH, RAY EGON".
3. Final Countdown - Dog fight scene
4. River Dance Monkeys (Remix)
5. Riverdance (Eurovision Song Contest 1994 Dublin)

I'm Still Kicking / Alive

G'day All,

I'm been a tad lazy in putting up my Shortwave Frequency reports as when I actually have just been tuning to the few BIG players listening to news etc, so there nothing new to report. I can assure you that while I've been giving the ICOM R75 a break, the DEGEN DE1103 is performing perfectly. And I'm prolly going to give Band Scanning a break, and if i find a few hard to get frequecies / stations then I'll report them as I encounter them :)

In the mean time, I've been slightly addicted to YOUTUBE looking for bits and bobs. Initially I was adding these to the left side of the blog, but its hard to see when I've added new Videos or Music which I've found to make me laugh or enjoyed. So to make it easier I'll add a add blog entry listening ones I've found which I'd like to say :)

Music:

1. Dennis Leary - I'm an Asshole (Uncensored)
2. The Proclaimers - I would walk 500 Miles
3. Proclaimers - I'm on my way
4. Kenny Rodgers - Coward of the County
5. Kenny Rodgers - The Gambler
6. Kenny Rodgers - Lucille
7. Prodigy - Breathe
8. Prodigy - Firestarter
9. Midnight Oil - The Power & The Passion (1983)
10. Midnight Oil - Short Memory
11. Midnight Oil - US Forces (1982)
12. Rammstein - Du Hast Live from Volkerball
13. Rammstein - Du Hast - Music Video
14. Rammstein - Du Hast - Music Video (English)
15. Rammstein - feuer frei(XxX-soundtrack)
16. 2 LIVE CREW - HEY WE WANT SOME PUSSY
17. Hocus Pocus - Heres Johnny
Videos:

1. Scooby stuck in snow life is four wheel drive
2. I-80 Interstate Accident's After Snow Storms

Frequencies 24-Feburary-2008

Using DEGEN DE1103 - 10m Random Wire, QTH: Canberra

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station   
2310   1921   55555   AUS          ABC NT Service(Alice Springs)
2310   1922   55545   AUS          ABC NT Service(Tennant Creek)
2485   1923   55545   AUS          ABC NT Service(Katherine)
3200   1927   35444   SWZ          Trans World Radio - English
3230   1933   35433   US           Family Radio Englis MP Preaching. Via Meyerton S Africa
3255   1935   35433   G            BBC - English via Meyerton S Africa
3320   1937   25332   S Africa     Radio Sondergrense, F Singer, MP, M Singer.  Via Meyerton S Africa
3325   1941   34444   ??           Cant Make out Language, Cultural Singing / Celebrating and a drum beat.
                                   Somae Interference from Morse Code.
3335   1944   34333   PNG          Radio East Sepik - English
3345   1945   23332   S Africa     Channel Africa (non Englsih) 
3395   1948   12232   ??           ??
3955   1950   34344   China        R. Taiwan Intl. (German) -  via Skelton UK 
3975   1951   44334   Hungary      R. Budapest - 2 x MP's
4770   1955   45444   Nigeria      Radio Nigeria
4828   1957   45444   Zinbabwe     Zinbabwe BC Corp
4840   1959   45544   ??           Carrier Signal, no modulation, stops 2000 UTC
4845   2002   35543   Mauritania   R. Mauritanie News, F & MP - Arabic
4905   2004   54545   ??           French MP - Another cochanne3 faintly in background.
4930   2005   35443   Turkmenistan  Turkmen Radio - (English) - MP introducing next song's Artist (Religous related).
4940   2008   25443   USA          VOA via Sao Toma - English (W&C Africa).
4965   2009   43343   Zambia       Voice of Africa - FP (Englsih) - Strong Digital Mode Interference.
5010   2012   45544   Madagasgar   RTV Malagasy - Slightly Muffled / Overdriven Modulation.
                                   M Singer and up beat/tempo Music.
5750   2017   45544   USA          VOA - via Kuwait
5850   2021   45444   Canada       Radio Canada Intl - (French) - Via Horby Sweden.
                                   French MP's, STID clear given through out broadcast.

Frequencies 15-February-2008

Using DEGEN DE1103 - 10m Random Wire, QTH: Canberra

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station   
2310   1920   55555   AUS          ABC NT Service(Alice Springs)
2310   1925   55545   AUS          ABC NT Service(Tennant Creek)
2485   1927   55545   AUS          ABC NT Service(Katherine)
3200   1928   25342   SWZ          Trans World Radio - English (Station ID 1930)
3360   1930   25321   ??           very faintly hear a Female voice repeating Phonic Alphabet.
3955   1936   45544   TWN          Radio Taiwan Int. (German) - via Skelton UK
3985   1944   53444   IRN          IRIB Teheran (clearly hear male and female presenter talking russian).
4770   1954   45333   NIG          Listed as Radio Nigeria Kaduna - (English) - however this was not an english broadcast, so not able to confirm.  
                                   Listened for a while more and got drums almost chinese style. At 2000 English News was broadcasted, very noisy with Atmospheric noise and fade.
4905   2005   45444   TCD          Rdiff.Nat. Tchadienne -(Instruments, good beat, sounds great, now their singing).
4950   2013   44434   USA          VOA - English - (Listen Here) - (Station ID 2014) - Playing Music, very hip program, also like BBC top40)
                                   Targerting Central Africa via Botswana.
                                   A Digital Mode was interferring a little.

Frequencies 08-February-2008

Using DEGEN DE1103 - 10m Random Wire, QTH: Canberra

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station   
4780   1915   45434   DJI          RTV Djibouti (Arabic like, MP, Music, talking)
4975   1932   23331   ??           (Something there, SSB can't clear it up).
4965   1935   24332   ??           (Music, Talking, can't determine what language) ?? 
4930   1938   35443   USA          VOA (via Botswana) (English - MP - slow speak, must be a Special English Broadcast. "Walmart has donated 1 million dollars".)
6195   1941   55545   G            BBC - (English, some fade)
6185   1943   45444   CVA          Radio Vaticana (Mustly a good signal, but some noise and constant, slight fade).
6175   1944   55545   USA          WYFR Family Radio - (MP in arabic repeats several time - xxxxxxxxx Open Forum). A faint co-channel possibly speaking English in background Possibly Russia)
6150   1951   44444   USA          VOA - English (Some co-channel interference, and fade, mostly a clean signal)
6130   1953   44444   RUS          VOR - Russian (Muffled / overdriving FP)
6120   1955   44444   TUR          Voice of Turkey. (Music, faint channel in background).

Frequencies 03-February-2008

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station   
17505  0448   35433   CHN          CRI.
17525  0451   33444   HWA          KWHR (slight QRM +5khz)
17800  0459   35544   D            Deutsche Welle (Targeting Afica)
17820  0500   35544   AUS          CVC International - (abrupt sign off 0500)
15110  0502   35544   KWT          Radio Kuwait (English)
15259  0504   25332   AUS          CVC International (mostly distance, but some good fade in)
15285  0506   35443   ARS          BSKSA Riad (Swahili - Targeting East Africa) - Muffled with some QRN.
15515  0513   55555   AUS          R. Australia (Cricket)
13690  0515   55555   AUS          R. Australia (Cricket)
13740  0516   35533   IRN          IRIB Teheran
13800  0517   25432   IRN          IRIB Teheran 
9700   0526   35433   TUR          Voice of Turkey (some QRN from storms)
9495   0531   35433   GEO          R.Rep.Abkhazia - (Listen Here) - (Unconfirmed, is whats listed under EIBI) 
7190   0624   35343   TUN          RTT Tunis (some QRN from storms)

Frequencies 02-February-2008

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station   
7240   1915   55555   AUS          R. Australia (1930 UTC signal declined to 35433)
7250   1942   55545   CVA          Radio Vaticana
7290   1950   33333   RUS          Voice of Russia (Interference from adj channel, and modulation is very faint, were as the carrier signal is strong).
7325   2000   54445   EGY          ERTU Radio Cairo  - (Listen Here) - Slight co-channel interference from BBC (Russian)
7365   2008   45444   CVA          Radio Vaticana 
7375   2009   45544   USA          Radio Farda (Music)
7420   2010   55545   S            Radio Sweden (Swedish - Listen Here)
7450   2017   33343   GRC          ERT3 Makedonias - (Listen Here) - Interference from Digital Mode.
7540   2021   55444   CLA          Denge Mezopotamia (music / singing) - (Listen Here)
5835   2111   24442   USA          Radio Free Asia - Faint, can hear MP.
5885   2112   35433   CVA          Radio Vaticana - English
5905   2116   55545   D            Deutsche Welle (Arabic)
5945   2118   34434   AUT          Radio Austria Int. (German)
6120   2122   44444   TUR          Voice of Turkey - slight Co and adj channel interference

Australia Day Long Weekend -Thredbo Camp 2008

G'day All,

The wife and I just had a fantastic, relaxing long weekend camping at Thredbo, kosciusko National Park. We normally go June Long Week (Ski season opening weekend), but descided to see how looked during Summer. We'll I got out of work early Friday 25th January 2008, packed the 4x4 and hooked up the Camper Popup Trailer. As we got nearer to the camp grounds after fairly light traffic, we started asking ourselves "How busy is this camp ground going to be?", As we started to decend down the dirt track into the camp ground we were greeted by a fairly busy camp ground. Most of good camp sites were already taken, especially the one we use during winter. But that said, I spotted a good spot that noone had used as it was on a slope, but I had spotted a rock which hopefully would level out the camper trailer.



Well it worked, here our little setup and if you look under the tyres / axel, you can see on the far side the wheel on the rock.















What does Thredbo have to offer, well there are are few walking track nearby, and fair number more a small drive away which are great during summer. During Winter it SKI SEASON on the slopes. There also fishing for trout in the Thredbo river a short walk away and also during summer if you brave enough swimming in the Thredbo river.

But for me and my wife, this camp was all about kicking back, listen to the radio, drink a few beers, read a book, drink a few beers, and just catch up on that over due sleep :)







One of the other BIG likes we both love about camping and that is the camp fire. With the national park, your suppose to bring in your own wood, but many campers just go for short drives and fill there boots with wood. Me on the other hand, I don't need a flaring, raging, skin roasting fire which a couple of camp sites had..... Nooooo, I normally just use a pile of BBQ / Webber hot rock coals and when that gets going there a nice smokeless heat source which doesn't kill your night vision, and allows you to have heat and still admire the night sky and stars.











Well now on to the important side of the camp, and that was once again the DEGEN DE1103 performed like a little trooper. As you can see I had it with me as the sun was setting beside the fire :) Also you can just see the 10 meter wire antenna strung from the radio to the pole rope and then out and up high into a tree branch.

The Camp ground is not close to any residential properties and hence there is none to barely any RFI noise interference. Here is the frequencies I thought worthy of logging, as there was just toooooooo many :)

Frequencies 25-January-2008

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station
7190   0733   35444   TUN          RTV Tunisienne
7220   0737   35444   HOL          Radio Nederland
7245   0746   35434   TJK          Voice of Tajik
9765   0755   45545   NZL          Radio New Zealand Int.
7380   2304   35435   HOL          Radio Nederland (News)
7560   2310   35444   USA          WEWN
9170   2313   25443   CHN          Central Peoples BS
9425   2316   55555   CHN          CRI
9610   2320   35543   CHN          CRI - (English News)
9660   2328   34543   AUS          R. Australia
9740   2334   34543   G            BBC
11955  2326   34534   G            BBC

Frequencies 26-January-2008

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station

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Frequencies 27-January-2008

khz    UTC    SINPO   Country      Station

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