9760 PHILIPPINES. VOA via Tinang, 1412, 6/28/09. Joel Block hosting pgm “Earth and Sky”. Good signal (Strawman-IA).

11709.96 NORTH KOREA. VOK, 1308, 6/26/09. English service. Good signal with clean audio. OM & YL presenting “news”. Topics included Cuba,  the Communist party, Imperialist occupation of South Korea, several mentions of
the great leader Kim Jung Il, and a call for the people to defend their country against the Imperialists (Strawman-IA)

15240 AUSTRALIA. R. Australia, 0432, 6/28/09. Good signal with relay of ABC play-by-play of a Rugby contest between the Melbourne Storm and the Canberra Raiders, from Canberra. Per RA schedule, directed to Central Pacific area(Strawman-IA).

15415 AUSTRALIA. R. Australia, 0440, 6/28/09. Fair signal, weaker than 15240. Per RA schedule this is directed toward Asia. OM & YL discussing general nx topics (Strawman-IA).

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http://www.daylightmap.com/?lat=0.000000&lng=0.000000&z=2&t=s&c=1&m=a&hl=en

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-p

11710.7 ARGENTINA. RAE, 0234, 6/17/09. English service with
usual pgm of nx and mx. Noisy due to local weather. Fair signal,
but some fading present (Strawman-IA).

11709.97 NORTH KOREA. VOK, 1610, 6/21/09. French service.
Presumed “news” by OM & YL. Messy carrier w/ hum. Fair at best
(Strawman-IA).

Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, Drake R8, Drake SPR-4, Icom R-71A
Alpha Delta SWL Sloper, Wellbrook ALA-100 Loop

9541.5 SOLOMAN ISLANDS. SIBC, 1140, 6/13/09. Presumed the one with a very weak signal. Suffered slop from CRI, Kunming, 9540. Able to distinguish male from female, and talk from music, but that was it. Het still heard, but audio gone by 1215 (Strawman-IA).

9780 ALASKA. KNLS Anchor Point, 1341, 6/13/09. English religious pgm w/ pop-style mx. Fair signal (Strawman-IA).

15275 THAILAND. R. Thailand, 0155, 6/10/09. Thai chatter until 0200. Chimes IS and full ID, “This is HSK9, R. Thailand’s world service, broadcasting from the public relations department in Bangkok”. English nx followed. Weak but in the clear (Strawman-IA).

Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, Drake R8, Alpha Delta Sloper, Wellbrook ALA-100 Loop

6973 ISRAEL. Galei Zahal, 0150, 6/7/09. Pop mx pgm at fair level. Best heard in
weeks. Presumed nx headlines or other announcements at TOH (Strawman-IA).

11710.72 ARGENTINA. RAE, 0253, 6/4/09. Spanish ballads presented during English service. Fair signal varied S3 to S5 (Strawman-IA.

15275 THAILAND. R. Thailand, 0220, 6/7/09. Muddy audio. English service until chimes @ 0230. Went into Thai program. Signal faded from fair to poor by 0259
(Strawman-IA).

15425 RUSSIA. VOR via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 0242, 6/4/09. Muddy audio hard to follow. OM & YL exchanging comments in English. Harp mx was enjoyable. Good
carrier strength (Strawman-IA).

15515 AUSTRALIA. R. Australia, 0251, 6/4/09. English nx feature about Australian tech innovations and agriculture. S7 signal (Strawman-IA).

15720 NEW ZEALAND. RNZ, 0250, 6/4/09. OM & YL exchanging comments in presumed Maori, followed by rock mx and English comments. S9 signal (Strawman-IA).

15755 RUSSIA. VOR via Irkutsk, 0247, 6/4/09. Russian service. Fair signal but
spoken word hard to follow due to muddy audio and fading (Strawman-IA).

Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, Drake R8, Wellbrook ALA-100 Loop, Alpha Delta SWL Sloper