PERIOD: 02.10.98 - 07.10.98

Europe:

612 2.10 2200 R Bosnia-Hercegovina ID before midnight news 2 918 4.10 2139 R Intercontinental de Madrid a nice catch as Russia and Slovenia are hard to get by. Backlobe of the Asia-beverage worked very well towards Spain and the UK. 936 6.10 0221 Yorkshire Dales Radio with Yorkshire Night Network 954 4.10 2223 R España, Madrid, surprising 1107 4.10 2257 R Moray Firth fighting AFN 1368 4.10 0600 Manx Radio, Isle of Man one of 3-4 readable signals this morning when the ionosphere appeared to have collapsed completely! 1431 5.10 2121 Classic Gold 1431, Reading 1431 5.10 2125 Breeze AM, Southend-on-Sea …here on the Breeze, where we play all your favourites”' 1530 6.10 0135 Classic Gold 1530, Huddersfield with Classic Requestline 1530 6.10 0140 R Wyvern, Worcester surprising. 1557 6.10 0148 Mellow 1557, Tendring briefly above Classic Gold 1584 5.10 2018 Radio Studio X, Momigno. Prima radio private! Otherwise RAI dominated 1584. Spent some time here hunting Ceuta.

Africa:

1584 7.10 0401 RadiOlé, Costa del Estrecho, Ceuta - new country for all. Heard several times with ID.

Asia:

531 4.10 1730 AIR Jodhpur ending a concert. 4 603 4.10 1715 CBS 2 Lukang 630 6.10 1603 DZMM ID'ed "DZMM" under NRK Email-QSL 2 666 6.10 1439 DZRH Navotas //990. QRM from China on 666 2 738 4.10 1600 BEL2 Taiwan Yuyeh, Penghu 774 6.10 1433 DWWW Quezon City with English easy listening-mx before ID 3-2 810 3.10 1729 AIR Rajkot starting EE nx 3 837 5.10 1528 HLKY CBS Seoul only CBS ID. 837 6.10 1455 DYFM Ilolio C briefly ub with a call letter-id in severe QRM from China and Korea. 846 5.10 1627 DZRV . Several hours with excellent strength. Seems to be 24h 4 864 4.10 1700 HLKR KBS Kangnung ID 20 sec before the hour 3 6.10 1706 Quote 864, Peng Chau, with Government Information Service and ID - much non stop rock. ID as Quote 8-64, not Quote AM - confirmed in an email-QSL 2-4 864 4.10 1633 JOXR ROK Naha, ROK Radio, heard several times. 882 3.10 1644 TWR Puttalam 882 5.10 1601 DWIZ Navotas with ID after brief news bulletin 918 3.10 1629 AIR Suratgarh local id before nx 918 5.10 1430 Shandong PBS as usual giant signal, // 1548. 936 6.10 2000 DXDN Makati, MM a real surprise, weak but ok call letter ID. Seemed to list 3-4 stations. Presumed sign-on. 954 6.10 1959 DZEM Quezon City, MM call letter id. S/on 990 6.10 1349 DZDH MBC Laoag // DZRH-666. The following relays were noted from their annoucement: Iloilo 1485, 1080, Kalibo Aklan 693, Cebu 1395, Tacloban 990, 972, General Santos 1035. Following frequencies without copied QTH: 1224, 1287, 567, 845 (855?), 531, 855. No local calls noted. 1044 4.10 1603 Metro Plus, Peng Chau, ended Metro News. Usual. 1062 5.10 1600 DZEC Quezon City, MM ended EE rrlg px this time with nice ID and sign-off. Seems to open at 2000. 2-4 1143 4.10 1431 VoA Poro 1188 5.10 1459 HLKX FEBC Inchon. From now on PHL stations were getting the attention. 4-2 1242 3.10 2230 Voice of Vietnam 4 5.10 2043 DWBL, Pasig, Metro , called themselves "WBL" 3 1278 6.10 2050 DZRM Quezon C readable call letter ID in the noise thanks to a high- pitched female voice. 1323 6.10 1553 DYSI Iloilo City full ID and NA. Super Radyo. Says 10.000 watt, and belonging to RGMA - Rainbow Global Media Arts Inc. 4-3 1377 5.10 1500 Haixia Zhi Sheng on the hour. 1485 6.10 1400 Shandong PBS. 1512 6.10 1600 Chin Cha BC, Taipei with OK full-hour id. 1512 6.10 1553 DYAB a couple of ID's in severe QRM. 2 1530 5.10 1500 Zhejiang EBS very good signals a couple of days 1530 6.10 1458 DZME Quezon City, MM strong but was troubled by Zhejiang. 1566 3.10 2100 HLAZ Cheju full-hour ID like all Koreans.

Pacific:

729 6.10 1930 5RN ABC Adelaide with ABC News. Surprisingly steady signal for an hour. Tentativet ABC on 891 too.

North America:

1250 7.10 0506 CHSM Steinbach MB Radio Southern Manitoba and classical 1370 7.10 0505 CFOK Westlock AB - first NA, just as we were preparing to leave.

Sør-Amerika

790 7.10 0330 LR6 Radio Mitre, Buenos Aires, the only of 3-4 LA surfacing enough to get an ID.

Shortwave:

2310 4.10 1730 VL8A ABC Alice Springs // 2485 2325 4.10 1731 VL8T ABC Tennant Creek // 2485 2485 4.10 1735 VL8K ABC Katherine incredibly strong with ABC Territory Radio before going national. QSA 4. 3215,05 3.10 -1520 RRI Manado Inilah Programa Satu, Radio Republik Indonesia, Stasiun Regional Satu, Manado - closed after Love Ambon 4 3264,68 4.10 2110 RRI Gorontalo with pop, rock og rap before ID at 2130 4 3265 3.10 1436 RRI Bengkulu … Radio Republik Indonesia Bengkulu, Programa Satu … 2 3324,9 4.10 -1552 RRI Palangkaraya 3905 6.10 -1404 RRI Merauke closing after a few ID and Love Ambon with QSA 4 and practically no noise. Lovely! 3976 3.10 1606 RRI Pontianak ID after Warta Berita. Usual 3 4000,2 6.10 1318 RRI Padang when we here hoping for RRI Kendari 4606,4 4.10 -1516 RRI Serui. Very strong 6.10 - QSA 4 and almost no noise! 4753,35 6.10 1159 RRI Ujung Pandang best we've ever herad an RRI. 4775 3.10 1415 AIR Imphal ID'd Akashvani Imphal 4 4777,1 6.10 1330 RRI Jakarta, Kebayoran, … Radio Republik Indonesia, Stasiun Nasional Jakarta 4 4950 5.10 1730 AIR Srinagar ID prior to central news in English.

Station names in bold denotes station not previously heard in Norway, according to avaliable sources.