From MOORE@tmu1.mcrest.edu Tue Aug 24 21:16:36 1993 Received: from geraldine.mcrest.edu by cs.tut.fi with SMTP id AA28792 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 24 Aug 1993 21:16:17 +0300 Received: from charon.mcrest.edu by geraldine.mcrest.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA07453; Tue, 24 Aug 1993 13:12:11 -0500 Received: From TMU/WORKQUEUE by charon.mcrest.edu via Charon-4.0-VROOM with IPX id 100.930824131158.320; 24 Aug 93 13:12:58 +600 Message-Id: To: xx159@yfn.ysu.edu, acourt@ncc.uky.edu, gardner_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz, rko@cs.tut.fi, marshall@freenet.scri.fsu.edu, Elizabeth.Milewicz@sociol.utas.edu.au, al911@yfn.ysu.edu From: "Don Moore" Organization: Teikyo Marycrest University Date: 24 Aug 93 13:11:49 CST Subject: DX Humor - More Loggings Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v2.3 (R4). Status: OR LOG, SLEEP LIKE A 2182 UNID: 0316 w/ some guy screaming "MAYDAY!". Must be a nut as it was August 3 (Morgan). 0320 8/3 w/ OM talking about what sounded like a "depressed pretzel" and asking anyone listening to call the "roast yard" (Jack Mann) Kids playing! - ed 3345 BOLIVIA Ondas Quimicas 0200 w/ nx of restructuring of the Periodical Table of the Elements. (Omy Goshen) 3985 ECUADOR Escuelas Radiofonicas Delicuentes 0630 in Sp w/ students shooting spitballs, putting frog on the teacher's chair, etc. Station on late for detention. Strong. (Eduardo Lentejas) 4029 ASIATIC RUSSIA: Tolodinsk Mayak 1215-1245 w/ YL in Russian saying "The amiable calendar is leaning against the glossy smoke. The detergent cruelly runs through the vinyl. My sister's wedding is self-contained." (Jack Mann) I didn't know you spoke Russian, too! -ed 4820 ECUADOR: Radio Guerra y Mal 1025 w/ Sp hymns, sermon on "La Teologia de la Destrucion". YL threatened any stations causing them QRM with a drive-by machine-gunning. (Eduardo Lentejas) 4960 PERU: Radio Sin Merced 0905 I don't know what they were doing to the announcer, but it sure sounded terrible. I haven't heard anyone beg and scream like that since the night at the '75 SASWACON convention when we tied Hank Borington up and burned his QSL collection up in front of him! (Jack Bradbury) So that's why Hank left the hobby! -ed 5025 CUBA: Radio Rebelde 1115 w/ new English segment on sugarcane harvesting techniques. Very exciting! (Temperance Victoria) 5985 TAIWAN: Voice of Free China via WYFR in English at 0335 w/ "Mailbag Slot". Hosts Amethyst and Garnet read letters, giggled a lot, and promised a free set of dinnerware to everyone who wrote in. Awfully kind of them! (Will Cedoux) Why do you think they call it the Voice of "Free China"? -ed 6070 CANADA CFRX in English at 2200 w/ call-in pgm. One Ontario caller claimed to be listening to their shortwave outlet, which the announcer denounced as "rubbish". (Andre Carbonneau) 6095 USA: WLIQ 0415 w/ ad for Harry Exeter's new book, "So You Lost Your Shortwave Radio". (Dan Morgan) 6120 NICARAGUA: Radio Cinica 2338 w/ OM in English signing off, "since nothing we do would make any differance anyway," then pulled the plug. Perhaps a positive trend in 49 meters! (Eduardo Lentejas) 6240 PIRATE: Fallen Star Radio 0200 w/ interviews of Peter Frampton, Shaun Cassidy. Bio of Andy Gibb. (Jack Man) 6274 PERU: Radio Chota 0215-0245 w/ program "Great Floor Tiles of the Andes" (Jack Bradbury) 6470 MEXICO: XENON at 0900 with pgm "The Joys of Sniffing Inert Gases". The announcer sounded aquamarine. (Christina Van Helder) 6905 CLANDESTINE: Radio Escucharemos (We Shall Listen) w/ talks denoncing the cellular telephone industry and chain stores that sell them in malls (Don Badger). Believe this affiliated with PEAR - the People's ECPA Army of the Revolution, which has guerilla fronts in the Smokeys, Ozarks, and Northern Wisconsin - ed. 6969 PIRATE: Voice of Piece w/ "Popular Bordellos of Kansas" satire. Usual pleasing profanity, insults, and sexual innuendos. It's a shame that these guys can't get an FM license. Noted to 0069* (Dillon Hollister) I thought they signed on at that time -ed 7414 PIRATE: Radio Free Alternative Radio. New pirate claiming the need for innovative programming hrd at 0350 w/ reruns of the Larry King Show (Clay Hastings) 0430 w/ Beatles music (Carson Humboldt) 7447 GUADELOUPE R Guadeloupe FG8HA w/ nx in French at 2300 followed by ID. Reactivated one time test just for me. Sorry I forgot to pass this on ahead of time (Bill Rumbley). That's OK you *#$%&*(@*#! -ed 9505 JAPAN: Radio Japan in EE at 1445 w/ "One in A Hundred Million Program" featuring an 89 year old Lesbian bee keeper from Hokkaido who in her spare time breeds peregrine falcons, researches quantum physics, and works Urdu crossword puzzles. (David Blunt) They call that unique! Sounds just like my Aunt Sylvia! -ed 9565 DENMARK: Radio Components, Copenhagen *0200 w/ reactivation of NAm service. Talks about coil assemblies, IF transformers, wave traps, switches, dials, knobs and other technical stuff. Almost as interesting as listening to Tirana's brick production statistics! (Carson Humboldt) Nothing beats Tirana's brick production statistics! -ed 9660 CUBA: Radio Marti hrd at 0050 in broken Spanish w/ program about Castro's mother. Wish I could have met her while I was in college. (Bill Dernoff) 12035 CLANDESTINE: Voice of Afghani Psychology *1530 - 1605* w/ dream recitations (Clay Hastings) 12095 SYRIA: Radio Damascus 2000 in English w/ IS, ID, nx, talk, mx, ID, talk, TC, mx (Phil Candaro) I'm glad my comments of "details please" haven't gone unnoticed. -ed 13795 EUROPIRATE: Radio Amore found at 1100 with heavy breathing in Italian; a nice way to start a Sunday morning! (Felipe Lentejas) Are you sure? Sked in last month's Listeners' Trashbag lists them as on with cries and whispers and Swedish at this time slot -ed. 13798 EUROPIRATE: Radio Amore slightly off frequency at 1215 w/ sweet nothings in Bulgarian - a real turn on! (Christina Van Helder) 15070 THATCHERLESS BRITAIN: BBC 2000 w/ world nx followed by interview of Heimlich on his new maneuvers for picking up girls. (Dillon Hollister) 15460 USA: VOA 1800 w/ Eng nx then anmt "The following is a commentary reflecting the political knowledge of Vice President Dan Quayle". Then five minutes of dead air. (Christina Van Helder) ************************************************************** The above items were excerpted from the 1989 edition of BLANDX, the annual DX humor magazine. Contributions are currently being accepted for the 1993 edition of BLANDX. This file and other DX humor files from BLANDX posted to rec.radio.shortwave may be reposted electronically in their entirety and without changes anywhere provided a message is sent to me informing me where it is being posted to and by whom. Anyone wishing to use this material in a publication should contact me first, although permission will normally be freely given. ************************************************************ * * Don Moore * What were once vices * MOORE@tmu1.mcrest.edu * are now * 11434 140th St. * good DXing habits. * Davenport, IA * * 52804-9538 USA * BLANDX 1990 * * * ************************************************************