Here are some of my occasional short wave observations with short audio samples
Location: North-East part of the St.Petersburg city
Receiver: Drake R8A
Antenna: long wire (30 m)
All time in UTC
Frequencies in kHz
9510 1214'30-1244'30 ROU Echo of Europe, Saftica, 13/01, English, OM/YL dialogues, fragment of Italian song, IRRS ID and postal address, UN news bulletin at 1230'38 - good with slight fading and weak utility signal on 9511
12085 1049-1057'48* MNG Voice of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, 13/01, English, YL short talks, Mongolian pop and folk songs - fair and better with fading, local noise and slightly distorted audio
9665.00 1035'30-1045'30 KRE KCBS Pyongyang, Kanggye, 13/01, Korean, YL talk - strong signal and almost good with fading and local noise
9480 0937-0959'59* D Radio Atlantic 2000, Schwerin Goehren, 13/01, French/English, OM short talks with ID, frequencies, e-mail and site address, a lot of nice western oldies - almost good with slight fading, local noise and CNR in Tibetan in the background
11980.06 0840-0914* UKR Radio Dniprovska Khvylya, Zaporozh'ye, 13/01, relay Ukrainian Radio 1st program with OM/YL talks about national economics and then bandura music, 0855 local program with Ukrainian folk and pop songs - fair with fading and local noise, // http://89.187.1.165/NRCU1 with 21 seconfs delay till 0855, heterodyne with CRI Kunming starting from 0855'12
9760 0653-0723 J Radio Nikkei, Chiba-Nagara, 13/01, Japanese, mostly OM/YL talks - weak-poor with fading and strong local DRM-like noise
9664.93 0601-0615 B Radio Voz Missionaria, Camboriu, 13/01, Portuguese, OM/YL short talks with mention of frequencies, slow religious songs - poor-fair with fading and local noise
6090 0403-0415 ETH Radio Amhara, Addis Ababa, 13/01, Amharic, OM news with two YL/OM reports and short fragments of instrumental music in the pauses, 0413'03 YL/OM short talks, local song - almost good with slight fading, local noise, Cariibbean Beacon in the background and distorted audio
5915 0336-0352 ZMB Radio 1, Lusaka, 13/01, Vernacular, YL/OM dialogues, local pop songs - fair with fading and local noise
4750 2224-2234 CHN PBS Qinghai, Xining, 12/01, Chinese, YL talk, 2229'40 OM short talk and then CNR1 program starting from 2230'08 - fair with fading, local noise and one more Chinese station in the background
2850 2112-2122 KRE KCBS Pyongyang, Pyongyang, 12/01, Korean, YL/OM talks, 2120'22 Korean song - fair with fading and local noise
6035.03 1933-2005 BTN Bhitan BS, Thimphu with prolonged schedule, 12/01, non stop songs and local music - poor and weaker than usually, QRM from both sides (Bible Voice, ETH and Iran)
6050 1813-1845 KWT Radio Kuwait, Sulaibiyah, 12/01, Arabic, YL sport news with mention of Stoke City vs Chelse FC match (0-4) and musical theme in the pauses, Arabic modern song, OM talks with orchestral music - good with some QRM from CRI on 6055
9680.05 2314-2323 INS RRI Jakarta, Jakarta-Cimanggis, 07/01, Indonesian, OM/YL talks, orchestral music - poor-weak under local noise
6130 2215-2240 LAO Lao National Radio, Vientiane, 07/01, OM/YL talks in unidentified South-East Asian language, fragments of local music - weak under PBS Xizang in LSB (as LNR was on some Hertz below 6130) with 4 kHz bandwidth and local noise
6060 0628-0647'48*, *0650'22-0703'19* CUB Radio Habana Cuba, 07/01, English, reports about U.S. blockade against Cuba, Mailbap weekend edition, Cuban songs - good with slight fading and local noise with sudden transmitter off at betweb 0647 and 0650, // 6125 and 6165 both with fair signal
9505 0508-0548 SDN Sudan Radio, Omdurman/Al-Aitahab, 07/01, Sudanese Arabic, YL talk during some minutes and then audio problems (extremely low audio level/no audio), again with good audio level starting from 0527'50 with local songs and OM talk - almost good-fair with fading and local noise, slight QRM from 9500 (TWR)
7260 *2300'00-2310 MNG Mongolian Radio, Ulaanbaatar, 06/01, Mongolian, interval signals, ID, national anthem, YL/OM talks - poor-fair with QRM from 7250 (CRI) and local noise
2485 2035-2045 AUS ABC Northern Territory, Katherine, 06/01, English, YL/OM talks - poor with local noise, // 2325 weak-poor under local noise, and 4835 poor-fair
11600 1928-1948 LBY Radio Lybia, 06/01, Arabic, short OM/YL talks with IDs, modern Arabic songs, 1944'15 OM talk with guitar music in the background - strong, but fair only due to deep fading and local noise
4750 1701-1706'48* BGD Radio Bangladesh Betar, Dhaka, 06/01, Bengali, OM news and comments - fair with fading and local noise
9780.1 1405-1434 YEM Radio Yemen, Sana'a, 06/01, Arabic, OM and YL talks with mentions of Syria and Darfur, fragments of Arabic songs, etc. - fair with QRM from 9785 (CRI and TRT), // 6135 almost good
7250 1320-1344'36* BGD Radio Bangladesh Betar, Dhaka, 06/01, Nepali, OM talks, Bangla songs, 1343'41 final OM announcement with postal and site addresses - strong and almost good with noticeable transmitter hum and slight QRM from both sides
15250 1219-1230'16* ARS BSKA, Riyadh, 06/01, English, YL talks, instrumental Arabic music, final YL announcement and western pop song - fair and better with local noise and slight fading
11520 1135-1205 USA EWTN, Vandiver, 06/01, English, Crossing the Goal show with OM dialogue and many ETWN announcements, 1202 next show from Ireland called Celtic Connections - almost good with slight fading and local noise, // http://www.ewtn.com/ then Radio, then Listen Live and then EWTN Radio with 3 seconds delay only
9765 0937-1005'05 NZL Radio New Zealand National, Rangitaiki, 06/01, English, Wayne's Music program with Wayne Mowat, jazz music and and pop songs of the middle of the last century, time pips and Radio New Zealand news and weather report at 1000 - almost good with slight fading and local noise, // http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/live/national/adaptive.asx with 24 seconds delay
6180 0707-0727 B Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 06/01, Portuguese, OM talks including one phone call from listener at 0726, nice Brazilian songs - almost good with fading, local noise and CW QRM, // http://www.ebc.com.br/sobre-a-ebc/veiculos-da-ebc/radios/radio-nacional-da-amazonia with 33 seconds delay
7120 *0329'09-0347 SOM Radio Hargaysa, 06/01, Somali, national anthem, 0330'25 OM talk with ID and site address, Quran singing and reading, 0345 OM talk with some ID, Horn of Africa music- almost good with fading and local noise
6015 *0258'45-0326 TNZ Radio Tanzania, Dole, 06/01, Swahili, short musical fragment, pause, OM talk with musical pauses, OM public speech - fair and better with Urumqui in the background and CRI on 6020