to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico last week, and
I was able to do a little DXing from our room balcony
on the way from the port of Progreso to Cozumel on
10/10/12, and on the way back from Cozumel on
10/11/12, both times in more or less the same area.
Logs start after my standard disclaimer below:
Country in brackets is the country of transmission. If
two countries are in brackets, first one is transmitter site,
followed by the country of origin. After that, the date,
time and frequency in kHz is listed. I neglected to notate
times on some stations. All times in UTC and all stations
heard on TECSUN PL-380 portable with the radio's
telescoping whip antenna. All stations heard from the
balcony of our stateroom on the starboard side of the
Carnival Triumph cruise ship, halfway between Progreso
and Cozumel, Mexico. Approximate location for both
10/10 and 10/11 loggings is latitude, 21.828187,
longitude -88.308105.
10/10/12
[MEXICO] XEZ 105.1 FM, Grupo Formula Yucatan, Merida.
Business related talk and advertisements in Spanish. Average signal.
Website: http://grupoformulayucatan.com.mx/genteenaccion.html.
[MEXICO] Planeta XHRRF 88.5 FM, Merida. Ad for 'Partido del
Trabajo' (Worker's Party) in Spanish, then music.
[MEXICO] Retro 103.1 FM, Merida, old American pop music, "Power
of Love" by Huey Lewis. Web: http://www.cadenarasa.com/retro/
[CUBA] 2317z, 1620 AM, Radio Rebelde Cuba. Sports and news by
male, station ID heard. SINPO 32222.
[MEXICO] 94.5 FM, XHVG? Two males talk about the Zeta leader
killed recently. I seemed to hear an ID mentioning Radio Formula Yucatan.
[UNIDENTIFIED] 2315z, 1530 AM. OM talk, weak signal. No info
online. VOA per Aoki??? Wrong time, though.
10/11/12
[UNIDENTIFIED] 2216z, 11850 khz. Foreign language talk,
weak. KSDA-AWR Guam, or Vatican Radio per Aoki??? Another
mystery.
[SAUDI ARABIA] 2216z, 11820. Male chant in Arabic. Radio
Riyadh.
[TURKEY] 2218z, 9830. Male reads news in English. Voice of
Turkey per Aoki A12. SINPO 33222.
[CUBA] 2220z, 9810 & 9710. RHC in Spanish, female talks in
piece about historic Cuban hotel. SINPO 44454.
[UNIDENTIFIED] 2222z, 9955. Foreign language, male talk.
34333. Maybe WRMI??
[BONAIRE] 2224z, 15265. NHK World in Japanese transmitted
from the former Netherlands Antilles. SINPO 44444.
[HONDURAS] 2230z, 630 AM. Radio America, "Hora del
Cafe" w/ host Victor Manuel Zelaya, talks to male about the coffee
industry in Honduras. Religious talk at 2259, then news show at
2300, "Expreso Informativo", with various announcers. SINPO
34333. Listened off an on to this station for nearly an hour.
[COLOMBIA] 2305z, 1170 AM. Radio Caracol, ID @ 2309.
Sports news in Spanish by male. Weak, but completely readable.
A real surprise to hear this from the waters off Yucatan.
[MEXICO] 2310z, XHYI , Mix 93.1 FM, Cancun. Pop music
in English, Queen's "I Want To Break Free"... the long version that
I rarely get to hear. Queen's music was everywhere in Progreso
and Cozumel, the Mexicans are obviously fellow fans of the band.
[BRAZIL] 2320z, 11780. R. Nacional da Amazonia, male talk
in Portuguese. Weak signal, but I could tell it was Brazil.
[SPAIN] 2321z, 9535. R. Exterior Espana, news by male in
Spanish, transmitted from Noblejas. SINPO 55455.
[GREECE] 2323z, 9420. Voice of Greece, YL talk in Greek,
SINPO 24232.
[ALBANIA / CHINA] 2324z, 7210. Weak, Chinese/Spanish
language lessons. CRI, transmitted from Cerrik, Albania.
[USA] 2325z, 15000. WWV from Colorado, very weak.
[UNIDENTIFIED] 2330z, 14240. Ham operator? Distorted,
male voice.
[GUATEMALA] 2344z, 4055. Spanish talk, weak. Radio
Verdad, from Chiquimula, Guatemala, per Aoki. This seems
to be an evangelical religious station.
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