Shortwave Log, Northern Germany, February 2012: Feel the Tibetan Happiness

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Recent Radio History

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Radio Impacto, Costa Rica: semi-clandestine, but happy to confirm your sintonía.

Don Moore, of the Association of North American Radio Clubs, described Radio Impacto‘s anti-Sandinista propaganda efforts in an article published in 1992, less than two years after the station had closed down.

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Recent Shortwave Logs

International Telecommunication Union letter codes used in the table underneath:
ARS – Saudi Arabia; CHN – China; CUB -Cuba; IND – India; TIB – Tibet.

Languages (“L.”):
A – Arabic; C – Chinese; E – English; F – French; S – Spanish.

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kHz	Station	Ctry	L.	Day	Time GMT	S	I	O
5025	RHC Habana	CUB	S.	Febr 19	21:40	2	3	2
4920	PBS Tibet1)	TIB	E.	Febr 22	22:55	4	3	3
17615	Riyadh	ARS	A.	Febr 23	15:42	4	5	4
17660	Riyadh	ARS	F.	Febr 23	15:48	4	5	4
7550	All India Radio	IND	E.	Febr 23	21:55	4	5	4
4920	PBS Tibet	TIB	E.	Febr 23	22:30	4	4	4
5060	PBS Xinjiang2)	CHN	C.	Febr 23	23:30	4	3	3

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Notes / Soundtracks

¹⁾ Listen to PBS Tibet in English, and you may feel the happiness and energy of these Tibetan young people as Tibetan New Year is here. Interesting sample of local soft-power efforts there.
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²⁾ “The East is Red” – once the identification tune of Radio Beijing (now China Radio International) is still in use on PBS Xinjiang.
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Related

» Do We Need a Common Losar, High Peaks, Pure Earth, Febr 20, 2012
» Previous Logs, November 2011

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