REBEL RADIO GOES EASY LISTENING

Radio Rebelde was founded by Che Guevara in 1958. It has gone from
bastion of youthful revolution, and playing Guerilla Commander, to
playing classic American songs and Cuban pop hits. If you listened to
this morning's broadcast, instead of first-hand reports on the battles
against the Batista Army, you would have heard back to back songs by
Nat King Cole ("That's All" and "Mona Lisa") and the Lloyd Price tune
"Personality." The latter was in Spanish. Like a 45 record spinning on
a turntable, Che Guevara must be spinning in his grave. Guevara died
in October of 1967, thus missing Woodstock by two years.

TURKEY & THE HUNGRY HAM

Turkey & The Hungry Ham

I love SWL during the weekend for the variety of programs available,
many of them music related. Particularly enjoyable listening comes
from the Voice of Turkey. Their broadcasts are a pleasant blend of
news, special features, and exotic Turkish music.

And the "hungry ham?" Well that comes from my side trip to SSB and
amateur radio operators. The call sign of one of the hams (who hails
from Colorado) just happened to be W0EAT.

OTHER MUSIC PROGRAMS I ENJOYED

Radio Bulgaria serves up a tasty mix of music in their "Folk Studio"
show which includes some selections in English. Radio Exterior de
Espana was more in the "musica mundo" mode. And CBC Radio One and
Radio2 has a winner in their "Tonic" program (airing Saturday &
Sunday) hosted by Tim Tamashiro. Listen to Diana Krall pealing you a
grape, contemporary vocal artists Michael Buble and Norah Jones, and
the classic Canadian born pianist Oscar Peterson. Bon appetit.

Sunday 23.08.09

7355 KNLS (Alaska, USA) at 0919 Russian, OM & YL Ancrs. Religious
programming with music mix and talk. F signal.
7320 RADIO ROSSII (Russia) at 0928 Russian, OM & YL playing classical
music. F signal.
7275 KBS WORLD (S Korea) at 0936 Korean, YL Ancr. F-G signal.
9880 CHINA RADIO INTL at 0949 Chinese, YL & OM Ancrs. G signal.
9755 FAMILY RADIO (WYFR, USA) at 0953 English, Prgm "Bible Class" w/
Harold Camping. VG signal.
9715 FAMILY RADIO (WYFR, USA) at 0957 Spanish, YL Ancr. Religious
programming. VG signal.
5025 RADIO REBELDE (Habana, Cuba) at 1003-1015 Spanish, Hrd Nat King
Cole singing two of his hits. At 1012 music resorted to Spanish.
RECHECK at at 1130, still playing music mix. G signal.
6170 RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTL at 1018 English, OM w/ news and reports. F
signal.
5970 RADIO FRANCE INTL (via French Guiana) at 1023 Spanish, YL playing
music. S/off at 1030. G signal.
5905 DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Neth. Antilles) at 1032 German, YL
Ancr. G signal.
7325 VOICE OF TURKEY (via Sackville, N.B. Canada) at 0308 English, YL
Ancr. News and music mix. RECHECK at 0320, Hrd OM w/ report on the
Eurotunnel. VG signal.

*7260 & 7186 (SSB) fm 0313-0320 I took a break and dropped in on the
amateur radio band. Listened to hams from Louisiana (F signal) and
Colorado (G signal).

7400 RADIO BULGARIA at 0345 Bulgarian, OM Ancr. I believe the Prgm was
"Folk Studio." Some songs were in English. F signal.
7245 DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Rwanda) English, OM reading Nx and YL
w/ "Newslink" Prgm. F-G signal.
9630 RADIO EXTERIOR DE ESPANA (via Costa Rica) Spanish, YL playing
music mix. VG signal.
9625 CBC RADIO NORD QUEBEC (Canada) at 0413 English, Prgm "Tonic." OM
playing Jazz. QRN w/ co-channel interference fm R Exterior de Espana.
P-F signal.

Richard Bianchino, Las Vegas, NV USA, Kaito KA1103, 32' longwire
antenna, indoor