I stayed up too late last night, but here's a few of the rewards...

**CANADA, CKZU-CBU, Vancouver B.C., 6160, 0600z-0645z, playing CBC
Radio 1 program of oldies in English. SINPO = 35323. Fun program,
host gives lots of etymology and history for the songs. Me like.
Wrote a reception report.

**CHINA, China Radio Int'l. via Xian-Xianjiang, 11620, 0803z through
0850z; English broadcast for Asia, SINPO = 35333. "Heartbeart"
program plus Listener's Garden, in which, surprisingly to me, I again
heard a letter of mine read :-) Wrote a reception report.

**MONGOLIA, V. Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, 12085, 0859z (IS) through 0930z
in Japanese and at various times the next 1.5 hours. SINPO = 13221,
improving to 25332. The early part of this full 2-hour block starts
off weak, but by the 1-hour mark it is strong enough to write a fair
reception report. Unfortunately, that puts it in the cusp of the
Mongolian-Mandarin language block, neither of which provides an
especially easy translation. After the 1.5 hour mark it switches to
English, but not before it briefly goes off the air to reorient the
antenna to a near N-S pattern, thereby negating the influenced of
improved propagation path. Oh, well - there's always September...

**PAPUA-NEW GUINEA, Fly Radio, 5960, various times 0600z - 1100z.
SINPO = 13221. Always a bridesmaid but never a bride, Fly R. gave a
notable carrier every time I sampled the frequency, but only
occasionally did I hear the faintest hint of audio. Everyone is
hearing this thing, so what I am I doing wrong? QRM from stations
adjacent came and went, never a big problem. Noise was bad, as is
usually the case.

**PERU (?), R. Los Andes *OR* R. Virgen de la Alta, 5030, 1035z-1040z,
SINPO = 22432. Heard what sounded like a Spanish language song
followed by talk by a female host, who then unexpectedly went into a
chant in a language that did *not* sound like Spanish. Only other
possible in that time slot is Malaysia RTM Sarawak in Malay, and it
clearly did not sound like *that*, so - this gets a tentative from
me. R. Rebelde 5025, as usual, rains on its parade a bit. Will give
this some more time as time permits; the signal was rather good for
what is likely to be a 5 kW station.

**ZAMBIA, The Voice (R. Christian Voice, CVC), Lusaka, 9430, 0525z
onward, SINPO = 35333. English Christian features. Africa was doing
an A-1 job last night, with this station and TWR Swaziland 70 kHz
higher at 9500 both doing well. Other southern African stations were
doing well too. So, for some reason, this is the first night running
where R. Conakry on 7125 makes no appearance, even when 4025 kHz
(possibly tiny Star Radio, Liberia) reveals a carrier.

Bruce Jensen
(California, USA)