From news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!news.tele.fi!uunet!gumby!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail Thu May 20 16:00:51 EET DST 1993 Article: 20251 of rec.radio.shortwave Path: news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!news.tele.fi!uunet!gumby!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: MOORE@tmu1.mcrest.edu ("Don Moore" ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Subject: DX Humor - Loggings Date: 19 May 1993 13:06:38 -0500 Organization: Teikyo Marycrest University Lines: 142 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu TYPICAL BAD LOGGINGS: Edited by Don Badger 5030 COSTA RICA: Radio Extincto no longer hrd in several checks (Mann) 5044 COSTA RICA: Radio Deflato 0339-0356 w/ sounds of air being let out of an air mattress. Ancr said they didn't need it anymore. (Van Helder) 5050 COLOMBIA: La Voz del Yodel w/ Swiss bluegrass mx. Pleased to finally catch this one! (Finelli) Why? It didn't take any particular skill you bozo! I called you and told you they were on! -ed 5286 CHAD: R Fondue *0500 w/ usual great recipes (Rumbley) 5955 PERU: R Juan Cayo 0930 w/ speech by Juan who is running for governor. He promised that under his administration there would be a kitchen in every bathroom. I'm glad I studied French! (Rumbley) 5975 DISUNITED KINGDOM: BBC 2315 w/ "Mime Theatre" program (Rumbley) 5985 USA: Voice of Free China relay, *0200-0230 w/ nx, then "Let's Learn Impractical Chinese". Boy, are these guys a riot! (Kyle) 6070 CANADA: CFRX 2215 w/ "Infamous European Cuisine" program. Man described how to peel a gerbil (Dernoff) Just don't try to grate them! ed 6145 PERU: R Concordia 1215 w/ grape juice ads. After logging this, I am no longer plagued by self-doubt! (Hollister) 6155 HUNGARY: R Budapest *2255 w/ IS, ID, then small rodent noises w/ EZL mx in background. Really relaxes my gerbils (Badger). Just don't let them listen to CFRX! -ed 7344 CLANDESTINE: Voice of Damnation 0234-0405* denouncing religious broadcasters. Plugs for the International Assn of Satanic DXers. I've heard that their QSLs are banned in Florida. (Hastings) 7415 PIRATE: Voice of Sore Throats 0930-1000 w/ ads for throat lozenges, cough drops. This shouldn't be on the radio. It could be contagious. (Hollister) I agree. I caught the flu after listening -ed. 7416 PIRATE: Samurai Radio 0150-0206* w/ biographies of great Albanians. (Mann) 7460 GREECE: VoGreece 0130 w/ ancr growling out the nx in EE. His tone of voice sent shivers up my spine and caused Denny the DX Dalmation to hide under the bed! (Bradbury) I hope those throat diseases don't make it over here - ed. 9475 EGYPT: R Cairo 1900-1935 w/ man talking in Arabic. The program was totally incoherent and made no sense at all to me. Would that be because I don't understand Arabic? (Badger) Naw, probably the pizzas you had for lunch - ed. 9660 USA: WYRR, Your Reactionary Radio 2330 EE w/ cmty on why God wants them to ignore natural disasters in their backyard (Bradbury). 9680 UZBEKISTAN: Radio Trash Kent 1200-1215 in EE w/ reports of latest ethnic riots. Sounds of breaking bottles in background (Carbonneau) 9680 CLANDESTINE: Voice of Yesterday 2330 w/ three barbers praising the way Hitler parted his hair. Nothing about the dogs this time. According to DX Repression, in '79 they had a branch office in Allentown, PA (Mann) 9683 TANZANIA: R Tanzania 1735 EE w/ nx. Suddenly someone broke into the studio and a big argument broke out about some stolen love letters. Very confusing, but a lot of fun once they started throwing records at each other. (Rumbley) 9755 USA: WLIQ, The Voice of the International Inquirer, 0330 EE interviewing an expert who predicted that within 25 years piranha would evolve to walk on land. Said schools of roving piranha would terrorize Amazon villages. Sounds grizzly! (Santos) 9770 LIBYA: R Jamirayah *2000-2030 w/ new "Manners With Moammar" programme on elegant eating, "promoting the never-ending struggle to promote good table manners among the world's underclass. Join us each week as Colonel Moammar Qadaffi gently leads us through the world of etiquette." (Jack Bradbury) Sounds enlightening. I'm sure most DXers could use it! -ed. 11750 CYPRUS: BBC 0230 w/ "The World Today" and a feature on witch-burning in rural Cameroons. (Collar) 11770 CHINA, PRO: R Beijing 0215 w/ pgm "How Not to Cook Chinese Food", or was it "How to Not Cook Chinese Food"? (Santos) 11865 EGYPT: R Cairo 0230 EE w/ "Let's Learn to Speak English with an Egyptian Accent". My kids listen to this every night, and their teacher thinks they're Egyptian! (Framus) I wish more broadcasters would do this. I'd love to speak English with a Serbian accent. It would be a great way to terrorize the neighbors -ed. 15070 ASCENCION: BBC 0045 w/ "Just A Goddam Minute" pgm, new from Murdoch's BBC. Contestant tries to cram as much profanity as he can into a one minute diatribe on a selected topic (Van Helder) 2230 w/ "From Our Own Psychic" (Hastings) 15140 NORWAY: RN 1700 EE. Good to know someone overseas still imports American cars. They had a long program about the Fords of Norway. Ancr did have a slight pronounciation problem, though. (Badger) 15155 ECUADOR: HCJB 0210 w/out turtle soup recipes (Santos) 15220 HUNGARY: R Budapest 1930 EE w/ "Let's Learn to Speak Broken Hungarian" lessons. (Lentejas) 17660 SOVIET DISUNION: R Moscow 1742 playing Neil Sedaka's "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" (Barrios) 17705 USA: WYRR *1700 w/ usual interval signal - instr version of "How Great Thy Dollar Art" (Dernoff) 17775 SWEDEN: R Sweden *0830 to Eastern North America. Good time slot! (Mann) 17885 CHINA, PRO: R Beijing 0110 EE w/discussion of personnel problems at station. Management had just announced that "The daily beatings will continue until morale improves." (Van Helder) I hear they're lending technical help to Radio Sin Merced - ed. 21470 ASCENCION: BBC 1415 w/ "Anything Goes" pgm. WOW!! Anything really does go, now that Murdoch's taken over!! (Bradbury) 21650 PAKISTAN: RP 0240 in EE w/ "Let's Learn to Mumble in Urdu" pgm (Van Helder) ************************************************************** The above items were excerpted from the 1990 edition of BLANDX, the annual DX humor magazine. Contributions are currently being accepted for the 1993 edition of BLANDX. This file and other DX humor files from BLANDX posted to rec.radio.shortwave may be reposted electronically in their entirety and without changes anywhere provided a message is sent to me informing me where it is being posted to and by whom. 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