lm1:rm80 ******************************************************************************* Here we go starting off a new year.I hope that all of you out here have a great 1989.Also with this issue this column will cover Asia-Middle East till Stewart finds a new editor,so next month send your logs for that section to yours truly!Now let's take a time out to thank the folks who took time to report. JASON BERRI-TORRANCE,CA-ATS803 CRAIGG CALVERTON-EVESHAM,ST.VINCENT- ARTHUR FEARS-MT.VERNON,IL-DX400- HAROLD FRODGE-ISLAND LAKE,MI-R71A LARRY KORIVA-FULLERTON,CA-R2000 DALE PARK-HONOLULU,HI-ICF6700W/ATS803 DICK PARKER-ZANESVILLE,OH-FRG7 Now let's move onto the logs!! ******************************************************************************* `ALL TIMES IN UTC `ALL FREQS IN KILOHERTZ `AUSTRALIA 6060 1318 Radio Australia/EE/ YL with feature on foreign medical students in Australia <333 12-03 Frodge MI> 6080 1321 RA/EE/ Noted //6060<323 12-03 Frodge MI> 6140 1403 RA/EE/ OM with feature on Aussie family conditions and other news;sports and weather @1406 to pop music <232 12-04 Frodge MI> 7205 1332 RA/EE/ OM with sports feature u/SSB QRM <222 12-03 Frodge MI> 7215 1226 RA/EE/OM with pop music and lottery numbers <333 12-04 Frodge MI> 9580 1225 RA/EE/ prior days propagation and weather report<444 12-01 Fears IL> 11720 0002 RA/EE/ World news and sports with Australia beating New Zealand in soccer 2-1 and Australian news <344 10-12 Craigg St.Vincent> 15240 *2100 RA/ IS and full ID by OM and time pips into world news <333 11-16 Trotto FL> 15365 2458 RA/II/ Full ID at 2459 then IS and off at 0100* <232 ll-13 Trotto FL> 17715 0729 RA/EE/ Freq info;"Communicator" on TV New Zealand's costly expansion into Niue Island and review of "Eavesdroper" trap antenna <233 11-27 Park HI> 17795 0129 RA/EE/ Saxophone music selection and feature on town in New South Wales celebrating its centennial <343 11-09 Kopriva CA> `GUAM 9820 1450 KTWR/CC/ Comments concerning Vietnam and church music @1457 YL with ID at 1458 and s-off at 1520<322 11-18 Parker OH> 11805 0945 KTWR/EE/ Reliougous programming <222 12-01 Fears IL> 11980 1415 KSDA(t)/CC-EE/ Vocal music and partial ID in EE <222 11-01 Parker OH> `INDONESIA 9675 2005 Voice of Indonesia/EE/ OM with news;instrumental music;Listen- ers Mailbag <432 10-09 Craigg St.Vincent> `JAPAN 6055 0830 RCI via NSB/JJ/ IS layed on a IBM pc;"Canada This Week" with Quebecois rock music and talk on national elections <333 11-19 Park HI> 6280 0242 Radio Japan/JJ/ OM + YL with Japanese pop music//5960 via RCI <222 12-04 Frodge MI> 9645 0305 RJ/EE/ DX Program "One in a Hundred Million" @0315 with Japan- ese features;QRM Havana at 9655 <322 12-04 Frodge MI> 11815 1702 RJ/EE/ News read by YL and frequent IDs;"Japan Scene"<544 11- 06 Kopriva CA> 11870 0510 RJ/EE/ OM with Japanese news to 0515;"This Week" with YL + OM with news features <333 ll-03 Frodge MI> 15325 *0500 RJ/RR/ IS and ID in Japanese by female and English by OM into Russian lang program hosted by OM and YL <333 11-12 Trotto FL> `MALAYSIA 4835 1445 Radio Malaysia/Malay/Pop music followed by ID @1445 <322 10-28 <322 10-28 Kelly CA> `MARIANA ISLANDS 11900 1355 KYOI/EE/ Pop music and ID @1400 <444 11-14 Parker OH> `NEW ZEALAND 15150 0445 Radio New Zealand/EE/ News about PLO-Israel recognition //17705 <322 11-14 Parker OH> 17705 0445 RNZ/EE/ OM and YL with guest speakers on politics and govern- ment <222 11-01 Parker OH> `PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3385 1244 Radio East New Britain/EE/Pidgin/ EE pops and hymns and vocals in Pidgin;OM with anoucements in Pidgin and TC's in English; sign off at 1300? obliterated by RTTY <333 12-03 Frodge MI> `PHILIPPINES 6110 1733 Voice of America/EE/ OM dicussing presidential polls,endorse- ments and other campaign news;report on why voters choose "none of the above" or leave the ballot blank;QRM USSR 6115 <322 11-05 Park HI> 9800 *0900 FEBC/Manarin/ Abruptly on with IS and ID "I guo kwan dientai" (?) and annoucements into talk;"FEBC" not mentioned so be careful in ID'ing <333 12-05 Park HI> 11850 1030 FEBC/EE/ Pop music and "Back to the Bible" <312 12-01 Fears IL> 15210 1835 VOA-Relay/EE/ News in S-P-E-C-I-A-L English <444 11-13 Parker OH> 17735 2320 VOA-Relay/EE/ The top rated hits review ID as "VOA Saturday Morning Program"<444 11-18 Parker OH> 21490 0837 VOA/RR/ OM and YL with post mortem report on US prexy elections including sound bites of Bush//15325 <222 11-10 Park HI> `SINGAPORE 3915 1636 BBC-Relay/EE/ Program of traditional bluesy jazz music with comments by male host <222 12-07 Park HI> 6065 1436 BBC-Relay/VV/ YL with talk and mentions of Vietnam and Kamp- uchea and music <333 11-02 Berri CA> 9740 1037 BBC-Relay/EE/ "Two Cheers for October",satirizing last month's news,not necessarilly <444 11-03 Park HI> `SOCIETY ISLANDS 15170 0448 Radio Tahiti/TT-FF/ Telephone conversations and island music <333 11-01 Parker OH> `SOLOMON ISLANDS 5020 0950 Solomon Islands Broadcasting/EE/ Radio Australia news to 0958 OM freqs to BBC news at 1000 to 1010;ads ID "Happy Isles" QRM/white noise and 5030 Impacto<222 12-03 Frodge MI> `TAIWAN 6087p 1440 CBS-Taipei/CC/ Service to Pacific;pop music and OM + YL with talk;jammed <312 11-02 Berri CA> 7130p 1450 VOFC-Taipei/JJ/ OM + YL with talk and Chinese music;jammed <323 11-01 Berri CA> 9680 0226 VOFC/EE/ Talk on diffences between Reagan and Bush;ID and address at 0230//11740 and 5965 <444 12-01 Fears IL> 15055 1400 VOFC-WYFR/EE/ IS @ 1402 ID WYFR relay from Taiwan <222 11-16 Parker OH> ******************************************************************************* Well gals and guys this is all for the logs this time around.Don't forget that I will be doing ASIA-MIDDLE EAST as well as,the PACIFIC next month so get those logs into the CDE-Lani Pettit or directly to me!!! Also, I will be uploading this column to HAMNET on COMPUSERV again. It took awile to get my modem hooked up after our recent move.So hopefully this will give the ASWLC some added PR. If any of the other editors have access to COMPUSERV why don't you do the same.Or if you can me a copy of your column on a C-64 disk I can upload your column as well!!!!! ****************************************************************************** All that is left to say is BEST of 73 to all you!!! AND HAVE A GREAT '89!! pete The above column is the PACIFIC section column from the AMERICAN SHORT-WAVE Listener's Club(ASWLC).This column is edited by PETE GRENIER,COVINA,CA. CIS #74156,56. If you like to see a sample copy of the ASWLC monthly bulletin,"SWL" please mail $2.00 to cover postage to: ASWLC 16182 BALLAD LANE HUNTINGTON BEACH,CA 92649 Please mention that you saw this column on CIS!!! Thank you!!