BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

the 0330 UT listed in EMWG and WRTH. This makes it even harder to catch
these stations in Europe due to propagation.
(Stefan Schliephacke-D, staying in Uganda, dswci DXW Jan 23)
ETHIOPIA 5950 Voice of Tigrey Rev, Mekele, *0355-0420, Jan 20, Sign on
with IS. Talk at 0400. Horn of Africa music. No // 's heard. Fair level
but mixing with Radio Taiwan Int via Okeechobee, Florida.
7110 Radio Ethiopia, 2035-2101*, Jan 19, Horn of Africa music. Amharic
talk. Sign off with National Anthem at 2100. Fair. // 5990-very weak.
9704v-not heard lately.
(Brian Alexander-PA-USA, hcdx Jan 20)
"Listeners are encouraged to call and inform VOA which line is jammed and
which one is clear and the cat and mouse game will go on for the near
future. It is sad VOA's board is not coming out in the open and give its
ultimatum to the Ethiopian regime."
(Tedla Asfaw, AfricanPath, 17 Jan. via kimandrewelliott.com via dxld)
There are reports that Ethiopian authorities are jamming some
international radio broadcasts, a charge the Ethiopian government denies.
The stations allegedly affected are the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle
(DW) and the Voice of America (VOA). The chairperson of the East and Horn
of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network, Hassan Shire Shiek, says the
Ethiopian government has created stations to deliberately disrupt the
signals of DW and VOA's Amharic and Oromifa programs.
Shiek, who is currently in Toronto, Canada, told VOA reporter Douglas
Mpuga that the Ethiopian authorities are denying the people what he called
their basic right to know what is going on in their country. He says the
situation centers on the coverage of the controversial May 2005 elections,
the Ogaden crisis and the Ethiopian government's involvement in Somalia.
"The government has been cracking down on democratic forces, including
legitimate voices of the Ethiopian people, such as civil society,
political leaders and media houses," he said. He added, "To deny the
Ethiopian people the right to information, they (the Ethiopian government)
have started targeting international broadcasters the only source of
independent information." Shiek said, "Ethiopian involvement in Somalia is
increasingly being questioned following the displacement of close to a
million people and the highlight of grave violations of international
humanitarian and human rights law in Mogadishu. So the (Ethiopian)
government has become jittery."
But the Ethiopian government spokesperson, Zemedkun Tekle, described the
allegations as baseless. Zemedkun told VOA that jamming international
radio broadcasts is against [Ethiopian] government policy. "Maybe it is
technical problems, but we are not aware that any broadcasts are being
jammed. Those are utterly baseless allegations."
Together, VOA's and DW's Amharic language broadcasts reach some 20 million
listeners in Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea and hundreds of thousands of
Ethiopians in the United States, Europe and other parts of Africa. VOA
also broadcasts to Ethiopia in the Orofima and Tigirinyi languages.
(Douglas Mpuga-DC-USA, Jan 16 at
via Gupta; dswci DXW Jan 23)
GERMANY 6265 Intermodulation at 0810 UT on Nov 18, SIO 222, Bible Voice
Broadcasting via Juelich, mixing product of 5945 and 6105 kHz English.
(Tim Bucknall-UK, Jan BrDXC-UK Communication magazine)
5955 Democratic V. of Burma Jan 02 2331-2349 44444 Burmese, Talk, ID at