BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

von "Working Visitors" eingestellt worden. Es wird in einem [HCJB German
section] Gebaeude gefilmt und es faellt der Satz "Wir sind hier in der
deutschen Abteilung". Anschliessend wird aussen gefilmt.
Diese Filmaufnahme zeigt auch eindeutig den Innenhof von Radio HCJB, da
man teilweise die Sat-Antennen sieht. Viel Spass beim anschauen.
(Florian Usner-D, A-DX Apr 3)
ERITREA 7999.4 heavily jammed, at 1700 UT a short pause and I could
hear a female voice announcing something about Somalia, then the jammer
returned. Recheck around 1745, no jamming there and the program was
possibly VOBME 2nd program. S/off 1800 with N/A.
(Jari Savolainen-FIN, hcdx Apr 6)
ETHIOPIA 9560.220 Der franzoesische Dienst von Radio Ethiopia ist
derzeit 1715 UT recht ungestoert auf 9560.220 zu hoeren. Der Sender
wandert aber alleine in den letzten 4 Minuten zwischen 9560.490 und
9560.170 kHz herum.
(Christoph Ratzer-AUT OE2CRM Apr 6)
5980 Voice of Tigrey Revolution, *0355-0410, April 7, sign on with IS.
Amharic talk at 0400 along with occasional Horn of Africa music. Poor.
Weak with adjacent channel splatter. Threshold copy on // 6170.
7209.91, Radio Fana, *0258-0340, April 7, IS. Opening ID announcement at
0301 & into Horn of Africa music. Amharic talk. Weak. Covered by BBC 7210
at *0300-0329* UT. Radio Fana audible after BBC sign off at 0329. Better
signal on // 6110 kHz.
(Brian Alexander-PA-USA, hcdx Apr 7)
FRANCE 11835 [Unid] at April 5 at 2144 UT with ME music, lyrix "Allah
akhbar", G signal, still on at 2206 in Arabic talk, but weaker. Nothing
listed, but I suspect this is Algeria's Qur'an service, perhaps an
extension from the 1800-2000 UT listing for Issoudun on 11835 kHz for
southern Algeria and West Africa. It's sure hard to keep up with the
correct current schedule for this.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld Apr 6)
Paid religion bcasts via Isssoudun France. One transmission was missing
from the original posting, so here's the completed list:
Gospel for Asia: 1530-1630 on 13750
Bible Voice Broadcasting: 1625-1715/29 on 13580, Mon-Fri only
Adventist World Radio: 1630-1700 and 1730-1759 on 17575
HCJB in German: 1700-1800 on 6015.
It could be interesting to see how much use RFI still makes of Issoudun,
has anybody seen a compact schedule for their shortwave transmissions?
Some background: RFI made a 20 years contract for shortwave transmissions
with TDF in 1991 (i.e. it expires in just three years, so big changes
could be possible then). It included a modernization project which
originally called for new transmitters at Allouis and Issoudun, the new,
now widely known antenna system developed for this project thus got the
name ALLISS.
In the end 12 ALLISS units were built at Issoudun between 1992 and 1996,
using the grounds previously occupied by the antennas of a 1961 vintage
transmitter complex called Centre C. RFI uses only the new ALLISS units
anymore, but TDF also kept a complex of eight 500 kW transmitters built
around 1973, called Centre E. Some of their DRM experiments use the Centre
E transmitters (it appears that at present two Centre E transmitters and
two ALLISS units have DRM modulators), they had also been used by LJB.
Maybe some of the new customers have been put on these transmitters as