BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

Weak signal on 7510 at 1430 tune-in but improved to fair by 1600 UT.
Programming is in a Turkic-sounding language, presumably Azeri. It sounds
like a relay of the Gunaz TV audio channel.
Transmitter site is probably Armenia.
(Dave Kenny-UK, BrDXC-UK ng Dec 29)
Dave, I checked 7510 a little bit late around FROM 1435 UT ONWARDS; this
afternoon Dec 29. Usually Ludo Maes keeps the TX location hidden.
And heard some monitoring return information around Europe, weak signal in
GB, only S=2-3 in Germany, only S=4 in Italy, stronger in Greece S=9+15dB,
weak on RMS Armenia post. But always not as strong as Kurdish program 7540
kHz from Mykolaiev-Ukraine, for comparison.
Neighbours are
7505 FEBC Manila S=7
7525 VOA Tinang-PHL + CHN jammer, S=8.
Aoki list shows Dushanbe site, but guess thats 'to read tea leaves'.
Probably, bcast coming from Armavir Krasnodar - or Samara Russia site,
probably directional antenna at 180 degrees southwards to the Southern
Azerbaijan target. That why the signal is rather bad here in Europe.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 30)
Mostly ISR and US intelligence sce operations feed by $-budget, mostly
given contact P.O.Bs not in WA-DC, but vailed action in Chicago area or
even via Dutch phone number or Vienna Austria P.O.B. - most likely
Israel's embassy connection - area, like against Iraq in the 70- and
80ties.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 29)
History of 'hidden' radio stations to Southern Azerbaijan in 1996-2003:
UNIDENTIFIED RADIO STATIONS R. Free Azerbaijan??
From about late June a station in Azeri/Farsi has been heard
1530-1630 UTC mixing with R. Netherlands to South Asia. The QRM was
bad making ID difficult. However, on 25 July an ID sounding" ...Azadese
Azerbaijane..." was heard before it s-off at 1630 UTC. The word "Azad" or
similar sounding ones all mean 'free' in the central asiatic languages as
any DXer would know. So at once we presumed this was a clandestine and
sought the help of BBC_M and we were thrilled to get the following info
from Chris Greenway and we quote
"Victor,
Thanks for this. This is definitely a scoop for you as we only heard about
the existence of this station on 25th July, so it was interesting to know
that you've been hearing it for a while. It appears to be aimed at
so-called "southern Azerbaijan", i.e. Azerbaijan province in northwestern
Iran, rather than the Republic of Azerbaijan itself. It's an ANTI-Iranian
operation. It's early days yet but I hope we'll be able to let you know
more soon."
(Chris Greenway, BBC_M, July 1996)
So we thank the ever helpful BBC Monitoring for shedding light on the
station. Tnx Chris.
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