BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

Yesterday heard Holy Tibet from 1630-1700 UTC on 594, 4905, 4920, 6110,
6130, 6200 kHz. I have not checked other frequencies, as I preferred to
listen it on 594 kHz MW with good reception as there was a local power cut
at that time.
(Partha Sarathi, Shiliguri-IND, dxld Apr 21)
Lhasa 594 kHz 300 kW at 29 38 56 N 91 15 11 E
CYPRUS 15358 - 15382 range totally covered by typical British Airforce
OHRadar from Limassol Cyprus. 0728 UT Apr 20.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 19/20)
ERITREA/ETHIOPIA/KUWAIT 7185* Voice of the Broad Masses, Asmara, 1835-
1907, 16 Apr'10, Arabic, talks interspersed w/ music,..., newscast at
1900; 45342; // 7175, their usual fq. *) tx malfunction?
6110 R. Fana, Geja Dera (or Geja Jawe?), 1825-1845, 15 Apr'10,
Vernacular, talks, HoA songs; 34342, adj. QRM. // 6890.
6890 ditto, 1826-1846, 15 Apr'10, cf. // 6110; 35342.
7120 (new?) R. Ethiopia-Home Sce., Geja Dera, 1632-1710 (moved to 7110
around 1715), 17 Apr'10, Vernacular, HoA music & songs, talks, audio off
1658-1700, ID, newscast; 45333; // 9704.2 vy. bad.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 18) moved down to 7090
also,wb.
Eritrea on 7185 kHz. I can heard on 7185 kHz at 1535 UT on Apr 15 // 7165
kHz.
(de Hiroshi; via Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN NDXC Apr 15)
On April 19th at 1700/1800 there was a lot of ERI/ETH activity on 6170,
7090, 7095, 7100, 7110, 7165, 7175, 7185, 7210. Not all on the air at the
same time of course. 5950 had two HOA stations at the same time. Apr 20th
check at 1730 showed things calmed, only usual listed stations on the air.
[later] We've been monitoring with Mauno since yesterday Apr 19. Eritrea
has now three transmitters in parallel on this frequency range. One
basically on 7185, may jump to 7175 at times. The one usually on 7175
jumps to 7165 when jammed. Third one was yesterday on 7140, today on 7120,
unjammed so far. I guess fourth transmitter is still on 7210 carrying home
service.
(Jari Savolainen-FIN, dxld April 20)
Eritrea on 7185 kHz. To add to this: my friends in the region note that
Ethiopia is now also intermittently jamming 7210 kHz, either with noise
(e.g. at 1700 UT) or with a relay of Voice of the Tigray Revolution (e.g.
at 0400 UT). No doubt this is related to the Ethiopian elections on 23
May, and follows the resumption of jamming of the VOA.
[later] This evening (21 April), Eritrea has dodged the jamming on 7210
by moving to 7220 kHz, a move the Ethiopians seem to have missed so far.
Please also note Kim Andrew Elliott report today on new VOA Amharic
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