BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

Yes, heard also a powerful signal this morning in 6-7 UT range on 15120
kHz. Seemingly they use at VoNigeria now the new 250 kW Thomson French
transmitters at Abuja, other channels are 7255, 9690, 11770 kHz on other
time of the day. New Abuja SW site finnished already in mid Dec 2009,
studio installation at Abuja downtown were still in progress.
(wb)
Voice of Nigeria introduced a new schedule from April 4, as
announced during the French service. It's not on the homepage, but a few
things have definitely changed, further monitoring needed:
9690 1700-1730 Kisuaheli
15120 1730-1800 Arabic
15120 1800-1900 English, (announced as until 2000 UT,
likely changing to 7255 kHz)
7255 2000-2100 French (announced during the morning service)
15120 0500-0700 English, 0700-0800 French and
9690 0800-0900 Hausa unchanged.
(Thorsten Hallmann-D, dxld April 11)
The following announcement was heard during the "This Week on VON"
programme from Voice of Nigeria, 1805-1815 UTC on Sunday 11 April 2010 (I
was listening online at
but 15120 kHz was offering good reception when checked):
"... this is to inform you that there is now a slight change in the number
of hours we broadcast on 15120 kHz in the 19 mb to North Africa and
Europe, and on 9690 kHz in the 31 mb to West Africa.
On 15120 kHz you can listen to programmes in English between 04.45 and 07
hours, and between 15 and 19 hours UT daily. While on 9690 kHz broadcasts
of programmes in English begin at 09 hours and 15 hours UT, and between 19
and 20 hours UT daily".
Perhaps for 9690 kHz they meant "between 09 and 15 hours UT"?
Perhaps these changes are related to the new shortwave transmitter site at
Abuja coming on air. However, the schedule will need to be monitored as
they seemed to be getting mixed up with time announcements (i.e. they said
it was "15 hours UT" when it was 1800 but acknowledged the mistake at
1805), and prior to that Arabic was heard at 1745 UTC tune-in online and
I'm sure it was also on 15120 kHz, although reception was very poor
(reception improved significantly for English at 1800 UT which must have
been due to an antenna change).
(Tony Rogers-UK, BrDXC-UK April 11)
I came across V of Nigeria with their programme in English Sunday 11 April
at 1515 on 15120 (with the Musical Heritage programme). Just before 1600,
they announced that programmes would continue in Kiswahili. 15120 in
English went off at 1600. At 1601 found VoN in Swahili on 11770 until 1630
UT. No trace of programmes at 1630 (although still streaming online in
unknown language). At 1735 observed back on 15120 in Arabic, and then
English from 1800 until 1900 UT. Still streaming online in English at 1900
UT - 9690 is completely blocked at present by Radio Romania Int.
(Alan Roe-UK, BrDXC-UK April 11)
Schedule changes for Voice of Nigeria.
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