Von: BueschelW@web.de im Auftrag von Wolfgang Bueschel ...

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.
To complete with yesterday's and current observation:
1500-1600 15120 E to Eu, very strong both Sun+Mon
1600-1630 11770 Kisuaheli to ??? (very strong on Sun)
1630-1730 9690 Yoruba and Igbo ??? Not Kisuaheli.
Not heard Sunday at 2100/2200 UT, not heard Monday from 0900 to 1500 UT on
9690 kHz, as scheduled, or anywhere else, starting again 1501 on 15120
kHz. E to Eu is definitely not 1500-1900 as Tony Rogers heard, but only
1500-1600 + 1800-1900, probably changing to 7255 (likely not 9690) kHz for
the rest of the evening, but it's a very crowded channel. If English
really starts at 0900 UT as announced, Fulfulde is likely to be in the
evening now.
(Thorsten Hallmann-D, dxld April 12)
Re: Perhaps these changes are related to the new shortwave transmitter
site at Abuja coming on air ...
Yes, it makes sense. Maybe is the OVERTURE for organizing a reshuffeled
foreign service from new Abuja downtown broadcasting house during the
present year 2010 ... but there are some delays in Civilworks. The 3 new
Thomson TXs at Abuja Lugbe site are ready since mid Dec 2009.
Last week Thomson Abuja site antenna engineer Bodo Fritsche_DL3OCH /
5NOCH came back from Maledives trip and was surprised to see the Abuja TX
site like excellent visible in Google Earth.
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