BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

9560.23 R. Ethiopia Jan 10 1359-1405 24442 Arabic, 1359 IS, Three gongs,
News,
9704.17 R. Ethiopia Jan 16 *1459-1510 34432 Amharic, 1459 sign on with
IS, ID, Three gongs, Talk,
(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Jan 19)
UNID 9650 [Somalia area].
For more than a week I hear an UNID in Ahmaric (well, better to say: an
Afro-Horn vernacular) with a lot of music from that region, talks, news.
Ads (rare). Definitely looks like an local station (or pretending to be
local for that audince).
Signing on at around 0400 UT. Closing at around 19-20 UT. At least one
daytime break noted late morning.
Daytime reception is affected by Moosbrunn-AUT DRMing DWL's on 9655.
Evening: usually heavy co-chan from IBB.
Just curious, who it could be? IDing is difficult due to low signal and
QRMs, so language used and "non-international" nature of BCing.
I wonder if there were reports on something that could fit this. Bering in
mind recent activities in that region (SOM/ETH).
(Vlad Titarev-UKR, DXplorer Jan 21)
Jari Savolainen noticed some time ago that Vo Tigray Revolution has
disappeared from 5500 and 6350 kHz and may have been ordered to move to
inband frequencies as Radio Fana. That is one possibility.
Well, I think it is more probably something else: why would VoTR jump
suddenly to 31 mb? No idea of VoTR current fq's. I listened to this after
1500 and heard once something like "Dimtse Oromiya", but the signal wasn't
good enough for any ID. I didn't find it // to any of these: 7100, 7175,
7210, 9560, 9704.
(Mauno Ritola-FIN, DXplorer Jan 21)
Tnx, Mauno. It's very likely this one.
Which are active (noted) QRGs of VoTR today. 9650 now at 1630 is not // to
two known (to me) feeds nor 7100 neither 7175. Is there an third stream at
VoTR these days ? are any freq of it known ? i'm getting even more excited
about this 9650 ...-;)
PS now at 9650 with Meyerton in b/g it's hard to say for sure if 9650 //
7175 or not ... (M giving "report" constatly mentions "Mogadishu" and
sometimes "talibani")
(Vlad Titarev-UKR, DXplorer Jan 21)
V. of Tigray Revolution on new 5980 and 9650. Many thanks to Mauno Ritola
who alerted me yesterday to an unidentified Horn of Africa station on 9650
at 1500-1730. I can confirm that this is Voice of the Tigray Revolution,
also on new 5980. This is a move from 5500 and 6350.
Presumably, like Radio Fana (now 6110/7210, x6210/6940), it has been
forced to go in-band by the new licensing arrangements in Ethiopia.
Although it is a pity that we have lost these out-of-band frequencies, the
use of 9650 might mean that the station will propagate a bit further at
certain times of year.
(Chris Greenway-UK, dxld Jan 22)
Thanks for confirming this, Chris.
I checked it yesterday, 21 Jan, at 1530, thanks to Mauno Ritola and Vlad
Titarev tip, but the reception wasn't too good. Today 22nd they signed on