BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Some other notes: The station was the outcome of a search for a supplement
to TWR's Monaco operations. First they intended to build a station at
Puerto Rico but found conditions like being limited to fixed shortwave
frequencies inacceptable, so they went to the Netherlands Antilles, got
airport-related trouble at Curacao and thus finally settled at Bonaire.
The construction of the complete station (500 kW MW, 250 kW SW, another 50
kW SW) had been contracted to Continental. A production of programming in
English, Spanish and Portuguese had been established at Bonaire but much
material came from outside, especially the vast majority of the German-
language programming originated from Evangeliums-Rundfunk. Also
transmissions for eastern Europe were launched as addition to the Monaco
outlets but later reduced and finally discontinued altogether. In 1988
they got rid of the antenna aiming at Europe by letting it blown up in a
military exercise. Between 1964 and 1969 the TWR transmitters were also
used by RNW, a pronounced separation between TWR and RNW programming had
been made by cutting the carrier for two minutes.
The used "but almost like new" mediumwave transmitter from Transkei cost
them 703,000 USD, as opposed to 2 millions USD for a similar new one. The
shortwave transmitters, which dated like the old mediumwave unit back to
1964, were not replaced, lingered around for some more time (during the
last years the 250 kW unit had been run on just 100 kW) and were finally
shut down on June 30 1993. I still recall hearing a German-language
programme from there during the last weeks of operation, with faint signal
late in the evening somewhere on the 19 mB (perhaps it was 15355) on the
Sangean radio I had just bought.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Dec 26)
NEW ZEALAND 5950 R. NZi, Rangitaiki, 1555-1615, 19 Dec, English, chat,
music, news, Dateline Pacific prgr; 44433, stronger adjt. QRM at 1600.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 24)
NIGER 9704.99 LV du Sahel, Niamey, 2205-2301*, Dec 25, French talk.
Variety of French pops-ballads, Afro-pop music. Phone talk. Koran at 2255-
2259. Short IS on flute followed by choral National Anthem. Poor in noisy
conditions.
(Brian Alexander-PA-USA, hcdx Dec 26)
NIGERIA 7274.87 Radio Nigeria, Abuja, at 0655-0705 UT on Dec 21,
stronger than usual with English talk about local politics. Not // 4769.97
kHz. Two separate English programs on these frequencies.
(Brian Alexander-PA-USA, dxld Dec 21)
7274.87 noted poor S=2 signal in peaks of RN Abuja at 0705 UT, Dec 27.
(wb, Dec 27)
756 UNID out of 3 listed Nigerian stns, possibly R. Oyo, Ibadan, at
1840-1909 UT on 22 Dec, Vernacular, talks, phone nrs. annonced in English,
Afr. pop, short & fast drum beat after what I believe was the stn ID;
33432, QRM de several stns. This seemed some religious stn or then a
religious prgr.
4770 R. Nigeria, Kaduna, at 1501-... UT on 22 Dec, English, BBC (?) relay
for f/ball match rpt. Liverpool v Portsmouth (?); 25332. I checked BBC R5,
and it airing a different match. I observed 4770 kHz on 17 Dec at 1125 UT
when it was barely audible.
6090 R. Nigeria, Kaduna, at 2231-2239 UT on 20 Dec, Vernacular, talks,
tribal songs; 42441, QRM de BLR; bad audio.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 24)
OMAN 15140 Radio Sultanate of Oman, at 1430-1445 UT on Dec 25, Very
weak. Barely audible but able to hear English news at 1430- 1440 with