BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Some 20 mins only VoV could be heard, but (Amharic) again underneath from
1745. Splash from 7285 didn't make the reception easier. I think it a good
idea to move away from that frequency, as intended by Ludo Maes.
(Finn Krone-DEN, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 8) Samara site 250 kW 188degr, wb.
11900 Tensae Ethiopia V. of Unity on Feb 08 at *1500-1510 UT. 35222-35322
Amharic, 1500 UT sign on with opening music, Opening announce, Ethiopian
pops music and talk.
(Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, JPNpremium Feb 8) Armavir Krasnodar-RUS (wb)
UNKNOWN SITE 7470 Radio Democracy Shorayee
Feb 8, 1705 on and off to sign off 1759* mainly Farsi female and male talk
w/many mentions of Khargaran. E.g. 1709 "Radio Democratie Shoray-ee" ID.
1755 ID and freq announcement and funny piano/small choir version of the
"Internationale" (never heard anything like it :-).
(Finn Krone-DEN, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 8)
Grigoriopol-MDA or Samara-RUS, (wb)
RWANDA Two strong signals from Deutsche Welle Kigali Rwanda: 11645
Amharic, 15275 German 1430-1500 UT.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 3)
SOUTH AFRICA 3 x AFS via Meyerton at 1525 UT: 17770 En, 17780 Swahili,
17880 BBC relay.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 3)
SUDAN & CONGO-KINSHASA & HAITI Radio Miraya Sudan. "The radio station
for the UN Mission in Sudan, which it is hoped will soon include the
troubled Darfur region, is planned to be the largest UN radio operation
ever attempted. Plans call for perhaps as many as 40 FM transmitters, with
MW terrestrial coverage as well as 'out-of-mission' transmissions
generating a 'shortwave blanket' over the vast African country. But all of
these plans are still under srutiny by Sudanese officials and it has been
slow going to set up broadcast operations." But there is a flagship FM
station in Juba called R. Miraya.
(Jeffrey Heyman, KG6SVK, "United Nations Peacekeeping Radio Stations
Propaganda FOR Peace," MT, Nov 2006, p. 9.)
This article also contains some excellent background on Radio Okapi
(although it mis-states present Okapi operations as being "on 6030, 9550,
11690 kHz. via a 10 kW transmitter in Kinshasa." In addition, in a
discussion of the planning for UN FM radio in Haiti, it relies on info
from one Al Muick, Chief Engineer of UN Radio in Sudan, who is currently
on loan to the mission in Haiti. I was in contact with Al when he was
doing some contract work for IBB on Saipan about a year ago. He is, of
course, the Al Muick of Free Radio Campaign fame circa 1979.
(Jerry Berg-NJ_USA, DXplorer Feb 5)
THAILAND 9725 R Thailand via Udornthani fine fair signal of back lobe,
targeted at 132 degr (+180deg 312deg!) En 1400-1430 UT.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 3)
TAIWAN 11895 Family Radio in Korean via Taiwan, 100 kW 2 degr?? - In
past weeks I discovered an UNID religious program, and heard it every day
around 0800 til cl-down 0858 UT [before TRT co-channel sign-on here]. Is a
very tiny signal at my place, noted on Eton/Lextronix E1 Radio, Kenwood
R1000 - latter the best signal here, and AOR 7030 sets. Just above
threshold, but couldn't recognize the language yet. Yesterday and today
visited DXtuner, and joined some Swedish and Belgium receiving posts, but
noted only scratching noise. Then tuned in to the Phuket Thailand Icom R75
receiver and heard the same program some few dB stronger like S=1-2 level.
But still far of a strong signal. Could hear the trumpet fanfare at the
end of the broadcast and few addresses given, one in California, USA, also
numbers like '2682' could be noted.