BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Hi dear Tarek,
came across of a very professional Arabic station on 11965 today April
5th, around 0700-0830 UT. Some gongs like Big-Ben at 0800 UT and nx
followed til 0804 UT, items of Sahel zone countries, Sudan, Libya,
Baghdad...
It's a Libyan outlet ? S=9+10dB. Stronger than Jordan 11960 next door.
"Ahwaz le enja-ad" was noted many times from 0804 UT.
(later) nothing heard on Apr 6th.
Yes, I checked 11965 and whole 25 mb too again today April 6th. That test
was a SINGLE DAY operation on Apr 5th only - seemingly. But - yesterday -
the signal was fairly strong, stronger than Jordan.
So it was probably a transmission direct from Libya on on a single signal
hop. All "Gabon LBY/NHK" transmissions sound different as a 2 hop
operation somewhat lowered, due of suffering audio in the Sahara desert
...
Today is holiday Friday in Libya too. And I do not expect any further
tests now.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Apr 5/6)
17725 V.O.Africa on Apr 5 at 1228-1350+ Swahili, lots of lovely songs.
Also tuned in to 15660 Apr 6 at 1558, nothing on freq until 1602 when
inciting Afro song into the English language programme which stopped at
1610 when programme continued in French.
(Finn Krone-DEN, wwdxc BC-DX Apr 6)
MADAGASCAR RNM site? I gather this is the SW TXer site (antenna?) of
Radio Nasionaly Malagasy, I believe so, at least it fits with what Maarten
van Delft says after visiting it in 2005, see below.
Where the site is broadly defined as located in Ambondrona or Ambohidrano
? Do you mean that the site is defined on RNM web site? Yes, maybe that is
a name for a larger administrative area or something, I haven't checked.
I did also find a reference on the Internet regarding works in the
2004/2005 period for the repacement(?) of a 30 kW SW transmitter at the
site (6135 kHz) ?
Sorry, I don't know anything about that. What's the link to that?
Maarten van Delft:
"When visiting Radio Nationale Malagasy, all doors opened as soon as I
showed the QSL card I had received from them 39 years ago. They are still
based in the same Broadcasting House from which the card was sent to me in
1966. During my visit I was given a broadcasting schedule corresponding to
the one published in the WRTH.
In the course of the day, around the times of shifting to higher or lower
outlets, some unscheduled frequency combinations were noted, viz. at 0430
& 1430, I noted 3288, 5010, 6135 & 7105 simultaneously. The transmitter
used on 3288 has somewhat distorted audio, also lacking treble. Their 9690
was only rarely noted and was always weak, but this may have been due to
skip. RNM's transmitter site is at Sabotsy Namehana, 10 km North-East of
Antananarivo."
(Mauno Ritola-FIN, SW tx site, Apr 9)
Maybe: MDG_RNM_Antananarivo_Sabotsy Namehana SW site, various antennas
visible.
18 46 40.83 S 47 29 36.48 E
Maybe: MDG_RNM_Antananarivo_MW site?? - two masts like MW installation.
18 49 58.00 S 47 35 10.00 E