BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

(Andy Sennitt-HOL, dxld Sep 1)
ALGERIA Radio Algerie Internationale (DXLD 7-085).
From:
To:
JD: Hotbird 12,538 GHz h, "International Radio":
Waere mal interessant, was da so fuer Sprachen laufen.
Derzeit Franzoesisch, siehe Anhang.
JD: Besonders ab 2100 Uhr, da soll dort Englisch kommen, aber tut es das
tatsaechlich?
Ansonsten waere auch noch interessant, ob es auch auf Hotbird Stereo mit
nach rechts verschobener Balance ist.
Ja ist es, was ein reichlich bescheidenen Klang verursacht, weil der
rechte Kanal damit natuerlich teilweise reichlich uebersteuert ist.
(Kai Ludwig-D, Aug 2)
Right now again no problem to access the
stream here via file -> open. Until 2000
they had programming in Spanish, now Arabic is on again.
Enclosed a recording off Eutelsat Hotbird at 1659, with a change from
Arabic to French. Same defective audio than on the webstream where the
insufficient 22 kbps encoding makes matters even worse of course. The same
TOH opener had just been used for starting Arabic, too, with headlines
being read out on the talkbed that had been faded down immediately for the
opening announcement of French.
So the schedule includes French 1700-1800 and Spanish 1900-2000, assuming
that these are hour-long programmes each. English could be 1800-1900,
which would be 19:00 local time, probably explaining mentions of this
time.
Altogether this is obviously a revival of what they once offered via their
now shut down shortwave transmitters (and at times on LW/MW, too, like
Spanish on 252), just this time via satellite. Apparently Radio Algerienne
no longer considers shortwave as a suitable distribution platform to reach
Europe, since at the same time they lease shortwave airtime to reach
Africa. It is also quite remarkable that they consider religious
programming as more suitable for Africa than this secular service.
(Kai Ludwig-D, Aug 2)
Just switched on my Hotbird satellite equipment tonight, and did a
download of the latest registrations.
on 12538 GHz horizontal
TV: In total 1208 programmes amongst them on local #257 program Algerie
TV.
Radio: In total 472 programmes channels, amongst them chaine-1 on #131,
and chaine-2 on #133, on my local radio channel #132 Radio Algerie
Internationale program channel.
Very irregular managed broadcasts. Foreign language segments or 5 mins
lasting newscasts start sometimes up to xx.x4 minutes later. Sound track
sometimes distorted and sometimes off frequency[upload].
Here is the summarization log of my Radio Algerie Internationale
observation: