WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

(Noel R. Green-UK, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 15)
15415 Libyan Radio is on air again today (Thursday Nov 15) at 0830 UT via
both 15415 and 15235 (former Libyan frequencies) in Arabic. Thanks to
Mauno Ritola and Jari Savolainen for their assistance. Wednesday they
carried a loooooooong and sometimes animated debate from tune in 0815 til
off at 1200. Today it seems to be something similar. Both are fairly good
signals at my location but with some fading up and down. Audio quality is
very good - much better than when I heard the last Sabratha transmitter in
operation. So, is this a relay or has the Colonel invested in something
new?
(Noel R. Green-UK, hcdx Nov 16)
SABRATHA ???? 15415 stopped exact 1130 UT today Nov 16th. Signal has a
very clean audio type, so my still guess is, transmission coming from
somewhere else than SABRATHA Libya site !!!????
My first guess was, that MNO-VTC resumed RTA Algiers service via U.K. txs
at Rampisham and Wooferton.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 15/16)
It was Jari Savolainen who heard an ID and frequencies - I missed it maybe
due to a fade? Could Tarek be persuaded to listen I wonder? The ID
apparently came around 1030. Transmission is still on-going, and 15415 //
15235 were both on air at 0735 tune in today. 15415 is stronger here than
15235. I'm not sure that France would propagate on 15 MHz as well as these
two do at 0735. But the "fading" I'm noting makes me think they are not
aiming at Europe. Yes, the audio quality sounds very good - much better
than Sabrata15415 used to do before it left the air for the last time.
I've tuned around after 1200, but don't yet find the same transmission
elsewhere on other frequencies. Possibly these transmitters carry the
foreign language transmissions? And I don't hear any Arabic programming
jamming Amal currently. They seem to start on 17645 then drop to 17640 for
the second hour - or did when I last listened. D.Welle is using 17630
after 1200 for German and often on top of Gabon, while the Afro-pops
continues on 17660. It might be interesting to note if this comes on when
one of the two LBY 15 MHz drops off.
I've never figured out the Libyan info in TDP - my copy of 1998.
Sebha (14.50E / 25.52N) 2 x 100 kW Harris (no date of installation)
Tripoli/Sabratha (13.11E / 32.54N)
2 x 500kW THO of 1977 (apparently out of use in 1998)
2 x 500kW THO of 1977 (same type as the ones above)
1 x 500kW BBC of 1983 (out of use in 1998)
1 x 500kW BBC (same type as the other) of 1983
1 x 500kW ABB of 1990
1 x 500kW THO of 1995
Unknown site 5 x 100 kW SIE (no other details)
2 x RIZ of 1973
3 x 10kW (yes 10) RIZ of 1977
2 x 5-10kW RIZ of 1991
10 x 100kW RIZ of 1991
Does Google Earth reveal the two sites above? And I wonder if the RIZ web
site would record if any of the above were ever built and where they were
installed. And could the two transmitters (ABB / THO) of 1990 and 1995
have been restored at Sabratha? Lot's of questions, and maybe we will find
out eventually.
(Noel R. Green-UK, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 17)
MALAYSIA Traxx FM on 7295 was well heard in Margaret River around 2315