WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

(Tarek Zeidan-EGY SU1TZ, dxld Feb 8)
Today Febr 9th in 1205-1240 UT span:
17660 still again non-stop Libyan songs. S=3 (like Tarek Zeidan reported:
ID "Idhaat Aljamaheyia al Ozma " Great jamaheryia Radio).
17670 two weak stations, one carrying French/Arabic speech[ISS?], one
Arabic mx. Fair S=3. And also fair: AWR Vietnamese via Madagascar from
1300 UT.
17680 Strongest ist a jamming Bubbler with three peaks on 17677.2, 17680,
and 17683.3 kHz. Parked before 1210 UT on 17667.34, S=9 +30 dB
Second in row in signal strength is the well known WeAfrican-Cuban song
station, S=9 +10 dB when bubble jammer is silent.
Third in signal level: supposedly "Sout Alamal" in Arabic
speech/conversation comment.
(wb, Feb 9)
17670: from tune-in 1325, Arabic talk or nx mentioning Jamahiriya; 1340
discourse by one speaker, perhaps MQ himself, not in studio, with
background noises but no audience reaction or applause; 1355 mentioning
Darfur several times; 1400 continues without a break; 1430 recheck,
finally some mx here, oud mixed with Arabic talk mentioning Jamahiriya;
1457 recheck, only Cuban jamming audible on freq despite Marti having
vacated it some time ago.
17660: 1325, continuous Arabic mx, somewhat weaker than 17670, in the
clear, no QRM or jamming. Never heard any annt, tho could have missed one
as I was tuning back and forth. Stopped at 1359 sharp with open carrier
for a few seconds and off.
17680: 1325, something under Voz Cristiana, Chile, SAH of about 4 Hz. When
VC quit playing mx itself and was talking, the station under seemed to be
the African mx jammer; 1346 it was hilife, and could also detect slight
bubble jamming, but very strong VC always on top; 1400 new ID as "CVC, La
Voz" and news. 1430 same situation continues, and SAH still visible on the
S-meter at final 1532 recheck.
It appears that the SPLAJ is trying to cover all the bases against Saut
al-Amal, with the Arabic mx jammer on 17660, one of its own overt sces on
17670, and the African mx jammer on 17680. I can only assume that Amal was
buried on 17680 on this date, as there was no sign of it on 17660 or
17670, or anywhere in between.
If this situation repeats on Friday Feb 10, Radio Waaberi will get blocked
again if it is still on 17660. Seems to me they ought move further away
from this nasty Libyan situation. I did not hear anything on 17650 during
the 1330 semihour.
It's disadvantageous to be running a once-a-week broadcast, with nothing
else on the same freq other days of the week to keep it occupied. But who
would pay for running DTK on 17660 other days of the week? Possibly some
other client would have been amenable to such scheduling. Unlikely, but
possible: the Arabic music being heard on 17660 could axually be DTK,
doing just that, since Amal is not there any longer, anyway.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld Feb 9)
I guess this comes under Glenn's heading of a Language Lesson, though I
don't presume to be much of a teacher. Ref. Mikhail Timofeyev asking
regarding station heard on 17665 at 1130-1430 "with tentative ID as
Izaatul jumhuriyati ... (third word is too crabbed - maybe Akhbar?)".