Re: [HCDX] Radio Guinea 9650khz & Zanzibar 11735khz
Yes, that was the old installation maybe TZA Chumbuni 7.2 km away of Dole, TX were always very odd fq from Dole like 6014.5 or 11734.1 kHz. These were object of DXers scene discussion in Oct/Nov 2003, when the SW tx WERE OFF totally. But not the most modern BBEF Beijing Made in China TX and curtain antenna seen on Google M/E, which outlet is very even x.000 kHz now. The Chinese built the new BBEF TX up in 2004 year: Appeared after 20 months again in July 2005. 6015 kHz even appeared on Dec 2004 first test, and the even 11735 kHz outlet regular on air from July 2005 again. Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but have we considered that this may be a relay from somewhere else? Tanzania was never on any other freq but just below 11735. This is how I always ID'd the tx. With it being exactly back on 11735.00 suggests to me a different tx, and with more and more broadcasters relying on relays from fewer and fewer organizations, the thought has crossed my mind. Any other omments? (Walt Salmaniw-BC-USA, dxld July 11, 2005) - - - see the 1998 history letter copy: TANZANIA 11734 The Voice of Tanzania Zanzibar (thats the official name), QSL-letter (partial data), for a taped report in 28 days, verie signer was Abdulrah'man M.Said (for the director of the Voice of Tanzania Zanzibar), return postage 2 IRCs, nice stamps on their air mail envelope. Some quotes: "The Management is very much happy with your report It is very unfortunate that at the moment we do not have a QSL-CARD [Isn't that the phrase from a lot of other stations, too?], but I hope this letter will serve the pupose [It does!]." "We have 178 personnel. We run a 15 hrs tx every day from 0600 oclock to 0900 oclock in the morning and later on from 1200 noon to 2400 oclock midnight." "We have two txs, a 50 kW SW tx and a 50 kW MW tx located 5 km apart." "Furthermore I would like to request yourself to do some printing of the said QSL-CARD WHICH ARE OF GREAT DEMAND HERE. We will be using the cards to answer back our listeners all over the world." [I'd wish, all stns would do this !]. Addr: The Voice of Tanzania Zanzibar, Department of Broadcasting, P.O.Box 1178, Zazibar Tel: 31985/33718/32324 Fax: 31985. (Martin Schoech-D, March 23, 1998) and German National Enzio Gehrig (lived in Spain) had visited the station and engineers staff too in July 1999, and reported of the radio organization: RTZ employs more than 150 people, including 18 announcers and 10 technicians. The stn bcs 8 hrs a day on 11734 using a 50 kW Chinese made txer and a rhombic antenna directed towards Oman, where a large number of Zanzibar nationals reside. A parallel progr is bc during 18 hrs daily on 585 MW, using a Harris txer, also 50 kw. All bcs are in Swahili, incl a rebc of a 30 min DW nx progr which is txed by satellite directly from Cologne to Zanzibar three times a day. En bcs are planned for the future. Also, the stn has plans to bc in FM stereo if they can get the funding from the Tanzanian govt. The bc house is impressive, and was built in 1993 with financial and technical help from CHN. - Original Message - From: "Jari Savolainen" <jari.savolai...@pp8.inet.fi> To: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com>; Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 8:49 AM Subject: Re: [HCDX] Radio Guinea 9650khz & Zanzibar 11735khz Hi Paul. I don't know the situation in Zanzibar nowadays but around 1999 the engineer at Sauti ya Tanzania Zanzibar informed that the 25 meterband antenna is rhombic and transmissions were meant for Zanzibarians working in Oman/Persian Gulf area. 73, Jari Savolainen, Finland On 17.9.2016 1.55, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote: I'd love to know that the beam/azimuth of Zanzibar Broadcasting's 11735khz signal is. It's listed as 50kw non directional, but solely based upon the signal I get from it everyday here in Alaska., there's no way it's non directional. BUT, a google map trip was taken and the ZBC site found, showing what is clearly a directional antenna set up. Also, I'd love to know what the power and beam/azimuth for Radio Guinea 9650khz in Conarky, Guinea is. A friend and I located on googlemaps what we re pretty sure is their shortwave transmitting site, right in Conarky! The site looks like 6 towers in an arched backwards C configuration ZBC's 11735 power is listed but the beam isn't correct. I haven't seen Radio Guinea's power/pattern/beam details anywhere. Any ideas? I have my theories on Radio Conarky based on the signal I'm hearing but I don't want to taint anyone elses ideas. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
Re: [HCDX] Radio Guinea 9650khz & Zanzibar 11735khz
Hi Paul. I don't know the situation in Zanzibar nowadays but around 1999 the engineer at Sauti ya Tanzania Zanzibar informed that the 25 meterband antenna is rhombic and transmissions were meant for Zanzibarians working in Oman/Persian Gulf area. 73, Jari Savolainen, Finland On 17.9.2016 1.55, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote: I'd love to know that the beam/azimuth of Zanzibar Broadcasting's 11735khz signal is. It's listed as 50kw non directional, but solely based upon the signal I get from it everyday here in Alaska., there's no way it's non directional. BUT, a google map trip was taken and the ZBC site found, showing what is clearly a directional antenna set up. Also, I'd love to know what the power and beam/azimuth for Radio Guinea 9650khz in Conarky, Guinea is. A friend and I located on googlemaps what we re pretty sure is their shortwave transmitting site, right in Conarky! The site looks like 6 towers in an arched backwards C configuration ZBC's 11735 power is listed but the beam isn't correct. I haven't seen Radio Guinea's power/pattern/beam details anywhere. Any ideas? I have my theories on Radio Conarky based on the signal I'm hearing but I don't want to taint anyone elses ideas. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Radio Guinea 9650khz & Zanzibar 11735khz
I'd love to know that the beam/azimuth of Zanzibar Broadcasting's 11735khz signal is. It's listed as 50kw non directional, but solely based upon the signal I get from it everyday here in Alaska., there's no way it's non directional. BUT, a google map trip was taken and the ZBC site found, showing what is clearly a directional antenna set up. Also, I'd love to know what the power and beam/azimuth for Radio Guinea 9650khz in Conarky, Guinea is. A friend and I located on googlemaps what we re pretty sure is their shortwave transmitting site, right in Conarky! The site looks like 6 towers in an arched backwards C configuration ZBC's 11735 power is listed but the beam isn't correct. I haven't seen Radio Guinea's power/pattern/beam details anywhere. Any ideas? I have my theories on Radio Conarky based on the signal I'm hearing but I don't want to taint anyone elses ideas. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Radio Guinea 9650kHz
Radio Guinea 9650kHz at 0714UTC on September 15th with upbeat local music. Fair amount of fading/atmospheric noise. The signal meter in my radio suggested a better signal that I had, possibly because of low-ish modulation. SINPO 3334e3 Audio here: https://youtu.be/HzYOhUKLcLk Location: Alaska, USA. Tecsun PL880, 225 foot long wire, DXEngineering HF Preamp and EMTech ZM2 antenna tuner _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Radio Guinea 9650kHz
I'm really beginning think my April 16th, 2016 0344UTC (April 15th 744pm AKDT) reception of Radio Guinea 9650kHz was a fluke here in Alaska. The signal at that time was pretty darn good for what it was and about as good as anything I've heard from other DX'ers since their 2nd reactivation a week or two ago. A nearly 8 minute recording of my reception of Radio Guinea 9650kHz is at the bottom of this post. Here's the thing, since they came back this second time, I haven't heard a PEEP!! And it's not due to same/adjacent channel stations, I've gone out at various times when Radio Guinea would've been the only thing on the channel with no slop from anyone else on 9645/9650/9655. A friend and I have reasoned that the April 15th/16th re-appearance of Radio Guinea 9650kHz was a test after decades of silence.. They turned things on to see if everything still worked good and was within spec. Well, after a day of operations, they figured things weren't working like it should, turned it off and being a poor 3rd world country, it took them a few months to fix it. We found their tower site, a line of 6 towers in a reversed arc letter "C" right in Conarky. If those towers line up is any indication of their beam, going Southeast... then that would explain why folks in the SE and East Central USA are hearing it so well, off the back lobe. Again, this is all theory.. but I'd like to think, at least somewhat right.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8U1BHGSxV8 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
