On 26 Jan at 1534 I was scanning the bands and stopped on 4005 where nice blues music was heard. This frequency is usually occupied by Vatican Radio, so I checked their other common frequency 5890 and indeed same music there. With brief Italian announcements they played "I ain't got nothing but the blues" "Night time is a right time" etc, even one Janis Joplin blues song. This was really nice programming instead of "Ave Marias" or Mass. At 1559 interval signal, bells, brief Radio Vaticana ID and then vespers. Blues was over and I continued scanning :) Both 4005 (AM with suppressed LSB) and 5890 are listed in WRTH 2004 as Vatican City with powers of 10 and 80kW. So, according to WRTH, there are still two SW and two MW transmitters inside the tiny Vatican City area. Jari Savolainen Kuusankoski Finland ---[Start Commercial]---------------------
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