** BURKINA FASO. 5030, Radio Burkina, *0529-0555, Nov 21, sign on with vocal National Anthem at 0529. (test tone at 0520-0529). Opening French announcements at 0530. Local African tribal music at 0531. Fair to good signal. Much stronger than usual. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, *0300-0335, Nov 21, sign on with National Anthem followed by Qur`an. Arabic talk at 0312. Local Horn of Africa music at 0327. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nac, Bata, *0504-0520, Nov 21, sign on with local African music. Spanish announcements. Weak but readable. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** EURO-PIRATE. 6870.01, Radio Playback, 0350-0445+, Nov 21, wide variety of jazz music and pop music, including an ABBA tune. ID simply as “Playback”. Poor to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** EURO-PIRATE. 7610.05, Radio Amica, 0245-0305, Nov 21, wide variety of lite pop music, Euro-pop music. Rod Stewart tune. IDs. Italian announcements. Weak, but fair to good signal strength on peaks. Possible transmitter problem with hum in audio. Hum quite strong at times. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** GUINEA. 7125, Radio Guinee, 2145-2218*, Nov 20, local African music. French talk. Abrupt sign off. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** SUDAN. 7200, SRTC, *0245-0400+, Nov 21, abrupt sign on with Arabic talk. Qur`an at 0246. Talk. Short breaks of local music. Chirping birds. Fair signal but some occasional HAM QRM. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** SUDAN [non]. via Sines, Portugal, 17745, Sudan Radio Service, *1459-1530, Nov 21, sign on with lite instrumental music & African music. Opening English ID announcements at 1500 with IDs, contact information, phone numbers and into “Lets Talk” drama program about Sudanese elections. Talk about elections being free and fair. Into Arabic talk at 1529. Fair to good. According to the WRTH English is scheduled for Sat & Sun only. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. via MADAGASCAR. 11610, Radio Voice of the People, 0405-0457*, Nov 21, tentative ID. Vernacular talk. Short breaks of African music. Tentative. Weak. Very poor in noisy conditions. Just too much noise. This station now scheduled to be on this frequency. ex-9895. (Brian Alexander, PA)
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