With the family out of town for a few days this weekend, I had the rare
opportunity to do some late afternoon/early evening DXing. I took advantage.
4080, UNIDENTIFIED, 2310-2318, Sept 3. Lite acoustic/vocal mx in unid.
language; v. weak-poor; buried under band noise. (Barbour-NH)
4900, GUINEA, presumed Familia FM Conakry, 2303-2337, Sept 4, French. M
announcer w/ talk; hi-life mx at 2311; ancr at 2323 between mx bits; presumed
ad string at 2328; more hi-life mx after BoH; M announcer over wind instruments
at 2337; poor-fair at best w/ CODAR level varying througout, from just audible
to obliterating. (Barbour-NH)
4949.82, ANGOLA, RN de Angola Mulenvos, 2342-0002, Sept 4, Portuguese. Ballad
at t/in; M announcer in PP w/ presumed ad; more mx from 2345 w/ occ. W
announcer between selections; pips/ID at ToH followed by W ancr w/ news;
poor-fair w/ notch filter getting a workout due to huge het, (P) via
4950-India. (Barbour-NH)
5910, COLOMBIA, Marfil Estereo Lomalinda, 0642-0651 Sept 4, Spanish. Usual fare
of mx w/ IDs between selections; good. (Barbour-NH)
5995, MALI, RTVM Bamako, 2247-2303, Sept 3, French. W announcer w/ brief talk
between native mx; talk over wind instrument at ToH; poor-weak. (Barbour-NH)
6089.9, NIGERIA, R. Nigeria Kaduna, 2109-2136, Sept 3, listed Hausa. Various
announcers w/ short talks & mx bits; ID in passing; Kor'an-like vcls from 2129;
announcer at 2135 & Call to Prayer-like vcls; poor-fair at best listening in
ECCS-USB, which the signal kept slipping in/out of. (Barbour-NH)
6100, "BOSNIA", Int'l Radio of Serbia Bijeljina, 2056-2105, Sept 4,
French/English. Pop mx; W announcer w/ FF svc s/off ancment; IS followed by EE
svc at 2100; M announcer w/ s/on ancment; nx re Serbia & Albania, though signal
too weak for details; poor. (Barbour-NH)
6165, CHAD, RNT N'Djamena, 2219-2301*, sept 4, French. "Live" hi-life mx; occ.
talk over though hard to determine if part of mx or studio announcer; two
announcers over crowd noise at 2259; NA at 2300; fair; tnx B. Alexander tip re
Saturday 2300* s/off; all other days 2230*. (Barbour-NH)
6297, "ALGERIA", RASD Rabouni, 2230-2246, Sept 3, Arabic. Two M announcers in
discussion until 2244; brief "live" talk w/ crowd noise at 2245 into M & W
announcers between mx bits; good. (Barbour-NH)
7255, NIGERIA, V. of Nigeria Ikorodu, 2013-2022, Sept 3, French. W announcer w/
talk & mx bits; Hi-life mx at 2019; fair listening in ECCS-LSB; over presumed
co-ch. CRI-Xinji. (Barbour-NH)
9780, IRAN, VOIRI Kamalabad, 2120-2128, Sept 4, Spanish. Hoping for Yemen, got
Iran instead. W announcer w/ talk between Arabic mx bits; ments. of Kor'an &
Tony Blair; off at 2128 w/ carrier still present at 2133; booming signal.
(Barbour-NH)
9870, SAUDI ARABIA, BSKSA Riyadh, 21236-2151, Sept 4, Arabic. Continuos format
of W & M announcer w/ brief talks between mx, & sometimes over; a few ments. of
Israel; "Ramadan..(?)" over strings at 2148; tentative ID in passing with
"..mamlaka alarabiya.." noted; bit of Call to Prayer like vcls at t/out; good
listening in ECCS-LSB to avoid het of sorts. (Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA
NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole
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