** BRAZIL. 4878.50, Rdif Roraima, 0345-0408*, June 13, Brazilian ballads. Portuguese talk. Sign off with National Anthem. Weak. Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** CYPRUS. 9760, Cyprus Broadcasting Corp, *2215-2244*, June 12, sign on with Greek music and opening announcements. Greek talk. Short breaks of Greek music. Good. Fair on // 7220. Very weak on // 5925. Fri, Sat, Sun only. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, *0304-0325, June 13, abruptly on the air at 0304 with Qur`an in progress. Arabic talk at 0312. Weak. Poor. Lost in noise by 0325. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ERITREA [non]. via Ethiopia, 7234.34v, Voice of Peace & Democracy, via Radio Ethiopia transmitters, *0358-0431*, June 13, sign on with IS and opening ID announcements. Talk in listed Tigrinya at 0400. Some local rustic vocals. Horn of Africa music. Weak. Drifted up to 7234.45 by sign off. Fair on // 9559.62v - drifting up to 9559.78 and QRM from Iran 9560 at their 0428 sign on. Mon, Wed, Fri only. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ERITREA. 9820.04, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea - program 2, *0258-0310, June 13, sign on with IS. Vernacular talk at 0300. Weak but readable. Some adjacent channel splatter. Weak but readable on // 7175. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ETHIOPIA. 6030, Radio Oromiya, *0322-0345, June 13, sign on with xylophone-like IS. Opening announcements at 0330. Talk in listed Oromo. Horn of Africa music at 0332. Poor with jammer on the air and adjacent channel splatter. At least no co-channel QRM from Radio Marti, which is off the air on UTC Mondays. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** MALI. 5995, RTVM, *0555-0610, June 12, sign on with IS on cora. National Anthem at 0558. Flute IS at 0559. Opening French ID announcements at 0600. Local tribal music at 0601. Rustic local music. Weak. Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** NIGER. 9704.99, LV du Sahel, 2215-2300*, June 13, wide variety of indigenous vocals, local tribal music and Afro-pop music. French and vernacular talk. Qur`an at 2254. French announcements at 2257 followed by flute IS and National Anthem at 2258. One second test tone at 2300 and off. Poor to fair in noisy conditions. Irregular. Not heard very often lately. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** NIGERIA [non]. via Germany, 9610, Hamada Radio Int, *0531-0559*, June 13, abrupt sign on with talk in listed Hausa. Some local African music. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** SUDAN [non]. via Portugal, 17745, Sudan Radio Service, 1635-1645, June 12, Arabic talk. Local tribal music. Poor to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] 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
