** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, 2010-2129*, Oct 26, French talk. Afro-pop music. African hi-life music. Abrupt sign off. Very weak at 2010 tune-in, but improved to a poor to fair condition by 2100. (Alexander-PA)
** CYPRUS. 9760, CBC, *2215:30-2244:30*, Oct 26, sign on with their usual theme music and into Greek talk. // 5925, 7220 - all frequencies good. Fri, Sat, Sun only, but irregular. (Alexander-PA) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad, *0952-1015, Oct 26, sign on with 6 note IS on electronic keyboard. Long choral National Anthem at 0955:40. Opening multi-lingual ID announcements at 1001. Spanish talk at 1004. Religious music at 1010. Fair signal at sign on but quickly deteriorated into a high noise level. (Alexander-PA) ** INDIA. 9704.97, AIR, 2257-2310, Oct 26, looking for Niger but hear India instead. Tune-in to local music. English programming with ID at 2300 and news. Weak but readable. (Alexander-PA) ** MALI. 9635, RTVM, *0800-0830, Oct 26, sign on with flute IS followed by short announcement and into continuous local rustic tribal music at 0801. Vernacular talk at 0817 and back to more local music at 0818. Very weak modulation at sign on but became stronger after several minutes. But still an overall poor signal due to a high noise level. (Alexander-PA) ** NIGERIA. 9689.92, Voice of Nigeria, *0757-0810, Oct 26, sign on with IS. Talk in listed Hausa at 0800. Fair. (Alexander-PA) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargaysa, 0320-0355, Oct 26, already on the air at 0320 tune-in with local chants. Local music at 0321. Arabic talk at 0329. Qur`an at 0330. Arabic talk at 0333. Indigenous vocals. Good. Programming a little different than what I have heard here before. (Alexander-PA) ** ZANZIBAR. 11735, ZBC, 2015-2046*, Oct 26, local pop music. Mid-East style music. Swahili talk. Pulled plug mid-song at 2046. Good. I noticed they have been signing off early lately: around 2040- 2050. (Alexander-PA) Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires _ 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
