** BANGLADESH. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, *1227:40-1300*, Nov 10, sign on with IS. Time pips and opening English announcements at 1230. English news. Subcont music. Local pop music. Poor to fair with slight hum. (Alexander-PA) ** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, *0501-0530, Nov 10, abrupt sign on with French talk. Some Afro-pop music. Weak. Poor under Cuba. (Alexander-PA) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, *0300:20-0330, Nov 10, sign on with National Anthem. Arabic talk at 0301. Qur`an at 0303. Arabic talk at 0313. Poor to fair in noisy conditions. (Alexander-PA) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad, 0913-0940, Nov 10, tune-in to 6 note IS played on an electronic keyboard. Long choral National Anthem at 0915. Opening multi-lingual ID announcements at 0920. Spanish talk at 0924. Noticed English religious talk at 0935. Not sure when they switched to English due to high noise level masking much of the reception. Fair reception at 0913 but deteriorated to very poor reception by 0930 due to high noise level. (Alexander-PA) ** KURDISTAN [non]. via BULGARIA. 11510, Denge Kurdistan, 1625-1735, Nov 10, Kurdish talk. Short breaks of Kurdish string music. Fair to good. (Alexander-PA) ** KURDISTAN [non]. via BULGARIA. 11510, Denge Kurdistan, 1950-1959*, Nov 10, tune-in to indigenous vocals. Kurdish instrumental music. Local string music. Kurdistan National Anthem at 1954. Kurdish talk at 1958 and some local string music to 1959 sign off. Good. (Alexander-PA) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010.00, Radio Madagasikara, 0200-0250+, Nov 10, carrier + USB. Reactivated. Tune-in to inspirational music, choral music. Announcements. African Hi-life music. IS at 0228. Choral National Anthem at 0228:45. Local guitar music and opening announcements at 0230:45. Malagasy talk. Local African music at 0232. African choral music. Weak but readable in noisy conditions. Reception best between 0200-0230. Became more noisy after 0230. Checked yesterday for these guys but nothing heard. Thanks to tip from Ron Howard and others. (Alexander-PA) ** MALI. 5995, RTVM, 0750-0759*, Nov 10, tune-in to vernacular talk. Sign off with flute IS and French ID announcements at 0758. Weak but readable. Stronger than usual. (Alexander-PA) ** MALI. 9635, RTVM, *0759-0830, Nov 10, sign on with local music played on a local harp like insrrument called a Cora. Flute music at 0803:40. Indigenous vocals at 0805. Local tribal music. Children’s choral music. Vernacular announcements. Weak in noisy conditions. But stronget than usual. (Alexander-PA) ** NIGER. 9705.59v, LV du Sahel, 2025-2300*, Nov 10, French and vernacular talk. Wide variety of local flute music, indigenous vocals, and local pop music. Chants at 2255. Flute IS at 2258 followed by National Anthem. 3 second test tone at 2300 and off. Weak but readable. A little stronger than yesterday. I didn’t notice they were drifting until 2249. They were on 9705.59 at 2030. 9705.47 at 2249. 9705.46 at 2254. 9705.45 at 2256. 9705.44 at 2257. And 9705.43 at 2259. (Alexander-PA) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargaysa, *0331-0350, Nov 10, sign on with Somaliland National Anthem. Talk at 0332. Local chants at 0333. Talk at 0336. Horn of Africa music at 0350. Fair. (Alexander-PA) Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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