** BAHRAIN. 9745, Radio Bahrain, 0040-0120, Nov 12, carrier + USB, local pop ballads. Local Mid-East style music. Poor. Weak but readable with adjacent channel splatter. Barely audible at 0130 check. (Alexander-PA) ** BRAZIL. 4914.94, Radio Difusora de Macapá, 0300-0330, Nov 12, Portuguese inspirational talk. Many mentions of Macapá. Short breaks of instrumental music. “Radio Difusora” ID. Inspirational Portuguese pop ballads. Poor in noisy conditions. (Alexander-PA) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010.00, Radio Madagasikara, *0223-0245, Nov 11, carrier + USB. Sign on with lite music. IS at 0228. National Anthem at 0229. Talk at 0230. Lite music at 0233. Very weak. Very poor in noisy conditions. Reception was much better yesterday. (Alexander-PA) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010.00, Radio Madagasikara, 0224-0245, Nov 12, carrier + USB. Tune-in to lite inspirational music. IS at 0228:28. Choral National Anthem at 0229. Lite music at 0231 and opening announcements. Malagasy talk and inspirational music. Poor. Weak but readable in noisy conditions. (Alexander-PA) ** NIGER. 9705.59, LV du Sahel, 2245-2300*, Nov 12, French talk. Indigenous vocals at 2252. National Anthem at 2258:54. One second test tone at 2300 and off. Weak but readable. Very weak by 2254. Frequency stable tonight. No drifting, (Alexander-PA) ** NIGERIA. 15120, Voice of Nigeria, 0817-0901*, Nov 12, tune-in to English programming with IDs and time checks. Local drums and “Wind of Progress” program at 0830 about venture capital and recent developments in Africa. English news at 0900 for about 1 minute and abruptly pulled plug. No English heard from Nigeria for the past 4 or 5 days, until today. Poor ijn noise. Hum. Audio not always very clear. (Alexander-PA) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargaysa, *0331-0355, Nov 12, sign on with instrumental National Anthem at 0331-0332. Qur`an at 0333. Talk at 0338:25. Short 45 second break of Horn of Africa music at 0351:45, then back to more talk. Fair. Fair modulation for the most part but some voice announcements had weak modulation. (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
