Checked 11860 at 1700-1805 UT on Febr 9,
Sana'a in Arabic was well of S=7-8 strength, but not strong in southern
Germany and Switzerland remote units.
From 1730 UT accompanied CO-CHANNEL by slightly better S=8 AWR MBR brokered
Nauen outlet in MRC/ALG Kabyle language programe, mostly spoken sermon by
male announcer, but rather even level like old Radio Cairo singer group
program on Radio Sana'a til 18.01:20 UT, when female reader of excile Sana'a
program started news reading.
AWR Nauen Germany stopped at 18.00:04 UT and immediatelly TX OFF.
wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX" Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 6:21
PM Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 8-9, 2016
YEMEN [non]. 11860, Feb 9 at 1430, very weak signal from R. Sana`a! Not
rechecked until 1455, as during this semihour the Tuesday following the
first Wednesday of the month is KOSU`s `The Living Room` interview, this
time with the OKC police chief and a subordinate.
Then I realize this doesn`t sound like R. Sana`a at all --- none of the
familiar music bits and exhortations, not even sure it`s Arabic, ergo, R.
Sana`a is gone and I`m getting the station it normally covers up starting
at 1430, VOA Radio Ashna, in Pashto, 250 kW, 70 degrees via KUWAIT (and
switching to Dari at 1500).
I quickly scan the entire 11 and 13 MHz bands for a new Sana`a frequency,
but none found. Propagation seems to be normal or even above normal
judging from other signals heard.
Finally circa 1512, Sana`a cuts back on 11860 with Arabic talk, so it was
just an outage. It`s at usual level of S9+10, still at 1535.
BTW, Bill Bingham in South Africa finds no signal on 11860 early in the
mornings, as of Feb 4: ``Although I can't monitor Sana'a every night
(because of the awkward time here in Jo'burg) I have previously noted the
following, and always with an abrupt change where any change was heard:
Going off air at 0120.
Already off air by 0100, 0132, 0308.
Coming back on air by 0340.
Coming back on air at 0324, 0329, 0338 (plus today 0326).
From these timings it seems to me that Sana'a must go off air for an hour
or two most mornings, if not every morning``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1721 UT February 9
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