[HCDX] 25775/25765 unid

["Jari Savolainen" <jari.savolainen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got a message from Wian Stienstra in
The Netherlands about the phone number
mentioned in the English program on 25775.
To put it in short:
33 99 12 41 32 is old Rennes (or Cesson-Sevigne)
number before April 1996. Then the French telephone
numbers were changed. This number is now
332 99 12 41 32. Wian dialed this number and it went
to TDF Research. The guy on the phone knew nothing
about these 25 MHz tests and told that development of
DAB in France had actually stopped.
So the test "program" seems rather old. Many thanks
Wian, for excellent info.
Back to logs of this station.
Yesterday, 24 Sep I checked 25765 at times and until
at 1630 they were still running football loop. But at
1644 25765 was silent and instead some music on
25775. At 1646 they popped up again on 25765 and
started a short id-ts-news in loop. A BBC WS promo,
time signal and some seconds of "World Briefing"
program, back to promo etc. At about 1815 signal
disappeared.
Today, 25 Sep tune in at 0709 the French/English
program in loop was again on 25775, both sidebands
and carrier.
Wonder if this is one transmitter or two different
sites? Merlin and/or TDF?. Tests for DRM?

Jari Savolainen
Kuusankoski
Finland  

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