[HCDX] Vatican blues

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

On 26 Jan at 1534 I was scanning the bands and stopped on
4005 where nice blues music was heard. This frequency is
usually occupied by Vatican Radio, so I checked their other
common frequency 5890 and indeed same music there. With
brief Italian announcements they played "I ain't got nothing but
the blues" "Night time is a right time" etc, even one Janis Joplin
blues song. This was really nice programming instead of
"Ave Marias" or Mass. At 1559 interval signal, bells, brief Radio
Vaticana ID and then vespers. Blues was over and I continued
scanning :)
Both 4005 (AM with suppressed LSB) and 5890 are listed in
WRTH 2004 as Vatican City with powers of 10 and 80kW.
So, according to WRTH, there are still two SW and two MW
transmitters inside the tiny Vatican City area.
Jari Savolainen
Kuusankoski
Finland   
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