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[HCDX] 4780 RTD Djibouti on air today March 18th.
DJIBOUTI 4780 Thanks to a tip of Thorsten Hallmann in Austrian news group
A-DX of 1736 UT, RTD Djibouti is back on 4780 kHz TB tonight. Scheduled
0300-2000 [Fris- 2200 only, acc to WRTH 2005, but RTD left the air at 2000
UT today - even now we have Friday tonight ! ]
Signal is m u c h disturbed in southern Germany by an UNKNOWN UTE signal
nearby, so no reliable MP3 recording could be made yet. Monitored around
1800-2000 UT.
Bad reception released on both, Kenwood and Sony rxs, even in SYNC mode.
AOR 7030 set used in SYNC lowerband flank mode at around 4779.6 kHz and set
Pass Band Shift to plus 2.1 kHz, in order to listen in an agreeable sound.
50 kW tropical band tx and a MW tx on 1116 kHz is a gift of US propaganda
organization BBG-IBB to Djibouti in return:
"was supposed to have been built by IBB as part of the deal to establish the
1431 Radio Sawa station [US 600 kW super power propaganda station to SDN,
ETH, ERI, audience wb.]" - see Chris Greenway's mail below.
Existing tropical band antenna has been refurbished already. Envisaged final
opening date was May 2004, but postphoned to March 2005 lately.
73 wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thorsten Hallmann"
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 6:40 PM
Subject: [A-DX] unid 4780 - schnell mal reinhören
habe gerade (1736 UTC) ein Signal mit O=2-3 auf 4780, noch nie vorher gehört
und nichts passendes gelistet. Dem Musikstil nach entweder Ostafrika oder
Vorder-/Südasien, jetzt sprache aber unidentifizierbar.
guten empfang wünscht thorsten
- - -
DJIBOUTI I have been listening for reactivated 4780, but nothing heard yet.
I remember hearing it fairly well in Nairobi before it disappeared more than
10 years ago. I can hear Djibouti on 1539, but not on 1116 which (like
4780) was supposed to have been built by IBB as part of the deal to
establish the 1431 Radio Sawa station.
(Chris Greenway-KEN, dxld Jan 28)
DJIBOUTI R. Djibouti: From some sources I got info that RTD's new 50 kW
SW tx (4780?) might be operational sometime this March.
(Savolainen-FIN, dxld Jan 30)
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