[HCDX] Nov 20-21 Logs

[Brian384875@xxxxxxx]

** BURKINA FASO. 5030, Radio Burkina, *0529-0555, Nov 21, sign 
on with  vocal National Anthem at 0529. (test tone at 0520-0529).
Opening French  announcements at 0530. Local African tribal music 
at 0531. Fair to good  signal. Much stronger than usual. (Brian 
Alexander, PA) 
 
** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, *0300-0335, Nov 21, sign on  with
National Anthem followed by Qur`an. Arabic talk at 0312. Local 
Horn  of Africa music at 0327. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nac, Bata, *0504-0520, 
Nov 21, sign  on with local African music. Spanish announcements.
Weak but readable. (Brian  Alexander, PA) 
 
** EURO-PIRATE. 6870.01, Radio Playback, 0350-0445+, Nov 21,
wide  variety of jazz music and pop music, including an ABBA tune.
ID simply as  âPlaybackâ. Poor to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** EURO-PIRATE. 7610.05, Radio Amica, 0245-0305, Nov 21, wide
variety of  lite pop music, Euro-pop music. Rod Stewart tune. IDs.
Italian announcements.  Weak, but fair to good signal strength on 
peaks. Possible transmitter  problem with hum in audio. Hum quite 
strong at times. (Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** GUINEA. 7125, Radio Guinee, 2145-2218*, Nov 20, local African 
music.  French talk. Abrupt sign off. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** SUDAN. 7200, SRTC, *0245-0400+, Nov 21, abrupt sign on with
Arabic  talk. Qur`an at 0246. Talk. Short breaks of local music. 
Chirping birds.  Fair signal but some occasional HAM QRM. 
(Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** SUDAN [non]. via Sines, Portugal, 17745, Sudan Radio  Service,
*1459-1530, Nov 21, sign on with lite instrumental music &  African 
music. Opening English ID announcements at 1500 with IDs,  
contact information, phone numbers and into âLets Talkâ drama 
program  about Sudanese elections. Talk about elections being free
and fair. Into  Arabic talk at 1529. Fair to good. According to the 
WRTH English is  scheduled for Sat & Sun only. (Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** ZIMBABWE [non]. via MADAGASCAR. 11610, Radio Voice of the
People,  0405-0457*, Nov 21, tentative ID. Vernacular talk. Short 
breaks of African  music. Tentative. Weak. Very poor in noisy 
conditions. Just too much noise.  This station now scheduled to be on 
this frequency. ex-9895. (Brian  Alexander, PA) 
 

Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA  
Equipment: Icom  IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires 
 



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