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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Eritrea/Ethiopian logs

All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on sign-off*

Eritrea/ Ethiopia

Original moment at 1530 on Aug 19 on 7110 kHz: Heard Ethiopia ( \\ 9705) + Eritrea + Ethiopian jammer when they are jumping in range 7093-7117 kHz. The question is: What is the difference between the noise of DRM and Ethiopian jammer?
(Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 21)

7100 VOBME, Program 1, *0355-0405, Aug 15, Interval signal, Horn of Africa music at 0358. Talk at 0359. Covered by noise jammer at 0400. Noise jammer & VOBME gone at 0409 check. At 0410 noticed unidentified station on 8000.13 with talk and Horn of Africa music. VOBME? Good signal. Heard past 0425.

7165v VOBME, Program 2, *0355-0425, Aug 15, new frequency. ex-7175 (at least for today). IS. Horn of Africa music at 0400. Talk at 0401. Fair but several minutes of noise jammer at 0359. Frequency varing 7165.00-7165.13. (Brian Alexander-PA-USA, HCDX Aug 15)

7110 Radio Ethiopia, *0259-0325, Aug 15, short IS on electronic keyboard. Chimes at 0300 & Amharic talk. Short breaks of techno music. Some Horn of Africa music at 0303. Afro-pops. Fair. Very weak \\ 5990, 9704.18. (Brian Alexander-PA-USA, HCDX Aug 15)

7165 Radio Ethiopia, Geja Jawe, 0940-1000*, 14 Aug, Vernacular (Afar or Somali as listed), talks; SINPO 15341. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 19)

9559.80 Radio Ethiopia Aug 08 1357-1406 35433-33433 Afar and Arabic, Ethiopian pops, ID at 1358. Interval signal at 1359, 1400 three gongs to talk.

9559.90 Radio Ethiopia Jul 23 1402-1412. SINPO 34433 Arabic, News and Ethiopian pops, ID at 1410.

9559.90v Radio Ethiopia Jul 30 1457-1500* SINPO 34443-33443 Arabic, Ethiopian pops, ID at 1500.

9559.90v Voice of Democratic Alliance via Radio Ethiopia Jul 30 *1500-1510. SINPO 33443 Arabic. Interval signal to ID. Talk and Eritrian pops. (Kouji Hashimoto-JPN, PNpremium Aug 15)

5940 Radio Fana, Mek'ele, 1607-1635, 18 Aug, Tigriniya (pres), talks, local tunes. SINPO 25433; \\ to 5950.

5950 Radio Fana, Mek'ele, 1608-1625, 18 Aug, Tigriniya (p), cf. \\ 5940; 33442, adajacent QRM de RNW 5955,. Reception was easier on 5940. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 18)
(Source: BC-DX #874/Top News via wb, Germany)