Friday, May 01, 2009

New shortwave station in Somalia


On Sam Voron's website https://sites.google.com/site/somaliahamradio/ among other interesting stuff, there is a mention of new Somali SW station Radio Hage. Info says it operates from Galkayo with 1.25 kW on 3980 and 6915 at 0900-1000 and 0300-0500 (UTC). Direct links about Radio Hage: https://sites.google.com/site/somaliahamradio/somalia-short-wave-radio-broadcasts and http://sites.google.com/site/somaliahamradio/radio-hage-somalia . (Savolainen in DXplorer, Apr 16)

The e-mail address of Radio Hage is: radiohagesom@gmail.com . An impressive list of active radiostations in Somalia as of Apr 2009, edited by Australian radio amateur Sam Voron. This unruly country has a size bigger than Spain and Portugal together, but only a population of about 7 million. There are just two stations on shortwave, but 50 on FM as follows from NW: Autonomous Somaliland: 3, Puntland: 19, Galmudug: 1, Central Somalia: 5, Mogadishu area: 18, South Somalia: 2 and SW Somalia: 2.

I tried to catch Radio Hage on 6915 at 0344-0348, Apr 26, but only WYFR, Okeechobee, was heard with bible quotations in English, 35343. (Petersen)

7145, Radio Hargeisa, Somaliland, 1605-1901*, Apr 20 and 25, Somali news, political reports, music from Horn of Africa, 1700 ID, news mentioning Somalia, Oman, Nigeria, London, Israel, Tehran and Switzerland, ex 7120.1, 35433. (Petersen, Schulze and Wiespointner). They sent me a partly detailed card (time missing) from the Bergheim/Germany address in three weeks for return postage and a recording on CD. According to v/s Baldur Drobnica, there still is no direct postal route available into Somaliland. (Kuhl in DXplorer, Apr 25)
(DX Window # 375 via Anker Petersen)