Friday, March 09, 2007

Focus on Nigeria on shortwave


Nigeria remains an active and popular country to monitor on shortwave radio. Depending on your location and UTC time, Nigerian stations, despite being targeted to a mostly domestic audience, should be audible. The following schedules represent the active Nigerian stations being heard in English on shortwave radio.

All times UTC
Radio Nigeria - National Service (Abuja)
0600-0630 7275do (domestic target area)
1500-1530 7275do
1800-1830 7275do
2100-2130 7275do
Correspondence with return mint postage, may be directed to:
Radio Nigeria-Abuja
PMB 71
Garki, Abuja, Nigeria

Radio Nigeria (Ibadan)
Station previously used 6050 kHz to a domestic audience. It has not been logged in recent months, and may be currently inactive.

Radio Nigeria (Kaduna)
0430-0500 6090do
0500-0600 4770do, 6090do (alternative frequency)
0600-0700 4770do, 6090do
0700-0800 4770do, 6090do
0800-0900 4770do, 6090do
0900-1000 4770do, 6090do
1000-1100 4770do, 6090do
1100-1200 4770do, 6090do
1200-1300 4770do, 6090do
1300-1400 4770do, 6090do
1400-1500 4770do, 6090do
1500-1600 4770do, 6090do
1600-1700 4770do, 6090do
1700-1800 4770do, 6090do
1800-1900 4770do, 6090do
1900-2000 4770do, 6090do
2000-2100 4770do, 6090do
2100-2200 4770do, 6090do
2200-2300 4770do, 6090do
2300-2315 4770do, 6090do

Voice of Nigeria - External Service (Lagos)
0500-0600 15120eu/af (Europe, Africa)
0600-0700 15120eu/af
0700-0800 15120eu/af
1000-1100 7255af (Africa)
1100-1200 7255af
1200-1300 7255af
1300-1400 7255af
1400-1500 7255af
1700-1800 15120eu/af
1800-1900 15120eu/af
1900-2000 15120eu/af
2000-2100 15120eu/af
May on occasion use 9690 or 11770 kHz as alternative frequencies.
Correspondence with return mint postage, may be directed to:
Voice of Nigeria
PMB 40003
Falomo Post Office
Ikoyi, Nigeria
(or) Voice of Nigeria
7th Floor, Radio House
Herbert Macaulay Way
Garki-Abuja, Nigeria
Web: http://www.voiceofnigeria.org/
(Source: Gayle Van Horn TP NC & Monitoring Times SW Guide)

Recent logging observations posted via World Wide DX Club.
NIGERIA 4770 Again at an odd time, at 1147-1230 on 4 Feb, Vernacular (tent), talks, African music; 15341. I wanted to check their other regional outlet, 7275, but no signal, just Voice of Nigeria 7255 loud & clear at midday: rated 35443 at 1309 on 3 Feb. (Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 5)
UNID 6089.9 UNID Feb 7 very weak with mumbles and seemingly African songs ard 2045. Not heard later which was normally the case with Kaduna years ago, but I think probably this is back? 4770 fair at the same time with different prgr. Maybe better tonight?
(later) 6090, To confirm this is Radio Nigeria, Kaduna, heard Feb 9 up to close at 2300*. 4770 closed at that same time and same national anthem, believe it or not. 2300 revealed China Business Radio //7315 with Beijing- ID 2307. No sign of it on 3985 kHz. (Finn Krone-DEN, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 9/10)
According to my notes as DBS Editor, Kaduna was not heard by any DX-er Nov 2006 - Jan 2007, but is now back on the air. (Anker Petersen-DEN, Feb 8) 0430-2305 UT, (wb)
(Source: WWDXC Top News (BC-DX #794 via Woldgang Büeschel)