[HCDX]: Sahara now 1550 (ex 1548/1544)

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Last night 3 March BBCM observed National Radio of the Saharan Arab 
Democratic Republic on 1550.0 kHz signing off at 0000 UTC, There was 
accompanying bubble jamming, presumably from Morocco. Incidentally, we now 
believe this station is transmitting from Bir Lehlu, which is actually in 
Western Sahara itself (rather than Tindouf, Algeria which was assumed in the 
past). There is a nice picture of the transmitting mast on the SADR web 
site. Bir Lehlu is about 200 km south west of Tindouf, in a part of Western 
Sahara still controlled by the Saharan people (Polisario Front).

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Dave Kenny, BBC Monitoring, Caversham Park, Reading, UK
E-Mail: Dave_Kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx    Fax: +44 118 946 1993

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>From owner-hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxx, on 03/03/98 19:57:
On 03/03/98 17:58:53 Juan Antonio Arranz wrote:
>
>1548 Khz National Radio of the Democratic Saharahui Arabic Republic    
>has displaced the frequency from 1544 Khz.
>At the beginning of 1998 has begun to be impeded by Morocco with jammer 
>of bubble. Customary programming is:
>emissions from Tindouf (ALG) in Arabic 07:00-08:00 and 18:00-00:00. In 
>Spanish:  00:00-01:00, very irregular.
>

I guess this goes along with what I noted last Saturday:

Date: 03/01/98 23:46:29
Subject: Spanish talk on 1548

At 2340 UTC on 28 FEB, I noted a VERY STRONG station on 1548 kHz
broadcasting Spanish language talk that sounded like a political
speech.  Obviously this would not be VOA Kuwait or any of the
UK stations.

Possibly the Tindouf, Algeria station (which sometimes broadcasts
in Spanish) has moved to 1548 from 1544 to avoid heterodynes
with VOA - 1548 and Germany / Spain - 1539.  I didn't note a
signal on 1544 at the time (and that's a usually strong frequency).

Reception was from Windmill Beach in South Yarmouth (Cape Cod), MA.
Highlights of the listening session included a fairly good signal
out of Angola-1502 and bits of what sounded like AFN Azores "next
door" on 1503.  Burkina Faso - 747 was fair, Senegal-765 loud /
local-like, etc.

Mark Connelly - Billerica, MA, USA
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