On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 07:00:03 -0500, dxAce
wrote:



Tebojockey wrote:

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:25:00 -0500, dxAce
wrote:

DJIBOUTI 4780 Thanks to a tip of
Thorsten Hallmann in Austrian news
group
A-DX of 1736 UT, RTD Djibouti is back
on 4780 kHz TB tonight. Scheduled
0300-2000 [Fris- 2200 only, acc to
WRTH 2005, but RTD left the air at
2000
UT today - even now we have Friday
tonight ! ]

Signal is m u c h disturbed in
southern Germany by an UNKNOWN UTE
signal
nearby, so no reliable MP3 recording
could be made yet. Monitored around
1800-2000 UT.

Bad reception released on both, Kenwood and Sony rxs, even in SYNC
mode.

AOR 7030 set used in SYNC lowerband flank mode at around 4779.6 kHz
and set
Pass Band Shift to plus 2.1 kHz, in order to listen in an agreeable
sound.

50 kW tropical band tx and a MW tx on 1116 kHz is a gift of US
propaganda
organization BBG-IBB to Djibouti in return:

"was supposed to have been built by IBB as part of the deal to
establish the
1431 Radio Sawa station [US 600 kW super power propaganda station to
SDN,
ETH, ERI, audience wb.]" - see Chris Greenway's mail below.

Existing tropical band antenna has been refurbished already.
Envisaged final
opening date was May 2004, but postphoned to March 2005 lately.

73 wb
(Thursten Hallman, Wolfgang Bueschel, dxld yahoo group)

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Yup! 'Tis back! Heard with screaming signals at 1800 UTC here in the
Marianas. The IBB stuff is correct as well and we will be putting in
some hi-power "stuff" there shortly, according to what I've been
hearing. I have one of their old QSLs from the late 80's, but will
try for another.

I put the Djibouti QSL back up at the top of my page:

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

QSL'd here back in 1983. Had the pleasure of visiting Djibouti twice back in 1979.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


Wow! I'd never even considered going there. I have a friend in the
Foreign Legion who was stationed there for awhile. He had nothing
good to say about it. Then again, he got stationed in Tahiti and
didn't like that either. He's a bit of a rough-cut, so it's probably
him and not Djibouti, LOL.

Nice that you put the QSL up. Someday, when I learn some more about
HTML and Web programming, maybe I'll try my hand at it. Networking
and sysasmin are more my thing, but it never hurts to diversify!

Closest I ever got to visiting was working in Cairo for 15 months.
What an experience *that* was!

Al

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