Friday, May 28, 2010

Saudi Arabia monitoring


All times UTC

17785 BSKSA Riyadh "early pre-French piece" in English at 0752 til 0800 UT, May 25. Signal S=9+5dB towards West Africa. Feature presented from the press "donation of the Kings family..." at 0755, and English final announcement at 0757. Exact time signal at 0800, French section start. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 25)

Observed different use of 9715 and 11785 kHz:
May 11th: 0300-1455. Feature from 0955 with "Bzz" on 9715 and 11785 kHz was silenced and 17615 kHz not in use. Also with "bzz" was 15380 kHz at 1230.

May 12th: 1100-1200 on 17615 kHz with "bzz" and "bzz" spurs on +/-18 kHz on 17597 and 17633 kHz heard. At 1050 on 11785 kHz was on the air clearly and 9715 kHz was only till 0955 on air. All above programs were with "Qoran Qerim Prgr" (as they called Holy Qu'ran).
(Rumen Pankov-BUL, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 17/BC DX 965)