"bpnjensen" wrote in
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On Feb 21, 9:37 am, saki wrote:
I just put up a nice new inverted L and am hearing all sorts of new
things, but I wonder if one of you can help me with this.

Listening with an Icom R75, Los Angeles area, picked up a fluttery
signal on 17660 at about 1445Z, woman announcer in slow French
(didn't sound like a native speaker) with music that slowly faded by
1455Z, couldn't get an ID.

EiBi IDs this frequency at this time as "GAB African Music", which
isn't much help. Anyone have any ideas?

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Icom R75
Yaesu FRG 7700
Drake SW4A

This would be the African nation of Gabon, quite possibly in French.
However, Gabon also shows up (as Afrique No. 1) at the same time, in
French, on 17630 kHz. It ruotionely puts in a moderate to strong
signal here in California. Could one of these be what you were
hearing? Does AN1 broadcast on two nearly adjacent freqs at the same
time?

It was definitely on 17660; propagation was very poor but the French
announcing was intelligible until the signal faded. I don't recall
hearing a strong parallel signal on 17630 but I'll check again tomorrow
and see whether I can hear an ID.

Thanks for the response.

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On Feb 21, 12:40 pm, saki wrote:
"bpnjensen" wrote roups.com:

On Feb 21, 9:37 am, saki wrote:
I just put up a nice new inverted L and am hearing all sorts of new
things, but I wonder if one of you can help me with this.

Listening with an Icom R75, Los Angeles area, picked up a fluttery
signal on 17660 at about 1445Z, woman announcer in slow French
(didn't sound like a native speaker) with music that slowly faded by
1455Z, couldn't get an ID.

EiBi IDs this frequency at this time as "GAB African Music", which
isn't much help. Anyone have any ideas?

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Icom R75
Yaesu FRG 7700
Drake SW4A

This would be the African nation of Gabon, quite possibly in French.
However, Gabon also shows up (as Afrique No. 1) at the same time, in
French, on 17630 kHz. It ruotionely puts in a moderate to strong
signal here in California. Could one of these be what you were
hearing? Does AN1 broadcast on two nearly adjacent freqs at the same
time?

It was definitely on 17660; propagation was very poor but the French
announcing was intelligible until the signal faded. I don't recall
hearing a strong parallel signal on 17630 but I'll check again tomorrow
and see whether I can hear an ID.

Thanks for the response.

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Here is some additional Feb 2007 detail from BDXC website, further
supporting DxAce's assertion. It strikes me as odd that the frequency
used would be so close to that used simultaneously by the major
broadcaster in Gabon, possibly even the same wavelength. I assume
that, in the event the opposition station were to be operating on a
very close channel to AN1, this 17660 jammer would probably desist -
or maybe this close juxtaposition never happens.

AFRICA NO. 1
Africa No 1 is a commercial service for French-speaking Africa
operating from studios in Libreville. Web: www.africa1.com Email:

Transmitter Site: Moyabi-Moanda - 500 kW (HFCC registrations state 250
kW).
Times/UTC Days Language Target Frequencies/kHz
0500-0700 Daily French Africa 9580
0700-1030 Daily French Africa 9580 17630
1030-1100 Daily French Africa 9580
1100-1600 Daily French Africa 9580 17630
1600-1900 Daily French Africa 9580 15475
1900-2300 Daily French Africa 9580
Note: the transmitter on 17630 kHz switches to 21820 kHz between
1030-1100 for the Radio Japan relay in Italian and Swedish. Between
1130-1530, the transmitter on 17630 kHz may be switched for use by the
"African Music Station" (see below). Africa No 1 also reported on
19160 kHz, the second harmonic of 9580 kHz.

AFRICAN MUSIC STATION
Transmitter Site: believed to be Moyabi, Gabon.
Times/UTC Days Format Target Frequencies/kHz
1130-1530 Daily Franco-African music North Africa (presumed)
17620-17695
Note: Frequency can be anywhere in the range 17620-17695. The purpose
of this non-stop African music service is as source of interference or
distraction against the Libyan opposition station Sawt al-Amal.