UNITED STATES/SYRIA: RADIO FREE SYRIA STARTS BROADCASTS

The US-based Reform Party of Syria radio station Radio Free Syria
started Arabic-language broadcasts at 1800 gmt on 20 June 2004, on
13650 kHz.

The station came on the air abruptly, "crash starting" at 1800 gmt
with music and slogans, identifing as Voice of Free Syria (Sawt al-
Suriya al-Hurr). This was followed by a 10-minute news bulletin and
commentary. The rest of the programme consisted of a variety of
Western and Arabic music interspersed with slogans by both male and
female announcers. An Arabic-language commentary was heard between
1838 and 1852 gmt, with the station closing abruptly at 1859 gmt.

Bearings taken on this transmission show that the broadcast may
originate from facilities near Köln, Germany. In the minute before
Radio Free Syria came on the air, a brief clip of the opening of the
Radio Free Syria programme was heard on the same frequency, followed
by several seconds of Deutsche Welle before the programme "crash
started" at 1800. Source: BBC Monitoring research, in English 1800 gmt
20 Jun 20 (via DXLD)
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Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

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