Radio France International, 7160 kHz
 

4:45 p.m on the East Coast of the US, which is 2145 UTC I think.
Transmitting sort of pop, half-calypso, half-reggae tune - sorry, can't
describe it better than that.

DX-398 off the whip, not the best reception, some fading, no
interference. but there it is.

Radio France International, 7160 kHz
 

Beloved Leader wrote:

4:45 p.m on the East Coast of the US, which is 2145 UTC I think.
Transmitting sort of pop, half-calypso, half-reggae tune - sorry, can't
describe it better than that.

DX-398 off the whip, not the best reception, some fading, no
interference. but there it is.

Yep, via South Africa. A very nice signal.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Radio France International, 7160 kHz
 

South Africa, huh? I couldn't figure out the footnotes at the schedule
I was looking at, an old EiBi one I think.

Years ago, on my first SWR, a multiband affair that I bought at a yard
sale for 75 cents (note gratuituous reference to buying radios cheap,
for the benefit of Cuhu), I used to love to snoop around the vicinity
of 5 MHz on winter afternoons just suc as today's. I used to get
regularly a station called Africa No. that played calypso. It was so
much fun to listen to that while snow was on the ground. I'd look
outside and see the typically beautiful winter sunset.

Later at night I could hear a commercial SW station in Capetown. I
remember the ads for John Player cigarettes and Yamaha motorcycles.
What was their name, Radio 7, maybe?

I miss analog tuning so much. My radios are better now, but I think
digital tuning takes away a lot of the endearment.

Thanks for writing.

QS Radio France International, 7160 kHz
 

Beloved Leader wrote:

South Africa, huh? I couldn't figure out the footnotes at the schedule
I was looking at, an old EiBi one I think.

Years ago, on my first SWR, a multiband affair that I bought at a yard
sale for 75 cents (note gratuituous reference to buying radios cheap,
for the benefit of Cuhu), I used to love to snoop around the vicinity
of 5 MHz on winter afternoons just suc as today's. I used to get
regularly a station called Africa No. that played calypso. It was so
much fun to listen to that while snow was on the ground. I'd look
outside and see the typically beautiful winter sunset.

Later at night I could hear a commercial SW station in Capetown. I
remember the ads for John Player cigarettes and Yamaha motorcycles.
What was their name, Radio 7, maybe?

Yes, most likely Radio 7. Used to listen to them here and believe I have a QSL.

I seem to recall their Afrikaans slogan, it was something like "Lekker Loslyf
Landswyd" or something like that.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

QS Radio France International, 7160 kHz
 

Radio 5; that's it. It occurred to me too that the station was Radio 5.
Is it still on? I could Google....

Radio France International, 7160 kHz
 

There's interference until 2130 UTC from an Arabic-lanugage station at
7155 kHz. At 2130, it signs off.