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Loggings => Shortwave Broadcast => Topic started by: East Troy Don on October 23, 2022, 1553 UTC

Title: UNID 17790 KHZ....
Post by: East Troy Don on October 23, 2022, 1553 UTC
....  @ 15:25 UTC with Irish religious programming with sermons and hymns broadcasting in English "from the pre-Presbytarian Church of Ulster" followed by a lengthy monologue on the inevitability of Death @ 15:35. 
Adventist Radio???   Usual freq sources come up empty,

SINPO: 43333  on the FRG - 7700
Title: Re: UNID 17790 KHZ....
Post by: Shortwave_Listener on October 23, 2022, 1641 UTC
Hearing it direct here, very weak and rarely reaching 1/10 on the meter.

1640 UTC-Man talking in unknown language? Very weak
Title: Re: UNID 17790 KHZ....
Post by: MDK2 on October 23, 2022, 1648 UTC
Copying with a nice SIO 444 signal in Colorado at 1645 UTC. I heard a bit of a program if not station ID but because of background noise here and the fact music was also part of the broadcast, I couldn't make it all out. Radio Vaticana has this frequency at times too so that's a possibility. Will see if they say something at the top of the hour.
Title: Re: UNID 17790 KHZ....
Post by: jfarley1 on October 23, 2022, 1837 UTC
new WRMI freq relay.
Title: Re: UNID 17790 KHZ....
Post by: Pigmeat on October 23, 2022, 2037 UTC
The Vatican and Ulster Presbyterians on the same frequency? This could get interesting come next year's Marching Season. I remember the Rev. Ian Paisley's fundraising tours hitting the local Churches to raise money for the Protestant cause in Ulster. He made Brother Stair seem like the voice of reason. I wonder if Ian's still alive? The Welsh comedian David Allen made a pile on Ian Paisley jokes on his old TV show.
Title: Re: UNID 17790 KHZ....
Post by: Paul B. Walker, Jr. on October 24, 2022, 1653 UTC
As jfarley said above, its WRMI.. its a permanent move of the 21mhz Radio Africa network frequency with a change in beam.. going from 87 deg on 21525 to 160 deg on 17790
Title: Re: UNID 17790 KHZ....
Post by: East Troy Don on October 24, 2022, 2143 UTC
Thanks
Title: Re: UNID 17790 KHZ....
Post by: Ct Yankee on October 24, 2022, 2225 UTC
17790 AM 24 Oct 2022

2222 Surprisingly good reception considering frequency, beam, and that it is a half hour past sunset here.  Supreme Master TV with OM and YL chatting back and forth.

Title: Re: UNID 17790 KHZ....
Post by: MDK2 on October 25, 2022, 1733 UTC
As jfarley said above, its WRMI.. its a permanent move of the 21mhz Radio Africa network frequency with a change in beam.. going from 87 deg on 21525 to 160 deg on 17790

I can understand the change in frequency, but the change in beam direction (from Africa to Latin America) seems counterintuitive for show ostensibly produced for an African audience.
Title: Re: UNID 17790 KHZ....
Post by: Pigmeat on October 26, 2022, 1833 UTC
Protestant Evangelical Christianity is blowing up in Latin America. As the Latino population increased here, they began crowding the pews of the various Baptist sects and others like them.
Title: Re: UNID 17790 KHZ....
Post by: MDK2 on October 26, 2022, 2026 UTC
Protestant Evangelical Christianity is blowing up in Latin America. As the Latino population increased here, they began crowding the pews of the various Baptist sects and others like them.

Yeah, I know all about that. Good thing in some respects because it shakes the iron grip of the Catholic Church. But still, an English language program supposedly for Africa.... which brings up the question of why aren't there more Spanish language evangelical stations. WEWN has that one right. Chalk up the Catholics for knowing their azimuth.