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Loggings => Clandestine Stations => Topic started by: fpeconsultant on January 04, 2018, 1435 UTC

Title: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: fpeconsultant on January 04, 2018, 1435 UTC

Maiden broadcast to be 1/6/18 15110khz 7pm Nigeria time (so if I'm thinking clearly that's 1800z).
Edit:  yes 1800-1900z is correct.
FPE

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: fpeconsultant on January 06, 2018, 1918 UTC

Not heard 1800z today 1/6 - many reports of not heard as well.

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: skeezix on January 06, 2018, 2210 UTC

Is that 1800-1900Z daily?

Nigeria is WAT (West Africa Time, UTC+1), so you are correct in your time.

Best of all, they don't observe DST. Good for them.

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: fpeconsultant on January 07, 2018, 1222 UTC

Apparently daily - once they actually broadcast...

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: fpeconsultant on January 08, 2018, 1626 UTC

Apparently broadcast is 1600-1700z - confirmed today.  And also apparently daily.
FPE

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: MDK2 on January 09, 2018, 1621 UTC

Weak signal copied in Denver at 1620z on 09 JAN at 15115. Not good enough to claim I'm getting this exact station, but worth a mention.

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on January 09, 2018, 1642 UTC

Nothing here at 1642 on 15115.

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on January 10, 2018, 1601 UTC

I think I have them on 15110 at 1600z today, 10 Jan 2018!
Supposedly the station name is Radio Nigeria ?
Off at 1640z.

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: fpeconsultant on January 10, 2018, 2206 UTC

Chris - yes I am becoming convinced that it is perhaps Radio Nigeria and not really a clandestine at all.
Once somebody can actually receive them with a decent copy maybe we will find out.

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on January 10, 2018, 2248 UTC

I think it is a real clandestine, it is mentioned on this site http://www.ipob.org/2018/01/the-reason-why-we-lunched-radio-nigeria.html

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: fpeconsultant on January 11, 2018, 2103 UTC

Chris - you are correct.  Clandestine it is!
I have yet to copy them well enough or see a log from someone else confirming content - when I copied them 1/10 I couldn't even confirm it was THEM.

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: fpeconsultant on January 13, 2018, 2357 UTC

Fair copy today 1/13 at 1600z sign on with music then OM in Hausa.  Some mentions of Nigeria.

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on January 14, 2018, 1316 UTC

I was able to get in touch with someone from the organization via Facebook. I tried several times politely asking about a QSL or some other sort of verification of my reception, but no dice. They just seemed interested in me calling into their show  ;D

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: Pigmeat on January 18, 2018, 0721 UTC

That fight isn't flaring up again, is it? Two of my closest friends in college were dragged into the earlier Biafran War as "volunteer" boy soldiers before they were teens. They could tell some stomach turning tales about what went on when the Nigerian Army turned the tide where they were fighting on the Biafran side.

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: fpeconsultant on January 31, 2018, 2311 UTC

Official name confirmed as Radio Na Gaskiya which translates in Hausa to Radio Truth.
1600-1700z daily on 15110khz targeted to northern region of Nigeria where Hausa is the predominant language.
FPE

Title: Re: New Biafra Hausa Service
Post by: JCMaxwell on February 01, 2018, 1717 UTC

I was tied up until 1655.  Jumped on the radio and saw a faint carrier, nothing heard.  :(