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Author Topic: UNID 15425 AM 1615 UTC 06 JAN 2024  (Read 872 times)

Offline Kestrel

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UNID 15425 AM 1615 UTC 06 JAN 2024
« on: January 06, 2024, 1643 UTC »
1615 Arabic or Farsi being spoken by one young male, then female joined in talking.  Could not determine which language was being used, due to low signal strength and noise.
1630 brief recording of rock music, then female talking, then off

S4-5, fading and noise

This broadcast is not listed either in the Shortwave Broadcast Schedules app or at short-wave.info
If anyone has any idea about the identity of the source of this broadcast, or can provide any additional information about it, I'll be grateful for your help.
Unless otherwise noted, I am listening via NA5B web SDR, with an antenna in northern Virginia, just outside Washington, DC

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Re: UNID 15425 AM 1615 UTC 06 JAN 2024
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2024, 1613 UTC »
09 JAN 2024. 
The only thing I could find on this broadcast after searching several databases and internet sites was that Al Arabyia FM tested on this frequency in 2023.

Very good reception minor fades
1610 OM talking at length in Middle Eastern or East African language, chanting song-like at times
1616 Transition music (IS?) almost sounded like DW electronic identifier
1617 YL talking, echo effect to snippet of regional music - sounds either West or East African (Subsaharan)
1629 YL talking off mid sentence.

If I had to guess I would say this might be Voice of Oromo Liberation just can't find anything that puts it on this frequency now.
« Last Edit: January 09, 2024, 2058 UTC by Ct Yankee »
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Re: UNID 15425 AM 1615 UTC 06 JAN 2024
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2024, 0216 UTC »
Thanks very much for your research and response.  Interesting suggestion about Voice of Oromo Liberation, which I have heard once before on another frequency.  Maybe we'll catch it again....
Unless otherwise noted, I am listening via NA5B web SDR, with an antenna in northern Virginia, just outside Washington, DC

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Re: UNID 15425 AM 1615 UTC 06 JAN 2024
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2024, 1616 UTC »
17 JAN 2024
Very good reception
1609 2 OM talking usually rapid, as if broadcasting a sporting event.  A thought is that this might be a broadcast, off a video feed for them (no crowd noise), of the lone Asian Cup soccer match currently happening - Tajikistan v Qatar.  Thus, lending the possibility of this transmission being of Middle Eastern origin.
1620 Music transition and match is not over, so probably was not soccer.   :-\
« Last Edit: January 17, 2024, 1622 UTC by Ct Yankee »
Tecsun H501x (broadcast received on this unless noted), Zenith T/O G500, Zenith T/O Royal 7000, Emerson AR-176, Zenith 8S154, T/O 7G605 (Bomber), Tecsun PL-600, Tecsun PL-880, Zenith 5S320, Realistic DX 160 using 40 feet of copper wire.  With apologies to Senator Gramm for his thoughts on firearms, "I have more radios than I need but not as many as I want."
QTH:  Durham, Connecticut (rural setting, 15 miles north of Long Island Sound)
qsl please to:  jamcanner@comcast.net  (Thank you)

 

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