Radio Télévision Guinéenne reactivated in 9650 kHz - Shortwave

[Daniel Wyllyans]

Radio Télévision Guinéenne
Radio-Télévision Guinéenne , Guinea reactivated on shortwave .....logged at New Delhi, North India.
Rx - ICOM R75 , Ant : PA0RDT Active antenna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrY2Ohw_JTw

Radio-Télévision Guinéenne (RTG) , Guinea reactivated on shortwave
Radio-Télévision Guinéenne (RTG), the state broadcasting service of Guinea has been re-activated on shortwave, as per BDXC Africa Guide station was last reported on shortwave on 7125 kHz in September 2012.  Earlier a 50 kW transmitter was situated at Conakry.
 
Reactivated station on 9650 kHz was first noted by Paul Walker on 14th April 2016, Sakae Obara from New Jersey, USA identified the station as 'Radio Guinea' during a discussion in DXLD list.
 
Logged on 16th April, 2016 0103 UTC onwards with surprisingly fair to good reception on 9650 kHz , heard till 0230 UTC onwards until it started fading, Content was mostly Afro music with occasional French talk.
 
And here's an audio file logged at 0107 UTC on 16th April 2016 on 9650 kHz

https://soundcloud.com/alokesh-1/radiodifusao-nacional-guinea-bissau-9650-khz-0107-utc-16-april-2016 [ guinea-bissau No ] Someting Guinea DW
 
Per Wikipedia, Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (French: République de Guinée), is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (French: Guinée française), the modern country is sometimes referred to as Guinea-Conakry in order to distinguish it from other parts of the wider region of the same name, such as Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea.[5] Guinea has a population of 10.5 million.

Related :

On 29 issuers of the Guinean Radio Television, currently operate only 6
 
http://tinyurl.com/h6hjhrm
 
(Alokesh Gupta)
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Some 1-2 decades ago Conakry Guinea was on 9650 kHz with 50 kW, at 0044 UT
heard a clear ID in French "Radio Guineé"
S=9 or -72dBm signal heard on remote units in Spain, Italy and Greece.

btw. Thimphu Bhutan NOT HEARD tonight, between 0000 and 0040 UT.

73 wb via HCDX
Subject: Re: [dxld] Another new African station today?
9650 at 0008z heard on twente SDR Netherlands. Sounds like man giving news
in French with talk from correspondents. 0027z West African vocal music
similar to Zouk music of the Caribbean.
0028z high-life sounding music with vocals and electric guitars + stringed
instruments

Steven Wiseblood
Harlingen TEXAS via HCDX
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HCDX

9650.0 even Conakry Guinea, at 0057 UT S=9+10dB signal on remote SDR units
in Moscow Russia, in England, in Belgium and in southern Germany.
and in peaks S=9+20dB or -56dBm in southern Italy at 0100 UT.

73 wb df5sx
To: "DXLD" <dxld@yahoogroups.com>; Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2016 2:50 AM
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Another new African station today?

Some 1-2 decades ago Conakry Guinea was on 9650 kHz with 50 kW, at 0044 UT
heard a clear ID in French "Radio Guineé"
S=9 or -72dBm signal heard on remote units in Spain, Italy and Greece.


btw. Thimphu Bhutan NOT HEARD tonight, between 0000 and 0040 UT.

73 wb
Re: [dxld] Another new African station today?
9650 at 0008z heard on twente SDR Netherlands. Sounds like man giving news
in French with talk from correspondents. 0027z West African vocal music
similar to Zouk music of the Caribbean.
0028z high-life sounding music with vocals and electric guitars + stringed
instruments

Steven Wiseblood
Harlingen TEXAS
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** GUINEA. 9650, April 16 at 2136, no signal from Radio GuinÃe; nor at 2330 or later, so apparently gone again after a couple days` activity. Ivo Ivanov suggests that it could be a relay from outside, and was getting it the previous morning: ``Surprisingly good reception of new Radio Guinea, Conakry, April 16: 0655 & 0705 on 9650 unknown site / relay to CeAf French, no signal at 0800 UT``.

Thorsten Hallmann replies on the DXLD yg: ``That's what I thought at 0645: Surprisingly good - but I don't think it was a relay from outside Africa. After 0730 signal strength significantly degraded, but I'm quite sure it was still on after 0800, comparing it to Mali (9635 - with almost no modulation though) it was weaker then. So no problem - if it was 50 kW or so from Guinea, that would all fit. What programme has been aired? Sakaà Obara posted a recording here:
https://shortwaverecording.wordpress.com/2016/04/16/radio-guinee/

This gives the frequency FM 88.5, that's according to online station lists the standard RTG Conakry FM channel, given as 88.55 in older WRTHs for a service IDing as Radio Conakry or Radio GuinÃe. (Why should a station lease airtime to air this throughout the night? So again pointing at their own transmitter, I think. A new one or an [old] one?!) 73 thorsten``

Also, Sheldon Harvey forwards a recent story about the sorry state of radio and TV around the country, with many transmitters off the air, and radio not covering the whole country (like 9650 would from abroad; they should be on 4900 for best domestic coverage):
http://www.conakrytime.com/magr1.php?langue=fr&type=rub17&code=calb5001
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUINEA. 9650, April 15 at 2350 tune-in, rather repetitive vocal and instrumental African music at S8, from something new. At 2359 some different instrumental music and announcement in French, but cannot recognize any ID.

Onward into UT April 16 0002: now all talk discussion mentioning ``organisation --- islamique``; 0006 different voice on phone, ``fondation islamique --- humanitaire``, 0007 bit of music, more talk, interview past 0017 tune-out. Back at 0024, now nice African music for rest of hour at various chex, 0048 past 0102 with no ID, no break at all, 0117+.

One report suggested this was Central African Republic reactivated on an old frequency, but 9650 is rather an old frequency of Guinea, meanwhile DXed by several DXLD yg members, including Sakae Obara, NJ, who made this ID recording to clinch it as Radio GuinÃe:
https://shortwaverecording.wordpress.com/2016/04/16/radio-guinee/
Its other old frequencies which might also reappear are 4900, 6155, 7125, 15310, as in WRTH 1994. It`s been many years since Guinea quit SW, when?

9650 may be on the air 24 hours; main CCI would be R. Sonder Grense, RSA at 07-17 as in HFCC & EiBi, or is it 08-16 as in Aoki? While UAE and Oman HFCC entries may be dismissed as imaginary. The rest, only from Aoki & EiBi: 0730-1320 & 2130-2420, VOK in Japanese (but none of that audible before 0020 here) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

The SWBC scene is really hopping now in Africa. WRTH 2016 says CAR does plan to reactivate this year, its ex-SW frequencies being 5035 and 7220 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) via HCDX
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Radio Guinée 9650kHz
SWL-JA-US
Received via remote Perseus server in France. 0050UTC, 16-Apr-2016. ID in French during Afro music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAJAVlqN2K8

It was also a nice signal here in NJ using my car shortwave radio !

Received at Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA.  0159UTC (10:59PM ET), 16-Apr-2016

Using BST-1 Car Shortwave Radio with 2'-whip antenna.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVViizpBEtA

SWL-JA-US
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Radio-Télévision Guinéenne (RTG) , Guinea reactivated on shortwave

Radio-Télévision Guinéenne (RTG), the state broadcasting service of Guinea has been re-activated on shortwave, as per BDXC Africa Guide station was last reported on shortwave on 7125 kHz in September 2012.  Earlier a 50 kW transmitter was situated at Conakry.

Read more at:
http://alokeshgupta.blogspot.de/2016/04/radiodifusao-nacional-guinea-bissau.html?m=1

RX: Grundig Satellite 700, Yaesu FRG-7
Ant.: 1000 mm Magnetic Loop (Homebrew),
Mini Whip "PA0RDT & RA0SMS", 75' End Fed Antenna & Palstar AA30
BHI - DSP Noise Cancelling Module
QTH: Germany - NRW , Northern Kentucky (unitl 11/2015)

Oliver via HFU HF Underground

Re: Radio-Télévision Guinéenne (RTG) , Guinea reactivated on shortwave

The graphic on this item gives a misleading impression -- this is not
Guinea-Bissau reactivating, but Guinea.
dxace1 via HFU HF Underground
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73 Daniel Wyllyans
Photos in http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2016/04/radio-television-guineenne-reactivated.html

[CrackedLCD]

After a lengthy absence, it appears to be back on at this time.  I'm listening now in Alabama, although the audio is a bit muffled it definitely sounds French (and the occasional musical interlude sounds African).  It's ~2200 UTC and I think it should be on for another hour or three if anyone wants to shoot for it.