Radio Guinee Conakry

[fpeconsultant]

9650 8/6 since 2130z tune in
Nice music - OM in french

[Skipmuck]

Very good signal here since 2205 UTC with OM in French
2215 UTC Fading slowly towards the noise floor...only one brief music bridge since tune in at 2205 UTC...several speakers in French and a number of clear ID's
2220 UTC UNID jazzy afropop tune OM singers
2225 UTC OM in French-talkover music
2226 UTC Different OM in French with clear ID
2227 UTC UNID funky indigenous tune with drums and OM singer (Shazam is drawing a blank on these past 2 songs...perhaps they need to expand their database?
2231 UTC YL in French, music bridge, then different OM en francais
2233 UTC Signal dropped down rather quickly....mostly buried in the noise now

[jFarley]

WOW!  

I was unaware that ORTG had reactivated SW, and I believe that I am listening to it now at 2200.

The Congo, Tanzania, Guinea, Mali, and Senegal are at the top of the musical powerhouse list in Africa, and I am very excited about this.  

Thank you fpe!

One of the country's noted bands is Bembeya Jazz National, featuring guitarist Sekou "Diamond Fingers" Diabate.  Here's a link to a couple of my fave tracks from Bembeya:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-oRLAtypOU#t=262
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iplqmVPllU

[JCMaxwell]

S5 here, some fading.

Music

[jFarley]

A fair signal again today at 2145z with rumbas.

[fpeconsultant]

Not as strong/clear as yesterday but decent copy at 2152z
Nice music

[Skipmuck]

Again here today also with an S9+ signal and some slight fading at 2156 UTC with "Lefa"-Bembeya Jazz National
2158 UTC OM en Francais
2200 UTC OM in French with musical interludes between talk (ID's, and mentions of Conakry and Bata)
2203 UTC Different OM in French
2210 UTC YL and OM chatting (signal dropped down to S7 peaks now)
2214 UTC "Fatoumata"-Bembeya Jazz National
2218 UTC "Super Yerewolo"-Yaya El Bangou
2225 UTC OM, then "Etat Major"-Extra Musica
2230 UTC OM with talk and music bridge of "N'na"-Kouyaté Sory Kandia
(2250 UTC S9 peaks now)
2306 UTC Unshazamable afropop tune
2313 UTC "Aren Fidze"-Alhassane Barry Djanfa

Hey Monsieur Lobdell...go for it! Everything I posted was courtesy of Shazam

[Chanter]

This is just delightful!  Caught RTG on my first ever try for them.  2118Z with West African pop music programming interspersed with brief comments by a male presenter, definitely in African French.  Some of the music was very much Guinean/Malian, to almost desert blues, some was closer to Congolese, and one song was almost Cuban in style; all this fits musical history and influences in that region.  One probable mention of Guinea near 2140Z.  Signal fair in loud static and a high noise floor.  SINPO 32232. 

I'm going to try for this one again in the near future and hopefully get a clear ID, and then off goes a QSL attempt! 

[markolinux]

First posting... greetings to all!

Very good signal here, with low noise and no interference (kinda unusual for my location). Nice variety of highlife - rumba - etc, with OM announcer in French.

Nice to hear a station like this! Reminds me of the "good old days" at college, sitting around late at night listening to the Africans sign on, like Ivory Coast or Togo.

[ChrisSmolinski]

A very good signal at 2249z, SIO 444.

[clobdell]

Guniea, presumed 2245 with talk in FF, music  "N'na" by Kouyate Sory Kandia  [TY Shazam].
9650 was a frequency they used in the 1960s/70s.  Used to have a 30 minute English segment in the afternoon.
Also used be on 15309.9 back in the day.
I have them QSLed from 1968 but I'm tempted to send off another report, I'll use Skipper's program log .....
2258 Mention of Bamako .....

[fpeconsultant]

Good to see all the logs!  It's nice to get a new/resurrected African station - particularly these days with so many SW stations bailing out in favor of Internet BX - ugh.
FPE

[Skipmuck]

S9+ here at 2347 UTC with minimal selective fading..."Wodiko"-Djessou Mama Diabate
2350 UTC OM with ID..."Radio Guinea"...mentioned a frequency also, but it was too fast and my French is too slow , into an Afropop song (with autotune vocals!) that Shazam doesn't recognize
2358 UTC "Etat Major"-Extra Musica
0002 UTC OFF abruptly

Here's an interesting link to the musical artists popular in Guinea
http://rtg-conakry.com/10-best-musicians-from-guinea

[Oliver]

The below address is all I found to QSL RTG.(Is this correct  )
Does anyeone have a valid RTG email address?

RTG (RADIO TELEVISION GUINEENNE)
Ratoma - BP 391
Conakry - Guinée
Phone: (+224) 669 54 21 88

Interesting QSL Information Page for Guinee:
http://www.schoechi.de/af-gui.html

[Ron - Calif.]

GUINEA, 9650, Radio Guinea, Conakry, 0650-0730, Aug 11.
Finally heard this reactivated station for the first time. Interested
to note Conakry sunrise was at 0646 UTC today; at 0650 heard
French, with the signal rapidly improving up to mostly fair; 0700
pips and nice series of IDs; 0700-0730 with non-stop African pop
singing (repetitive), except for one very brief announcer at 0718;
briefly after 0700 had some very light QRM, assume R. Sonder
Grense (South Africa) underneath; 0728 strong open carrier
from Voice of Korea, which started very strong audio at 0730
with IS. My audio - https://goo.gl/Q97eNo  .