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4025, Star Radio. July, 01 0641-0650 African music, male and female talks in English. 25522, 73's (Lúcio OtávioBobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - Dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DXLD)LIBYA - 17735, July 12 at 1329, poor signal with folk song until 1332 YL announcement, sounds like Swahili by nonnativespeaker, mentions Africa, percussive music, more talk mentioning habara (news?), Afrika, Zimbabwe, 1335 GamalAbdul Nasser.All the lists show this hour is YFR in Kannada, a S Asian language, via UAE, but this sure sounds like Swahili, V. of Africa,Libya to me, which is scheduled instead on 17725 with Swahili, where nothing was audible. Nothing audible on 21695either, supposedly // Libya; only weak signals from Spain 21610, 21570, 21540 detectable on 13m. 17735 went off around1356, also matching Libya 17725 schedule. After 1400 could not hear it in English on either channel. It looks like Libyahas just made some rare frequency changes! Then I (wb) got this:15240 kHz, Voice of Africa. Jul 12. VoAfr was on 15240 kHz at 1500 UT instead of 17725 kHz (I confirmed the frequencyon my Grundig G4000A to make sure it wasn't some spurious signal caused by the Roadstar). Moderate signal strengthat first with no interference with some shallow fading (SIO: 333) with fading increasing around 1520 (SIO: 222), onlyto improve around 1530 UT (SIO: 333). Programs about "The African woman's continued success" and another aboutcities in Africa. IDs ("This is Voice of Africa from the Great Jamahiriya") at 1510, 1519 and 1531. During this time, Ichecked 17725 several times but there was no signal. Had to quit listening around 1535 due to a local thunderstorm.Hope this is of some use, KH Schmitter, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (48°N, 7.8°E), Receiver: Roadstar TRA-2350P,Antenna: Sony AN-LP1 active indoor’‘. (gh, DXLD, July 12)Frequency changes of LJBC VOAfrica in time order (note: Direction and the coverage area is likely):Arabic0400-0657 on 9870=SAB 500 kW / 130 deg to ECAf,new addit0400-0657 on 9880!SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to NEAf,new addit0700-0957 on 11630 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to NEAf,new addit0700-0957 on 11650^SAB 500 kW / 130 deg to ECAf,new addit1000-1157 on 17735%SAB 500 kW / 130 deg to ECAf,new addit1000-1157 on 17740SAB 500 kW / 230 deg to WNAf, ex 156601600-1657 NF 11850@SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to NEAf, ex 177251700-1757 NF 9880$SAB 500 kW / 230 deg to WNAf, ex 119951700-1757 NF 11850*SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to NEAf, ex 15215Hausa1800-1857 NF 9880&SAB 500 kW / 230 deg to WNAf, ex 119951800-1857 NF 11850 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to NEAf, ex 152151900-1957 NF 9880&SAB 500 kW / 230 deg to WNAf, ex 119951900-1957 NF 11850 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to NEAf, ex 11600Arabic2000-2157 on 9880&SAB 500 kW / 230 deg to WNAf,new addit2000-2157 on 11850"SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to NEAf,new addit= co-ch 0400-0430 AIR Hindi(Vividh Bharati)! co-ch 0530-0630 VOA French Mon-Fri^ co-ch 0700-0800 RSI English/Slovak% co-ch 0900-0930 CRI Indonesian< co-ch 1000-1030 VOA Portuguese Sa/Su+1115-1200 AIR Thai# co-ch 1300-1400 WYFR Kannada+ co-ch 1430-1600 R.Vatican Urdu/Hindi/Tamil/Malayalam/En> co-ch 1600-1700 VOR French DRM, totally blocked@ co-ch 1600-1700 WYFR English$ co-ch 1700-1800 VOR Italian DRM, totally blocked13