BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

a new frequency, but who else in Arab world has English at this hour?
Kuwait! Check 11990 kHz where English has been scheduled for ages at
18-21 UT: nothing there. Will go back to 15540 kHz again later.
At 1910, 15540 weakening and still no 11990; 15540 much weaker than
Portugal on 15560. Next check at 2015, rock music, poor signal now vs
noise level, and still music past 2035 with no announcement breaks. At
2100 time signal, ID in Arabic mentioning Kuwait, news theme and news in
Arabic, but cut off the air at 2104*.
Later, checking the references, primetimeshortwave still has 11990 as the
18-21 English frequency. EiBi too, 11990 for English to Europe at 18-21,
and 15540 during the same pair of sesquihours is supposed to be DRM in
Arabic!
Aoki has a match, tho, with 15540 as R. Kuwait A-10 analog English from
MOI at 18-21, 150 kW, 310 degrees, i.e. USward as well as UKward. Altho
Aoki got it, the complete R. Kuwait/MOI A-10 transmission schedule has
been slow to come out; not yet in DXLD nor in the bclnews.it archive, for
instance. Anyhow, 15540 should be better for US in the summer season than
11990.
After 2200 I looked for DRM from Kuwait on 11670-11675-11680 as previously
scheduled to North America, but unfound.
Another new A-10 frequency is per Aoki:
11950 R KUWAIT (DRM) 2200-0230 1234567 Arabic 150 350 Sulaibiyah.
Checking at 2247 UT, I can't hear any DRM around either frequency, but by
now maybe just not propagable.
This DRM schedule does not now show anything for Kuwait!
nor can I find any recent forum mentions of Kuwait DRM logs here or at the
drmna yg. However, there was a report of Kuwait DRM on 11675, April 5 at
0020 UT by Vladimir Bochkov-RUS.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld Apr 22)
When the transmitter on 15540 kHz was switched on - before 1800 UT - I
heard the last part of the Urdu service - via the Multilingual programme I
assume. This closed at 1759 UT with Anthem, then time pips (correct to the
second) and ID as Radio Kuwait followed by a time check. Frequencies given
were 963, 96.3 and 11995 kHz. A lengthy item about the Koran followed and
then a pop music session until 1830 when more time pips, ID and
frequencies then news. More pop music from 1835 UT.
Audio quality is clear but sounding via a low quality line - or is the
station using an off-air relay? There is very slight interference from
RNW English via WER using 15535 kHz - and they are receiving a lot of
side-splash from KWT, especially during music sessions. Maybe this is not
so bad in their EaAfrica target area.
(Noel R. Green-UK, dxld Apr 20)
Apr 26th noted R Kuwait starting on 7600 around 1650 in Arabic, // to
13650. Noted them on 7600 also previous day at 1705 UT.
(Jari Savolainen-FIN, dxld Apr 29)
Thanks, Jari, for the news, now at 1740 UT nothing heard on 7600 kHz
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