Chad moved from 6165 to 4904.97 at nighttime recently. But new 100 kW tx unit which has been inaugurated in December 2004 by TAIWAN has nothing to do with old tx of 1990 to 1999 era, which was off frequency approx. 500 Hertz.
New unit erected in Dec 2004 and noted 7120(earlier vary 7125 in the nineties too) daytime, and 6165 kHz nighttime, with excellent reports by Liz Cameron, Gerry Dexter, Vlad Titarev and Finn Krone in late Dec 2004/Jan 2005. 73 wb History from December 2004: CHAD New SW TX's in Africa. Radio Taiwan International announced recently that the head of their French Service was in Africa to attend the inauguration of new SW txs in two different countries. These new units, together with the associated antenna systems, were installed in Burkina Faso & Chad with aid provided by Taiwan. Cf. <http://www.panosparis.org> Chadians able to tune in to national radio again on Sept 2nd, after a month of repairs, six technicians from Radio China Taiwan International (RTI) were able to get Chad's national radio station, RNT, back on the air at last, after a fault in its 100 kW SW tx that forced it to stop broadcasting in Dec 2002. Following a ceremony to mark the resumption of broadcasts, a technical cooperation agreement was signed between the Chad authorities and the delegation from Taiwan. The agreement plans exchanges between Chadian and Taiwanese technicians as well as training sessions in Taiwan to enable local engineers to maintain the newly-repaired tx. (Bernd Trutenau-LTU, Cumbre Dec 1, 2004) History, from August 2003: CHAD Africa DX Report - Livinus Torty, with a special report on the current radio scene in the African country of Chad. THE RADIO SCENE IN CHAD: The country of Chad is situated in the heart of the African continent. The total land mass of Chad is about one and a quarter million square kilometers. Most of the northern areas of Chad are desert. The history of Chad goes back a long way and it was an important segment of several large African empires on several earlier occasions. In the 1800s, European explorers and traders moved through the area and the French gained access to the territory with a formal treaty that was signed in 1897. Chad finally gained independence from France on August 11, 1960. Chad has a population of nearly eight million inhabitants with roughly six persons per square kilometer. The langs spoken in Chad include French & Arabic as well as a host of vernacular langs. The capital city is N'Djamena (n-JAH-men-a) and it is also the largest city in the nation with a population of half a million. The national radio of Chad is "Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne", RNT, with its headquarters in N'Djamena and it was established in November 1955. RNT is govt owned and it is the only body permitted to bc in Chad on the SW and mediumwave bands. Radiodiffusion Nationale bcs to the entire country of Chad on the SW freq of 6165 kHz via its 100 kW tx located in Gredia, a suburb of the capital city N'Djamena. RNT is also active in N'Djamena on the FM freq of 94.05 MHz. RNT has also established four regional stns which bc occasionally on mediumwave but are now more active on the FM band. These stns produce local progrs in various langs for their audiences living in the various regions. However, the regional stns also carry the major progrs from RNT N'Djamena on relay, such as the national nx and other major features. In 1999, the govt of Chad liberalized bcing on the FM band thereby making it possible for groups and individuals to establish FM stns in Chad. Today, besides the govt owned RNT FM stn, three local non-govt controlled FM stns can be heard in N'Djamena. Also heard in N'Djamena are the local downlink relays on FM from several other countries. These FM relay stns include Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV), Africa No.1 from Gabon, RFI Afrique from France, and the BBC African Service. There are half a dozen other privately owned FM stns in Chad, mostly in the south of the country. Radio bcing is crucial for the dissemination of information in Chad. It is the main source for nx and entertainment right throughout the country for most people due to the fact that the national television stn in Chad, "Teletchad", is available only in the capital city area. As a finale to this DX report from Livinus Torty in Chad, we might mention that it seems to be very difficult in obtaining a QSL from the SW stn in their capital city. The AWR collection in Indianapolis contains not even one QSL from Chad. (AWR Wavescan Aug 10, 2003, via dxld) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 6:45 AM Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 26-28 Chad was always reported on 4904.5 Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Hauser" Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 4:29 PM Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 26-28 ** CHAD. I`ve heard it too, no doubt, RNT reactivated on 4905: best 60m signalby far outside NAm, Dec 26 at 0605-0620, mostly talk in uncertain language, maybe part Arabic, part French, with bits of music. Nothing resembling an ID heard. Mauritania might have competed if it were audible on 4845. Furthermore the `4905` signal was a smidgin below frequency as others have reported minus 30-40 Hz or so; while I couldn`t be precise to two decimal places, I could tell it was off, using the YB-400 simply by zeroing the BFO on WWV, and then stepping from 4905 up and down 1 kHz. The het at 4904 was noticeably lower in pitch than at 4906. 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