Channel Africa English sked: Mar 26 to Sept 23 1995

ENGLISH transmissions from CHANNEL AFRICA: 1995, March 26 - Sept 23

TIME UTC  Target Area               kHz    Beam Direction
0300-0500  Southern Africa          3220       7
0300-0500  East/Central Africa      5955      20
0500-0600  Southern Africa          5955       5
0500-0600  West Africa              9695     335

1500-1800  Southern Africa          3220     360
1500-1800  East/Central Africa      7240      20
1600-1700  West Africa              9695     320

Depending on local interference, the 0500-0600 UTC transmission to West Africa on 9695 might be the best to try for listeners in the US.

For the domestic shortwave service in South Africa the new sked for the same period is:

AFRIKAANS STEREO: 0300-0545  3320    100kW
                  0550-1530  6000    100kW
                  1535-2300  3320    100kW

RADIO 2000        2300-0300  3320    100kW

RADIO ORANJE      0555-1525  5965    100kW
                  1530-0550  3230    100kW

SENTECH used to be the signal distribution company of the SABC.

Since 1st January this year SENTECH is officially no longer part of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, and its aim is to be the common carrier for broadcasters in South Africa; SENTECH already has several new and prospective new clients on the shortwave side, and once the IBA issues licences to new local broadcasters, SENTECH will also have more clients on the FM side of the business.

Kathy Otto also mentioned that SENTECH now has it's own set of 8 QSL cards. Apparently this idea came from SENTECH's publicity people who decided it would be a good way of advertising SENTECH internationally.

So if you write to Kathy Otto, Shortwave Services, Private Bag X06, HONEYDEW, 2040, South Africa, you should get one of the SENTECH verifications. If you write to directly to Channel Africa, I suppose you'll get a Channel Africa QSL card.

Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 15:58:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "Marie A. Lamb" [malamb@mailbox.syr.edu[
Subject: Channel Africa English sked: Mar 26 to Sept 23 (fwd)
Message-Id: [Pine.SUN.3.91.950325155740.9302B-100000@kong.syr.edu[