DX LISTENING DIGEST 1-109, August 13, 2001 
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** ETHIOPIA [non]. Two new opposition radios begin broadcasting | 
Text of report by Ethiopian newspaper Poletika on 13 August

Two [opposition] radio stations have begun broadcasting from the USA 
to Tigray [northern Ethiopia] listeners. 

"Voice of Tigrayans from North America" [Tigrinya: Dimtsi Tegaru Kab 
Semiren America] started broadcasting on 26 Hamle 1993 [2 August 
2001] on 15685 kHz. It will be broadcasting every Thursday for about 
an hour at midnight [local time, 2100 gmt].

Meanwhile the radio station called "Voice of Martyrs" [Tigrinya: 
Dimtsi Sematat] started broadcasting yesterday at 8 [presumably 8 
a.m. local time, 0500 gmt] on 3215 kHz in the 90 metre shortwave 
band.

Source: Poletika, Addis Ababa, in Amharic 13 Aug 01 (via BBCM via 
DXLD) 

These programs come from an organization in Indiana; WWCR has been 
experimenting with different times since June. They were mentioned in 
the July schedule, but not currently in August as the times are 
uncertain. Previously tried Sunday 1630 on 15685, after the Latin 
Mass, but reception was unsatisfactory. The Thursday 2100 on 15685 
worked better, and may be retained (right after WOR). These are half-
hour programs, not one hour. The 0500 test on 3215 was on UT Sunday. 
Their website is http://www.ethiopiancommentator.com 
and e-mail articles@ethiopiancommentator.com 
They say their purpose is to provide lessons in democracy to Ethiopia 
(Adam Lock, WWCR, August 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

From the above website:

Radio Broadcast into Ethiopia Successful!

The second test run of Dimtsi Tegaru Kab Semien America radio 
broadcast into Ethiopia was very successful! According to reports 
reaching the ETHIOPIAN COMMENTATOR, on August 2, 2001, the mid night 
skies over Addis Ababa was saturated with the most famous song of our 
Wudib ``Wufer tebeges tegadalay Tigray`` launched via this voice of 
our martyrs, Dimtsi Tegaru Kab Semien America! The sound quality was 
excellent. 

ETHIOPIAN COMMENTATOR salutes those so many Tegaru who worked so hard 
to make this voice of democracy possible! 

The ETHIOPIAN COMMENTATOR has also received word that two other radio 
broadcasts from different stations will be tested in the next few 
weeks. 

Another undated page says:

Radio Broadcast to Ethiopia

There will be two radio broadcast test runs this week. The first one, 
Dimtsi Tegaru Kab Semien America (temporary name) will run on 
Thursday (tomorrow) at midnight Ethiopian time or at 2100 UTC 
European. To listen to this broadcast, please turn your short wave 
radio to the 19.1 meter band or if you have a digital radio, tune it 
to the frequency of 15685 khz. IMPORTANT: YOU MUST SWITCH YOUR RADIO 
FROM the "LOCAL" TO THE "DX" POSITION (THE SWITCH FOR THE DX IS OFTEN 
LOCATED ON THE SIDE OF THE RADIO). IF YOU DO NOT SELECT THE DX 
POSITION, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LISTEN TO THE BROADCAST! 

The second broadcast, Dimtsi Si-wu-at (temporary name), is scheduled 
for this coming Sunday morning at 2 AM Ethiopian time or 0500 UTC. To 
listen to this broadcast, please tune your radio to the 90 meter band 
or if you have a digital radio, log in the frequency of 3215 khz. You 
may be able to hear this broadcast without having to switch your 
radio to the DX position. However, if your radio does not receive the 
signal at this setting, please switch to the "local" position! 

We urge those of you in the middle East and East Africa and of course 
in Ethiopia, to let us know of the quality of the signals by e-
mailing to the ETHIOPIAN COMMENTATOR, Deki Alula, Ras Alula.Net or 
Tigray.Net 

Also there is a link to a number of audio files at:

http://www.ethiopiancommentator.com/dejenradio/index2.html
the first of which is: Dimsti Hafash Tigray: Test Run On Sunday:
http://www.ethiopiancommentator.com/dejenradio/dimtsitigray.ram

Which appears indeed to be a radio broadcast, mentioning meter band 
near the start. The last seven minutes are music, with no sign-off 
announcement. 

There are also a large number of editorials and articles in English 
on the site, if you want to try to figure out where they are coming 
from politically (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)    ###