{"id":12851,"date":"2015-03-29T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12851"},"modified":"2015-03-29T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T12:29:09","slug":"recording-deutsche-welle-kigalis-final-broadcast-and-remembering-its-early-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/recording-deutsche-welle-kigalis-final-broadcast-and-remembering-its-early-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording Deutsche Welle Kigali’s final broadcast and remembering its early days"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"DW's<\/a>

DW’s relay station in Kigali (Source: Deutsche Welle)<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday, Deutsche Welle transmitted its final broadcast<\/a> from the Kigali, Rwanda relay station. Since\u00a0I’ve only had moderate luck hearing the Kigali site the past few days–especially on 31 meters–I fired up the TitanSDR Pro (which is still currently under review) and set it to record all three final afternoon broadcasts from Kigali on 12,005, 15,275 and 17,800 kHz.<\/p>\n

\"TitanSDR-DeutscheWelle-FinalBroadcasts\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see from the screenshot above, Kigali produced\u00a0a very<\/em> strong signal on 17,800 kHz. The TitanSDR recorded the full broadcast, starting with one minute of the transmitter tuning, then one hour of DW’s French language service, followed by one hour of DW’s\u00a0Hausa language service…then the transmitter went silent.<\/p>\n

The recording<\/a> begins around\u00a01659 UTC on March 28, 2015 on 17,800 kHz:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DWFinalKigaliRelay17800kHz285MAR151700Z\/DW-FinalKigaliRelay-17800kHz-285MAR15-1700Z.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Kigali’s early days<\/h2>\n

Last week, SWLing Post<\/em> reader Bob LaRose (W6ACU) sent me the following message and scans:<\/p>\n

“Here\u2019s some nostalgia from [when the Kigali relay]\u00a0opened, 50 years ago!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Kigali<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Kigali<\/a><\/p>\n

Bob then followed this with another email:<\/p>\n

“I dug into the \u201cvault\u201d and I found [the]\u00a01964 Third Quarter issue of \u201cHallo, Friends<\/strong>\u201d from Deutsche Welle that talks about the \u201cnew\u201d Kigali station as it was being built. The 1965 issues did not cover the actual inauguration.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"DW-HalloFriends-BobLaRose\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to download this page as a PDF.<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks for digging through your archives and sharing this wonderful DW nostalgia, Bob! It’s simply brilliant!<\/p>\n

Readers: If you have shortwave nostalgia you would like to share on the SWLing Post, please contact me<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Deutsche Welle transmitted its final broadcast from the Kigali, Rwanda relay station. Since\u00a0I’ve only had moderate luck hearing the Kigali site the past few days–especially on 31 meters–I fired up the TitanSDR Pro (which is still currently under review) and set it to record all three final afternoon broadcasts from Kigali on 12,005, 15,275 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,305,288,746,43,1167],"tags":[3746,328,3737,3739,3424,4106,737],"class_list":["post-12851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-bob-larose-w6acu","tag-deutsche-welle","tag-deutsche-welle-kigali","tag-deutsche-welle-kigali-closure","tag-deutsche-welle-qsl","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3lh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19278,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/deutsche-welle-closes-kigali-relay-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":12851,"position":0},"title":"Deutsche Welle closes Kigali relay station","author":"Thomas","date":"May 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: KT Press\u00a0via Richard Cuff) Germans Close Business in Rwanda After Half Century Lease Expires Once a powerful facility in the region, the German owned Deutsche Welle radio center at Kinyinya hill outside Kigali is finally and completely shutting down. 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This word came from the Wavescan program on WRMI. 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Sent report via internet and received QSL in a few weeks:\" Thanks for sharing this, Daniel. 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