{"id":64341,"date":"2025-10-24T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=64341"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:39:13","slug":"algeria-on-shortwave-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/algeria-on-shortwave-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria on Shortwave – Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Dan Greenall, for sharing the following guest post:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Algeria on Shortwave – Then and Now<\/h1>\n

by Dan Greenall<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the early 1970s, Radiodiffusion-Television Algerienne<\/em> ran a modest shortwave service (no English) mainly for North Africa, the Middle East,\u00a0and Europe. A copy of their schedule from the 1972 World Radio TV Handbook is shown.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As a fledgling DXer in 1971, I was fortunate to hear their signal on 9510 kHz from my listening post in southern Ontario, Canada. Even better, they responded to my request for a QSL with this attractive card.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Fast forward a quarter century to 1996. The international service of Radio Algiers<\/em> could be heard at times here in eastern North America on 15160 kHz with broadcasts that included English. Here is a brief recording from November 3<\/a> of that year that I am lucky to have saved.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/radio-algiers\/Radio%20Algiers.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n

In July 2022, two new 300 kW transmitters located at Ouargla and Bechar were put on the air after several years of planning. These were to be used for the Radio Coran service in Arabic, but in May 2023, Ifrikya FM (the African Voice) was born with the objective of providing a pan-African voice by broadcasting educational, informative, and cultural programming from an African perspective.<\/p>\n

Although there is no English, they can be spotted on shortwave on 13640 and 13855 kHz after their 1900 UTC sign on. If you can hear the same programming on these two frequencies, you will know you have them.<\/p>\n

Here are two recordings made on October 19, 2025 using a KiwiSDR near Sao Paulo, Brazil. They were made one hour apart, the first at 2000 UTC and the second at 2100 hours.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ifrikya-FM-1-170.81.155.41_2025-10-19T19_59_04Z_13855.00_am.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

13855 was noticeably stronger than 13640 on this receiver.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ifrikya-FM-2-170.81.155.41_2025-10-19T20_57_39Z_13855.00_am.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, for sharing the following guest post: Algeria on Shortwave – Then and Now by Dan Greenall In the early 1970s, Radiodiffusion-Television Algerienne ran a modest shortwave service (no English) mainly for North Africa, the Middle East,\u00a0and Europe. A copy of their schedule from the 1972 World Radio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,305,288,746,43],"tags":[10941,10271,5327,105,10942,4106,4082],"class_list":["post-64341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-algeria","tag-dan-greenall","tag-radio-algerienne","tag-radio-algiers","tag-radiodiffusion-television-algerienne","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gJL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57327,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/radio-botswana-barnyard-sounds-mystery\/","url_meta":{"origin":64341,"position":0},"title":"Radio Botswana barnyard sounds mystery","author":"Thomas","date":"July 23, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post and SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following off-air shortwave radio recording and writes: In all of the recordings of Radio Botswana\u2019s famous barnyard interval signal I can find, the barnyard sounds are accompanied by the sound of cowbells. 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