Jil FM A nice station with great ME music

 

Yet another interesting radio station but in this case is in medium waves . This station has some special  music characteristics that make them not only  interesting but  also special .

 

As it is located in Algeria, aimed at younger people , it mixes  several distinctive music styles (as of start of 13 though I think the continue to use  the same scheme now )

- the local Berber music . of the local tribe  . this music highly reminds me  the music  from Horn of Africa !

- Arabic ,mostly pop . possibly the national  music

- French , as they are under French influence

- Western , as with most stations do for international music

So this makes  them with a rather complex music  style

 

The station transmits on the frequency  of 531 kHz  East beam and 548 west beam and is  part of  the national  radio network of Algeria . In Thessaloniki  it can be heard  from on late local night times ( ie 9 pm ) to ca 6 am in the morning local times (-3  for UTC )provided  propagation conditions are  good . With the help of external antenna  or Am loops this can be extended to about  1 hour ,. Main signal levels are  S9 to S9+20 making one  of the strongest stations in the lower MW band

 

548kHz  can be heard in the clear on local  mornings (03 UTC )with nearly same signal as 531 kHZ ( abt S7 as for 3/9/13)

 

Little  internet research yielded the news that  this station uses the program   Radio-Assist  from NETIA (a Globecast company ) for automated  music scheduling (news on May 13 for the program  upgrade )

dario  has advised me that Jil aimed for juveniles , therefore JIL must be shortened form of jouvenile

Here is a link for listening  Jil Fm  via Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/jilfm/app_190322544333196

  and

http://www.radioalgerie.dz/live/tab-chJil.html   

More recent signal analysis with SDR technology shown the following propagation on 2-9019 in ths frequency:

SNR is the total signal to nose ratio that is the total signal plus noise level versus the local noise. As you can see the there is a small difference between SNR vs power dBm in times between 1120 to 1142 pm with rather enhanced levels of noise that effected the reception Most of the signal is clearly fading than propagation problems

Moreover this is the 'box' analysis that shows the signal probability in terms of the total population.

These boxes show the normal probability between  the times and the signal levels though it is not exactly for a total of 100% as for example the75 % of  signal levels are roughly -61dbm or 21 db SNR

If someone has other opinions that can be derived from the above graphics please let me know!