#Jil FM

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!