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Compiled by IWATA Gaku.
JAPAN PREMIUM welcome your contributions.
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JP No,001(Apr,30 1998) - No,557(Dec,26 2008) was ziped.
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All time in UTC
===== ASIA =====
CHINA
4820, China, PBS Xizang, Lhasa. May,18 2221-2232 Chinese music selections, male and female talks in Chinese talks. 33433
[LOB]
=== MIDDLE EAST ===
===== AFRICA =====
DJIBOUTI
4780, R. Djibouti. May,20 0335-0346 male talks seems in Arabic, male reciting followed by male choral. 35433
[LOB]
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
5005, Equatorial Guinea, R. Nacional, Bata. May,18 2234-2251 Spanish music sometimes sounding like Cuban, 2250 N.A.. 34333
[LOB]
NIGERIA
9705, Niger, LV du Sahel (tentative), Niamey. May,20 2030-2045 African music selections, 2039 male talks maybe in Vernacular, back to music. 23422
[LOB]
SUDAN
7200, Sudan, R.Omdurman, Al Fitahab. May,20 0350-0402 Arabic style music, male and female talks in Arabic "Sudan", Pop music in Arabic, 0400 time pips, male announcements. 35433
[LOB]
TUNISIA
RTV Tunisienne 7275 0447 Arabic 333 May 15 YL and OMs singing.
[MacKenzie]
ZIMBABWE
4828, Voice of Zimbabwe, Gweru. May,17 2141-2152 Pop music, female talks in English, 2146 slow Pop, 2148 male and female talks "program…Africa…Zimbabwe". Able to pick up few words. From 2152 strong QRM of presumed Chinese 4820 PBS Xizang blocking VOZ, 33533
[LOB]
===== EUROPE =====
=== NORTH AMERICA ===
CANADA
CBC 9625 0415 English 333 May 15 OM ancr with rock style vocal singing. OM with "Instanbul"vocal singing.
[Mackenzie]
=== CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA ===
ANTARCTICA
15476, Antarctica, RN San Gabriel. May,17 1401-1421 Pop Spanish music, 1403 male "transmite LRA36 en su frequencia 15476 KHz, para todo el mundo", Mexican group Maná music, 1407 Pop Spanish music, 1411 female ID and talks. 45544
[LOB]
BOLIVIA
4865, Bolivia, R. Logos, Santa Cruz. May,21 2310-2331 religious talks by male "Jesus", program about human health "Dengue, cancer", "medico directo" doctor discussion about some disease and its treatment. From 2326 deterioring, peak at 2324 with 33323
[LOB]
PERU
5025, Peru, R. Quillabamba, Quillabamba. May,18 2139-2149 folk music, male in Quechua talks, "Radio Quillabamba", folk music. Het, 22432
[LOB]
===== PACIFIC =====
AUSTRALIA
Radio Australia-Shepparton 11660 2124 English 333 May 14 YL and OM with comments on trips to So Africa for the World Cups sports event. OM on the real Economy progra, 2140. //12080[333]Brandon, 11650[333]Shepparton, 13630[333[Shepparton and 15515[433]Shepparton.
[Mackenzie]
NEW ZEALAND
Radio New Zealand Intl-RNZI 13730 0330 English 444 May 15 YL and OM with comments on Tax Evasion by having a Headquarters in the Marshal Islands.
[MacKenzie]
=== Site Unknown ===
=== CLANDESTINE ===
==== PIRATE ====
==== Un-ID ====
==== LW / MW ====
===== QSL =====
===== ...and others =====
After successful test, Radio Japan Bengali service will replace its existing frequency 6155 kHz to new 11965 kHz from Sunday, 23rd May 2010. Broadcasting time 1300-1345 UTC.
[Chakroborty]
////////////////
Engineers Install Additional Shortwave Stations in Central African Republic
Source: HCJB Global (written by Jean Muehlfelt)
Imagine living in a country where you can't access the Internet, watch television, read newspapers or even receive mail. Except in Bangui, the capital city of the Central African Republic (C.A.R.), that's what life is like for most of the country's 4.5 million residents. Their lifeline to the rest of the world? Radio. People in C.AR., a country about the size of Texas, depend on radio broadcasts to keep informed. Almost every village has a radio, and some have more than one. The sets are affordable, costing as little as US$6, usually coming from countries such as Nigeria and Niger. The radios typically have FM, shortwave and medium-wave bands.
Until 2005 there were only six private FM stations and one governmental shortwave station in this country where villagers have a life expectancy of just 44 years. It was then that Integrated Community Development International (ICDI), a partner of HCJB Global, was granted permission to open the country's first privately owned shortwave radio station, Radio ICDI.
In early 2006 the ministry acquired an eight-acre tract of land on the plateau above the town of Boali. A road to the transmitter site was built, and electricity was installed. Equipment was transported in large shipping containers, and eventually one of the 20-foot-long metal containers was converted into a studio and transmitter building.A year later a team from HCJB Global Technology Center in Elkhart, Ind., spent three weeks at the broadcast site, installed the first shortwave radio station. They also put in two satellite downlinks that provided access to the Internet and made it possible to receive French-language Christian programming from Trans World Radio, another HCJB Global partner.
Last month HCJB Global engineers returned to C.A.R. to put in two additional regional shortwave radio stations in Boali, similar to the station installed in 2007. One of the new stations will help extend the broadcast hours of the existing ICDI station into the nighttime. Each station only works well during a portion of each day because of how shortwave signals travel through the atmosphere.
The new ICDI radio stations will provide more programming opportunities for broadcasting the gospel across C.A.R. in Sango (the country's trade language), French and various tribal dialects. Additional hours will also increase the opportunity to air more community development programs on AIDS prevention, orphan care, well-water repair programs and many other relevant humanitarian topics.
Curt Bender, manager of broadcast services at HCJB Global in Elkhart, said, "I want to give the Lord recognition for sustaining our team through two difficult installations in the past three years and to praise Him for the success."
For more information visit http://www.icdinternational.org
[Gupta]
/////////////////
New VOA programs target English audience
Washington, D.C., May 17, 2010 – Voice of America has unveiled a
dynamic new lineup of interactive radio programs and Web features
aimed at expanding its English-speaking audience around the world.
Three new radio programs, Daybreak Asia, Crossroads Asia, and Middle
East Monitor, focus on key developments in each region, with in-depth
features, more newsmaker interviews and dynamic interaction with
listeners, viewers and website visitors. Another program,
International Edition, provides lively, fast-paced world news
coverage, and American Café brings you stories about life in the
United States.
Listen to VOA programs and explore the new Web features at www.voanews.com
VOA English Programs Director John Stevenson describes the new
programs as, "for and about the people in the regions, providing the
story behind the story, with more background and analysis, increased
use of graphics on our website and more social networking with sites
like Facebook."
VOA English has an estimated global weekly radio audience of more than
11 million people. VOA newscasts and programs are available on a host
of platforms, including our website, via podcasting, social networking
sites, radio and television affiliate stations around the world, and
now on VOA's upgraded mobile phone site http://english.voa.mobi.
Other languages are also available by going to
http://www1.voanews.com/english/mobile/ and selecting from the list.
(VOA Press Release)
[Gupta]
////////////////
UK Rocks The World will be back on the air Today the 16th of May at 15:00 GMT.
Frequency: 15.760 MHz
Target Area: North America (but reception reports worldwide gratefully received)
Please tune in and record MP3's of your reception.
We look forward to receiving your feedback.
ENJOY!!! Email: ukrockstheworld@googlemail.com
[Taylor:
////////////////
'Changing Stations'
The Story of Australian
Commercial Radio
Competition Winner
_________________________________
In our recent competition 'Changing Stations' we asked readers to
complete the sentence 'Long Lost - - Stars' and we'd like to thank
the many people who took the time to send in their - often creative -
entries!
The missing words are "Australian Radio" and the complete sentence is
'Long Lost Australian Radio Stars' which is also the name of the
popular series about Australian heritage AM radio stations from the
1940's you can enjoy at our global website www.radioheritage.net.
68% of all the entries had this correct answer and we're now very
pleased to announce the winner as Steven Spink of Wagga Wagga in New
South Wales, Australia.
Congratulations Steven, and a copy of 'Changing Stations' by Bridget
Griffen-Foley will be on its way to you shortly.
Don't worry if you didn't win this time - you can still buy a copy of
the book for a very good price and may even qualify for free
shipping. Just visit www.radioheritage.net, go to the 'Changing
Stations' book review and then click on our Amazon sales link to
obtain your copy.
It's a really good read, well researched and very entertaining.
Highly recommended for everyone interested in the story of Australian
commercial radio. Read all about the book today at
www.radioheritage.net.
We'll shortly announce details of our next competition to win a CD of
original Australian radio serials.
If you haven't visited www.radioheritage.net recently, stop by and
see what's new or dig a little deeper into our 500+ pages of great
stories and hundreds of rare images about radio people, places and
events.
[Radio Heritage Foundation]
////////////////
New Zealand Budget 2010
Radio New Zealand
International Funding
Frozen
_______________________
Radio New Zealand International [RNZI], the country's shortwave
broadcaster receives no additional funding in the latest government
budget for 2010/2011 announced in Wellington yesterday.
Funding remains at NZ$1.9m [US$1.26m] and it's required to deliver 16
hours of good quality reception daily to a minimum of 11 Pacific
nations with one 100kW analog transmitter installed in 1990 and one
100kW digital capable transmitter installed in 2005.
The primary coverage nations it's funded for are French Polynesia,
Cook Islands, Tokelau, American Samoa, Samoa, Niue, Tonga, Wallis and
Futuna, Fiji, Tuvalu, New Caledonia and Vanuatu.
The secondary coverage nations are Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea,
Nauru and Kiribati, whilst general coverage must be provided to the
Asia/Pacific and Pacific Rim region including the Federated States of
Micronesia, Marshall Islands and Palau.
In addition, RNZI must increase the number of Pacific radio stations
relaying or rebroadcasting its news bulletins to 18 and is permiited
a maximum 1% of transmission time lost from equipment failure.
The Radio Heritage Foundation welcomes the continued funding of RNZI
as recognition by the government that it provides a valuable service
for New Zealand's interests in the Pacific.
'At a time when many shortwave broadcasters face budget cuts and
complete closedown of services, this continued confidence in RNZI's
ability to deliver a quality service with a bare-bones budget is
tribute to the extreme dedication to duty and pragmatism of the
entire RNZI team" says chairman David Ricquish.
RNZI provides valuable cyclone, extreme weather watch and tsunami
warnings for the entire South Pacific region. It also provides local
FM quality news, information and other programs for rebroadcast on a
growing number of local Pacific island radio stations.
"With Fiji in media censorship lockdown and media freedoms poorly
understood in many of the target nations, RNZI provides local
listeners with a respected and valuable news source from a Pacific
perspective" adds Ricquish.
"Every week, thousands of New Zealanders are on holiday, on business
visits or working and living in the Pacific and RNZI provides a
valuable service for their continued safety."
"To maintain this security, RNZI should also be urgently capital
funded for a replacement of the 20 year old analog transmitter with
another high power digital capable shortwave transmitter sooner
rather than later" says Ricquish.
Catastrophic RNZI transmitter failure co-inciding with natural
disasters or sudden political events and instability in the region
could threaten the lives of New Zealanders and New Zealand's security
and commercial interests.
[Radio Heritage Foundation]
////////////////
A host of Radio Voice of Russia's Expertise program grabbed a prize of the Radiomania national media contest on Friday evening.
The Best Information and Politics Program nomination went to the VOR's Maxim Shalygin, who regularly sits down with prominent Russian political analysts to discuss the latest developments in Russia and beyond.
The Radiomania's special prize went to the International Association of the Russian Language Broadcasters, which was earlier initiated by the Voice of Russia to brief listeners from Europe, the US, Israel and CIS countries on the latest world news.
Association Director General Oleg Kupriyanov thanked the Voice of Russia for information support, singling out the 2nd International Festival of the Russian Language Broadcasters, slated for September. Listeners are welcome to visit the VOR website' section at www.ruvr.ru/Partner to learn more about the event, Kupriyanov added
Source: VOR host wins Radiomania"s nomination : Voice of Russia http://bit.ly/cu13dG
[Gaviria]
/////////////////
This is Radio Bulgaria's weekly DX Program for radio amateurs and short wave listeners which is included in our one-hour broadcasts starting as follows: Friday at 21.00 UTC on 5900 and 7400 kHz beamed to West Europe, at 23.00 UTC and Saturday at 02.00 UTC on 9700 and 11700 kHz to North America, as well as in the half-hour broadcast at 06.30 UTC on 9600 and 11600 kHz to West Europe.
In this issue by DX Editor Dimiter Petrov, LZ1AF, with Broadcast Tips by Rumen Pankov:
European Commissioner Thanks Hams
Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Respond, former Vice President of the World Bank, who is a Bulgarian, has released the following statement:
"On February 27, at 03:34 local time an earthquake rating a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter Scale devastated the Chilean region of Maule. In the minutes that followed the quake, the communication system simply collapsed. Only 15 minutes after the disaster, an amateur radio operator (or "ham") called Alejandro Jara (or as it is known in the amateur radio universe Charlie Echo 3 Juliet Whisky Foxtrot) broadcast the first information from the ground. Very soon, other hams joined Alejandro providing information about locating missing persons, condition of roads and support for the emergency administration.
I visited Chile few days after the main earthquake and experienced an aftershock of 7.2. The GSM network was completely out of order almost immediately and it was impossible to make telephone calls for several hours after the quake. It is in critical situations like this when the voluntary work of amateur radio operators becomes priceless.
Yesterday I had the opportunity of meeting some European "hams" in an exhibition they organized in the hall of the European Parliament. Their passion for the air waves is admirable. "Hams" often build their own equipment and spend endless hours talking to fellow radio operators from every corner of the world (actually also from outer space, since they can even connect with the International Space Station, as I could see in the exhibition).
Some think of them as an unusual bunch of people with no real impact on our daily lives but, when it comes to crisis, they often become heroes. The amateur radio service provides flexible networks that are independent of vulnerable infrastructures like telephone cables or GSM antennae, and transmit in frequencies that are not easily overloaded. Radio operators are aware of their potential in case of crisis and have established well coordinated structures for emergency response that provided vital services during the Tsunami in 2004, the hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005, or more recently, during the earthquakes of L'Aquila, Haiti and Chile.
The expressions "Humanitarian Aid" and "Crisis Response" often suggest large organizations delivering aid and heavy loads in helicopters or trailers. But, very often, it is about the job of anonymous people that continue to broadcast information and hope from damaged equipment and fallen antennae, as they like to say, "when everything else fails".
DXpedition to 3C9B, Bioko Island and 3C0C, Annobon Island
The 3C0C Annobon Island team has released updated information on the forthcoming DXpedition: "If no setback or causes beyond our control, the DXpedition to Equatorial Guinea will start off in mid-May. Before traveling to Annobon, 3C0, we will be operating from Bioko Island using the call sign 3C9B. The operation will take place over three days and SSB, CW and RTTY modes will be used on all bands.
The exact dates will be announced shortly. In Bioko we will collect all our needed supplies to live on Annobon Island and operate as sC0C for 14 days."
Canadian Hams Make Use of New Privileges
At the first of the year, Canadian amateurs received privileges on 2200 meters (135.7 – 137.8 kHz0. Just a few months later, Scott Tilley, VE7TIL, of Robert Creek, British Columbia, and John Gibbs, VE7BDQ, of Delta, British Columbia, completed the first official Canadian two-way 2200 meter QSO on April 24. Using CW, the Canadian amateurs reported strong signals during daylight QSO on 137.1 kHz Roberts Creek and Delta are about 41 miles (66 km) apart. Gibbs used a homebrew tube transverter at 100 watts output into a short top-loaded backyard wire vertical antenna, while Tilley was running 400 watts from a homebrew FET transmitter into a 60 foot top-loaded wire antenna. "As well as heralding the arrival of a new 'top band,' the QSO demonstrates that even amateurs located in typically small city-sized lots can enjoy the challenges that 2000 meters has to offer," Tilley said.
Broadcast Tips
Russia. The transmitter in Yakutsk was heard on 7200 kHz in Sofia at 19.20 hours while that in Murmansk
was received after 17.15 hours on 5930 kHz. Radio Murmansk broadcasts on this frequency programs of its own as follows: Monday through Friday from 03.10 to 04 hours, from 06.10 to 07 hours, from 08.10 to 09.10 hours and from 14.10 to 15 hours; on Saturday from 06.10 to 07 hours.
Cuba. Radio Havana was reported at 11.30 hours on 15120 kHz, at 00 hours on 6000 and 6060 kHz in Spanish, and at 00.15 hours on 5040 kHz in French. Radio Marti is received in Sofia also at 23.45 hours on 6030 kHz, announcing that it radiates on the same frequency from 18 to 13 hours, on 7365 kHz from 00 to 04 hours, on 7405 kHz from 03 to 07 hours. Radio Republica also broadcasts for Cuba from 02 to 04 hours on 9490 and 9780 kHz.
Pakistan. Radio Pakistan World Service is received in Sofia with news in English at 11 hours on 15100 and 17720 kHz as well as at 18 hours on 11585 kHz, also announcing the frequency of 7350 kHz.
Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Radio in English can be heard from 00.55 to 03.30 hours daily and till 04.30 hours on Sundays, is now using 15120 kHz replacing 15745 kHz. The other frequencies used are 6005 and 9770 kHz remain unchanged.
Republic of Korea / South Korea. KBS World Radio is received in Sofia with a weak signal at 16 hours on 9515 kHz and with a strong signal via a transmitter in Europe at 21 hours on 3955 kHz. The station broadcasts in English the following one-hour emissions: at 02 hours on 9580 kHz; at 08 hours on 9570 kHz; at 12 hours on 9650 kHz; at 13 hours on 9570 and 9770 kHz and at 18 hours on 7275 kHz.
With this we have come to the end of our weekly DX Program. Your opinions and suggestions will be appreciated and all reception reports confirmed with the QSL of Radio Bulgaria. Please address your letters to English Section, Radio Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria or by e-mail to english@bnr.bg. An online reception report form is available at www.bnr.bg, click on English and navigate.
So, 73 and DX!
Fuente: http://bit.ly/cslDmx
[Gaviria]
////////////////
==================================================================
Many thanks!
This week's Contributors are:
Michael Bethge, Germany.
LOB - Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Brazil.
Swopan Chakroborty, India.
Yimber Gaviria, Colombia.
Alokesh Gupta, India.
IWATA Gaku, Japan.
Anatoly Klepov, Russia.
Stewart MacKenzie, USA.
Tom Taylor, UK.
---
Radio Heritage Foundation
---
Also thanks to
BC-DX / GERMANY.
CONEXION Digital / ARGENTINE.
CLANDESTINE RADIO WATCH / GERMANY.
CUMBRE DX / U.S.A.
DX INDIA / INDIA.
Globe Radio DX Club / INDIA.
HCDX / FINLAND.
IDXA / INDIA.
JSWC / JAPAN.
NASWA / U.S.A.
radioascolto.org / ITALY.
RUS-DX / RUSSIA.
WAVESCAN / AWR
WWDXC / GERMANY.
*************************************************************
Next deadline : May.26 1500 UTC
Please send your loggings and tips to: gaku@apple.email.ne.jp
*************************************************************
///// Ohkini! from Kanto DXers Circle /////
---
IWATA Gaku. JAPAN.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~vz6g-iwt/
---
Compiled by IWATA Gaku.
JAPAN PREMIUM welcome your contributions.
----------------------------------------------------
You can read "JAPAN PREMIUM Archive" at
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~VZ6G-IWT/jp.html
JP No,001(Apr,30 1998) - No,557(Dec,26 2008) was ziped.
----------------------------------------------------
All time in UTC
===== ASIA =====
CHINA
4820, China, PBS Xizang, Lhasa. May,18 2221-2232 Chinese music selections, male and female talks in Chinese talks. 33433
[LOB]
=== MIDDLE EAST ===
===== AFRICA =====
DJIBOUTI
4780, R. Djibouti. May,20 0335-0346 male talks seems in Arabic, male reciting followed by male choral. 35433
[LOB]
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
5005, Equatorial Guinea, R. Nacional, Bata. May,18 2234-2251 Spanish music sometimes sounding like Cuban, 2250 N.A.. 34333
[LOB]
NIGERIA
9705, Niger, LV du Sahel (tentative), Niamey. May,20 2030-2045 African music selections, 2039 male talks maybe in Vernacular, back to music. 23422
[LOB]
SUDAN
7200, Sudan, R.Omdurman, Al Fitahab. May,20 0350-0402 Arabic style music, male and female talks in Arabic "Sudan", Pop music in Arabic, 0400 time pips, male announcements. 35433
[LOB]
TUNISIA
RTV Tunisienne 7275 0447 Arabic 333 May 15 YL and OMs singing.
[MacKenzie]
ZIMBABWE
4828, Voice of Zimbabwe, Gweru. May,17 2141-2152 Pop music, female talks in English, 2146 slow Pop, 2148 male and female talks "program…Africa…Zimbabwe". Able to pick up few words. From 2152 strong QRM of presumed Chinese 4820 PBS Xizang blocking VOZ, 33533
[LOB]
===== EUROPE =====
=== NORTH AMERICA ===
CANADA
CBC 9625 0415 English 333 May 15 OM ancr with rock style vocal singing. OM with "Instanbul"vocal singing.
[Mackenzie]
=== CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA ===
ANTARCTICA
15476, Antarctica, RN San Gabriel. May,17 1401-1421 Pop Spanish music, 1403 male "transmite LRA36 en su frequencia 15476 KHz, para todo el mundo", Mexican group Maná music, 1407 Pop Spanish music, 1411 female ID and talks. 45544
[LOB]
BOLIVIA
4865, Bolivia, R. Logos, Santa Cruz. May,21 2310-2331 religious talks by male "Jesus", program about human health "Dengue, cancer", "medico directo" doctor discussion about some disease and its treatment. From 2326 deterioring, peak at 2324 with 33323
[LOB]
PERU
5025, Peru, R. Quillabamba, Quillabamba. May,18 2139-2149 folk music, male in Quechua talks, "Radio Quillabamba", folk music. Het, 22432
[LOB]
===== PACIFIC =====
AUSTRALIA
Radio Australia-Shepparton 11660 2124 English 333 May 14 YL and OM with comments on trips to So Africa for the World Cups sports event. OM on the real Economy progra, 2140. //12080[333]Brandon, 11650[333]Shepparton, 13630[333[Shepparton and 15515[433]Shepparton.
[Mackenzie]
NEW ZEALAND
Radio New Zealand Intl-RNZI 13730 0330 English 444 May 15 YL and OM with comments on Tax Evasion by having a Headquarters in the Marshal Islands.
[MacKenzie]
=== Site Unknown ===
=== CLANDESTINE ===
==== PIRATE ====
==== Un-ID ====
==== LW / MW ====
===== QSL =====
===== ...and others =====
After successful test, Radio Japan Bengali service will replace its existing frequency 6155 kHz to new 11965 kHz from Sunday, 23rd May 2010. Broadcasting time 1300-1345 UTC.
[Chakroborty]
////////////////
Engineers Install Additional Shortwave Stations in Central African Republic
Source: HCJB Global (written by Jean Muehlfelt)
Imagine living in a country where you can't access the Internet, watch television, read newspapers or even receive mail. Except in Bangui, the capital city of the Central African Republic (C.A.R.), that's what life is like for most of the country's 4.5 million residents. Their lifeline to the rest of the world? Radio. People in C.AR., a country about the size of Texas, depend on radio broadcasts to keep informed. Almost every village has a radio, and some have more than one. The sets are affordable, costing as little as US$6, usually coming from countries such as Nigeria and Niger. The radios typically have FM, shortwave and medium-wave bands.
Until 2005 there were only six private FM stations and one governmental shortwave station in this country where villagers have a life expectancy of just 44 years. It was then that Integrated Community Development International (ICDI), a partner of HCJB Global, was granted permission to open the country's first privately owned shortwave radio station, Radio ICDI.
In early 2006 the ministry acquired an eight-acre tract of land on the plateau above the town of Boali. A road to the transmitter site was built, and electricity was installed. Equipment was transported in large shipping containers, and eventually one of the 20-foot-long metal containers was converted into a studio and transmitter building.A year later a team from HCJB Global Technology Center in Elkhart, Ind., spent three weeks at the broadcast site, installed the first shortwave radio station. They also put in two satellite downlinks that provided access to the Internet and made it possible to receive French-language Christian programming from Trans World Radio, another HCJB Global partner.
Last month HCJB Global engineers returned to C.A.R. to put in two additional regional shortwave radio stations in Boali, similar to the station installed in 2007. One of the new stations will help extend the broadcast hours of the existing ICDI station into the nighttime. Each station only works well during a portion of each day because of how shortwave signals travel through the atmosphere.
The new ICDI radio stations will provide more programming opportunities for broadcasting the gospel across C.A.R. in Sango (the country's trade language), French and various tribal dialects. Additional hours will also increase the opportunity to air more community development programs on AIDS prevention, orphan care, well-water repair programs and many other relevant humanitarian topics.
Curt Bender, manager of broadcast services at HCJB Global in Elkhart, said, "I want to give the Lord recognition for sustaining our team through two difficult installations in the past three years and to praise Him for the success."
For more information visit http://www.icdinternational.org
[Gupta]
/////////////////
New VOA programs target English audience
Washington, D.C., May 17, 2010 – Voice of America has unveiled a
dynamic new lineup of interactive radio programs and Web features
aimed at expanding its English-speaking audience around the world.
Three new radio programs, Daybreak Asia, Crossroads Asia, and Middle
East Monitor, focus on key developments in each region, with in-depth
features, more newsmaker interviews and dynamic interaction with
listeners, viewers and website visitors. Another program,
International Edition, provides lively, fast-paced world news
coverage, and American Café brings you stories about life in the
United States.
Listen to VOA programs and explore the new Web features at www.voanews.com
VOA English Programs Director John Stevenson describes the new
programs as, "for and about the people in the regions, providing the
story behind the story, with more background and analysis, increased
use of graphics on our website and more social networking with sites
like Facebook."
VOA English has an estimated global weekly radio audience of more than
11 million people. VOA newscasts and programs are available on a host
of platforms, including our website, via podcasting, social networking
sites, radio and television affiliate stations around the world, and
now on VOA's upgraded mobile phone site http://english.voa.mobi.
Other languages are also available by going to
http://www1.voanews.com/english/mobile/ and selecting from the list.
(VOA Press Release)
[Gupta]
////////////////
UK Rocks The World will be back on the air Today the 16th of May at 15:00 GMT.
Frequency: 15.760 MHz
Target Area: North America (but reception reports worldwide gratefully received)
Please tune in and record MP3's of your reception.
We look forward to receiving your feedback.
ENJOY!!! Email: ukrockstheworld@googlemail.com
[Taylor:
////////////////
'Changing Stations'
The Story of Australian
Commercial Radio
Competition Winner
_________________________________
In our recent competition 'Changing Stations' we asked readers to
complete the sentence 'Long Lost - - Stars' and we'd like to thank
the many people who took the time to send in their - often creative -
entries!
The missing words are "Australian Radio" and the complete sentence is
'Long Lost Australian Radio Stars' which is also the name of the
popular series about Australian heritage AM radio stations from the
1940's you can enjoy at our global website www.radioheritage.net.
68% of all the entries had this correct answer and we're now very
pleased to announce the winner as Steven Spink of Wagga Wagga in New
South Wales, Australia.
Congratulations Steven, and a copy of 'Changing Stations' by Bridget
Griffen-Foley will be on its way to you shortly.
Don't worry if you didn't win this time - you can still buy a copy of
the book for a very good price and may even qualify for free
shipping. Just visit www.radioheritage.net, go to the 'Changing
Stations' book review and then click on our Amazon sales link to
obtain your copy.
It's a really good read, well researched and very entertaining.
Highly recommended for everyone interested in the story of Australian
commercial radio. Read all about the book today at
www.radioheritage.net.
We'll shortly announce details of our next competition to win a CD of
original Australian radio serials.
If you haven't visited www.radioheritage.net recently, stop by and
see what's new or dig a little deeper into our 500+ pages of great
stories and hundreds of rare images about radio people, places and
events.
[Radio Heritage Foundation]
////////////////
New Zealand Budget 2010
Radio New Zealand
International Funding
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Radio New Zealand International [RNZI], the country's shortwave
broadcaster receives no additional funding in the latest government
budget for 2010/2011 announced in Wellington yesterday.
Funding remains at NZ$1.9m [US$1.26m] and it's required to deliver 16
hours of good quality reception daily to a minimum of 11 Pacific
nations with one 100kW analog transmitter installed in 1990 and one
100kW digital capable transmitter installed in 2005.
The primary coverage nations it's funded for are French Polynesia,
Cook Islands, Tokelau, American Samoa, Samoa, Niue, Tonga, Wallis and
Futuna, Fiji, Tuvalu, New Caledonia and Vanuatu.
The secondary coverage nations are Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea,
Nauru and Kiribati, whilst general coverage must be provided to the
Asia/Pacific and Pacific Rim region including the Federated States of
Micronesia, Marshall Islands and Palau.
In addition, RNZI must increase the number of Pacific radio stations
relaying or rebroadcasting its news bulletins to 18 and is permiited
a maximum 1% of transmission time lost from equipment failure.
The Radio Heritage Foundation welcomes the continued funding of RNZI
as recognition by the government that it provides a valuable service
for New Zealand's interests in the Pacific.
'At a time when many shortwave broadcasters face budget cuts and
complete closedown of services, this continued confidence in RNZI's
ability to deliver a quality service with a bare-bones budget is
tribute to the extreme dedication to duty and pragmatism of the
entire RNZI team" says chairman David Ricquish.
RNZI provides valuable cyclone, extreme weather watch and tsunami
warnings for the entire South Pacific region. It also provides local
FM quality news, information and other programs for rebroadcast on a
growing number of local Pacific island radio stations.
"With Fiji in media censorship lockdown and media freedoms poorly
understood in many of the target nations, RNZI provides local
listeners with a respected and valuable news source from a Pacific
perspective" adds Ricquish.
"Every week, thousands of New Zealanders are on holiday, on business
visits or working and living in the Pacific and RNZI provides a
valuable service for their continued safety."
"To maintain this security, RNZI should also be urgently capital
funded for a replacement of the 20 year old analog transmitter with
another high power digital capable shortwave transmitter sooner
rather than later" says Ricquish.
Catastrophic RNZI transmitter failure co-inciding with natural
disasters or sudden political events and instability in the region
could threaten the lives of New Zealanders and New Zealand's security
and commercial interests.
[Radio Heritage Foundation]
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A host of Radio Voice of Russia's Expertise program grabbed a prize of the Radiomania national media contest on Friday evening.
The Best Information and Politics Program nomination went to the VOR's Maxim Shalygin, who regularly sits down with prominent Russian political analysts to discuss the latest developments in Russia and beyond.
The Radiomania's special prize went to the International Association of the Russian Language Broadcasters, which was earlier initiated by the Voice of Russia to brief listeners from Europe, the US, Israel and CIS countries on the latest world news.
Association Director General Oleg Kupriyanov thanked the Voice of Russia for information support, singling out the 2nd International Festival of the Russian Language Broadcasters, slated for September. Listeners are welcome to visit the VOR website' section at www.ruvr.ru/Partner to learn more about the event, Kupriyanov added
Source: VOR host wins Radiomania"s nomination : Voice of Russia http://bit.ly/cu13dG
[Gaviria]
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This is Radio Bulgaria's weekly DX Program for radio amateurs and short wave listeners which is included in our one-hour broadcasts starting as follows: Friday at 21.00 UTC on 5900 and 7400 kHz beamed to West Europe, at 23.00 UTC and Saturday at 02.00 UTC on 9700 and 11700 kHz to North America, as well as in the half-hour broadcast at 06.30 UTC on 9600 and 11600 kHz to West Europe.
In this issue by DX Editor Dimiter Petrov, LZ1AF, with Broadcast Tips by Rumen Pankov:
European Commissioner Thanks Hams
Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Respond, former Vice President of the World Bank, who is a Bulgarian, has released the following statement:
"On February 27, at 03:34 local time an earthquake rating a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter Scale devastated the Chilean region of Maule. In the minutes that followed the quake, the communication system simply collapsed. Only 15 minutes after the disaster, an amateur radio operator (or "ham") called Alejandro Jara (or as it is known in the amateur radio universe Charlie Echo 3 Juliet Whisky Foxtrot) broadcast the first information from the ground. Very soon, other hams joined Alejandro providing information about locating missing persons, condition of roads and support for the emergency administration.
I visited Chile few days after the main earthquake and experienced an aftershock of 7.2. The GSM network was completely out of order almost immediately and it was impossible to make telephone calls for several hours after the quake. It is in critical situations like this when the voluntary work of amateur radio operators becomes priceless.
Yesterday I had the opportunity of meeting some European "hams" in an exhibition they organized in the hall of the European Parliament. Their passion for the air waves is admirable. "Hams" often build their own equipment and spend endless hours talking to fellow radio operators from every corner of the world (actually also from outer space, since they can even connect with the International Space Station, as I could see in the exhibition).
Some think of them as an unusual bunch of people with no real impact on our daily lives but, when it comes to crisis, they often become heroes. The amateur radio service provides flexible networks that are independent of vulnerable infrastructures like telephone cables or GSM antennae, and transmit in frequencies that are not easily overloaded. Radio operators are aware of their potential in case of crisis and have established well coordinated structures for emergency response that provided vital services during the Tsunami in 2004, the hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005, or more recently, during the earthquakes of L'Aquila, Haiti and Chile.
The expressions "Humanitarian Aid" and "Crisis Response" often suggest large organizations delivering aid and heavy loads in helicopters or trailers. But, very often, it is about the job of anonymous people that continue to broadcast information and hope from damaged equipment and fallen antennae, as they like to say, "when everything else fails".
DXpedition to 3C9B, Bioko Island and 3C0C, Annobon Island
The 3C0C Annobon Island team has released updated information on the forthcoming DXpedition: "If no setback or causes beyond our control, the DXpedition to Equatorial Guinea will start off in mid-May. Before traveling to Annobon, 3C0, we will be operating from Bioko Island using the call sign 3C9B. The operation will take place over three days and SSB, CW and RTTY modes will be used on all bands.
The exact dates will be announced shortly. In Bioko we will collect all our needed supplies to live on Annobon Island and operate as sC0C for 14 days."
Canadian Hams Make Use of New Privileges
At the first of the year, Canadian amateurs received privileges on 2200 meters (135.7 – 137.8 kHz0. Just a few months later, Scott Tilley, VE7TIL, of Robert Creek, British Columbia, and John Gibbs, VE7BDQ, of Delta, British Columbia, completed the first official Canadian two-way 2200 meter QSO on April 24. Using CW, the Canadian amateurs reported strong signals during daylight QSO on 137.1 kHz Roberts Creek and Delta are about 41 miles (66 km) apart. Gibbs used a homebrew tube transverter at 100 watts output into a short top-loaded backyard wire vertical antenna, while Tilley was running 400 watts from a homebrew FET transmitter into a 60 foot top-loaded wire antenna. "As well as heralding the arrival of a new 'top band,' the QSO demonstrates that even amateurs located in typically small city-sized lots can enjoy the challenges that 2000 meters has to offer," Tilley said.
Broadcast Tips
Russia. The transmitter in Yakutsk was heard on 7200 kHz in Sofia at 19.20 hours while that in Murmansk
was received after 17.15 hours on 5930 kHz. Radio Murmansk broadcasts on this frequency programs of its own as follows: Monday through Friday from 03.10 to 04 hours, from 06.10 to 07 hours, from 08.10 to 09.10 hours and from 14.10 to 15 hours; on Saturday from 06.10 to 07 hours.
Cuba. Radio Havana was reported at 11.30 hours on 15120 kHz, at 00 hours on 6000 and 6060 kHz in Spanish, and at 00.15 hours on 5040 kHz in French. Radio Marti is received in Sofia also at 23.45 hours on 6030 kHz, announcing that it radiates on the same frequency from 18 to 13 hours, on 7365 kHz from 00 to 04 hours, on 7405 kHz from 03 to 07 hours. Radio Republica also broadcasts for Cuba from 02 to 04 hours on 9490 and 9780 kHz.
Pakistan. Radio Pakistan World Service is received in Sofia with news in English at 11 hours on 15100 and 17720 kHz as well as at 18 hours on 11585 kHz, also announcing the frequency of 7350 kHz.
Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Radio in English can be heard from 00.55 to 03.30 hours daily and till 04.30 hours on Sundays, is now using 15120 kHz replacing 15745 kHz. The other frequencies used are 6005 and 9770 kHz remain unchanged.
Republic of Korea / South Korea. KBS World Radio is received in Sofia with a weak signal at 16 hours on 9515 kHz and with a strong signal via a transmitter in Europe at 21 hours on 3955 kHz. The station broadcasts in English the following one-hour emissions: at 02 hours on 9580 kHz; at 08 hours on 9570 kHz; at 12 hours on 9650 kHz; at 13 hours on 9570 and 9770 kHz and at 18 hours on 7275 kHz.
With this we have come to the end of our weekly DX Program. Your opinions and suggestions will be appreciated and all reception reports confirmed with the QSL of Radio Bulgaria. Please address your letters to English Section, Radio Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria or by e-mail to english@bnr.bg. An online reception report form is available at www.bnr.bg, click on English and navigate.
So, 73 and DX!
Fuente: http://bit.ly/cslDmx
[Gaviria]
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Many thanks!
This week's Contributors are:
Michael Bethge, Germany.
LOB - Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Brazil.
Swopan Chakroborty, India.
Yimber Gaviria, Colombia.
Alokesh Gupta, India.
IWATA Gaku, Japan.
Anatoly Klepov, Russia.
Stewart MacKenzie, USA.
Tom Taylor, UK.
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Also thanks to
BC-DX / GERMANY.
CONEXION Digital / ARGENTINE.
CLANDESTINE RADIO WATCH / GERMANY.
CUMBRE DX / U.S.A.
DX INDIA / INDIA.
Globe Radio DX Club / INDIA.
HCDX / FINLAND.
IDXA / INDIA.
JSWC / JAPAN.
NASWA / U.S.A.
radioascolto.org / ITALY.
RUS-DX / RUSSIA.
WAVESCAN / AWR
WWDXC / GERMANY.
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Next deadline : May.26 1500 UTC
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