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On the program:
- Radio countries across the world – abbreviations
- Radio calendar
- Six broadcast tips
- DX Mix News by Ivo Ivanov
In the international exchange of information the names of countries and other territories are quite common. Some of them consist of only four letters such as Cuba and Laos for instance, however, others are too long to write in full such as Madagascar or consist of several words i.e. Central African Republic. Therefore international organizations have introduced abbreviations for countries in a bid to facilitate printed communication. These symbols (initials) contain from one to three letters plus, some of them, digits. To give you an example, the BG abbreviation is used for Bulgaria for automobiles, mail etc., and LZ for aircraft, radio telegraphy, etc.
The world of radio uses two types of symbols:
- of the organization of the radio telegraphers, the International Amateur Radio Union, where each country, island and territory is designated with a symbol containing letters or letters plus digits. For Bulgaria the symbol is LZ, for Bhutan it is A5 etc.
- of the International Telecommunication Union for broadcasting, i.e. for radio stations airing speech and music the symbol contains one or three Latin letters, for example for Bulgaria and respectively for Radio Bulgaria (and of all state-run or private radio stations in this country) the symbol is BGR .
As soon as the symbols were introduced, one-letter symbols were attached to some countries – they are B for Brazil, D for Germany derived from Deutschland; E from Espana for Spain; F for France; G for Great Britain, I for Italy, J for Japan and S for Sweden. The rest of countries are denoted with three letters. The symbols are given out depending on the way the countries' names are written in English, French or other languages. For example in Arabic the name of Jordan is Urdunia but the ITU code for Jordan is JOR – derived from its English name. Switzerland is a country that uses four languages, but the initials SUI derive from the French name Suisse, most probably because of French-speaking Geneva where the ITU head office is found. Many of the initials suggest the name of the country, i.e. ALB stands for Albania, ARM stands for Armenia etc., but others won't suggest that, such as CLN for Sri Lanka – derived from that country's former name Ceylon. Until recently there was the same case with Myanmar, ex-Burma, denoted with BRM, but ITU has renamed it to MMR. Speaking about the ITU list, the new state of South Sudan has only digits, #211 (in the United Nations list it is #197, in the World Radio and in the TV Handbook it is #252 ) and has no initials so far. Apart from Myanmar other symbols have been recently replaced as follows: ex ATN for Bonaire, the Caribbean Netherlands – now BES; ex BUL now BGR for Bulgaria; ex BRM now MMR for Myanmar and NLD for the Netherlands, ex HOL. The compilers of the lists of initials have had some hard time with the names of countries starting with the Latin letters C, M & S, since the names of more than 20 countries actually start with these letters. The ITU list also includes temporary symbols such as TWN, PSE, XGZ & XWB respectively for Taiwan, the Palestinian Authority, the Gaza Strip & the West Bank .
Radio calendar
Now everything connected with the date September 1: in 1936 the first radio paper in Bulgaria, Radio Universe, was printed in the town of Pleven. In the same year Radio Atlantida was launched from Argentina. On the same date in 1930 was the start of Radio Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia and in 1969 of Radio Mexico International .
Broadcast Tips
GERMANY: Radio Deutsche Welle or German Wave was received in Sofia on August 23rd at 09.40 h with a program in English on 17820 KHz via a transmitter located in Trincomale, Sri Lanka with Long Path Echo sound and on 15640 KHz from Singapore.
MALAYSIA: Radio Traxx FM with two "x" in the name was heard with news in English from 17 h on 7295 KHz . Another local station was noted on 9835 KHz at 16.40 h and also on parallel 11665 KHz with identification "Radio Malaysia Sarawak".
INDIA: In the tropical 60 meter band on 4870 KHz the beginning of the program of radio Voice of Kashmir in Dogri was heard at 15.10 hours with identification "Sedaye Kasmir". This broadcast is coming from India beamed to the Pakistan Kashmir.
NEW ZEALAND: Radio New Zealand International broadcasting the news from National Radio in English was heard from 04.00 h on 15720 KHz and from 05.00 h on 11725 KHz .
INDONESIA: During the summer season radio Voice of Indonesia is broadcasting on the same frequency of 9526 KHz in different languages. Heard in Sofia from 15 to 16 h in English and from 17 h in Spanish.
IRELAND: The Christian radio station called Reflections Europe and operating only on Sundays was heard on August 21st at 17.30 h with a program in English on two frequencies 6295 and 12255 KHz.
Compiled by Rumen Pankov
Translated by Daniela Konstantinova
DX MIX № 127 / 29.08-04.09.2011
All times in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), all frequencies in kilohertz (kHz).
Germany: in today's edition – fifth part of the summer schedule of radio stations using transmitters of Media Broadcast
Bible Voice Broadcasting Network (BVBN):
-for West Europe on frequency 5945 Wertachtal 100 kW / 300 degrees
0700-0745 on Saturday and 0700-0730 on Sunday in English
-for East Europe on frequency 6130 Nauen 100 kW / 69 degrees
1800-1830 on Tuesday and 1800-1815 on Friday in Russian
1800-1815 on Thursday in Ukrainian
1815-1845 on Saturday and 1800-1900 on Sunday in English
-for North Africa on frequency 17535 Wertachtal 100 kW / 135 degrees
0900-1000 on Friday in Arabic
-for Central Africa on frequency 11830 Wertachtal 100 kW / 150 degrees
1830-1845 on Sunday in Swahili
-for Central and East Africa на frequency 13720 Wertachtal 100 kW/150 degrees
1630-1730 daily in Nuer and Dinka
-for East Africa on frequency 13810 Issoudun 100 kW / 131 degrees
1630-1700 on Monday and Friday, 1730-1830 on Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 1630-1700 on Tuesday and 1630-1800 on Wednesday in Amharic
1600-1630 on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday in Oromo
1700-1730 on Monday, Tuesday and Friday in Tigrigna
1800-1830 from Friday to Sunday in Somali
-for East Africa Ngoma Radio
1700-1800 on Saturday on 15235 and 1900-2000 on Saturday on 11750 Issoudun 500 kW / 141 degrees in Luganda
-for the Middle East
on frequency 9430 Wertachtal 250 kW / 120 degrees
1800-1900 on Saturday and 1815-1845 on Sunday in English
on frequency 11960 Wertachtal 100 kW / 120 degrees
1700-1800 on Saturday and Sunday in English
on frequency 13580 Issoudun 250 kW / 115 degrees
1700-1720 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and1700-1735 on Wednesday in Arabic
on frequency 13590 Nauen 100 kW / 130 degrees
1545-1600 on Monday and Wednesday, 1545-1620 and 1700-1715 on Tuesday, 1545-1645 on Thursday, 1545-1615 on Friday, 1545-1700 on Saturday and 1530-1815 on Sunday in English
1715-1800 on Tuesday in Hebrew
on frequency 13600 Nauen 100 kW / 130 degrees
1615-1700 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Arabic
-forWest Asia
on frequency 9735 Wertachtal 250 kW / 105 degrees
0500-0515 on Friday in Arabic
on frequency 11855 Nauen 100 kW / 105 degrees
1800-1830 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 1800-1900 on Tuesday and Thursday, 1800-1815 on Saturday and 1830-1900 on Sunday in Persian
on frequency 12140 Wertachtal 100 kW / 105 degrees
1530-1730 daily in Persian
on frequency 13630 Issoudun 250 kW / 91 degrees
1530-1545 on Sunday in Persian
-for South Asia
on frequency 7405 Wertachtal 250 kW / 90 degrees
0030-0100 from Monday to Thursday in Hindi and from Friday to Sunday in English
on frequency 15275 Issoudun 100 kW / 90 degrees
1530-1600 on Wednesday and Friday in Urdu
1530-1600 on Thursday and 1515-1530 on Saturday in English
on frequency 17495 Nauen 250 kW / 95 degrees
1430-1500 on Saturday in English
1345-1415 every first Sunday and 1415-1500 every Sunday in English
-for Southwest Asia
1500-1515 on Sunday 13740 Wertachtal 250 kW / 90 degrees in English
Lutheran World Federation Voice of Gospel in Fulani and vernaculars
1830-1900 on11975 Issoudun 500 kW / 167 degrees for West and Central Africa
FEBA Radio in Arabic
1900-1930 on 7230 Wertachtal 250 kW / 105 degrees for Western Asia
Written by Ivo Ivanov, Frequency Manager of Radio Bulgaria
Translated by Daniela Konstantinova
- Radio countries across the world – abbreviations
- Radio calendar
- Six broadcast tips
- DX Mix News by Ivo Ivanov
In the international exchange of information the names of countries and other territories are quite common. Some of them consist of only four letters such as Cuba and Laos for instance, however, others are too long to write in full such as Madagascar or consist of several words i.e. Central African Republic. Therefore international organizations have introduced abbreviations for countries in a bid to facilitate printed communication. These symbols (initials) contain from one to three letters plus, some of them, digits. To give you an example, the BG abbreviation is used for Bulgaria for automobiles, mail etc., and LZ for aircraft, radio telegraphy, etc.
The world of radio uses two types of symbols:
- of the organization of the radio telegraphers, the International Amateur Radio Union, where each country, island and territory is designated with a symbol containing letters or letters plus digits. For Bulgaria the symbol is LZ, for Bhutan it is A5 etc.
- of the International Telecommunication Union for broadcasting, i.e. for radio stations airing speech and music the symbol contains one or three Latin letters, for example for Bulgaria and respectively for Radio Bulgaria (and of all state-run or private radio stations in this country) the symbol is BGR .
As soon as the symbols were introduced, one-letter symbols were attached to some countries – they are B for Brazil, D for Germany derived from Deutschland; E from Espana for Spain; F for France; G for Great Britain, I for Italy, J for Japan and S for Sweden. The rest of countries are denoted with three letters. The symbols are given out depending on the way the countries' names are written in English, French or other languages. For example in Arabic the name of Jordan is Urdunia but the ITU code for Jordan is JOR – derived from its English name. Switzerland is a country that uses four languages, but the initials SUI derive from the French name Suisse, most probably because of French-speaking Geneva where the ITU head office is found. Many of the initials suggest the name of the country, i.e. ALB stands for Albania, ARM stands for Armenia etc., but others won't suggest that, such as CLN for Sri Lanka – derived from that country's former name Ceylon. Until recently there was the same case with Myanmar, ex-Burma, denoted with BRM, but ITU has renamed it to MMR. Speaking about the ITU list, the new state of South Sudan has only digits, #211 (in the United Nations list it is #197, in the World Radio and in the TV Handbook it is #252 ) and has no initials so far. Apart from Myanmar other symbols have been recently replaced as follows: ex ATN for Bonaire, the Caribbean Netherlands – now BES; ex BUL now BGR for Bulgaria; ex BRM now MMR for Myanmar and NLD for the Netherlands, ex HOL. The compilers of the lists of initials have had some hard time with the names of countries starting with the Latin letters C, M & S, since the names of more than 20 countries actually start with these letters. The ITU list also includes temporary symbols such as TWN, PSE, XGZ & XWB respectively for Taiwan, the Palestinian Authority, the Gaza Strip & the West Bank .
Radio calendar
Now everything connected with the date September 1: in 1936 the first radio paper in Bulgaria, Radio Universe, was printed in the town of Pleven. In the same year Radio Atlantida was launched from Argentina. On the same date in 1930 was the start of Radio Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia and in 1969 of Radio Mexico International .
Broadcast Tips
GERMANY: Radio Deutsche Welle or German Wave was received in Sofia on August 23rd at 09.40 h with a program in English on 17820 KHz via a transmitter located in Trincomale, Sri Lanka with Long Path Echo sound and on 15640 KHz from Singapore.
MALAYSIA: Radio Traxx FM with two "x" in the name was heard with news in English from 17 h on 7295 KHz . Another local station was noted on 9835 KHz at 16.40 h and also on parallel 11665 KHz with identification "Radio Malaysia Sarawak".
INDIA: In the tropical 60 meter band on 4870 KHz the beginning of the program of radio Voice of Kashmir in Dogri was heard at 15.10 hours with identification "Sedaye Kasmir". This broadcast is coming from India beamed to the Pakistan Kashmir.
NEW ZEALAND: Radio New Zealand International broadcasting the news from National Radio in English was heard from 04.00 h on 15720 KHz and from 05.00 h on 11725 KHz .
INDONESIA: During the summer season radio Voice of Indonesia is broadcasting on the same frequency of 9526 KHz in different languages. Heard in Sofia from 15 to 16 h in English and from 17 h in Spanish.
IRELAND: The Christian radio station called Reflections Europe and operating only on Sundays was heard on August 21st at 17.30 h with a program in English on two frequencies 6295 and 12255 KHz.
Compiled by Rumen Pankov
Translated by Daniela Konstantinova
DX MIX № 127 / 29.08-04.09.2011
All times in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), all frequencies in kilohertz (kHz).
Germany: in today's edition – fifth part of the summer schedule of radio stations using transmitters of Media Broadcast
Bible Voice Broadcasting Network (BVBN):
-for West Europe on frequency 5945 Wertachtal 100 kW / 300 degrees
0700-0745 on Saturday and 0700-0730 on Sunday in English
-for East Europe on frequency 6130 Nauen 100 kW / 69 degrees
1800-1830 on Tuesday and 1800-1815 on Friday in Russian
1800-1815 on Thursday in Ukrainian
1815-1845 on Saturday and 1800-1900 on Sunday in English
-for North Africa on frequency 17535 Wertachtal 100 kW / 135 degrees
0900-1000 on Friday in Arabic
-for Central Africa on frequency 11830 Wertachtal 100 kW / 150 degrees
1830-1845 on Sunday in Swahili
-for Central and East Africa на frequency 13720 Wertachtal 100 kW/150 degrees
1630-1730 daily in Nuer and Dinka
-for East Africa on frequency 13810 Issoudun 100 kW / 131 degrees
1630-1700 on Monday and Friday, 1730-1830 on Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 1630-1700 on Tuesday and 1630-1800 on Wednesday in Amharic
1600-1630 on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday in Oromo
1700-1730 on Monday, Tuesday and Friday in Tigrigna
1800-1830 from Friday to Sunday in Somali
-for East Africa Ngoma Radio
1700-1800 on Saturday on 15235 and 1900-2000 on Saturday on 11750 Issoudun 500 kW / 141 degrees in Luganda
-for the Middle East
on frequency 9430 Wertachtal 250 kW / 120 degrees
1800-1900 on Saturday and 1815-1845 on Sunday in English
on frequency 11960 Wertachtal 100 kW / 120 degrees
1700-1800 on Saturday and Sunday in English
on frequency 13580 Issoudun 250 kW / 115 degrees
1700-1720 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and1700-1735 on Wednesday in Arabic
on frequency 13590 Nauen 100 kW / 130 degrees
1545-1600 on Monday and Wednesday, 1545-1620 and 1700-1715 on Tuesday, 1545-1645 on Thursday, 1545-1615 on Friday, 1545-1700 on Saturday and 1530-1815 on Sunday in English
1715-1800 on Tuesday in Hebrew
on frequency 13600 Nauen 100 kW / 130 degrees
1615-1700 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Arabic
-forWest Asia
on frequency 9735 Wertachtal 250 kW / 105 degrees
0500-0515 on Friday in Arabic
on frequency 11855 Nauen 100 kW / 105 degrees
1800-1830 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 1800-1900 on Tuesday and Thursday, 1800-1815 on Saturday and 1830-1900 on Sunday in Persian
on frequency 12140 Wertachtal 100 kW / 105 degrees
1530-1730 daily in Persian
on frequency 13630 Issoudun 250 kW / 91 degrees
1530-1545 on Sunday in Persian
-for South Asia
on frequency 7405 Wertachtal 250 kW / 90 degrees
0030-0100 from Monday to Thursday in Hindi and from Friday to Sunday in English
on frequency 15275 Issoudun 100 kW / 90 degrees
1530-1600 on Wednesday and Friday in Urdu
1530-1600 on Thursday and 1515-1530 on Saturday in English
on frequency 17495 Nauen 250 kW / 95 degrees
1430-1500 on Saturday in English
1345-1415 every first Sunday and 1415-1500 every Sunday in English
-for Southwest Asia
1500-1515 on Sunday 13740 Wertachtal 250 kW / 90 degrees in English
Lutheran World Federation Voice of Gospel in Fulani and vernaculars
1830-1900 on11975 Issoudun 500 kW / 167 degrees for West and Central Africa
FEBA Radio in Arabic
1900-1930 on 7230 Wertachtal 250 kW / 105 degrees for Western Asia
Written by Ivo Ivanov, Frequency Manager of Radio Bulgaria
Translated by Daniela Konstantinova
SOURCE: DX Program, September 1, 2011 http://bit.ly/oOBq5d
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