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Today's Topics:
1. MV Baltic Radio / R Gloria this Weekend (tom taylor)
2. Media Network Newsletter (Stewart MacKenzie)
3. Ammassalik Radio ceases operation (Stig Hartvig Nielsen)
4. Logs of Dec 2 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:25:36 -0000
From: "tom taylor" <em...@sky.com>
To: "tom taylor" <em...@sky.com>
Subject: [HCDX] MV Baltic Radio / R Gloria this Weekend
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MV Baltic Radio / R Gloria this Weekend
Dear Listeners,
MV Baltic Radio is on the air this Sunday the 4th of December 2011
MVBR Schedule:
0900 to 1000 tuck on 9480 KHz, 1 KW Repeat of Radio Gloria (From last
month)
1000 to 1100 tuck on 9480 KHz, 1 KW MV Baltic Radio
1300 to 1400 tuck on 9480 KHz, 1 KW MV Baltic Radio (Repeat from 1000
tuck)
Good Listening 73s Tom
Due to Technical reasons the last transmission from MVBR on 6140 KHz will be
on
The 25th of December 2011. MVBR on 9480 KHz will continue in 2012 as
normal.
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:16:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Stewart MacKenzie <wdx...@yahoo.com>
To: Anker Peterson <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, BCL NEWS
<bcln...@yahoogroups.com>, Duane Fischer <dfisc...@usol.com>, Hard
Core DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Maryann Kehoe
<atl...@webtv.net>, Prime Time Shortwave
<primetimeshortw...@yahoogroups.com>, SWL QTH <s...@mailman.qth.net>
Cc: Adrian Peterson <adr...@awr.org>, Allen Graham
<agra...@hcjb.org.ec>
Subject: [HCDX] Media Network Newsletter
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From: Media Network Newsletter <medianetw...@rnw.nl>
Subject: Media Network Newsletter
To: wdx...@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011, 8:06 AM
Media Network Newsletter
Hello from Hilversum,
Well, November has ended as the driest November in the Netherlands since
records began. But December could well turn out to be one of the wettest - I
just looked at the predictions for the next two weeks, and there's a lot of
rain coming! But there's no sign of temperatures getting low enough for snow.
Madagascar transmitter tests now completed
Last week's test transmissions of the first of the former H?rby shortwave
transmitters newly installed at our Madagascar relay station were very
successful, with reports received from Colombia, USA, UK, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, Israel and New Zealand. Everyone
who requested a QSL-card for correct reports on these tests will receive one in
due course.
The transmitter will shortly be taken into service within the regular schedule,
where it will replace one of the old Philips transmitters that will be taken
out of service.
(Source: RNW Programme Distribution)
G6 International Broadcasters to work closely together
The Group of Six (G6) International Broadcasters met in Kyoto on 21 to 23
November 2011, and issued the following Joint statement:
?All members of the Group of Six agree on our shared values of freedom of
expression, democratic principles, the strengthening of human rights and free,
open and independent media.
?To this end the G6 members agree to further develop and enrich the
international media environment by close collaboration within the context of
our shared values. We will focus on joint projects that strengthen each other?s
ability to provide enhanced content to multiplatform audiences across the
globe. Our collaboration and joint projects will also strengthen each
organization?s ability to provide unique content to its own target markets and
build on our ability to provide an even more comprehensive offering of content
to our audiences into the future.
?The G6 acknowledges that the media markets around the world, including
technological developments and changes to the way audiences consume media,
provide many challenges to international broadcasters, and we agree that by
working together, our shared values and objectives are much more likely to be
achieved.?
The Group of Six consists of the following broadcasters:
NHK World
Radio Australia
Radio Canada International
Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Radio Sweden
SwissInfo
Media Network Weblog
Here are the stories we've published since the last Newsletter. Click on any
headline to go direct to that item in the Weblog:
Thursday 1 December 2011
Britain fines Iran?s Press TV
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Internal conflict forces Georgia?s Maestro TV off air
Latin America: community radio stations under attack
China?s first 3D television channel launches in January
Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal will close on 31 Dec
India: Digitalisation of DD and AIR is a ?high priority?
Pakistan may summon BBC as news channel blocked
VOR brings Russian radio drama to Indian audiences
Radio VOP charts way forward
Tuesday 29 November 2011
BAZ invites applicants for radio licences for urban centres
Pakistan cable operators ban foreign news channels
Pro-CBC group goes to the mat against potential cuts
New Korean TV channel targets mobile viewers
Anti-merger strike at Radio France International
Monday 28 November 2011
Cambodian PM renews attacks on US broadcasters
China to ban commercials during TV dramas
West Java radio/TV stations told not to air porn songs
New online radio relays North Korean propaganda programmes - South paper
BAZ seeks applicants for television station licence
Sunday 27 November 2011
Iran to launch eight digital TV channels
Saturday 26 November 2011
Al-Jazeera building new spheres of influence
Boss of Radio/TV Mart? to appear on C-SPAN
China state TV gets new boss: Xinhua
Friday 25 November 2011
Mauritania opens airwaves to private broadcast media
UK broadcaster Asian Sound plans Arabic service
Zimbabwe new radio licences a ?farce?: Tsvangirai?s office
The next Newsletter will be on Thursday 8 December 2011. Good listening!
Andy Sennitt
Media Network
Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 08:21:10 +0100
From: "Stig Hartvig Nielsen" <hart...@wmr.dk>
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Ammassalik Radio ceases operation
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Coastal radio station Ammassalik Radio (OZL) in Tasiilaq on the Eastern coast
of Greenland closed down for good yesterday December 1st 2011. It was from this
site KNR until recently could be heard twice a day on 3815 kHz.
Full story (in Danish) here:
http://knr.gl/da/nyheder/ammassalik-radio-melder-over-and-out
Best 73s
Stig Hartvig Nielsen
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 10:15:49 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <buesch...@web.de>
To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXLD"
<d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs of Dec 2
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TAIWAN/AUSTRALIA 11744.890 R Australia in Indonesian via Tainan-TWN site
noted at 0515 UT Dec 2 on remote unit in JPN, poor S=6 signal on back lobe.
9409.988 Fu Hsing BS via Kuanyin in Chinese, observed on poor S=5 signal at
0525 UT Dec 2. Endless talk by male announcers. \\ 9774.008 poor S=5-6
signal, from 10 kW non-dir antenna at Kuanyin.
15290.135 RTI CBSC Tainan in Chinese language at 0555 UT, Dec 2, hit
heavily by China mainland jamming. Rather S=8 jammer strength in JPN.
Replaced by Radio Australia English nx service at 0600-0630 UT, when also
CHN mainland jamming stopped. RA via TWN on S=7 level. RA featured bomb
explosion attack in Afghanistan against NATO troops.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 2)
KUWAIT 15515 Radio Kuwait in Arabic, scheduled 5-9 UT. String instrument
interlude. S=7 signal on remote SDR unit in JPN, 0610 UT Dec 2.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 2)
PHILIPPINES? [tentat.] 9580 Next to even Africa No. One signal, fair
strength from Gabon via easterly long path from Africa across Latin America,
into Japan, noted an UNKNOWN station on odd 9579.469 kHz, tine S=4 signal on
remote unit in JPN. Probably PBS Radio ng Bayan/DZFM/DZRM from Quezon
City-Marulas, at 0545 UT Dec 2.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 2)
USA-non/MARIANAS/TAJIKISTAN/UAE/China mainland RFA hit heavily by China
mainland jamming against RFA Mandarin and Tibetan services.
Dec 2 at 6-7 UT noted
RFA Tibetan 21490 21670 21685 21695 17515 17715
RFA Mandarin 21540 15665 and many others on 25, 22, 19 and 16mb
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 2)
> ...Defense Ministry. The source also said that the Kaliningrad station
> will be the third of its kind, with the first two already working in
> Leningrad and Krasnodar Regions...
> ...that the new station in Kaliningrad would allow control of the entire
> European and Atlantic regions...
> The Voronezh-DM early-warning radar that Russia is building in the
> Kaliningrad region is being built at the old Dunayevka air base near
> Pionersky. The construction site can be seen at Yandex Maps (my thanks to
> Bernd Reuter for locating finding...
> Seems the cold war airfield of Marienkhof (54 51 54 N 20 11 06 E) is a
> place worthwhile to keep an eye on it :-)
> The Wikipedia article does note that the decimeter band Voronezh is
> located in Svetlogorsk (just north of the city of Kaliningrad), while a
> meter band Voronezh is being constructed in Usolye-Sibirskoye (north-west
> of Irkutsk and close to the current radar node at Mishelevka). Although,
> I've seen no other official confirmation of this either from MoD or the
> contractors (RTI Systems, etc.).
Google shows "over horizont radar kaliningrad"
at Pionersky (Neukuhren).
http://rt.com/politics/opens-kaliningrad-radar-station-459/
http://russianforces.org/blog/2011/01/early-warning_radar_in_kalinin.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pionersky,_Kaliningrad_Oblast
New building visible at
RUS Kaliningrad Woodpecker Radar, new building, 23_Nov_2011
54 51 26.46 N 20 10 55.47 E
on the Russian map southerly of the former airbase
http://maps.yandex.ru/?ll=20.182000%2C54.857000&spn=0.230026%2C0.074769&z=16&l=sat%2Cskl%2Cstv
Bing Maps and Terraserver have very old images of 2002 - 2009 span.
73 Wolfgang
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Hauser" Sent: Wednesday,
>November 30, 2011 8:03 PM
>Subject: [dxld] Russian Woodpecker radar revealed
>
>I just got sent this by Ian Roberts, a Dx'er and ham operator in South
>Africa (Hugh Hoover, Portugal, Nov 29, WTFDA via DXLD)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ian Roberts
>Cc: skywave...@yahoogroups.co.uk
>Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 12:53 PM
>
>The satellite TV programme Russia Today is currently chronically leading
>details of the new radar system which started operation today.
>It`s situated in Kaliningrad, which is a spur between Lithuania and
>Poland, and the westernmost part of Russia.
>
>Pictures show an immense building housing a phased dipole array
>comprising 9 vertically stacked rows of three and since the target
>activity is detection of missiles launched from the north Atlantic (and
>obviously also Europe), it is west-facing.
>
>These over the horizon radars operate near the MUF to maximise range and
>reduce return clutter. With solar max conditions approaching, it may well
>inhabit the E/W MUF around 33-35 MHz and maybe even higher to just short
>of the band 1 TV frequencies. I can't see Sporadic E being of much use
>and the operators will surely tailor the frequency to get maximum range
>with least clutter, very consistent with tropospheric forward scatter.
>
>This is what was noted last week (the "woodpecker radar) when it was
>presumably commissioning. The radiation could conceivably circumnavigate
>the globe at solar max with reception arriving from the "wrong
>direction".
>
>As far as DXers are concerned, it will be a useful indication of the E/W
>MUF and the whole European region will be illuminated by tremendous power
>from this device. I noted a pulse repetition frequency of about 7 Hz last
>week when reported.
>
>Enjoy it! Ian.
>
>Ian seems to have been receiving it in South Africa; this was at 1629 UT:
>
>Hi Hugh, big sigs from it on 34.170, 34.428, 34.220, 34.255, 34.367 all
>right now and simultaneously. MUF low today - well below band 1 TV.
>Cheers, Ian (via Hugh Hoover, ibid.)
>
>This was commissioned following America`s decision not to adhere to the
>treaty on conventional armed forces in Europe. It is to be supplemented
>by a programme of ballistic missiles commissioned by the
>Strategic Missile Forces and the Navy will be equipped with advanced
>missile defence penetration systems. So, let`s start another cold war,
>great idea, eh?
>
>This is a video I took last week of the woodpecker on 34 MHz.
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgVJIwB7tbc
>(Paul, http://www.ukdx.org.uk http://www.youtube.com/Aceblaggard ibid.)
>
>And when the MUF falls, it will get into HF, shortwave frequencies below
>30 MHz (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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