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Today's Topics:
1. HCDX logs between 2008-02-20 0000 UTC and 2008-02-21 0000 UTC
(Risto Kotalampi)
2. Africa tunes in to peace radio (Zacharias Liangas )
3. Glenn Hauser logs February 20 (Glenn Hauser)
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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:47:20 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Africa tunes in to peace radio
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Africa tunes in to peace radio
February 20, 2008 02:45 PM
By Mary Kimani
http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=3545
Mega FM?s broadcasts may not reach far outside northern Uganda. But in
an area that has been brutalized by decades of insurgency by the Lord?s
Resistance Army (LRA), it is having an impact. Oryema, a former
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LRA child soldier who later returned home, explains why. "I did not feel
anything bad about killing," he says. "Not until I started listening to Radio
Mega.... I actually heard over the radio how...we burnt homes.... And I
started to think, `Are we really fighting a normal war?? That is when I started
realizing that maybe there is something better than being here in the bush."
Funded by the UK?s Department for International Development (DfID), Mega
FM is one of several such stations that have been set up in Africa by the
United Nations, donor agencies, churches and non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) to help communities build peace after wars have
ended.
UN peace missions have been setting up such radio programmes in post-
conflict countries since the 1980s. In areas where ethnic and political
factions have incited hate or spread propaganda, UN-run stations have
sought to counteract the messages of such broadcasts, especially after
extremist leaders used radio in the early 1990s to fan ethnic hatred and
incite genocide in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
William Orme, a policy advisor on independent media development for the
UN Development Programme (UNDP), argues that such stations are critical.
"Unless you have a neutral place where accurate information and
grievances can be aired, there can be a renewal of conflict. Such media is
not a luxury, it is a necessity," he says.
Spurring action, accountability
Ms. Frances Fortune, who runs radio projects in eight countries emerging
from conflict, including Angola, Burundi, Sierra Leone and Liberia for a non-
governmental group, Search for Common Ground (SFCG), observes that
"governments are not very good at communicating to their people. Often
there is so much going on during and after conflict that people need to know
and understand. The role that media can play in supporting peace is
immense. You can change the way a government engages."
Such media are important long after war, adds Ms. Fortune. After conflicts,
"many people would argue that just providing information, strictly news is
adequate. That is not so. Media has to be utilized to support peace. Even
prevention of conflict is possible if you provide people with alternative ideas
early enough."
Stations can also promote good governance. In Sierra Leone, local councils
are required by law to post their income and expenditure statements on a
public notice board. But many people are illiterate and do not understand or
question how resources are used. To address that problem, the SFCG
developed a programme called Accountability Now. "We go with a
microphone and ask the council or treasury clerk to read the account and
expenditure statement, explaining what is being done and why. This allows
the community to demand accountability," station head James Ambrose told
Africa Renewal
Risks and objections
But not everyone agrees that the media can or should play such an
expansive political role. Some mainstream media practitioners and conflict
resolution experts, argue that peace building requires specialized skills that
journalists do not have. Mr. Yves Laplume, the former programme director
of Radio Okapi, the highly regarded UN radio station in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, argues that in his experience, "people need
information, but do not want to be told what to think. We gave people real
facts, verified facts, well sourced. We don?t add any comments. We saw in a
different survey that that they liked it... They want you to give them the
information and let them make up their minds. It is basic, but it has a great
impact."
And the risks can be high. In northern Uganda, some LRA commanders,
recognizing the role of radio programmes in persuading their soldiers to give
up arms, attempted to limit access to radios. They also retaliated violently,
massacring people in the home village of an LRA commander who left the
movement and spoke about his decision over the airwaves.
The dilemma of sustainability
But the biggest long-term threat to these projects is that most of them are
funded by NGOs, the UN or aid agencies such as DfID. Once a conflict is
over, it becomes harder to secure the money to continue operations.
Maintaining such stations exclusively with donor support is impractical and
commercial financing can be limited. The Swiss Hirondelle Foundation?s
Star Radio in Liberia tried to achieve sustainability by selling advertising.
But
it managed to raise only a third of its costs because the economy is weak
and few companies could afford to advertise. For those able to operate on
local resources there is often a risk that the best-trained journalists will
leave
for higher paying jobs or that the government or political groups may take
over the equipment or exert editorial pressure.
UNDP suggest that donors and African countries consider turning such
stations into independent, publicly supported broadcasters similar to the
Public Broadcasting Service in the US and the BBC in the UK. Even in
countries not recovering from conflict, they argue, "editorially independent
and professional news gathering/public interest broadcasting services on a
national scale require substantial state or private subsidy."
Argues Mr. Orme, the UNDP adviser, "if we agree that this work is important
for democracy and peace building, then donors have to think of media in a
different way. They have to think of all the goals - human rights, MDGs,
HIV/AIDS - and [see] media as essential in achieving them. It?s critical to
have these stations, and potentially there is enough funding available to
sustain them"
Please read my aricle on SINPO at
http://zliangas.blogspot.com/2008/02/sinpfemo-better-signal-tech-analysis-
by.html
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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:24:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 20
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** AUSTRALIA [and non]. R. Australia, 7240, 50 degrees from Shepparton to
Pacific, is a good reliable signal here after 1400, and usually hams avoid it,
but Feb 20 at 1519 I was hearing a QSO precisely on frequency, so they could
give their BFOs a rest, but I should think it would have been tough to talk
with RA mixing in. Were they QRMing it deliberately? One of the calls was
N5MUF, using the obvious fonetix, who per ARRL lookup is: BRUMFIELD, THOMAS R,
N5MUF (General), Pearl, MS 39208 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. RNT, 4905, still having problems. Fairly good carrier at 0608 Feb 20,
but talk barely modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC, the UT day after Fidel finally resigned, Feb 20 at 0610-0625 or
so, checked 6060 and heard nothing at all about that, not even mentioning
Fidel. Did not rate among top three news headlines, starting with something
about US forces in Iraq. Perhaps instruxions on just how to play this somewhat
momentous story were slow to trickle down, so they just said nothing. Wait till
he really dies --- maybe then RHC will pull out all the stops, tho it may take
a while to find out, following their Soviet models. 0611 topic: sister cities
Quito and Cienfuegos (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. R. Verdad, 4052.4 (or at least a smidgen below 4052.5), Feb 20,
0550 playing Johnny Cash`s Were You There? slow hymn, joined by a soprano
harmonizing, June? 0553 dead air; 0554 Lord`s Prayer in English; 0555 sign-off
until 5 AM (1100 UT), ``good night from your speaker (preacher?), Edgar
Madrid``, then hymn to waltz beat, 0557:30 YL Spanish sign-off, 0558 National
Anthem by band and choir running several verses to 0602:30 and carrier stayed
on a while longer. Rated S9+12 on my E-W longwire to FRG-7, or SINPO 35333.
Modulation was somewhat muffled, fuzzy thruout. One should really monitor TGAV
and report on their real eighth anniversary, Feb 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. ORTM, 4845, which I had heard a couple recent nights, was
missing again Feb 20 at 0607; just the constant utility pulsing on same
frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. XEYU, Radio Unam, 9599.3, quite good with continuous classical
music, `cello et al., Feb 20 from 2235 until at *2311:30 hit by Vatican Radio
on 9600.0 joining program in progress, then IS at 2314, producing a bad het
making both unlistenable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** POLAND [non]. And I do mean non! Checking 9660, scheduled for PRES 2200-2300
back to Europe via GUIANA FRENCH, 250 kW, 40 degrees, analog, all I heard was
an unmodulated carrier at various chex between 2210 and 2235. Something must
really be wrong at Montsin?ry, as a number of other transmissions were moved
away from there, and it seems this one should be, or has been? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Robotic female voice on 4396-SSB, Feb 20 at 0605, weather for Gulf of
Alaska. Audio was choppy with clix; also, she ignorantly transformed 4:00 pm
into ``four hundred PM``, at least twice. Can`t they do better than this? I see
numerous logs on this frequency in UDXF forums of WLO Mobile AL, tho more
likely geographically I would expect its robotic sister station KLB in Kent WA.
Their website http://www.shipcom.com/frequencies.html does not match what I
heard. It shows WLO, not KLB on 4396, and at 0600 is supposed to be for the
Caribbean; offshore Alaska supposed to be at 0800, apparently meaning direct
from WLO, with no specific schedule given for KLB which is ``Enhanced Coverage
of the Pacific and Alaskan waters`` and might have been relaying if I had
checked 4405 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9000, looking for Firedrake/Sound of Hope as reported, Feb 20 did
not hear that, but instead something odd with the BFO on: ``siren`` sound,
oscillating carrier would come on about every five minutes for half a minute or
so, but not precisely every five minutes; in between, no sign of SOH or any
broadcaster. Heard at 1355, 1401, 1406, 1411, 1415, 1420, 1424, 1434; again
1504, 1514, 1519 Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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