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Today's Topics:
1. Samoa Samoa - Radio Heritage Media Release
([email protected])
2. KYOI SuperRock Saipan - Radio Heritage Media Release
([email protected])
3. Glenn Hauser logs July 12, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Florida Logs (Robert Wilkner)
5. Logs (Robert Wilkner)
6. Logs ( Manuel M?ndez )
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:15:13 +1200
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Subject: [HCDX] Samoa Samoa - Radio Heritage Media Release
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Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net
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Samoa Samoa
Samoan Radio Journey & ZMAP
Apia, Samoa tell more stories
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The Radio Heritage Foundation continues to expand its coverage of
Samoan radio media history with the release of two new features at
its global website www.radioheritage.net.
'While in Apia, I decided to start a radio station' confided former
RNZAF [Royal NZ Air Force] technician Alan Roycroft when reminiscing
about his early days in Pacific radio.
You'll read about nightly dance band broadcasts from the back porch
of the famous Aggie Greys hotel, Alan's network of 'news spies'
around Apia and learn the reason why, in some 120 studio
installations from then on, he always positioned the console so that
the announcer sat facing the door.
What started as a converted aeronautical beacon broadcasting 'AP AP
AP' as the identification for Apia, became 'pirate radio' ZMAP and
later gave birth to the familiar 2AP known fondly by generations of
Samoans.
A mid-1990's 'Samoan Radio Journey' is another new feature at
www.radioheritage.net.
'We turned a corner on the Cross Island Road, and there sat a stumpy
little radio tower, almost hidden in the misty rain'. A personal
exploration of the broadcasting scene in Samoa at the time describes
how the local audiences embraced popular culture from around the
Pacific via their radio sets and TV screens.
Both stories include unique images of radio facilities and historic
radio memorabilia from around Samoa, and build on a growing number of
features about Samoa and American Samoa already on-line at
www.radioheritage.net.
As well as ZMAP Apia, Samoa and Samoan Radio Journey, you'll enjoy
Samoan Radio Sale [backgrounding the sale of 2AP Radio], Radio in
Samoa [including 5ZA Apia from the 1930's], This is WVUV [memories
from a WVUV Pago Pago DJ] and WVUV Radio Romance [personal memories
of the US sailor who fell in love and built the original WVUV Radio
during WWII].
This comprehensive coverage of early and contemporary radio in the
two Samoas forms part of the ongoing Pacific radio heritage project
undertaken by the Radio Heritage Foundation at www.radioheritage.net.
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Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization
connecting popular culture and radio heritage across the Pacific. Our
global website is www.radioheritage.net for fresh news, features,
images, competitions and much more about Pacific radio. Share us with
over 50 popular social networking sites and email stories or Twitter
us to your friends. Donations to support our radio heritage projects
can be made using your creditcard via Paypal at
www.radioheritage.net. Join our newsletter mailing community today.
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:16:21 +1200
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Subject: [HCDX] KYOI SuperRock Saipan - Radio Heritage Media Release
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Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net
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KYOI SuperRock Saipan
The Station That Rocked Japan's Airwaves
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In December 1982, millions of Japanese teenagers suddenly had a new
pop music radio station targeted directly at them, playing the latest
hits from LA, and sounding like nothing before on their airwaves.
The Radio Heritage Foundation has released two new features at its
global website www.radioheritage.net that cover the story of this
remarkable station that rocked the radio dial across Japan.
This was KYOI broadcasting from Saipan in the Commonwealth of the
Northern Marianas, and what made this station so different, was that
it used shortwave signals to reach their transistor radios.
Brainchild of Lawrence S Berger, Hawaiian based radio entrepreneur,
KYOI was designed to fill a niche radio market created by the sudden
popularity of radio listening amongst Japanese teenagers.
Our two new features 'The KYOI Story' and 'SuperRock KYOI Saipan'
take you inside the powerful shortwave station that was programmed
from Los Angeles, consulted from Tokyo, managed from Honolulu and
broadcast from Saipan.
Read what Berger himself had to say about his US$4m gamble, how
programs such as 'New Rock Special' recorded by KROQ-FM Los Angeles
were beamed to this new Japanese market, and how 'new music from LA'
became part of the Japanese youth culture of the times.
You'll also hear audio extracts from KYOI, the shortwave station that
busted the myth that all shortwave stations were boring, with their
endless propaganda and political harangues covering the increasingly
deserted shortwave dial.
Here, suddenly, was the latest pop and rock music from across the
Pacific in California, blasting through the static. Initially popular
in Japan and supported by big name advertisers like Sony, KYOI gained
fans and listeners around the world to whom this contemporary music
was a complete breath of fresh air across the shortwave dial.
'The KYOI Story' and 'SuperRock KYOI Saipan' our two new features at
www.radioheritage.net as part of our continuing radio heritage
project to share the stories of Pacific radio.
What happened to KYOI? What's the connection with the Christian
Science Monitor. All this and more are revealed in these well
illustrated features that you can now enjoy with us.
Have you got KYOI memories or memorabilia of your own? You'll find
our contact details at www.radioheritage.net and we'd like to hear
from you.
____________________________________________________
Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization
connecting popular culture and radio heritage across the Pacific. Our
global website is www.radioheritage.net for fresh news, features,
images, audio and much more about Pacific radio. Share us with over
50 popular social networking sites and email stories or Twitter us to
your friends. Donations to support our radio heritage projects can be
made using your creditcard via Paypal at www.radioheritage.net. Join
our newsletter mailing community today.
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:20:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 12, 2009
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** CHINA. Firedrake July 12: at 1255 VG on 13970, nothing on 14420/14430 or any
higher frequency up to 19 MHz. At 1259 fair on 8400, nothing on 9000, but at
1309 nothing on 8400 either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. RHC 11760 back in English, fortunately, UT Sunday July 12 at
0535 allowing DXers Unlimited to be heard; but as often happens, co-channel QRM
from NHK`s Russian service; also // 6010, 6060, while 6000, 6120 and 6140 in
Spanish, and a het on 6120. What could that be? Only other station listed at
that hour is TWR Swaziland in English; are they ever so off-frequency?
RHC 11800 with its habitual distortion was audible before 1300, but not
afterwards at 1317 check; at 1320, 13760 was missing leaving VOK English in the
clear, while 13680 and 13780 were inbooming, 15120 and 15360 audible but not
inbooming.
I haven`t checked for the RHC Esperanto service in several weeks, scheduled
Sundays only at 1500-1530 on 11760, but others have found it missing. And it`s
still missing July 12 at 1503, when extended Spanish broadcast was best on
11760 along with 13760, 6000 and a weak signal on 5965, probably same. Nothing
on 13750 so Al?, Presidente remains suspended too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. VOK, 11735 transmitter very dirty July 12 with anthem until
1250*, and jamming-like grind extending 11725 to 11745, first noticed on 11725
bothering YFR via Pet/Kam, RUSSIA in Chinese, as I had closed down the night
before tuned to RNZI. In fact, the grind could be some kind of mix with a real
jamming transmitter at same site. Next check at 1315, VOK Chinese back on 11735
along with the hash, incidentally also bothering VOA Korean on 11740 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 11980 fair at 0537 July 12 with nice ME music, vocal with string
accompaniment. This must be VOT`s Turkish service aimed usward at 310 degrees
altho not often audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Not much makes it on 41m vs noisy bands in summer mornings here,
but July 12 at 1311 could hear weak singing in unknown language on 7225; by
chance there was no QRhaM at the moment! If I were list-logging by PWBR `2009`
I would have to conclude it was PBS Sichuan, Chengdu, China, 50 kW. However,
checking current schedules, such as Aoki, which does show PSB Sichuan 2,
Xichang 520 site with 10 kW in Chinese at 1300-1330, I would conclude it was
instead VOA Korean via Tinian at 12-14, 250 kW, 329 degrees. And I could have
//ed it to 11740 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11776, still hearing unstable het against Anguilla 11775, July 12
at 1316. Suspect it has something to do with ChiCom jamming of AIR Tibetan
service via GOA at 1215-1330 on 11775. Or it could be a remnant of DentroCuban
jamming against Mart? which uses 11775 only at a totally different daypart,
0000-0300, per Aoki listings. 25m was hot for E Asian reception today, unlike
31 and 22 m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:38:50 -0400
From: Robert Wilkner <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] Florida Logs
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:52:36 -0400
From: Robert Wilkner <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] Logs
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3329.53 Peru, Ondas del Huallaga, Hu?nuco 1010 to 1030, deep fades
and CHU splatter 10 July [Wilkner]
4780 Djibouti, Rdif. 0320 noted with good signal, 10 July [Wilkner]
4805 Brasil Radio Difusora do Amazonas, Manaus 1000 ID and into long
Portuguese talk 1020, 10 July [Wilkner]
4826.44 Peru Radio Sicuani, Sicuani 1020 to 1115, signal improved with
time, yl but no ID, music [Wilkner]
4976 Uganda, Radio Uganda, Kampala 0320 melodic percussion music to
0330 during band scan.10 July [Wilkner]
5039.21 Peru, Radio Libertad, Junin *1023 No ID at sign on, mx and
some transmitter drift first few minutes 10 July [Wilkner]
4949.94 UNID signs on at 1100 daily, weak some audio but indistinct.
Possibly, Peru Radio Madre de Dios, Pt Maldonado if still operating
[Wilkner]
5060 UNID strong carrier 0340, 10 July [Wilkner]
5765, AFRTS, Barrigada, Guam 0835 story on President Obama. 11 July
[Wilkner]
73s
Bob
Pompano Beach, Florida, US
NRD 535D ~ Drake R7
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:25:32 +0200
From: " Manuel M?ndez " <[email protected]>
To: "Glenn Hauser" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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