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Today's Topics:
1. EMR relay this Sunday (Tom Taylor)
2. SW Tips made in Milan (Giampiero58)
3. LA ROSA DE TOKYO PARA HOY: Programa dedicado a la
radiodifusi?n en Filipinas (Arnaldo)
4. Sat DX (Charles B)
5. Independent Zimbabwean radio station SWRA: 'We want to
broadcast a little hope' (Arnaldo)
6. Glenn Hauser logs September 19, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
7. Tips from Italy (Giampiero58)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:57:49 +0100
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] EMR relay this Sunday
Message-ID: <5843f28d3eef4bcd9ff44bcb2782b...@dellcb21k2j>
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EMR relay this Sunday
Date 20th of September 2009
Time 09.00 to 10.00 utc
Channel 6140 khz
Programmes:
09.00 Tom Taylor programme
09.30 Mike Taylor (Mail Box programme)
EMR Internet radio service on Sunday and Monday
Programme repeats are at the following times:
0900 - 1200 - 1500 - 1800 and 2000 utc
Please visit www.emr.org.uk and click on the "EMR internet radio" button
which you will find throughout the website (see the menu on the left).
M.V.Baltic. Information:
MV Baltic Radio relay service Schedule for summer 2009
1st Sunday - MV Baltic Radio
3rd Sunday - European Music Radio
4th Sunday - Radio Gloria International
Please send all reception reports to: [email protected] Good Listening
73s Tom
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:12:34 +0200
From: "Giampiero58" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Cc: HCDX <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] SW Tips made in Milan
Message-ID: <02ebb7dc25064e5cac48f49230e2f...@bernardini>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Some urban tips made in Milan city
Ciao
Giampiero
4319 18/9 1930 AFRTS Diego Garcia, reports, weak, USB
6297,2 18/9 2001 RASD National Radio, Clandestine, AA, news, good
7120 18/9 1837 Radio Dif. Nat. Tchadienne, Chad, reports in FF, good
7540 18/9 1957-2000* Denge Mezopotamia, Clandestine, end of BC, off at 2000,
good
9705 18/9 1948 La Voix du Sahel, Niger, talks, fair
11735 18/9 1943 Radio Tanzania Zanzibar, Holy Kuran, fair
12050 18/9 1939 Radio Biafra, Clandestine, EE & VN, talks,
15120 18/9 1935 Voice of Nigeria, EE, talks, fair
15476 18/9 1915 Radio Nacional A. San Gabriel, Antarctica, talks and songs,
weak, fading
RX used: Drake R8; Icom R71E; TenTec RX321
ANT: T2FD
QTH:Milano, Italia
Giampiero Bernardini
Milano
Italia
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:31:58 +0200
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], NoticiasDX
<[email protected]>, Domesticas Y Tropicales
<[email protected]>, [email protected],
playdx2003 <[email protected]>, DXLD
<[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] LA ROSA DE TOKYO PARA HOY: Programa dedicado a la
radiodifusi?n en Filipinas
Message-ID: <001d01ca38ea$82063cb0$d6abc...@windowsv03oj4t>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
La Rosa de Tokyo, el programa semanal de DX y medios de comunicaci?n
irradiado a trav?s de LS11 Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires (AM1270 Khz;
www.amprovincia.com.ar y una importante red de emisoras de frecuencia
modulada, amplitud modulada y onda corta de la Argentina y el resto del
mundo) estar? dedicado este fin de semana a tratar la radiodifusi?n en
Filipinas.
En efecto, se analizar? el pasado, presente y futuro de la radio en el
archipi?lago asi?tico y se revisar? especialmente
la actividad radial en onda corta en este pa?s. En efecto, adem?s de realizar
un paneo por la radio filipina local se
charlar? sobre las emisoras internacionales que operan desde ese pa?s (FEBC,
Radio Veritas Asia y Radio Pilipinas)
No se pierdan los registros sonoros hist?ricos con los cuales se "ilustrar?"
el programa.
La Rosa de Tokyo se irradia los s?bados desde las 0900 hasta las 1000 hora
de la Argentina
(1200 a 1300 horas UTC).- De esta forma, la emisi?n no estar? afectada por
las transmisiones deportivas de la emisora en las cuales se siguen las
campa?as de los equipos platenses de primera divisi?n.
Cordiales 73
Omar Somma y Arnaldo Slaen
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:00:57 -0400
From: "Charles B" <[email protected]>
To: "Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>, "Bob Wilkner"
<[email protected]>, "Charles B" <[email protected]>, "dxld
dxld"
<[email protected]>, "Glenn Hauser" <[email protected]>,
"hard-core-dx hard-core-dx" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "shortwaveworld shortwaveworld"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Sat DX
Message-ID: <002001ca3939$fee91e10$fcc8a...@pc1>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Bolivia, 6155.27, Radio Fides, 1030-1100, Best I've heard
this all week. Noted a female in what sounded like Quechua
language comments until 1033 when promos presented
in Spanish mostly. At 1037 the female returns with Spanish
language comments. Later she is joined by a male in
comments. Signal was fair during the period. The signal
started to fade into the noise by 1050 however. This
was the only SAm I could hear on this band during
the time above except for Ecuador. Signal was just about
gone by the top of the hour.* (Chuck Bolland, September
19, 2009)
*Earlier I could hear the words the singer
was singing, but by the top of the hour the
singer was just humming again.
Watkins Johnson HF1000
26.37N 081.05W
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:28:12 +0200
From: "Arnaldo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: playdx2003 <[email protected]>, DXLD
<[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Independent Zimbabwean radio station SWRA: 'We want to
broadcast a little hope'
Message-ID: <047301ca390b$826c9ca0$d6abc...@windowsv03oj4t>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
We just need old media. We just need radio. We just need people to be allowed
to listen to radio," explains Gerry Jackson, the founder of Zimbabwean radio
station SW Radio Africa (SWRA).
The western media's ongoing debate about the future of journalism and online
media is amusing in comparison, says Jackson, who set up the station in the UK
after being forced into hiding in Zimbabwe.
After being granted the right to open Zimbabwe's first independent radio
station in 2000, Jackson was forced to shut it down after just six days of test
broadcasts. Undeterred, she moved to the UK to launch the station in December
2001 and now broadcasts a daily evening schedule, which are also available as
podcasts.
Repeated attempts by the Zimbabwean government to jam the station's signal have
recently stopped, she tells Journalism.co.uk, which is just as well as the
station doesn't have the funding available to get around it.
"We're still being heard. We're clearly getting up their noses quite a lot at
the moment. Even they realise that it would look really bad in terms of the
unity government, but there is still a simplistic view that the opposition can
shut us down," says Jackson.
Within Zimbabwe independent media is a foreign, if not unheard, idea. There are
laws in place that won't allow it, says Jackson, explaining that recent
television phone-in programme was banned after achieving a media first for the
country when it featured Movement for Democratic Change [MDC, the former
opposition party] and Zanu PF politicians in the same broadcast.
"They don't want people talking freely, they don't want openness. They get very
cross with us. "They [Zanu PF] have always referred to us as a pirate radio
station. My next line item in the budget is parrots, wooden legs and eye
patches," she jokes.
"There's no understanding of the free media - and that's been one of our
hardest tasks - there never has been a Zimbabwean independent radio station.
People don't really understand the concept and although we've been broadcasting
for nearly eight years it's still only now beginning to sink in."
Regime change
On September 15 last year Zimbabwe introduced a unity government, a powershare
between long-standing ruling party Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF and the Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC).
But a year on from the agreement, the new government has failed to improve
media regulation and press freedom in the country and instead creates a more
complicated situation for journalists, says Jackson.
"It's a confusing story and there's no consensus of opinion [on the unity
government] so it's a complex story for the journalists to look at and report
on," she says.
"Opinion is very polarised: you've got those that look at it and think it's a
unity government so we must all be behind it whatever; and those that say it's
a joke. There's no clarity on any of the stories anymore."
Donor organisations that previously helped fund media and development projects
in the country face similar confusion and are asking if more change is to come
or if funds should be withdrawn from previous projects because of the new
ruling arrangement, she adds.
Journalists reporting on the unity government from Zimbabwe are faced with a
tough challenge of defining what they are reporting on, says Jackson.
"The problem now is you have got an opposition in bed with a violent ruling
party and often they need to be more careful about what they say," she explains.
"But what are they [the opposition]? They're slagged off in the leading
newspaper, they've got no real power and haven't been able to do anything
effective."
There is a responsibility for Zimbabwean media such as SWRA to encourage debate
of the country's issues and guide citizens, she says: "A Zimbabwean radio
station is not like the BBC that has to be very balanced. You have to be all
things to all people and you have to guide people wisely as well, because there
isn't much option or choice for people.
"It's no good just putting stuff out there - it has to be a little more
opinionated than normal. But it's a fine line of how opinionated to go, and
what is right and what is wrong."
Negative news
Not all of SWRA's audience agrees with the station's independent coverage of
the country, says Jackson, recalling some recent hatemail from UK-based
listeners.
Since the introduction of a unity government, news reports that are seen as
negative are rejected by many Zimbabweans - particularly those that have left
the country, says Jackson.
"Some people when they leave they switch off, they get locked into their lives
here and they really don't want to know. The stories from Zimbabwe are often
negative and I can't tell you how many people say, 'don't tell me, I don't want
to know,'" she says.
"People have to wake up and they have to look at it; they have to face it and
they have to deal with it. It's no good saying, 'let's not talk about that
because it's a bit depressing' - yes it is, but you've got to know about it
before it can change."
As a result of the state of media in the country, many Zimbabweans have never
been exposed to constructive criticism and constructive opposition and debate
about the country, she adds.
With more citizens now in experiencing life in democratic countries for the
first time, this discussion is slowly starting to emerge outside of Zimbabwe -
in particular through online forums.
The future of Zimbabwean media
Yet while new media is very popular in the diaspora - and SWRA is hoping to
improve its online and social media presence with some help from the Guardian's
technology team - Zimbabweans have limited need and access for online news and
communication methods.
"Shortwave and text messages are only real way to get into Zimbabwe. We could
really only use social networking sites to raise awareness in the diaspora.
Because our focus is on serving people in the country," explains Jackson.
SMS messaging has had a significant impact on the station's reach - since its
launch in 2005, SWRA now sends out mobile news alerts three times a week to
more than 30,000 numbers.
The station knows its own and its listeners' limitations: sending out half a
million messages a month is costly, so SWRA is reliant on individuals passing
the texts along; but mobile remains a good route into the country, as broadband
is limited and many Zimbabweans who leave the country give a phone to the
family they leave behind.
While mobile can help reach and online media help raise awareness, content and
information through old media channels is what SWRA and Zimbabwe's people
really need, says Jackson.
"It would just be good to see a half decent public broadcaster in place, a
community radio station and maybe a couple of commercial radio stations. I
don't know if those could be supported," she says.
"Community radio is really what Zimbabwe needs. You have trashed rural areas
each with their own specific problems. A good community station would be of
huge benefit."
Although Jackson foresees that media regulations might change and allow a more
independent news industry at some point, she fears that these would not be
stable enough to sustain long-term press freedom.
The country would also need more journalists trained in broadcasting if
restrictions were lifted, she adds.
For now, however, SWRA's team of eight can't consider returning home: "There
has recently been a meeting of expelled editors in Harare - one editor was
approaching the minister of information to get assurances that we wouldn't all
be arrested [on return to Zimbabwe], and so far he's failing."
Jackson is not waiting for change to regulations in Zimbabwe; the confusion
brought by the recent regime change perhaps further strengthens this resolve.
She is instead frank and realistic about what SWRA needs: funding and raised
awareness.
"There is going to be no quick media fix in Zimbabwe. But what you want to do
is broadcast a little hope."(from
http://www.journalism.co.uk/5/articles/535830.php)
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:34:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 19, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** CANADA. Yet another Sackville leapfrog to add to the stable: 6045, Sept 19
at 0522 in Vietnamese, the 6175 VOV relay transmitter saulting over the 6110
transmitter carrying NHK at 0500-0530 only, another 65 kHz downward. The
fundamentals were very strong, audiblizing the parasite.
There should be another one on 6240 in the other direxion, this one with NHK
English audio, but did not notice it. After 0600, of course, 6045 becomes an
intentional frequency with KBSWR relay, but then with none others to overleap
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6070, no signal from CFRX at 0519 Sept 19; usually VG even in the
nightmiddle, and so was Sackville, so suspect off the air. Back, however, at
next check 1239, phone conversation about home improvement, aluminum vs vinyl?
With fast SAH, presumably North Korean carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake Sept 19: at 1242, very poor on 8400, merely poor
on 9000; none heard on 10-11-13-14 MHz channels, but at 1308 came upon FD too
on 15425, aside unID weaker carrier hetting from 15427, surely today`s
frequency for V. of Tibet via Tashkent, per Aoki at 1300-1330 also 15427 but
varying 15422-15429, not to be confused with VOT via Dushanbe on 15412-15422.
15795, Sept 19 at 1303 mixture of Indian music and Chinese talk, i.e. AIR
Mandarin service via Bengaluru, and CNR1 jamming, as the ChiCom control freaks
will not even allow neighboring India to speak to Chinese people, while CRI has
numerous broadcasts in Bengali, English, Hindi, Mandarin and Tamil totally
unimpeded to India. The paranoids in Beijing also have no sense of fair play
whatsoever, and this also applies to all their international relations, trade
and otherwise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC Sept 19 at 0524: 6140, 6120 and 6000 in Spanish; 6060 and 6010 in
English translating remarx of Puerto Rican singer Ol`ga Ca??n who is in Habana
for a Sunday concert at Plaza de la Revoluci?n, on the very same stage
previously occupied by Pope John Paul II!! Alex Silva`s English version left
something to be desired. He said she said that ``Cuba is open to the world``.
Ha ha, please remind the DentroCuban Jamming Command about that!
At 1358 noticed RHC echoing on a single frequency, 13720. This is the leapfrog
of 13760 over the open carrier on 13740 about to start CRI relay in English;
and the echo must have come from extreme overload by the unsynchronized audio
from the other transmitter site on 13680 and/or 13780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. Rarely get readable signals from transpolar India here on 60m, so
very pleased Sept 19 at 1233 to hear English news of India on 4920, AIR
Chennai, averaging S9+10, and over CODAR; 1234 to Hindi, ads? Best
extracontinental signal on band, grayline fits, better than 4750 or 5030. So
not Tibet, which was my guess as 4920 music source a few days ago.
At 1429 on 11585, more Indian music past 1431, then announcement with hum. This
is the Sindhi service via Delhi (Khampur?) site. Certainly not DRM, which Aoki
says was in use until Sept 11.
Checked 9425 at 1431 and found AIR news in English, flutter, 1435 back to music
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA [and non]
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3335 at 1223 Sept 19 with island music, guitar and
singing, just above CHU 3330 pips still JBA, and improving slightly, 1229 pause
and more such music but no announcement. Surely Radio East Sepik, Wewak, the
best non-Tennessee signal on 90m; traces on a few other PNG channels, notably
3385 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:33:02 +0200
From: "Giampiero58" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Cc: HCDX <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Tips from Italy
Message-ID: <d628a03d8db142f7ab39cfd1e425e...@bernardini>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Some saturday tips
Ciao
Giampiero
5446,5 19/9 2355 AFRTS, Key West, Florida, USA, talks, USB, fair
6089,8 19/9 2320 Radio Kaduna (pres.), Nigeria, Vn, Ramadan extended
schedule program mentioning Allah and Islam, fair, QRM dr Scott, better in
LSB. (4770 off)
6135 19/9 2311 Radio Aparecida, Brazil, talks, songs, fair, better in USB
6973 19/9 2307 Galei Zahal, Israel, songs, good
6985 19/9 2303 WYFR Family Radio, USA, FF religious, excellent
7120 19/9 1810 R. National Tchadienne, Chad, talks, songs, fair to good
7811 19/9 2245 AFRTS, Key West, Florida, USA, reports, USB, fair
9625 19/9 2227 Radio Canada Quebec, sport news, at 2230 id "CBC Quebec",
good
9635 19/9 2219 Voice of Hope, Taiwan, songs, CC talks, good
9705 19/9 2215 La Voix du Sahel, Niger, Vn talks, fair
9745 19/9 2210 V. of Kuanghua (pres), Taiwan, CC, songs and talks, good
10000 19/9 0015 WWV Colorado, USA, time, fair
11670 19/9 2203 R. Nacional Venezuela, reports, fair/good
11760 19/9 2145 Radio Habana, Cuba, talks, economics, good
11780 19/9 2137 Radio Nacional Brasilia, songs, fair
11815 19/9 2150 R. Brasil Central & R.Exterior de Espana, mixed, poor
11915 19/9 2155 Radio Gaucha, Brazil, sport live, weak signal, clear mod.
RX: Drake R8; Icom R71E
ANT: T2FD 15 m long
QTH: Milano, Italia
73
Giampiero Bernardini
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