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Today's Topics:
1. Radio Netherlands ties up with Web18 (Jaisakthivel)
2. D-TV un Thessaloniki (more ) (Zacharias Liangas )
3. Glenn Hauser logs January 18, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Radio Heritage Newsletter #24 ([email protected])
5. Magna updated ([email protected])
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:18:38 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <[email protected]>
To: dxld <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Netherlands ties up with Web18
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Radio Netherlands ties up with Web18
Dutch International public broadcaster Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) has
entered into a partnership deal with Web18, the internet and mobile arm of
Network 18.
Under the deal, RNW's international news will be published on Web 18's portal
In.com. Additionally, RNW players, with live radio and music programmes such as
Euro Hit 40, European Jazz Stage and Live at the Concertgebouw, will be
available online.
Says RNW director general Jan Hoek, "We want to strengthen our position as one
of the five most influential international broadcasters in the world. One of
the means to sustain that position is through investing in new digital
technologies. This partnership in India is a big step for RNW, as it gives us
access to the country's enormous and important online market."
Web18 CEO Lakshmi Narsimhan avers, "We at Web18 are extremely enthused with the
collaborative initiative being launched with RNW. We hope this partnership will
further the cross-cultural understanding among the music enthusiasts from both
countries while strengthening media ties on a more global level."
SOURCE: http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k10/jan/jan105.php
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Jaisakthivel, Tirunelveli, India
The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage.
http://in.yahoo.com/
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:42:24 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] D-TV un Thessaloniki (more )
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D Day for Thessaloniki(added with more info)
More you will find on this page
http://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/digea
Yesterday 15-12010 is the D-day (digital day switchover )though in pilot
stage for nationwide TV channels relaying in Thessaloniki. Most of the
western part of the city including parts of the north areas including us in
Filiro and Retziki are now able to watch the 7 TV channels via 2 transmitters
using MPEG 4 compression technology and COFDM mode.
The 7 TV channels are Ant1 Mega SKAI STAR MACEDONIA Alter and
Alpha which last year started a consortium called Digea TV to promote the
digital switchover in Greece for the commercial TV channels (separate
from the national TV network). Thessaloniki is the second point with Athens
to follow in several months but in the first semester of 2010. First press
release was on 16-12-09 and all members of the consortium started
banners from the 1rst of this year to inform for the digital switchover that
just made from the point of Filipion central part s of the city but on the
mountain) but leaving the older main point of Hortiatis (E of the city) still
using analogue mode
More for this including two coverage maps in this page
http://www.digea.gr/news/details/3/8.html
As for now 15-1-2010 and 0700 LT the switchover has been completed
using two 'transponders' on 25 and 29 for the digital format, previously
used by Macedonia TV , another (?? No info ) as spare while all other
freqs use a notification
The full digital coverage is expected to be carried out by 2012 or 2015
As per Digea site , this is the second digital network system . The first
transmission system has installed in Xylokastro (near Corinth on
Peloponisos )3 months ago and the next system will be installed in Athens
Larisa and Patra
It should be noted however that the Greek national TV network ERT is
already transmitting in Mpeg 2 digital format in Thessaloniki since mid 2007
using the transmission facilities from Hortiatis in the TV channel 56 using a
special digital package with 3+1 channels (Prisma+ ,Cine+, Sport+ ,and
RIK the Greek cypriot national TV channel)
.....
Tested my father in law's TV monitor with built in decoder yesterday 15.1
morning 0700 LT . channel 25 was with 3+1 TV channels in the clear
(Anntenna , Alpha Alter and spare ), while ch 29 due to some in band-QRM
showed halted or low-framed video (channels available MAk TV , Mega Sky
Star) , though today signal was 100% . This is possibly caused due to a 2
antenna mixed system used so far to pick signals from the two main
transmission systems.
The TV set with built in MP4 decoder offers better picture than an external
decoder connected with SCART
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
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http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://sites.google.com/site/zliangas (replacement of geocities)
http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics)
http://www.youtube.com/zach0gr some videos
http://www.myspace.com/310100806
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06600224598981072865 (social
news )
http://zlgr.stumbleupon.com (my social 'bookmarks' )
http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1
........
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:20:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 18, 2010
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** AUSTRALIA. RA in discussion of giving birth at home, 9580, rudely
interrupted amid at 1358* Jan 18 as that frequency had to close with no
retune/courtesy announcement at all, continued on // 9590 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC, 0609 UT Jan 18: Spanish, ending Figuras en la Historia on 6120,
6150; music during English service on 6140, // 6060, 6010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. Seems the AIR Aligarh transmitter on 9470 is upacting again after a
couple months of calm: Jan 18 at 1359 music // stronger National Channel via
Bengaluru 9425, but 9470 accompanied by buzz, more on the lower than the upper
side tho maybe suppressed by RA signal on 9475.
9425 at 1435 ending newscast, introducing English feature program on this
Monday with music, ``Old Black Magic``, segu? to Celine Dion`s ``My Heart Must
Go On``, the connexion between them not being clear; 1442 talk with biography
of someone born on 1.23.1897 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526, no signal at 1357 Jan 18, so VOI presumably off if it were
ever on this date, despite having resumed Malay hour at 1400 and on until 1502*
the day before per Ron Howard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES [non]. 11715, RVA via VATICAN, Jan 18 from *1500 in the clear,
still no sign of KJES, YL devotional talk in presumed Tagalog, and I thought I
heard her referring repeatedly to ``allah``, tho you`d think they`d use the
Spanish term ``dios`` instead. Perhaps Philippines is more tolerant of such
cross-religionism than Malaysia. The monotheist Abrahamists have more in common
than they like to admit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. After catching REE Sephardic service foulups on Dec 21 and 28 when
the modulation feed was far out of co?rdination with the transmission time of
1425-1455 Mondays on 15385, I missed checking on Jan 4 and 11, so made sure to
tune in Jan 18 from 1420. By now they are no longer SNAFUd, with IS starting at
1423, sign-on at 1425 but STILL giving wrong frequency 15325!
1448 with ``Espa?a Hoy`` segment about opening of Wagner`s ``El holand?s
volante`` in Madrid, ignoring the composer`s anti-Semitism. 1453:30 standard
sign-off again giving frequencies for this and the two other judeo-espa?ol
transmissions UT Tuesdays; yes ``15325`` by an announcer who never monitors her
own broadcasts and no one in-house bothers to inclue her. Contact info to the
six-digit P O box, or to sefarad @ rtve.es then fanfare and off at 1455* sharp
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. Had not reconfirmed REE`s M-F 1340-1355 ``co-official
languages`` segment for some weeks, so barely got to it in time on Monday Jan
18, on 15170 via Costa Rica under Romania, at 1354 upwrapping the Basque
segment with genuine Basque-language closing announcement after giving weather
in Castilian like the rest of that 5-minute token service which is not really
in Basque at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 5875, BBCWS in English via Thailand, poor but no QRM at 1355 Jan
18 with report from Haiti. Next check at 1445, English again mixing with
another language, but atop it, presumably BBCWS Arabic as before, with phoner.
EiBi update Jan 17 and Aoki Jan 18 still have no listing for the Arabic (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9440, Jan 18 at 1405 talk in unID language, probably S Asian,
and now accompanied by buzz similar to AIR on 9470. This buzz is the same
thruout the bandwidth of the signal, however, and not loud enough to blot out
the intentional modulation. Around 1415 had giveaway YFR jingles.
We first heard this new transmission Dec 18 when it was YFR in English, and per
Aoki was: ``9440 FAMILY RADIO 1400-1500 1234567 English 250 195
Novosibirsk-Oyash RUS 08341E 5529N WYFR b09 Dec. 24-`` And our last log of it
on Jan 8 was still in Campinglish.
As often with YFR, they start a new transmission with English fill until they
are ready to attack a new minority group and then switch to that language; but
which? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:28:09 +1300
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Heritage Newsletter #24
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:50:10 -0000
From: <[email protected]>
To: "Cumbre" <[email protected]>, "arnaldo slaen"
<[email protected]>, "DSWCI" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Gayle Van Horn" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "Marie
Lamb" <[email protected]>, "Robert Wilkner" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "ALF" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Magna updated
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Hi everyone,
I just uploaded the Magna.zip file for the EIBI and AOKI database.
You can download a free copy at
http://www.orchidcitysoftware.com/IMAGE59.HTML
Drop me a note if you have problems.
Chuck Bolland
[email protected]
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