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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs January 20-21, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Radio City Relay on 9510 kHz (Tom Taylor)
3. Radio Gloria International is on this Sunday (Tom Taylor)
4. Radio Netherlands partners AIR for co-production (Jaisakthivel)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:14:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 20-21, 2010
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** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 21 at 1408: very poor but audible on 8400, 9000; not
audible on 10-11 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6210, weak RHC Spanish leapfrog mixing product of 6150 over 6180,
which therefore must be from the same transmitter site. Next check at 1257,
6210 was gone since 6180 had already closed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) See also VENEZUELA [non]
** INDIA. 9470, AIR Aligarh transmitter continues to re-degrade, Jan 21 at 1406
now the buzz is louder than the modulation, and somewhat bothering Russian on
9465 from KFBS. Fingers crossed that it will not resume jumping all over the
9.3-9.5 MHz range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI remains stable here just a smidgin below the 1-kHz-off
frequency, Jan 21 at 1357 good signal and modulation with Indonesian song.
Unfortunately the last half of the hour is mostly music, so if you want talk
content you have to get the first half. 1401 ID, more music; 1402 VOI ID and
outro English hour as always giving 100% wrong frequencies, ``9525, 15150,
11785`` and by webcast http://www.voi.co.id Also P-mail street and box
addresses, english @ voi.co.id and ``sound of dignity`` tho they now have
another slogan I missed earlier. 1403 switch to ID in presumed Malay rather
than Indonesian, 1404 hum becomes audible, 1405 warta berita (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** POLAND [non]. 11675, PRES via AUSTRIA, Thu Jan 21 at 1347 in mailbag reply
to someone in Netherlands, says PR still has Esperanto on website, tho had to
drop broadcasts three years ago despite Poland`s being the birthplace of the
artificial language.
This is a time when Multimedia was scheduled, but Slawek Szefs outro referred
to it as ``Multi-touch``, a `new hybrid feature` and invited critical comments
about the change.
It still shows as Multimedia on the grids here:
http://www.thenews.pl/static/Schedule.aspx
and http://www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/ramowka/?id=10
Link to Multimedia on the home page goes nowhere, and search on multitouch, and
multi-touch finds nothing, but multi touch with a space finds the new info,
altho appearing there as a single word! ``MultiTouch``:
http://www.thenews.pl/News/?id=124006
``The New Year has ushered in the necessity of introducing some cuts to our
program offer, the chief reason being further limited funding of Polish Radio,
the public broadcaster of which the External Service is part of [sic].
Presented by Slawek Szefs
``MultiTouch is a temporary (???) compromise solution to the problem. I have
decided on a merger of the two programs tailoring it to both audiences'
expectations. The premier air times for Multimedia and In Touch with repeats
will be preserved not to introduce chaos to our schedule nor to disrupt your
listening habits. Hope my decision proves correct.``
So when was In Touch scheduled? Toward the end of the Friday 18 and Saturday 13
UT broadcasts, and the other time for Multimedia was toward the end of the
Tuesday 18 transmission.
URL above also has an audio link. So I later went back and listened to the
entire hybrid program, as he pronounced his name, which reminded us that the L
in Slawek is supposed to be crossed and pronounced like a W, (and of course the
W pronounced like a V) even tho PRES does not bother to do that on its English
webpages. How do you make a crossed-L, anyway? I can`t find Polish on MS Word
95 insert-symbol and if I did, it would surely come out garble in most places.
I can`t even copy the symbol from a Polish-language page without getting a
question mark.
On audio archive, after co-host from In Touch walked in, discussed Chopin being
a Pole, not a Franc, which I did not hear on SW, having missed the first 22
minutes of the 24.5-minute show. So it must have started at 1324 or 1325.
Back to Thursday at 1349, onward to next feature, very well-written and
presented, Letter from Poland, by Anna --- on being an expat, from Poland, who
grew up in London and now is back in Poland. It seems West London is
overpopulated with Poles, making the schools oversaturated too due to large
families, so there is some resentment among the Brits. Says she is
half-Bulgarian, to complicate matters further.
I wanted to get her full name, but like Multimedia, the link to Letter from
Poland does not work either and have not reached it by searching. The two
separate websites as above are not fully integrated and compatible, but if you
click on a link from the old page you may wind up on the new page; is thenews
destined to replace the other one?? 1355 into closing of this English hour
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6030, good signal Jan 21 at 1258, concluding bit of VOR announcement
in English mentioning ruvr.ru, IS, open carrier with hum and off at 1300,
clearing frequency for Ming Hui and the Chinese radio war. But VOR is not
scheduled here in English per:
http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/schedule
which at 12-13 shows only 11660, 15610, 15470. Nor do any of the online
schedules show VOR in any language at that time on 6030. Something new, or a
mistake?
Then checking WRTH 2010y: 6030 is in the frequency pages as VOR Samara, but I
don`t see it for any language until 1300. And for English at 12-13, WRTH shows
a different set of frequencies, 7340+DRM, 7350, 9695 and 11660, the last being
the only one in common!
Go back and look at the VOR online sked as above: yes, it is dated ``October
25, 2009 ? March 27, 2010`` but the lower frequencies make more sense in the
winter, so I lean toward the WRTH version. Furthermore, HFCC B-09 does NOT show
15610 or 15470 for VOR, but it does show 11660 and 7350. So VOR`s own online
schedule portrays summer frequencies with a winter date --- don`t you believe
the rest of it! Meanwhile, 6030 remains a mystery (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 12035, VOT English at 1330 via ?akirlar site, has become totally
useless: Jan 21 at 1341 tho S9+10 signal with flutter, just barely modulated,
unreadable. So much for Live from Turkey, the Thursday edition. Recheck at
1409, just as bad, so check Emirler // 15300 at 1411 where modulation is OK,
but colliding as usual with RFI in French, slightly stronger than RFI, but too
much QRM and fast SAH to be listenable. Discussing the future of Cyprus.
So VOT strikes out due to incredibly incompetent engineering at the
transmission level and at the frequency planning level, wasting 1000 kW and
causing harmful interference to a fellow SW broadcaster. We can only wait for
A-10 to start at Marchend, when VOT plans to go back to last summer`s
frequencies timeshifted to 1230-1320, 15450 and 15520. But they never learned
their lesson about 9830 to North America, colliding with RTTY at 2200, planning
to use it again too.
Later retrieved LFT on the one-day archive, from the right margin of
http://www.trt-world.com/trtinternational/en/news.aspx?dil=en
finding it did not start until 31 minutes into the transmission. Seems LFT now
has a weekly(monthly?) report from Michael Daventry in London reviewing the
Turkish press there, where there are nine highly competitive newspapers. Seref
Isler admitted that altho he is half-English, has lived in London and visits
often, he was not aware of them. Otherwise the hosts apologized for laughing
all the time, so not much other significant content (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 9410, BBCWS via WHRI, Jan 21 at 1241 apparently Newshour going
from an item on how to dispose of bodies, to one about an ornate
elephant-and-dragon clock at the Science Museum. Unsolid signal with flutter,
and at 1247 check, better on // 11860 via GUIANA FRENCH.
Perhaps they have French if not Creole at 1215-1230 after Spanish?
This setup replaces all-Spanish during the hour, the last half-sesquihour of
which was archival or music fill anyway, certainly expendable but it takes a
7.0 earthquake for BBC to get knocked into broadcasting something more timely
within its last remaining Western Hemisphere SW broadcast. Don`t get used to
it, since likely to revert to the old pattern once the aftershox are over. And
we can resume hearing classical music fill after 1233 on M/W/F.
17780, just as I tuned in at 1414 Jan 21 heard a couple words from BBC in
English before it cut off. Mistake? No, Hausa is scheduled here via Ascension
at the odd time of 1345-1415 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. On Jan 21 I turned on and tuned in early enough to check
the new, temporary(?) VOA Creole relay via Bonaire on 6135: at 1236 good
signal. At 1244 got to 31m in bandscan and before I could reach 9660 to confirm
// from Greenville, found it already on new 9505! Ex-9660. As we outpointed
early on, extending 9660 past the original 1300* would collide with RRI Romania
in German, and evidently IBB eventually reached the same conclusion. 9505 in
the clear is an echo apart from 6135 due to satellite delay. At 1301, RRI
German was unimpeded on 9660, tho ACI from 9655 CRI.
At 1326, 6135 had weakened a lot into the daytime, but still audible vs T-storm
noise between here and there as spring is oncoming (there was even a tornado
watch in OK last night and local lightning made us close down for a few hours);
giving phone numbers and e-mail addresses. 1328 VOA jingle, 1329 a snippet of
``We Are the World``, VOA English outro until 1329:30, open carrier and off at
1330, exactly the same instant as 9505 did so.
We still don`t find any fill-in frequency between 1330 and the next scheduled
Creole broadcast at 1730, but checking
http://author.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_c.cfm
the Creole schedule for 1230-1330 has been changed to 9505. It still refuses to
show the afternoon transmissions we have axually been monitoring the past week,
1930-2100 on 15390, 2100-2200 on 13725! Are they secret, perhaps put on by
Greenville as a public service without informing Washington? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Haven`t heard WTWW testing the last few days on 9480 or 5755, so I
asked George McClintock how things are going. He says a long test period is
scheduled for Saturday Jan 23, times here changed to UT:
1600-1900 9480
1900-2200 9475
2200-2400 9480
0000-0400 5755 [UT Sunday]
``All this assumes that we have no problems. This will be a test to see how the
transmitter and other equipment hold up with extended transmission time.``
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Correxion! Yesterday`s report showed 9940 instead of correct
9440 for this which I now repeat: YFR in unknown Asian language, Jan 20 at 1418
along with big buzz, something you would expect from India rather than listed
Novosibirsk, RUSSIA; Aoki still shows this as English, the initial language on
this new transmission. At 1430 was spelling out Family Radio URL. Meanwhile at
1415, Camping still in English, Open Forum on 9485 with more flutter but no
buzz, and that is due south from Irkutsk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. 11705, RNV via CUBA transmitter is in terrible shape, only
the worst for the Bolivarian allies! Jan 21 at 1249 big S9+22 signal but very
undermodulated, in fact hard to hear beneath continuous scratchy audio breakup
which was also splattering plus and minus 15 kHz. RNV ID heard and then
sports(?) report. If RNV ever monitored their own broadcasts, which they
obviously do not since they don`t know the real times and frequencies, they
might hurry up and get their own Calabozo SW site going --- but then the Cubans
are assisting them with that, so it may turn out just as incompetent (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9394, 2-way Spanish SSB, Jan 21 at 1335, with splatter from
Brother Scare/WWRB 9385. Usual dreary conversation about who knows what (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:47:55 -0000
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio City Relay on 9510 kHz
Message-ID: <01c3f209d5b04c74b9126f55af3d7...@dellcb21k2j>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Radio City Relay on 9510 kHz
Dear Listeners,
This Saturday the 23rd of January 2010 Radio City will return to the
Airwaves via Nexus (ex. IRRS) with 150 kW on 9510 kHz.
The time slot is 09.00 - 10.00 utc
Our contact address is still [email protected]
Best regards Radio City - the Station of the Cars
Good listening 73s Tom
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:34:44 -0000
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Gloria International is on this Sunday
Message-ID: <2c18e8672b9c4a7f959f1d762ead7...@dellcb21k2j>
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Radio Gloria International is on this Sunday
Radio Gloria International is on this Sunday the 24th of January 2010
on 6140 KHz. At 10.00 to 11.00 UTC on our winter schedule.
M.V.Baltic. Information:
MV Baltic Radio relay service Schedule for Wintertime 2010
1st Sunday - MV Baltic Radio
3rd Sunday - European Music Radio (February)
4th Sunday - Radio Gloria International
We wish you good listening and good reception! 73s Tom
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:20:05 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <[email protected]>
To: dx india <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Netherlands partners AIR for co-production
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) has entered into a new partnership with All
India Radio (AIR) for co-production of a show - Earth Beat.
Both organisations will work together in the co production called Earth Beat
India. The programme will be broadcast nationally by AIR in English and Hindi
every two weeks.
RNW had partnered with the Gyaan Vani radio channels promoted by the Indira
Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in December 2009 for the same show.
The Earth Beat team sees monitoring the earth's heartbeat as our task. They
look at our footprint on this world and run stories of the people trying to
make that footprint lighter.
Earth Beat India is looking at what we create, develop, conserve and destroy;
meeting and challenging the people who are making these changes. It is about
questioning the way we live now and exploring the issues that will affect our
common future.
RNW offers international stories with new opinions, green gadgets and green
wash while AIR brings the Indian perspective. This co production seeks to
bridge the approach of developed and developing countries on environmental
issues. The presentation is in hands of Chhavi Sachdev and Poonam Girdhani.
Commenting on the partnership, RNW Director General Jan Hoek says, ?As an
international broadcaster we make daily productions in 10 languages and we work
together worldwide with more than 3000 partner radio stations. With this new
cooperation we embrace our 11th language Hindi and a major party in India.?
RNW works together in India with amongst others Private FM, IGNOU University
Radio, various websites, cable TV service and now with State broadcasters.
Prasar Bharati CEO B S Lalli comments, ?I am happy that All India Radio and
Radio Netherlands Worldwide have joined hands in co-producing and broadcasting
a series of radio programmes called 'Earth Beat' on their networks. The issues
pertaining to environment and sustainability of growth are globally relevant.
I hope these programmes will assist in promoting proper awareness and interest
of our audiences. I am also hopeful that the two organizations will be able to
expand the areas of mutual cooperation and assistance.?
AIR will broadcast the English episodes of Earth Beat India from Delhi, Mumbai,
Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Panaji, Shillong and the National
Channel of AIR, while the Hindi versions of Earth Beat India will be broadcast
from Delhi, Lucknow, Patna, Bhopal, Jaipur, Shimla, Ranchi, Raipur, Rohtak,Port
Blair and Itanagar at the respective radio stations.
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Source:
http://www.radioandmusic.com/content/editorial/news/radio-netherlands-partners-air-co-production
_____________________________
Jaisakthivel, Tirunelveli,
India
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