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1. Radio Heritage Newsletter #26 (Radio Heritage Mail)
2. Glenn Hauser logs June 22, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:39:33 +1200
From: "Radio Heritage Mail" <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Radio Heritage Newsletter #26
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Radio Heritage News
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net
Radio Heritage
Newsletter #26
June 2010
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Hello everyone
Welcome to our latest update on what's happening, our first in a few
months now.......
Since we started this project, we've been encouraged and delighted by
the global response from many thousands who share our vision to
celebrate radio heritage and its connections with popular culture and
nostalgia....and to step in and save ephemera and other radio related
artifacts....see our latest success story later on in this newsletter!
Celebrating Popular Culture
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New right now....'Radio in Papua New Guinea' a documentary you'll
find at www.rnzi.com [Mailbox audio for June 14]........... 'Diamonds
of the Dial' the story of 75 year old heritage radio calls in
Australia................
...Updated editions of the famous PAL Radio Guides for the entire
Asia-Pacific region, new radio book reviews and other content you'll
find now at www.radioheritage.net.
Use the Google Search button to dig out stories about stations,
people and places you're interested about.....
AM Radio gets airplay in the popular press
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Thanks to Bill Hester, one of our supporters, here's a link
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/124955-am-gold-82/PO
to an article written by Canadian Jay Somerset at www.popmatters.com.
It's about 'The Day the [AM] Music Died' - a well researched look at
how oldies music just sounds different on AM radio, and how new
artists and the decline in talk radio may just be combining to bring
back music to the AM radio dial.
Actually, Radio World magazine in the USA [www.radioworld.com] has an
ongoing series of features about AM radio which we highly recommend
reading......and in their latest June 16 edition [available free
online] you'll also read 'QSL From Long Ago And Far Away' [page 4]
and 'Keep the Heritage Alive' [page 33].....two items about the Radio
Heritage Foundation and the value of keeping old radio ephemera.
There's also a nice feature by James O'Neale in the same issue [page
34] called 'I Remember the Power of Night-Time Radio' which remembers
the 50kW clear channel signals that covered the US radio
dial...........a theme we'll be exploring ourselves at
www.radioheritage.net shortly with a nice feature from the
afore-mentioned Bill Hester.
We'd also like to thank all of you who continue to send in photos,
stories, magazine and newspaper articles and more....such as those
from Phillipa Downie whose Dad helped establish commercial radio in
New Zealand and then went on to be the first manager of 2AP in Apia,
Samoa.
......Keep digging these gems out and send them on to us to share!
Constant Calls in a World of Fads, Fashions and FM
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Talking of gems, you'll enjoy one of our recent features 'Diamonds of
the Dial' which looks at the 40 Australian heritage AM stations that
have broadcast with the same callsign for at least 75 years!
....it's also miraculous to find 40 station owners willing to
keep their original station callsigns instead of flipping calls for
the latest fad or fashion!
.....the same exercise for Californian AM radio stations found only
about 5 or 6 that met the same criteria...75 years on the air with
the same callsign......amongst them KFI and KNX both in Los Angeles
and KXO El Centro.......
FM is getting older by the day
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Of course heritage isn't just restricted to AM radio, there's also FM
which has now been around for some 70 years in the USA, and even 60
years in Australia [if we include the long forgotten early ABC-FM
broadcasts from the 1950's].......
One from the Yes! Success Files
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..................Explaining the cultural value of radio heritage has
its challenges................ The University of Otago in Dunedin
[NZ] recently decided to auction off the original pioneer transmitter
used in the first AM broadcast in the country just to clear space
[and no doubt to make a few dollars].....luckily the public outcry
from local citizens and organizations such as the Radio Heritage
Foundation led to a very rapid retreat from the
idea..................we're pleased they followed our advice to lease
the equipment to a local museum instead.
It's one of a growing number of success stories we're quietly
chalking up behind the scenes, and if you'd like to volunteer some
time to protect items of radio heritage in your community, drop us a
line and tell us more about what you'd like to keep safe for future
generations.
Thanks for your donations
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The worldwide financial crisis has been having a tough impact on our
finances and therefore our ability to get more content online......
.................Last year we raised US$3500 in donations, paid 20%
of our bills and put in 2000 plus hours of unpaid time on our
work.................. so we really need your words of encouragement,
annual supporter donations [US$10 or more], and sponsorship or
partnership of specific projects.................. such as meeting
operating costs, funding some of those unpaid hours, and more
features and articles at www.radioheritage.net.
Will you help?
.............You can donate online right now, and also choose some of
the radio books and CD's we've got available, buy your books, music
and magazines through our online Amazon store and support our Google
Ad advertisers.
..I really recommend Keith Richardson's book and CD package ['Never a
Dull Moment'] for a highly entertaining inside story about early Top
20 radio in the Pacific and great tales from behind the mike.....I
talked with Keith just today and his health is not so good and he
also tells me he's down to just a few copies of his book left...so
don't leave it too late to get your copy from us.......
In the meantime, thanks for your ongoing support and do visit
www.radioheritage.net to refresh your radio memories!
Warm regards
David Ricquish
Chairman
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:16:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake June 22: none found above 8 MHz until:
13080, fair at 1328, but gone at 1341
14400, good at 1329 // 13080; gone at 1343 but 14700 instead; back on 14400,
poor at 1428 when the others had disappeared
14700, poor-fair at 1347 and 1359, 1400 to open carrier; gone at 1428
16100, good at 1332 // 14400, and 1343, 1359, 1400 to open carrier; gone at 1428
15540, CNR1 jamming with motorboating noise added, June 22 at 1338, // 15265
CNR1 jammer without the noise. Same deal as on 15530, 24 hours earlier, vs V.
of Tibet via Uzbekistan, which must have shifted to 15540 today. The 22 June
Aoki, stamped 1500 UT, still has it on 15530.
15285, at 1429 June 22, major CNR1 jammer went off, uncovering BBC Chinese via
Singapore, with mention of bbcchinese.com but there was still a weaker jammer
way underneath. Wonder what happened?
17560, at 1426 June 22 in Chinese with vuvuzelas, so live from South Africa as
some game was in progress, or halftime. Weaker than adjacent WYFR 17555, but
17560 gone at 1432 recheck. At 1430 V. of Tibet is finished with 17560 via
Madagascar, so turn off the jammer. Tough luck for any poor listener who was
expecting World Cup coverage to keep going on 17560; how rude! (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 9650, CRI`s China Drive via Sackville, June 22 at 1318 had
heavy QRM and lo het from RNW in Dutch via Tinang which collides during this
semihour only. SE Asian reception not very good but this from PHILIPPINES
stronger than usual, and the two are far enough apart to cause a low audible
het.
I would guess Sackville more likely to be off-frequency, but at 1349 without
PHT QRM, and BFO on, I found CRI 9650 to match whatever was on 13650, Kuwait or
CRI/Urumqi, while 11650 was a tad higher in frequency, presumably KFBS. But
this is all comparative, as I can`t measure each one precisely (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, another day of JBA carrier instead of good signal as
happens some days, Tuesday June 22 at 1321, so we miss another Exotic Indonesia
excursion to Banjarmasin, Kalimantan. Is this all due to propagation
variations, or are there other factors, such as power and azimuth changes?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBERIA. 4025-, weak carrier detectable from presumed Star Radio, June 22 at
0624, and as usual slightly low compared to Cuba 5025 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 7440, as I tuned across June 22 at 0619 surprised to hear
English, DU accent. But as I tuned back down to be sure of frequency it had
vanished in only a few sex. 7440 is an RNZI frequency elsewhen, so suspected it
was thence by mistake. Quickly tuned up to 11725, where they are supposed to be
at this hour, and it was missing but cut on at *0620! with same programming in
progress discussing Aussie players of some SBG. Then checked DRM noise and it
was on correct 11670-11675-11680 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. BBCWS blowing away normal programming for sillyballgame
play-by-play, June 22 at 1426 on 17640. The vuvuzelas certainly have not been
filtered out; weaker on // 17840, both ASCENSION (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 90, Issue 23
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