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Today's Topics:
1. WRTH A11/Summer schedules file available to download, free of
charge. (International Editor - WRTH)
2. Glenn Hauser logs May 14-15, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Papua New Guinea Radio Review (Radio Heritage News)
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Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 11:00:29 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
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Subject: [HCDX] WRTH A11/Summer schedules file available to download,
free of charge.
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The WRTH Editorial team is pleased to announce that the Summer/'A' season
broadcasting schedules file is now available to download, free of charge,
from
the WRTH website - click on http://www.wrth.com and follow the link "Latest
PDF Updates".
The file is in PDF format (you will require the free Adobe Acrobat reader,
v7 or above to open this file. If you do not have the Acrobat reader, please
visit http://www.abobe.com to download and install it). The 97 page file is
just over 900kB in size and contains the following information:
Summer / 'A' Season broadcasting schedules for over 200 international
and Clandestine/Target stations;
Frequency listing of the above stations to facilitate band scanning;
Broadcasts in English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish;
International DRM broadcasts.
Please feel free to pass this information on so that we may reach as many
SWL's, DX-er's and professionals as possible.
For contact details, transmitter sites and much more, please refer to the
printed WRTH, which is available to order from the website.
We hope you find this a useful accompaniment to the printed WRTH.
On behalf of the publisher and editorial team at WRTH, happy listening!
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Sean D. Gilbert,
International Editor - WRTH (World Radio TV Handbook)
WRTH E-mail: [email protected]
WRTH Website: http://www.wrth.com
G4UCJ Website: http://www.hfradio.org.uk
G4UCJ Blog: http://radioactive.hfradio.org.uk
TX/RX: Icom IC-756pro.
RX: RFspace SDR-IQ; Racal RA1792; Yupiteru MVT-7100.
ANT 1: 20m/66ft 'L' OCF Dipole @ 10m agl .
ANT 2: Wellbrook ALA1530 @ 3m agl.
ANT 3: Sloper for 6m/50MHz @ 9m agl.
ANT 4: VHF Vertical Colinear (in attic).
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 09:30:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 14-15, 2011
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** CHINA. Firedrake May 15: hi-latitude propagation was very suppressed above
12 MHz, the only big signals coming from southerly Chile, Cuba, WYFR. But CNR1
echo jamming was VG around 1300 on 11990, 12040
14700, Firedrake poor at 1231, none audible higher
13920, fair at 1235
12240, very good at 1236
11500, no Firedrake but some JBA talk
10300, not at 1241
7970, fair at 1249
Next Firedrake group from the next hour:
15970, poor with heavy flutter at 1354
15670, fair at 1355, mixing with talk, CNR1 or victim
15430, fair at 1355
14700, good at 1358
13970, very good at 1358
13850, good at 1358
10300, fair at 1359
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. 11995, RFI in English, UT Sunday May 15 at 0449 with news about the
E-U, good signal; already off at next check 0457. Didn`t have the full sked at
hand, but WRTH Update shows // 9805 from 0400, and then from 0500 only on 15160
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 15630, May 15 at 2211, VOG is unusually broadcasting a seemingly
live event, lots of applause and crowd noise, PA reverb, mostly in English,
with Greek voice-overs. Various countries, such as Ireland and later Latvia at
2220 are declaring which other countries they prefer, and awarding points! O,
it must be the Eurovision Song Contest, about which I had heard zero this year
until running across this good signal. Azerbaijan was right up there in the
voting and as I Googled later, came out the winner; next year in Baku! // 9420
with SAH and CCI-Iran, but 15630 much better now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. 15850, May 14 at 2209, Galei Zahal, poor signal but audible for a
change, mentioned Israel as soon as I tuned in, Hebrew. At 2219, peaking at
S9+12. Also audible but very poor at 0454 May 15 in presumed Hebrew talk. WRTH
says 10 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JORDAN. 11960, May 15 at 0452, Arabic music and announcement, good signal
but heavy flutter, much better than Turkey 11980. This is R. Jordan, in what
little is left of it on SW, per WRTH Update, 04-05 on 11960, irregularly at
1055-1130 on 15290 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 54-60 MHz, sporadic E analog TV DX faded in May 15 at 1438 UT, with
weight-loss infomercial in Spanish, large numbers frequently across bottom of
screen, 5004 0724, presumably a phone number. Then checked the DX Sherlock 6m
QSO map and it showed only one contact between Houston and Atlanta via
``Iono-scatter``. Ch 2 in and out, still at 1452 but not much later, when the
6m map started to show Es across SW USA and border Mexico. Rotated antenna from
SSE toward WSW BCN, but nothing yet on ch 2 or 3 by 1615 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9500, since our last log of RNW in English by mistake,
they are back in proper Dutch, May 14 at 2214, fair signal, better than before,
via RWANDA, and about one second behind much better Bonaire // 15540 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Stair cult vs Camping cult, religionists vs each
other! 9385, Brother Scare via WWRB, May 15 at 1242 is contradicting Mr Camping
about the May 21 Rapture. BS believes in it, but not the date, and Camping is
`absolutely absurd`: his calculations are meaningless since ``there was no
10,000 years ago, no million years ago, no dinosaurs or prehistoric humans``.
The real Rapture will come only after The Tribulation and is in the other
direxion with heaven coming down to earth as in ``thy Kingdom come``,
obviously. Battle of the wackos! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, WWRB with big band music, UT Sunday May 15 at 0355 checked on
webcast. Altho the entire website is slow to be updated, the program schedule
for `Global I` = 5050 has been, including 0330-0400 UT Sundays --- `Back to the
40`s``. See the entire grid
http://www.wwrb.org/schedule/global_1/combined.pdf
which also shows that on UT Tuesdays at 0200-0230.
Also, a `Classical Music Program`, UT Saturdays 0030-0100. Then there`s `Back
to the 80`s` in a couple of other blox, disco music. Some Sunday night shows
might be of interest:
0200-0300 UT Mondays, `Planet X` presumably the oldtime SF drama
0300-0400 UT Mondays, AirCommand Radio --- what`s that?
The schedule for Global II still shows 12180, which has not been in use for
years, and 3195, which tested briefly a few weeks ago, and no significant
details.
Global III is nothing but The Overcomer on 9385, 3185.
Global IV says ``testing new frequency``, 15.795 MHZ | 090? Dual Feed Reflector
Curtain Antenna Coverage http://www.wwrb.org/c_maps/090.php
at 1300-2200 (which we have not yet caught on the air). That map shows primary
coverage into W, C, and E Africa, secondary coverage to S Africa, and more
northerly regions.
Checked 15795 again just before despatching this report, May 15 at 1618:
nothing, not yet, altho it`s likely to be highly variable like its neighbor
WWCR 15825, JBA at the moment, depending on HF sporadic E enhancement as it`s
otherwise in the F2 skip zone barely a megameter away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 17:22:47 +1200
From: "Radio Heritage News" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Papua New Guinea Radio Review
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.com
May 16 2011
Papua New Guinea
Broadcasting Review
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We're currently reviewing the status of broadcasting in PNG as part
of our ongoing updates for the World Radio TV Handbook [WRTH] and our
PAL Radio Guides at www.radioheritage.com.
Radio Eastern Highlands 3395kHz at Goroka has been reported inactive
on SW for some time. In fact, we had even removed it from the WRTH
listing.
However, we understand it was most recently off SW for 9 months,
returning briefly in January 2011 before another technical problem
has taken it off air yet again.
An NBC engineer says 'Radio Eastern Highlands faced a lot of 'off-air'
time a few years back because the IC kept getting cooked, and
recently [January 2011] the entire mini-transformer box at the
transmitter was blown to bits."
"Other TV and 3 radio stations piggyback on our tower and went off
air for a whole month. We were lucky we have a standby generator for
a bypass power supply."
"The SW transmitter magnetic contactor blew out, so no SW service,
using only FM. We've also reduced transmission hours by one,
terminating at 2100 hours [local] and this will remain so until the
SW transmitter fault is rectified."
The problems are linked to the power authority upgrading national
power supplies, and huge voltage surges [up to 400v] are blowing out
integrated circuits.
An engineer comments 'NBC engineers have to be very current with
PPL's [power company] upgrade and automation so that our delicate
digital equipment is not cooked up in their upgrade process."
As a general observation, MW/SW radio services of NBC may often
operate irregularly outside Port Moresby because of technical and
funding issues.
Simply put,they can come and go from the air as they break down, get
fixed, then break down again and listeners need to constantly
monitor all PNG shortwave outlets to have a current overview of their
status.
NBC plans to replace MW/SW stations with FM only by 2015 but funding
issues are now reported to be delaying implementation.
Commercial network FM100 by comparison, has a rapidly growing and
technically secure FM network because it is owned by Telikom, the main
infrastructure operator.
Its FM frequencies are generally claimed to have 200km coverage which
indicates relatively high powered and well located [often on
mountains] transmitter sites.
Mobile phone use is growing rapidly in PNG with operators Telikom and
Digicel expanding nationwide coverage across the archipelago. Most
radio listeners prefer the commercial FM services such as FM100, Nau
and Yumi FM
The predominately young population prefers inbuilt FM receivers in
mobile phones for listening so the demand for MW and SW services
falls faster every year.
Religious broadcaster Wantok Radio Light have recently upgraded their
satellite systems at each FM relay station, opened two new FM
stations and are planning on some 10 more in 2011 alone to maintain
contact with the rapidly growing FM radio audiences.
Blessed Peter ToRot Radio, a network of Catholic community radio
stations has also reactivated Radio St.Gabriel on shortwave at Vanimo
in recent weeks.
Vanimo is some 20km from the border with Indonesia and
there is high tension in the area because of the Free West Papua
movement, reports of police and military brutality, and a local
economy still suffering from the effects of a devastating tsunami in
the area in the recent past.
We are continuing to monitor broadcasting in PNG with the help of
several sources within the country in an effort to improve the
quality of information available for listeners, travellers and others
using the WRTH listings and those of the PAL Radio Guides at
www.radioheritage.com.
Observations, comments and news about PNG broadcasting issues are
very welcome to [email protected].
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