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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs December 22, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
2. iBiquity, NAB Fastroad Release Asymmetrical IBOC Sideband Lab
Tests Results (Albert Muick)
3. SW Radio Africa reach 10 years of broadcasts (Zacharias Liangas )
4. World Radio TV Handbook 2012 (Zacharias Liangas )
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:00:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 22, 2011
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** ANTARCTICA. 15476, still zilch from LRA36 on the one day of the week it used
to be active, Thursday Dec 22 at 1335. How about someone contacting Esperanza
on what the prospects are for ever reactivating? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BHUTAN [and non]. 6035, Dec 22 at 1312, with BFO I can tell there are two
very weak carriers on slightly different frequencies, so must be BBS and Yunnan
PBS; others are reporting Bhutan is 40-50 Hz on the high side. If I were to
keep monitoring this carefully for the next two hours, I might detect when one
of them goes off, and by matching that to reports from those who can really
hear Bhutan, clinch a catch without hearing any modulation.
Nothing at all detectable on 5030, which is still testing sporadically. Ron
Howard in California was hearing it during this period. Alokesh Gupta, Cumbre
DX, hears from BBS that when the 5030 transmitter is ready for regular service
in January with a second program, they may put it on a good clean frequency ---
but this one seems good enough to me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. 15600, Dec 22 at 1335, strong open carrier, R. Bulgaria
kilowasting kilowatts, long before its 1400 Bulgarian broadcast; with a ringing
sound, perhaps beating against the WEWN 15610 spur on 15601 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 1610, Dec 22 at 0050 UT on the caradio I am surprised to hear
something in Spanish here vs the IBOC noise from KATZ-1600. Unfortunately, I am
in no position to DF it. Woman speaking, seems to be giving local addresses,
thought I heard Monterrey mentioned, then a few seconds of ``Jingle Bells
Rock``, mentions 8 de la noche. I was hoping for XEUACH, R. Chapingo, but it`s
not yet 7 pm there and here, if that was a partial before-the-hour timecheck.
So was it from EST zone? That would be CHHA Toronto, Radio Voces Latinas, which
is listed as Spanish + ethnic format. It`s more likely to be heard anyway,
about same distance but much greater power, altho also a rarity here. Then it
lost out to the IBOC.
Program grid at http://www.sanlorenzo.ca/espanol/Program_Schedule.html shows
the weekday 7-8 pm program is `Panorama` which could be in any tongue! The have
quite a lineup of languages, UT: 0100 English, 0200 Portuguese, 0300 Tagalog,
0400 Italian, 0500+ Spanish. Also in the afternoons at 19-21 UT M-F there are
20 half-hour shows each named for a different Ibero-American country, and they
do webcast via http://www.voceslatinas.ca (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6160, Dec 22 at 1408, CKZU Vancouver with CBC news about sexual
harassment against a woman firefighter in Richmond BC, new poet laureate from
Nelson BC; 1410 into `Early Edition`, more local news, weather and 12>6
timecheck. Fair signal attaining R5 tnx to lack of QRM even from CKZN at this
hour. I expect it`s pure luck, as major broadcasters don`t pay any attention to
this unregistered 500-watt pipsqueak, even RCI, listed in HFCC via Korea during
this hour, but unheard, and unlisted in Aoki, EiBi and RCI`s own website
schedule. HFCC shows nothing else but Murmansk (a.k.a. Arkhangelsk, a.k.a.
Monchegorsk) on 6160 between 0945 and 1800, and the Brazilians can be ignored
in the daytime. Anomalies about the 6160 Canadians: Aoki claims CKZU is off the
air on Sundays, surely not true. EiBi claims both CKZU and CKZN are off the air
overnight, but surely they are both still 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 22, before 1400:
12980, poor at 1342. No others heard between 19 and 7 MHz. Not on 11980 either
as heard 23.5 hours earlier
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 5965, Dec 22 at 1355, Korean talk and then usual end-of-hour CRI
music fill, 1400 reopening another hour of Korean after Chinese ID. Het from
perpetually off-frequency Malaysia was JBA, weaker than usual. HFCC shows CRI
Korean runs 11-15, 500 kW, 73 degrees from Xi`an. VOR Vladivostok also
registered 10-14 westward on 5965, no sign of it, presumably yet another wooden
one, lest there be a big collision in the area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6050, Dec 22 at 0659, Spanish music here from RHC not // English
closing on 6010 and 6060, then to open carrier on 6050 at 0700. Quickly checked
the fourth ``English`` frequency, 6125, and it was still playing the same music
in Spanish until it cut off at 0703* by when 6050 was also off the air.
Apparently, RHC had just cut half of its English frequencies to Spanish feed
just before closing down, typical slipshod operation (= slopperation).
13730-13770, Dec 22 at 1339, DentroCuban Jamming Command centered on 13750
against our Voice of America in Spanish, not even a Cuban service, but Cuba
doesn`t want anyone in Latin America to hear it, is bleeding out this far
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [non]. 9955, Dec 22 at 0706, R. Prague via WRMI, good signal now,
tributes to V?clav Havel altho the state funeral has not yet taken place. Good
signal I was surprised to find as was not hearing much before 0700. Kept
listening as long as I could stay awake until my 0715*.
BTW, several ignorant American journalists keep mispronouncing his name, e.g.
Charlie Rose, unaware that the c in Czech represents a ts sound, not a k. The
least they could do in his honor would be to pronounce his name correctly
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 17720, Dec 22 at 1330, poor signal with unrecognized anthem, brief
announcement in unrecognized language and off by 1331*. HFCC shows it`s IRIB in
``Melau`` = Malay, 500 kW, 109 degrees from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 6055, Dec 22 at 1349, R. Nikkei in American English lesson
alternating with Japanese translations, about supersonic jets, light years,
bank X and its non-performing assets, company A moving operations overseas.
Probably regular on Thursdays, for those who would like to report them in
English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 9996, Dec 22 at 1309, RWM sent over and over in CW, during the
ID-minute of Moskva`s timesignal station; 1310 back to time pips (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 17755, Dec 22 at 1327, VOT is back on proper frequency for German at
1230, still on air with IS alternating with English IDs, the first one of which
heard skipped, ``Voi---ey``, but the next one was OK. I fervently hoped they
would again neglect to change to 12035 for 1330 English, but 17755 cut off at
1329:23*. Was that with enough time to get 12035 on the air by its start? 1344
check, 12035 was very poor but recognizably the usual YL announcer in English
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825, Dec 22 at 1337, for the second day in a row, WWCR-1 is
managing to broadcast on the correct frequency, 48 hours after staying on 7465
all morning, and perhaps all day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1596 monitoring: first webcast confirmed Thursday Dec
22 at 1600 on WRMI. First SW broadcast will be Thu 2200 on WTWW 9479; check
also WBCQ 7490 at 2200, when WOR appeared last week instead of 2230. Also on
WWRB 3195 and 5050 at 0430+ UT Friday. First SW airing on WRMI 9955 UT Friday
0600, plus the usual weekend times. Also on WTWW UT Sunday 0500 on 5755. Maybe
on Area 51, WBCQ 5110v-CUSB UT Monday at 0330 if time is available. Check this
weekend`s schedule of http://www.worldmicroscope.com once it is put up (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15280, Dec 22 at 1423, rapid clicking noise, but nothing known to
be jammed here; maybe spur from Cuban jamming on 15330, tho sounds more like
the OTH radar currently infesting 15100-15125, a spur from that? That`s
bothering some broadcaster on 15120. Clicking still going on 15280 at 1518,
when it`s QRMing Romania in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:34:56 -0500
From: Albert Muick <[email protected]>
To: DXLD <[email protected]>, HCDX <[email protected]>,
Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] iBiquity, NAB Fastroad Release Asymmetrical IBOC
Sideband Lab Tests Results
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Here's a new report on IBOC, which may interest the FM DX'ers and radio
listeners out there. If you are of a technical bent, you can download a
PDF copy of the report from the article. No mention of any tests or
results on the medium wave band.
http://radiomagonline.com/currents/ibiquity_nab_fastroad_asymmetrical_iboc_sideband_lab_tests_results_1221/
73
Al Muick
Whitehall PA USA
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:13:26 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] SW Radio Africa reach 10 years of broadcasts
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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http://zlgr.multiply.com/photos/album/28/my_radio_shack_
SW Radio Africa reach 10 years of broadcasts
Diaspora, News - By admin on December 21, 2011 12:55 pm
http://nehandaradio.com/2011/12/21/sw-radio-africa-reaches-10-years-of-broadcasts/
LONDON based SW Radio Africa on Monday celebrated a major milestone in reaching
10
years of independent broadcasting into Zimbabwe via shortwave and the internet
to the rest
of the world.
>From left to right: Danny Hargitai, Lance Guma, Les Momsen, Alex Bell, Richard
>Alfrey,
Tererai Karimakwenda, Gerry Jackson and Tichaona Sibanda (seated).
>From left to right: Danny Hargitai, Lance Guma, Les Momsen, Alex Bell, Richard
>Alfrey,
Tererai Karimakwenda, Gerry Jackson and Tichaona Sibanda (seated).
A statement issued by station manager Gerry Jackson said they started
broadcasting
Wednesday 19th December 2001 and "had no idea that 10 years on we?d still be
here - or
that the crisis in Zimbabwe would still be dragging on, with no solution in
sight."
Jackson thanked the stations listeners saying "you?ve made this radio station
possible. It?s
been your willingness to tell us your stories that has helped to create such
compelling radio.
This is your story we?ve been telling for the past decade. Your tragedies, your
hopes and
dreams."
Jackson said they have learnt that "our listeners are wise and well informed.
Now if we could
only persuade the politicians to listen to the people - everything would come
right in
Zimbabwe."
The former ZBC Radio 3 DJ said "we have to be the only radio station in the
world that hopes
it is not in existence in another 10 years - because that would mean the Zim
crisis continues.
But more than anything we?d like to know that we could return to Zimbabwe and
broadcast on
FM."
SW Radio Africa?s daily broadcasts on shortwave have given Mugabe?s regime many
sleepless nights. With the help of Chinese jamming equipment, the regime has
resorted to
jamming broadcasts from the station at regular intervals, particularly towards
election time
and other significant events.
After Mugabe lost elections in 2008 and employed violence to stay in power,
ZANU PF
insisted during subsequent power sharing negotiations that the station and
others
broadcasting from outside the country had to be shut down. Party members have
also on
many occasions refused to grant the station interviews.
In March 2007 then Deputy Information Minister Bright Matonga admitted they
were jamming
SW Radio Africa broadcasts. Speaking in parliament Matonga boasted that the
government
was generating electronic interference to prevent reception of the broadcasts.
"We cannot allow foreigners to invade our airwaves without our authority. We
will continue to
do it. We need to protect our sovereignty. If you go to England you will not
receive any foreign
radio station."
SW Radio Africa is run by exiled Zimbabweans who, because of repressive media
legislation,
were not allowed to broadcast from home.
In 2000 the station, then called Capital Radio, challenged government?s
broadcasting
monopoly and won its case in the Supreme Court. But after just 6 days of
broadcasting from
a local hotel the station was shut down by Mugabe using his presidential
powers.Standard rig
: ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser
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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........
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: 4
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:13:26 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] World Radio TV Handbook 2012
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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http://zlgr.multiply.com/photos/album/28/my_radio_shack_
World Radio TV Handbook 2012
Published on : 22 December 2011 - 2:20pm | By Andy Sennitt (Photo:clipart.com)
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/world-radio-tv-handbook-2012
The 2012 edition of the World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH) was published in early
December 2011. The appearance and format have not changed much over recent
years, but
the content certainly has.
Although the WRTH has been known for decades as the "DXers' Bible", there are
several
signs in this edition that the publisher will not make the mistake some other
publishers made
of pretending that shortwave is still the only platform for international
broadcasting.
In particular, the venerable George Jacobs, who has reached his 50th year
writing the annual
high frequency (HF) propagation predictions, says
"With my experience gained during 50 years of reporting, I do not question, and
I strongly
agree, that the future for international broadcasting is the continued dramatic
rise of the
satellite and internet platforms. I believe, however, that HF broadcasting will
continue to have
an important role to play far into the future, albeit as a complement to these
newer platforms."
Mr Jacobs knows what he is talking about, as he has been in the international
broadcasting
business for 65 years, including a period as Chief Engineer at the Voice of
America. So
perhaps we at RNW are not as stupid as some non-experts have claimed we are in
recent
years!
Internet
The WRTH editorial includes the following:
"In view of the rise of the internet as an outlet for international
broadcasters, we have decided
to include details of languages available on the Internet in the international
section."
This a welcome change, as it ensures that stations such as Radio Sweden can
still be
included, rather than ignored as if it doesn?t exist. Having said that, I was
surprised that
Swissinfo, formerly Swiss Radio International and one of the first
international broadcasters
to switch off shortwave - also a key partner of RNW - has not been included,
even though it
is part of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation.
The WRTH still devotes most of its 672 pages to traditional over-the-air
broadcasting, and
there is still a shortwave receiver review section. Of course, the bulk of the
book is devoted to
listing thousands of radio and TV stations worldwide.
TV section
I note that the amount of space devoted to TV has stayed at around 40 pages for
many
years, and this distorts the relative importance of different stations and
networks. China, for
example, is compressed into just over a third of a page, about the same as
Denmark.
But of more concern, I could not find any reference to some of the big
international satellite
TV networks such as China?s CCTV News and Iran?s Press TV. These networks are
international broadcasters, but seem to have fallen into a hole between
international radio
and domestic TV. Anyone buying the WRTH who doesn?t know they exist will be
none the
wiser.
I would suggest that, for international broadcasting, the editors give serious
thought to
including these international TV networks in the same section as radio and
internet. This
would give a better idea of the relative importance of the different platforms.
I would argue
that, in many cases, the satellite TV services that are not listed reach many
more people than
some of the radio services from the same country. They certainly cost a bigger
proportion of
the budget!
A must-have publication
Small quibbles aside, the WRTH is a must-have publication for all who work in
international
broadcasting, and those who like to hear or see broadcasts from outside their
own country.
Some may wonder if a printed book is still needed in an age when so much
information can
be found on the internet. But anyone who has tried listening to a weak radio
signal with the
computer switched on close to the receiver will know how much noise a computer
can
produce. So having access to printed information is still very useful.
The WRTH does have computerised information too - I reviewed the WRTH Bargraph
Frequency Guide earlier in 2011, and new editions will be produced in January
2012 and later
in the year for the summer schedules. There are also regular updates drawing
attention to
significant changes to the listings. More information on the WRTH website.
Publisher: Nicholas Hardyman
No. of pages: 672
Publisher's address: WRTH Publications Limited, PO Box 290, Oxford, OX2 7FT,
United
Kingdom
Order Fax: +44 (0)1865 514405
Web (secure online ordering): www.wrth.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Cover price: ?24.95 including airmail postage worldwide.
ISBN: 978-0-9555481-4-7
Distributed in the USA by Innovative Logistics, 575 Prospect St, Lakewood, NJ
08701. Web:
www.innlog.net.
Distributed in Germany by Gert Wohlfarth GmbH, Stresemannstrasse 20-22, D-47051
Duisburg. E-mail: [email protected]. ISBN: 978-3-87463-504-2.
(
Martyn Williams 22 December 2011 - 7:52pm / USA
* reply
Andy,
Do you have any idea of the readership of WRTH? If it's people using it as a
guide to
listening to international broadcasts then the inclusion of some of the TV
stations would make
sense.
But if the audience is DXers then I wonder if there would be interest?
Typically, satellite
transmissions are either there or not. There isn't much technique involved in
receiving them,
unless you count alignment and dish tweaks but those improvements bring in all
broadcasts,
not just the international stations.
Back in the 90s the WRTH listed satellite broadcasts but I guess they were
dropped for
space reasons.
It seems the biggest competitor to the book are the numerous online schedule
sites and lists
like EiBi and Aoki.
I wish the WRTH could offer an online database with updated schedules year
round. Right
now I get the book in late December and by April the international section is
already out of
date.
It's still a must-have book though.
Martyn
Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!)
........
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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