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Today's Topics:
1. watching errror!!! (Zacharias Liangas )
2. Glenn Hauser logs February 13-14, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Re: [dxld] Glenn Hauser logs February 12-14, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
4. BBC to apologise for airing paid-for Malaysia news (Jaisakthivel)
5. India's Phase III e-auction for FM to start in June: Uday
Varma (Jaisakthivel)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:50:18 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] watching errror!!!
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In the previous log there issuerly one unconscious watching error with the
suposed log for
Nove de Julho . Please read the corect below
You may be wathing the error by visitingmy page and read in the comments
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/429
9819.66 Nove de Julho? 2118 with a LA rhythm under CNR 2 on exact 9820 . talks?
in
Portuguese . There is also a sample clip on
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2uu538ouz25x919
which is very narrowly filteredStandard 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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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:59:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: NASWA <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 13-14, 2012
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** CANADA [and non]. 6604-USB, Feb 14 at 0636, VOLMET sounds like same voice as
6754-USB Trenton Military, and first wondered if they were //, but at this time
6604 is NY Radio, shared with Gander at other hourparts. 6604 including
Pittsburgh, St Louis, Indianapolis, with temps and dewpoints in C, usual
confusing mix of English and metric units for other data. 6754 included
Shearwater (NS) base. EiBi now covers all this utility-broadcast scheduling as
well as proper SWBC programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. 15300, Feb 14 at 1534 I find an open carrier, 1535 it starts cutting
on and off, and during the split seconds it is on, there are also bits of talk
modulation. 1536 steady OC again until 1537*, *1528 OC-1539*, *1539- back to on
and off with modulation and now I can tell the fragments are in French -1540*,
*1542 more of same, now staying on a bit longer each time, then nothing further
heard as I paid more attention to my blintz breakfast. Times approximate as I
did not try to pin the ons and offs down to the second. Of course, when first
heard I assumed it would be RFI Issoudun on its well-known frequency, once
running continuously very long hours, but in WRTH Feb Update as curtailed to
only 06-09, 12-13, and 17-19, giving them plenty of time in between to mess
with the transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GABON. 9580, Feb 14 at 0624, no signal from ANO aside MOROCCO 9575, but at
0630 recheck it is on with French, music, stronger than 9575; 0632 ``Vous
?coutez Africa Num?ro Un, v?tre radio``, so its reactivation has surpassed the
finale of the silly ballgame tournament. Is *0630 its nominal schedule now?
WRTH 2012 shows 0500-2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7275, Feb 14 at 0629, for the third night, no trace of any signal
from FRCN as soon as Tunisia goes off. A few minutes earlier, I thought there
was something underneath it. Could Kaduna be signing off before Sfax does? Is
anyone currently hearing Nigeria on 7275 at any time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1230, Feb 13 at 2130 UT tuning around caradio, came upon huge
variable whine on 1220 and 1240, obviously coming from out-of-whack semi-local
WBBZ Ponca City which normally has a clean signal. Could also hear some of it
when tuned to 1230 itself. It might have emanated from some horrible traffic
light, but remained the same as I traveled on. I stopped on a quiet street and
turned off the engine, and it was still there, altho suddenly stopped about a
minute later, at 2134 and did not come back, even when I retraced my previous
route. I had also quickly tuned thru the entire MW band in case it appear
elsewhere, but it did not (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1170, KFAQ Tulsa remains IBOC-free, as Bruce Winkelman first
reported a week ago; Feb 13 at 2125 UT, 1160 and 1180 are open for DX tho none
is incoming yet. And IBOC has also been off at various nighttime chex (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 9665, Feb 14 at 1459, VOT IS, 1500 opening Arabic; very
poor signal, but surprised to be getting anything. Probably longpath, as not
much from shorter Europe making it at this hour on this band. It`s 250 kW, 150
degrees from Emirler, which is close to the azimuth for US too. And on the lo
side of 9560 was also getting het no doubt from perpetually off-frequency
ETHIOPIA, also longpath, against much stronger Chinese, presumably RCI via
JAPAN rather than CRI via EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. The Argies are getting restive again about the Malvinas, and
BBC`s `From Our Own Correspondent` dealt with this topic, in two reports, from
The Falklands, and from the Argentine POV, Feb 14 at 1450-1500 on 9740 via
Singapore. Here`s the link to hear, and more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nkzz5
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1070, Feb 13 at 2135 UT, KLIO Wichita KS is in dead air for a few
minutes, but with SAH/hum. No one at the studio is paying attention since they
picked up the True Oldies satellite feed. It`s always audibly off-frequency
causing a significant SAH with KNX or whatever else may be incoming. Meanwhile,
the former KFTI Radio Ranch country format has been put on FM 92.3 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9990, Feb 13 at *2200 as promised, WTWW-2 is back with a test for
Brother Scare, joined in progress in music like on WWRB 9385 but not
synchronized. 9980 WWCR runs a bit overtime so both are on for a few minutes
until its 2202.5* plus some open carrier. No detectable QRM between those two,
but WTWW BSplash can be heard on 10000 WWV with the FRG-7; same on the DX-398
at 2233 check. Also on 5085 in the 00-03 Feb 14 period, no spurs noted (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7811.5-USB, Feb 14 at 0644-0646 UT I am pleased to hear Jim
Hightower`s wickedly pointed political commentary on AFN amid other capsules
and PSAs. I assume this is a regular time for him weekdays? No, the schedule at
http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/AFNRadio.aspx
shows `Your Dollars` & `Healthbeat` during this biminute at 2244 US Pacific
Time. The huge minute-by-minute schedule is not searchable, but I don`t spot
Hightower at other hours +44, or anywhen else. So was this a fluke, substitute,
trial run or permanent change? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15610, Feb 14 at 1534, Mother Angelica herself on WEWN, oblivious of
the noise like rubbing a balloon that this transmitter is outputting to degrade
her voice. With BFO, carrier is also wobbling. But the spurs peaking plus/minus
9 kHz are no worse than usual, i.e. also unacceptable. She should be ashamed,
or at least confess about this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11955, Feb 14 at 1522 fair signal with some neat electronic
music, then accompanying sermon in a Turkic language; 1527 off-topic `Concierto
de Aranjuez` closing music with announcements to 1529*. HFCC shows it`s AWR in
Turkish via AUSTRIA at 1500-1530, 300 kW, 120 degrees from Moosbrunn, off the
back here or longpath? Not much from Europe audible here direct on 25m at this
hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:36:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: NASWA <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Glenn Hauser logs February 12-14, 2012
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minor correxions, please replace first versions:
Abuja, not Kaduna:
** NIGERIA. 7275, Feb 14 at 0629, for the third night, no trace of any signal
from FRCN as soon as Tunisia goes off. A few minutes earlier, I thought there
was something underneath it. Could Abuja be signing off before Sfax does? Is
anyone currently hearing Nigeria on 7275 at any time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
second time reference 1230, not 1130
** U S A [non]. 11750, Feb 12 at 1217, VOA quite good with excellent news
coverage on `Crossroads Asia`, pausing to plug their photo contest which has a
few more days to run, via http://www.voanews.com/asia i.e. specifically
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/asia-photo-contest-137906343.html
and from 1230 on to `International Edition`. I figured this quite good signal
would have to be on the 21 degree antenna USward from Tinang, PHILIPPINES, and
so it is, during this hour only. The borepath is roughly up the Sea of Japan
near Nagasaki, eastern tip of Sibir, across the Brooks Range in northern
Alaska, trans-Canada, entering conterminous US thru Minnesota, Chicago, South
Carolina, Haiti (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:23:22 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <[email protected]>
To: ardic <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] BBC to apologise for airing paid-for Malaysia news
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal
February 11, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 11 ? The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has pledged
to apologise for airing paid-for programmes that were favourable to some
countries including Malaysia.
UK daily?The Independent?reported today the BBC will apologise to an estimated
74 million people around the world for a news-fixing scandal in which it aired
as documentaries programmes that had been paid for in a deal with a
London-based publicity firm.
According to?The Independent,?the global apology by BBC is expected to read: ?A
small number of programmes broadcast on BBC World News between February 2009
and July 2011 broke BBC rules aimed at protecting our editorial integrity.
?These rules ensure that programmes are free, and are seen to be free, from
commercial or other outside pressures.?
Making a direct reference to the FBC documentaries, it will say: ?In the case
of eight other programmes, all of which featured Malaysia, we found that the
production company which made the programmes appeared to have a financial
relationship with the Malaysian government.
?This meant there was a potential conflict of interest, though the BBC was not
aware of it when the programmes were broadcast.?
The apology will be broadcast worldwide on the BBC?s World News channel to an
estimated 295 million homes, 1.7 million hotel rooms, 81 cruise ships, 46
airlines and on 35 mobile phone platforms at four different times, staged in
order to reach audiences in different time zones, the paper reported.
The BBC Trust?s Editorial Standards Committee carried out an investigation into
BBC World News in November and uncovered 15 breaches of editorial guidelines.
Eight of the breaches were in respect of FBC programmes made about Malaysia-
due to an apparent ?financial relationship? between the government and FBC
Media, the TV production company.
The BBC was reported to have paid nominal fees of as little as ?1 (RM5) for
programmes made by FBC Media (UK), whose PR client list included Malaysia and
other foreign governments.
The Independent?pointed out that FBC Media made eight pieces for the BBC about
Malaysia while failing to declare it was paid ?17million by the Malaysian
government for ?global strategic communications? which included positive
coverage of Malaysia?s controversial palm oil industry.
The BBC also used FBC to make a documentary about the spring uprising in Egypt
without knowing the firm was paid to do PR work for the regime of former
dictator Hosni Mubarak.
TV company FBC Media has been found to be at the centre of the Malaysia
news-fixing scandal facing BBC and CNBC, and is facing collapse.
The London-based firm and its parent company FBC Group went into administration
last year ? a legal term that allows a company facing bankruptcy to carry on
business ? following reports it accepted ?17million from Putrajaya to burnish
the Najib administration?s image on global broadcast networks.
FBC was set up in 1998 by award-winning US journalist Alan Friedman and other
prominent media individuals who built a network of blue-chip clients that
included the governments of Greece, Italy and Zambia, with contracts to promote
tourism in Malaysia, Indonesia and Hungary.
FBC has been exposed to have also doubled up as a publicity firm for the Najib
government and was paid millions of pounds to conduct a ?Global Strategic
Communications Campaign?.
But Putrajaya has ended its RM96 million contract with FBC, which started in
2009, after it was revealed Malaysian government leaders regularly appeared in
paid-for-TV programmes.
The Malaysian Insider?has reported of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak
contracting a series of public relations strategists, including APCO Worldwide,
to polish his personal image and his government?s locally and worldwide.
APCO?s time in Malaysia was marked by controversy after the opposition alleged
the public relations firm was linked to Israel.
The most recent hire are members of the team behind former British PM Tony
Blair?s ?New Labour? campaign, who were reported to have started work to
reinvent Najib as a moderate
reformist.(Source:?http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/bbc-to-apologise-for-airing-paid-for-malaysia-news)
Jaisakthivel, ADXC, India
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:39:31 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <[email protected]>
To: ardic <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] India's Phase III e-auction for FM to start in June:
Uday Varma
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NEW DELHI: E-auction for the third phase of FM radio channels will commence in
June, Information and Broadcasting secretary Uday Kumar Varma said.
The Union Cabinet had approved auctions for the third phase almost a year back
on 7 July 2011, but no date had been fixed.
Private FM radio broadcasters are eagerly waiting for the date announcement as
they have to ready capital before that. The bidding could turn aggressive,
particularly in the metros where more frequencies will open up.
The government expects to earn Rs 17.33 billion from auctioning the radio
licences.
FM Phase-III policy extends FM radio services to about 227 new cities, in
addition to the present 86 cities, with a total of 839 new FM radio stations.
The government has hiked the cap on foreign holding from 20 per cent to 26 per
cent. The private radio operators are also allowed to carry news, but only from
bulletins of All India Radio (AIR).?FM radio broadcasters are struggling with
the slow pace of revenue growth and many of them are in losses. The revenue
market for FM radio is estimated at Rs 12 billion. (Indiantelevision.com 15/02)
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