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Today's Topics:
1. Hamburger Local Radio (Manuel M?ndez)
2. Glenn Hauser logs March 21, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
3. FM radio Phase 3 licences auction may be postponed again
(Jaisakthivel)
4. Govt eyes Rs. 1,500 cr revenue from FM radio auction
(Jaisakthivel)
5. Galei zahal /Kol Israel on 15785 using USB (Zacharias Liangas )
6. Top 5 Radio Books for March 2012 (Radio Heritage Mail)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:42:34 +0100
From: Manuel M?ndez <[email protected]>
To: DX Listenig Digest <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Hamburger Local Radio
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Michael Kittner, from Hamburger Local Radio sent me an e-mail to let me
know that this Stations will be on air Sunday 25th of March with a
special transmission on 7265 kHz, 1 kW power.
The time schedule will be:
05:00 to 08:00 UTC 7265 kHz
11:00 to 12:00 UTC 7265 kHz
14:00 to 17:00 UTC 7265 kHz
Reception reports will be very appreciated and they have a special QSL
card for this transmission.
The e-mail address: [email protected]
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:48:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: NASWA <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 21, 2012
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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*** AUSTRALIA. 5995, March 21 at 1345, R. Australia, Brandon, is still in AM
rather than DRM, // much stronger Shepparton YL on 6020. Nigel Holmes of RA
Transmission explains: ``the DRM content server at Brandon failed last night so
running AM in lieu until we get spares. I'm not sure why there is no ABC
[except relays] schedule in the A12 ITU site. ILG does our co-ordination and
Bernd has been very good in past years.``
Well, the R. Australia schedules in HFCC B11 show the FMO as ABC, not BFM, and
in fact there are no BFM listings at all by that name in HFCC, tho Bernd
Friedewald does go to HFCC meetings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake March 21:
15605, poor with flutter March 21 at 1407, also running-water ute QRM, and in
the sideband of WEWN. Still nothing in Aoki to account for jamming on 15605 (or
alternate 15615), but all three major targets are now employing
frequency-jumping to avoid jamming: Sound of Hope, Voice of Tibet, and even
Radio Free Asia.
17570, March 21 at 1409, FD fair over CCI, V. of Tibet via MADAGASCAR
No Firedrakes at all found around 1430 March 21 from 11 to 18 MHz (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. 11815.0, March 21 at 1428 check, REE relay is not off-frequency
today, no het with NHK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LSITENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, March 20 did not get around to checking for R.
Africa until 2030, finding no signal. If active, seems they have been signing
off just before this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9680, March 21 at 1357, after nice Indonesian music atop Chinese
radio war, RRI jingle. Then at 1359 I check VOI on 9526- blasted by another
Chinese radio war on 9530: I can barely make out ``Over the Rainbow`` being
sung on VOI, language uncertain. The ACI vanishes after timesignal at 1400, no
more QRM to VOI but it`s just barely modulated as they are presumably going
from English to Indonesian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, March 21 at 1415, 13m is back in business with good
signal from R. Kuwait atop Spain, Arabic talk and music but Spain gains a bit
as RK goes into Qur`an recitation at 1421, vespers on a Wednesday evening?
Shortly I switch to the insensitive DX-390 on the breakfast table with reelout
inside antenna, while I consume the first homegrown asparagus omelet of the
season. There, RK is still strong enough for easy listening, and weaker Spain
is negligible.
It`s a beautifully melodic rendition, appreciated pro-arte with no religious
baggage understandable, keeps going until 1459-1501 flute music, then YL
announcement, more brief Qur`an, 1504 OM talking, and cut off the air at
1504:43* as the YL starts to reply. Before 1500 on the full FRG-7 with outside
longwire, BSKSA was also audible weaker on 21505 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1000, March 21 at 0549 UT, not hearing KTOK OKC at all,
but from SW something in Spanish, probably Ju?rez, and when rotating to try to
get OKC, a different Spanish, probably XEOY DF. Was KTOK really off? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1440, March 21 around 1330 UT, strong dominant signal in Spanish
ending one gospel huxter, bilingual prayer, IDs in Spanish and English as Radio
Luz, University Park, KTNO, on to another preacher. Not unusual post-sunrise
reception from this 50 kW daytime powerhouse (not R. Vida as in NRC AM Log),
but this is:
On the DX-398 handheld, KTNO is peaking E/W rather than N/S. I keep rotating it
and find the null about 90 degrees off. Is it because I have the headphones
plugged in? The AC adapter plugged in? Too close to metal objects such as the
FRG-7 and other equipment? Or to inside random wire antennas? No, I unplug
phones and AC and walk around the house but I am still getting the same skewed
DF on this frequency. If I didn`t know better I would think I was getting a
station from the east or west.
Why and how could this happen? Has the ferrite bar slipped 90 degrees inside
the radio? I haven`t dropped it and it doesn`t rattle! And other DFing is
correct, such as WKY 930 reliable groundwave from OKC, which is weak enough to
produce a sharp null in the right direxion. This anomaly makes other DFing
questionable; perhaps it`s frequency-dependent in the 1440 area only.
Then I tune up to 1460 at 1333 UT March 21, where I am getting something in
English, i.e. skywave an hour after sunrise, and not yet my closest KZUE El
Reno OK groundwave which is Spanish. It`s ``Trade Fair`` (Fare?), listener
call-ins with stuff to sell, typical small-town show still existing here and
there on AM radio. No calls from businesses or professional services will be
accepted, and caller #1 is a hangup. This too ``loops`` E/W, but the phone
numbers are in AC 817 and 683, i.e. Fort Worth, from KCLE, COL Cleburne TX
which are south from here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510, March 21 at 0538 UT, for the third night around this time, KCKK
Littleton CO is dominating frequency as ``Mile High Sports``, contrary to its
NNE/SSW figure-8 direxional requirement, out of whack (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:56:37 +0800 (SGT)
From: Jaisakthivel <[email protected]>
To: ardic <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] FM radio Phase 3 licences auction may be postponed
again
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
The auctioning of new FM radio licences has hit another wrong frequency. The
Information and Broadcasting Ministry sources say the Phase 3 auctions may now
only begin by end of August.
For radio stations keen on tuning into newer towns, this comes as another
setback to their expansion plans.
According to an I&B Ministry source, a new post of Joint Secretary is being
created to handle digitisation and FM phase 3 licensing. ?This has been agreed
by the Department of Expenditure and is going to Cabinet for approval,? said
the source.
Already, the FM radio expansion plan has run into many delays. The Union
Cabinet had approved the proposal for granting new FM radio licences to private
players in July 2011, and said the process would be completed before the end of
this fiscal. Later, it got postponed to April 2012.
FM STATIONS
The repeated delay of the auction process has turned many radio players wary of
the entire process.
Mr Harrish Bhatia, CEO, MY FM, says: ?For the last six years, we have been
waiting for Phase 3, while the Government has not moved an inch. I don't know
where we are heading, there are far too many ambiguities.?
Radio One, a joint venture between Mid Day Multimedia and BBC Worldwide, had
been hoping to expand into three more cities ? Hyderabad, Chandigarh and either
Allahabad or Kochi ? through phase 3 auction.
Currently they are present in seven cities.
It was banking on increasing its ad revenue through expansions.
?Three per cent of total media advertising revenue comes from radio. The
auction could mean taking this figure to 7-8 per cent,? said Mr Vineet Singh
Hukmani, MD, Radio One.
92.7 Big FM, which is present across 45 cities, is another interested player.
?Whichever cities we missed in phase 2 will be targeted this time round.
Ahmadabad, Pune, Jaipur and southern markets, is what we are eyeing,? said Mr
Rabe T. Iyer, Business Head, 92.7 Big FM.
According to estimates put out by a FICCI-KPMG, Media and Entertainment report
2012, the radio industry is expected to grow at 16 per cent CAGR till Phase 3
stations start operations. Post Phase 3, the industry is expected to grow at a
CAGR of 22 per cent.
Correspondingly, radio's share of media ad spends is expected to increase from
around four per cent currently to five per cent in 2016.
The report puts the expected post bidding capital requirement of the industry
at Rs 750-1,100 crore and pegs the Government earning from the auction at Rs
1,683 crore.
Once Phase 3 kicks in, FM services are expected to reach another 227 new
cities, in addition to the present 86 cities.
[email protected]??Keywords:?FM radio licences,?Harrish Bhatia,?92.7 Big
FM,?FICCI-KPMG,?Media and Entertainment report 2012,?Radio One?[Business Line
21/03]?(Jaisakthivel, ADXC, Tirunelveli, www.dxersguide.blogspot.com)
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:02:04 +0800 (SGT)
From: Jaisakthivel <[email protected]>
To: ardic <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Govt eyes Rs. 1,500 cr revenue from FM radio auction
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
The Phase-III license would extend FM radio services to about 227 new cities,
in addition to the present 86 cities, and would result in coverage of all
cities with a population of one lakh and above through private FM channels?The
government on Tuesday said it expects to garner Rs. 1,500 crore in revenue from
the auction of FM Radio Phase III license, for providing services in 227
cities, in addition to 86 cities covered currently. ?Total revenue expectation
from three phases of (Phase III) FM radio auction is Rs. 1,500 crore.
They (Finance Ministry) have given estimates for first phase, which is Rs. 500
crore,? Information and Broadcasting secretary Uday Kumar Verma told reporters
on the sidelines of the CASBAA India Forum 2012. ??The auction will be
conducted in phases. We will complete first phase by the end of this year,?
Verma said.?The Phase I and Phase II auctions led to total revenue accrual of
about Rs. 1,733 crore up to 31 May 2011 by way of one time entry fee, migration
fee and annual fee among others.
The Phase-III license would extend FM radio services to about 227 new cities,
in addition to the present 86 cities, and would result in coverage of all
cities with a population of one lakh and above through private FM channels.?In
its budget proposals for 2012-13, the government said last week that it had
estimated to raise non-tax revenue of Rs. 1,600 crore from auction of FM phase
III license, but this auction have not materialised so far in this financial
year, ending 31 March 2012. [Livemint.com 21/03]
(Jaisakthivel, ADXC, Tirunelveli, www.dxersguide.blogspot.com)
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:15:56 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[email protected]>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] Galei zahal /Kol Israel on 15785 using USB
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
http://zlgr.multiply.com/photos/album/28/my_radio_shack_
15785U Kol Israel /G zahal? On 0458 OM with talks in Hebrew mentioning
Facebook and
Sheva Megholetra (???) then ID as Kol Israel then with news in a clear freq .
Quite funny to
use USB instead of AM A recording has been uploade to Soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/greekdx/g-zahal-0459-15785u-210312
but has some audio gaps due to a bad cont4ct
Also heard on 17xx with nearly same level
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 PL200/550/600, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:18:17 +1300
From: "Radio Heritage Mail" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Top 5 Radio Books for March 2012
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
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