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Today's Topics:
1. VoA reminds me the case of ERT 15 years ago (Zacharias Liangas)
2. Fw: Drumbbb und VOA 2025 Freez (df5sx.p11_t.online.de)
3. Glenn Hauser logs March 15-16, 2025 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 08:44:28 +0000 (UTC)
From: Zacharias Liangas <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] VoA reminds me the case of ERT 15 years ago
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On around 2013 or 2014? ERT had the same chance of VOA as? of now. the MP of
New Democracy those times decided to stop ERT for austerity reasons against
the? European lenders, It was fortunate not verylong after the next president
(from the left wing Syriza) restored them . Part of the fired employees started
a semi clandestine station in Athens and via internet with their program .
Here is what Gemini Ai did for me, including some sources that this time were
not used for this article :
The Closure of ERT: A Controversial Decision
In June 2013, the Greek government, led by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, made
the controversial decision to shut down the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation
(ERT), the country's public broadcaster. The closure was part of a broader
austerity program aimed at reducing the national debt and meeting the demands
of international creditors.
The Arguments for Closure:
The government argued that ERT was inefficient and wasteful, with a bloated
workforce and high operating costs. They claimed that the closure would save
the government ?250 million per year and help to reduce the national debt.
Additionally, they argued that the private sector could provide the same
quality of broadcasting services as ERT.
The Arguments Against Closure:
Opponents of the closure argued that it would be a major blow to freedom of
speech and democracy in Greece. They claimed that ERT was an important source
of independent news and information, and that its closure would give the
government too much control over the media. Additionally, they argued that the
closure would lead to job losses and hurt the Greek economy.
The Public Reaction:
The closure of ERT was met with widespread public outrage. Thousands of people
took to the streets in protest, and journalists and media workers went on
strike. The closure was also condemned by international organizations such as
the European Broadcasting Union and Reporters Without Borders.
The Aftermath:
The closure of ERT was ultimately reversed in June 2015, after the Syriza party
came to power. The new government argued that ERT was an important part of
Greek culture and that its closure had been a mistake.
Conclusion:
The closure of ERT was a controversial decision that had a significant impact
on Greek society. While the government argued that it was necessary to save
money and reduce the national debt, opponents argued that it was a major blow
to freedom of speech and democracy. The closure ultimately led to widespread
public outrage and was reversed by the new government in 2015.
a few links for more info: first is in english
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_of_ERT
https://www.in.gr/2013/06/11/greece/ksafniko-thanato-tis-ert-anakoinwse-i-kybernisi/
https://www.iefimerida.gr/news/110661/%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CF%8C%CF%82-%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%B7%CE%B3%CE%AE%CE%B8%CE%B7%CE%BA%CE%B5-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%8E%CE%BD%CE%B7-%CF%83%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AC-%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BC%CE%BF-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%84-%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%88%CE%B7-%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%BA%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%B3%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%BF-%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85-
Zacharias Liangas?https://bit.ly/3CzShVU? disclaimer on my writing
PL330 + ext antennas/ RSP1a/SpyHF+D?
exMusic Producer Greek Music Refuge / Dangdut? and Beyond
https://youtu.be/8VJ__oppkLs the pool
https://linktr.ee/zliangas? all my pages?
>From now and for an unknowntime, at least for 3 years, I will not use any
>radio except the remote SDRs forDXing. Recently we moved from the village back
>to the city in a space thatprohibits the use of desktop DXing, a place flooded
>by high levels of noise inthe LMHF bands. The radio is now used mostly for FM,
>for news listening.we runpolitically lively condition with always very
>interesting twits every day ..
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:40:42 +0100
From: "df5sx.p11_t.online.de" <[email protected]>
To: "_ WOR" <[email protected]>, "_ DXplorer" <[email protected]>, "_
egroups_DXindia" <[email protected]>, "Dave Kenny" <[email protected]>,
"_ BCLNEWS" <[email protected]>, "HCDX"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Fw: Drumbbb und VOA 2025 Freez
Message-ID: <E0EE59E3F7C0479DA7D55D9212024028@PC3>
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Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2025 4:29 PM
To: Michael Bethge_actual ; Michael ADDX
Subject: Drumbbb und VOA 2025 Freez
Trump freezes US-funded media outlets including Voice of America.
President Donald Trump's administration on Saturday put journalists at Voice of
America and other US-funded broadcasters on leave, abruptly freezing
decades-old outlets long seen as critical to countering Russian and Chinese
information offensives.
Hundreds of staffers at VOA, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and other
outlets received a weekend email saying they will be barred from their offices
and should surrender press passes and office-issued equipment.
Trump, who has already eviscerated the US global aid agency and the Education
Department, on Friday issued an executive order listing the US Agency for
Global Media as among "elements of the federal bureaucracy that the president
has determined are unnecessary."
Kari Lake, a firebrand Trump supporter put in charge of the media agency after
she lost a US Senate bid, said in an email to the outlets that federal grant
money "no longer effectuates agency priorities."
The White House said the cuts would ensure "taxpayers are no longer on the hook
for radical propaganda," marking a dramatic tone shift towards the networks
established to extend US influence overseas.
White House press official Harrison Fields wrote "goodbye" on X in 20
languages, a jab at the outlets' multilingual coverage.
VOA director Michael Abramowitz said he was among 1,300 staffers placed on
leave Saturday.
"VOA needs thoughtful reform, and we have made progress in that regard. But
today's action will leave Voice of America unable to carry out its vital
mission," he said on Facebook, noting that its coverage ? in 48 languages ?
reaches 360 million people each week.
The head of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which started broadcasting into
the Soviet bloc during the Cold War, called the cancellation of funding "a
massive gift to America's enemies."
"The Iranian ayatollahs, Chinese communist leaders, and autocrats in Moscow and
Minsk would celebrate the demise of RFE/RL after 75 years," its president,
Stephen Capus, said in a statement.
US-funded media have reoriented themselves since the end of the Cold War,
dropping much of the programming geared toward newly democratic Central and
Eastern European countries and focusing on Russia and China.
Chinese state-funded media have expanded their reach sharply over the past
decade, including by offering free services to outlets in the developing world
that would otherwise pay for Western news agencies.
Radio Free Asia, established in 1996, sees its mission as providing uncensored
reporting into countries without free media including China, Myanmar, North
Korea and Vietnam.
The outlets have an editorial firewall, with a stated guarantee of independence
despite government funding.
The policy has angered some around Trump, who has long railed against media and
suggested that government-funded outlets should promote his policies.
The move to end US-funded media is likely to meet challenges, much like Trump's
other sweeping cuts. Congress, not the president, has the constitutional power
of the purse and Radio Free Asia in particular has enjoyed bipartisan support
in the past.
Advocacy group Reporters Without Borders condemned the decision, saying it
"threatens press freedom worldwide and negates 80 years of American history in
supporting the free flow of information."
Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and
senior Democratic congresswoman Lois Frankel said in a joint statement that
Trump's move would "cause lasting damage to US efforts to counter propaganda
around the world."
One VOA employee, who requested anonymity, described Saturday's message as
another "perfect example of the chaos and unprepared nature of the process,"
with VOA staffers presuming that scheduled programming is off but not told so
directly.
A Radio Free Asia employee said: "It's not just about losing your income. We
have staff and contractors who fear for their safety. We have reporters who
work under the radar in authoritarian countries in Asia. We have staff in the
US who fear deportation if their work visa is no longer valid."
"Wiping us out with the strike of a pen is just terrible."
(March 16, 2025 - A_F_P -
<https://eng.mizzima.com/2025/03/16/20116> March 16)
Trump sperrt US-finanzierte Medien, darunter Voice of America
16. Maerz 2025
"Uns mit einem Federstrich auszuloeschen, ist einfach schrecklich."
A_F_P
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:00:33 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: WOR DXLD <[email protected]>
Cc: Short-Wave Radio Listening <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 15-16, 2025
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** TURKEY. 5960.003+, March 15 at 2259, VOT not off the air today,
unlike yesterday, ending IS, 2300 TS and s/on English -- announcer
sounds out of breath, like he just ran up the stairs, barely getting
into studio in time for live announcement, always awry in Ankara,
oblivious to the several repeats of the 1330 broadcast on 13635. VG
S9+40/50 but low hum and soon CCCCCCI. 2313 `The First Quarter of the
Millenium`` about Kyoto climate change protocol of 2005, but which
*rump withdrew the US from in his first term. 2320 multi-lingual ID
filler reel; 2322 music. 2331 unID feature about the Spanish
reconquista. 2339 TRTVOTVorld.com promo, music. 2340 the axentuated
about an Ottoman project, railway from Jordan, music. 2350
always-by-your-side promo, music. 2355 s/off as if it`s the 1330 on
13635, `thank you for lis---`` and chop off before 2356* even one note
of IS, no finesse. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)
A-25 TRT EMR time slot sorted
[with CIRAF targets, kW, azimuth, slew, antenna type]
17620 1230 1330 18S,27,28??????????? 250 310?? 0 211
11660 1630 1730 30S,40E,41N????????? 250 95? -10 215
9750 1830 1930 27,28??????????????? 250 310?? 0 205
9875 2030 2130 41,49,51,54,55,58-60 300 105?? 7 219
11785 2200 2300 4,7,8,9,11N,27,28W?? 300 325?? 0 219
6165 0300 0400 38E,39,40W?????????? 250 150?? 0 205
7275 0300 0400 6E,7-11,27,28W?????? 300 325?? 0 219
(A-25 hfcc.org database via Wolfgang Bueschel, gh English excerpted)
** U S A [and non]. VOA situation: Not all the staff at Greenville
[Grimesland] are full-time employees; seven technicians are personal
service contractors (PSC) and are to be put on administrative leave
until further notice, but not locked out, unlike some personnel in
Washington.
Five Government Service Employees remaining are: three supervisors,
the chief engineer and a secretary. One person already accepted a
buy-out. A former manager has returned. It`s unclear if there will be
enough staff to keep running the site 24/7.
Perhaps they will at least keep Radio Mart? broadcasting as long as
the program feed remains. It seems there has been a lot of repetition
already in music and talk features to fill the 24-hour schedule.
Already planned: GB-8, a 500 kW AEG transmitter is to be retired, as
no high voltage transformer can be obtained for it. One of the Kuwait
senders, a Continental 417 will be moved in to replace it.
Now in doubt is a major expansion of the Kuwait site, three x 250 kW
Ampegons, to replace S?o Tom?, and others. Other relay sites? So far
it appears that Tinang, Philippines is still operating (Glenn Hauser,
0451 UT March 16, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. Monitoring by gh: 13820, March 16 at 1457, open
carrier S6/S7, 1500 JIP Radio Mart? with ID. 11860 was not on at 1457
but is on after 1500. 11930 already running at 1457, S7/9+5, all
Grimesland NC site. Presumably about to be abolished.
Greenville manager Willford Cooper could not find anything out at 1604
UT March 16. The computer network was down and Greenville getting its
Mart? programs from satellite. Staff could not put in their time
cards, get the daily activity report of operational memos from DC. So
if they had been told to shut down they would never know.
But by 1654 UT: The order has been passed to Macon Dail, the Chief
Engineer, to shut Greenville down. All employees have been told not to
show up for work.
Alan Furst, Kansas City, reports: ``Mart? went off at 16:30 today
3/16.? All transmitters appear to be off in 22 and 25 meters. It
happened abruptly, although I wasn't listening closely to know what
they said at the end. Was a surprise.``
Many USAGM services are missing frequencies, dead air, filling with
music or repeating old programming as the axe is falling; much
monitoring of details in the WOR indian ocean group. The White House
has quoted Dan Robinson`s critique of VOA as one justification. And
Kim Elliott says, ``The zombification of VOA has begun. Listening at
0400 UTC 15 March on 4930 kHz, Botswana relay via an SDR in South
Africa: It was the VOA "Worldwide in Five" newscast from March 9 at
0200 UTC.`` - he probably meant 0400 UT 16 March as this was posted a
few minutes after that.
VOA`s broadcasting of week-olds eclipses Voice of Turkey, where their
olds would be no more than 14.5 hours stale.
At 1900 UT March 16, via UTwente checking all VOA scheduled
frequencies per EiBi:
Tigrigna: 9485 BOT & 12040 CVA dead air; 13765 KWT music
English: 13590 D-L = Germany music
French: 17700 GB OFF
Korean: 7465 & 9800 PHT, 9575 THA all with music
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2286 monitoring: confirmed Saturday
March 15 at 1928 about 4 minutes into so start circa 1928 UT on
WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S9+18 groundwave into nearby SDR.
Saturday March 15 at 2300, still no signal on WTWW, 9475, when WOR
appeared a few times in A-24 season before 9475 became inoperable.
Maybe to return?
UT Sunday March 16 at 0000, new non-time for WOR reconfirmed on WRMI
9955, preacher, instead of UT Sunday 0100, despite still on the
don`t-you-believe-it System B sked for Saturday 8:00 PM EDT.
Confirmed UT Sunday March 16 at 0349 UT on WA0RCR, 1860 AM, MO, S9+20
groundwave into nearby SDR but with storm crashes from Alabama area, 5
minutes into so started circa 0344 the 0315v.
Also confirmed Sunday March 16 at 1047 the 1030 on WRMI 9955, S9
direct. (Also, after 0930, WRMI was still *not* on 9455, contrary to
own sked, when WOR is supposedly aired on Saturdays.) Next:
2000 UT Sunday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2230 UT Sunday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 7570 to NW [and/or 7780];
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to SW;
0930 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 6160;
2030 UT Monday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to SW;
1300 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
1400 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [also web-, phonecast; jammed?];
2100 UT Tuesday IRRS 1323-Italy;
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW;
0030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2030 UT Wednesday SW Radio, Germany 3975;
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW;
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S;
1730 UT Thursday SW Radio, Germany 3975 & 6160.
Financial support appreciated for our non-commercial public service
program: thanks for a generous contribution from Peter Robinson,
Preston UK, via PayPal to: woradio at yahoo.com
Or by MO or check on a US bank to: Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid
OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A [and non]. 5950, Sat Mar 15 at 2251 into UTwente, ham radio
news in English, but with modulated pulse QRM once per second,
horrible. Same thing audible without QRM from WRMI into Georgia SDR.
Xmtr grid shows 5950 WRMI-10 does not start until 2300! Contradixion:
System L sked shows 5950 WRMI starts at 2100 including `Viva Miami` at
2245. Something`s always odd at Okeechobee (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 15138/15142/15146//15154/15158/15162/15166, March 16 at
1453, WMLK only S9/+10 on fundamental 15150 but manages to produce
unstable spurs at +/- ~4 kHz intervals. Something`s bonkers at Bethel
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 2000 UT March 16
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 267, Issue 17
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