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Today's Topics:
1. India: I&B Ministry's FY'13 budget is Rs 27.37 bn (Jaisakthivel)
2. National Conference on Community Radio (Jaisakthivel)
3. Glenn Hauser logs March 19, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:06:59 +0800 (SGT)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
To: ardic <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: [HCDX] India: I&B Ministry's FY'13 budget is Rs 27.37 bn
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The Indian Information and Broadcasting Ministry's total plan and non-plan
budget for 2012-13 has risen marginally to Rs 27.37?billion compared to Rs
26.44 billion last year and the revised estimates of Rs 26.05 billion.?The
allocation for the Ministry includes an outlay of Rs 935.5 million for projects
in the north eastern part of the?country including Sikkim.?The allocation under
the head 'Secretarial-Social Services' has been doubled to Rs 1.27 billion as
against the revised?estimates for last year of Rs 639.8 million and the 2011-12
allocation of Rs 754.5 million. This will also be spent?towards the centenary
celebration of Indian cinema, the National Film Heritage Mission, the proposed
National Centre for?
Animation and Gaming, and anti-piracy activities.
With the government reiterating that it will adhere to the sunset date for
switching off analogue, this allocation could?help create the infrastructure
and also awareness about the benefits of digitisation.?The allocation for Press
Information Services which includes grants to the Press Council of India has
been lowered to Rs?588.9 million from last year's Rs 592.4 million and the
revised estimates of Rs 543.4 million, to meet the expenses for?the Press
Information Bureau, the Press Council of India, and for running the non-aligned
countries news pool.
The allocation to the Electronic Media Monitoring Centre has been marginally
reduced to Rs 43.8 million from the revised?estimates of Rs 42.8 million in
2011-12 (as against the Rs 45 million allocated in the budget last year). The
EMMC was set?up for monitoring television and radio channels for violation of
programme and advertising codes.?The allocation for advertising and visual
publicity has been raised to Rs 1.66 billion as against the allocation last
year?of Rs 1.23 million, following the increase in the advertising rates of the
Directorate of Advertising and Visual?Publicity.
Meanwhile, for the third year in a row, the government has not announced any
investment in the National Film Development?Corporation.The grant-in-aid to
Prasar Bharati in the budgetary allocation of the Ministry has been increased
to Rs 15.74 billion as?against Rs 14.84 billion in 2011-12 and the revised
allocation of Rs 15.74 billion.?However, there is increase in the Ministry's
investment in Prasar Bharati: with Rs 4.01 billion in the plan outlay and
an?additional Rs 4 billion in the non-plan outlay as against last year's total
investment of Rs 3.8 billion which was revised?later in the year to Rs 2.76
billion.
Prasar Bharati sources told indiantelevision.com said this had been done to
meet the extra expenditure on salaries which?has fallen on the shoulders of the
Government since all Prasar Bharati employees who were in employment as on 5
October?2007 have been given deemed deputation status.?While the grant-in-aid
is to cover the gap in resources for meeting revenue expenditure, the
investment is to finance the?capital expenditure of the pubcaster.
However, despite the reference in his speech to the centenary of Indian cinema,
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has?announced a drastic cut in the budget for
the film sector in the Ministry.?The budget for the film sector for 2012-13 is
Rs 841.1 million as against the allocation of Rs 1.37 billion and
revised?estimates of Rs 1.34 billion. There is an additional outlay of Rs 66.7
million towards certification of cinematographic?films. [Indiantelevision.com
19/03]
(Jaisakthivel, ADXC, Tirunelveli, www.dxersguide.blogspot.com)
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:44:04 +0800 (SGT)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
To: ardic <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: [HCDX] National Conference on Community Radio
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National Conference on Community Radio Prospects and Challenges held on 16&17
March 2012 at Department of Communication, Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univerity,
Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr. R. Sreedher,?
Director, CEMCA-COL, New Delhi?delivered?the keynote address. For see more
event photos click the following
link?http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2842327379457.2116774.1297511096&type=3
(Jaisakthivel, ADXC, Tirunelveli, www.dxersguide.blogspot.com)
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:24:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 19, 2012
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** CHINA. Firedrake March 19, before 1400:
11970, fair at 1325 vs nothing audible. Only target around here in Aoki is:
``11980 SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng 2000-1700 1234567 Chinese 0.1 ND ? TWN 11955E
2610N SOH b11 11950-12100``
12980, fair at 1330
14700, fair at 1331
15375, poor, Chinese, propeller noise jam and maybe FD too at 1335
15500, very poor at 1333
15615, fair at 1340, not on 15500 now
15900, poor at 1331
15940, fair at 1331, unusual spot
16100, good with flutter at 1336, none in the 17s, 18s. I had been using inside
longwire due to storms, but switched to outside at 1337 which procured
noticeably better signal on 16100
After 1400:
15605, poor at 1415, ex 15615 before the hour, both abutting WEWN, which
fortunately has not built up to normal super daytime level with all its spurs
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6030, March 19 at 0518, DentroCuban Jamming Command is still running
at least two lite pulse jammers slightly out of synch, this UT Monday despite
R. Mart? weekly silent period, plenty to wipe out the weak DX possibilities
here, notably Radio ICDI, Central African Republic which CEO Jim Hocking tells
me is still on the air, listed sign-on 0500; not even CFVP can be heard either.
Tnx a lot, Arnie!
7210, March 19 at 1258 heard some lite pulse jamming around here but let up
before I could pin the frequency, so maybe they are really going after
anti-Castro exile ranter N1NR in PA who hangs out on 7210-LSB, tho unheard
today. The trouble with jamming hams is that they can flexibly move around, and
it would sort of belie Arnie`s CO2KK devotion to ham radio (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, March 19 from 0455 looking for RNGE Bata which had
been reported by Victor Goonetilleke in Sri Lanka as reactivated on March 17,
and heard signing on at *0458 March 18 by Brian Alexander, PA. But not even a
carrier detectable here; anyone else hear it again, or will it prove to be as
erratic as the other SW stations here? Also checked 6250v in case Malabo come
back. It used to come on at widely variable times after 0530.
15190, March 19 at 1855 I don`t hear anything, but at 1857 a bit of music, 1858
announcement, 1859 preacher intonations, so presumably R. Africa is still
active. Very poor signal. If anyone ever manages to record an ID, I want to
hear it; in previous lives, R. Africa would make them occasionally (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, March 19 at 1308, somewhat better signal than usual
muscles aside the ACI from 9530 a bit, so I can tell that VOI is just barely
modulating, but not well enough to be sure it is in English as scheduled; in
fact, for a moment it seemed Chinese. Ishida says it was in English today as
well as most of the previous week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, expected VON to resume on a weekday March 19 at 1900 from
new Abuja transmitter, but nothing audible from it or Ikorodu before 1900;
however, Spain was splattering badly from 15110 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1020, March 19 at 0526 UT, my semi-local KOKP Perry is in open
carrier, dead air, still so at 0554, and nulling it, can barely make out two
stations, one in English, one in Spanish.
780, March 19 at 0556 UT, daytimer KSPI Stillwater is also on with unmodulated
carrier, as often but not always the case overnight. I was wondering if it
might do so during the March 10 WBBM silent period, but no show then. It`s in
the same market as KOKP but different ownership. Also no longer hearing the
plus/minus 4 kHz spurs, nor when modulating in the daytime, altho I haven`t yet
rechecked it on the caradio where the 6-kHz hets against 770 and 790 were
obvious.
1520, yet another Okie with dead air, and it`s the biggie, KOKC! What`s going
on around here, anyway? Silence March 19 at 1255 UT so I keep listening, and
finally cuts modulation on during CBS News at 1302
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, March 19 at 1725, Brother Scare via WWCR is
upset that he don`t get no respect from mainstream gospel huxters, even tho God
has chosen him; also ``God does not use women as prophets`` so would those
stupid, na?ve women quit telling him otherwise? February+ duplicate on 9990
WTWW is still silent, but expected to resume shortly with someone else (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 11815.0, March 19 at 1311, REE is back on frequency today
making no audible het with NHK, after its Sunday day-off, when 15125 instead
was off-frequency. I expect it`ll be back on 11815.5 or so a few more times
this week.
15110, March 19 at 1855, REE Noblejas with mind-numbing IS before sign-on, very
strong but overmodulated and distorted on 15110, splattering at least
15100-15120, vs Nigeria if it was even on. At least much weaker 15125 via
Cariari was on-frequency today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15500, March 19 at 1657 poor signal with Sudanese music, 1658
Arabish announcement and plucking instrument, ID for Darfur, Sudan Radio
Service, off by 1700. Is 300 kW, 140 degrees from Woofferton UK at 16-17 since
Jan 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 660, March 19 at 1241 UT, tune-in to Dineh chanting, quickly KTNN
Window Rock ID in English along with some other unknown town on the Res in AZ;
Mercedes ad, belying impressions that it`s a poverty-stricken area. I need to
be listening at 1230 UT whether they pop onto non-direxional day pattern then
instead of 1330 when they are supposed to during March. Both all of adjacent NM
and the Navajo Res in AZ observe DST, AFAIK, unlike the rest of AZ (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Thanks to a last-minute tip from Engineer Al Hajny at WCSZ 1070, Sans
Souci SC, via John J. Rieger of dx-midamerica.com via the amfmtvdx at qth.net
list (which I also passed on to the DXLD yg), about an engineering test, it was
presumably heard here as follows:
UT March 19, aimed E/W on the DX-398 to minimize KLIO 1070 KS, and even more
so, IBOC from KRLD 1080 TX, I was getting KNX mixing with a SAH of
approximately 8 Hz, then:
0528, tone test, brief sweeps, more tone
0530, lo-pitched tone
0533, medium-pitched tone
0534, higher-pitched tone but less than 1 kHz
0536, higher pitched and now stronger
0539, nothing further heard, tho still SAH so carrier may have remained on.
No IDs heard, but the tip said, ``Hello John, I will be testing WCSZ 1070
tonight, (Monday morning 3/19) non-DA, at various powers from 25kW-50kW mostly.
I don't know if you have a place to post this, but I thought I'd pass this
along just in case it's useful to you. Al Hajny``
No time was mentioned either, but could have started as early as 0400 UT =
midnite EDT. WCSZ is in the Greenville SC market with a Spanish AC format, per
NRC AM Log, and night power is normally only 1.5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1060, March 19 at 0540 UT while checking for the 1070 DX from WCSZ,
noticed Mexican music from the SW, and not // XEPPM 6185, soon IDed as ``10-60
KIJN``, i.e. the 10 kW *daytimer* gospel huxter in Farwell TX on the NM border.
The music did not strike me as religious, but the brazen ID mentioned Jes?s; I
assume the calls in English signify In Jesus` Name. Signal was as good if not
better than the 1060 nullee, WLNO New Orleans with Brother Scare, as if we
can`t get enough of him already on SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510, March 19 at 0548 UT, ads with 303 AC, greeting ``mile-high
listeners``, denverdentist.com and then a chiropractor; ``15-10, 93.7, we`re
Mile High Sports``, 0549 into sports talk. It`s KCKK, Littleton CO, also heard
24 hours earlier dominating 1510, as in my previous report, concluding that
they are *not* nulling toward Nashville or Enid as their night and day patterns
would require. NRC AM Log shows 93.7 is a mere translator, K229BS (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, March 19 at 1307, WBCQ in dead air again, also at 1327,
but cut-on at 1329 with Radio211.com ID as on 7490 (not now) and 9330. Again
dead air at tune-in 1652 until resumed at 1656. Note: anomalies like this are
newsworthy, which is why I keep noting them. See also OKLAHOMA (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15580, March 19 at 1655, contact info for VOA-Africa, outro
`Africa News Tonight`, quite readable but under strong open carrier with a SAH.
1656 USG Editorial about US-Brasil partnership. 1659 the OC starts a standard
VOA sign-on, by which time the previous site had fortunately gone off and no
longer a SAH. Just before 1700 a switching error erupted with two words,
``David Bently``, 1700 VOA news. 1730, ending `VOA International Edition` and
into `Inquiry` for Africa about sibling rivalry. Recheck at 1902, now VOA on
15580 is only fair with flutter.
Current site lineup in the 14-22 VOA English period is per HFCC: 14-15 South
Africa, 15-16 Sri Lanka, 16-17 S?o Tom?, 17-18 Greenville, 18-1830 S?o Tom?,
1830-1930 Botswana, 1930-21 Bonaire, 21-22 Botswana! It will all change from
A-12 next week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11665, March 19 at 1418 hearing tones stepping down and then up,
stopping at 1000 Hz, vs CCI always here between RTI and ChiCom jamming (and
also this hour CRI via Wulumuchi, EAST TURKISTAN scheduled). And what about
Wai-FM, MALAYSIA? It never made it past all the QRM to here, but have not seen
any reports of it for almost a month now. Recheck at 1444, not hearing any of
this on 11665 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15284.4, March 19 at 1341, intruding weak CW, not hand-keyed
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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