------------------------------------------ 5745 E 961205 GS10 01:00 UTC World Harvest Radio (46254 Louisiana VSA) 5827 E 961205 GS10 00:57 UTC EWTN (Katholiek) 5915 D 961209 GS10 19:00 UTC Radio Slowakije SAT 5955 E 961209 GS10 19:30 UTC Radio Roemenie Buka SAT 6020 ? 960812 Sri 20:30 UTC Radio Nederland WO BLP 6055 E 961209 GS10 19:30 UTC Radio Slowakije SAT 6087 E 961205 GS10 00:44 UTC Family Radio 6145 D 961209 GS10 19:45 UTC Radio Rusland The VoSAT 6155 D 961209 GS10 20:00 UTC Radio Oostenrijk SAT 6160 E 961205 GS10 00:25 UTC Radio Nederl WO 6180 E 961209 GS10 20:00 UTC BBC World Service SAT 6230 ? 960812 Sri 13:30 UTC Trans World Radio BLP 6575 E 961209 GS10 20:00 UTC Radio NoordKoreaPjonSAT 6950 E 961209 GS10 20:30 UTC Radio China SAT 7105 E 961209 GS10 20:30 UTC Radio Italie SAT 7195 F 961209 GS10 20:30 UTC Radio Roemenie SAT 7205 F 961209 GS10 20:30 UTC Radio Rusland La VoiSAT 7235 ? 960812 Sri 20:30 UTC Radio Canada Intern BLP 7535 E 961205 GS10 00:16 UTC ??? Voice of America ? or was it Monitor Radio or so ? 8035 S 961205 GS10 08:10 UTC Exterior de Espana 9280 E 961204 GS10 23:59 UTC ??? Religious station in English and ??? (Yapanese ?) 9410 E 961205 GS10 08:08 UTC BBC 9415 S 961205 GS10 00:02 UTC Hongarije 9425 E 961205 GS10 06-8 UTC Greece 9560 E 961204 GS10 23:52 UTC Radio Turkije 9570 E 961204 GS10 23:51 UTC Radio Roemenie 9615 E 961209 GS10 18:30 UTC Radio Australie SAT 9650 E 961209 GS10 18:30 UTC Radio India Nw DelhiSAT 500, Parlement Street 110001 9700 F 961205 GS10 07:44 UTC Bulgarije 9715 F 961204 GS10 23:43 UTC Radio France Int'l 9745 F 961205 GS10 07:34 UTC Radio France Int'l 9815 F 961209 GS10 19:15 UTC Radio Bamako Mali SAT 9865 961205 GS10 08:23 UTC Test ??? 9875 961205 GS10 08:23 UTC Test ??? 9895 N 961205 GS10 07:46 UTC Radio Nederl WO 9925 N 961205 GS10 07:46 UTC BRT WO 9940 N 961205 GS10 07:48 UTC BRT WO Mirrorfreq. van 9925 9965 D 961209 GS10 19:00 UTC Radio Armenie Yerevan SAT --- RadioAmateurs bbs * Origin: Midnight Ham bbs (2:292/861) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DGI00000 Date: 12/13/96 From: GEORGE WOOD Time: 02:05pm \/To: ALL (Read 7 times) Subj: MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXers 2262 Apparently-to: scdx@get.pp.se From: "George Wood" ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: MediaScan :: SWEDEN CALLING DXERS :: from Radio Sweden :: Number 2262--Dec 17, 1997 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Satellite, shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio Sweden. This week's bulletin was written by George Wood. Packet Radio BID SCDX2262 All times UTC unless otherwise noted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: This is going out today, a few days early, because this is my last working day before 5 weeks of vacation. I'd like to repeat my previous request for contributors to hold off on sending e-mail until after January 20, so I won't be inundated when I return. Also please note that the January 7 edition of the program will be a repeat of the December 17 program. The next new edition will be on January 21, 1997. I do have a question for those of you accessing the MediaScan pages on the Worldwide Web. Because of capacity limitations on our Web server, I've just removed the MediaScan archives containing au-format sound files from programs previous to edition 2238, December 19, 1995. I would like to freshen up the form of the Web edition, using frames,and splitting it up on several pages. But the easiest way to do that would also be to remove the archive. Does anyone ever really access old editions of MediaScan? Does anyone not have the ability to readh frames? If you have an opinion, let me know (the request not to write does not pertain here, please do write about this). Otherwise, the archive will disappear in the New Year. Let me also take this opportunity to thank all of you who have sent contributions to the program during the past year. Special thanks to James Robinson, Curt Swinehart, Martyn Williams, Richard Karlsson, and Christian Lyngemark. Happy holidays and best wishes for the New Year! NOTE 2: December 16 is/was science and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke's 79th birthday. As the first to propose geo-stationary satellites, he is the patron saint of satellite communications. Check out the unofficial Arthur C. Clarke page at: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.Homepage.html Last week marked the 100th anniversary of the first public demonstration of radio by Marconi, another patron saint of communications. Check out: http://monviso2.alpcom.it/hamradio/mmm.html NORDIC MEDIA NEWS: RADIO SWEDEN--Beginning January 1, 1997, Radio Sweden and Swedish Radio will be broadcasting on Eutelsat II-F1, on the NBC Europe transponder on 10.987 GHz, audio 7.56 MHz. Our current schedule on Astra and Tele-X will continue through March. Our broadcasts via the World Radio Network, to Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa, will remain unaffected. Here's some of the Holiday specials coming on Radio Sweden's English service during the next couple of weeks: December 24 Christmas Eve Special December 25 Christmas Day Special December 26 Boxing Day Special December 27 Look Back at 1996 December 28 Spectrum 1996 Round-up December 29 Sounds Nordic The Year That Was December 30 SportScan 1996 Review December 31 Sounds Nordic The Year That Was January 1 Money Matters 1996 Review January 2 Nordic Report January 3 Look Back at 1996 January 4 Spectrum 1996 Round-Up January 5 In Touch With Stockholm January 6 SportScan 1996 Review STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL--We have a number of special programs on our P6 - Stockholm International transmitter in Stockholm (89.6 MHz) over the next few weeks (local times here): Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" from the BBC with Sir Ralph Richardson will be on December 23 at 22:00 hrs, repeated on December 25 at 09:00 hrs. "The Sixteen Christmas Concert" from the BBC will be on December 24 at 09:00 hrs. "The Beatles at Christmas" will be aired on the 24th at 10:00 and 22:00 hrs. That will be followed by "The Beatles Story" in 6 parts, narrated by Richard Skinner, daily from December 25 to 30 at 10:00 and 22:00 hrs. December 26, 27, and 30 at 09:00 hrs sees "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel", recreations of long-lost Marx brothers radio scripts. On December 31 at 22:00 hrs, we'll present "After Supper Ghost Stories" by Jerome K. Jerome. "One Step Beyond Madness" about the band of the same name, will be aired January 6 11:00-13:00. Finally Keith and Kathy will be presenting "The Best of Morning Coffee" on December 31 at 09:00-11:00 hrs and Januaary 1 at 11:00-13:00 hrs. Beginning January 2, the program switches to the new time of 11:00- 13:00 hrs, and changes name to "Lunchbreak". DIM--At this time of year we usually either look back at what's happened during the year gone by, or look forward to the future. It's the latter we're doing in this edition of MediaScan, looking at a project that exemplifies the future of electronic multimedia. The project is called Distributed Interactive Media, or DIM, and it involves no less than 19 Swedish companies, including public broadcasters Swedish Radio and Swedish Television, several major newspapers, telecoms companies, and the Swedish subsidiaries of hardware producers like Sun and Silicon Graphics. Bringing them all together is the Royal Institute of Technology here in Stockholm, and in this program we talk to the institute's Ulla Skidn, the project leader for DIM. You can find a draft summary of the project at: http://www.it.kth.se/labs/ts/media/DIM/ericsson.medialab.DIM.html The project had a trial run on December 10th, when the Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm and Oslo. The Royal Institute of Technology has a special program with Stanford University in California, where one of the 1996 laureates works. They took advantage of the opportunity to create a special multimedia broadcast. The Nobel broadcast included a special Worldwide Web pages, which include a variety of multimedia presentations. Besides some offbeat photos of Sweden's King Carl Gustav, who hands-out the Nobel prizes here, RealAudio interviews with the Physics and Chemistry laureates, there's a video about Stanford's Physics laureate Douglas Osheroff. The Web site is at: http://www.it.kth.se/nobel SWEDISH TELEVISION--Swedish Television is taking part in Scandinavian Channel, which broadcasts to North Americans of Scandinavian descent. Actually the "channel" is a half-hour daily program on the International Channel, which reaches 7 million cable households. However, there are plans to expand to 2 hours daily. ("Radiotidningen") KANAL 5--Kanal 5, which has slowly been closing in on Kinnevik's TV3 in viewership, has now attracted some choice children's programming. After the terrestrial private station TV4 captured the primary rights for Disney programming from Swedish Television, Kanal 5 grabbed the secondary rights from TV3. (Of course it doesn't hurt that Kanal 5 is owned by SBS, which is owned by ABC, which is owned by Disney.) There will be Disney programming every weekday. ("Metro") Kanal 5 has also signed a 5 year contract with Stephen Spielberg's "Dreamworks". This gives Kanal 5 and the other SBS channels rights to TV series and the first 50 movies produced by the company over the next few years. ("Dagens Nyheter") RADIO--Kinnevik's Norwegian station, Radio P4 Hele Norge, is already broadcasting in the Swedish west coast city of Gothenburg. Now the station plans to extend to all of Sweden, either by taking over Kinnevik's Swedish network, Radio Rix, or buying radio licences as they become available. ("Vision" via "Radiotidningen") Considering the Swedish government's plans to change radio licencing, this may become harder to do. Radio P4 Hele Norge is available on satellite on Intelsat 707, on the Norwegian TV2 transponder, 11.555 GHz. The report of the parliamentary committee on private radio in Sweden, reported on last time, was as expected. The committee majority wants to change the system introduced by the previous government, auctioning frequencies to the highest bidder. Instead a government-appointed panel of experts would allocate channels. Predictably, the representatives of the parties behind the previous system, the Conservatives, Liberals, and Christian Democrats, registered reservations against the final report. Representatives of the current private radio stations were also critical, as they say they were promised an automatic 8 year renewal of their licences. Instead, they face fighting for their allocations in 2001. (TT) TV4--The Swedish government has reached a compromise with private terrestrial broadcaster TV4 on the station's new licence, which means 15 regional stations can remain on the air. After the original negotiations, TV4 said it would have to close its regional studios around the country. Now the government has agreed to let TV4 broadacst 10 minutes of commercials per hour between 19:00 and 24:00 hrs local time, 2 more minutes per hour than today. TV4's board meets on December 17 to consider the fate of the regional stations. (TT and "Svenska Dagbladet") SPORTKANALEN--It appears more and more likely that the days of Kinnevik's Sportkanalen are numbered. It has shared the TV6 transponder, but there are no Sportkanalen programs in the TV6 schedule for January. Instead, TV6 programming returns to weekends, replacing Sportkanalen. (Richard Karlsson, "Aftonbladet") Danish telecommunications group Tele Danmark, says it expects to recover its investment in Denmark's Sportskanalen within the next 6 to 8 years. Sportskanalen is a joint venture between Tele danmark, the state-owned Dansmarks Radio, the independent TV2, and the Danish Football Association. It's expected to begin broadcasts via cable and satellite on March 1, 1997. (Reuters) TURNER--Cartoon Network and TNT are now broadcasting to Scandinavia on Intelsat 707 on 10.995 GHz, in clear D2-MAC. ZTV Denmark on TV-SAT 2 and Tele-X has gone off the air. (Richard Karlsson and "SATCO DX Chart Update") DIGITAL--The Nokia Mediamaster 9500, the MPEG-2 multimedia terminal (satellite receiver) for the Nethold/Multichoice package to Scandinavia, is now supposed to be available in Sweden. The complete package, with terminal, 60 cm antenna, and universal LNB, is supposed to cost SEK 9500. The terminal alone will cost around SEK 1000 less. (Richard Karlsson) With Christmas shopping underway, we have yet to see a single ad in a Stockholm newspaper for these things. EUROPE: ASTRA--Galavision is closing on Astra transponder 44 on December 27. British Sky Broadcasting is taking over the transponder for a "pub quiz" that day between 12:00 and 22:00 hrs. It will be available to pubs and clubs only for a fee of GBP 150. There are also plans to use the transponder for pay-per-view experiments involving Manchester United soccer matches before the end of the current English football season. (James Robinson) The Chinese Channel will start on Astra transponder 71 in MPEG-2 from December 15. (James Robinson) QVC Germany has started on Astra transponder 52. (James Robinson and "SATCO DX Chart Update") FLEXTECH--TCI's British subsidiary Flextech has shaken up some of the channels it owns and operates. With a greater emphasis on telephone- based competitions and games, the Family Channel will change its name to Challenge TV from February 1. Meanwhile, the Children's Channel is moving some programming over to UK Living. "Tiny Living" will be a new programming block aimed at pre-schoolers. Playboy TV is also to extend its broadcasting hours by signing on at 23:30 hrs every night. Bravo will extend its schedule until 06:00 hrs, when EBN takes over the transponder. ("Tele-satellit News") EUTELSAT--The German women's channel TM3 is no longer broadcasting on Eutelsat II-F1, 11.638 GHz. (Richard Karlsson, "Aftonbladet") Bloomberg TV France has started broadcasts on Eutelsat II-F2, 11.575 GHz, 6.60 MHz. The Bosnian station BHT has moved to 11.080 GHz, where Europe by Satellite is found during the day. (Richard Karlsson, "Aftonbladet") The Polish RTL 7 has started official service on Hot Bird 1 on 11.489 GHz. ("SATCO DX Chart Update") MCA Inc. has reached agreement to buy 50 percent of RTL 7 from Luxembourg's CLT. MCA says it will provide both first-run and library programming, and will create two Universal banded programming blocks, consisting of movie and action-adventure themes. (Reuters) Hot Bird 2 was testing at 29 degrees East on 11.785 and 11.843 GHz, on December 3. It is now moving towards its final location alongside Eutelsat II-F1 and Hot Bird 1 at 13 degrees East, where it is expected to start official transmissions on December 20. ("SATCO DX Chart Update") The widely publicised stop at 29 degrees was part of a campaign by Eutelsat to keep rival Astra away from that position, which Astra is planning to use for its second generation digital satellite. ("Tele-satellit News") TELEPIU--According to the Italian daily "La Repubblica", German media magnate Leo Lirch is planning to sell his 45 percent stake in the Italian pay-TV network Telepiu to Canal Plus, which already owns 45 percent inherited from Nethold after the merger between the two companies. The deal could take place at the beginning of next year, and in exchange Kirch would receive the 32.5 percent stake in the German pay-TV channel Premiere which is held by Canal Plus. Since Kirch already has a 25 percent share of Premiere, this means he would be able to control Germany's only pay-TV network (and open the door to a previous deal giving a share of Premiere to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which had been blocked by Canal Plus and the other owner, Bertelsmann). ("Tele-Satellit News") RADIO--Radio Free Europe and Voice of America are no longer on Eutelsat II-F1, 11.095 GHz (RTL 2). (Richard Karlsson, "Aftonbladet") Belgium's Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal is cutting some foreign language programming, beginning in November 1997. German, Spanish, and Arabic will disappear, leaving only English and French, along with Flemish. The reasons are to save money and to expand broadcasts in Flemish, following protests from Flemish listeners outside of Belgium. (Herman Boel, DX Antwerp) ORION--C-SPAN is broadcasting to Europe for a few hours a day on Orion 1 on 12.585 GHz. ("SATCO DX Chart Update") AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST: TURKEY--TRT International has started on Turksat 1C, Eastern beam, 10.975 GHz. ("SATCO DX Chart Update") ARABSAT--Star Sports was on Arabsat 1C, 3.811 GHz, in PAL, between December 2 and 8. Kuwait TV has started on Arabsat 2A 12.646 GHz. Abu Dhabi TV has started on 4.075 GHz. ("SATCO DX Chart Update") INTELSAT--The Orbit Satellite Network digital package is on Intelsat 705, in MPEG-1.5 (?) in the Ku-band. ("SATCO DX Chart Update") ASIA/PACIFIC: MEASAT--The recently launched Measat 2 is now located at 148 degrees --- NetMgr 1.00.g4+ * Origin: GET, Lidingo, Sweden, +46-8-7655670 (2:201/505) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DGI00001 Date: 12/13/96 From: GEORGE WOOD Time: 02:05pm \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: 02:MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXers 2262 Apparently-to: scdx@get.pp.se From: "George Wood" East. ("SATCO DX Chart Update") TIBET--The U.S. government's Radio Free Asia started broadcasts in Tibetan on December 2. It broadcasts three half hours a day to the Chinese-occupied area. This is the station's second language, after Chinese. There are plans to introduce local language broadcasts to Burma, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia next year. (Reuters) AUSTRALIA--The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is considering a plan to sell its Asian satellite television service, reports the "Sydney Morning Herald". The newspaper says the proposed sale of Australian Television is supported by Prime Minister John Howard and his cabinet. Australian Television broadcasts Australian news and other ABC programming to Asia, using a transponder on one of Indonesia's Palapa satellites. The "Herald" said that under the plan the ABC would sell Australian Television's satellite capacity and its contracts with Asian pay TV operators. In return, the ABC would retain eight to 12 hours of daily time of service for its programming. (AP) Australian Television was set up under the previous Labour Party government. The current right wing government apparently prefers private ownership. JAPAN--The U.S. television network NBC plans to distribute its programs in Japan, the president of NBC Asia said Tuesday. S.K. Fung said NBC programs will be seen in Japan next year, although it remains to be decided whether they will be shown on conventional commercial TV, cable TV, or by satellite. NBC has been airing its CNBC business channel in parts of Asia for 1 1/2 years, and started an NBC general channel in Asia earlier this year. But the network doesn't have any programming available in Japan now, Fung said. (AP) NORTH AMERICA: CANADA--A week after the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had announced it would take Radio Canada International off the air in March, the station has won a one year repreive from the Canadian government. The cash-strapped CBC is currently trimming services and cutting jobs to deal with a 414 million (Canadian) dollar cutback in government subsidies. The federal government announced on December 12 that RCI's 16 million (Canadian) dollar funding will be part of a new foreign communications strategy. (Reuters) RADIO MIAMI INTERNATIONAL--On December 7, WRMI began broadcasting a weekly program from the Khmer Community Rescue Association of Seattle, Washington, USA. The program, which is in a test phase during the month of December, is aired each Saturday from 22:00-23:00 UTC on 9955 kHz. The first half-hour of the program is in the Cambodian, or Khmer, language and is called "Thansour Thmey Radio." It is intended for Cambodian immigrants living in the Americas. The second-half-hour of the program is in English and is called "Voice of Cambodia Radio International." The English-language program is intended for a general audience in the Americas, and its purpose is to promote Cambodian culture. The Khmer-language program is intended to preserve the Khmer language and culture of Cambodian immigrants. The English-language segment will also be broadcast via IRRS-Shortwave in Milan, Italy during December as part of the "International Public Access Radio" project undertaken by both IRRS and WRMI. On December 9, WRMI began re-broadcasting a daily 15-minute program from Vatican Radio in Spanish. This program is aired at 02:15-02:30 UTC Tuesday-Saturday, and at 01:45-02:00 UTC Sunday on 9955 kHz. The program contains a summary of recent Spanish-language programming from Vatican Radio's Hispanoamerican Service, news, commentaries, analysis, religious features and excerpts from speeches by Pope John Paul II in Spanish. During a visit by WRMI representatives to Vatican Radio in June of this year, discussions began between the two stations regarding possible shortwave relays of Vatican Radio programming by WRMI to Latin America. (Jeff White, WRMI) GLOBAL: CHILDREN'S DAY--The World Radio Network will be broadcasting the highlights of a special Children's Radio Day, as part of UNICEF's fifth annual Children's Day of Broadcasting on December 15. The special program by Children 2000, an organization set up to promote the use of radio for children, will be presented live from under the Christmas tree at Whiteley's shopping mall in central London, at 17:00-17:30 hrs UTC. It will be carried across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, Asia, and the Pacific on WRN (the satellite details are the same as for the WRN relays of Radio Sweden given below). A RealAudio version will also be available on WRN's Web site (www.wrn.org). The broadcast will also make history as the first radio program for children to be broadcast by Digital Audio Broadcasting. WRN's European English-language network is currently broadcast part of the Independent Radio DAB Multiplex in London. (Simon Spanswick, WRN) BBC--The Discovery Channel and the BBC are to team up in a USD 500 million venture to make programs and launch new channels. The new channels are to be "in the United States and elsewhere". The venture will also create hundreds of hours of new programs. (Reuters) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC--NBC and National Geographic Television have formed a joint venture to launch National Geographic channels through-out the world in 1997. The channels will carry documentary, drama, and children's shows, using National Geographic's library of nature programming, as well as shows that will be acquired. To start, the venture will launch cable and satellite channels in Latin America, Europe, and Asia, in co-operation with local partners in each territory. ("Tele-satellit News" and AP) CYBERSPACE: SERBIA--When Serbian strongman Slobadan Milosevic closed the free radio station B92, the station moved to the Worldwide Web. Within a few hours news from the station could be read and heard (in RealAudio). Milosevic was forced by international opinion to let the station return to the airwaves ("it was a problem with electricity" according to the Serb government), you can still check out the Web pages: http://www.xs4all.nl/opennet/ http://www.dds.nl/~pressnow/b92.htm ------------------------------------------------------------- Sweden Calling DXers/MediaScan is the world's oldest radio program about international broadcasting. Radio Sweden has presented this round-up of radio news, features, and interviews on Tuesdays since 1948. It's currently broadcast on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. Radio Sweden broadcasts in English: To Europe: Satellite: 13:30, 17:15, and 19:30 hrs on Astra transponder 33 (ZDF) and Tele-X (Kanal 5 -- 12.475 GHz) (through March) and on Eutelsat II-F1, 10.987 GHz (NBC Europe), 7.56 MHz (from January 1, 1997) 21:00 hrs via the World Radio Network on Astra transponder 22 (VH-1) In all cases (except Eutelsat) our audio subcarrier is 7.38 MHz We're also broadcasting to Africa and the Middle East via WRN at 00:30 Central African Time (Saturdays only also 02:30 CAT) on Intelsat 707 3.9115 GHz in MPEG-2, Audio Stream WRN1. Shortwave: 19:30 hrs 1179, 6065, 7240, and 9655 20:30 1179 and 6065 kHz 21:30 1179, 6065, and 7230 kHz 22:30 1179, 6065, and 7325 kHz Asia/Pacific: Satellite: Via WRN on AsiaSat-2 on 4.000 GHz, MPEG-2 DVB, Audio Stream WRN1, at 20:00 and 23:00 hrs UTC (06:00 and 09:00 AET). Shortwave: 13:30 hrs 7155 and 13740/15240* kHz 14:30 hrs 9435/9485* kHz 01:30 hrs 7265/7290* kHz North America: Satellite: 02:30 hrs UTC via WRN on Galaxy 5 transponder 6 (WTBS), audio 6.8 MHz (9:30 PM EST, 6:30 PM PST) Shortwave: 12:30 hrs on 15240 and 11650/13740* kHz 14:30 hrs on 15240 and 9485/11650* kHz 02:30 hrs on 6200 kHz 03:30 hrs on 7115 kHz Latin America: 00:30 hrs on 6065 kHz 01:30 hrs on 7265/7290* kHz * = may shift from day to day Each program Monday to Friday, recorded at 13:30 hrs UTC, is available in the RealAudio format at: http://www.sr.se/rs/english/sounds/english.ram Each day's program, recorded at 01:30 hrs UTC, is also available from WRN in RealAudio format. See: http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/Mirrors/WRN/audio/0130.ram FTP versions of both files (for those behind firewalls) are available at: http://www.sr.se/rafiles/rs/eng15.ra and ftp://town.hall.org/radio/Mirrors/WRN/audio/0130.ra Our World Wide Web page is at: http://www.sr.se/rs An html and a RealAudio version of this bulletin can be found at: http://www.sr.se/rs/english/media/scdx.htm Earlier versions of the bulletins in text and RealAudio or au-format recordings: http://www.sr.se/rs/english/media/media3.htm Sound files of Mediascan are archived at: ftp.funet.fi:pub/sounds/RadioSweden/Mediascan. You can also find the programs among the offerings of Internet Talk Radio at various sites, including: ftp://town.hall.org/radio/Mirrors/RadioSweden/MediaScan Contributions can be sent to DX Editor George Wood by fax to +468-667-6283 or by e-mail to: wood@rs.sr.se Reports can also be sent to: Radio Sweden S-105 10 Stockholm Sweden Contributions should be NEWS about electronic media--from shortwave to satellites--and not loggings of information already available from sources such as the "World Radio TV Handbook". Clubs and DX publications may reprint material as long as MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXers and the original contributor are acknowledged. We welcome comments and suggestions about the electronic edition, Sweden Calling DXers, and our programs in general. The mailing list for the Electronic Edition is now open to general subscription. If you can send e-mail over the Internet, send a message to: subscribe@rs.sr.se You ought to get a confirmation message in reply. To unsubscribe from the list, send a message to unsubscribe@rs.sr.se To get a copy of Radio Sweden's English program schedule, write to: english@rs.sr.se And for general questions, comments, and reception reports, our e-mail address is: info@rs.sr.se ------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to this week's contributors Good Listening! ************************ George Wood wood@rs.sr.se Radio Sweden http://www.sr.se/rs S-105 10 Stockholm tel: +468-784-7239 Sweden fax: +468-667-6283 ************************ --- NetMgr 1.00.g4+ * Origin: GET, Lidingo, Sweden, +46-8-7655670 (2:201/505) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DGJ00000 Date: 12/13/96 From: FRANK VACANTI Time: 08:57am \/To: ROB THIELEN (Rcvd) (Read 11 times) Subj: SW RADIO REPAIR Hi, Rob: RT> I have an older model GE World Monitor SW radio that I've enjoyed RT> *tuning-in* with, but the dawg gawn thing up and died. This is the RT> old vacuum tube electronics. Where can one get or test these old RT> tubes? I live in the Metro Milwaukee area. Anyone know the most RT> common failures in such an animal? Sure would be nice to catch RT> some waves again. ;) Just about any Ham operator over 35 will have a garage full of old tubes and tube testers, so call around to any local radio stores and ask for names (and contact phone-numbers) for any Amateur Radio clubs and the sponsors of any "Ham Fests" (or Radio "swap meets"). Some of the stores themselves may stock such supplies and - even if they don't - be sure to tell them what you need, since they just might have a friend or two who can help. Secondly, I've heard (though I'm not 100% sure) that Radio Shack maintains a large inventory of old tubes, though they don't actively advertise them because the demand these days is so low. Some of the larger stores may even still have a tube-tester tucked away in the corner of the store, or in a back room (at least, such was the case for a couple stores in my area not too long ago.) Also, check with the folks at Monitoring Times magazine (PO Box 98, Brasstown NC 28902-0098, (704) 837-9200, e-mail: mt@grove.net). I'm sure I've seen articles and/or ads about repair places around the US that specialize in older gear. And, BTW, if you're not already familiar with Monitoring Times, it's an **excellent** magazine for radio monitors of all kinds, plus their sister-organization "Grove Enterprises" is a very reputable supplier of all kids of radio gear and accessories for all kinds of radio monitoring. And, now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure I remember them saying that they've recently added a service of repairing old and new radio equipment of *all* kinds - not just servicing the models they sell. Hope this helps. Hang in there, happy listening, and don't forget me when you hit the Lotto! Cheers, Frank ... I am Mr. T of Borg. Gonna 'similate ya upside yo head, sucka! --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: NCC-1701 ENTERPRISE Platteville, CO 970-785-0217 (1:104/769) --------------- ** A related thread FOLLOWS this message. FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DGLQ2739 Date: 12/17/96 From: ROB THIELEN Time: 09:45pm \/To: FRANK VACANTI (Read 7 times) Subj: R: SW RADIO REPAIR Thanks very much, Frank, for the excellent info. I'll take it to heart. Rob Thielen --------------- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LAST Message In Thread <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DGJ00001 Date: 12/06/96 From: MARTIJN RENEMAN Time: 09:53am \/To: ALL (Read 9 times) Subj: bcdx.274 BC-DX 274 04 Dec 1996 ________________________________________________________________________ AFGHANISTAN Nangarhar Radio gets new tx. With the installing and assembling of a powerful 300 kW [tx] system, the bcs of Nangarhar R have improved. With the assembling of the system [words indistinct] can now have transmissions on both SW & MW. Nangarhar R bcs daily [to eastern zone of AFG ] at 0230-0330 UTC in the morning and 1130-1330 UTC in the afternoon. The bc can also be heard in neighbouring provinces. (R Voice of Shari'ah, Kabul, via BBCm via AGDX, Nov 17-18) ALBANIA Radio Tirana noted in English to EUR 1715-1730 UTC on 7155 & new 6185 (x9740) kHz, good signals on both frequencies. (Sundstrom, Nov 3) ANTARCTICA 15476 kHz LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel will return to the air approximately in the next March 1997. Actually Base Esperanza is in process of relief of the current personnel that will be changed. On the past 23 November come out the new endowment for the Antarctic, and the personnel of Base Esperanza will back to Buenos Aires approx. on next Dec 7. During this summer, they will profit the natural light in the Antarctic for the maintenance of the Bases, but in next March will return again LRA36 on the SW. (Gabriel Ivan Barrera-ARG, via DXW, Nov 22) 15476 kHz LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel, will return to the air about March 1997. The base will be staffed with new personnel who will restart the transmissions when they reactivate the base. (Barrera via Cumbre Dx) AUSTRALIA Following a tip from Dan Ferguson in EDXP #32 I emailed Arie Schellaars of R Australia, on 7330 kHz. In order to avoid VoA Mandarin on 7150 kHz at 1430-1600 UTC RA landed on 7330 kHz - another Mandaring Sce of BBC WS. After that email RA moved on 7380 kHz at 1430-1600 UTC, eff Nov 15. That's it for now. Khmer language sce is now on 7150 (x9500) at 1130-1230 UTC as informed by Arie Schellaars to avoid QRM from RVA Manila 9505 kHz and FEBC 9495 kHz. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Nov 27) [7150 kHz also in Vietn 1230-1430 UTC, well heard in Europe] BELGIUM RVI Brussels to AF daily at 1700-1800 UTC 5 kHz up on 11805 kHz, due interference by DW on 11795 kHz. Full power 300 kW MW Wavre on 1512 kHz at 0600-0800 & 1800-2400 UTC. (RVI Golfgids Nov 30) BULGARIA TO REOPEN UMBRELLA MURDER CASE? President-elect Petar Stoyanov told 'The Times' on 25 Nov, that the murder case of Georgi Markov will be reopened, AFP reported. Stoyanov said that clearing up Markov's murder will be one of his priorities after assuming office in Jan 1997. He noted that "for Bulgarian society, this question has acquired symbolic importance." Markov was a prominent writer who fled Bulgaria after falling out with the communist authorities. In 1969, he settled in London, where he worked for the Bulgarian section of the BBC World Service. Later, he joined RFE/RL's Bulgarian Sce in Munich. He was murdered in Sept 1978 in the British capital, most likely stabbed by a specially prepared poisonous umbrella. A tiny pellet containing the highly poisonous ricin was found in his leg after his death. (Stefan Krause, OMRI Daily Report, via Cumbre Dx, Nov 25) CHILE Monitoring Times reader offers to QSL reports from USA in English of R. Esperanza, v6089.98 kHz at 0720-0735 UTC, Spanish, 0735- 0803 English. It's not clear what connection he has with the station, so this may be proxy, but he says he is registered listener CE3-016 in the Federation of Amateur Radio Clubs. Wants US$2 by money order and postcards to Radio Esperanza, Saul Vergara Valenzuela, Calle Francisco Cerda 824, Recoleta, Santiago, Chile. (Glenn Hauser via NASWA, Nov 29) COSTA RICA RFPI came back on 15050 kHz briefly Sat afternoon Nov 30 at 2120 UTC check but by 0200 UTC check all frequencies were off and were still silent Mon Dec 2 at 1400. Hope it's nothing serious. (Glenn Hauser-USA, Oklahoma, Dec 2) CROATIA Radio 101 thanks citizens, institutions for support. In a statement a Zagreb local radio st, Radio 101 MHz, thanked all individuals, institutions, organizations and parties that had supported the radio in its endeavours to continue broadcasting as it has worked for 13 years. One hundred and twenty thousand people who had gathered in the Ban Jelacic Square (last Thursday [21st November]), and thousands of men and women who had sent messages of support to Radio 101, showed, thus, publicly that they felt the real need for the freedom of media, as one of the basic human rights. The statement said that the reactions of citizens showed that the fundamental civic values were beyond political struggle and interests. In the statement the radio station demanded again that a decision should be made immediately on awarding the radio frequency to Radio 101, and that the Telecommunications Council members should be relieved of their duty. UN human rights rapporteur sharply criticized the Zagreb government on Thursday [21st Nov] for closing down the only independent radio station Radio 101. Reporters Without Frontiers organization also criticized the decision, inviting Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to do his utmost in order that Radio 101 should continue broadcasting. The German Foreign Ministry has expressed concern over a Croatian Telecommunications Council decision not to grant a broadcasting licence to the Zagreb-based 101 radio, the German Embassy in Zagreb said. The US Congressional Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which monitors implementation of the Helsinki accords, also voiced concern over this decision. "We find Croatia's current human rights course to be very disturbing," the committee said. We have raised repeatedly our concern regarding government restrictions on independent media at the highest levels of the government of Croatia, including in meetings with President Tudjman and Foreign Minister Granic. This development in the case of Radio 101 constitutes a significant setback for democratization and free expression in Croatia. As Croatia pursues closer ties with the West, it is essential that the government of Croatia respect the rules of a democratic system. (US Department of State, Nov 20) Radio 101 was one of the longest established independent radio stations in Croatia which advocated open and democratic media in Croatia, the statement said. The European Union felt strongly that Radio 101 should be allocated a frequency concession in the city of Zagreb, the statement said. (BBCM via AGDX, Nov 25) CUBA RHC in Spanish observed Nov 26 at 2200-2300 UTC on 11760 & 13680 kHz. On Nov 30th at 2100-2200 UTC on 9830 (underneath Amman Jordan in Arabic) & 11760 kHz. Portuguese 2000-2100 UTC on 11760 kHz. ?Arabic 1900, French 2000 still on 13715am kHz on Dec 1st. English 2100-2200 UTC should move soon to 9585 and 9620 kHz acc Glenn Hauser's WoR. (WB Nov 24- Dec 1) RHC's new European freqs are to be 9620 (x13715) and 9585 (x13725) [does that mean the latter in USB?], English at 2100-2200, and 9820 (x13680) in Spanish at 2100-2300, Arnie Coro told Harold Sellers, ASAP (Ivan Grishin, Nov 26 via World of Radio) Still hadn't changed on Nov 30, but the 13705-LSB spur had been fixed by Nov 28. Freq change date is Dec 9, and 9585 will be USB; also trying to fix the low modulation on 13715 xmtr, Arnie told George Thurman Dec 1. (Glenn Hauser-USA, Oklahoma, Dec 2) I recall some recent postings here about a move by Radio Habana Cuba from its 22mb frequencies to the 31mb for English around 2100 UTC. For the record, I heard them with a very average signal here in Tasmania on Dec 1st around 2115-2130+ UTC still on 13715 kHz. Strangely, the *only* signal audible on 22mb at this time. Also the first time in many days I've heard them at all. (Matt Francis-AUS, Tasmania, Dec 1) GERMANY R Bremen lost its SW partner "SFB Berlin" at the beginning of 1994. Radio Bremen attempted to find another partner but couldn't so this made it to it necessary for them to end the SW sce. This per a fax from Fritz Senf at the station. Translation from my grandmother, Lilo Vogel. (Johnson, Cumbre Dx, Nov 28) INDIA AIR Delhi SW frequency schedule W96 (short form): kHz UTC kW tx location 3945 0130-0300 50 Gorakhpur 1330-1545 50 Gorakhpur 4860 1230-1930 50 Delhi 4990 0000-0045 100 Chennai 5990 0100-0200 250 Aligarh 6045 0130-0310 50 Delhi 1330-1930 250 Delhi 6150 1220-1740 50 Delhi 6155 0015-0430 100 Delhi 6165 1230-1600 100 Delhi 7110 0030-0040 50 Delhi 0215-0400 50 Delhi 7125 0100-0200 100 Delhi 7140 1315-1740 100 Delhi 7150 2045-2230 250 Delhi 7165 0100-0130 250 Aligarh (x7150) 7170 2245-0045 500 Bangalore (x7150) 7225 0215-0345 100 Delhi 7250 0130-0228 250 Goa Panaji 0700-0850 50 Gorakhpur 7265 1615-1730 100 Delhi 7410 1215-1430 250 Aligarh 1530-2230 250 Aligarh 9550 0130-0228 250 Aligarh 9565 0130-0200 250 Goa Panaji 1215-1740 100 Delhi 9595 0100-0430 250 Delhi 0700-1140 100 Delhi 9650 1745-1945 500 Bangalore 9700 1300-1545 250 Aligarh 9705 2245-0045 250 Aligarh 9835 0000-0045 100 Delhi (x9685) 1330-1740 100 Delhi (x9685) 9910 0000-0045 250 Aligarh 0215-0345 250 Aligarh 1315-2400 250 Aligarh 9950 0100-0130 50 Delhi 1615-1730 250 Aligarh 1745-0045 250 Delhi 10330 0025-0430 100 Delhi 0025-0430 50 Guwahati 0025-0430 100 Mumbai (Bombay) 0100-0430 100 Chennai also 0630-1200 & 1330-1730 using previous tx locations 1215-1315 100 Delhi 11585 1000-1100 250 Aligarh 1230-1730 500 Bangalore 11620 0100-0130 250 Delhi 0830-1500 250 Delhi 1515-0045 500 Bangalore (fr 2245 two txs combined) 11695 1215-1430 500 Bangalore (x11710) 11710 1115-1140 250 Aligarh 11715 2045-2230 250 Aligarh 11730 0400-0530 250 Aligarh 11740 0000-0045 250 Aligarh 1530-1545 50 Delhi 2300-2400 250 Aligarh 11830 0055-0400 100 Delhi 11840 1145-1315 500 Bangalore (x11735) 11850 0700-0800 100 Delhi 11855 0315-0415 250 Goa Panaji 11870 0030-0040 100 Delhi 11900 0130-0200 500 Bangalore (x11880) 11935 1745-1945 100 Mumbai 13620 0215-0430 500 Bangalore 1730-2030 500 Bangalore 13700 0130-0200 500 Bangalore 1000-1100 500 Bangalore 13710 1115-1245 500 Bangalore 1330-1500 500 Bangalore 13770 1615-1730 500 Bangalore 13780 1745-1945 500 Bangalore (x13770) 13795 2300-0045 500 Bangalore 15020 1300-1500 50 Delhi (NEW) 15050 0400-0530 250 Aligarh 0845-1100 250 Aligarh (2nd tx 1000-1100 combined) 1145-1315 250 Delhi 15075 0315-0530 500 Bangalore 1115-1215 50 Delhi 1515-1730 250 Delhi 1745-1945 250 Aligarh 15135 0125-0400 100 Delhi 15140 1615-1715 500 Bangalore 15175 1515-1600 500 Bangalore (x15165) 15180 0315-0415 250 Delhi 15185 0730-0850 100 Delhi 1115-1140 100 Delhi 15260 0700-0850 100 Delhi 15340 1115-1200 500 Bangalore 15770 1115-1245 250 Aligarh 17387 0315-0530 250 Aligarh 0845-0945 250 Aligarh 1000-1100 250 Delhi 17785 0430-0530 500 Bangalore 17840 1000-1100 500 Bangalore (x17895) 17860 1115-1245 100 Delhi (x17865) 17895 1115-1200 250 Aligarh (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Nov 27) 4950 kHz AIR Shrinagar *0120-0140+ UTC; opening anmnts in listed Hindi, with site ID. Beautiful SC vocals till 0130 UTC. Almost gone by 0200 UTC. (Martin via Cumbre Dx, Nov 21) 4950 kHz AIR (Radio Kashmir) Srinagar just fair at 0119 UTC with IS and *0120 with choral anthem and then sub cont music at 0122 UTC. Possible news at 0125. Peaking up to very good level crossing transmitter SR with S/C vocal at 0143 UTC recheck. (Clark via Cumbre Dx, Nov 13) INDONESIA RRI Bontosunggu, Southern Celebes near Ujung Pandang on good level at 1345 UTC 11885 kHz, Indonesian progr in //11785 kHz from Cimanggis near Jakarta. But with slight time delay, satellite feed. (John Stewart-UK in Communication, Nov 8) RRI Jakarta observed signing on with IS and ID at 2259-2300 UTC, best on 9680 kHz, second 9630, third in row 9565 kHz. (WB Nov 28) IRAN The Islamic government's law enforcement authorities have launched a new campaign to confiscate satellite dishes that were installed once again in recent months on the rooftops of Tehran and other Iranian cities. It was reported in recent months that a large number of citizens in Tehran, as well as in other towns, once again managed to see foreign tv progrs by using old dishes or a new kind of dish that has appeared in the markets recently. This dish is much smaller and lighter than older models. Most probably what prompted the Islamic government's leaders to launch a new campaign to confiscate the installed dishes is the transmission by the Voice of America [VOA] of a new one-hour weekly tv progr [in Persian], called "Roundtable" , which is bc every Fri at 1803 UTC. Nevertheless, the use of satellite dishes has continued on an extensive scale in every Iranian city. The clerical regime has mobilized thousands of its personnel in Tehran to collect these dishes in a so-called campaign to combat the Western cultural onslaught. (Voice of Israel / Voice of Iranian Kordestan, via BBCM via AGDX, Nov 26) JAPAN NHK Radio Japan announced changes to the 14 UTC English to SoAS release. 7225 kHz goes away, and the other Sri Lanka frequency moves up to 12045 kHz [from 11880]. (Tom Sundstrom-NJ, Dec 1) KAZAKHSTAN Radio Almaty with fair to good reception in English on 6230 kHz at 0100-0130 UTC. They are announcing frequs in meters and NOT in kHz. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Nov 27) KOREA North (P.R.) North Korean jamming noted on various channels in the 31 mb at 2100-2200 UTC range here in EUR. 9475 kHz against KTWR Guam, 2030-2130 & 1600-1615 UTC. On 9640 [RKI channel] and 9755 [VoA channel] kHz are the strongest North Korean jammers. (WB Nov 25) LITHUANIA/GERMANY Ivan Grishin in Ontario complains that R. Vilnius reception in English at 0030 UTC on 6120 kHz via Juelich is heavily QRMed by a lot of distinctive Albanian music, presumably R. Tirana. R. Vilnius has already done something about this by adding another frequency, as announced Nov 21 at 0050 UTC, 5890 kHz in parallel with 6120 kHz, starting Nov 19, reports Roger Tidy, London. Indeed 5890 was nice and clear when I checked Nov 27. Presumably also Juelich, but needs to be confirmed. (Glenn Hauser-USA, WoR, Nov 28) MYANMAR Mayawadi Radio Station observed at 1030 til 1330 UTC closing down on v5985.8 kHz. (Roland Schulze-PHL, Oct 17) 6570 kHz at 1236 UTC Defence Forces BC Unit. Vn local songs. On 7185 kHz /0030-0120 UTC R Myanmar Vn IS, ann/ID, local mx. (Gatzke, Nov 20-21) 6570 kHz Defence forces BC Taunggyi at 1325 UTC Western mx with Bamar male songs, end tune with hsaing waing music to s/off 1329 UTC. On 7185 kHz R Myanmar Yangon 0030 UTC Start of morning program with saung gauk music, at 0031 UTC female in Bamar with ID, hsaing waing music with Bamar male songs. (Rooy, via DXW, Nov 22) NETHERLANDS Controversy over site for planned LW station. A commercial radio venture based in Holland but beamed towards the UK and IRL has started to cause a bit of a commotion in the eastern part of the Netherlands. You may remember that in the late 60s and 70s, Radio Netherlands used a SW tx site at Kootwijk to send news bulletins to its overseas relay sts via a SSB tx. That site is still active for ship to shore communications, and in the distant past has housed a LW tx. The group Delta Radio is still trying to put a high powered LW tx on the air using 171 kHz. But it's difficult finding a transmitting site. They've tried Lopik which is the home to other MW senders like Radio 10 Gold but that's now full so the site being considered at the moment is Kootwijk, but apparently the forestry commission as well as local residents are not so enthusiastic about the 2-MW LW tx that's being proposed and four 300 metre high masts to beam the signal in the right direction. A major complaint is that such higher power signals tend to break through on domestic appliances like fax machines and portable telephones. A feasibility study on placing the tx at Kootwijk is still being written and once it's published, Delta Radio says they'll grant us an interview on what they are planning from a progr content point of view. (RNW via BBCM via AGDX, Nov 21) NIGERIA confirmed 15120 kHz outlet, 0600-1000 and 1500-2000 UTC. We hope to start test transmission on 7225 kHz [sic--not 7255--Tidy] very soon." Signed by Engr. O. I. Odumsi, Ag. Director Engineering for: Director General. Fax number is either 234 01 2691944 as inserted on letterhead, or 234-1-269.944 as on not clearly legible fax machine header at pagetop. By the way, the letterhead still gave postal address in Ikoyi, Lagos, not Abuja. Meanwhile, African music test heard again on 15120 Dec 1 from 1936 till off at 2000 sharp without announcement. (Glenn Hauser-USA, WoR, Nov 28) PAKISTAN R Pakistan in English 0230-0245 UTC 7290 15120 15485 17705 17725. 0800-0850 & 1105-1120 15470 17900. 1600-1630 9425 9515 11570 11955 13590 15555. 1700-1750 5825 11570. Hindi 1130-1259 UTC on odd frequ of 9656 kHz (that's correct in the st schedule). Some other non-standard frequencies shown, uncertain if actual or typos are: 9516 kHz at 0015-0130 UTC Hindi //7290. 17558 at 0415-0630 WS Urdu //15175 11570. 15516 at 1020-1140 in Tamil //13665. 9656 at 1145-1300 Hindi //13665 [and Rich D'Angelo has in fact reported it on 9656]. 4400 at 1915-2030 in French to ME/N/WAf //11570 to WEu, altho 9400 is used just before that until 1900 in Arabic. The first quarter hour of many of these transmissions is labeled "frequency changes/silent carrier". This is also tentative for M-97. (via Gigi Lytle, World of Radio) (Glenn Hauser-USA, WoR, Nov 28) RUSSIA VOR English on 5930 kHz opening to NAm at 0200 UTC is from the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky DVR site, something which would work only in deep northern winter, 100 kW beamed 70 degrees per HFCC. Can be the best/only VOR frequ here when Euro sites are not propagating, as UTC Sun Nov 17 at 0346 UTC starting "You Write to Moscow" non-Adamov E-mailbag plugging website which they said now includes frequency sked for all languages, but it will be a while before they can put up program skeds. "You Write" other times are Wed 0046 UTC, 0346, Thu 2346, on NAm service; Another interesting new program on new printed sked via Bob Thomas is "Christian Message from Moscow," Russian Orthodox stories and music, which I've yet to hear well enough to comprehend, Sat 2031, Sun 0431, 2331. Although still on the air 24h to somewhere, note that VOR no longer attempts to serve NAm in our mornings. (Glenn Hauser-USA, Okla., Nov 19) TAHITI On v15167.3 kHz RFO Papeete, at 0417 UTC, Polynesian mx, French talks by OM but mostly unreadable. Poor, w/ WWVH [15 MHz] booming in (a reliable indicator of band propagation condx). (Nigro, via DXW, Nov 18) UNITED KINGDOM From "Broadcast" magazine: "The BBC World Service is to get the extra 5 million pound grant-in-aid funding it had asked for from the Government for 1997/98, writes Jason Deans. Following the announcement, World Sce managers confirmed the extra money will be used to pay for new investment, including the strengthening of the Mandarin and Arabic sce and increasing distribution of World Sce output on FM frequs and the Internet. New research is to be commissioned to assess the demand for making the World Sce 24 hour English language news sce available for re-broadcast via satellite. The WS will now receive 152.4 million pound grant-in-aid funding from the Foreign Office. This figure still falls short of the World Service's broadcasting budget for the current year. Efficiency savings of 6.5 million pounds, announced in Sept, will still have to be made, with the loss of over 100 jobs." (Richard Buckby-UK, Nov 29) USA/SRI LANKA VoA relay project in Sri Lanka delayed by fire. An important new SW relay facility is being built for the VoA in Sri Lanka. The project suffered a setback on 5th Nov when one of the 500 kW Marconi txs was destroyed in a fire. It's not certain yet what caused the fire. Soot from the fire settled in the rest of the facility, so there is considerable cleaning up to be done. The other three txs are sealed and are probably okay, but the damage is still being assessed. VoA has not yet officially taken possession of the txs from Marconi. There have also been some structural problems in the construction of the towers at the new Sri Lanka relay site. These are being corrected and four of the 14 antennas are already in place. VoA is still hoping for a Sept 1997 start-up date for the Sri Lanka relay. This is an important relay because it fills a critical gap in VOA's coverage. At present there are no major VoA relay sites between Greece and Thailand. (Kim Elliott VoA "Communications World", Nov 16, via BBCM via AGDX) Late changes effective Nov 23 by VoA: Tibetan 0000-0100 UTC 6105 (x6120) kHz, 7200 (x7165). Bangla 0130-0200 11870 (x11830). Urdu 1330-1430 11715 (x11960), 9575 (x9705). English 15300 (x15370) 0100-0300 UTC from Thailand as monitored in Calcutta. (Alok Dasgupta-IND, Nov 27) WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULE -- as of Nov 26, 1996 fr Glenn Hauser. WWCR Nashville, Thu 2130 UTC 15685 kHz, Sat 1230 7435, Sat 1800 12160 (temporary), Sun 0400 3215 (NEW), Sun 1000 3210, Mon 0030 5070, Tue 1330 15685, Wed 1230 15685. From December through February, Thu 2130 broadcast will be on 9475. 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The clerical regime has mobilized thousands of its personnel in Tehran to collect these dishes in a so-called campaign to combat the Western cultural onslaught. (Voice of Israel / Voice of Iranian Kordestan, via BBCM via AGDX, Nov 26) JAPAN NHK Radio Japan announced changes to the 14 UTC English to SoAS release. 7225 kHz goes away, and the othe --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DGJ00002 Date: 12/06/96 From: MARTIJN RENEMAN Time: 09:53am \/To: ALL (Read 7 times) Subj: 2 bcdx.274 vy73 de Wolfgang DF5SX @DB0LX.#BW.DEU.EU - CompuServe 100523,3446 Crossposted from Packet Radio (HAM). I am not responsible for the contents of these contributions! GRTX Martijn R. PE1NQR Member of the Benelux DX-club --- TimEd.01+_GEcho.11+ * Origin: RONO-BBS +31-50-5290813-5290384=28K8 5275978=ISDN (2:282/504)