--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: E2T00002 Date: 02/19/97 From: BRIAN JOHNSON Time: 02:48pm \/To: BRAD MOORE (Read 5 times) Subj: Question A two way radio can be operated on short wave. Two way simply means to transmit and receive. Short wave radio is the high frequency spectrum (HF). Two way radio can be used on all spectrums (high low frequency, high frequency, very high frequency, ultra high frequency, and super high frequency...just to name a few). Happy Monitoring Brian. --- ProBoard v2.15 [Reg] * Origin: Zooming in San Diego, 619-277-4140 (1:202/746) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: E2T00003 Date: 02/17/97 From: MARTIJN RENEMAN Time: 10:00am \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: bcdx.291 WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News compiled by Wolfgang Bueschel February 16th, 1997 (No. 291) BC-DX 291 16 Feb 1997 ________________________________________________________________________ ALGERIA RTA Algier noted here in Spanish 1300-1359, English 1400-1501 UTC. Monitored on v11715.1 and 15160 kHz. Announced 15205 kHz not on air. Extensive Spanish nx at 1344-1354 UTC. TX break at 1354-1357 UTC. Signing off at 1501 UTC letting Radio Veritas Asia, Manila in the clear on 11715 kHz. (WB Feb 12) ANTARTICA LRA36 Arcangel San Gabriel. v15475.98 kHz, LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel, heard on Feb 11 from *1900-2053* UTC, with SINPO 35443. ID's in SP, EG & FR, SP announc at 1958, 2031, 2047 as "Esta es LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel transmitiendo desde la Base Esperanza, en la peninsula antartica o Tierra de San Martin, en la frecuencia de 15476 kilohertz AM, a los 63 grados 24 minutos latitud sur, 56 grados 59 minutos longitud oeste. Los radioescuchas interesados en recibir su tarjeta QSL pueden remitir su reporte de escucha a LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur, Argentina; codigo postal 9411. No olviden incluir el franqueo" by F anncr, ID in EG at 1959, 2032 and 2048 as "This is LRA36 BCing St Arcangel San Gabriel bcing from Esperanza st in the Antarctic land of San Martin, Antarctic peninsula, in the frequency of 15476 khz AM, at 63 degrees 24 minutos South, 56 degrees 59 minutes West. If you want to receive your QSL card, please send your listening report to LRA36 Arcangel San Gabriel bcing st, with code 9411, Esperanza station, Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur, Argentina. Not forget include a post stamp" by F anncr. ID in FR at 2000, 2033 & 2049. The official CORRECT time of transmission UTC is *1900-2100* !!! (Gabriel Ivan Barrera-ARG, Feb 12) After this report, thanks to the notice of Raymundo Cruz in the past week, who heard the first transmission about the reactivation of LRA36 on Feb 3, 1997; today I talk with Base Esperanza, with Mrs Adriana Figueroa, and here other comments: LRA36 now is in daily test transmissions, with the usual 1 kW Philips tx on 15476 kHz. They will begin regular transmissions daily from *1900- 2100* UTC (including Sat & Sun), and the power will be increased with a new transmitter up to 3 kW in 1 month approximately. The lady announcer is Mrs Adriana Figueroa, and the program names actually are: "Correo de Oyentes" (reading listener letters), "Hola Antartida" (with press reports), "Verde Esperanza" (ecology), and "Argentina: Destino Turistico" also they have a "Espacio de LRA36 dedicado a la Actualidad" (with actuality comments).The new s/on and s/off musical folk song is called "Asi es mi Argentina" by Mariano Mores composer. (Gabriel Ivan Barrera-ARG, Feb 12) Note: On next Saturday 15, will be commented on the air my talks with Mrs. Adriana Figueroa of Base Esperanza. [in RAE English/Spanish DX progr?] AZERBAIJAN/UK BBC Monitoring recently opened a new media monitoring unit in Azerbaijan. ... The main aim of the office's opening is the desire to receive more trustworthy information about the situation and events in the whole Caucasus region. ('Bakinskiy Rabochiy', via BBCM, via AGDX, Feb 1) BRAZIL Brazilian Summer Time. Next Saturday (Feb 22) at 0300 UTC ends Summer Time in Brazil. Stations in the south, southeast, and in some states of north-east will turn -1 hour (from UTC-2 to UTC-3). (Djaci Franklin Soares da Silva, Feb 12) GERMANY Mega-Radio Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will im Sommer den Sendebetrieb auf 576 (Schwerin-Woebbelin) und 1017 (Greifswald) kHz aufnehmen. Beabsichtigt wird, in Stereo auszustrahlen. Uebersehen wird dabei allerdings eine Kleinigkeit: In Europa gibt es praktisch keine Empfaenger, die MW-Stereo verarbeiten koennen... Da sich auf die Ausschreibung dieser Frequenzen zahlreiche Anbieter meldeten, beabsichtigt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern die Ausschreibung einer weiteren MW-Senderkette, bestehend aus den vom NDR aufgegebenen Kanaelen 558 (Rostock-Stadtheide), 657 (Helpterberg), 729 (Putbus) sowie der Schweriner Frequenz 999 (nach der Wende von RIAS bzw. Deutschlandradio belegt, 1994 abgeschaltet). Hier soll ein Country- und Truckerprogramm zur Verbreitung kommen. Fuer dessen Veranstaltung gibt es zwei Interessenten. (Infosat/Michael Fuhr, Feb 15) GREECE Radio Station Macedonia, Thessaloniki. The SW txs are beamed to Europe and the ME. Address: Odos Yeorghikis Scholis 129, GR-54639 Thessaloniki. 0559-0759 11595 9935 7430; 0759-1659 11595 9935; 1659-2159 11595 9935 7430; 2159-2259 11595 7430. (BBCM via AGDX, Feb 12) HUNGARY R Budapest in Hungarian to AUS/NZL at 1000-1100 (Suns -1200) UTC changed its registered channels (9th of Dec!) 13670 and 15220 kHz, now replaced by 15395, 17750, and 21685 kHz. Thanks to a tip of Matthias Gatzke via Andreas Erbe, Kai Ludwig. (checked on Feb 13 by WB) Statistics of RB incoming reception reports in 1996: total 7870; 3942 from GER, 595 from RUS, 500 from G, 388 from USA, 272 from AUT, 252 from UKR, ... ICELAND Rikisutvarpid - the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Rikisutvarpid's SW sce relays RAS 1. Sporting events and other progrs are often carried on SW. The SW frequs are subject to change. Address: Rikisutvarpid, Efstaleiti 1, 150 Reykjavik. Tel: +354-515-3000, Fax: +354-515-3010, URL: http://www.ruv.is/ 1215-1300 EUR 13860-usb 11402-usb; 1410-1440 AM 13860-usb 11402-usb; 1855-1930 EUR 9275-usb 7735-usb; 2300-2335 AM 11402-usb 9275-usb. (BBCM via AGDX, Feb 12) INDIA 5010 kHz at 1130-1740 UTC Tiruvanathapuram. Again off the air, after about a week of operating in this time slot in January. (Victor Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, UADX, Feb 10) KAZAKHSTAN 6140 kHz Kazakh Radio (presumed) at 1225 UTC, Russian sounding OM vocal, 1228 OM/YL says a few words in lang then male OM vocal mx. 1231 OM/YL tlk. 1232 YL vocal. 1234, OM says a few words, back to music. 1244 OM singing the song that used to be Voice of Russia signature tune at TOH. No listing in Passport or WRTH but HFCC lists show site as Kazan with 20kw non directional antenna. Can't find on map, but coordinates (55n 49e) put this in extreme west Kazakhstan. Calculations show this to be about 1 hour before tx sun down. poor reception. (Ziolkowski, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 8) LAOS 6975 kHz NR Luang Prabang regularly heard at 0015 past 0200 UTC, prgs in Lao language. (Sarath Weerakoon-CLN, UADX, Feb 8) 6975 Louang Prabang (tent.) 1345-1400 UTC Weak & faint signal here, but clearly SE Asian language. Gone at 1400 UTC. (Van Den Boogert, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 3) National Radio of Laos. Regional sts, which bc in Laotian and local tribal languages, are reported on the following frequs: Houa Phan (4660 and 1000 kHz); Luang Prabang (7162-v and 850 kHz); Oudomxai (4535 and 800 kHz); Pakse (6647-v and 1350 kHz); Savannakhet (1430 kHz); Xieng Khouang (5340-v and 1200 kHz). Lao National Radio's external sce which previously bc on 7116-v and 1030 kHz has been unheard since August 1994. Address: B.P. 310, Vientiane, Laos. Tel: +856-4475. Domestic sce 6130 580-(unconfirmed) kHz, 2200-0230, 0400-0700, 0900- 1600. (BBCM via AGDX, Feb 12) LEBANON Israeli air raid on Hezbollah radio near Ba'labakk. Israeli aircraft on 11th Febr attacked a tx site of the Hezbollah radio st, Voice of the Oppressed, two km from the centre of the town of Ba'labakk in the Biqa valley in southern Lebanon, Radio Lebanon reported. The st, which was bcing on 684 kHz, went off the air after the air raid, and has not been monitored since 1138 UTC on 11th Febr. At 0815 UTC on 13th Febr, the st was still unheard. Radio Free Lebanon, a Lebanese Christian radio, said on the 11th, that the Voice of the Oppressed tx site had suffered "extensive damage" in the Israeli air raid. (Radio Lebanon, via BBCM, via AGDX, Feb 11) LIBYA Today Feb 13, Libya is testing their new 500 kW txs again, after few days of silence. Heard whistle tone procedure in usual time span after 1000 UTC on 6155, 7120, 9655, 9705, and 11770 kHz. Second 25 mb channel (tx no. six) not on air today. (WB Feb 13) NEPAL 3230 kHz R Nepal seems to have reactivated the channel. However, signal strength suggest that it is from the stand by xmtr (7.5 kW) signing on 0015 UTC. English nx at 0215 and 1415 UTC. //5005. (Sarath Weerakoon-CLN, UADX, Feb 8) NETHERLANDS/UK Delta Radio plans LW mx st for UK and Europe. A commercial internat bcing organization called Delta Radio and the Dutch PTT have opened a free information line to answer questions about a proposed LW bcing scheme. Just before Christmas [1996], Delta Radio came into the news when plans to build four tall antenna towers, each 320 metres high, at a place called Kootwijk near Apeldoorn were revealed to the Dutch press and local residents. In fact, Kootwijk is already steeped in past and present radio operations. In the 1920s, a 500-kW Diesel alternator was built on the heathland just outside the town of Kootwijk. It was designed to broadcast Morse code messages to what is now Indonesia, then the Dutch East Indies. And the generator was designed to operate on very low frequs. Towards the end of the '20s, when the propagation characteristics for SW were discovered, Kootwijk turned into more of a SW utilities centre... A LW bc tx also operated from Kootwijk for a while, but once a fully operational MW and FM network covering the Netherlands was put in place, the LW channel was surplus to domestic requirements and the tx dismantled. Much later, at an international frequency allocation conference in 1978, Holland and Belgium were given frequencies to start a joint project called Radio Delta... [USA /VoA/ and Germany /DLF/ had given up usage of Munich-C Eching, 173 kHz Continental 1000 kW, on air fr 1953 til about 1980 and dismanteled. Then moved to Passau, DLF Aholming 207 kHz, new 500 kW unit, WB] In practice, it never happened. Backed by NOS [Nederlandse Omroepprogramma Stichting], Radio Netherlands and the BRT, this new st had plans to operate from Maastricht, with progrs in several languages aimed at Europe, putting Dutch culture and language on the map. The Belgians would build a tx on MW 1512 kHz, the Dutch would build a LW tx on 171 kHz. In the end several factors, not least the high cost of LW, and the fact that a st in Nador-MRC, NoAF, and Miensk-Belarus was using the same channel with 2000 kW, thus limiting the coverage, prompted the NOS to pull out of the scheme at the last minute. The BRT went ahead with their tx on 1512 kHz though, nowadays used mainly by the international sce, Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal. The Dutch frequ of 171 kHz remained on the books though, until around three years ago when a commercial organization showed interest in reviving the licence. In the last three months a commercial organization which has adopted a variation on the original name, changing it to Delta Radio, has made moves to get the project up and broadcasting. We're going to use is a 2 MW tx. And they mean 2 MWs out of the tx, before it goes into the antenna system. Even though many of the residents of this part of Kootwijk, known as Radio Kootwijk, have worked at the PTT transmitter site, there's still strong opposition to the plans from [of] Delta Radio. Some of the concerns focus on how household appliances will react when exposed to those sorts of levels of RF [radio frequency] radiation. The backers behind Delta Radio still maintain that Kootwijk is the best place to put the tx site - perhaps the only place left in this densely poulated country. By the year 2000 the ship-to-shore communications from Kootwijk, using 10-kW SSB txs, is expected to be phased out in favour of satellite. It seems natural then to find a new use for the place. As far as the programming is concerned, I mean, this is going to be a pop mx radio station for the UK, a bit like Atlantic 252, but from the other side of the water, is that the way of describing it? Well, it's a lot broader than that. We are aiming at what we call western Europe, because we have to sort of direct the beam a little bit to avoid interference with a station in Russia [Bolshakovo, Moscow, and Belarus]. An address which is Delta Radio 171, P.O. Box 75065, 1070 AB in Amsterdam and the toll-free phone number is 0800-8171. If you live outside Holland you can try +31-800-8171. (RNMN via BBCM, via AGDX, Feb 6) PAKISTAN 5750 kHz, V of the Independent Kashmir S on in Kashmiri at 0230 UTC with the opening song "Allah O' Akbar" [God is Great] and then into Freq announcements followed by prgs. Plenty of rhetorics. Evening xmsns on 4115 kHz, 1530-1730 UTC. (Sarath Weerakoon-CLN, UADX, Feb 8) Voice of Kashmir Freedom (Urdu: "Sada-i Hurriyat-i Kashmir") is opposed to Indian control of part of Kashmir. It is sometimes referred to by other sources as Voice of Independent Kashmir. The station was first heard by BBC Monitoring on 7th Febr 1991. At the time it was reported to have started regular bcing on 2nd Febr 1991 after a period of tests. It is assumed that the station operates from Pakistan or Pakistani- administered Kashmir. It has announced an address of PO Box 102, Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, via Pakistan. In the past it has bc in Urdu and English, as well as Kashmiri. Frequs used in the past include 4080, 5000, 5300, 5750, 5900, 6300 and 7375 kHz. Two or three frequs may be used at any one time, but programming on them may not always be in parallel. Transmissions may be in AM or USB mode. 0230-0330 UTC Urdu 5300, 5750, 6300 kHz. 0830-0930 5300, 6300. 1530-1730 Kashmiri 4116, 5300, 6300 kHz. (BBCM via AGDX, Feb 12) POLAND (c.f. bc-dx #290) Heard them testing on February 3rd at 1930- 2030 UT with mostly non-stop music and only now and then an announcement. just testing. (Harld Kuhl-D, Feb 11) Acc to Lothar Ruehl of ERF-TWR Germany, the Scandinavian section of TWR "Norea-Radio" will start bcs via Stargard-Tychowo 1503 kHz on March 3rd. Bcs were postphoned in Febr due to extensive negotiations with Polish "Radiocommunication" authorities. Planned are bcs in Swedish and Norwegian Mo-Fr 1930-2000 UTC only, extended later by Finnish and Danish. (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, KiR, Feb 13) (BC-DX #290 follow-up) Test transmissions of Norea Radio noted on Feb 14 between 1945-2033 UTC. The programme consists of instrumental mx and female\male announcements in Swedish. "Norea Radio" and "Kristianstadt" were mentioned. Good signal. (Nikolay Pashkevich-RUS, Feb 14) RUSSIA Domestic Radio Rossii-Nostalzhi is an association between Radio Rossii and the French commercial radio organization, Nostalgie Internationale. Address: Ul Pyatnitskaya 25, 113326 Moscow, Russia. This schedule is based on information supplied by the broadcaster. Bcs will be one hour EARLIER during SUMMER. Radio Rossii-Nostalzhi also broadcasts via the Gorizont 31 satellite at 40.5E (3675 MHz right hand circular polarization, audio 8.4 & 8.6 MHz). 1600-1800 7345 7210 7200 7140 4885 4860 4610. 2000-0000 4895 4820 4485 693 585 279 270 225. (BBCM via AGDX, Feb 12) SAUDI ARABIA v11833.6 kHz //v11948.3 kHz, BSKSA Riyadh at 1745 UTC, Spurs noted with Qur'an reading //11910 and 9730 kHz. (Hill, via Cumbre Dx. Feb 2) SLOVAKIA AWR Europe in English resumed on 6055 kHz at 2100-2200 UTC, tx Rimavska Sobota, 250 kW, 305 degrees. (Mike Barraclough-UK, via WoR, Feb 13) SRI LANKA The All Asia Sce of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation Colombo signing off at 1600 UTC weeksdays and not 1630 anymore. Further the Domestic English Sce is identifying as "This is the Sri Lanka Commercial Service" on 4940 kHz at 0025-0200, 1000-1700. And 0200-1000 on 6130kHz //MW 873 and FM. Regarding the All Night Buddhist Chants, intended to invoke blessings on the Nation, is transmitted on all Full Moon days AND on Special Occasions like Independance day and the like. 4902 kHz and MW 702, 594, 603, 648, 693 kHz and all other National Sce frequs. (Victor Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, UADX, Feb 15) THAILAND Radio Thailand's transmission in English from Udorn to Europe will change [1900-2000?] from 7295 kHz to 9535 kHz, from Feb 14. (Ferguson, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 14) v6149.3 kHz 0315-0400 UTC Or Sor, Bangkok, audible here with Thai light mx, pop songs and local IDs Off at re-check 0658. (Anker Petersen, on Phuket Isl, via Dx Window) Also heard between 1115 and 1200* UTC. (Sarath Weerakoon-CLN, UADX, via Dx Window, Feb 14) 9535 and v9655.4 kHz R. Thailand at 2112* UTC. Concluding Thai with canned English announcement giving program time as 2045-2115 UTC (but no freqs); carrier off at 2115. Is ex-11805. (Hill, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 8) 9850 kHz at 0100-0300 UTC VOA Udon Thani (x7215) to SoAsia excellent in English. (Victor Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, UADX, Feb 10) UKRAINE To Ethiopia via UKR, 9930 (x9870) kHz, V. of Oromo Liberation at *1600 UTC. Presumed this with some kind of IS and introductory theme, brief announcement by man, more music, then into presumed Oromo talk by man and woman. At 1605 UTC, local mx with drums; more talk. Extremely poor at first, then improved somewhat by 1610 but was almost out when rechecked 1655 UTC. Unable to verify 1700 s/off, but gone when rechecked again at 1708. (Hill, Feb. 8) 1645 new frequency, ex-9870. (Koutamanis, via Cumbre Dx, Feb 5) [UNID noted here, when checked for second free RFA Palau channel in 9930-9990 kHz range at 1500-1700 UTC, Feb 12-14, WB] USA 11950 kHz, WINB Red Lion, PA, noted at 2300 past 2400 UTC, with non-stop music, ID at 2330 UTC soliciting reports. On the high antenna, fair signal despite being so close. (Tom Sundstrom-NJ, Feb 12) VIETNAM VoV Hanoi in Mandarin and Cantonese noted here at 1200-1400 UTC on v10010.2 kHz, very seldom heard here in EUR. (WB, Feb 12) Domestic Voice of Vietnam, Hanoi, also operates 14 provincial sts bcing in Vietnamese and the main ethnic languages of their regions. This schedule is based on information supplied by the broadcaster. Address: 58 Quan Su - Hanoi Tel: + 84 4 254953 Fax: + 84 4 255765. URL: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/tien_noi_vn/tnvn_int.html Network 1, 2200-1600 (-1700 Fris only) 5925, 10059 kHz. Network 2, 2200-1600 4960, 12025 kHz. VoVTN Minority language service. 0400-0430 Bana 693. 0400-0445 Cambodian (for southern Cambodia) 747. 0430-0500 Ede 693. 0430-0500 Gairai 1089. 0500-0530 Hmong 6165. 1130-1200 Ede 693. 1130-1200 Gairai 1089. 1200-1230 Bana 693. 1200-1230 Hmong 6165. 1300-1345 Cambodian (for southern Cambodia) 747. 1300-1345 Hmong 6165. 2200-2245 CAMBODIAN (for southern Cambodia) 747. 2200-2245 Ede 693. 2200-2230 Giarai 1089. 2200-2230 Hmong 5035. 2230-2300 Bana 693. (BBCM via AGDX, Feb 12) Jamming at RFA. On the 6th Feb, when RFA was starting the offical Vietnamese bcs Hanoi was already on the freqs of 7415 and 5865 kHz with the Domestic Sce Ntw 2 //5925, v10060 kHz. There are more than two txs jamming per frequency of RFA and they vary a few Hertz every minute or so. The newly added 9910 kHz is not yet jammed since the Viets havent located that. The Viet Sce occupies the frequency at least 10 minutes before the commencement of the RFA Viet transmissions (heard whistle tone procedure at 1453 UTC, WB) and go off also some minutes later, which in the case of 6240 kHz Burmese at 1500 UTC gets jammed unintentionally! Rather surprised that Myanmar hasnt tried jamming RFA yet, since they have some txs that have been used to jam VoA, BBC and VoDemocracy in the recent past. Jamming of Radio Free Asia heard in Vietnam. The first bcs of RFA to Vietnam appear to have been jammed. Radio Free Asia reported today that monitoring sts in two locations indicated significant interference that followed traditional jamming techniques. "Despite the jamming, the RFA signal could still be heard in some locations in Vietnam, indicating that the st's programming was not being totally obliterated," said Richard Richter, RFA president. The first bc in Vietnam was transmitted from Washington 5th Febr at 7.30 am Vietnam time). The jamming was recorded at monitoring sts of the Internat Bcing Bureau, which serves US international bcs, in Sri Lanka and Bangkok. Similar reports followed transmission of RFA programming today at 9 pm Vietnam time. The fact that the signal could still be heard in certain locations was ascertained through phone calls to listeners in Vietnam, according to RFA. (RFA, via BBCM, via AGDX, Feb 6) #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* BBCM - BBC MONITORING information primarily sourced to German AGDX umbrella organization may not be further reproduced, except with BBC MONITORING permission. Extracts of items sourced to ELECTRONIC DX PRESS (EDXP) may be further reproduced only by organizations or individuals which have on-going exchange arrangements with EDXP. #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* vy73 de Wolfgang DF5SX @DB0LX.#BW.DEU.EU - CompuServe 100523,3446 Older editions of WWDXC Top News can be requested from WORLDWIDE DX CLUB at the following e-mail address: wwdxc@compuserve.com E-Mail: wwdxc@compuserve.com URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/wwdxc/topnews.htm 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) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: E2T00004 Date: 02/19/97 From: IAN BAXTER Time: 09:45am \/To: MARK VELDHUIS (Read 5 times) Subj: Re: Voice of Armenia Hi Mark. I didn't find the TXer info on 9965kHz in the WRTH 97. Must have another look when I get back home. Thanks for the reply. Cheers. --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: ~SHORTWAVE POSSUMS BBS~ OZ SWL HQ +61-2-651-3055 (3:713/605.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: E2T00005 Date: 02/19/97 From: MATT SMITH Time: 11:31pm \/To: BRAD MOORE (Read 5 times) Subj: Re: Question BM> What's the difference between a short wave radio and a two way BM> radio. "Shortwave radio" is between 1.6-30 MHz, and usually means a receiver (though ham radio transceivers are also sometimes referred to this way). "Two-way radio" is a transceiver, usually operating above 30 MHz (except for ham radio shortwave). --- Simplex BBS (v1.07.00Beta [DOS]) * Origin: * The Spirit of '76 * (1:3644/8) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: E2T00006 Date: 02/20/97 From: JEAN-PAUL LUCOT Time: 07:55pm \/To: BRAD MOORE (Read 5 times) Subj: Question Re: Question > What's the difference between a short wave radio and a two way > radio. These two terms are not related directly. Short wave is related to the frequency band of the radio (working in High Frequencies, covering in principle 3 to 30 MHz) Two way is related to the fact that the radio can transmit and receive So you can find two way short wave radio sets (HF transceiver), one way short wave radio sets (as a HF receiver), other frequencies two way radio sets (as VHF Transceiver), and other frequencies one way radio sets (as a VHF receiver). Hope this help, Jean-Paul Lucot --- Virtual Advanced Ver 2 for OS/2 * Origin: EMERTEL Information System (2:301/341) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: E2T00007 Date: 02/18/97 From: GEORGE WOOD Time: 11:45am \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXer 2265 Apparently-to: scdx@get.pp.se From: "George Wood" ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: MediaScan :: SWEDEN CALLING DXERS :: from Radio Sweden :: Number 2265--Feb. 18, 1997 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Satellite, shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio Sweden. This week's bulletin was written by George Wood. Packet Radio BID SCDX2265 All times UTC unless otherwise noted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NORDIC MEDIA NEWS DENMARK--Many years ago (in a galaxy far, far away), Radio Denmark dropped its shortwave programs in English, and switched to broadcasting abroad only in Danish. But last year Copenhagen was the official European Cultural Capital, and in honor of the many events being staged, Radio Denmark revived English broadcasts on shortwave, with two quarter hours a month. Unfortunately, when the Cultural Year ended, so did the English broadcasts. But Julian Isherwood, who produced and presented the programs for Radio Denmark, has gone ahead on his own. Copenhagen Calling is now being carried on satellite and over the Internet via the World Radio Network. In today's program, I called Julian Isherwood, and asked him why Radio Denmark dropped the broadcasts, and why he's financing the new effort out of his own pocket? Copenhagen Calling has just expanded to 29 minutes every Sunday, via the World Radio Network. It's on the air to Europe: 17:00 hrs UTC on Astra transponder 22, audio 7.38 MHz To Africa: 17:00 hrs UTC on Intelsat 707, 1 degree West, 3.9115 GHz, Right-hand Circular-Pol, Symbol Rate 8.022 Mbaud, FEC 3/4, MPEG2 Audio Stream "WRN1" To Asia and the Pacific: 17:00 hrs UTC on AsiaSat-2, 100.5 degrees East, 4.000 GHz, Vertical-Pol, MPEG2 DVB, Symbol Rate 28.125 Mbaud, FEC 3/4, Select WRN1 from audio menu To North America: 20:00 hrs UTC on Galaxy 5 transponder 6, audio 6.80 MHz "Copenhagen Calling" is also available in RealAudio at: http://www.wrn.org/stations/cph.html TMF--The Dutch music channel TMF ("The Music Factory") is planning to start a Nordic version. It would be distributed from Telenor from 1 degree West. (Richard Karlsson in "Aftonbladet") SBS--The Scandianvian Broadcasting Systems is planning on starting a new Danish entertainment channel similar to its existing (Swedish) Kanal 5 and (Norwegian) TV Norge. It would be carried at 1 degree West. (Richard Karlsson in "Aftonbladet") EUROPE: ASTRA--A youth-oriented channel called "Trouble" has started on transponder 42 (otherwise home of Bravo, HSN, and Playboy). ("SATCO DX Chart Update") The Family Channel has been renamed Challenge TV (and instead of wholesome family entertainment that failed to attract an audience, viewers can watch hours of mindless game shows). ("SATCO DX Chart Update") EUTELSAT--VOA Europe has stopped transmissions over Eutelsat II-F1 on the Deutsche Welle transponder on 11.163 GHz. The 7.38/7.56 MHz sound channels have been taken over by DW. (Richard Karlsson in "Aftonbladet") Telia Kabel TV, Sweden's largest cable operator, has apparently missed the change, and is now carrying DW in a variety of languages as the sound track on its cable information channel. The same thing happened when BBC World Service radio moved from this same satellite some months back. For several weeks Telia Kabel carried Vatican Radio in a number of languages as an FM channel on its networks. SPORTS--When commercial satellite TV stations appeared here in Europe a few years ago, they did something that knocked the complacency out of the old public service broadcasters. They started winning bids to broadcast important sports events. Since these channels are often only on cable and satellite, and not everyone has cable or satellite reception, and sometimes the events have been on pay channels, what this has meant is that large segments of the community have been unable to watch sports events they've been used to seeing. This was brought home to Swedes recently. In October Bavarian media mogual Leo Kirch bought exclusive rights to broadcast Swedish soccer for the next five years. Last week Kirch captured rights to Swedish ice hockey for the next four years. But neither the public service Swedish Television or the commercial TV4 are willing to pay what Kirch is asking for the rights, which are several times what they've paid in the past. Which means, for example, that no Swedish channel will probably be braodcasting the World Cup soccer qualification match between Sweden and Scotland being played here on April 30th. There's speculation that Kirch may be planning to set up its own Swedish pay-TV channel, since no one is interested in buying the rights. Now the European Union has made new proposals which may fix this kind of problem, as our Brussels correspondent Joe Kirwin reports in today's program. Here is how the Associated Press reported the story: EU Media Commissioner Marcelino Oreja says events like the Olympics, World Cup, and possibly big national league soccer matches, should be protected from selective pay-per-view or subscription broadcasting. The Commission now wants the 15 member states to draw up lists of sports events that would enjoy protection from sale to pay-per-view broadcasters. Oreja said those would obviously include the summer and winter Olympics and major soccer events including the World Cup and European Championship. But including league and domestic cup soccer matches would upset the current boom enjoyed by national federations and clubs, who have reaped unprecentented and still growing income from television rights. The Commission argues that one way to recoup lost income would come through increased advertising that it says would be generated by exposing those events to a much wider public. The proposals of the EU's Executive Commission will be put to the 15 member nations and the European Parliament for debate before a final decision, expected later in the year. (AP) BRITAIN--British pay television operator BSkyB says it is pressing ahead with plans to launch a 200-channel digital satellite service in Britain later this year. BSkyB Deputy Managing Director David Chance said the company would proceed with plans for an autumn 1997 satellite launch despite its new digital terrestrial television (DTT) alliance with leading commercial broadcasters Carlton Communications and Granada Group. The three have teamed up to form British Digital Broadcasting and apply for licences to run DTT networks when the service comes on air in mid- 1998. Chance said the two delivery systems were each likely to find their place in the market. "It's horses for courses. Digital satellite will offer 200 channels and pay- per-view while with digital terrestrial there are only 30 channels but no need for a satellite dish," he said. BSkyB said it expected shortly to confirm an order for up to one million digital satellite decoders from four manufacturers as it gears up for an autumn launch. It plans to work with partners to offer interactive services such as home shopping and home banking as part of the digital satellite package. Chance also said that BSkyB was still interested in taking a stake in German pay television company Premiere, owned by German media companies Bertelsmann AG and Kirch Gruppe, and Canal Plus of France. BSkyB appeared set for a 25 percent stake in Premiere early last year but announced in July that it had instead agreed to take up to 49 percent in DF1, Kirch's German digital platform. However, it has yet to take up its investment in DF1. Kirch is at loggerheads with Premiere partners Bertelsmann and Canal Plus. Both Bertelsmann and the French pay TV group want Premiere, currently an analogue service, to be Germany's main digital television outlet rather than DF1. DF1 has made a slow start and reports indicate that it has only attracted around 20,000 subscribers. (Reuters) KIRCH--Bavarian media mogul Leo Kirch suffered another setback against his archrival, media giant Bertelsmann AG, when a German court on February 12 refused to lift an advertising ban it slapped on Kirch's DF1 channel. DF1, Germany's first digital pay TV broadcaster, had sought a reversal of a court injunction which prevented it from trying to attract customers outside of its home state of Bavaria, but the court said DF1's licence restricted it to Bavaria. The injunction was issued last month in response to a law suit filed by Premiere, the German analogue pay TV channel that is owned by Bertelsmann, French pay TV group Canal Plus, and Kirch. Acknowledging that DF1's broadcasting licence was not clear, Bavaria's media regulator last month issued a "supplementary statement" which it said would make clear that DF1 should be able to broadcast and market services nationally. But the court did not agree. A spokesman for DF1 said the broadcaster would appeal against the court's ruling and that it expected to receive a new, nation-wide licence from media regulators. While a clear setback for DF1, the ruling could improve the chances that Kirch and Bertelsmann end their pay TV dispute soon and reach a cooperation deal between Premiere and DF1. (Reuters) SERBIA--The largest Serbian private TV station, BK TELECOM, will soon begin to broadcast its program by satellite. BK TELECOM will broadcast its 24 hour TV program in the digital MPEG-2 system. The broadcasts will be additionally scrambled. Talks are under way about leasing a transponder on three possible satellites: AMOS 1 (4 degrees West), EUTELSAT II-F4 (7 degrees East), or INTELSAT K (21.5 degrees West). BK TELECOM also revealed its plans for an Internet presence (which will be launched by the end of this month). This means that this TV station will be the first Yugoslav station which broadcasts some of its program via the Internet. Viewers will be able to watch some of BK TELECOM's most popular shows, like TELEFAKT (the leading news program which is broadcast two times during the day: at 15:55 and 18:55 CET) by logging on to: http://www.bktv.com ("Tele-satellit News") ASIA/PACIFIC AUSTRALIA--Australia has been warned it risks losing face in Asia if it takes its overseas radio and television services off air, as mooted in an official report. The report's recommendation that the government close its state-owned short-wave service, Radio Australia, and sell off its fledgling satellite broadcaster, Australia Television, have been condemned as near sighted and harmful to Australia's image. "The recommendation that was made was one of the most stupid I have ever come across in my life," says Mark Dodgson, an expert on Australian business ties with the region. "They are absolutely critical for Australian foreign policy and for business and to cut them off for the sake of such a small amount of money is ridiculously short sighted." Dodgson, of the Australian National University, is not alone in warning Australia risks losing face with its near neighbors. Already, Papua New Guinea has offered to take a cut in Australian aid if this money could be used to ensure Radio Australia's future. The service is often the only source of regional news in the mountainous and isolated Pacific country. A former chairman of Australia's national broadcaster and the opposition have also attacked the recommendations, designed to help the government slash its budget deficit. Radio Australia, set up decades ago under the control of the foreign ministry, airs mainly around the Asia-Pacific in seven Asian languages and English. It costs taxpayers about A$25 million per year, the source said. Both are operated by the ABC and place heavy emphasis on news and current affairs. They aim to present an "Australian face" to the region and to raise Australia's profile in Asia. No decision has been made on Radio Australia's future until the ABC and the government discuss the recommendations, but Canberra has begun the process of selling Australia Television. (Reuters) NBC--The National Broadcasting Co said on February 13 its NBC and CNBC channels were now available in two million Indian homes under an expanded distribution deal with Indian cable television provider IN CableNet. The U.S.-based broadcaster, a unit of General Electric, has been offering its 24-hour entertainment and information channel NBC and its business news counterpart CNBC in India since October through IN CableNet. But limitations in the country's television infrastructure meant only about 600,000 subscribers were seeing anything. The new arrangement moves NBC and CNBC into the prime band of the first 14 channels, providing full access to IN CableNet's subscriber base. The arrangement was not exclusive. According to a spokesman, NBC is "in constant conversations with other cable operators". NBC is on the AsiaSat 2 satellite, with STAR TV acting as the distribution agent to Indian cable operators. Besides dealing a blow to competitor Asian Business News (ABN), the addition of the new Indian subscribers meant CNBC now reaches six million homes in the Asia-Pacific region and NBC reaches four million. NBC is distributed in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Australia, Thailand, South Korea and Japan, among other places. (Reuters) RIMSAT--Rimsat G1 has probably left 130 degrees East and might be located at 137.5 degrees East not. Laotian National TV has left Rimsat G1. Laotian Channel 3 has started on Rimsat G2 on 3.775 GHz. ("SATCO DX Chart Update") PANAMSAT--The Iranian opposition TV station Sima-yeh Moghavmat (Vision of Resistance) has started on PAS-4 on 4.035 GHz, 19:00-20:00 hrs UTC. ("SATCO DX Chart Update") INTELSAT--On Intelsat 704, Canal France International on 4.055 GHz has switched from PAL to MPEG-2. ("SATCO DX Chart Update") STAR-TV--Media baron Rupert Murdoch's Pan-Asian satellite television broadcaster Star TV said February 13 it would keep its headquarters in Hong Kong after the territory's handover to China. Hong Kong is to revert to Chinese rule on July 1 after more than 150 years of British colonial rule. In June last year, a newspaper report that it was considering moving its ase to India from Hong Kong was quickly denied by the broadcaster. Murdoch has been seeking a market for Star TV in China. Last June, News Corp. entered into a $5.4 million joint venture in electronic media with China's official People's Daily. (AFP) Murdoch has admitted dropping BBC World from Star-TV because China objected to its critical journalism. VIETNAM--Accusing the United States of airwave imperialism, Vietnam said February 12 blocking U.S.-based Radio Free Asia broadcasts. The move is the latest attempt by the Hanoi government to control how the Communist country is portrayed inside and beyond its borders. Radio Free Asia, a U.S. government broadcast outlet, is aimed at promoting --- NetMgr 1.00.g4+ * Origin: GET, Lidingo, Sweden, +46-8-7655670 (2:201/505) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: E2T00008 Date: 02/18/97 From: GEORGE WOOD Time: 11:45am \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: 02:MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXer 2265 Apparently-to: scdx@get.pp.se From: "George Wood" democracy in Asia's remaining authoritarian countries. Vietnam, China and North Korea are among the primary targets of the broadcasts. (AP) NORTH AMERICA GALAXY--The International Channel is still on Galaxy 7 transponder 24, but in Digicipher. ("SATCO DX Chart Update") DIGITAL CABLE--TCI has rolled out its much-anticipated digital TV service in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Fremont, and hopes to reach many of its systems in the region within 6 months. TCI's digital service, dubbed ALL TV, will offer programming packages of up to 170 video and audio-music channels, although that includes many channels reserved for pay-per-view movies. The system requires a rented set-top box to convert the digital signals to NTSC analog signals. The least expensive package offers all thechannels already included in the programming tiers called basic and expanded basic, access to 36 PPV channels, an elaborate on-screen guide, a universal remote control, and six newly available cable networks, including the Discovery Kids Channel, the Independent Film Channel, and the CNN/SI sports channel. The next package adds assortments of commercial-free channels, a choice of a few more newly available networks (such as BET on Jazz, the Golf Channel, or the History Channel), and 40 audio music channels. ("San Jose Mercury News" via Pointcast) CANADA--The Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission is reportedly on the verge of awarding a DBS license to Tee-Comm Electronics' AlphaStar subsidiary. Once launched, AlphaStar Canada would feature both U.S. programming along with a selection of Canadian channels. nce AlphaStar migrates from AT&T Skynet's Telstar 402-R satellite to Telstar 5 in early July, the service will increase to 200 channels of video and audio, Tee-Comm said last month. Earlier this month, the CRTC awarded a license to Shaw Communications, which plans to operate a DTH satellite service called HomeStar. In January, Canadian officials rejected "fast track" DBS licensing proposals from Telesat Canada and Borealis Space Corporation for the operation of two satellites in Canadian orbital slots. (Curt Swinehart) LATIN AMERICA FOX--Fox Television has launched its children's TV network, Fox Kids Network, in Latin America. Fox Kids Network Worldwide has joined Canal Fox on PanAmSat's PAS-3 Atlantic Ocean Region satellite. The new PAS-3 service consists of one digital channel on the satellite's C-band Pan-American beam, which covers virtually all of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Fox Kids signal is being transmitted to PAS-3 from PanAmSat's Global Operations Center in Atlanta, Ga. The channel joins a PAS-3 programmer lineup that includes, along with Canal Fox, the BBC, CCTV, Discovery, ESPN, HBO, Viacom and The Weather Channel. The Fox Kids service for Latin America will consist of popular Fox programming offered in Spanish, English and Portuguese. ("Tele-satellit News") LAUNCHES ARIANE--Europe's Ariane 5 rocket, which exploded on its maiden voyage last summer, will make a second launch attempt on July 8, officials announced February 7. Michel Courtois, deputy head of France's National Center for Space Studies, rejected recent reports suggesting the launch could be delayed until December, insisting the July date was "credible." The Ariane 5, a larger rocket aimed at maintaining the European Space Agency's lead in the global launch market, exploded June 4 shortly after lifting off from the Kourou launch site in French Guiana in South America. The rocket was carrying dlrs 500 million in equipment for a solar energy project. Since the crash probe, "the small anomalies have been ironed out, including the software problems which caused the first accident," Courtois told a news conference. (AP) The upcoming Ariane 5 launch is to carry amateur radio's Phase 3D satellite, which while costing as much as a geo-stationary satellite, will follow an elliptical orbit, making it available to large part of the globe for long periods. Unfortunately the decision also means prospective uses will continue to require expensive tracking systems. Someday, perhaps, AMSAT will get around to discovering the Clarke Belt. More about Phase 3D can be found at: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/phase3d.html EUTELSAT--Eutelsat W24 F1 is to be launched with an Atlas rocket during the last quarter of this year. The satellite will probably be placed at 10 degrees East. It will carry 24 transponders in the 10.950-11.700 and 12.500-12.750 GHz bands. ("SATCO DX Chart Update") CYBERSPACE SPACE SHUTTLE--Discovery has been in orbit on a mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA has upgraded its service of updated GIF images to a video stream. More information at: http://shuttle.nasa.gov/ntv/streamvid.html The feed includes sound using a free program called Speak Freely, but I've had trouble getting it to work. RealAudio of the mission sound is still available at: http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/missions/live/live.ram AMSAT has a list of amateur radio to monitor Shuttle missions: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sarex/shutfreq.html RUSSIAN SPACE IMAGES--The Russian Space Agency has announced a deal that will post once-classified photos taken by Russian military satellites on the Internet. The snapshots, taken in the 1990s, depict about 1 percent of the Earth's surface, plus all cities with a population over 500,000, said Mikhail Fomchenko, who heads Russia's space association. The cash-poor Russian Space Agency signed the deal with Sovinformsputnik, Microsoft Corp. and Aerial Images. Terms of the deal were not given. Bob Clough, Microsoft regional manager in Eastern Europe, said the pictures would be available free on the Internet. But project participants will get a share of profits generated by any commercial use. The first photos, showing such cities as Los Angeles, Washington, San Francisco, Rome and London, are to appear on the Internet within nine months. (AP) REAL VIDEO--Progressive Networks, inventors of RealAudio, have followed it up with RealVideo (which unfortunately doesn't work with Windows 3.1x). Here's how AP reported it: Progressive Networks has announced that Time Warner, ABC, C-SPAN and other networks have agreed to use its new RealVideo software to send news clips, music videos and live sports events across the Internet. The RealVideo software is billed as improving the image quality of the Internet's moving images, which after traveling through phone lines normally appear as jerky as turn-of-the-century silent movies. To view programming, people first download the free RealVideo software off the Internet. They then choose from a menu of Web sites and point and click to the programming they want. While many offerings, such as music videos, are free, others are not. ESPN, for example, charges dlrs 5 a month for access to its live sports events. About 50 Web sites initially will use the video technology, with that number expected to double by the end of the month. Using a standard dial-up modem, RealVideo images are still choppy though a bit smoother than other Internet fare. But more powerful modems such as those used by many businesses deliver "full motion" or broadcast-quality images. (AP) RealVideo is available at: http://www.real.com. INTERNET SATELLITE BROADCASTING--WavePhore thinks it has solved the Internet bandwidth problem for home users. And it won't cost you a cent - assuming your PC is "broadcast ready." The company has announced WaveTop, a six-channel nationwide satellite broadcast network that will send content - including software updates, radio broadcasts and children's educational material - directly to PCs outfitted with a television tuner. WaveTop bypasses bottlenecks by using its own network. Through an agreement signed last fall with PBS National Datacast, a for-profit division of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, WavePhore will piggyback its content on the band commonly used for closed-captioning, the video blanking interval (VBI). Through the VBI, WaveTop can broadcast its content at data rates of between 14.4 and 28.8 Kbps - depending on the time of day - and reach a nationwide audience from its single server instantaneously. And the nationwide network to transport this data is already in place - it is made up of the 264 public television stations across the United States. Consumers will not have to pay for the content because each of the six channels that are scheduled to begin service in the fourth quarter will be sponsored by a content provider that may, in turn, sell advertising. But to receive this content, consumers must have a broadcast-ready PC. Manufacturers such as Compaq are currently developing machines based on Intel's Intercast technology. This will allow PCs to receive broadcast signals plus "enhanced" content such as programming-related Web pages produced by affiliates. ("Wired") ------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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