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Today's Topics:
1. BBC and Ofcom clash over ITV regional news subsidy (Jaisakthivel)
2. SIBC, SLBC, RENB (Dave Valko)
3. Brazil Includes DRM in Digital Radio Evaluation (Jaisakthivel)
4. unID Spanish trop mx station on 1430 kHz (aurel chiochiu)
5. Glenn Hauser logs June 3-4, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
6. FM mullahs spread the Taliban's word (Zacharias Liangas )
7. few days log (Vincent LECLER)
8. ClewistonUSA THUR - FRI DX (ka4...@peoplepc.com)
9. DX Listening Digest 9-046; WOR 1463 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:36:30 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
To: dxld <d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] BBC and Ofcom clash over ITV regional news subsidy
Message-ID: <122851.86297...@web95416.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
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BBC lobbyists and senior Ofcom executives involved in furious row over the size
of public subsidy needed for ITV regional news
The tussle over the future of regional news programming on ITV has descended
into a furious row between Ofcom and the BBC, after corporation lobbyists and
senior executives at the regulator clashed over the degree of public subsidy
needed.
Senior Ofcom insiders are understood to be "furious" that the BBC is rubbishing
the regulator's estimates that a replacement service for ITV's regional news,
provided by independent consortia involving media companies around the country,
could cost ?40m to ?60m a year for a basic offering or ?80m to ?100m annually
for something more fully developed.
Yesterday the Financial Times quoted BBC officials saying Ofcom's figures were
"fantasy".
A senior Ofcom executive directly involved with the issue said today: "This is
an extraordinary development, for the BBC to say that our numbers are fantasy.
It makes them look foolish, engaging in name calling, attacking Ofcom directly,
at a key moment for the industry. I am furious.
"We have not overstated the figures. In our initial public service review
[published in September 2008] we put a figure of between ?30m-?50m to meet the
gap, but we were quite tentative about it."
The row centres around the future use of the so-called "switchover surplus" -
money left over from the ?130m a year of licence fee funding set aside to help
the most vulnerable and disadvantaged get digital TV receivers between now and
2012.
Sir Michael Lyons, the BBC Trust chairman, has already set out the
corporation's stall, arguing in a speech last month that the licence fee should
not be used to pay for "things that have nothing to do with the BBC's public
purposes".
Lyons' comments were seen as a riposte to Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards'
suggestion that the digital surplus could provide funding for the independent
consortia he envisages will take over ITV regional news provision.
The BBC is fighting a concerted last minute rearguard action ahead of the
publication of communications minister Lord Carter's final Digital Britain
report later this month, which will set out the government's plan for the
future of UK public service broadcasting, among other things.
BBC officials want to prevent the licence fee being "top sliced", or used
directly, to fund an ITV regional news service once ITV pulls out of providing
the programming in 2012.
The BBC is also insisting that the use of any switchover surplus until 2012
should be directed into universal broadband provision.
At the government's behest, ?650m of licence fee money was earmarked to
subsidise the digital switchover between 2007 and 2012 ? ?130m a year. However,
based on lower-than-forecast takeup of the switchover subsidy scheme so far, it
is estimated a ?250m surplus could be left between now and 2012.
Most senior civil servants involved in drafting the final Digital Britain
report, due to be published on June 16, are today finalising their
contributions to the document, which will then be presented to cabinet
ministers.
At the same time, the BBC's offer to form a local news partnership to help ITV
out in the short term, by sharing its newsrooms, studios and camera crews is
said to offer such modest savings, of around ?7m, on a cost base of between
?50m-?60m a year, that ITV has reservations about the project. The commercial
broadcaster is understood to consider Ofcom's independent consortia plan to be
a better long-term solution.
In yesterday's FT BBC insiders asserted that their ITV local news partnership
proposal was worth more than ?20m a year, not ?7m - in effect reducing the
amount of licence fee money that would be required to subsidise a replacement
service further.
An ITV spokesman said: "We are committed to helping find a solution to secure
the future viability of regional news on Channel 3 and the BBC partnership
might make a modest but valuable contribution to this."
? To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email edi...@mediaguardian.co.uk or
phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian
switchboard on 020 3353 2000.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/02/bbc-ofcom-clash-itv-regional-news
-Jaisakthivel, Chennai, India
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 07:16:21 -0400
From: "Dave Valko" <djva...@verizon.net>
To: <r...@earthlink.net>, <lyam...@comcast.net>, <srbjr...@yahoo.com>,
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, <cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com>,
<kirk74...@yahoo.com>, "Guy Atkins" <d...@guyatkins.com>, "Nicolas
Eramo" <ner...@gmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] SIBC, SLBC, RENB
Message-ID: <66e38c576a73496496a2c72e7d737...@davepc>
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reply-type=original
SOLOMON ISLANDS 9541.53 SIBC/R. Happy Isles 1031 job opening anmnt at
the SIBC including requirements. Sounds like they need a
journalist/reporter. 1108 ID "You are listening to the news broadcast from
the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation in Honiara". Still in at 1135
but it sounded like there was audio present at 1456. (3 June)
SRI LANKA 11905 SLBC (pres.) 0039-0115 subcont. mx and W anncr briefly
after every song. Long tlk by M 0115-0127, then NA-like choral song to 0130
anmnt by W. Back to subcont. mx at 0131. Best hrd yet but still not quite
strong enough to copy. (4 June)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3385 R. East New Britain 0955 Pop mx, 0956 pgm promo
w/ment of the NBC and "weekend", into Bee Gees song. 1000 M in PD w/ment of
"Thursday night" and date, NBC native mx signature then M w/nx in EG
starting w/ID and the first nx item seemingly abt the NBCs transmissions
(network upgrades or NBC returning to SW??). Unfortunately the signal wasn't
quite good enough to copy all the details. Nothing was found on their
Website. Hopefully I'll get an answer to my e-mail. (4 June)
73 Dave
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:21:56 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
To: ardic <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: [HCDX] Brazil Includes DRM in Digital Radio Evaluation
Message-ID: <988279.38869...@web95409.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
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Brazilian telecom officials say they will include DRM as a platform under
consideration during a 180-day public consultation period in establishing
national digital radio standards.
The announcement came as a seven-member panel representing DRM made its pitch
at the Brazilian Association of Radio and Television (ABERT) Congress in
Brasilia last week.
The move means DRM will join Ibiquity's HD Radio and Eureka 147 DAB/DAB+ as
candidates in providing standards for the country's future digital radio
infrastructure.
Even though DRM's non-proprietary technology has found recent favor in both
Russia and India, the selection process is unlikely to be a slam-dunk in South
America, where HD Radio has enjoyed a relatively long history, particularly in
Brazil, where more than 20 stations have participated in demonstrations and
ongoing evaluations of IBOC digital technology.
Source: text written by Radio Magazine Online, Digital Radio Update, 3 June
2009. from DIGITAL radio mondiale - News
- Jaisakthivel, Chennai, India, www..dxersguide.blogspot.com
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:09:06 -0400
From: aurel chiochiu <a...@videotron.ca>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, nrci...@aol.com, baco...@aol.com,
latinm...@yahoogroups.com, condigl...@yahoogroups.com,
playdx2...@yahoogroups.com, m...@yahoogroups.com, a...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: ve2...@yahoo.com, "Philippe ..." <le_sorcier...@hotmail.com>,
venezuelanqslh...@yahoo.com, julien...@hotmail.com,
markwa1...@aol.com, brasileiro_...@hotmail.com, Jorge Garcia
<garcia.jorgegar...@gmail.com>, minimarc...@hotmail.com,
da_18gu...@hotmail.com, "Tudor M. Vedeanu" <tmvede...@yahoo.com>,
"olivier.tequi" <olivier.te...@laposte.net>, pklo...@bigpond.net.au,
bourdeau_annemari...@hotmail.com, marie_...@hotmail.com,
o_p_nimig...@yahoo.com
Subject: [HCDX] unID Spanish trop mx station on 1430 kHz
Message-ID: <001601c9e51e$05bf1c00$6900a...@b>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Warm greetings to all of you !
While the past night, nothing noteworthy was heard, on Tuesday night, between
0030 and 0100 UTC (2030 to 2100 EDT), I heard a Spanish tropical music station,
playing a wide array of music ranging from salsa to bachata or merengue ! Very
good peaks over/under an unID sports talker, but always faded out during the
talk segments, so I couldn't ID it... Almost certainly an ethnic domestic, but
probably not the Toronto station, because this station was nulled out with the
Sanyo's antenna aimed perpendicular to the E/W bearing... I even thought I had
Venezuela, but the strong signal and the very poor propagation toward Latin
America, unlike on Monday night when a few of the most commun Pan-Americans
were huge, definitively points to the USA ! Some of the music was taped, but
this don't proves to be useful when trying to ID it !
That being said, I was quite buzzy yesturday, so I didn't had time to repport
it back then. Among the DX related things, I joined AM Stereo groups on Yahoo!
and I also took a Technics SA-104 tuner out of dust I received as a gift
sometime ago. I found an adapter for proffessional headphones (so only one that
would work, anyway), so I could listen to it. I connected it to a broken Yagi
antenna and I must confess that the performance I had maked me want to use a
better antenna... I heard a new semi-local on 100.1 MHz in Valleyfield and
several other catches, but it lacks a lot of gain, as some of the elements of
my Yagi were broke and the wire I use for connecting the Yagi isn't a coaxial
cable, so they are lots of signal losses with it... Anyway, some of the
stronger Es might be heard... As far as the selectivity goes, I'm VERY
impressed. I can hear slight splatter on 94.5 MHz, while using other radios I
have, I get very annoying overspills from local CKMF on 94.3 and semi-lo!
cal WYUL on 94.7. This Technics SA-104 tuner is an AM-FM one and on mediumwave
the selectivity is the worst one I've ever heard. The Sont XFD AM Stereo car
radio we have, in the Wide filter position, is slightly MORE selective than it
is and is a real DX machine in the AM "normal" filter position which is
narrower than "normal" mid-range fidelity. As far as the sensitivity goes, I
have trouble hearing some of the semi-local pests clearly like WVMT-620... It
is really a sensitivity problem as the internal ferrite bar antenna on the back
of it is quite large ! I guess, the selectivity could compare with that of the
Grundig G5 receiver which is the only radio I have that clearly cuts down the
91.9 jazz splatter against 91.7 in the way of Radio Coco, Ci?dad de la Havana
via a long-haul single-hop Es mixed with some tropo in the way... Enough now,
I'd like to see if there is some Es undergoing !
Anyway, if someone knows the identity of the Spanish tropical music station
heard on 1430 Tuesday night around local sunset, please let me know !
This short repport is brought yo you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu, DXing from
Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), Quebec, Canada using mainly the Sanyo
MCD-S830 barefoot, but also the Technics SA-104 AM/FM Stereo tuner along with a
Yagi antenna that has some of its element broken !
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:21:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 3-4, 2009
Message-ID: <485116.80261...@web51101.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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** ANGUILLA. 11775, Caribbean Beacon audio from 1610 still mixing with The
University Network, June 4: at 1330 PMS had music underneath her, then
undermodulated live announcement by OM announcer for a change, apologizing for
audio difficulties (but I assume not this particular problem), program summary
for the rest of the morning, back to gospel music QRMing the Bossette (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Everything back to normal at RA June 4, 24 hours after
we observed two separate programs on 9580/9560 and 9590/9475, even with Chinese
by mistake(?) on 9590 at 1300 --- First checked at 1127 June 4, all four in
English and //. Ditto at 1305 for Asia-Pacific, with report on the Beijing
Massacre 20 years ago --- certainly the station to listen to for news about
China, unlike CRI, where I bet any mention of this whatsoever was verboten, so
I wasn`t going to waste my time. But did anyone listen to the complete CRI
English hour on June 3 or 4 and hear anything about it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake check June 4: at 1325, 14420 good // weaker 13970, and also
audible on 9000 (Glenn Hauser, OK DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also AUSTRALIA
** TURKEY. Some reports of VOT 9830 from NAm at 2200 indicate there is no
interference, so I check again June 3: heavy RTTY, and if Turkey is there, it
is totally buried. I was going to record a sample to send to VOT, whom I
notified about this problem weeks ago, but would prefer for there to be *some*
signal from them to prove my case. Must keep trying (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Altho WRMI was back on the 9955 air June 3 at 2000 with Polish Radio
via WRN, it was off the air again two hours later, as confirmed by Jeff White,
probably still undergoing maintenance. It`s not certain whether WRMI will
resume full-time broadcasting with WRN at 16-24 UT M-F, but in case they do, or
for any part of it, the current WRN schedule shows:
1600 RNZI, Korero Pacifica - Recorded in RNZI?s Wellington studios, this 15
minute programme includes a news bulletin covering the Pacific region including
Fiji, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Samoa and New Zealand,
followed by a short current affairs feature
1615 Vatican Radio, World News - a daily bulletin of international news from
the team at Vatican Radio
1630 Deutsche Welle, News and Features
1700 Polish Radio External Service, News and Features
1730 Radio Netherlands, News and Features
1800 RTE Ireland, Drivetime - A round up of the day's top news stories in
Ireland [part 1 of a one-hour program? See 2100]
1830 Radio Prague, News and Features
1900 Radio Sweden, News and Features
1930 Radio Australia, News and Features
2000 Polish Radio External Service, News and Features
2030 KBS World Radio (Korea), News and Features
2100 RTE Ireland, Drivetime - A round up of the day's top news stories in
Ireland [part 2 of the one-hour program starting at 1800?]
2130 Radio Romania International, News and Features
2200 Radio Netherlands, News and Features
2300 Voice of Russia, News and Features
2330 Israel Radio, News - a round up of the day's news and current affairs
from Jerusalem (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. As I was tuning around 31m Thu June 4 at 0507, I came upon someone
in Swedish with a DX report on 9645 --- mentioning R. Thailand, WRNO, RHC, R.
Guaruj? Paulista, LRA36! That must be Christer Brunstr?m`s regular item on
Vatican Radio. Then a YL continued, mentioning DX-Parliament. 0517 played a bit
of Swedish Rhapsody, which used to be the theme of R. Sweden. Fair reception
with fading and atmosferix. So why has VR never had a DX program in English??
We have discussed this `Scandinavian language` transmission recently in DXLD.
EiBi shows:
0500 0520 Mo,Sa CVA Radio Vaticana FI Eu 1611 1260 7335 9645
0500 0520 Tu CVA Radio Vaticana NO Eu 1611 1260 9645 7335
0500 0520 3457 CVA Radio Vaticana SWE Eu 1260 1611 9645 7335
But the language usage appears to be more flexible. Christer Brunstr?m himself
explained May 27 in DXLD:
``Dear Glenn, Vatican Radio broadcasts in Swedish at 1840 UT on Mondays,
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The programme is repeated the
next day at 0500.
On Mondays there are frequently contributions in Norwegian. There are
no regular programmes in Danish but Vatican Radio's Swedish Section
has many listeners in Denmark.
I produce a short DX-report which is broadcast as part of the Mail Bag
programme on the first Wednesday of each month. It was begun in 1995
if I remember correctly.
When not broadcasting in Swedish, programmes can be heard in Finnish
and Estonian. Kind regards. Christer Brunstr?m, Halmstad, Sweden``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:09:41 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] FM mullahs spread the Taliban's word
Message-ID: <4a281bf5.1922.b4e...@greekdx.otenet.gr>
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FM mullahs spread the Taliban's word
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KF04Df02.html
By Mukhtar A Khan
The scenic Swat Valley is thundering with aerial bombardments and fiery
Taliban FM radio sermons. In a large-scale military operation dubbed
Operation Rah-e-Raast (Operation Straight Path), the Pakistani army is
hitting Taliban targets with helicopter gunships while the Taliban respond
with AK-47s and their powerful propaganda radio broadcasts.
More than a million people have fled the scene of the battle and millions
more are trapped inside the valley. While the government has asked the
local people to help the military in identifying
Taliban hideouts, the Taliban have been broadcasting warnings against
supporting the military.
Through their pirate FM transmitters, the Taliban have demanded that local
parliamentarians, security forces and other government officials resign from
their positions as a mark of protest against the military operations; otherwise
they should be prepared for a jihad directed against them.
The Taliban radio broadcasters, popularly known as "FM Mullahs",
continuously transmit anti-American and anti-government sermons, calling
democracy "un-Islamic" and those practicing it "infidels".
In their fiery radio speeches, the Taliban preachers have demanded that the
non-Muslim minorities of Malakand pay jizya (protection tax) or face jihad. In
the same tone, they have issued warnings to local non-governmental
organizations, musicians and anybody else involved in "un-Islamic" activities.
Those defying their orders are butchered, and daily announcements of the
details of their deaths broadcast on FM channels.
The original FM mullah
It was the Swat Taliban leader, Maulana Fazlullah, who first gained
international attention through his FM radio broadcasts and earned the
nickname "FM Mullah". However, the use of pirate radio stations in the
region began in the Khyber Tribal Agency.
It was Haji Namdar, leader of Tanzim Amr bil Maroof wa Nehi Anil Munkir
(Suppression of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue), who established a local
extremist FM radio station in December 2003. Haji Namdar hired a firebrand
Deobandi Sunni cleric, Mufti Munir Shakir, who preached a strict version of
Islam on his radio which infuriated Muslims belonging to the Barelvi Sufi
order.
Consequently, the Sufis opened up a rival FM channel headed by Pir Saifur
Rahman. The opposing views on rival channels resulted in violent clashes in
the Bara Tehsil (county) of the Khyber tribal agency in early 2006. The war
of words in the air culminated into a battle on the ground in which scores of
people were killed and hundreds of others were displaced. The fighting
compelled the local people and government authorities to expel both
varieties of FM Mullahs from the region.
However, the proliferation of pirate FM radio stations did not stop. Several
other small FM channels propagating sectarian views emerged. The vacuum
left by Mufti Munir Shakir was soon filled by a more militant cleric known as
Mangal Bagh. He re-organized the Mufti's religious organization, Lashkar-e-
Islam, and started recruiting new fighters while terrorizing his opponents with
radio sermons. He started issuing fatwas (religious decrees) against his
opponents, demanding the implementation of his brand of Islam by force
when necessary. Mangal Bagh developed a parallel administration in the
region and openly challenged the writ of the government through his
influential broadcasts.
It was Maulana Fazlullah, however, who excelled in the effective use of radio
and ruled over the Swat Valley from his station in Mamdheri (also known as
Imam Dheri). In late 2005, he started his FM service and within the short
span of one year, Fazlullah was a household name throughout the Swat
Valley.
He was extremely popular amongst the local women, who donated cash and
jewelry for his madrassa (seminary) in Mamdheri. The common people of
the area looked to him for guidance and sought his resolution of their long-
standing disputes. The tide turned when he asked the people and the
government to consider his FM sermons as the only and final authority on
important questions.
Maulana Fazlullah politicized his broadcasts in order to gain maximum
power and influence in the area. Fighters were recruited and organized by
receiving instructions on the radio. Fazlullah sent a wave of terror through
opposing politicians and government functionaries and listening to his
broadcasts became mandatory for the local public. If someone missed a
broadcast, they often felt the need to ask others what the FM Mullah had
said that particular day. Who is to be flogged or beheaded next? Who was
forgiven and who was punished today?
Radicalizing the Pashtun
Maulana Shah Dauran is another FM Mullah in Swat who is famous for his
harsh and derogatory denunciations of Pakistani politicians, the United
States and the coalition of nations involved in the war on terrorism. He
typically parodies the Pakistani leadership and specializes in character
assassination.
A Taliban leader in Darra Adam Khel, commander Tariq Afridi, has recently
launched a pirate FM station which is also considered to be one of the most
influential in the area. It is a short-range broadcast that can be heard only
within a two-kilometer radius, but its words are taken very seriously. Tariq
Afrida has been threatening tribesmen with dire consequences if they dare
to raise a lashkar (tribal militia) against the Taliban or help the government
against the Taliban in any way.
Local Taliban leaders air their point-of-view on the same Darra channel
which is then transmitted through other media to the wider community,
enabling the radical preachers to control the area by spreading fear and
intimidation.
Besides the tribal areas and the Swat Valley, there is a growing tendency to
launch pirate FM stations in the urban centers of the North-West Frontier
Province (NWFP). Big cities like Charsadda, Mardan and Swabi have more
than 100 Islamist pirate radio stations. The Pakistan Electronic Media
Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) estimates the number of these FM Mullahs to
be around 300. Most of these Mullahs are highly influential; some of them
are even members of parliament. Maulana Abdullah Shah's FM station in
Charsadda and Maulana Tayyeb's radio station in Panj Pir are very popular.
These FM channels have served the cause of the Taliban in radicalizing
Pashtun society and winning them legitimacy for terrorist activities carried
out in the name of religion. They use the airwaves to incite people to jihad,
redefine the role of women and intimidate the public by announcing the
names of tribal elders, "spies" and security officials who are to be killed or
hanged.
FM as effective propaganda
Historically and culturally, Pashtuns are a radio society. Now they are an FM
society. To win over the hearts and minds of Pashtuns, one would have to
talk to them through the medium of FM radio. In the words of Marshall
McLuhan, the medium is the message, and the Taliban have been wisely
exploiting this medium.
These channels are cost effective in sending powerful messages to the
immediate local community. A 10-watt FM channel costing only US$200 is
good enough to be clearly heard across the village. Launching an FM
channel takes little technical skill. Semi-literate Taliban need only a
transmitter, amplifier and a car or bike battery to send their propaganda into
each home of a village. All this equipment is readily available in the local
market. FM radio sets are also very cheap compared to shortwave and
medium-wave brand radios.
Poor people in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and NWFP
prefer to buy a cheap FM transistor radio at a cost of only a dollar as
opposed to a shortwave receiver, which can cost 10 to 100 times as much.
And now people often don't need to buy an FM radio as most cell phones
have a built-in FM radio. These local FM broadcasts are regularly tuned in
by public transport vehicles. [1] The local Pashtun population prefers to
listen to and rely on the news contained in the local broadcast as compared
to broadcasts beamed from thousands of miles away. They want local
information in local dialects.
The Taliban are smart enough to have exploited these outlets in their
propaganda war against the US and foreign forces in Afghanistan. They
incite the local youth to rise up for jihad against the foreign armies and urge
elderly men and women to give their moral and financial support to the
cause of jihad. Typically, the broadcasts are made from mosques and
madrassas where hundreds of men are present to listen to the FM Mullahs
in person while women listen in their homes.
The broadcasts are highly interactive - not only do men ask questions of the
mullahs in these live broadcasts but women also send questions to be
answered by the mullahs, who have successfully won a majority of the
women over to their side by asking men to give women their legal share of
inheritances, especially land.
All the FM Mullahs' broadcasts start with the recitation of the Koran and its
interpretation. They soon switch to politics and hate sermons against the US
and Pakistani governments and their militaries. Their political and ideological
agenda is justified by their own interpretation of the religion. However, they
may refer to Pashtun culture or nationalism if it suits their goals and
ambitions.
The Taliban are not shy about exploiting other traditional and modern media
tools like night-letters (unsigned leaflets), pamphlets, CDs, DVDs and mobile
messaging. They also make efforts to appear live on other electronic media
to voice their unedited propaganda.
To give legitimacy to his far-fetched claim of responsibility for the April 3
murders of 14 people in Binghamton, New York, Baitullah Mahsud, chief of
the Pakistani Taliban, contacted the Pashto-language Deewa Radio, funded
by the US government's Voice of America. In the same week, Baitullah used
VOA to threaten attacks on the White House and other targets in
Washington DC.
How to challenge Taliban propaganda?
Homeopathy has a long-established principle of "Let likes cure likes". In the
same sense, the Taliban's FM propaganda can be challenged with the same
FM radio tools operated by local people unaffiliated with the Taliban.
Jamming the Taliban's FM transmitters can provide temporary relief but it is
not a solution, owing to the very nature of these channels. Jamming could
interfere with the intelligence system, as some of these FM transmitters
illegally use the same frequencies allocated for the police and security
agencies, ranging from 88.00 to 108.00 MHz. Confiscation of equipment is
also not a permanent solution.
The problem is that the broadcasters can easily resurface. An FM channel
can be operated even from a motorbike on the run. One can pack the whole
transmitter in a brief case and re-launch it from another location unless the
broadcasters lose support and popularity among the local people. PEMRA
officials confiscated 180 illegal FM transmitters in the NWFP last year, but
their number is still on the rise. [2] Confiscation or jamming may create
public anger which could further be exploited by the Taliban against the
Pakistani and American governments.
Conclusion
The best way to fight the illegal broadcasts is to launch local non-Taliban FM
stations, possibly housed in the traditional Pashtun hujras (community halls).
Ideally, there should be one small and simple FM channel for each village in
FATA and the NWFP, operated by respected local people who may handle
regional issues with cultural sensitivity. These stations could deal in an
interactive way with subject matters like farming, local trade and business,
health, education and employment. For women and youth, there could be
special programs related to their interests, such as embroidery, child care,
folklore, fashion, poetry, comedy, drama, traditional sports and quiz
competitions.
Once the local people are engaged positively and feel connected and
empowered, they will resist any temptation to cause destruction in the name
of religion or nationalism. Already some non-Taliban FM channels in both
the NWFP and FATA have demonstrated success. In fact, Radio Khyber in
the Jamrud area of the Khyber tribal agency has been so popular among the
local public that it has almost replaced Mangal Bagh's pro-Taliban FM
station.
It airs live discussion on issues ranging from politics and education to music
and culture. Radio Burraq is another such FM channel which is very popular
in Peshawar and Mardan. FM Dilbar is yet another example, headquartered
in Charsadda. Even Pakistan's military has established several FM
channels, including "Mera Swat" (My Swat) in the Swat Valley, but they
remain comparatively unsuccessful because local people want community
ownership and local labeling of these channels.
Notes
1. Author's interviews with public transport vehicle operators and
passengers.
2. Ibid.
(This article first appeared in The Jamestown Foundation. Used with
permission.)
Mukhtar A Khan is a Pashtun journalist based in Washington, DC, covering
the issues of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan-Afghanistan border
regions. Before shifting to Washington, Mukhtar closely monitored
Pakistan's tribal areas by paying frequent visits and interviewing top Taliban
leadership. Currently, he is working on a book on increasing trends of
militancy in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border regions and their spillover to
rest of the world.
(Copyright 2009 The Jamestown Foundation.)
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:25:23 +0200
From: "Vincent LECLER" <vlec...@orange.fr>
To: "RADIODIFFUSION F" <dx_...@yahoogroupes.fr>, "HCDX"
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXLD" <d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] few days log
Message-ID: <6001d7107e5644579d301b478f90b...@prorpri01>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi All,
Few days log :
20090601 0550 9700.0 DEUTSCHE WELLE,KIGALI RRW
244 Portuguese
20090601 0551 17800.0 DEUTSCHE WELLE,DHABBAYA UAE
244 Portuguese //9700 KHZ
20090601 0600 15160.0 RFI,ISSOUDUN F
355 English musical prog. "RFI Musique"
20090601 0604 17800.0 RFI,ISSOUDUN F
355 English //15160 KHZ
20090603 1057 15190.0 CRI,KASHI CHN
255 English
20090603 1100 15555.0 CVC INT.,DARWIN AUS
255 English "CVC RADIO"
20090603 1110 15120.0 RADIO HABANA,HABANA CUB
233 Spanish
20090603 1112 12000.0 RADIO HABANA,HABANA CUB
244 Spanish //15120 KHZ
20090603 1118 9580.0 AFRICA N?1,MOYABI GAB
344 French "AFRICA N?1 LA RADIO AFRICAINE"
20090604 2100 15410.0 CVC VOZ CRISTTIANA,SANTIAGO CHL
355 Portuguese "CVC noticias"
20090604 2110 15330.0 RADIO CANADA INT.,SACKVILLE CAN
355 French
20090604 2120 15245.0 VOICE OF KOREA,KUJANG KRE
355 English
20090604 2121 13760.0 VOICE OF KOREA,KUJANG KRE
255 English //15245 KHZ
20090604 2124 15235.0 RADIO CANADA INT.,SACKVILLE CAN
455 French //15330 KHZ
20090604 2130 15215.0 WYFR,OKEECHOBEE USA
244 Spanish
20090604 2131 15600.0 WYFR,OKEECHOBEE USA
355 Spanish //15215 KHZ
20090604 2140 15205.0 DEUTSCHE WELLE,KIGALI RRW
355 English
20090604 2141 11865.0 DEUTSCHE WELLE,KIGALI RRW
455 English //15205 KHZ
20090604 2145 15110.0 RADIO EXTERIOR ESPANA,NOBLEJAS E
355 Spanish
20090604 2158 11815.0 RADIO BRASIL CENTRAL,GOIANIA B
233 Portuguese "brasil central"
73 de Vincent
QTH : Poitiers, France
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:48:54 -0000
From: <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: "worlddx" <lebedevs...@rambler.ru>, "Shortwaveworld Shortwaveworld
Shortwaveworld" <shortwavewo...@yahoogroups.com>, "Robert Wilkner"
<r...@earthlink.net>, "Marie Lamb" <mal...@cumbredx.org>,
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
<gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>,
"CUMBREDX" <cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com>, "Chuck B" <ka4...@peoplepc.com>,
"Anker Petersen" <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, <wghau...@yahoo.com>,
<d...@yahoogroups.com>, "Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI"
<l...@directbox.com>
Subject: [HCDX] ClewistonUSA THUR - FRI DX
Message-ID: <000501c9e56f$054f8d80$fac8a...@hp98588948284>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
Bolivia, 6134.75, Radio Santa Cruz, 2340-2359, Initially noted a male
in Spanish language, then he is joined by a female. The program sounds
like language lessons. Could recognize which language is being taught
however. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, June 4, 2009)
Clewiston, Florida
had to shut down, rain and lightening storm overhead.
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:08:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 9-046; WOR 1463
Message-ID: <305153.64294...@web51111.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
DX Listening Digest 9-046 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9046.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1463 / ALGERIA non / ANGUILLA / ANTARCTICA / AUSTRALIA +non RA / BAHRAIN /
BANGLADESH / BOLIVIA / CANADA RCI / CANADA CBC / CANADA CBCNQ / CANADA CFWH+ /
CANADA LPRT / CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / CHINA +non / CUBA / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL
GUINEA / ETHIOPIA / FRANCE +non / GERMANY / INDIA ham+ / INDONESIA /
INTERNATIONAL WATERS +non AF447+ / IRELAND non / JAPAN +non / KOREA NORTH +non
/ MALAYSIA/SARAWAK / MEXICO / MOROCCO / MYANMAR / NETHERLANDS +non / PAKISTAN /
PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / PHILIPPINES / POLAND non / RUSSIA / SAUDI ARABIA /
SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOMALIA non / SUDAN +non / TAIWAN / TIBET / TURKEY / USA IBB
/ USA +non VOA / USA WRMI/WRN / USA WWRB / USA +non WHR A09 / USA WEWN A09 /
USA non CVC / USA AAN5TNC/AAN4EDC / USA ham KX5JT / USA Ron Dillard / USA KSCO
/ USA LPFM / USA DTV / USA KRXQ / VATICAN / VENEZUELA non / UNIDENTIFIED 1710 /
UNIDENTIFIED 24950/CODAR / TESTIMONIALS / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / SHORTWAVE MUSIC /
DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO
EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2009 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1463, June 3-9
Wed 0500 WRMI 9955
Wed 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 1900 WBCQ 7415
Thu 0530 WRMI 9955
Thu 1900 WBCQ 7415
Fri 0000 WBCQ 5110-CUSB Area 51
Fri 0100 WRMI 9955
Fri 1130 WRMI 9955
Fri 1900 WBCQ 7415
Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 [or 2029]
Sat 0800 WRMI 9955
Sat 0800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9510 [except first Sat: June 6]
Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160
Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070
Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1515 WRMI 9955 [suspended]
Mon 0500 WRMI 9955
Mon 2200 WBCQ 7415
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Tue 1530 WRMI 9955
Tue 1900 WBCQ 7415
Wed 0500 WRMI 9955 [or new 1464 starting here?]
Wed 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 1900 WBCQ 7415
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE:
http://podcast.worldofradio.org or
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE:
http://podcast.worldofradio.org or
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Regards, Glenn Hauser
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 78, Issue 5
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