[HCDX] Radio Nacional de Colombia rinde un merecido tributo al radioteatro y la radionovela
A partir del 12 de octubre los colombianos podrán acudir a una interesante exposición que con imágenes y sonido busca dar cuenta de la historia del radioteatro, de su vigencia y de los cambios que este género ha tenido a medida que la radio ha ido evolucionando. Continúe leyendo esta nota en http://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/ ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 105, Issue 29
Send Hard-Core-DX mailing list submissions to hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to hard-core-dx-requ...@hard-core-dx.com You can reach the person managing the list at hard-core-dx-ow...@hard-core-dx.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Hard-Core-DX digest..." ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2011 is out. Order yours from http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. QSL Report from Al Muick, week ending 24 September (Albert Muick) 2. Sept 28 Logs (brian384...@aol.com) 3. Glenn Hauser logs September 28, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 4. Radio Nacional de Colombia rinde un merecido tributo al radioteatro y la radionovela (Arnaldo) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:18:45 -0400 From: Albert Muick To: DXLD , HCDX , Glenn Hauser Subject: [HCDX] QSL Report from Al Muick, week ending 24 September Message-ID: <4e830295.8040...@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 AUSTRIA, Radio Austria International, 9820, f/d City of Salzburg QSL letter in 21 days for report in German and US $2.00. I also had Cousin Ilse drop by the station to inquire if they had received the report (she had nothing better to do anyway!). USA, KJES, Vado New Mexico, 11714.8, f/d "Sunset at KJES" letter in 24 days for US $1.00 and English report via 1st Class Mail. Always nice to see some mail from Austria, and the wintry scene in that picture on their letter took me back to some funny misadventures in Salzburg in recent years. One of the better beers in the world, Stiegl, comes from Salzburg. I remember the old days, when Radio Austria used to actually have a QSL card. What one gets now is a letter with a "card" printed on the back, showing dashed lines and a scissors where one is supposed to cut it off. Budget cutbacks have forced this and much worse cuts worldwide. The KJES letter would have made a beautiful card! The picture on the letter is really almost a prize-winner. I hope they someday manage to get this on an actual card, as the paper printing does not do justice to the beauty of it. I have sent follow-ups to over 50 (!) stations via registered airmail in the past two months, for reports as old as 15 months from my times in Afghanistan. This morning, I received an email from Abu Tabib Md. Zia Hasan, the Senior Engineer for Bangladesh Betar (r...@dhaka.net), saying that they would be sending the QSL very soon, but that they never received the original report. Of course, this does not explain two previous reports to this email address which went unanswered. He says to please note their correct mailing address (slight variation of WRTH 2011): Senior Engineer, Research and Receiving Centre, Bangladesh Betar, Shahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh. In tracing back all my missing QSLs, each and every one of them that never got a reply, was sent via the US Army Post Office on Kandahar Airfield. This is not very encouraging. I'm not (yet) pointing fingers, but after some more empirical data, I may lay a smoldering letter in the inbox of the APO Inspector General. The amazing thing for me is that the registered airmail letter to Bangladesh was sent on the 20th of September, and the email was on the 28th of September. Given handling and transport times, the letter took about 7 days to reach its destination, which for me, at the price of around $14.48, is a better deal than any courier service. Hats off to the USPS for this one! 73 Al Muick Whitehall PA USA -- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:16:09 -0400 (EDT) From: brian384...@aol.com To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Subject: [HCDX] Sept 28 Logs Message-ID: <149c8.719fbbab.3bb48...@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" ** BRAZIL. 9564.87, Super R?dio Deus ? Amor, 0055-0110, usual Portuguese preacher. IDs at 0102. Some religious music. Weak with adjacent channel splatter. Very weak on // 9586.67. Fair on // 11765.02. Sept 28. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** BRAZIL. 9645.38, Radio Bandeirantes, 0045-0100, Portuguese talk. Sound effects. Fair. Weak on // 11925.20. Sept 28. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** MADAGASCAR. 4910,
[HCDX] DX Loggings - Ralph Perry - 29 Sep
UNID ANDES (PERU?) - 4774.95, very interesting (ie, non-Tarma?) situation here. Noted weakly at 1000+ past 1045, peaking to fair QSA at 1035 or so but then diving and nearly done at 1045, on 9/28 and 9/29, better on latter morning. Only fair signal at peak with prototypical Andes morning folklorico pgm, featuring very rustic fare: funky huaynos with guitars, bass, yipping vocalists, quenas and fiddles, etc. Almost entirely segued programming, very few anmts. This type of musica del campo sounds rather Southern Peruvian to me, but that's just a guess. High-pitched OM live deejay anmt in SS at 1025 with t/ck and probable fqy/ID (could only make out "... de la manana y minutos" and "kiloHertz"). Quick canned ad also noted at 1043 with OM and YL interchange, couldn't get much more. Bad atmospheric noise, thanks to Sol and his flare. NOTE: List-loggers would immediately point to Radio Tarma, but (a) this station certainly doesn't sound to me as slick an operation as R. Tarma, although RT would have an amanecer andino type pgm around this time; (b) the RT 'live' webstream was NOT relaying this 4774.95 signal -- and last time I heard Radio Tarma (with 100% ID) was in Feb 2011 . . . and at that time, the onda corta signal was being relayed via the webstream (with the online pgmming delayed by a minute or two). (c) There has been a report out of Europe of an LA on 4774.96 as Radio Tarma, but I perhaps was only a presumed ID, don't know. While this may indeed turn out to be Tarma, feels less than 50/50 to me, so a very interesting mystery . . . Best case is a new station here on this fqy. PROPAGATION THOUGHTS: Have recognized a propagation pattern in the past, of enhanced morning reception on the LA/USA circuit, better signals out of the LA and esp. the Andes, one or more days after a major solar flare, when the SF, A and K indexes are all moving downward and back toward 'normal' ranges. Not so much the absolute value of the indices, it seems, but rather the direction (downward) and magnitude of index movements. Presumably, in the aftermath of the flare, things are settling down 24-72 hours later and I suspect ionospheric conditions perhaps pass through an optimal range that enhances USA/Andes during this period. This is fo course not hard science, just a seat-of-the-pants type observation. But based on that underlying view, I've been hitting the predawn 60 meter band this week, looking for a better morning opening to Peru, etc., in the aftermath of the dramatic solar events we've been seeing. But so far haven't seen anything extraordinary as Solar Flux and the rest have been hanging around at elevated levels due to repeated events on the sun. Have seen SF numbers for the past several days at 168, 138, 133 and still-elevated A and K Index numbers, too. But if my casual past observations hold true, I am still hopeful for a nice morning of Andes signals in the next few days, as SF finally rides on down to a more normal level, along with the A and K indices. In the meantime, can report progress as we've gone from almost no signals other than the mega-xmtrs on the 60 mb. band (mornings ago) . . . to stations showing up again tho not strong yesterday . . . to better sig levels today. The progression is at least a positive one. (Perry, Illinois) - Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100; Knightkit Star Roamer Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 Longwires (150' + 100'); Tuned Multi-Turn 20" Small Loop; Single-Turn Coax Loop. ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 29, 2011
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Sept 29 at 1241, 1315, no signal from LRA36, so suspected another silent Thursday. However, at 1348 a carrier was detectable, and at 1408 JBA but enough to het another JBA on 15480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 29: 10300, JBA at 1333 13920, very poor at 1332 15275, very poor at 1326 15750, good at 1329. Steve Handler, IL, was also hearing this and wondering why it went off at 1330. I find the answer in Aoki: ``15770 SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng 1300-1330 1234567 Chinese 100 95 Dushanbe-Yangiyul TJK 06848E 3829N SOH a11 15750-15795`` That is, SOH jumps around between 15750 and 15795, other frequencies where I believe we have heard FD in the past 16100, JBA at 1330; none in the 14s, 17s, 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 720, Sept 29 at 0528, full ID for Radio Coahuila, Saltillo at this odd time, making SAH with WGN about the same as the one KSAH makes, also in Spanish from San Antonio, Tejas. Cantú shows only 250 watts at night: Maybe Radio Coahuila is the group name, or a generic: 720 XEDE La Kaliente Saltillo, Coah. 8,000 250 Sunrise MWDX Sept 29, UT: 580, Sept 29 at 1154 UT, lots of birthday greetings, including to someone in Múzquiz (Coahuila), and several in Tejas, 1157 ``La Rancherita del Aire``: 580 XEMU La Rancherita del Aire Piedras Negras, Coah. 5,000 2,500 610, Sept 29 at 1157 UT, ``visítenos en Nueva Rosita``, and two-letter call interjected. N.R. is a nearby city to: 610 XEBX La Primera Sabinas, Coah. 5,000 500 610, Sept 29 at 1158 UT, ``G-S`` truncated ID had overtaken frequency: 610 XEGS La Ley Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500 650, Sept 29 at 1209 UT, `Panorama Agropecuario` farmshow, into weather segment discussing hurricane threat. Had just heard same on XEGS 610 and this time confirmed they are //, stronger on 650 with hum, i.e.: 650 XETNT Radio 65 + FM 106.5 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 1,000 760, Sept 29 at 1211 UT, choral NA ending way late, 1212 Radio Geny ID, ``viva México``: 760 XENY Radio Geny Nogales, Son. 5,000 100 870, Sept 29 at 1213 UT, mañanitas from XETAR had SAH and CCI from an SS in the USA: q.v. 870 XETAR La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara Guachochi, Chih. 10,000 D 1050, Sept 29 at 1217 UT, ``Radiorama, Mil Cincuenta AM`` (1050 could be pronounced both this way and Diez Cincuenta, strangely enough). Cantú has no such name on 1050, but it`s a group. Googling leads right to XED Mexicali which Cantú has as: 1050 XED W Radio Mexicali, B.C. 10,000 D I thought W Radio and Radiorama were competitors; did they sell XED? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND. 9500, Sept 29 at 0508, preacher in African English, praising a lord and citing Zechariah, poor. Is TWR, 100 kW, 5 degrees from Manzini at 05-08 per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 870, Sept 29 at 1213 UT, XETAR, Chihuahua, usually totally in the clear, is now getting CCI from another Spanish station, generally separable by rotating DX-398, and obviously American with PSAs about United Way and IRS with those names pronounced in English, then ``8-70 AM, Radio Variedades`` ID. Surely it`s KFJZ Fort Worth. 2011 NRC AM Log does not have this slogan and shows it as SS:RELigious, but certainly not now, plugging their variety of music. There are two other little US stations on 870 in CO and MO, neither listed as Spanish at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1110, Sept 29 at 1218 UT, rather startled to hear Qur`an being sung by a tenor, then interrupted by some English words, presumably translation; 1221 onto unsung talk in Arabic(?). Could not get a null on it, and could not separate it from KFAB. Surely it is one of the Texans, either the newish KVTT Mineral Wells (The Metroplex), which I thought was Christian, and tho 50 kW days has a big null toward us; OR KTEK Alvin (Houston), a 2.5 kW daytimer listed as BizRadio (in English) by NRC AM Log. I`ll assume the latter, with a pattern aimed right at us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15610, Sept 29 at 1409, Mother Angelica crax a joke and provoxe laffs, as her modulation also crackles continuously; plus squishy spurs at plus and minus 9 and 18 kHz, i.e. 15592, 15601, 15619, 15628, but not much around at the moment to be QRMed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1584: first airing 0330 UT Thursday Sept 29 on WRMI; then Thursday 1500, 2100, Friday 1430, Saturday 0800, 1500, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730. On WTWW: Thu 2100 9479, UT Sun 0400 5755 On WBCQ: Thu 2130 7415, UT Mon 0300v 5110v-CUSB On WWRB: UT Fri 0330 5051 NEW on Hamburger Lokal Radio, Germany: Saturday 0930 on 5980, special preview, but regular time from Oct 4 will be Tuesdays 0930. On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]
[HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
>>> CANADA Radio Japan Relay NHK 5960 0344 GMT Japanese 444 Sept 26 Two OMs with ongoing comments. MacKenzie-CA.. COSTA RICA Radio Espana Exterior-REE Relay 3350 0315 GMT Spanish 333 Sept 26 OM and YL with comments in the Diaria program. MacKenzie-CA.. CUBA Radio Rebelde 5025 0320 GMT Spanish 333 Sept 26 YL and OM with comments plus some vocal music.. Mackenzie-CA.. CUBA Radio Havana Cuba-RHC 5040 0325 GMT Spanish 333 Sept 26 YL and OM with ongoing comments. MacKenzie-CA.. UNITED STATES, Tennessee WWRB 3185 0307 GMT English 333 Sept 26 OM with comments in the Overcomer Ministries Mackenzie-CA.. UNITED STATES, Tennessee WWCR-#1 3215 0313 GMT English 333 Sept 26 OM with on going comments Mackenzie-CAS.. UNITED STATES, Tennessee WTWW 5755 0330 GMT English 444 Sept 26 OM wants to Pteach to the World and comments what is in the Bible. MacKenzie-CA.. UNITED STATES, Tennessee WWCR#2 5935 0340 GMT English 444 Sept 26 YL with comments on Brotherly Love. Mackenzie-CA.. Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA Huntington Beach, California, United States of America Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650 "World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive" ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Inside The Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma
Inside The Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_uvb76/all/1 Somewhere in Russia a signal of mysterious beeps and buzzes has broadcast since the high-water days of the Cold War. But why? Photo: Sergey Kozmin >From a lonely rusted tower in a forest north of Moscow, a mysterious shortwave >radio station transmitted day and night. For at least the decade leading up to 1992, it broadcast almost nothing but beeps; after that, it switched to buzzes, generally between 21 and 34 per minute, each lasting roughly a second-a nasally foghorn blaring through a crackly ether. The signal was said to emanate from the grounds of a voyenni gorodok (mini military city) near the village of Povarovo, and very rarely, perhaps once every few weeks, the monotony was broken by a male voice reciting brief sequences of numbers and words, often strings of Russian names: "Anna, Nikolai, Ivan, Tatyana, Roman." But the balance of the airtime was filled by a steady, almost maddening, series of inexplicable tones. They don´t know just what they´re listening to. But they´re fascinated by the unending strangeness of the mindless, evil beeping. The amplitude and pitch of the buzzing sometimes shifted, and the intervals between tones would fluctuate. Every hour, on the hour, the station would buzz twice, quickly. None of the upheavals that had enveloped Russia in the last decade of the cold war and the first two decades of the post-cold-war era-Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika, the end of the Afghan war, the Soviet implosion, the end of price controls, Boris Yeltsin, the bombing of parliament, the first Chechen war, the oligarchs, the financial crisis, the second Chechen war, the rise of Putinism-had ever kept UVB-76, as the station´s call sign ran, from its inscrutable purpose. During that time, its broadcast came to transfix a small cadre of shortwave radio enthusiasts, who tuned in and documented nearly every signal it transmitted. Although the Buzzer (as they nicknamed it) had always been an unknown quantity, it was also a reassuring constant, droning on with a dark, metronome-like regularity. But on June 5, 2010, the buzzing ceased. No announcements, no explanations. Only silence. The following day, the broadcast resumed as if nothing had happened. For the rest of June and July, UVB-76 behaved more or less as it always had. There were some short-lived perturbations-including bits of what sounded like Morse code-but nothing dramatic. In mid- August, the buzzing stopped again. It resumed, stopped again, started again. Then on August 25, at 10:13 am, UVB-76 went entirely haywire. First there was silence, then a series of knocks and shuffles that made it sound like someone was in the room. Before this day, all the beeping, buzzing, codes, and numbers had hinted at an evil force hovering on the airwaves. Now it seemed as though the wizard were suddenly about to reveal himself. For the first week of September, transmission was interrupted frequently, usually with what sounded like recorded snippets of "Dance of the Little Swans" from Tchaikovsky´s Swan Lake. On the evening of September 7, something more dramatic-one listener even called it "existential"-transpired. At 8:48 pm Moscow time, a male voice issued a new call sign, "Mikhail Dmitri Zhenya Boris," indicating that the station was now to be called MDZhB. This was followed by one of UVB-76´s (or MDZhB´s) typically nebulous messages: "04 979 D-R-E- N-D-O-U-T" followed by a longer series of numbers, then "T-R-E-N-E-R-S-K-I-Y" and yet more numbers. Just a few years before, such a remarkable development on a shortwave station would have been noted by only a tiny group of hobbyists. But starting the previous June-after the first, mysterious outage-a feed of UVB-76 had been made available online (UVB-76.net), cobbled together by an Estonian tech entrepreneur named Andrus Aaslaid, who has been enthralled by shortwave radio since the first grade. "Shortwave was an early form of the Internet," says Aaslaid, who goes by the nickname Laid. "You dial in, and you never know what you´re going to listen to." During one 24-hour period at the height of the Buzzer´s freak- out in August 2010, more than 41,000 people listened to Aaslaid´s feed; within months, tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands, were visiting from the US, Russia, Britain, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Japan, Croatia, and elsewhere. By opening up UVB-76 to an online audience, Aaslaid had managed to take shortwave radio-one of the most niche hobbies imaginable-and rejuvenate it for the 21st century. Today, the Buzzer´s fan base includes Kremlinologists, anarchists, hackers, installation artists, people who believe in extraterrestrials, a former Lithuanian minister of communications, and someone in Virginia who goes by the moniker Room641A, a reference to the alleged nerve center of a National Secur
[HCDX] World Christian Broadcasting trying to reach every nation in the world
World Christian Broadcasting trying to reach every nation in the world http://www.reporternews.com/news/2011/sep/22/world-christian-broadcasting-trying-to-reach- in/ Senior producers for World Christian Broadcasting are (standing, from left) Henry Huffard, African programming; Rob Scobey, English programming; Rex Morgan, Spanish programming; Konstantin Tchernouchenko (seated from left), Russian programming; Tony Tadros, Arabic programming; and Ed Short, Chinese programming. Former World War II combat veteran of Guam and Iwo Jima Lowell Perry died in a plane crash in the Caribbean on March 25, 1977, at age 53, but his dream of setting up shortwave radio stations to teach the Bible around the world did not die with him. The dream began in Perry's living room in Abilene and grew into World Christian Broadcasting Inc. Soon after WWII, Perry and his friend Maurice Hall, also a veteran, decided they wanted to spread the gospel to remote areas of the world. Hall had seen what the shortwave radio could do when he assisted in setting up communications for President Franklin Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and Perry had seen the islands in the Pacific and knew the people relied on radio for their news. They kept their idea alive, and in 1976, a small group met at Perry's house and World Christian Broadcasting began. Perry's widow, Earline Perry, said her husband had always been interested in radio and taught radio and television broadcasting at Abilene Christian University. She said Hall had told Lowell if they could use shortwave radio in the war, they could use it for teaching the Bible. While at ACU, Lowell published an article, saying, "This sleeping giant (shortwave broadcasting) has only begun to stir. If he were sufficiently motivated, he has the power to take the gospel to the entire world within a few years' time. ... (We) need to realize the potential of this electronic giant and avail ourselves of this excellent opportunity." Perry was traveling in the Caribbean seeking information and locations for radio stations when the plane carrying him and two others broke up in midair. Perry had already set up some stations in a few countries. Now, Perry's dream is about to become a reality. One station is already set up in Alaska and is reaching into China and Russia and numerous other nations, while another will open in Madagascar that will broadcast into Egypt, Jordan, India, and other countries. It has not been an easy task, said Charles Caudill, president/CEO of World Christian Broadcasting, based in Franklin, Tenn. "Our station in Alaska was set on fire by arsonists," he said. "The damage was about $200,000." He said three transmitters will soon be on their way to Madagascar. "We hope to have the station in operation by January 2012," Caudill said. He said World Christian Broadcasting employs about 50 people around the world. He said some people hear about Christ on the radio and contact the station. Caudill said information is sent to people who want to know more, and a missionary or someone in that country might visit with them. "We have people who speak Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and many languages," Caudill said. Caudill said the radio uses a magazine format to reach the 3 billion "We have music, information about the Olympics that might involve their country, and even something about cowboys and Indians," he said. Caudill said they talk about the Bible and their main mission was to teach and influence people to learn about Christ. Several from World Christian Broadcasting met in Abilene this week and had a booth set up at the ACU Summit. Bob Scott of Abilene was the first president of World Christian Broadcasting. He served from 1980 to 1993. "Our primary purpose was trying to reach the unreachable people of the world like China and Russia with the gospel of Christ," Scott said. "We went on the air in 1983 in Anchor Point, Alaska." "Lowell and Maurice Hall had always said they wanted to see the gospel preached to every person in the world," Earline Perry said. "They knew it could be done through shortwave radio." Lowell Perry wanted to do it in his lifetime, his Earline Perry said. "Lowell did not live to see it done, but Maurice Hall did," she said. "Within in a short time, the Bible will be beamed to every nation in the world." Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2
[HCDX] Senate Committee on Appropriations says VOA radio and TV to China must continue
Senate Committee on Appropriations says VOA radio and TV to China must continue http://www.bloggernews.net/127192 Posted on September 28th, 2011 by ted in All News, Blogosphere News, Breaking News, California News, China News, Congressional News, Country News, Government News, State News, US Government News, US News, Vermont News Read 292 times. The media freedom website BBG Watch reported that the Senate Committee on Appropriations has rejected the Broadcasting Board of Governors´ (BBG) proposal to end Voice of America (VOA) radio and TV broadcasts to China and criticized the BBG for the lack of transparency. The committee recommended $740,039,000 for U.S. international broadcasting operations, for the operating and engineering costs of VOA, Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), which includes Radio and TV Marti, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), which includes Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa, and the BBG in FY2012. The Obama Administration has asked for $754,261,000. The BBG´s FY2011 budget was $740,017,000. The BBG. manages these U.S. government-funded entities and broadcasting operations In a highly critical language included in a report recommending the passage of the bill (S. 1601) making FY2012 appropriations for the Department of State, the BBG and other foreign operations, the Senate Committee on Appropriations expressed concern with "the lack of transparency" regarding the BBG proposal. The committee noted that in addition to ending VOA radio and TV to China, the BBG also wanted to reduce shortwave and medium wave transmissions to Russia, Iran, North Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq. The committee directed the BBG to notify the committee when BBG broadcast hours are reduced or increased and when transmission platforms are changed. The committee approved funding for the continuation of these broadcasts and transmissions, including VOA radio and TV programs to China. The report was submitted by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. In an earlier action, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs also voted by unanimous consent to approve an amendment proposed by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) that would prevent the BBG from ending VOA broadcasts to China. The vote represented an unprecendented full bipartisan rebuke to the BBG. In describing his strategy of confronting Congress, the BBG chairman Walter Isaacson said in a recent interview with Congressional Quarterly that "these are battles I´m not afraid to have." That strategy, advocated by the BBG permanent executive staffers who advise the part-time Board, backfired. Having managed to terminate VOA radio and TV broadcasts to Russia despite strong opposition from Senator Leahy and other members of Congress, these executive staffers were confident they could do it again in the case of VOA broadcasts to China. This time they encountered a far stronger and better organized opposition from numerous media freedom and human rights groups. In the interview, Isaacson also mischaracterized the position of his Congressional and other critics by implying that they are so focused on preserving shortwave radio broadcasts that they fail to understand the importance of social media. Most of the critics are supporters of new media technologies but advocate a multi- media approach to program delivery, including satellite TV transmissions to China, which the BBG also wanted to eliminate. In a move that may signal a an attempt at damage control, the BBG has abolished the positions of some of its executives who were behind the decision to end VOA programs to China and reduce radio and TV transmissions to other countries without free media. Before these Congressional actions, the BBG plan had been criticized by Chinese human rights activists, Human Rights Watch, American civil rights activists, journalists, and Chinese American organizations. Laogai Research Foundation, Chinese Coalition for Citizens´ Rights, Women´s Rights Without Frontiers, Women´s Rights in China, Free Church for China, China Aid, Tibet House, Free Burma Alliance, The Chinese Chamber of Commerce in New York, Visual Artists Guild, Pasadena NAACP, National Committee Democratic Party of China, Alliance for Hong Kong Chinese in the US, Human Rights for Workers, and Ethan Gutmann, Recipient Tiananmen Spirit Award, signed a petition to Congress to save VOA Chinese broadcasts. Free Media Online, a media freedom nonprofit, worked with current and former BBG employees and human rights activists to help launch BBG Watch website, which advocates for restoring media freedom focus and good management in U.S. international broadcasting. Claims by BBG members and executives that almost no one in China listens to VOA radio on shortwave were denied by Chinese pro-democracy activists and derided by bo
[HCDX] The Air War Over North Korea
The Air War Over North Korea http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20110929.aspx September 29, 2011: North Korean refugees, operating from South Korea, have led the psyops (psychological warfare) effort against North Korea in recent years. They started shortwave radio transmissions with U.S. government funding and launched helium balloons loaded with DVDs and leaflets. The South Korean government had halted its official propaganda as part of an agreement with the North in 2004. But the torpedoing of a South Korean warship and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island last year changed all that. The South Korean military has jumped in with both feet. The Joint Chiefs of Staff established a psyops unit. It resumed transmissions of the Voice of Freedom, an FM propaganda network. Voice of Freedom is produced in Seoul and then relayed via the military´s Mungunghwa 5 satellite to six FM transmitters along the DMZ. Programs include plenty of pop music in the popular (in North Korea) "trot" style. The station plans to expand to AM, a better choice as there are few FM receivers in North Korea. The military has joined the dissidents in distributing leaflets via balloons. Five ton trucks with printers aboard can produce up to 80,000 leaflets a day. The trucks receive the design and layout of a particular leaflet via a roof-top satellite dish. The leaflets are chosen from a database of 1,300 that are jointly produced by American and South Korean psyoperators. There can be as many as three launches a month if the wind and weather are right. A new leaflet is tried each month. Some South Korean lawmakers have objected to the military targeting North Korean civilians, but the effort continues. Another outlet is loudspeakers. Four have been set up in the DMZ. Measuring 4 by 3 meters, they can be heard 12 kilometers away during the day and twice as far at night. Each cost about $165,000. But they have yet to be turned on as North Korea threatened to shell any speaker that starts broadcasting.--Hans Johnson Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] LENCZOWSKI: Don’t junk critical leverage over Beijing
LENCZOWSKI: Don´t junk critical leverage over Beijing Silencing VOA programming would end U.S. support for China´s freedom 1 Comment and 6 Reactions|ShareTweet|Email|Print| By John Lenczowski http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/28/dont-junk-critical-leverage-over- beijing/?page=all#pagebreak As China´s increasing economic, espionage and military might threaten ever-greater influence over the United States, why would we even consider junking our most cost-effective leverage over the future of Chinese policy? If permitted to stand, the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors` (BBG) proposal to eliminate Voice of America (VOA) shortwave radio and satellite TV broadcasts to the Chinese people will harm our national security posture. The problem here is part of bigger issues: Should we have relations with foreign peoples or just governments? Should we shape foreign opinion or let foreign propaganda do so? Neglecting relations with opinion leaders has been a persistent policy problem. Failing to gain foreign public sympathy with U.S. ideals and objectives makes it is harder to achieve them. But winning sympathy means having friends and even intelligence sources who believe in freedom. Jasmine Revolutions erupted in four Arab states, yet Washington had no relations with the revolutionaries. Most Arabs have U.S. policies explained to them by al Jazeera. Most Afghans have them explained by the Taliban. Now the BBG is about to renounce the most powerful form of "soft power" we have over China: our ability to inform, inspire and connect with the Chinese public - the ordinary people whom the regime fears more than anything else - and help the Chinese people communicate with one another. Cutting VOA broadcasts to China is designed to "save" $8 million and shift it to expanded Internet outreach. However worthy the Internet may be, only a fraction of the Chinese population is connected to it, and Beijing censors it and even has shut it down. While Chinese Internet usage is severely limited, shortwave broadcasting reaches the entire country and is the favored method of communication by the regime itself. The regime cannot identify VOA listeners and therefore cannot punish them. The BBG justifies its decision with specious statistics "showing" a tiny VOA audience - statistics gathered by a Chinese state-sanctioned polling company through interviews and Internet polls. Responses are monitored by a regime that has punished listeners of "subversive" broadcasts. Because it would be crazy to admit listening to VOA, the statistics more accurately measure the size of the crazy population of China. Furthermore, audience size can change radically overnight under conditions of political crisis. The BBG argues that broadcasts will continue to China by Radio Free Asia (RFA). Fine and good. But RFA has a different mission than VOA. It, like Radio Free Europe, is designed to serve as a "surrogate domestic free press" whose programming concerns developments within China itself - news and information suppressed by the communist regime. The VOA has a separate and equally important mission. It explains U.S. policy and helps foreign audiences understand America. Both missions are essential and cannot effectively be melded into a single station. During the Cold War, Alexander Solzhenitsyn called our radio broadcasts "the mightiest weapon that the United States possesses to create mutual understanding between America and the oppressed Russian people." Recognizing this in the 1980s, we strengthened our broadcasts to the Soviet empire. They were arguably the most influential instrument we had to embolden domestic resistance to that regime. They not only connected us with the people, they enabled the people, who established underground lines of communication with their radios, to communicate among themselves, organize and create a critical mass of resistance. When asked about the importance of radios to the rise and survival of the Solidarity movement in Poland, Polish President Lech Walesa replied, "Would there be life on earth without the sun?" Similarly, VOA inspired the pro-democracy 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, which were cruelly suppressed by our current "trading partners." U.S. policy has long hoped that Chinese economic reforms would translate into political reforms. But this has not happened. Instead, we see China pursuing Cold War policies: 25,000 spies in the United States; relentless cyber-attacks on our corporations, government agencies and China experts; nuclear proliferation to Iran and North Korea; massive military buildup; regional hegemonism; and propagandizing its people and armed forces that the United States is the "main enemy." Meanwhile, as we steadily lose our economic and military edge over Beijing for $8 million - not saved, but reprogrammed - we are throwing out what may be our most powerful leverage: o
[HCDX] New on RNZI - Micronesian Radio Now
Media Release Radio Heritage Foundation www.radioheritage.com September 29 2011 RNZI Airs New Radio Heritage Documentary Micronesian Radio Now _ Join us from Monday, October 3 2011 as we bring you an exclusive review of radio broadcasting in today's Federated States of Micronesia on the new Mailbox program from Radio New Zealand International. The program includes reviews of todays radio scene on each of the island states of Chuuk [Truk], Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap, looks at the differences between the islands, and reviews some of the challenges facing public radio in this North Pacific nation. You can listen directly via shortwave radio from RNZI in New Zealand, or audio on demand [for the following month] with full details of current broadcast frequencies [both DRM and analog] and times possible for your area as well as audio downloads at www.rnzi.com. FSM as it's better known, developed its local radio stations during the period of US Trust Territory of the Pacific status, and these stations form the core of the FSM Broadcasting Service headquartered on Pohnpei today. As well as public stations V6AK Chuuk, V6AJ Kosrae, V6AH Pohnpei, and V6AI Yap, there are only two commercial radio stations in the country, the rest being run by a wide range of churches and missions. Probably the best known is V6MP The Cross, which broadcasts on 4755 Shortwave across all of FSM and to Palau, Saipan and the Marshall Islands. This station started out in a converted shipping container. You'll also hear recent air checks from each of the FSMBS AM radio stations, and each with very distinctive local programs, as well as a taste of contemporary Micronesian music. So join us from Monday, October 3 2011 as we explore the contemporary radio scene in the Federated States of Micronesia on the Mailbox program from Radio New Zealand International [www.rnzi.com]. You can also use our fully up to date guides to contemporary AM and shortwave radio stations in the Federated States of Micronesia with free access to our PAL Radio Guides at our global website www.radioheritage.com. Use our Google Search to find more features about broadcasting in the North Pacific including KYOI Saipan, WXLG Kwajalein and others. Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage across the Asia and Pacific region. Our website is www.radioheritage.com. To be removed from this mailing list email 'Please Remove' to i...@radioheritage.net. Annual Supporters are welcomed and recognized online at www.radioheritage.com where you can make a donation today. ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] World Radio Day
UNESCO's Executive Board approved item 13 of its provisional agenda "Proclamation of a World Radio Day" to be celebrated each 13 February. It's an interesting initiative, although it probably would have been more valuable twenty years ago. The Executive's decision: _Recommends_ to the [UNESCO] General Conference that it proclaim a World Radio Day and that this Day be celebrated on 13 February, the day the United Nations established the concept of United Nations Radio; _Invites_ all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, professional associations and broadcasting unions, as well as civil society, including non-governmental organizations and individuals, to duly celebrate the World Radio Day, in the way that each considers most adequate; _Requests _the Director-General, subject to the final resolution of the General Conference, to bring this resolution to the attention of the Secretary-General of the United Nations so that World Radio Day may be endorsed by the General Assembly. The decision is available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic as 187 EX/13 at the bottom of the page http://www.unesco.org/new/en/executive-board/187th-session/main-series/ -- | Jaisakthivel Via Bruce Girard, Montevideo, Uruguay | ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
