Those who are making QSO are eligible for Special QSL Card provided you send your QSL card, Address Label (no SASE), sufficient postage stamp (Rs. 5/- if you are from India else 2 IRCs).
Our previous operation was AT8WFF done for First Time in our country at Bannerghatta National Park in 2008 where we could get the Permanent Pictorial Postal Cancellation of Butterfly Park with logo of WFF details and picture are on http://www.qrz.com/db/AT8WFF
More details of World Flora Fauna is on http://www.wff44.com/en
Very soon the India Post would be releasing the Permenant Pictorial Postal Cancellation at Kannada University Campus - Kamalapura 583276 for which our LISC India Chapter is following up.
Government of India, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Department of Telecommunications, WPC Wing, Amaeur Cell, New Delhi vide Special Permission L-14011/639/2010-Amt Dated 29th Sep 2010 with Special callsign VU0WFF from 1st to 10th Oct 2010 to operate from Daroji Bear Sanctuary, Kamalapura, Bellary District of Karnataka State.
The Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Chief Wildlife Warden vide Letter No.D/WL/CR-70/2008-9 dated 13th Sep 2010 has permitted Amateur (Ham) Radio Special Event Station at Daroji Bear Sanctuary on occasion of "Wildlife Week" - October 4th, 2010 happens to be "Global Day for Protection of Animals" where as 10-10-10 10:10:10 that is Oct 10th, 2010 happens to be Palindromic Date and Time.
The Jungle Lodges and Resorts Limited has recently opened a 20 Twin bedded cottages naming after as Sloth Bear Resort -Kamalapur - Hampi which is the UNESCO World Heritage site of Karnataka State with packages and discounted tariff to Amateur (Ham) Radio Volunteers and their family. We are expecting colourful picture QSL card from them soon. Their website is http://www.junglelodges.com
National Institute of Amateur Radio
Raj Bhavan Road, Somajiguda
Hyderabad 500082, INDIA
Telefax: 91-40-2331 0287 Tel: 91-40-6516 7388
E mail: niarindia@hotmail.com, vu2nro@gmail.com
Web site: www.niar.org
Club station: VU2NRO 14160 kHz
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(Via niarindia list)
(BBG Press Release)
More at :
RTE via Meyerton,South Africa for All Ireland Final special txn..
RN via Madagascar for world cup football commentary in Dutch0230 onwards - Nice conditions, Nepal stn's quite strong yday
91.9 - Radio Mantra Bareilley + Agra
98.6 - Rado Bheri, Surkhet, Nepal
99.4 - Shuklaphanta FM, Mahendranagar, Nepal
101.3 - AIR Aligarh
101.5 - AIR Sawai Madhopur
102.1 - AIR Mussourie
103.0 - Radio Nepal, Buditola
103.1 - AIR Chandigarh
107.2 - AIR Kasauli
28th Sept
91.9 - Radio Mantra Karnal
99.4 - Shuklaphanta FM,Mahendranagar, Nepal
101.3 - AIR Aligarh
101.5 - AIR Sawai Madhopur
102.1 - AIR Mussourie
103.0 - Radio Nepal, Buditola
103.1 - AIR Chandigarh
103.7 - AIR Kanpur
107.2 - AIR Kasauli
28 Sept 10
Tropo - Radio Bheri 98.6, Surkhet,Nepal steady from 1500 UTC check in, carried BBC Nepali between 1500-1530 UTC, gone at 1715 UTC.
Good tropo conditions expected today also around north India - http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_mid.html
RP2100 + QUAD
RadioAsia 2011
21-23 Feb 2011
Venue : New Delhi, India
www.radioasia.org
BES Expo 2011
24-26 Feb 2011
Venue : Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India
www.besindia.com
Listeners can tune into the new look current affairs programme to hear a clear Christian voice speaking into an increasingly secularised world. TWR Today broadcasts live at noon on weekdays with all the latest regional, national and international events. Cutting-edge news is presented with comment from Christian leaders, giving a Christian viewpoint on the issues which are shaping the world in which we live.
Russell Farnworth, CEO of Trans World Radio says: "TWR continues to explore every possible way of communicating the Christian message and TWR Today will bring a distinctly Christian approach to the news and events going on around us.
"There's a very telling verse in 1 Chronicles 12:32 where the 'men of Issachar' are singled out as those who understood the times they lived in and knew what the people of God needed to do. As our society moves more and more towards secularism, the need for the Church to understand what's going on and to do something about it will get more and more urgent. I'm excited about what TWR Today can do to help raise up 'men of Issachar' today!"
TWR Today broadcasts live at noon on weekdays on satellite channel 0138, Freesat 790, online at www.twr.org.uk and on DAB digital radio throughout the North West of England.
http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/news.aspx?action=view&id=4822
The World Service will no longer broadcast plays, the Proms or Wimbledon, as part of a cost-cutting exercise, the BBC has announced. Craig Oliver, controller of the English speaking section, said the "difficult decisions" he had been forced to make would come into force from April.
Read the full story here :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11404120
More at :
"We at RFA pledge to continue bringing accurate, objective news to people living in Asian countries that restrict and censor the press." Information about RFA's winners and finalists, and their entries follows. · Broadcaster Khanh An of RFA's Vietnamese service earned the top award in the category of Best Ongoing News Story for her three-part series "A New Form of Women Trafficking." The series, which aired in March 2010, documented an incident of a Vietnamese woman being trafficked to Europe. The series examined some of the local factors and people and their roles in facilitating the woman's victimization.
· RFA Burmese reporter Kyaw Min Htun won a bronze award in the category of Best Coverage of Ongoing News Story for his stories on the human trafficking of Burmese refugees and migrants in Malaysia, which aired from January to May of this year. For his stories, the reporter interviewed ethnic Rohingya migrants, seeking asylum in Malaysia after being subjected to persecution in Burma. Many, however, once in Malaysia, faced exploitation by human-traffickers, abusive employers, and corrupt officials.
· Park Songwu of RFA's Korean language service, was a finalist in the NYF category of Best Human Interest Story for his four-part series on North Korea's youngest defectors. The series focused on the difficulties and challenges these individuals face once living in South Korea.
· RFA Mandarin's Tang Qiwei was also a finalist in the NYF History category for her piece on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, which aired on June 4, 2009. The short audio documentary, which was edited by Feng Xiaoming, used interviews with many leaders, activists, and officials involved with or connected to the Beijing student-led demonstrations.
(Press Release)
More at : http://tinyurl.com/3xcu5ft
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article739495.ece
Read the RadioWorld article here : http://www.radioworld.com/article/106768
More details at : http://m.timesofindia.com/PDATOI/articleshow/6604098.cms
(Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad)
Related story :
Floods In UP: Devastating flood batters normal life in north India
http://www.samachartoday.com/floods-in-up-devastating-flood-batters-normal-life-in-north-india/11053
Excerpt :
"The flood water entered All India Radio and Doordarshan complex in Bareilly. AIR correspondent reports that the broadcasting of programmes have been affected badly."
YouTude Video showing water inside AIR/DD Bareilly premises ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZI2w9xIWGw&feature=youtube_gdata
Schedule Starting October 31st, 2010
Time Freq(khz)Language
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0800-0900 7355 English
0800-0900 9655 Mandarin
0900-1000 6150 Russian
0900-1000 9655 Mandarin
1000-1100 7355 English
1000-1100 9655 Mandarin
1100-1200 6150 Russian
1100-1200 9655 Mandarin
1200-1300 9655 English
1200-1300 7355 English
1300-1400 7300 Mandarin
1300-1400 6150 Mandarin
1400-1500 7355 English
1400-1500 7300 Mandarin
1500-1600 6150 Russian
1500-1600 7300 Mandarin
1600-1700 6150 Russian
1600-1700 7300 Mandarin
1700-1800 6150 Russian
1700-1800 7300 Mandarin
Newly designed website at : www.knls.org/
(Alokesh Gupta )
As usual, we welcome your email and letters by email to: reports (at) nexus (dot) org - Even if we do not have the financial and human resources to answer to all letters, we do reply to all emails sent to this email address. Your letters and support really can keep our station alive in times when most other stations decide to shut down. Your letters and comments are of the greatest help to those who are able to finance our broadcasts, and keep us on the air.
Please get in touch with us or directly with those who hear on the air, and not only with reception reports (please!), but especially with comments and suggestions that are extremely useful to our program producers. Thank you!
73,
Ron Norton
NEXUS-Int'l Broadcasting Association
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Recently, a mother who was the sole survivor of a 2008 Taliban attack on a prominent anti-Taliban family in the Swat Valley told her story on the air. Radio Mashaal also interviewed the only survivor of a Taliban attack on a local jirga earlier this year that killed 30 people.
"People don't know these stories," says Acting Radio Mashaal Director Amanullah Ghilzai. "The more we broadcast Taliban atrocities, the more people come forward to share their experiences."
In May, Radio Mashaal's Daud Khattak interviewed a 26 year-old Pakistani father of two whose hands were chopped off by the Taliban after being accused of theft. Two others also had their hands cut off, but local residents - including the men's families - never reported the incident to authorities for fear of Taliban retribution.
Radio Mashaal's extensive coverage of the devastating floods in Pakistan last month included live reports from affected areas, interviews with government officials, and reaction from the international community. One Radio Mashaal correspondent, Shah Nawaz Khan, reported on the devastation from Pakistan's remote northwest, venturing further into isolated areas than any other journalist in the region.
One of Radio Mashaal's most popular programs, My Home, My Village,takes an in-depth look at the people, history, and culture of villages across the region. Because of limited means, difficult terrain, and a dangerous security environment, listeners often know little about other people and places in the tribal areas.
RFE President Jeffrey Gedmin calls Radio Mashaal's increasing popularity "proof that people will never fail to choose truth over falsehood when given a fair chance to decide."
About Radio Mashaal
Radio Mashaal was established in January 2010 to broadcast independent news and information in the local Pashto dialect of the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. It operates out of a new bureau in Pakistan and broadcasts from RFE's Prague headquarters. Radio Mashaal shares a frequency with VOA's Radio Deewa and transmits via FM and shortwave. Online, Radio Mashaal's website provides a live stream of its broadcasts.
(RFE/RL Press Release)
Frequencies :
English
1700-1730 on 13870 HBY 500 kW / 125 deg
2030-2100 on 9495 MDC 250 kW / 320 deg
2130-2200 on 7460 MDC 250 kW / 280 deg
Romany
1900-1930 on 6130 HBY 350 kW / 125 deg Mon-Fri
Russian
1830-1900 on 6065 HBY 500 kW / 070 deg
1930-2000 on 6065 HBY 500 kW / 085 deg
Swedish
1800-1830 on 6065 HBY 500 kW / 190 deg
1800-1830 on 13710 HBY 500 kW / 235 deg
1900-1930 on 6065 HBY 500 kW / 190 deg
2000-2030 on 9495 MDC 250 kW / 320 deg
2100-2130 on 6065 HBY 500 kW / 190 deg
2100-2130 on 7460 MDC 250 kW / 280 deg
"Mahalaya" is a special two hour tranmission consisting of Sanskrit recitation & music orated by Late Shri.Birendra Krishna Bhadra. All India Radio has been broadcasting this since early 1930s . Count down of Indian festival of Durga Puja starts from the day of Mahalaya.
Last year following AIR channels were noted carrying special Mahalaya transmission :
SW
4760 - Port Blair
4820 - Kolkata
4835 - Gangtok
4880 - Lucknow
4895 - Kurseong
4940 - Guwahati
4965 - Shimla
MW
603 - Ajmer
621 - Patna A
648 - Indore A
657 - Kolkata A
666 - New Delhi B
675 - Chattarpur
711 - Siliguri
729 - Guwahati A
747 - Lucknow A
756 - Jagdalpur
774 - Shimla
801 - Jabalpur
810 - Rajkot A
819 - New Delhi A
846 - Ahmedabad A
909 - Gorakhpur
918 - Suratgarh
954 - Nazibabad
981 - Raipur
1008 - Kolkata B
1026 - Allahabad A
1044 - Mumbai A
1125 - Tezpur
1242 - Varanasi
1260 - Ambikapur
1314 - Bhuj
1386 - Gwalior
1395 - Bikaner
1404 - Gangtok
1476 - Jaipur A
1584 - Mathura
1593 - Bhopal A
Private FM channel Big FM also carried this special txn on 92.7 MHz.
Related links :
Mahalaya: Invoking the Mother Goddess
A Once-a-Year Popular Radio Program
http://hinduism.about.com/cs/audiomusic/a/aa092003a.htm
Mahalaya - Birendrakrishna Bhadra
http://calcuttaglobalchat.net/calcuttablog/mahalaya/
Mahalaya - Audio & Video
http://www.durgapuja-images.com/2008/09/mahalaya-listen-download-online-watch.html
http://www.archangelo.net/misc/hf/drm/view.htm
(Flávio Archangelo via drmna )
(Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio , Hyderabad)
Full story at : http://www.starofmysore.com/main.asp?type=news&item=25869
Related stories :
Mysore Akashavani is now 75 years old
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mysore-akashavani-is-now-75-years-old/408172/
‘Akashvani' turns 75 on September 19
http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/16/stories/2010091653970300.htm
Read the full story here :
http://www.timeslive.co.za/business/article660803.ece/Sentech-takes-40-radio-TV-stations-off-air
Related story :
Sentech threatens switch-off
http://alokeshgupta.blogspot.com/2010/09/sentech-threatens-switch-off.html
Alokesh Gupta adds :
Quick check on 15th Sept at 1700 UTC indicated no disruption in SW servics........ AWR 9600, Channel Africa 9675, DW 9735, WYFR 6225, TWR 7265 were all noted on air.
(Dr.Supratik Sanatani via bangladx yg)
About Mewat:
Mewat is an extremely backward area and marginalized district in the state of Haryana. Just 75 km away from the national capital it is seeped in poverty and illiteracy. Lack of potable water, health facilities, sanitation and hygiene are some of the concerns of this area. The radio could be an important tool for inclusive development and could assist in increasing the participation of the community in the process of development through information dissemination.
With its headquarters in the administrative town of Nuh, Radio Mewat will reach out to a niche target of roughly 4 to 5 lakh people. The Radio will have a reach of 15km (radius).
For a district like Mewat the community radio could play an important role- first in informing and then in helping access the information for self development. Acquiring knowledge is the first step toward change, whether this change is social, economic, cultural, legal, or political. Information is the catalyst, fuel, and product of this process of transformation that can stimulate change and a desire to change. With an agenda to include the excluded population the Community radio can be a unique and innovative tool for development.
The radio will help in disseminating information and will meet the objective of supporting "developmental and promotional activities" with a view to securing greater inclusion, particularly among weaker sections, low income groups and in backward regions. Radio Mewat is broadcasting programs on the local issue, the recently held Panchayat Elections, locally popular songs sung by the Mirasis, commmunicable diseases like swine flu, dengue etc.The District Collector, Mr CR Rana, has been very supportive and has always encouraged creative mediums for informing and educating the masses.
Archana Kapoor
--
Founder, SMART NGO
145, Gautam Nagar
New Delhi- 110049
Ph: 011 26517545, 41642241
Telefax: 011 26528263
(Via cr-india list)
Join the Community Radio Forum. For membership details, please go to
www.crforum.in
Read the TOI story here :
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/kaleidoscope/entry/radio-buffs-rediscover-pastime-on-internet
CASH-STRAPPED signal distributor Sentech threatens to switch off signals of community television and radio stations that owe it money if they don't pay by tomorrow.
Read the full story here :
http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2010/09/13/sentech-threatens-switch-off
Read the full report here : http://tinyurl.com/2frla4v
The creation of the BBC Students' Club online community came as a result of the BBC Russian "University Tour" in the spring of 2010 when the broadcaster held a series of events at universities and major libraries in St Petersburg, Moscow, Voronezh and Yekaterinburg. BBC Russian showcased the best of its journalism, including new ways of reaching audiences by using the latest technologies, and engaged young audiences in live radio debates broadcast on the interactive programme, Vam slovo (Have Your Say). The BBC team also demonstrated BBC Russian's multimedia Learning English content at the universities and major libraries at each location.
As part of the new joint project between BBC Russian and LiveJournal, the BBC Students' Club will feature the content of the BBC College of Journalism as well as the bbcrussian.com website's multimedia Learning English lessons, in text, audio and video.
The bbcstudentsclub community on LiveJournal also will serve as a platform for young journalists to pitch their story ideas to the BBC. It also will feature the best of the bbcrussian.com Editors' Blog.
Head of LiveJournal Russia, Svetlana Ivannikova, says: "LiveJournal has become an integral part of the lives of millions of people, it helps us to better ourselves and the world around us. LiveJournal removes borders, and the BBC Students' Club project confirms this once again. Being part of the bbcstudentsclub community is both fun and educational, and no matter where people live, they can share their experiences and skills and also improve their English by communicating with speakers of English. We are confident that the project will have a lot of fans."
BBC Russian Managing Editor, Dmitry Shishkin, comments: "We are delighted with the launch of the bbcstudentsclub community on LiveJournal. We've had a very successful experience partnering LiveJournal through our joint citizen-journalism project, Live_Report. I am confident that the BBC Students' Club will attract talented young journalists. It will give them the opportunity to hone their writing skills - and help the BBC to further extend its stringer network across Russia.
"During our 'University Tour' earlier this year we could see that young Russian journalists were really interested in the editorial guidelines and practical experience of the BBC, as well as in how the world of journalism is changing. We hope that by bringing the unique experience and perspective of the BBC we will be giving Russian journalists a valuable resource."
BBC Russian's next "University Tour" takes place between Monday 13 and Friday 17 September 2010 when the BBC team will visit Tomsk and Novosibirsk.
(BBC World Service Publicity)
Read the full story here : http://tinyurl.com/38pdzte
FRS-Holland has officially become 30 Years old, that was on Tuesday August 31st.
Following our previous mail from a few weeks ago, we have received a number of contributions.
We would like to inform you we still hope to receive some more.....if you are/ were an enthusiast FRS listener, then take your chance to produce a little personal contribution, your personal FRS memories.
Either you put them 1) on a sheet of paper or 2) send them by mail and 3) most wanted: record your personal message and send an mp3 audio file. We realize most listeners are no deejays and do not have no recording facilities. Of course any written contribution is as much appreciated as a recorded one!!
All listener's contributions will be collected and together it will be our anthology of 30 years of SW broadcasts. When did you hear us for the first time, what was your favorite show, when did you get your first QSL, how much did you listen to FRS, any special on air moments you remember? All this info could be part of your personal FRS contribution.
Send your contribution to : frs@frsholland.nl or PO Box 2702, 6049 ZG Herten, The Netherlands.
Preparations continue day by day... Many tape recordings have been digitalized and endless audio extracts have been produced. The broadcast will contain many ingredients...special jingles, a listener's competition, interesting contributions, fantastic music and some nice surprises... And
not to forget a unique FRS 30 years QSL. Be part of the festivities...we are eagerly awaiting more contributions !!
Very soon we will announce dates as the on air celebrations will be more than one broadcast! The first one in October.
All the best from all of us at FRSH.
On behalf of the FRS Staff,
Peter Verbruggen
The Broadcasting Board of Governors is an independent federal agency, supervising all U.S. government-supported, civilian international broadcasting, whose mission is to promote freedom and democracy and to enhance understanding through multimedia communication of accurate, objective, and balanced news, information, and other programming about America and the world to audiences overseas. BBG broadcasts reach an audience of 171 million in 100 countries. BBG broadcasting organizations include the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa), Radio Free Asia, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio and TV Marti).
(BBG Press Release)
(WRTH Info via Twitter)
http://yeakashvanihai.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post_27.html
It is not clear since when this mix up has been continuing. BBC Bangla frequency information in Bengali script in their website had remained backdated for well over one and a half years. Only recently has it been corrected.
(Supratik Sanatani,Kolkata via bangladx yg)
As it is an extreme rarity for the BBC to care about the audio quality it delivers on digital radio, let alone experiment with a bit rate as high as 320 kbps, would urge as many of you as possible to have a listen to this stream and to fill in the online questionnaire afterwards.
The 320 kbps AAC stream can be found here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/audioexperiment/
The online questionnaire is here:
http://ecustomeropinions.com/survey/survey.php?sid=471224792
And a BBC Internet blog about the "extra high quality audio experiment" can be found here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/09/bbc_proms_extra_high_quality_audio.html
Fraunhofer IIS, the leading innovator of technologies for cutting-edge audio and multimedia systems, today announced the worldwide launch of Diveemo new small-scale video service for Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) at IBC 2010. Initiated as a joint effort between Fraunhofer IIS, Thomson Broadcast & Multimedia and Chengdu NewStar Electronics, Diveemo delivers cost efficient large-area distribution of education and information video programs via DRM.
Developed by Fraunhofer IIS, Diveemo will be showcased Monday, 13 Sept. at the launch event hosted by the DRM Consortium at the Thomson booth, 1.D11. The launch will feature the world's first Diveemo transmission of a live video broadcast with BBC content displayed on a NewStar DRM receiver. The service will also be showcased at the Fraunhofer IIS booth 8.C81 for the duration of the IBC 2010 exhibition. DRM transmissions over shortwave have virtually unlimited coverage possibilities ranging from 100 to well over 5,000,000 square kilometres depending on the transmission conditions and broadcast parameters. The service opens the door to a large range of unprecedented information and education services and is an ideal platform to reach audiences worldwide with a single DRM transmitter or an even more cost-efficient DRM single frequency network. Diveemo offers free-of-charge reception and is independent of gatekeeper and third party providers like satellite and cable networks.
"Fraunhofer IIS developed Diveemo together with its partners Thomson and NewStar as the unique and cost-effective way to reach millions of people anytime, anywhere with a single terrestrial DRM transmitter," said Alexander Zink, project manager of Diveemo at Fraunhofer IIS. "With the low-cost implementation on the transmitter and receiver side, Diveemo allows broadcasters to reach audiences that otherwise could not participate easily in up-to-date sharing
of latest information and education programs and that so far were dependent on audio-only radio services."
Diveemo is designed to offer a convenient mobile small-scale video service experience, allowing users to quickly switch between channels and enjoy consistent audio and video even under bad reception conditions. A video stream can be accompanied by one or more audio streams, allowing for synchronous, multi-language support. Diveemo enabled receivers also feature all the benefits of the DRM Digital Radio standard, such as service selection by Unicode compatible station labels, alternative frequency signalling and switching, announcement and warning/alert features. Diveemo is on track to be standardized by ETSI in the near future.
(Press Release)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/07/bbc-world-service-burma-axe
http://news.radiovop.com/index.php/permalink/4445.html
Related news :
Radio VOP encouraged to stay on SW
http://news.radiovop.com/index.php/permalink/4460.html
