Emergency Warning Functionality on DRM Digital Radio for Saving Lives

Six-hundred-and-seventeen (617) lakh people in the world were impacted by disasters in 2018. Extreme weather conditions accounted for majority of people affected by these disasters. Unfortunately, India is also being affected by disasters a number of times. But extreme weather conditions often come with a pre-warning phase. The questions is – Are we getting the most out of this time window to warn the public and save lives?

More at :

https://www.broadcastandcablesat.co.in/services/emergency-warning-functionality-on-drm-digital-radio-for-saving-lives/

Updated DRM shortwave A19 schedule

Updated DRM shortwave A19 schedule as on 20th June 2019

Download here :    https://tinyurl.com/yxex8f4g

Band 2 Es Logs - 24th June 2019 (Mon)

Band 2 Es Logs - 24th June 2019 (Mon) - 0330-0400 UTC

88.0 Radio Foorti, Dhaka, Bangladesh (10 kW)
88.4 Radio Aamar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

88.8 Bangladesh Betar Traffic Channel, Dhaka

89.2 ABC Radio, Dhaka, Bangladesh
89.6 Radio Today, Dhaka, Bangladesh (10 kW)
90.4 Dhaka FM, Dhaka, Bangladesh

91.6 Peoples Radio, Dhaka, Bangladesh  

92.0 Bangladesh Betar, Thakurgaon or Goplagunj ? (10 kW)

94.4 Jago FM, Dhaka, Bangladesh (10 kW)

94.8 Capital FM, Dhaka, Bangladesh

95.2, Bangla Radio,  Dhaka, Bangladesh (10 kW)

96.0 City FM,  Dhaka, Bangladesh 

100.5 AIR Dehradun

101.0 Beng song, Unid AIR  

101.6 Colors FM,  Dhaka, Bangladesh 

101.7 AIR Eng News Unid , Meerut ?

102.4 Amber Radio, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sony XDR-F1HD + Triax 5 Ele Yagi Hor beamed east  

USAGM networks recognized for excellence with Edward R. Murrow Awards

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) networks-Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Radio Free Asia (RFA)-have been named winners of the prestigious 2019 National Murrow Awards. This is the first time the two networks have received this honor, presented by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) for excellence in electronic journalism.

"I am thrilled that the RTDNA's Edward R. Murrow Awards have recognized the high-caliber reporting that RFE/RL and RFA produce," said USAGM CEO John F. Lansing. "My heartfelt congratulations go to the skillful journalists and storytellers who offer our global audiences accurate and professional journalism-the bedrock of what we do at USAGM."

CEO Lansing added, "Edward R. Murrow, who in the early 1960s led the U.S. Information Agency, a predecessor to USAGM, would be proud of our modern media organization's wide-reaching impact."

Daisy Sindelar, Acting President of RFE/RL, and Libby Liu, President of RFA, offered praise for their award-winning networks, which provide compelling, uncensored and locally-oriented news and information to audiences in some of the harshest media environments around the world.

"We are honored to receive this recognition for providing our audiences with unique stories, powerfully told, on the most influential formats in our coverage area," said Sindelar.

RFE/RL received the National Murrow Awards' top honor for Multimedia in the Television Network category. Judges reviewed eleven examples of RFE/RL's impressive domestic news coverage ranging from Armenia to Uzbekistan.

RFA Mandarin's "The Women Against the State" won in the juried contest's Excellence in Video category. The piece focuses on the aftermath of China's "709 crackdown"- a nationwide roundup of lawyers and legal activists that began in July 2015 - and the wives of those still held in custody today.

"RFA Mandarin's digital team deserves full credit for this prestigious award. Their hard work to spotlight these brave individuals and share their stories speaks to Radio Free Asia's critical journalistic mission," said Liu.

Although this marks the first time that RFA has won a National Murrow Award, the network won several Regional Murrow Awards in years past.

The United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) is an independent federal agency, supervising all U.S. government-supported, civilian international media, whose mission is to inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy. USAGM networks include the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio and TV Marti), Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa). USAGM programming has a measured audience of 345 million in more than 100 countries and in 60 languages.

(Press Release)

       

JST JJY Ohtakadoya station celebrating 20th anniversary, special QSL card offered

JJY is the call sign of a low frequency time signal radio station located in Japan. The station broadcasts from two sites, one on Mount Otakadoya, near Fukushima, and the other on Mount Hagane, located on Kyushu Island. JJY is operated by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), an independent administrative institution affiliated with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of the Japanese government. (Wikipedia)

Ohtakadoya-yama LF station is celebrating 20th anniversary

Ohtakadoya-yama LFStandard Time and Frequency Transmission Station celebrates the 20th anniversary this year. It is our pleasure to have transmitted LF40kHz signals for 20 years and contributed to many users. We also thank for reception reports from many users all over the world. We will issue the commemorative cards as follows.

Reporting period:  Jun. 10, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2019 (postmark deadline)

Reception report:  Receive 40kHz signals from Ohtakadoya-yama LFStation and send reception report during the period for commemorative card. Reception report requirements unchanged

Information about reception report :

http://jjy.nict.go.jp/QandA/reference/reception_report_info.pdf

Issuing of cards: Issuing expected after July

(Source : https://tinyurl.com/y6gno9bg )

BBC World Service Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2019, June 21

BBC World Service Midwinter's Day 2019 special program in english on June 21, 2019  :

2130-2200 UTC on 5875 kHz Woofferton, 9455 kHz Wooferton, 7360 kHz Ascension

About BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/48Gx2jfJBWHyWggDSD19gFT/antarctic-midwinter-broadcast

Cerys Matthews presents music requests and special messages to the staff at the British Antarctic Survey.

 

All India Radio, Research Department website launched

All India Radio, Research Department has lanched a website at :

http://prasarbharati.gov.in/R&D/

The R&D website gives details about on going research activities in the field of Remote Monitoring, Telemetry, Acoustic, Antenna, Propagation & Radio/TV lab.

The propagation survey reports of DTT & AM-DRM transmitters are also available in the website.

Few AM-DRM transmitter survey reports are available :

Reception Survey Report of 200 kW AM-DRM Tx in Simulcast mode and 20 kW AM-DRM Tx in pure DRM mode in respect of AIR, Chennai

http://prasarbharati.gov.in/R&D/propagation/doc/AM-DRM_Report_Chennai.pdf

Reception Survey of 100 kW MW AM DRM Transmitter, Trichy in Simulcast Mode

http://prasarbharati.gov.in/R&D/propagation/doc/AM%20DRM%20Trichy%202.pdf

DRM Reception Survey Report in respect of 200 KW AM-DRM MW Transmitter at AIR Dharwad

http://prasarbharati.gov.in/R&D/propagation/doc/DRM%20Survey%20Dharwad.pdf

Reception Survey Report of 100 kW AM-DRM Transmitter, Patna
http://prasarbharati.gov.in/R&D/propagation/doc/p1%203%20DRM_Patna_Web.pdf

Reception Survey Report of 200 kW AM-DRM Transmitter,Delhi A
http://prasarbharati.gov.in/R&D/propagation/doc/p1%204%20907-AM-DELHI-A.pdf

Reception Survey Report of 100 kW AM-DRM Transmitter, Vijaywada in Simulcast Mode
http://prasarbharati.gov.in/R&D/propagation/doc/p2%2018%20AM-DRM.pdf

Reception Survey Report of 200 kW AM-DRM Transmitter, Bangalore
http://prasarbharati.gov.in/R&D/propagation/doc/p2%2019%20AM-DRM-200KW-BENGALURU_1.pdf

Reception Survey & Field Strength Measurement of DRM, Kolkata
http://prasarbharati.gov.in/R&D/propagation/doc/p3%2021%20DRM_Kolkata_Web.pdf

SAQ Grimeton Transmission on June 30th, 2019

SAQ Grimeton Transmission on June 30th, 2019.

The annual transmission on "Alexanderson Day" with the Alexanderson alternator on VLF 17.2 kHz with the call SAQ will take place Sunday, June 30th, 2019.

Two transmissions are scheduled as follows:

Startup of tuning at 10:30 (08:30 UTC) with a transmission of a message at 11:00 (09:00 UTC).

Startup of tuning at 13:30 (11:30 UTC) with a transmission of a message at 14:00 (12:00 UTC)

Both transmission events will be broadcasted live on our YouTube Channel.

NEW ! ONLINE RECEPTION REPORT FORM TO REPLACE E-MAIL REPORTS

We are introducing a new online SAQ reception report form to be used by listeners to report reception of any SAQ transmissions. We are kindly asking listeners not to send SAQ reception reports via E-mail.

QSL-reports to SAQ are kindly received via:

- Reception report form at alexander.n.se/receptionreport

- or via: SM bureau

- or direct by postal mail to:

Alexander Association

Radiostationen

Grimeton 72

SE-432 98 GRIMETON

S W E D E N

The Amateur Radio Station with the call "SK6SAQ" will be QRV on the following frequencies:

- 7.035 kHz CW or

- 14.035 kHz CW or

- 3.755 kHz SSB

QSL-reports to SK6SAQ are kindly received via:

- Email to info@alexander.n.se

- or via: SM bureau

- or direct by postal mail (see address above)

Two stations will be on the air most of the time.

The station will be open to visitors between 10.00 am to 4.00 pm.

WELCOME!

News from the Alexander Association Grimeton SAQ Veteran Radio Friends

www.alexander.n.se

World Heritage Grimeton Radio station and The Alexander Association

For further details, se grimeton.org or alexander.n.se

The Alexander Association Grimeton SAQ Veteran Radio Friends · Radiostationen Grimeton 72 · Grimeton 43298 · Sweden

FTIOM & UBMP, June 23-29

From the Isle of Music, June 23-29:

No interviews this week. Instead, we listen to some selections from EGREM's 45 D'lujo and 55 D'lujo compilation series. The 12-CD set for 55 d'lujo has over 200 songs and was awarded a special prize in Cubadisco 2019.

The broadcasts take place:

1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100Kw, Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 KHz, from Sofia, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK) Station website: www.spaceline.bg

2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UTC (New UTC) on WBCQ, 7490 KHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EST in the US).

Station website: www.wbcq.com

3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany.

Station website: www.channel292.de

Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, June 23 and 25, 2019:

Episode 118, Electric Turkey, dives into the psychedelic music scene in Turkey in the 1970s.

The broadcasts take place:

1.Sundays 2200-2230 UTC (6:00PM -6:30PM Eastern US) on WBCQ The Planet 7490 KHz from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe

2. Tuesdays 2000-2030 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany for Europe.

DRM announces seminar during Broadcast Asia 18th June 2019

Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) part of Broadcast Asia Seminar in Singapore

The Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium will participate in an extensive seminar on Digital Radio Implementation and Transition Strategy scheduled during Broadcast Asia, on June 18th in the morning. The half-day event will be held at Suntec Singapore, Level 3, Room 308.

The seminar aims to offer an understanding of DRM technology (and other standards), to examine the best strategies for a smooth transition to DRM while drawing on practical examples and the experience accumulated in Asia-Pacific and other parts of the world.

The DRM experts will present the standard, so versatile in the AM bands (like medium wave) and VHF bands (like FM), its benefits and many valuable features like the Emergency Warning Functionality. Network planning considerations, actual steps to be taken for a successful DRM roll-out and demonstrations of some of the excellent audio in DRM and other benefits will be part of this unique event held in conjunction with this major Broadcast Exhibition. The experts who will share their theoretical and practical knowledge with the participants are: Alexander Zink, Fraunhofer IIS, Albert Waal, RFmondial and Sharad Sadhu, Consultant.

Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Consortium Chair, says that: "This is the first time that ABU and AIBD have invited us to take part in such a comprehensive seminar. We are sure it will highlight the benefits of DRM by giving participants the chance to understand the features and benefits of the DRM digital standard in a simple and practical way. DRM is a great technology for the Asia-Pacific region and the more participants learn about it, the more comfortable they will be to ask for and introduce it."