Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Sporadic Logs - 12 June

June 12, 2010

0550z 89.6 Radio Today, Dhaka with RDS ID
0630z 89.2 ABC Radio Dhaka
0638z 88.4 Radio Amar in Bangla
0639z 87.9 Radio Mandalay in Burmese
0645z 88.8 Rasta FM in Bangla, Music etc
0653z 88.0 Radio Foorti in Bangla

(Sangean ATS 909 + Quad Loop)

Raman, VU3DJQ
New Delhi, India

Tunisian radio launches new portal and magazine

TUNISIA ONLINE NEWS- With the view to better meeting its listeners’ aspirations, the Tunisian radio developed a new online version of its portal: www.radiotunisienne.tn

Südwestrundfunk re-starts DRM transmission

http://www.drm.org/index.php?p=news_item&uid=207

Monday, June 14, 2010

Multi-storied building to come up for SLBC

By K T Rajasingham
Colombo, 14 June (Asiantribune.com):

Sri Lanka's premier radio, popularly known as 'Radio Ceylon' has proposed to construct a multi-storied building to house the new Broadcasting Corporation. The new SLBC building consisting of four floors to house the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation is expected to cost US$ 15 million and will be located at the Independence Square, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka

Read the full story here :
http://asiantribune.com/news/2010/06/14/multi-storied-building-come-slbc

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Welcome to BBS, this is sherpem sherpa

This 31-year-old would not have been a reporter if she had not attended the national graduate orientation program in 2000. Sherpem Sherpa grew up with this dream of becoming a teacher until she came across the media team at one of the sessions. There, she abandoned her lifelong aspiration. But now, as the chief editor at Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS), she says, "my interest to teach now is more or less fulfilled." She has been training the interns on hosting radio shows and, in-house voice training.
Read the full story here :
http://www.businessbhutan.bt/?p=2014

Friday, June 11, 2010

Broadcast Australia and RTM Malaysia order Continental Electronics DRM Transmitters

Broadcast Australia has asked DRM member company Continental Electronics to supply two new DRM-ready 100 kilowatt transmitters for two of its short-wave stations. The purchase represents the first step in Broadcast Australia's plan to enhance its digital short-wave (HF) broadcast capabilities throughout its network of transmitters. The state-of-the-art Continental Model 418G-DRM transmitters will enable Broadcast Australia to transmit programming in analogue AM and digital (DRM) modes from both stations, Tenant Creek and Shepparton. Both transmitters are expected to be on the air and fully operational by late summer.

Radio-Television Malaysia (RTM) has chosen the same Continental model for its new short-wave transmitters. The three 100 kilowatt DRM-ready HF transmitters from Continental, along with other associated equipment, are to be installed in the RTM transmitting station at Kajang, and will enable RTM transmissions in digital DRM format as well as conventional analogue AM. RTM's new transmitters are expected to be on the air and fully operational before the end of the year.

(Source : DRM Newsletter, June 2010)

Read the DRM Newsletter June 2010 issue here :
http://www.drm.org/old/index.php?id=367

BBG Responds to Heritage Foundation Piece

BBG Responds to Heritage Foundation Piece regarding U.S. international broadcasting policy

http://www.rwonline.com/article/101380

Sporadic Logs - 10th June

Sporadic Logs - 10th June 2010

By Raman, VU3DJQ

0310z 100.2 AIR Patiala
0311z 99.4 Nepal?
0320z 89.1 Unid chinese, talk
0320z 89.5 Unid chinese, music
0325z 100.8 unid chinese talk
0325z 101.4 AIR Kurushetra
0330z 102.1 AIR Mussoorie
0332z 90.4 DUCR fair recption
1023z 107.1 AIR Mumbai
212z 101.2 AIR Khandwa
1257z 100.2 AIR Patiala
1314z 101.4 AIR Kurukshetra
1519Z 100.1 AIR Location?

(ATS909 + Quad Loop)

By Alokesh,VU3BSE

Logged during 0250-0430 UTC

89.2 Unid Chinese Stn
90.4 2 stn's mixing Radio Jamia+ Unid G'bad Stn
91.4 Unid Chinese Stn
91.9 Radio Mantra Bareilley
91.9 Radio Mantra Agra
91.9 Nine FM Siliguri
99.4 Unid stn from Nepal (Probably Shuklafanta FM Mahendranagar)
100.0 CRI Easy FM Eng/Chinese
100.2 AIR Patiala VBS
100.4 AIR Bareilly 6 kW
100.8 AIR Guwahati VBS Chitralok Prog
101.3 AIR Aligarh FM Rainbow
101.5 AIR Sawai Madhopur
102.1 AIR Mussourie FM Rainbow
102.8 Spurious (New)
103.1 AIR Chandigarh VBS
107.2 AIR Kasauli FM Rainbow
107.4 2 stn's mixing Radio Noida + unid ?

(RP2100 + Single Quad Loop )

5th June Logs + RDS ss's
http://alokeshgupta.blogspot.com/2010/06/sporadic-logs.html

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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

VOA Expands coverage for World Cup

VOA is adding an online competion, a new webpage and special radio and television reports on the athletes and much more Washington, D.C., June 9, 2010 - The Voice of America is boosting its coverage of the first-ever World Cup in Africa, adding an online competition, a new webpage and special radio and television reports on the athletes, the venues and much more.

Complete World Cup coverage can be found at: www.voanews.com/worldcup

Sonny Young, the popular host of VOA's Sonny Side of Sports, is already in Johannesburg, South Africa, reporting on the festive atmosphere of the World Cup. In addition to his daily radio show,
Sonny also has a special world cup blog: http://blogs.voanews.com/sonny/.

For avid football fans, VOA English has launched an online bracket competition and winners could be eligible for prizes, including a VOA MP3 player. Competitors can register and make their predictions at http://voaenglish.pooltracker.com/PB16.

VOA Executive Editor Steve Redisch says: "People all over the globe are passionate about football, and VOA is determined to provide our worldwide audience with as much coverage, analysis and color as possible."

For VOA's Spanish-speaking audience, VOANoticias Managing Editor Iscar Blanco will cover the Cup on radio and television while keeping fans posted on www.voanoticias.com with original features, videos, photos, and reports. VOANoticias is inviting its fans to participate by writing their own accounts and experiences related to the Cup.

VOA's Persian News Network (PNN) is also keeping its Farsi-speaking audience informed about all the football action with coverage from sports reporter Ali Emadi who already has the inside story on this year's World Cup referees, who have been trained by the well-respected Iranian referee Esse Baharmast. Follow PNN's World Cup coverage at: www.voapnn.com.

The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts approximately 1,500 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 125 million people. Programs are produced in 44 languages and are intended exclusively for audiences outside of the United States.

For more information, please call VOA Public Relations at (202) 203-4959, or e-mail askvoa@voanews.com.

(VOA Press Release)

Sporadic Logs

Had an amazing session of FM DXing during Sporadic E opening on 5th June during a short visit to QTH of fellow dxer C.K.Raman, VU3DJQ ...here are some of logs using his Sangean ATS909 receiver & telescopic antenna ....
5th June 2010 (Sat) 1140-1240 UTC

88.8 Spurious Devotional Talk by OM
89.0 Radio Oman Location ? (Al Saidi/Qurum/Heibi) ME Music (Approx 1900 kms)
89.2 Radio Oman (Saiq Jabal/Akhdar ?) Arabic Reading from Holy Quran OM (Approx 1900 kms)
89.7 Spurious or image ? Hindi Song
90.1 Unid Arabic Talk
90.4 Radio Oman English (Muscat /Salalah 9 kW) English Songs (1939 kms)
91.7 Radio Al'Shabab Oman, Al Batina RDS Oman SH B ( 1920 kms)
91.9 Radio Mango Kerala(Kannur/Kochi/Kozhikode/Thrissur ?) 5 kW Malayalam Talk (Approx 2000 kms)
91.9 Radio Indigo Bangalore English/Kannada RJ Talking about Bannerghatta National Park (1742 Kms)
92.4 Unid Punjabi Song
103.1 AIR Chandigarh Hindi movie songs (239 kms)
107.2 AIR FM Rainbow Kasauli HP 10 kW Hindi Songs (325 kms)

And here are couple of ATS 909 RDS screenshots ...

Dxers Unlimited midweek edition for 8-9 June 2010

Dxers Unlimited midweek edition for 8-9 June 2010
By Arnie Coro
radio amateur CO2KK

http://dxersunlimited.blogspot.com/2010/06/dxers-unlimiteds-edition-for-8-9-june.html


Excerpt ....

And now amigos as always at the end of Dxers Unlimited, here is Arnie Coro's HF plus low band VHF propagation update and forecast. Solar activity moving up, three new small sunspot regions now easily seen with simple telescopes equipped with image projection devices...
Expect more sporadic E openings from 9 Am to 12 noon local time, and another peak starting from 4 pm to 8 pm local time...

Regional Science Centre, Bhopal holds Radio transmitter workshop

http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=37885


(Source : Central Chronicle)

MUST radio same as Jago Mumbai?

By: Kranti Vibhute Date: 2010-06-09 Mumbai
Sharing the same frequency anguishing for Mumbai University's community radio and Khar Resident's community radio station
Read the Mid Day story here :

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/jun/090610-must-radio-khar-mumbai-news.htm

Voice of Russia in expansion mode, inks deal with Radio One

By: Anita Iyer
MUMBAI: With its recent deal with Midday Multimedia's radio venture Radio One, international broadcaster Voice of Russia is expanding its footprint in the Indian FM space.

More at :

http://www.radioandmusic.com/content/editorial/news/voice-russia-expansion-mode-inks-deal-with-radio-one

All India Radio: A fading memory

Jun 08th, 2010 Dr Vasumathi Badrinathan

Read 'The Asian Age' story here :

http://www.asianage.com/music/all-india-radio-fading-memory-785