Radio: Can all-digital band rescue AM radio?

Digital radio broadcasts were once floated by supporters as a way to "save" traditional radio from competing technologies such as iPods and the like. Whether radio needs saving - and whether technology rather than programming can save it - is up for debate.

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Radio Reunited, a global simulcast curated by Damon Albarn to mark 90 years of BBC radio

The BBC today announced plans for an unprecedented global simulcast across its radio networks – including every UK station (local, network and national) and many World Service outlets – curated by Damon Albarn to mark 90 years of radio.

The simultaneous broadcast, called Radio Reunited, will take place on November 14 at 17:33 GMT – 90 years since the first broadcast from the British Broadcasting Company in 1922 - to a potential global audience of 120 million people across every inhabited continent which includes BBC World Service outlets, including Arabic, Swahili, Hausa, English Language services.

Listeners can find out more about the project and how to get involved at bbc.co.uk/reunited. The website will also showcase the best of the messages contributed by members of the public once the project is completed. Listeners will be encouraged to use the hash tag #bbc90 if tweeting their message.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/radio-reunited.html

New MW txer commissioned by Radio Nigeria at Enugu Ngwo

According to a report published in allafrica.com a new medium wave transmitter was commissioned by Radio Nigeria in Enugu Ngwo, Enugu State on 6th Sept, 2012.

 

The new Medium Wave transmitter is Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) project executed in collaboration with Japanese Government Agency for International Cooperation (JICA).

 

More at ......

http://allafrica.com/stories/201209090257.html

 

Related news :

http://allafrica.com/stories/201209090162.html

JSWC CELEBRATES 60TH ANNIVERSARY

                                                             .....................JSWC MEMBERS AT TOKYO HAM FAIR 2012

                                   ........................... JSWC MEMBERS AT 60TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY

 

Tokyo HAM Fair 2012.

This annual event is to be held on 25th and 26th of August at Tokyo Big Site. JSWC will open our own booth to promote short wave radio listening. Our booth number is J-45. We will have a special lecture during the Fair. The topic to be presented is radio world topics in the past 10 years by Mr. Akabayashi, an administrator of Gekkan Tampa, a popular monthly short wave news on the web.

This year is our club's 60th anniversary, so we will have a big celebration party at Hotel Sun Route Ariake in the evening of 25th during the HAM Fair. We anticipate many club members and foreign broadcasters to join the party.

We are also planning to print the booklet titled JSWC's 60th Years in Japanese to cover 10-year activities of the club and various radio topics in the past 10 years, as we did for our 50th anniversary book, which covered 50-year activities. Both 50th anniversary and 60th anniversary books will also be published in CD format at this occasion. These are only in Japanese.

Special radio programs celebrating 60th anniversary are in progress. During the month of July, HCJB Japanese Service aired 3 special programs, and KBS World Radio aired a special program on 17th of July. All of these programs were in Japanese. We are planning to broadcast a special English program sometime this fall, and the schedule will be announced when the detail is defined. A special QSL card will be issued.

Toshi Ohtake

Japan Short Wave Club

JSWC, P.O.Box 44, Kamakura 248-8691, Japan.

 

(Photo's courtesy Mr.Toshi Ohtake)

Radio Hargeisa expected to be on air by next week ?

Radio Hargeisha's new 100 kW shortwave transmitter which was observed on air on 27th August 2012, was missing since last heard on air 31st Aug 2012, at 1500-1830 UTC, however this press report indicates they might be on air agian by next week.

 

excerpt ....

The technical director of the ministry of information Mr. Ahmed Suleiman who concurred with Mr. Jensen attributed the absence of transmissions to ongoing plans that involved moving from the testing phase to a full operational one. "The transmissions have been ceased temporarily thus facilitate shifting from the testing face to full operations" Said Mr. Suleiman

 

More at ...

http://somalilandsun.com/index.php/politics/government/1421-somaliland-radio-hargeisa-worldwide-transmission-updates

 

See also ..

http://alokeshgupta.blogspot.in/2012/08/new-100-kw-shortwave-transmitter-on-air.html

ISRO's 100th Mission

The Japanese amateur radio satellite PROITERES will be one of the payloads of today's PSLV C21 launch and will be the 100th mission of ISRO.

PROITERES was built by a team of students and faculty members of Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT) and the spacecraft aims to demonstrate powered flight using a Pulsed Plasma Thruster (PPT) engine. Its amateur radio callsign is JL3YZK.

 

PROITERES stands for PRoject of OIT Electric-Rocket-Engine Onboard Small Space Ship and will transmit on 437.485 MHz FM/AFSK. The spacecraft carries a camera and the two CPU's run the Linux operating system.

 

www.uk.amsat.org/10201

Mani, VU2WMY

Secretary & Station-In-Charge

Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC

ISRO Satellite Centre

HAL Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017.

Phone:(O)91-80-25082054/2598/2192

Mobile: 91-80-98803 41456

E-mail ID: wmy@isac.gov.in

vu2wmy_mani@yahoo.com

isrohams@yahoo.com

(Via vuhams yg)

The new breed of radio at IBC

Visitors to IBC 2012 will have a chance to catch up with the latest developments in Hybrid Radio on the EBU stand (10.F20). Besides showing some applications that are already on air, we'll also be demonstrating new tools that have the potential to revolutionize the radio experience in future. Once again we're pleased to be joined by colleagues from RadioDNS to show how radio can be enhanced through combining the best of broadcast and broadband.

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http://tinyurl.com/8akpp7q

BBG that runs Voice of America is structural mess, says former chair Glassman

"The Broadcasting Board of Governors is structurally a mess," a former chair of the governmental organization that runs the premier Voice of America and Radio Free Europe told a panel discussion on countering Islamist Extremism at the Hudson Institute Wednesday afternoon.

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http://www.examiner.com/article/bbg-that-runs-voice-of-america-is-structural-mess-says-former-chair-glassman

Radio Free Asia announces 16th Anniversary QSL Card

 

SEPTEMBER 2012

Radio Free Asia (RFA) announces the release of our 16th anniversary QSL card. RFA's first broadcast was in Mandarin on September 29, 1996 at 2100 UTC. Acting as a substitute for indigenous free media, RFA concentrates its coverage on events occurring in and/or affecting the countries to which it broadcasts. Those countries are: Burma, Cambodia, Laos, North Korea, Peoples Republic of China, and Vietnam.

The design was chosen the favorite over four others posted on our Facebook page, RFA QSL. The microphone and flag is typical of what our broadcasters use in our Washington DC studios. This card will be used to confirm all valid reception reports from September 1 – December 31, 2012.

RFA is a private, nonprofit corporation that broadcasts news and information to listeners in Asian countries where full, accurate, and timely news reports are unavailable. Created by Congress in 1994 and incorporated in 1996, RFA currently broadcasts in Burmese, Cantonese, Khmer, Korean to North Korea, Lao, Mandarin, the Wu dialect, Vietnamese, Tibetan (Uke, Amdo, and Kham), and Uyghur. RFA strives for accuracy, balance, and fairness in its editorial content. As a 'surrogate' broadcaster, RFA provides news and commentary specific to each of its target countries, acting as the free press these countries lack. RFA broadcasts only in local languages and dialects, and most of its broadcasts comprise news of specific local interest. More information about Radio Free Asia, including our current broadcast frequency schedule, is available at www.rfa.org.

RFA encourages listeners to submit reception reports. Reception reports are valuable to RFA as they help us evaluate the signal strength and quality of our transmissions. RFA confirms all accurate reception reports by mailing a QSL card to the listener. RFA welcomes all reception report submissions at www.techweb.rfa.org (follow the QSL REPORTS link) not only from DX'ers, but also from its general listening audience. If you have a smart phone, feel free to use the QR code below to access the automated reception report system and submit your reception reports to the web site.

You also have the option of using the following Microsoft Tag from your smartphone. The free mobile app for your smartphone is available at http://gettag.mobi

Reception reports are also accepted by email at qsl@rfa.org, and for anyone without Internet access, reception reports can be mailed to:

Reception Reports

Radio Free Asia

2025 M. Street NW, Suite 300

Washington DC 20036

United States of America.

Upon request, RFA will also send a copy of the current broadcast schedule and a station sticker.

 

(A.J.Janitschek, RFA)

TDP RADIO DRM 15775 -7th Sept 2012

2012-09-07 1611Z 0h19m 28N/77E 15775kHz #TheDiscoPalace_DRM #DR111 23.0 dB avg SNR 100.0%audio - xclnt reception !!



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All we need is radio ga ga

Online radio platforms offer both hope and excitement for anyone looking beyond mainstream film music

Music Matters | Shubha Mudgal

excerpt ...

Despite its many shortcomings and flaws, All India Radio (AIR) remains the one radio network that has supported diverse forms of music through the decades. It is worth remembering that AIR has always been a subscription-free service for listeners.

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http://www.livemint.com/2012/09/07194958/All-we-need-is-radio-ga-ga.html

All-Ireland Finals coverage on RTÉ Radio

 

RTÉ Radio will broadcast the GAA All-Ireland Hurling Final on Sunday 9 September and the All-Ireland Football Final on Sunday 23 September on all wavelengths and via the internet to Irish people and communities around the world.

RTÉ is asking on those with relatives or friends abroad to let them know that this coverage is available and to invite them to the biggest party in Ireland's sporting calendar.

Ireland: At home, audiences can listen as usual to the GAA finals on RTÉ Radio 1 FM, RTÉ.ie and on Longwave 252.

 

Britain: Across most of Britain, listeners can receive our coverage on Long Wave 252. In addition  RTÉ Radio 1 is available on the UK free to air satellite platform Freesat on channel 750.

 

Worldwide: Across the world, the match commentaries will be available online at www.rte.ie/radio1 and www.rte.ie/sport

 

Shortwave to Africa: In Africa, where many Irish people live and work, often in relative isolation with poor communications, RTÉ is providing special transmissions on shortwave radio. See details below.

Note: For those living in Ireland, who wish to get details of the shortwave frequencies to friends or family living abroad, RTÉ is providing a special phone text service. Listeners text the word "shortwave" to 51101 and they will receive a short text message with the shortwave frequencies. These texts are charged at standard rates.

SHORTWAVE FREQUENCIES FOR AFRICA

Both Finals throw in at 3.30pm Irish Time (1430 UTC)

 

Coverage area Frequencies Irish Time (UTC Time )

Southern Africa - 17685 kHz (2pm to 6pm) 1300-1700 UTC

East Africa - 17540 kHz (2pm to 5pm) 1300-1600 UTC

East Africa -11915 kHz (5pm to 6pm) 1600-1700 UTC

West Africa - 7505 kHz (2pm to 6pm) 1300-1700 UTC

These services are part of RTÉ's continued commitment to Irish people overseas and, over the years, has proven especially popular with those in geographically or technically isolated areas.

In addition to RTÉ Radio broadcasts, RTÉ will also broadcast the All Ireland Finals on RTÉ One Television. Don't forget also the extensive and dynamic online offering from ww.rte.ie/sport.

For further details of RTÉ coverage abroad please see http://www.rte.ie/radio/worldwide.html

Source : http://www.rte.ie/sport/features/gaa/2012/0904/336266-worldwide-all-ireland-finals-coverage-on-rte-radio/

 

Radio St.Helena to be shut off !

Paul B. Walker, Jr. says about Radio St. Helena:

 

I have been in touch with the staff down there. They have an Interim Station Manager as Gary Walters went back home to the United Kingdom. Radio Saint Helena will be shutting down, according to Ralph. He says "Our Final Broadcast will be on the 25 December to coincide with our opening on the 25 December ’67. This will make us 45 years of broadcasting."

 

The AM signal on 1548Khz with 1KW will be shut off for good. As I understand it, at some point, a government funded radio station, operating on FM will launch. Ralph tells me that the Shortwave broadcasting mast has been dismantled by Cable & Wireless, but he's talking to local ham operators to see if they can lash up something for their final broadcast so they can get on Shortwave. NO promises though. That being said, if the Shortwave makes it on December 25th at all, it is likely to last time it will ever make it on air.

 

My voice was featured on the last Radio Saint Helena shortwave broadcast and even if they don't make it on SW this time, I will likely have my voice used on the local MW broadcasts. I just thought I'd pass the word. Feel free to pass this to other DX lists and other folks who might be interested.

 

Paul Walker
Ridgway, Pennsylvania, USA
(via IRCA Mailing List)

 

(Sudipta Ghose via IDXCI FB Group)

DRM Logs 2nd Sept 2012 - AIR & VOR

‎2 Hours 33 Minutes log of All India Radio

2012-09-02 0925Z 2h33m 28N/77E 6100 kHz #VIVIDHBHARTI_DRM #DR111 19.9 dB avg SNR 99.4% audio

‎1 Hour 53 minutes log of Voice of Russia

2012-09-02 1205Z 1h53m 28N/77E 9445 kHz #DRMRUVR2A_DRM #DR111 20.8 dB avg SNR 99.6% audio


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QSL from Radio Hargeisha

Response from Radio Hargeisa ....for a RR & short query about today's missing txn

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Idaacada Radio Hargaysa
Date: Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:15 PM
...

Subject: RE: Radio Hargeisa
To: alokeshgupta

Dear
Thank you for your messege we are very glad to get from you to inform us to heard our radio transmission, so that I inform you we didn't to change Our frequency and please we wanna to that send us How can you heard our transmission.

Thanks A lot
Safia Ali
Hargeisa Somaliland

 

 

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