AIR Guwahati launches new website

AIR Guwahati has launched a new website at :  http://airguwahati.gov.in/

South African DXpedition by SWL's

Seefontein 12 DXpedition
August 20-23, 2012

John Plimmer

As usual, it’s lovely to get away and do some DXing with DX pals. Vashek Korinek joined us from his home QTH in Johannesburg, 1400 km away and says its worth the airfare and car hire as Seefontein is a grand DX location. Vince Stevens was there as usual and I was accompanied by my dear wife Dawn.

 

More at :

http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/seefontein_2012_08.dx

 

Radio takes voice of Tibetans across the world

McLEODGANJ: The Tibetan community living in exile here may not have a broadcast network. But, the voice of the Tibetans gathered here for a special convention on self-immolations in Tibet to protest Chinese occupation is reaching out to those living in Lhasa and other parts of Tibet with the help of web TV and various radio stations that have Tibetan language sections.

 

Read the TOI story here :

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Radio-takes-voice-of-Tibetans-across-the-world/articleshow/16566252.cms

Additional RTE special on 30th Sept

RTÉ Radio will broadcast the GAA All-Ireland Hurling repeat final on Sunday 30th September 2012 as the Galway - Kilkenny final match on 9th Sept ended in a tie.

Shortwave Frequencies :

Southern Africa - 17685 kHz 1300-1700 UTC

East Africa - 17540 kHz 1300-1600 UTC

East Africa - 11915 kHz 1600-1700 UTC

West Africa - 7505 kHz 1300-1700 UTC

 

RTÉ Radio will broadcast the GAA All-Ireland Football Final today, Sunday 23 September at above times & frequencies.

 

The changing face of Phillips in India

After abandoning the business of making televisions, Philips is trying to reposition itself as a master of youth-centric products

Read this interesting story at :

http://business-standard.com/india/news/the-changing-facephillips/487141/

JSWC 60th Anni special via NHK Radio Japan

Radio Japan will air an interview with Toshi Ohtake of Japan SW Club on September 30th 2012, Sunday and will be repeated on October 6, Saturday in the English program called "Fiends around the World" hosted by Ms. Kay Fujimoto and Mr. Mick Corlis. Duration: 20 min.

 

You can hear on inernet at :

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/radio/program/index.html

Or you can also listen by radio :

 

at 0500 UTC on 6110 (Canada), 5975UK, 11970(France)

at 1000 UTC on 9695 SNG, 9625 Yamata,

at 1200 UTC on 9695 SNG, 6120 Canada,

at 1300 UTC on 15735 UZB,

at 1400 UTC on 15735 UZB

at 1800 UTC on 15720 MDG

Please send your report to Radio Japan after you listen to the program. Listeners response is very important.

JSWC will issue a special 60th anniversary QSL. Please send your report to :

jswcqsl@live.jp for eQSL.

 

For printed QSL please send your report to

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

This may take some time.

Enclosure of 1IRC or 2 US dollar is requested for return postage.

(Thanks to Toshi Ohtake, JSWC for this info)

BBC must deliver world-class creativity, says new Director-General

BBC Director-General George Entwistle said he would put outstanding, world class creativity at the heart of the BBC. Unveiling his plans to staff a day after taking over as Director-General, he asked everyone in the BBC to challenge themselves to deliver more creative and distinctive output for licence fee payers. And he announced a series of management changes to turn the BBC into "a more creative organisation, led and managed in a radically simplified way".

George Entwistle's speech to BBC staff from Broadcasting House, London on 18 September 2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/speeches/2012/george-entwistle-to-staff.html

German armed forces station Radio Andernach testing in DRM mode via Issoudun

German armed forces station Radio Andernach testing in DRM mode via Issoudun, navy ships to equip with DRM receivers in future.

More at : http://www.dxaktuell.de/?p=2616

 

Related Link :

 

Radio Andernach

http://www.radio-andernach.bundeswehr.de/

 

 

Why the internet won't replace radio broadcasting any time soon

As one mobile phone company admits it has problems coping with the amount of mobile data we use, the benefits of broadcast are ever clearer ....

More at ...... http://tinyurl.com/d5q4zap

Aung San Suu Kyi Visits VOA

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi told Voice of America Tuesday that communal tensions involving the country's minority Muslim population will be "difficult to dissipate in a short period of time."

"Human rights must be protected by the rule of law and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored," the Nobel Peace Prize winner said.

The pro-democracy leader made the comments during an exclusive interview at VOA's headquarters in Washington, where she also met with top U.S. international broadcasting officials and journalists from the Burmese language service .

"It is an extraordinary honor to have such a distinguished guest visit us," said VOA Director David Ensor, who assured the Nobel laureate "that VOA will continue to provide the kind of quality journalism that has made the station the most popular international broadcaster in Burma."

During her English language interview, Aung San Suu Kyi said her country needs to continue on the path of political and economic reform. "We need to find out what we have to do in order to keep the democratization process on track," she said. "Economic reforms have to be taken one by one. You see, it's not just speed that's important, it's sequencing as well."

The Burmese opposition leader said, "I always listen to VOA in the morning at 5:30. VOA world news is very useful for me especially, and I like the media roundup, Burma in the News ."

In addition to VOA Director Ensor, the opposition leader also met with BBG Governors Victor Ashe nd Michael Meehan, and International Broadcasting Bureau Director Richard Lobo.

Earlier this year, VOA and the long-isolated Burmese government reached a breakthrough agreement that allows VOA English teaching programs to air on state run radio and TV.

Burma, which was renamed Myanmar by military rulers following the suppression of pro-democracy protests in 1988, has been liberalizing since late last year, and has recently moved to ease restrictions on the media.

VOA's Burmese Service, which provides news and information on radio, television, the Internet and on mobile, began airing a half-hour TV program earlier this year, and has a wide variety of English language teaching programs available as podcasts.

VOA broadcasts approximately 1,500 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of about 141 million people.

(VOA Press Release)

Related News :

Myanmar democracy leader: Keep Radio Free Asia on air

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/sep/18/myanmar-democracy-leader-urges-ashe-to-keep-free/

AWR ANNUAL DX CONTEST 2012 RESULT

Adventist World Radio - - - - Annual DX Contest 2012

"Listen to AWR" - AWR 41st Year Annual DX Contest

Results

This is what you have been waiting for, the results of our big AWR 2012 "Listen to AWR" DX Contest. Here are the details. You will remember that you were invited to participate in 5 different areas:-

Part A. Listen to as many shortwave locations in use by Adventist World Radio as possible during the month of July 2012.

Part B. Prepare just one reception report for any AWR transmission from each AWR transmitter site in any country that you were able to log during the month of July 2012.

Part C. Provide a photocopy of a QSL that you already hold in your collection from any of the AWR shortwave stations that you have heard, during the past five years only.

Part D. Submit three radio cards for the Indianapolis Heritage Collection.

Part E. Post your entry with all items to Adventist World Radio in Indianapolis.

We are very grateful for the large number of entries that were submitted for this year's 2012 contest, and the awards for this year are similar as in all previous contests. All entries from all countries were sorted into continental areas, and from each continental area, the top list of entries were chosen. Here is the list of Continental Winners:-

South America Pedro Salamanca Zipaquira Colombia

Europe E. J. Zylstra Welsum Holland

North America Ken Godfrey Beaumont CA USA

Asia Tony Ashar Depok Indonesia

South Pacific Bruce White Karoonda SA Australia

As is usual each year, there were many outstanding entries for the contest this year, and from these we have chosen the following for the Award of Merit:-

Jonathan Short Changshu China

William Patalon Fallston MD USA

Prithwiraj Purkayastha Jorhat India

Gunter Jacob Passau Germany

Jai Sakthivel Tirunelveli India

Motokazu Katoh Niihama Japan

Joaquin Ruiz Badia Spain

And now, the name of the World Winner in the AWR 2012 "Listen to AWR" DX Contest! Such a delightful entry, with all of the various aspects of the contest assembled and presented in compendium style with a pretty folkloric cover. The International Radio Monitor whose entry is awarded top honors in this year's contest is:-

Julio Rolando Pineda Cordon Guatemala City Guatemala Central America

In due course, Julio will receive a copy of one of the Jerry Berg radio history books. The Continental Winners will receive a copy of the World Radio TV Handbook for 2013 early in the New Year. Those participants who have earned the Award of Merit will also receive their award in due course.

All AWR reception reports will be verified with specially endorsed AWR QSL cards. Please remember that it will take a period of many months, well into the new year 2013, to process all of the contest entries and the multi-hundreds of reception reports currently on hand in Indianapolis.

Once again, we would like to thank all of those International Radio Monitors who submitted entries for the 2012 AWR annual DX contest. Our contest for next year will be presented under the title, "Focus on Africa".

Dr. Adrian M. Peterson

Co-ordinator - International Relations & DX Editor

Adventist World Radio

N9GWY - Ex KA9YPQ

Murphy Radio in news ...

 

Many may have forgotten about the British manufacturer Murphy Radio or the Murphy baby who featured in the print advertisements of the company in 1960s and 70s India. Until of course, the title song from Ranbir Kapoor's next film Barfi ! - A La Barfi, reminded us of them.

Read the TOI story here ....

http://tinyurl.com/97aynng

 

Related story ....

 

Remember the Murphy Baby ?

http://tinyurl.com/c7xtn4e

 

Cooperation between RTI and RRI

Radio Taiwan International (RTI) signed an MOU on cooperation with Indonesia’s national radio station Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) on cooperation in news, programs and information exchanges.

Read more on the RTI blog .....
http://blog.rti.org.tw/english/2012/09/14/cooperation-between-rti-and-rri/


Comments at alokeshgupta@gmail.com

NewStar DR-111 Review by George Ross

George Ross, Frequency Manager at KTWR Guam, Trans World Radio writes about his recent experiences of using the NewStar DR-111

http://drm.org/news_item/NewStar_DR-111_-_review

 

BBC estimates internet distribution of content takes three times the power of broadcast transmitters

This is interesting .....

 

BBC estimates internet distribution of content takes three times the power of broadcast transmitters

 

http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=13689