Radio Free Asia commemorates the 2016 Rio Olympics

Radio Free Asia (RFA) announces its 61st QSL card. This latest design commemorates the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil scheduled for August 5-21, 2016. The Games always bring people together from around the world in peace and harmony to respect universal moral principles. This new design shows an adaptation of RFA's first panda design originally used for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This updated version of the original design adds a hat made of various fruits. The fruit hat was popularized in the 1900's by Brazilian singer and actress, Carmen Miranda. This QSL design is used to confirm all valid reception reports from May – August 2016.

 

RFA's QSL commemorating the 2016 Summer Olympics

 

Created by Congress in 1994 and incorporated in 1996, RFA broadcasts in Burmese, Cantonese, Khmer, Korean to North Korea, Lao, Mandarin (including 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 http://techweb.rfa.org (follow the QSL REPORTS link) not only from DX'ers, but also from its general listening audience

 

Reception reports are also accepted by email at qsl@rfa.org and by mail to:

 

Reception Reports

Radio Free Asia

2025 M. Street NW, Suite 300

Washington DC 20036

United States of America.

 

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AIR’s Experience with ‘DRM Dual Channel Transmission on Single Frequency’ through Shortwave Transmitter

Jan-Mar 2016 issue of ABU Techinal Review features an article on dual channel DRM transmission experience from AIR Bangalore.

AIR's Experience with 'DRM Dual Channel Transmission on Single Frequency' through Shortwave Transmitter

 

Page 27 ( Page 29 in the pdf file)

 

http://data.abu.org.my/technical/tdwebsite/tr/265%20Q1%202016.pdf

(Alokesh Gupta)

 

BBG announces Amanda Bennett as new Director of Voice of America

WASHINGTON - The Broadcasting Board of Governors today will welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Amanda Bennett as the 29th Director of the Voice of America (VOA).  An introduction and swearing-in ceremony will be held at Voice of America headquarters at 10 a.m. this morning and will be streamed live on the BBG website,  www.bbg.gov

"We are thrilled to have such a talented, experienced and award-winning journalist as Amanda take the helm at VOA," said BBG Chairman Jeff Shell. "Her unique skills and deep understanding of the rapidly evolving digital news marketplace will serve VOA well."

"Amanda embodies everything we've been looking for in a VOA Director," agreed BBG CEO and Director John Lansing. "In today's complex geopolitical environment, VOA's work is more important than ever, and we are confident that Amanda will lead VOA to great success around the world on all media platforms."

"I am happy and excited to be part of such a vital news organization," said Bennett.  "We are the only source of reliable, objective, credible news and information for a large part of the world.  What's more, our mission of covering the fascinating complexity of our country and its people is a beat like no other. I look forward to working with the skilled and passionate journalists at VOA to bring those stories alive for the world."

Bennett served as executive editor of Bloomberg News, where she created and ran a global team of investigative reporters and editors and co-founded the Bloomberg News Women's project.  She also served as editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, editor of the Herald-Leader in Lexington, Kentucky, managing editor/projects for The Oregonian in Portland, and reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal for more than 20 years, including a stint as the Journal's Beijing correspondent. Most recently, she has been a contributing columnist for The Washington Post.

Bennett shared the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with her Journal colleagues, and in 2001 led a team from The Oregonian to a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.  Projects by the Bloomberg projects and investigations team, led by Bennett, won numerous awards, including Loeb, Polk, Barlett & Steele, Headliners, Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and Overseas Press Club awards.

Bennett is the author of six books and a graduate of Harvard College.  Together with her husband, Donald Graham, she co-founder of TheDream.US, which provides college scholarships to the children of undocumented immigrants.

Bennett succeeds David Ensor, who served as VOA Director from 2011-2015.  VOA's Associate Director of Language Programming Kelu Chao has served as Acting VOA Director since June of last year.  

The Broadcasting Board of Governors 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. BBG networks 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 programming has a measured audience of 226 million in more than 100 countries and in 61 languages.

       

(Press Release)

Radio Mirchi starts test transmission in Kochi

Radio Mirchi has started test transmission on 104.0 MHz in Kochi, RDS is also active.

(Anu via FM DX South Asia)

AWR Grand Finale Annual DX Contest

"Grand Finale" Annual DX Contest

 

How Many AWR Shortwave Sites Have You Verified?

 

Ever since Adventist World Radio was inaugurated way back some 45 years ago, listeners in many countries on all continents have looked forward to participating in the annual DX contest.    Our historical records show that the first listener contest was conducted by the fledgling new AWR back during the year 1972, just a few months after the official inauguration on October 1, 1971.

 

The longest series of annual DX contests began under the original Adventist World Radio in Asia, AWR-Asia in Poona India, and these were introduced just a few years later, in 1977.  Since then, this well established AWR DX program "Radio Monitors International" has transmigrated from Asia to the United States, and the name likewise has evolved into the now familiar "Wavescan".

 

Throughout all of these intervening years, the annual winner's list contains the names of well known international radio monitors living on all continents.  In addition, the long roster of regional winners over the years includes a host of names, international radio monitors living in up to a hundred different countries.  Any and all entrants have an equal possibility of winning one of the many awards that are available each year.

 

As Adventist World Radio enters its 45th year of international radio broadcasting, we take pleasure in announcing our annual "Wavescan" DX contest for the year 2016.  This year's contest is planned as the last ever contest from the AWR DX program "Wavescan" and it comes to you under the title,

 

"Grand Finale" Annual DX Contest:

 

How Many AWR Shortwave Sites Have You Verified?

 

In short, you are invited to make up a list of all of your AWR QSL cards, one only for each different AWR shortwave site.  "Grand Finale" Annual DX Contest:

 

How Many AWR Shortwave Sites Have You Verified?

 

A. How Many AWR Shortwave Sites Have You Verified?

 

You are invited to make up a tabulated list of all of your AWR QSL cards, one only for each AWR shortwave site.  You may also include reception reports for any AWR shortwave site that you have not yet verified, up to a maximum of three additional sites.  The listing of each QSL card for each AWR site that you have verified should show the station name, location, country, frequency, date and a brief description of the card.  Here is a sample listing showing how to give the information:-

 

1. KSDA          Agat Guam                 11935 kHz       2015 March 1  Yellow Compass Card          

2. WRMI          Okeechobee FL            9955              2013 Oct 29    Dr Chow Interview

3. AWR           Forli Italy                       6205              1985 May 30   Forli Antenna

4. SLBC          Ekala Sri Lanka            6075              1984 Dec 30   Sines Antennas

5. TIAWR        Alajuela Costa Rica    15460              1986 Oct 17    Radio Lira Antenna

6. Media          Nauen Germany           9610              2016 Feb 14    Report enclosed        

 

B. Copy Three Cards

 

Where possible, please copy any three of your AWR QSL cards, preferably in color, though black and white can be acceptable, and enclose with your contest entry.

 

C. Your Best AWR QSL Card

 

Which is your best AWR QSL card?  Explain why in one short paragraph.  A color copy would be appreciated.

 

D. AWR Reception Reports

 

You are invited to prepare three reception reports for the broadcast on shortwave, mediumwave or FM of any AWR programming in any part of the world.  You may choose the international shortwave programing from Adventist World Radio, via KSDA Guam, or any of the shortwave relay stations that carry AWR programming, or any of the 1700 local mediumwave or FM stations in any part of the world that are affiliated with Adventist World Radio.  You may include up to three reception reports of AWR programing from shortwave sites that you have not yet verified.

 

Please do not send a recording of your reception; we just need your honest reception report on paper.  All reception reports will be verified with a special contest endorsement.

 

E. Three Radio Cards

 

Where possible, you are invited to include three radio cards for the Indianapolis Heritage Collection with your contest entry.  These cards may be old or new, and they may be QSL cards, reception report cards, or picture cards of radio stations, etc.  Not valid for this contest are amateur cards nor CB cards.

 

Other Contest Details

 

Well, there you have it, the details for our Wavescan 2016 "Grand Finale DX Contest".  This contest will run through the month of August 2016, and all contest entries should be postmarked at your local post office anywhere in the world on any date up to the end of the month of August 2016 and they should be received at the AWR temporary post office address as given below no later than the end of the month of September 2016.

 

Post your entry with all items to Adventist World Radio, remembering that neatness and preparation will all feature in the judging procedure.  Due consideration will also be given to the area of the world in which the contestant lives.

 

Where possible, please enclose return postage in the form of currency notes in any international currency, or mint postage stamps.  Please note that IRC coupons are too expensive for you to buy, and they are no longer valid in the United States.

 

Please enclose your postal address label also.

 

The awards for the 2016 AWR "Grand Finale DX Contest" will be similar to all previous contests.  There will be a special award for the world winner, one of Jerome Berg's radio history books; and World Radio TV Handbook 2017 for each continental winner.  In addition, there will be other special awards as well as AWR souvenirs and radio curios for many participants.

 

All AWR reception reports will be verified with a specially endorsed AWR QSL card.  Please remember that it will take a period of many months, well into the new year 2017, to process all of the contest entries and reception reports, but each will in due course be processed.

 

Here is the only address for the "Grand Finale" Annual DX Contest: How Many AWR Shortwave Sites Have You Verified?  This postal address is temporary, and it is open only during August and September 2016.

 

TEMPORARY POSTAL ADDRESS, Open only during August & September 2016:-

 

Adventist World Radio

Grand Finale DX Contest

Box 771

Bloomington

Indiana 47402-0771 USA

 

Radio-Télévision Guinéenne (RTG) , Guinea reactivated on shortwave

Radio-Télévision Guinéenne (RTG), the state broadcasting service of Guinea has been re-activated on shortwave, as per BDXC Africa Guide station was last reported on shortwave on 7125 kHz in September 2012.  Earlier a 50 kW transmitter was situated at Conakry.

 

Reactivated station on 9650 kHz was first noted by Paul Walker on 14th April 2016, Sakae Obara from New Jersey, USA identified the station as 'Radio Guinea' during a discussion in DXLD list. 

 

Logged on 16th April, 2016 0103 UTC onwards with surprisingly fair to good reception on 9650 kHz , heard till 0230 UTC onwards until it started fading, Content was mostly Afro music with occasional French talk.

 

 

And here's an audio file logged at 0107 UTC on 16th April 2016 on 9650 kHz

https://soundcloud.com/alokesh-1/radiodifusao-nacional-guinea-bissau-9650-khz-0107-utc-16-april-2016

 

Per Wikipedia, Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (French: République de Guinée), is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (French: Guinée française), the modern country is sometimes referred to as Guinea-Conakry in order to distinguish it from other parts of the wider region of the same name, such as Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea.[5] Guinea has a population of 10.5 million.

Related :

On 29 issuers of the Guinean Radio Television, currently operate only 6

 

http://tinyurl.com/h6hjhrm

 

Paul B. Walker  who was one of the first DXer to notice and post about 9650 kHz on April 14th as an UNID station has shared this audio link  :

 

http://youtu.be/_Nk8d6RANg0

 

(Alokesh Gupta)

HT Media launches new FM stations "Radio Nasha" in Delhi & Mumbai

HT Media, which runs its FM radio station "Fever FM" in five cities in India, has launched a new station "Radio Nasha" in Delhi and Mumbai.

After Delhi, HT Media Ltd has launched its second radio station, Radio Nasha, in Mumbai. While in Delhi it is 107.2 FM, in Mumbai it is Radio Nasha on 91.9 FM. These are part of the Phase III radio launches from HT Media. In the Phase III FM radio auctions, HT Media acquired 10 new frequencies in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and seven towns of Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra, Aligarh, Gorakhpur, Bareilly and Allahabad).

HT Media already operates FM stations under the Fever FM brand in the five metros ....Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata. As part of the differentiated content stratergy, Radio Nasha will play retro music from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Fever FM, on the other hand, will play contemporary Bollywood music.

An antenna that speaks without listening

Freed from the textbook symmetry between transmission and reception, the device could be a boon to communications.

Read the story by Johanna L. Miller at :

http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.7254

MWV back on air with much improved reception towards India

MWV (Madagascar World Voice), the newest station on shortwave was noted back on air after almost 12 days, however English transmissions to India at 0000 and 0100 UTC which were barely audible earlier were noted with much improved reception on both 9600 kHz at 0000-0100 UTC and 9665 kHz at 0100-0200 UTC.
 
Here's an youtube video for English txn to India at 0047 UTC on 9600 kHz

 
 
Also an audio file of MWV english txn to India at 0119 UTC on 9665 kHz :
 
https://soundcloud.com/alokesh-1/madagascar-world-voice-9665-khz-0119-utc-15-apr-2016

(Alokesh Gupta)
 

RVA A16

Radio Veritas Asia A16

March 27, 2016 -  October 30, 2016

Time (UTC) Language Frequency (kHz)

2100–2257 Mandarin   6115
2300-2327 Filipino   15355
2330–2357 Vietnamese 9670
2330–2357 Myanmar    9720
0000–0027 Karen      11935
0000–0027 Kachin     9645
0030–0057 Bengali    15265
0100–0127 Telugu     15530
0100–0127 Urdu       15280
0130–0200 Zomichin   15255 (Th-F-S-S)
0130–0200 Teddimchin 15255 (M-T-W)
0130–0230 Vietnamese 15530
1000–1027 Khmer      11850
1000–1157 Mandarin   11945
1130–1157 Myanmar    15450
1200–1227 Hmong      11935
1200–1227 Karen      11890
1230–1257 Kachin     15225
1300–1357 Vietnamese 11850
1330–1357 Chin       11870
1400-1427 Hindi      11870
1400–1427 Bengali    11825
1430-1457 Urdu       15330
1430–1500 Telugu     11870
1500-1553 Filipino   15620

IndiBlogger Launches IndiPR.com

IndiBlogger Launches IndiPR.com - A self-learning engine that automatically targets the right publishers

Thousands of businesses, products and services are launched everyday across the world. When these products go live, a Press Release (like the one you're currently reading) is usually the first order of business. Businesses of various sizes, including start-ups, can now have their Press Releases published by relevant influencers in less than 72 hours.

IndiPR.com was built to make it extremely simple for a business to get their Press Releases published by top bloggers. All a business has to do is upload their Press Release and the 'Automated Influencer Targeting Engine', or 'AITE' for short, proceeds to accept applications and automatically shortlists bloggers based on various factors including internal ratings and rankings. Once shortlisted, the influencers do their research and publish their articles.

Anoop Johnson, Co-founder and Director of Marketing at IndiBlogger, adds, "With a starting budget of just USD 150, a business of any size will be able to get their press releases published by influential bloggers with a few clicks."

IndiPR.com assists digital marketers with a variety of tasks including, but not limited to, SEO, content marketing, generating awareness and gaining much needed conversations around the product, driven by internet users on influencer platforms like blogs.

One of the main issues that most marketers face when working with influencers is the cumbersome process associated with identifying and targeting each Influencer. Karthik DR, Co-founder & Business Head at IndiBlogger says, "The amount of time that people spend in trying to identify and contact influencers is huge. With IndiPR.com, you don't have to worry about any of this as the system just needs your Press Release. The rest is history!"

In the future, IndiPR.com will carry more than just Press Releases. Influencers will be able to get creative assignments, get invitations to attend the trendiest launch events and be privy to the latest news on the planet before the world wakes up to it.

Renie Ravin, the Founder and CEO of IndiBlogger, says, "We believe that this system will help Influencers with fresh and new content on their site every day. In a way, you could be writing about the next Google without even realising its immense potential."

Contact Information: Anoop Johnson   contact@indipr.com

Phone - +91-9900-001655 or 0124-4891498

First DRM European Workshop “Flexible and Complete Digital Radio for Europe” asks European Stakeholders to Support and Manufacture DRM and DAB+ Receivers

Following from a very successful General Assembly, the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Consortium, and the German DRM Platform held a most comprehensive European workshop hosted by Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen, Germany from 6th to 7th April 2016.

This was a first such DRM event aimed at offering solutions to all broadcasters large or small. During their presentations and discussions participants stressed that DRM is the ITU endorsed and internationally adopted standard for the distribution of programmes internationally, nationally and up to local coverage level. DRM can also provide an economic and complementary solution to exactly those coverage scenarios that the established DAB/DAB+ networks in Band-III were never designed for.

Following their deliberations the participants urged all stakeholders of Digital Radio in Europe – including European organisations, regulators, broadcasters and the receiver and automotive industry – to embrace publicly the duality and complementarity of the open DRM and DAB standards as the complete Digital Radio solution for Europe (and worldwide). This means a digital future for all broadcasters, offering more programme choice to listeners, extra multimedia services with text and images, increased energy savings and spectrum efficiency. The participants ask 'all European stakeholders to promote actively the manufacturing and distribution of multi-standard Digital Radio receivers, comprising at least the DRM and DAB standards.'

The first session, held in conjunction with the open part of the DRM General Assembly, took a brief look at the status of DRM adoption around the world, including the DRM roll-out in India, ready to become the largest digital radio market in the world with over 600 million people being reached by DRM broadcasts. Presentations given by experts from various European countries showed that the digitisation of radio progresses in Europe. At the end of the first day Fraunhofer IIS (Bernd Linz) demonstrated the latest development to provide traffic and travel services in DRM radios, soon to be installed in Asia. Afterwards Martin Speitel demonstrated the features of the Fraunhofer software package for car radios with DRM. With this solution, radio manufacturers can quickly build or enhance radio platforms on a proven modular system covering the full DRM and DAB standards including their full feature sets, thus shortening their development times and, in turn, reducing their costs.

On the 7th April benefits and opportunities of DRM were shown with practical applications. Ampegon (Matthias Stoll) showed how easy and cost-effective the transition from analogue AM to DRM can be. Marc Holthof of the German Navy gave an example of how to use DRM over shortwave for maritime broadcasting of information and entertainment to ship crews at sea. Csaba Szombathy, Technical University of Budapest, demonstrated his original monitoring programme of DRM transmissions. Then RFmondial (Jens Schroeder), demonstrated how to provide DRM services in the crowded FM band compatible with all the existing FM stations. Joachim Lehnert, German DRM Platform Chairman, showed that DRM is a suitable system for local/regional coverage in VHF Band III, fully compatible with DAB/DAB+ and DVB-T networks and in keeping with RRC-06. RFmondial (Detlef Pagel) also referred to the use of DRM in VHF Band III and stressed that DRM+ is the most suitable digital system for the local and regional single-station broadcasters, as a complement to multiplexes, while sharing all the listenerrelated features with the DAB+ standard. Finally, Manfred Kühn, Mobile Broadcast Consult, demonstrated the flexible transmission of multiple DRM channels in a single DAB frequency block in VHF Band III.

This session was followed by a status report on the development of digital multi-standard radios, presented by Robert Bosch Car Multimedia, NXP, Fraunhofer IIS, PnP Networks and Panasonic. All the speakers finally emphasized the market and framework requirements for the production of multistandard radios for Europe.

Joachim Lehnert, Chairman of the German DRM Platform, concluded that the workshop was an important step to bringing national activities together and added; "With all the European DRM activities presented over the past two days and the encouraging messages from the receiver industry, I believe that the famous 'chicken or egg' problem can be solved from the receiver end by adding DRM as a complement to existing digital receivers. This will eventually help all radio broadcasters across Europe, whether national, local or community stations, and will ensure each has a digital home in the future."

(Press Release)

DOMESTIC BROADCASTING SURVEY 18 (DBS-18), April 2016

The DOMESTIC BROADCASTING SURVEY 18 (DBS-18), April 2016

edited by DSWCI Chairman, Anker Petersen. 

ISSN 1399-8218

The 59 years old DSWCI, which counts experienced DX-ers in 33 countries all over the world as members, will release in April the 18th  Edition of its annual Domestic Broadcasting Survey. This survey is divided into three parts:

Part 1: The 44th  edition of the Tropical Bands Survey covering all ACTIVE broadcasting stations on 2300 - 5700 kHz, including clandestines.

Part 2: Domestic stations on international shortwave bands above 5700 kHz broadcasting to a domestic audience.

Part 3: Deleted frequencies between 2 and 30 MHz which have not been reported heard during the past five years, but may reappear.

This new Survey is based upon monitoring by our members, many official sources and DX-bulletins. A16 schedules are included when available. About 65 domestic shortwave stations frequencies have left the bands. In order to make the DBS reliable, our own monitors around the world have checked throughout the period April 2015 – March 2016, if each of the 500 station frequencies is on the air. ACTIVE stations are marked with an A ("Regular"), B ("Irregular") or C ("Sporadic") in the list.   D means "Likely inactive".

A unique feature is the right column called "Last log". It shows the last month and year before DBS deadline on March 31, 2016   when the particular station was reported logged by a DX-er somewhere in the world. This is another way of indicating the current audibility of the station. To avoid inactive stations in this DBS, most frequencies which have not been heard during the past year, have been deleted and are moved to Part 3. No other frequency list has this feature !

Other useful features for easy identification (ID) are the parallel frequencies and reference to Station ID slogans.

Four sample extracts from the DBS-18 are shown on the next page. Reviews can be found on www.dswci.org   

All buyers of DBS-18 will get a username and password to the monthly updates on the tropical bands published as "Tropical Bands Monitor" on our website. The similar, historical data from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 are available to anybody at  www.dswci.org/tbm .

The 18 pages A-4 size DBS-18 is available by e-mail as pdf-format (about 350 kB).

A limited number is also available printed on paper for the last time, because the DSWCI is dissolved at the end of 2016! 

Both are sold by the treasurer until December 01, 2016:

DSWCI,

c/o Bent Nielsen, Egekrogen 14, DK 3500 Vaerloese, DENMARK

E-Mail edition:     DKK 30,00 or USD 5.00 or EUR 4,00 or GBP 3,00 or  IRC 1. 

Printed edition: DKK 60,00 or USD 10.00 or EUR 8,00 or GBP 7,00 or IRC 2.

Payment by cash notes are  accepted  and  welcome, whereas checks and postal money orders are not accepted.

DSWCI's Bank is Danske Bank, 2-12 Holmens Kanal, DK-1092 Copenhagen K.

BIC/SWIFT : DABADKKK.      IBAN: DK 44 3000 4001 528459. Remember to pay all cost!

Danish buyers please use: Reg. 3001- konto 4001528459.

If you have EURO as national currency, you are advised to pay to our representative in Germany, Andreas Schmid. 

Andreas Schmid, Lerchenweg 4, D-97717 Euerdorf, Germany. E-mail: schmidandy@aol.com

Targobank, Düsseldorf, BLZ: 30020900.  BIC: CMCIDEDD.  IBAN: DE07 3002 0900 5200 087693.

If you want to pay via PAYPAL, you have to contact Andreas Schmid, before you send your payment.

Payment via PayPal only in US$ currency and only for persons, living outside the European Union (EU).

Best 73's,  

Anker Petersen and Bent Nielsen

Samples from Domestic Broadcasting Survey 18: 

B    3900     10     CHN    Hulun Buir PBS,Hailar, Nei         2130-0700 (Tu-0210) 0900-1440 C Menggu MAR16

A   3905     10     INS      RRI Merauke                                Pro 1: 2000-2200 0700-1500v Bahasa Indonesia, ID: "Pro Satu Radio  Republik Indonesia Merauke"     MAR16

A   3912     50     CLA     Voice of the People,via Goyang,  0530-2330 Korean to KRE // 3480(ID) 4450 6518 6600  South Korea MAR16

A   3915     100   SNG    BBC, via Kranji    2200-2300 E    MAR16

A   3925     50     J           R Nikkei, Nagara, Chiba, Tokyo  HS 1: 2155-1500 Japanese // 6055 9595, ID: "Nikkei Radio - sha Tampa-hoso" (Nikkei R Corp. SW Brc.)  MAR16

C    3925     10     J           R Nikkei, Nemuro  HS 1: 2300-0750 Japanese PPPPP

B    3945     10     J           R Nikkei, Nagara, Chiba, Tokyo HS 2: Su-Th 2300-1400(Fr-Sa -0900) Japanese // 6115 9760, ck 3925 (ID)   MAR16

B    3945     6       VUT    R Vanuatu, Emten Lagoon            0400-2200 Bislama/E/F, (= 7260  MAR16

A   3950     100   CHN    Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi,Xinjiang   Nov-May: 2300-0230 1205-1800 C, ID: "Xinjiang renmin kwangpo dientai", E ID: "China Xinjiang People's Radio Station" // 5060 5960;           (=7260) MAER16

¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤

D   4755,5  1       FSM    The Cross R, Pacific Missionary  2000-1200v E rlg, ID: "The Cross Radio", relays FM 88.5/99.5/102.5

                                         Aviation (PMA), Pohnpei            Without power after a storm in May 2015                                                MAY15

B    4760     4       IND     AIR Port Blair, Brookshabad,      Southern Sce: 2355-0300 1030-1700(SS -1730) (SE: 2315-0300 1030-                                                            Andaman & Nicobar Islands                     1830) E/Hindi/ Sanskrit/Nicobarese/Telegu/ Bengali/Tamil/Malayalam,

                                                                                               E nx 0035 1230 1530. S/on with Vande Mataram hymn, Hindi ID:

                                                                                               "Yeh Akashvani Port Blair-he" (Akashvani = The voice from the sky),

                                                                                               0125-0130 Sanskrit, 1030-1100 Nicobarese, 1100-1130 Telegu,

                                                                                               1130-1200 Tamil, 1200-1230 Bengali, (= 7390)                                      MAR16

C    4760     7       IND     R Kashmir, Leh (Laddakh),          (Apr-Oct 0130-)0210-0430 1130-1630v, (SE: 2315-0410 1045-1830)

                                         Jammu and Kashmir                     E/Hindi/Urdu/Laddakhi/Kashmiri. ID: "Akashvani Leh", "Radio

                                                                                               Kashmir". E nx 0245-0300, (= 6000). Part of AIR                                  MAR16

D   4760     1       LBR     ELWA, Monrovia                         0530-1000 1700-2400 (SS-2230) E/Vn, ck 6050                                    JUN15

B    4760     50     SWZ    TWR, Mpangela Ranch                FS: Su 1630-1645 P                                                                                 MAR16

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Digital Radio Mondiale™ (DRM) holds successful General Assembly at Fraunhofer IIS Headquarters in Germany, April 5-6 2016

The 2016 General Assembly of the DRM Consortium took place on 5th and 6th of April at the headquarters of Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen, near Nuremberg (Germany).  The theme for this year's event was "Digital Radio Mondiale – Smart Radio for Everyone".

This event held in conjunction with the DRM European Workshop gave an opportunity to Consortium members and invited guests to get together and exchange exclusive information on DRM in one of the most innovative research institutes in the world.  During the General Assembly the participants reviewed the excellent progress made in India, the interest shown in some of the Asian countries and the planned DRM+ trial in South Africa. The commercial launch of the full-feature DRM Indian receiver, of the line-fit car receiver in a top Indian car model, the traffic information demonstration for cars, the multimedia player and the software defined radio receiver were practical examples of DRM progressing significantly in the past 12 months. The DRM members welcomed the decision of Hungary to recommend DRM alongside DAB for its digitisation and encourage therefore the production of analogue/DRM/DAB receivers.

Besides the country updates the company updates, including that from its newest member, Panasonic, were the highlights of the event.

The DRM General Assembly elected its Steering Board and Ruxandra Obreja as Chairman. It also welcomed representatives of the PBC (Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation) and RRI (Radio Republik Indonesia) as observer members of the Steering Board.

The General Assembly approved the future strategy focused on getting DRM receivers so that digitisation can be enjoyed by all broadcasters large or small for the benefit of their listeners.

Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Chairman said: "DRM is digital radio for all as became so evident during the presentations and discussions on these two days and during the following European workshop. With effort, dedication and open mind DRM can now turn promise into reality."

The DRM European workshop which overlapped with the General Assembly also began today (Wednesday 6th and also on the 7th), being organised by the Consortium, Fraunhofer IIS and by the DRM German Platform.  Joachim Lehnert, Platform Chairman, explained that: "The event will focus on the receiver and car industries. We need multi-standard radios in Europe which can and should include DRM reception in the AM and in the VHF bands."

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ENIL testing it's second FM frequency in Bangalore

Entertainment Network India Limited (ENIL), a subsidiary of Times Infotainment Media Limited (TIML) owner of the brand "Radio Mirchi" is testing its second frequency in Bangalore on 95.0 MHz with RDS "ENIL TEST" from 4th April' 2016 morning onwards.

(Krishna Chandran via FM DX South Asia)