The National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters in the US has launched a Shortwave Listener Survey, which is now online. The purpose of the survey is to gather demographic and other information about shortwave listeners in North America and around the world. Questions deal with listener preferences regarding shortwave stations, programming, receivers, DRM and much more. The NASB is requesting and encouraging all shortwave publications and websites to place a link to the survey, which will be online until May of 2011. The survey results will be announced to the public at the 2011 NASB annual meeting.
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SDXL Special broadcast via SWR & Competition
SDXL in co-operation with Northern Dimenson DXers, Haapavesi Folk High School and King´s Village DX announced a competition for DXers in Finland and abroad !
Who will be able to pick up the broadcasts on August 6th-7th from the biggest distance (from the TX site at Virrat, Finland N 62°23' E 23°37') ? Correct reports will be replied with a special QSL-Card.
More at : http://tinyurl.com/23xtuqo
Details about SDXL-Summer Meeting 2010: http://tinyurl.com/25ecakj
SWR schedule for 6-7 Aug, 2010: http://swradio.net/schedule.htm
Inlagt: 30/7
Källa: Cumbre DX via CON NDL
TWR Launches Enhanced Website
New Features Offer More Opportunities for Engagement
CARY, NC, July 26, 2010–International Christian media ministry TWR announces the launch of a newly revitalized website to increase engagement and awareness of its global outreach. The user-friendly site (www.twr.org) offers an intuitive design and integration of the newest media platforms.
“When people look at a website, it creates an impression, and I like the impression that the new site gives of TWR being a global ministry,” TWR President Lauren Libby says. “It also gives us the capability to do certain things, to be able to communicate directly via video and audio with not only our donor base but our constituency base, and we’re going to utilize every capability in there.”
New and enhanced features include the following:
MyTWR allows users to customize their experience with TWR. Once signed up, they can view news and global staff information right on the home page based on preferences they select. Users will be able to keep track of a particular missionary, area or other item of interest.
The Listen Now page features radio programming live online. Users are able to choose one of our partner links and listen to broadcasts from around the world or listen to recorded TWR programming online. They can download, view transcripts and search for specific topics or scripture references. On-demand content is also available through LinguaBlast, TWR’s newest Web-based single-delivery platform.
The About TWR page showcases an interactive map where users can view TWR partners, program schedules, broadcast outlets and regional projects.
The Global Staff page lists profiles for numerous TWR staff members and features live world evangelism statuses, such as the number of people hearing and believing the gospel.
The Resources page offers both purchasable resources, such as Project Hannah’s new book, “When Hope Wins,” and free resources, such as TWR’s annual ministry progress report.
The Serve page lists different short- and long-term positions with job descriptions and also discusses types of service.
The Get Involved page provides daily prayer requests, opportunities to give to TWR and an option for visitors to share their story of how TWR has made a lasting difference in their lives.
Visit the new website at www.twr.org
(TWR News Release)
Inlagt: 30/7
Källa: Cumbre DX via CON NDL
Australian DX Report episode 212
Episode no. 212 of the Australian DX Report audio news magazine about shortwave broadcasting includes reports of monitoring research during the local Melbourne sunrise and afternoon windows. It also features news and information about shortwave broadcasting, propagation, a solar activity report, monitoring notes, and extracts from schedules of the A10 season. It's free, of 15 mins duration, produced by Bob Padula of the Electronic DX Press Radio Monitoring Association based in Melbourne, Australia, and may be accessed from the Australian Internet Radio Service website, at http://adxr.podbean.com
You may download/listen to/save the episodes as MP3 files on your laptop/desktop/iPad, set up a Podcast, or receive/save them on your Mobile Phone or other portable internet-enabled digital device. You may also subscribe via the site's RSS/Atom feed - full details are at the site. Links to the episodes are also available on my Facebook service within a few minutes of their release. The shows are very popular - in the four weeks to July 23, 2010, there have been 1921 downloads by subscribers, 1161 site visitors, and 224 episode hits. All-time Channel views have now exceeded 31,500, and now total 31,523! You are invited to put a Pin of your location and a Comment on a nice World Map at the site.
The episodes are also available on-air, over WWCR Nashville, 0200-0215 on Sundays, on 4840, and on Mondays 1145-1200 on 15825, and via WWCR's streaming audio (live) at http://wwcr.com
Good listening to the Australian DX Report Episode No. 212, and enjoy the musical interludes!
Regards from Melbourne!
Bob Padula
Host/Producer
Inlagt: 25/7
Källa: Cumbre DX via CON NDL
QSL Information - HCJB Australia
Dear DX-friends all parts of the world,
Here is a piece of information on very unique QSL-card. The Japanese service of HCJB Australia is currently issuing different QSL-cards every month. These cards are not issued by the station HCJB in Melbourne, but by the Yodobashi Church in Tokyo.
The address for reception reports is mentioned at the end of this e-mail. Now, July edition of its QSL-card is featuring an DX-pedition held from 25th to 27th of last June. The participants of this DX-pedition are six Japanese men and held on a small island called "Katsurashima". This island, Katsurashima is located in the bay of Matsushima, near Sendai, one of the major cities in the Northeast of Japan and apart from Tokyo approximately 350 kilometers. As this island is under noise-free environment, so we hold DX-pedition once or twice every year.
This QSL-card would be issued for the reception reports in July, but if you miss to receive the broadcast within July, I suggest that you ask the Yodobashi Church to issue the July edition even after the reports in August.
Program schedule Japanese service of HCJB Australia:
22:30 - 23:00UTC on 15525kHz Friday/Saturday only.
The address for reception reports:
HCJB c/o Yodobashi Church,
1-17-8 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku,
Tokyo 169-0073
JAPAN
Return postage in the form of International Reply Coupon is necessary. Information by: Nobuya Kato (A Japanese radio hobbyist), Kanagawa, Japan
nobuya05k@yahoo.co.jp
Inlagt: 20/7
Källa: Cumbre DX via CON NDL
Egypt's public radio: is anyone listening?
Nadine Emile: Can the radio survive mounting competition from other media?
From its vast headquarters on the Nile, the Egyptian Radio and Television Union still faithfully broadcasts public radio programs from nine networks. The programs cover news and culture, play Egyptian and foreign music, and feature talk shows and readings of the Quran, providing a wealth of entertainment and news for the Egyptian public. But is anyone still listening?
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/egypts-public-radio-anyone-listening
Related story : EGYPT: English-language radio Nile FM gaining popularity as shows deal with once-taboo issues
http://tinyurl.com/2uosnup
Inlagt: 19/7
Källa: Cumbre DX via CON NDL
Grimeton Radio SAQ
PRELIMINARY REPORT OF GRIMETON RADIO/SAQ TRANSMISSON JULY 4 2010
According to received reports this transmission was one of the best ever, so far. Three reports with good readability came from the USA. New countries were Belarus and Hungary. Germany had, as usually, one third of the reports.
The Final Summary Report will be showed on our website www.alexander.n.se later on.
For the Grimeton Radio/SAQ.
Lars Kålland
SM6NM
Inlagt: 18/7
Källa: Alf Persson APF
IRIB English Service
Dear Bo Samuelsson
I hope this e-mail finds you well. As you may know we have changed the format of our website newly. We would like to know your viewpoint in this regard as well as the content of the website. Any criticism or suggestion is welcomed. The address to our website is: www.englishradio.ir or http://english.irib.ir .
We would also be very pleased to know your view about our programs such as Farsi for you. I also attach you a questionnaire. I would be very pleased if you fill it and send it back to me. I appreciate you in advance.
Best regards
IRIB English Service
Mohammad B. Khoshnevisan
Inlagt: 7/7
Källa: IRIB
Interview with Gambian pro-democracy station staffer
Freedomnewspaper.com carries the transcript of an interview with Ms Sigga Jagne, Vice Chairperson of the Save The Gambia Democracy Project, about the “Baati Rewmi” (Voice of the Nation) radio station that recently started broadcasting on shortwave.
Unfortunately, according to the transcript, Ms Jagne twice says that the frequency is “1525 MHz” and that the broadcast is in association with “Radio Manny International”. This appears to the result of a transcription by someone with no knowledge of international broadcasting. In fact the organisation that arranges the broadcasts, via a transmitter in Germany, is Radio Miami International and the correct frequency is 15225 kHz. The programme is on the air every Saturday at 1815-1830 UTC.
The correct details are given on the Save the Gambia Democracy Project website.
Inlagt: 7/7
Källa: RNW Media Network
New DG appointed at Bangladesh Betar
Bangladesh’s national radio network, Bangladesh Betar, has a new Director General. He is A K M Shameem Chowhdhuri, who was formerly the Principal Information Officer. He also served earlier as Director General of the Press Institute of Bangladesh and Director General of the Department of Film and Publication. Mr Shameem succeeds Mahbubul Alam as head of Bangladesh Betar.
Established in 1939, Bangladesh Betar transmits through 15 medium wave, two shortwave and 12 FM transmitters. Its network comprises 12 stations and more than 70 studios.
Inlagt: 7/7
Källa: RNW Media Network
RFA Announces New QSL Card
Hi all: Radio Free Asia is happy to announce the second QSL card in its series highlighting traditional Asian musical instruments. The subject of this new QSL is the Burmese harp; this card will be used for all confirmed reception reports from July 1 - August 31, 2010.
Best wishes from all of us at RFA. Thx AJ
AJ Janitschek
Radio Free Asia
2025 M Street, NW
Washington DC 20036
+1 202 530-4900
Inlagt: 19/6
Källa: RFA
Tougher action against Dutch pirate radio stations
The Radiocommunications Agency Netherlands (AT) is stepping up action to prevent illegal radio radio broadcasts. The agency will not only close down stations that are on the air without permit, but will also target aerial towers “obviously intended for illegal broadcasts”.
As a first step, AT inspectors will pay warning visits to land and home owners on whose premises suspicious constructions are spotted. “If these are used illegally, they will be fined 2,500 euros plus a conditional fine of 2,250.” The total fine that illegal broadcasters risk “can total up to 33,750 euros”, according to AT spokesman Gernant Deekens.
The new approach will first be used in the relatively rural northeastern province of Drenthe. Pirate stations are often run from hideouts in sheds and barns, playing popular music to a local audience for a couple of hours a day. It is often felt that “official” radiostations are catering insufficiently for regional tastes, prompting enterprising individuals to set up their own transmissions on AM or FM. The quality of the transmitters is often such that the broadcasts are causing interference on other channels, often without the pirates even being aware of it.
“Pirate radios are causing a lot of trouble in the north and east of the Netherlands,” according to AT Chief Inspector Peter Spijkerman. “Their illegal broadcasts are interfering with legal radio stations here and in neighbouring Germany. Air traffic communication, too, is disrupted by illegal transmissions. This can lead to dangerous situations. We primarily want to take preventive action, but if people break the law, we’ll give the pirates tit for tat,” Mr Spijkerman warned.
Inlagt: 18/6
Källa: RNW Media Network
Winradio Excalibur
Nu äntligen kommer den nya SDR-mottagaren Excalibur från Winradio ut på marknaden! Efter att ha annonserats redan i höstas så börjar man nu leverera - de första enheterna skall nå ut till kund under denna vecka. Priset har satts till 7820 SEK + moms det vill säga totalt 9975 SEK, vilket motsvarar drygt 1200 USD. Tidigare spekulationer har varit att den skulle kosta mindre än 1200 USD och på andra sidan Atlanten finns det prisindikationer kring 850 USD plus eventuella skatter och avgifter.
Information om mottagaren hittar du på www.winradio.se
Det kommer en recension när vi haft möjlighet att testa mottagaren.
Inlagt: 17/6
Källa: Moritz Saarmann
NASB launches International Shortwave Survey
Inlagt: 30/5
Källa: RNW Media Network
AWR Wavescan Annual DX Contest 2010
AWR DX Program "Wavescan" - Annual DX Contest - 2010 "Station Profiles"
It's that time of the year again! Yes, we're talking about our big annual DX contest here in "Wavescan". The title for our big 2010 DX contest is "Station Profiles", and here are the details for all five parts in this year's contest:-
A. Five Station Profiles:
Make a list of five different radio stations for which you would like to have a "Station Profile" presented on air in a coming edition of "Wavescan". You may suggest five different radio stations, or the radio stations in five different cities, or in five different countries, or any combinations of these designations. These radio stations may still be on the air, or they may now be silent. You may choose only shortwave broadcasting stations, or shortwave communication stations that have been used also for broadcasting.
B. Five Paragraphs:
You are invited to write just one short paragraph about each of the five stations you have chosen in the above list, and state why you have chosen that particular station.
C. Five Photocopies:
You are invited to search your QSL collection, and where possible, provide a photocopy of a QSL from each of the five radio stations in your above list. These photocopies should be in color if possible, but black & white is also acceptable. If you do not have a QSL from any of the stations you select, then you should indicate the reason why you do not have a QSL; such as for example, the station is now silent, or you are unable to hear the station in your part of the world, or they do not verify reception reports, etc.
D. Three Reception Reports:
You are invited to send in at least three reception reports on any transmission from Adventist World Radio on any station, shortwave, mediumwave and FM.
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 2010 Station Profiles DX Contest". This contest will run through the month of July 2010, 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 July, and they should be received at the AWR post office address in Indianapolis no later than the end of the month of August 2010. Return postage in the form of currency notes in an international currency, or mint postage stamps, or IRC coupons would be welcome. Where possible, a self addressed return envelope, business size or half quarto size, would also be welcome.
The awards for this year's contest will be similar to all previous contests. There will be a special award for the world winner, one of the Jerry Berg radio history books; and World Radio TV Handbook 2011 for each continental winner. In addition, there will be other special awards as well as AWR souvenirs and radio curios for many participants. There will be special awards for listeners in Africa responding to this year's contest. You can remember that all reception reports will be verified with a specially endorsed AWR QSL card. Please remember that it will take a period of many months to process all of the reception reports, but each will in due course be verified. In addition, and over a period of time, it is our intent to present in our Wavescan DX program, many, and perhaps all, of the "Station Profiles" as submitted in this year's DX contest. When we present each of these specific "Station Profiles" in our "Wavescan" program, we will also call on-air the listener who made the suggestion. When the listener hears his name in the program, he can send in a reception report and receive a specially endorsed QSL card.
The only address for the AWR Station Profile DX Contest is:-
Station Profile DX Contest
Box 29235
Indianapolis
Indiana 46229 USA
(Dr.Adrian Peterson, Adventist World Radio)
Inlagt: 11/3
Källa: Cumbre DX via CON NDL
Special QSLs for the 14th Birthday of the Electronic DX Press
To commemorate the 14th birthday of the Electronic DX Press Radio Monitoring Association (EDXP) on January 4, 2010, special QSLs are now being issued for all correct reception reports received up to the end of 2010 for the "Radio EDXP" programs hosted by various international shortwave broadcasters, titled "The Australian DX Report". The full colour QSLs show Australian scenes and wildlife, and indicate the actual transmitter location and the name of the host broadcaster.
"Radio EDXP" is the EDXP's long-time broadcasting service, offering news reports and schedule updates about international broadcasting, propagation, and monitoring.
Host broadcasters include:
- Worldwide Christian Radio (WWCR) - Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Every week, on Sundays, at 0300-0315 and on Mondays at 1245-1300
- The Voice of the Andes, HCJB, Quito, Ecuador, each month during the "DX Party Line" English program. The DXPL is broadcast over HCJB-Australia (Kunnunurra, Western Australia), WWCR, WRMI and IRRS (Slovakia)
- World Harvest Radio International - T8WH Palau, and WHRI Indiana, monthly during the "DXing with Cumbre" English program
- Adventist World Radio worldwide network, every month, during the "Wavescan" program, on weekends. This may be heard over transmitters in Guam, Germany and WRMI.
Reports must include sufficient details for validation purposes, and indicate the date (UTC), time (UTC), frequency, quality of reception, and interference effects, and should be sent to: Radio EDXP, 404 Mont Albert Road, Mont Albert, Victoria 3127, Australia. Return postage is mandatory - A$2 in mint Australian stamps (for Australian addresses), one IRC or US$1 elsewhere.
Radio EDXP electronic QSLs are also available and reports may be submitted either by Email, to bobpadula@mydesk.net.au or via the on-line Reception Report Template at http://edxp.org . E-QSLs are "picked up" at a special Website notified by EDXP. Return postage is not required for E-QSLs. Radio EDXP is also available via the Internet, with a new episode produced each week, and may be accesssed at http://airm.edxp.org.
Background:
Formed in January 1995, in Melbourne, Australia, the EDXP is a society to bring together relevant information about World Radio High Frequency Broadcasting, and Australian domestic broadcasting, in a structured and timely manner. Information is contributed by members or researched by the EDXP administration. Many members reside in Australia. Full details are at http://edxp.org
The EDXP pioneered the use of electronic mail in Australia for collaboration between members, and celebrated its 14th birthday on January 4, 2010, moving into its 15th year of continuous operations. Good listening to Radio EDXP, and your reception reports would be appreciated!
Bob Padula
Melbourne
Inlagt: 10/1
Källa: Cumbre DX via CON NDL
FRÅN LOGGBOKEN
Datum: 2010-07-16
Frekv.: 6140 kHz
Station:
Radio Hami Finland
DX-KÖP
Stick iväg, Jack! Historien om Radio Nord
Det här är historien om Jack S. Kotschack, Radio Nord och ett mycket annorlunda Sverige berättad av hans son, journalisten Jan Kotschack. Pris 370 kr
ETER-AKTUELLT
Aktuellt nr: EA 3 2010
Status:
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Nästa nr:
EA 4 2010
Stoppdat.:
27 augusti
Hred: 25 augusti
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