Monday, November 29, 2010

SLBC backs digital radio forum in Colombo


SLBC backs digital radio forum in Colombo
 
Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) is supporting pioneering efforts to introduce cutting edge technology that would take radio broadcasting in Asia to the digital era.
The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Consortium has announced a DRM+ trial and workshop in Colombo to boost these initiatives.
The consortium is joining forces with the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRC), SLBC and Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle and the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) to run a trial of DRM+ and showcase its benefits.
The SLBC has offered the DRM its full support and the use of one of its low power stations in Colombo for the duraion of the trial.
The two-day DRM+ technical trial planned for tomorrow (November 29) and Tuesday (30) will be followed by a workshop organised together with ABU where the attendees will be invited to observe the results of the DRM+ trial and to learn more about the full DRM standard. The workshop will be held at the World Trade Centre in Colombo from December 1 to 3.
SLBC chairman Hudson Samarasinghe commented: "Being the pioneer broadcaster in Asia, the SLBC considers it a great privilege to be part in hosting this prestigious event. We are very pleased indeed to be part of this move to introduce state-of-the-art technology which will truly take radio broadcasting in Asia to the digital era. The SLBC is proud to continue its pioneering trend, by keeping abreast with this cutting-edge technology which will prove to be the future of radio here in Asia."
DRM Consortium chairman Ruxandra Obreja said: "We are excited about this event and grateful to all our partners in this unique undertaking. We hope it will showcase a simple, single channel, affordable and excellent solution for digitising FM. The trial will add to the valuable data we already have on the capabilities of DRM+. Our workshop will be interactive, practical and hopefully very useful, giving participants a real chance to experience and understand the advantages of DRM+ and DRM30."
Digital Radio Mondiale is the universal, openly standardised digital broadcasting system for all broadcasting frequencies up to 174MHz, including LW, MW, SW, band I and II (FM band).
DRM provides digital sound quality and the ease-of-use that comes from digital radio, combined with a wealth of enhanced features: Surround sound, journaline text information, slideshow and data services.
DRM on short, medium and long wave for broadcasting bands up to 30MHz (called 'DRM 30') provides large coverage areas and low power consumption.
The enhancement of the DRM standard for broadcast frequencies above 30MHz (DRM+) uses the same audio coding, data services, multiplexing and signalling schemes as DRM30 but introduces an additional transmission mode optimised for those brands.
 
 Via Alokesh Gupta 
 
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Pulikalin Kural - Tamil

FLASH NEWS Pulikalin Kural
0400-0500 IST PM on 17880
0730-0830 IST PM on 6230
1000-1130 IST PM on 13860
Don't miss to listen today
(Jaisakthivel, Via DXLD)

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

AIR stations heard here during strike

Status of AIR stations heard here during strike on 23rd Nov 2010, 1600-1630 UT:

MW

720 Chennai A 
Off Air
738 Hyderabad Off Air
783 Chennai C Off Air
837 Vijayawada Off Air
900 Kadapa Off Air
927 Visakhapatnam Off Air
936 Tiruchi A Off Air
999 Coimbatore Off Air
1017 Chennai B Off Air
1089 Udupi Off Air
1107 Gulbarga Off Air
1161 Tiruvandrum Off Air
1197 Tirunelveli Off Air
1215 Pudducheri Off Air
1278 Madurai Off Air

SW

4920 Chennai Off Air
5010 Tiruvandrum Off Air

External Service

7420 CRI with strong signal instead of AIR Bengali Ext.


24th Nov 2010, 0140-0200 UT

MW

720 Chennai A 
Off Air
738 Hyderabad Off Air
783 Chennai C Off Air
837 Vijayawada Off Air
900 Kadapa Off Air
927 Visakhapatnam Off Air
936 Tiruchi A Off Air
999 Coimbatore Off Air
1017 Chennai B Off Air
1089 Udupi Off Air
1107 Gulbarga Off Air
1053 Tutucorin On Air, but not in regular programme schedule.
1161 Tiruvandrum Off Air
1197 Tirunelveli Off Air
1215 Pudducheri Off Air
1278 Madurai Off Air

SW

4760 Portblair  Off Air
4800 Hyderabad  Off Air
4820 Kolkatta  Off Air
4840 Mumbai  Off Air
4860 Delhi Kingsway  Off Air
4880 Lucknow  Off Air
4920 Chennai  Off Air
5010 Tiruvandrum  Off Air

External Services on SW

7270 Sinhala with music 222
11740 Sinhala with music 333
11985 CRI in strong instead of AIR Sinhala

FM

100.5 Kodaikanal 
off Air
101.9 Tiruvandrum off Air
102.1 Tiruchi off Air
102.5 Dharmapuri off Air
103.3 Mdurai off Air
105.6 Tirunelveli Gyanvani off Air

(Jaisakthivel, Tirunelveli, India)

AIR, DD employees on strike

Some of the news stories published in the Indian Newspapers  and in the online portals




 
Voice of dissent:Members of the NFADE protesting in front of Akashvani in Mysore on Tuesday.

AIR, DD employees on strike

AIR, DD operations hit as employees strike work


AIR, DD operations affected due to strike by technical staff

AIR, DD on strike in Karwar

Strike hits AIR, DD operations


AIR, DD services disrupted due to strike by technical staff


AIR, DD operations hit as employees strike work (Lead)


AIR, DD employees on nation-wide strike

AIR, DD staff to go on two-day strike next month



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The Features section this year has the history of Radio St Helena, reviews of the latest equipment, an intriguing look back at some classic 80s & 90s receivers, a visit to AFN in the Florida Keys and much more, including our
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• Clandestine and other target broadcasters
• MW and SW frequency listings
• Terrestrial TV by country

• Extensive Reference section


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Features - This section is in full colour and contains reviews of receivers and ancillary equipment, articles on topical issues such as digital radio, interviews with broadcasters, reception conditions, colour maps showing the location of SW transmitters, and other topics of interest to Listeners and DXers.


National Radio - This section covers the world's domestic radio services. The listings are by country and include all stations broadcasting on LW, MW and SW, and most stations broadcasting on FM, together with contact details.


International Radio - Full details of all broadcasters transmitting internationally are given in this section and are listed by country. The schedules shown are the 'B' or 'winter' SW frequencies as supplied by the broadcasters and confirmed by monitoring, together with any LW or MW frequencies used. It also contains a sub-section showing Clandestine and Other Target Broadcasters arranged by target country. The 'A' or 'summer' schedules, along with updates to broadcaster details, are available as a pdf download from this website in May each year.


Frequency Lists - This section contains MW frequency lists grouped by frequency within regions, lists of all international and domestic SW broadcasts in frequency order, and international SW broadcasts in English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish, and DRM transmissions shown by UTC.


Television - The TV section has details of the main terrestrial national broadcasters, large regional networks, and some local stations, arranged alphabetically by country.


Reference - This section has tables and listings of: International and Domestic Transmitter sites, Standard Time and Frequency Transmissions, DX Club information, International Organisations, and other essential information.

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(Jaisakthivel, Ardic DX Club, India)


AIR&DD off air

Chennai, Nov 23: Regional channels of DD in Tamil Nadu including 'Podhigai' and all AIR channels including Chennai A, Chennai B, FM and commercial channels went off air since morning, sources said. As part of their nation-wide strike, Employees of Prasar Bharati affilated to National Federation of Akashvani and Doordarshan Employees (NFADE) here commenced a 48-hour "duty boycott" from today to press for various demands, including repeal of the Prasar Bharati Act. More than 200 employees especially from programming, technical and engineering sections, who began their protest from 9 am, alleged that the "12 years of Prasar Bharati experiment" had "dented" the reputation of All India Radio and Doordarshan, NFADE sources said. Regional channels of DD in Tamil Nadu including 'Podhigai' and all AIR channels including Chennai A, Chennai B, FM and commercial channels went off air since morning, sources said. AIR with 336 broadcasting centres and DD with a network of 60 production centres and 1,404 transmitters served 99.13 and 94 per cent of the country's population,they said. NFADE is an umbrella organisation of 21 service associations of around 40,000 employees working in AIR and DD. (Arunkumar, Deccan Chronicle)

Monday, November 01, 2010

New Digital Radio Mondiale Channel for South Asia

BBC World Service and Deutsche Welle (DW) are launching a new Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) digital radio channel for South Asia. The channel will carry a four hour daily broadcast that includes the best international programmes in English and Hindi from BBC World Service and Deutsche Welle. It will also bring to the audience all the advantages of DRM digital radio including near-FM quality audio, text messages, Journaline and an Electronic Programme Guide (EPG).

This joint initiative between BBC World Service and Deutsche Welle has been launched using two transmitters in the region and will cover much of South Asia. The signal covers the majority of the Indian sub-continent and may reach as far as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and other neighbouring countries. The new transmission starts on 31 October 2010 and will be broadcast from 1400 – 1800 GMT each day. Listeners will find the new programme stream on 13590 and 5845 kHz (SW) and additionally on 1548 kHz (MW) between 1700 – 1800 GMT. Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Chairman, says: "Digital radio is as much about technology as it is about content. Through DRM we hope to increase the digital radio offer to South Asia giving people access to audio and multimedia content, which should in turn convince manufacturers that digital radio brings something new worth investing in."
(Source : DRM Consortium)
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