B11 'Broadcast in English'

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Dxers Guide Oct-Dec 2011

The New Dxers Guide is available for the subscribers. All the active subscribers received this issue with in the end of December 2011. Soon they also received the B11 booklet separately. 

CRI Knowledge Contest result

Top Prize (Free Trip to China)

Samuel Richard Speiser

First Prize (Table Runner or Sports Wear)

Rabisankar Bosu, India 
Martial Parfait Mbianda, Cameroon 
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Bangladesh
Mr. Mu. K. Isa James, Uganda
Muhammad Arif, Pakistan 
Richard Cooke, U.K. 
P. Jeffers, U.K. 
Grant Skinner, U.K. 
Saku Laitinen, Finland  
Georg Pleschberger, Austria 
Henk Poortvliet, the Netherlands 
Jeffy M. Sumilhig, Philippines 
Daniel J Cesar, U.S.A. 
Jeff Collier, U.S.A.
Robert Rohr, U.S.A.
Dr Yi Zeng, Australia 
Lu Derming, Australia  
Abdulkadir Ibrahim, Nigeria
Francis Pill, Slovakia 
Gabriele Bomben, Italy

Second Prize (Panorama Beijing Custom Image or Folded Bag)

Kimmo Kauppinen, Finland 
Norbert Reiner, Germany 
Andreas Schmid, Germany 
Helena Borska, Poland 
Krzysztof Borski, Poland 
Nikolay Loginov, Russia  
Bendaoud Nadif, Morocco
Amin Najmi, Morocco 
Khelil Abdelkader, Algeria 
Richard Sampson Opoku, Ghana 
John James B., Nigeria 
Akor Augustine Uji, Nigeria 
Edet Okon Akpan, Nigeria
Salisu Muhammad Dawanau, Nigeria 
Mikio Kohara, Japan 
Saqib Butt, Pakistan
Acota International Radio Listener Club, Bangladesh 
Ms. Shahanoaz Parvin, Bangladesh
Dewan Rafiqul Islam Rana, Bangladesh 
Taslima Akter Lima, Bangladesh
Miss. P. Sreelaxmi Reddy, India
Rita Chakraborty, India
B.C. Sanyal, India
Uditsankar Bosu, India
Rajanee Prakkamakul, Thailand 
Peter Ng, Malaysia 
Bishnubabu Poudel, Nepal 
Rod Sievers, U.S.A. 
Arnie C, U.S.A. 
Sheila Green, U.S.A. 
Cameron Archbold, U.S.A. 
David Kong, U.S.A. 
Vernon E Vidden, U.S.A. 
Carlos Campos Aldana, Cuba
David Gillespie, Australia
Margaret Bidart, U.S.A. 
Randy R Wynn, U.S.A. 
Larry Duff, U.S.A. 
Dinh V. Truong, U.S.A. 
Hans Verner Lollike, Denmark

Third Prize(T-shirt or Mouse Pad)

Khatri Shakeel Ahmed Taj, Pakistan
Asghar Shah Club, Pakistan 
M.Akram Shahid, Pakistan
The Women DX Club, Pakistan 
Zulfiqar Nadeem, Pakistan 
Shaikh Muhammad Younis, Pakistan
Muhammad Shamim. S. India
P.Madan Mohan,India 
Manash TalU.K.dar, India
Mayank Raj, India 
MD. Akhter Hussain, India 
Ravikant Namdeo, India 
Chitturi Soumya, India
G. Varadharajan, India
Pramod Maheshwari, India  
Chunnilal Kaiwart(Prz.), India 
Shanmugasundaram S., India
Anand Kishore, India
Omoefe, U.S.A.
Anthony Stratton, U.S.A. 
Gerald Canaday, U.S.A.
Max van Arnhem, the Netherlands
Thomas Darlington, Ghana 
MayU.K.u Omeresanine, Nigeria 
Bello Abubakar Malam Gero, Nigeria 
Adeleye Adetunji, Nigeria 
Ka'abu Abubakar Zage, Nigeria
Mr. Mohamed Elsayed Abd Elraheim, Egypt 
Stephen Wara, Cameroon
rhachlioune allal, Morocco  
Rassem Ben Brahim, Tunsia 
Tsegay Tahiro, Eritrea 
Leonard Mwangombe, Kenya 
Bogale Shosho, Ethiopia 
Mananbu Banno, Japan
Sasahara Seiji, Japan 
Yuichi Sato, Japan 
Masahiro Kobayashi, Japan
Eiji Kitamoto, Japan
Antonio Tiu, the Philippines 
Parisi Asih, Indonesia
Eddy Setiawan, Indonesia
Suwito, Indonesia  
Khem Raj Sedhai, Nepal
Lahiru Hapuarachchi, Sri Lanka 
Md. Sazzad Hossain, Bangladesh
Mst Mithun Ara, Bangladesh 
Md.Mahfuzur Rahman, Bangladesh
Sahadot Hossain, Bangladesh 
DX Radio Fan club, Bangladesh
Mansur, Bangladesh
Md.Hafizur Rahaman, Bangladesh
Rafiqul Aziz, Bangladesh 
David Simmonds, U.K.  
John Freeman, U.K. 
Annie Bonnet, France  
Huguette Simmonds, France
Matthias Martin, Germany
L Page, Australia 
Abdellah Rahmouni, Algeria

DSWCI 2nd INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST "THE GRAND TOUR ACROSS ALL CONTINENTS" 2011

Memorable certificate!

This completely new contest is held from Friday 2nd December 2011, 0000 UTC, to Sunday 18th December 2011, 2400 UTC. It is open to all shortwave listeners regardless to their membership in any DX club.

Primary contest frequencies are from 2300 to 26100 kHz. Logs outside this range will be valued by half points.

The contest fee EUR 3.00 / IRC 4 / USD 5.00 shall be sent together with the contest form to:

Jaroslav Bohac, Svestkova 2828/7, 400 11 Usti n.L., CZECH REPUBLIC
trams@volny.cz

Deadline: 30th December 2011 (date of post stamp)

Each participant will receive a contest diploma with his/her classification and a list of paricipants with their results. The first three participants will be awarded non-cash prizes.

In Part 1 listen please to any BC station of the contest country, for 15 minutes at least. For one country one log only. Unofficial, pirate and clandestine stations are not allowed.

Scoring: 1000 points of each logged country will be divided by a number of logs and rounded to two decimal places.

In Part 2 you can raise your score by listening to any DX programme. The number of DX programmes is limited to 4! No particular country limit. Scoring in the same way as in Part 1, maximum point value 100 points for one DX programme.

We wish you good listening!

http://www.dswci.org/contest/2011grandtour.html

CHAK (VU2TTC): THE BLIND GENIUS OF HAM RADIO IN INDIA

Reproduced below is a report (TUNED TO THE WORLD WITH A HOME BREW) published in "The Hindu", Sunday, July 28, 1985 (SUNDAY EDITION)

Twelve years back, Mr. B.M. Hedge, VU2HEG (who was the Vice-Chairman of Karnataka Regional Engineering College Amateur Radio Club) arranged an amateur radio demonstration-cum-lecture (Perhaps the first informally arranged ham radio demonstration in Guwahati,Assam, attended by a large number of Short Wave Listeners) under the initiative of Sri Deepak Sarma (who had since passed the ASOC Examination but was not receiving his licence. I lost touch with him long time back and don't know whether he received his licence or not). 

The ham radio demonstration was attended by many short wave listeners (including me), when OM Hedge, VU2HEG demonstrated us the operation of his state-of-the-art FT-77 transceiver by contacting a very special station located in a small village 170 kms South of Madras. The blind genius of amateur radio-Mr. Chakravarty (fondly known as Chak), VU2TTC introduced himself to us via VU2HEG and an on-the-air lecture was delivered by him. It was a great astonishment to the radio enthusiasts in Guwahati (including me) when they came to know that, Chak, VU2TTC pursued his career in ham radio only when he went completely blind and that he was running a completely home-made radio station to his credit! My friend Sri Deepak Sarma could not even resist his desire to visit Chak personally in his small village. 

Deepak collected a copy of "The Hindu" (SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1985) which was carrying an article titled "TUNED TO THE WORLD WITH A HOME BREW". The article was all about the blind genius of ham radio:Chak, VU2TTC, whom we heard through VU2HEG. I have still preserved that article which was given to me by Sri Deepak Sarma as a token of his visit to Chak's (VU2TTC) ham radio shack. I take this opportunity to republish the article in my web-site with acknowledgement to "The Hindu" Newspaper. At this moment I would like to offer my gratitude to OM Hedge, VU2HEG and OM Chakravarthy, VU2TTC, who had greatly inspired me to become a ham radio operator.

TUNED TO THE WORLD WITH A HOME BREW

(Acknowledgement:  Staff Reporter ,"The Hindu", Sunday, July 28, 1985)

"EVEN though I cannot see, I am bringing the world to my house through my hobby." These words, stated without any trace of self-pity, sum up the saga of Mr. R. Chakravarthy, the blind ham (amateur radio operator) from Paithambadi-Chatram village, off Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, simply known as "Chak" to hams all over the world. 

"Welcome to my shack," he announces as he leads us up a rigged-up ladder to his terrace-shack and proudly displays his "home-brew" amateur radio equipment amidst a tangled skein of wires , supplemented by an array of switches and also points to his new acquisition-sophisticated, imported equipment. 

Never one to cavil at his fate or weep over his shoulders, Chak speaks fluent English as he cuts jokes, breaks into whodunits and brands his hobby "a crazy one." And he goes on to illustrate his remark with the story of a hermit who raised a cat to catch the mice wreaking havoc in his hut, then bought a cow to feed the cat with the milk and then engaged a servant to look after the cow. Drawing a parallel, he says, "You can start (on this hobby) with Rs. 200 but may end-up spending As. 2,000 or As. 20.000. This hobby is for experimentation and not entertainment in the field of wireless technology, he pointedly remarks. 

How did he get initiated into this hobby (which was almost by fortuitous circumstances) overcoming his crippling handicap and its attendant troubles, and making him a hero among fellow-hams. 

Chak lost his eye-sight in 1960 because of a retinal detachment. He was hardly 22 years and had obtained a B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics from the Annamalai University. "I was very depressed and spent six years at the Egmore Eye Hospital, spending As. 20,000 trying to regaining my sight but to no avail. Detachment of the retina is incurable." The doctors were, obviously; slowly preparing him for the eventuality. 

During his sojourn in the hospital, Chak, however, attended a number of medical conferences on eye diseases and picked up quite a bit on the subject. "I am half a doctor in ophthalmology. I can feel the tension in the eyes of a patient and say whether he suffers from glaucoma or trachoma," He reminisces "Blind patients suffering from stomach-ache used to holler out for nurses and whenever the nurses were absent, I quietly used to administer them distilled water. And when the patients later thanked the nurses. I was found out and given a scolding." 

"However, with the light world gone. I turned to the hearing world,” he soon bought a pile of books on electronics and parallel circuits, which were read out to him by the staff nurses and his brother. R. Varadachari, who had been a pillar of strength to him. "I assembled my own radio-set in the hospital in 1961 and slowly developed an interest in electronics. Taking my handicap sportingly, I returned to my village in 1966 and started assembling valve-sets and high-fidelity amplifiers. Long before I took to hamming, I made my hi-fi amplifier system in 1972 (which almost brings down his shack with the blast of Hindi songs) and also assembled an electronic key. 

But the rub lay in soldering the joints. Not only did Chak learn soldering wearing gloves but his brother and his nephew helped him in the task while he supplied the circuit ideas. 

Chak was married in 1969. "My wife is not worried about leading me anywhere, She is my friend. When I told her about my disability before marriage, her reply was, “What if the person I marry loses his sight afterwards?" (The couple have two daughters and a son-all school-going). 

Chak's opportunity to become a ham presented itself in 1974 when he chanced to listen to a ham-station on 41m when he was repairing a transistor-radio, The ham, Prof. Jayaraman, was giving a demonstration on ham radio to the Tiruchur Engineering College students and it was assembled an electronic key. 

But the rub lay in soldering the joints. Not only did Chak learn soldering wearing gloves but his brother and his nephew helped him in the task while he supplied the circuit ideas. 

Chak was married in 1969. "My wife is not worried about leading me anywhere, She is my friend. When I told her about my disability before marriage, her reply was, “What if the person I marry loses his sight afterwards?" (The couple have two daughters and a son-all school-going). 

Chak's opportunity to become a ham presented itself in 1974 when he chanced to listen to a ham-station on 41m when he was repairing a transistor-radio, The ham, Prof. Jayaraman, was giving a demonstration on ham radio to the Tiruchur Engineering College students and it was then that he came to understand amateur radio. But to his dismay he found that when he wanted to know more about this amateur radio hobby, no ham gave him his address on the air (which is forbidden) and the nearest hams were in Bangalore and Madras. Luck soon came his way when he read about a ham-station in a receiver-book and also got the ham's address-Mr. Hari Rao of Bangalore. 

Chak and his wife met Mr. Hari Rao in Bangalore who asked them to meet Prof. Vasan of Salem. "The tragedy was everybody was prepared to help me but did not know how to help a blind person get into this hobby," he says. It was Prof. "Vasan, who gave Chak the address of Mr. M. V. Chauhan of the Federation of Radio Amateur Societies of India, whose "achievement was to initiate me into the hobby, He has helped me a great deal."

Mr. Chauhan gave him all the assistance to learn the Morse-code and also got him a number of Morse-code recorded cassettes. Mr. K. Mahalingam, President of the Madras Amateur Radio Society, also helped him in this regard. 

Another ham-Mr.Seshanandam of Nellore tutored him on the telecommunications part of amateur radio-its rules, regulations, procedures, frequency allocations for hams etc. The lessons were taped and played many times over and he committed them to memory. Meanwhile, he attained a proficiency of sending 30 words a minute-both sending and receiving. He appeared for the Amateur Radio Operators' Certificate Examination in December 1976 with the help of a proxy and attended the viva voce on telecommunications. 

However, doubts were raised about his safety. How could he solder and how did he keep his children away from his shack? His reply was, "1 solder with gloves on and my shack is upstairs, free from domestic activity and whenever, I enter my room, I latch it from inside. Besides, all the equipment is on a wooden rafter, above the reach of children." 

 

A visit to his house by an official from the Union Ministry of Telecommunications made his dream come true-he received his ham licence in December 1978. (His call-sign is VU2 TTC). "And finally, on March 9, 1979, I made my first contact with VU2MKS-Kumar of Cochin-with just one watt transistorised transmitter and using my Philips transistor for receiving. It cost me only Rs. 200." he says with a triumphal look on his face. 

From then on, he has never looked back. Chak is now the winner of three prestigious awards-the VU9 award of Asiad 82. The Worked Republic of India Award, and The Worked All Continent Award. One among the seven Indians so far to have got the VU9 award for Asiad 82, he bagged it for contacting 532 foreign hams on his home-brew set-up, which is 50 watts on Continuous Wave and 20 watts on Amplitude Modulation. The second award was for contacting 50 other fellow Indian-hams and the "Worked All Continent Award," for establishing contacts with hams in six continents-North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe and 1- Oceana (New Zealand and Australia). 

However, his big day was when he met Mr. Rajiv Gandhi (a M.P then). who is a ham himself in 1982 at a hams' meet -in Hyderabad. He proudly shows us a -photograph of himself with Mr. Gandh! 

"My ambition is to get 100 countries (to contact 100 foreign hams) on 40 m with my home-brew set-up. I have already finished 87 though it is difficult to work with my set-up," he says. In addition, he has already made 30,000 QSOs ) (a communication between two hams is called a QSO). "In all my efforts, my nephew Govindarajan, is my PA ...in electronics," he adds jocularly and shows us the bundle of QSL cards (cards sent by one ham to another whom he has contacted) and jokes about the postal expense entailed on him. "I send thin QSL cards (put in an envelope) to hams abroad to cut down on my postal rates and use thick cards for local hams. I am sure I will be flooded with letters once people read your write-up on me. They should write to me with a self-addressed stamped envelope." 

As if to demonstrate his hamming ability, Chak tunes in the transceiver and quickly encounters his friend, Mr. Babu from Pondicherry. Soon Mr. Krishnan Kutty of Trivandrum and Mr. Raman of Karaikudi follow and he has an informal chat with them. 

Seeing this reporter trying to break the ice with them, he promptly observes, "This is one hobby where you should be able to master the art of talking about everything and anything with a stranger." Switching over to another band, he works a new contact-a ham from Korea and is quite thrilled about it. 

Chak’s ancestral house (he comes from a lineage of Sanskrit scholars) is situated right on the southern banks of the broad “Thenpennaiyar” river and it is in the fitness of things that he should have rescued his villagers from a flood in 1979 by warning them about the impending danger using his transmitter.

He talks excitedly about Steve Baur a fellow-ham from West Germany whom he first contacted in 1980. "He is a close friend now. He came to Paithambadi in 1981 and 1983 and on both the occasions, stayed with me for a fortnight. Mr. Baur has gifted Chak a transceiver, while a Japanese ham, Mr. Kazu Nakamaro gave him the linear amplifier for the transceiver. Mr. Chauhan helped him in clearing them from the Madras Customs, The battery and the battery-charger were gifts from Mr. Babu of Pondicherry and Dr. Samath of Trivandrum. 

An exquisite gift, which is of much use to him. however, is a Casio voice-clock, gifted by the ham, Ambadi Bhaskar of Tiruchur. With the press of a button, it announces not only the time, but also the date and month and instructions like "It is time to wake up ,.. it is time to go out etc." It also announces the results of calculations up to eight digits. All the announcements are shown on a display. "Hams from West Bengal, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Madras come home because of their love and affection for me" : he says. 

                                       Chak (VU2TTC) amidst his homebrewed ham radio station

As we say good-bye to Chak what keeps echoing through our minds are the words of a villager when we asked him: for directions to Chak's house: "Isn't there any possibility of taking him to Madras and have him undergo an eye transplant surgery? He has done so much for our village. He gives tuitions to all the children here." And as Chak himself says, "Coaching children (in school lessons) is my secondary hobby while hamming comes first." 

(Sandeep Baruah, Ex-VU2MSY, Now VU2MUE)

Source: http://www.qsl.net/vu2msy/chak.htm

WRTH 2012

Amazon is now taking preorders for WRTH 2012. December 15 is the release date; occasionally someone else (like Universal Radio) will have it sooner, perhaps at a higher price. I will try to keep folks informed.

http://www.amazon.com/WORLD-RADIO-TV-HANDBOOK-2012/dp/0955548144/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318396436&sr=8-1

WORLD RADIO TV HANDBOOK 2012

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This is the 66th edition of "WRT Handbook" and this great directory continues to offer the most comprehensive guide to broadcasting on the planet. Completely revised and updated, this new edition is the most accurate guide to national and international SW, MW, and FM broadcasting available. 

Indian Dxers will order on 

This link is for WRTH2012:http://www.flipkart.com/books/0955548144?pid=hbx3fh96kd&_l=GbYDA5AtXxUkrfa1Amuv2Q--&_r=cqQ49w+o_ijqGhJotqJxIA--&ref=7244b2a7-9555-4766-a90e-c0e3c2cc8b85

World Radio TV Handbook 2012 by Wrth Publishing

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(Via Sudipta Gosh)

QSL REPORT – September 2011

Station: - Free Radio Service Holland
Date :- 27-02-2011
Frequency:- 6185 kHz
Time: - 1300-1330 UTC
Description: - 1980 – 30th Anniversary – 2010. QSL # 3 The 2000s.

Station: - Radio Romania International
Date: - 09-04-2011
Frequency: - 11895 kHz
Time: - 0300-0400 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - The (Old) Saint Elefterie Church.

Station: - Radio Bulgaria
Date: - 25-112010
Frequency: - 5900 kHz
Time: - 0000-0100 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Old Nessebar.

Station: - Radio Taiwan International
Date: - 01-05-2011
Frequency: - 15485 kHz
Time: - 1600-1700 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Taichng Park.

Station: - NHK World Radio Japan
Date: - 16-05-2011
Frequency: - 15745 kHz
Time: - 1430-1515 UTC
Language: - Hindi
Description: - “Children performing Kabki” (Fukui Prefecture).

Station: - Deutsche Welle
Date: - 16-05-2011
Frequency: - 1548 kHz (Trincomalee)
Time: - 1530-1600 UTC
Language: - Bengali
Description: - Stuttgart.

Station: - Voice of Russia
Date: - 16-05-2011
Frequency: - 9670 kHz
Time: - 1500-1600 UTC
Language: - Hindi
Description: - The Voice of Russia 80, All the roads lead to VOR headquarters on Pyatnitskaya street.

Station: - Radio Canada International
Date: - 04-09-2011
Frequency: - 11675 kHz (via Kunming relay, China)
Time: - 1500-1557 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Maple Leaf Mailbag Special QSL verified by Bill Westenhaver. “Rediscover the World” Radio Canada International is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2005. RCI broadcasts throughout the world via the Internet, analog and digital shortwave, and satellite. Its 300-hour weekly programming also airs on over 300 partner stations in 75 countries.

Station: - China Radio International
Date: - 03-09-2011
Frequency: - 9600 kHz
Time: - 1830-1855 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - The Great Family of the Chinese Nation – Daur ethnic minority group.

Station: - Voice of Vietnam
Date: - 03-09-2011
Frequency: - 7280 kHz
Time: - 1900-1927 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - TNVN Verification Card.

Station: - All India Radio (Bhopal)
Date: - 25-03-2011
Frequency: - 4810 kHz
Time: - 1515-1530 UTC
Description: - QSL Card. Verifies by Director (Spectrum Management & Synergy). Frieze of dancers from bhoga-mandapa, Konarak.

Station: - All India Radio (Bangalore)
Date: - 17-02-2011
Frequency: - 13770 kHz
Time: - 1615-1645 UTC
Description: - QSL Card. Verifies by Director (Spectrum Management & Synergy). Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri.

Station: - All India Radio (Shimla)
Date: - 09-09-2011
Frequency: - 4965 kHz
Time: - 0040-0100 UTC
Description: - QSL Letter. Verifies by Sunil Bhatia, Director (Engineering), Prasar Bharati, Broadcasting Corporation of India, All India Radio Shimla - 171004

Station: - Radio Netherlands
Date: - 03-09-2011
Frequency: - 15495 kHz (Wertachtal)
Time: - 1900-1930 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Photograph of Hard Rock Café, Terras.

Station: - Radio Netherlands
Date: - 04-09-2011
Frequency: - 11835 kHz (Madagascar)
Time: - 1430-1500 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Photograph of Flower Field.

Station: - Radio Netherlands
Date: - 06-09-2011
Frequency: - 9800 kHz (Trincomalee)
Time: - 1400-1430 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Twister Collection.

Station: - Voice of America
Date: - 07-04-2011
Frequency: - 15725kHz
Time: - 1400-1500 UTC
Language: - Urdu
Description: - Assignments editors discuss the latest story developments in the VOA newsroom in Washington, D.C.

Station: - Voice of America
Date: - 02-04-2011
Frequency: - 9780 kHz
Time: - 0100-0200 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Voice of America. Powerful transmitters and curtain antennas towering hundreds of feet high beam VOA shortwave radio programs to listeners around the world from U. S. Government international broadcasting stations.

Station: - Voice of America
Date: - 02-04-2011
Frequency: - 9780 kHz
Time: - 0100-0200 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Voice of America. Powerful transmitters and curtain antennas towering hundreds of feet high beam VOA shortwave radio programs to listeners around the world from U. S. Government international broadcasting stations.

Station: - Voice of America
Date: - 16-05-2011
Frequency: - 12150 kHz
Time: - 1500-1600 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Voice of America. Powerful transmitters and curtain antennas towering hundreds of feet high beam VOA shortwave radio programs to listeners around the world from U. S. Government international broadcasting stations.

Station: - Voice of America
Date: - 28-02-2011
Frequency: - 7405 kHz
Time: - 1600-1700 UTC
Language: - Bengali
Description: - Voice of America. Powerful transmitters and curtain antennas towering hundreds of feet high beam VOA shortwave radio programs to listeners around the world from U. S. Government international broadcasting stations.

Station: - HCJB Global Australia
Date :- 05-09-2011
Frequency:- 15340 kHz (Transmitting from Kununurra in the northwest of Australia)
Time: - 1515-1530 UTC
Language:- English
Description: - e-QSL. Promenade Melbourn.

Regards & 73’s
Mukesh Kumar
THE COSMOS CLUB
MISCOT-3, R-8, RAMNA
MUZAFFARPUR – 842002
BIHAR, INDIA
Cell:             +919835803450      
Email: mukesh.letters@gmail.com

Digital Radio and the Future of Shortwave

Digital Radio and the Future of Shortwave
by James Careless

http://www.rwonline.com/article/digital-radio-and-the-future-of-shortwave/24599
(Via Alokesh Gupta)

Radio Nacional de Angola to build new shortwave transmitter

Radio Nacional de Angola in the eastern Moxico province will build a new shortwave transmitter with an output of 25 kW, granted on Oct 14, 2011, in Luena, by the board president, Pedro Cabral. According to the official, work has taken place in Luena for some time and will be installed in High-Luena district within a circle of 500 meters... Radio Nacional de Angola had a shortwave transmitter in Moxico until the early 80's, when it left the air for technical reasons. Read more at http://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/(in Spanish) . (Angola Pres, via Slaen Oct 16) (DX Window 439)

AFRS India-Burma Memories Honored

US Armed Forces Radio 70th Anniversary 1941-2011

Six New Features Released India-Burma WWII

The Radio Heritage Foundation releases six new features celebrating AFRS radio stations in India and Burma during the 1940's at its global website www.radioheritage.com

2011 is the 70th anniversary of American Armed Forces Radio broadcasts, and the six new features look at AFRS radio in a part of the world that few people today know once had these temporary radio stations.

AFRS India-Burma looks at the network of 16 stations set up in what are now India, Pakistan, Burma and Sri Lanka to entertain and inform US forces during WWII and the campaigns to both protect India and help the Chinese war effort.

AFRS The Ledo Road visits the network of AFRS stations along the famous Ledo Road built to bring supplies by road from Northern India to China via Burma. This feature was written as the stations were closing down.

AFRS WOTO Bhamo is a contemporary look at the 'Wings Over The Orient' radio station in northern Burma, one of the stations along The Ledo Road. This is a fascinating visit inside the operations of one of the most isolated AFRS stations in the region.

AFRS VU2ZP Bangalore introduces the personnel and programs that made this local AFRS station one of the most popular in India during its short time on the air. Rare photos from the private collection of one of the original VU2ZP broadcasters bring extra meaning to the written words.

AFRS VU2ZP Signs-Off is a retrospective of the Bangalore station, including its sleepless monitoring that helped it be the first station in India to report the end of the war in Europe. Again, rare photos of staff and VU2ZP studios make this a special feature.

AFRS VU2ZS Misamari is another contemporary indepth look at the people and programs of the small AFRS station at Misamari.

These six new items are in addition to the introductory feature AFRS China-Burma-India already at www.radioheritage.com. This also covers stations in China and remains the only comprehensive listing of the stations involved.

The features have been made possible by CBI veterans and their families preserving a variety of original resources such as magazines and photos and we encourage support for their projects. We're pleased to help bring them to a broader audience.

Many other AFRS radio features at www.radioheritage.com include rare photos and personal memories and stories from the past 70 years of AFRS operations.

The Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage at its global website www.radioheritage.com.

Sponsors now get a free World Radio TV Handbook 2012 shipped worldwide for their support of this international project. You can also choose your personal favorite feature to sponsor - included in your sponsorship - for even greater public acknowledgement. Full details are at www.radioheritage.com.

Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
October 18 2011

(Alokesh Gupta)

World Radio Day

UNESCO's Executive Board approved item 13 of its  provisional agenda "Proclamation of a World Radio Day" to be celebrated  each 13 February.  It's an interesting initiative, although it probably would have been  more valuable twenty years ago.  The Executive's decision:      _Recommends_ to the [UNESCO] General Conference that it proclaim a     World Radio Day and that this Day be celebrated on 13 February, the     day the United Nations established the concept of United Nations Radio;      _Invites_ all Member States, organizations of the United Nations     system and other international and regional organizations,     professional associations and broadcasting unions, as well as civil     society, including non-governmental organizations and individuals,     to duly celebrate the World Radio Day, in the way that each     considers most adequate;      _Requests _the Director-General, subject to the final resolution of     the General Conference, to bring this resolution to the attention of     the Secretary-General of the United Nations so that World Radio Day     may be endorsed by the General Assembly.  The decision is available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese  and Arabic as 187 EX/13 at the bottom of the page  http://www.unesco.org/new/en/executive-board/187th-session/main-series/  --  | Jaisakthivel Via Bruce Girard, Montevideo, Uruguay |

 

10th Anniversary of DX India - Contest

10th Anniversary of DX India

DX India is a email based group of radio hobbyists specializing on broadcasting in India.
It was founded on October 1, 2011. Several activities are scheduled to celebrate the 10th anniversary of DX India.

DX India Contest

The details of the contest are as follows:

Contest Period: From 0000 UTC 1 October 2011 to 2359 UTC 10 October 2011.

Monitor as many SW stations of All India Radio (AIR) as possible.
Prepare Reception Reports for each AIR station on separate sheets.
Download the reception report format here :http://www.facebook.com/l/fAQA_G8aNAQA_udQBTTr2bI_6JdUwv4CgC16YXykVbBbHxg/tinyurl.com/43o2mwk

Points are calculated depending upon the location of the Dxer as follows:

Asia/Oceania : 1 point per AIR station
Europe & Africa : 2 Points per AIR station
North & South America : 3 points per AIR station

Prizes: Awards for Top scoring Three Entries

- World Radio TV Handbook 2012 for top scoring entry from South Asia
- Danish SW Club Intl's Domestic Broadcasting Survey-13
- Book "This is All India Radio" by U.L.Baruah
- Joe Carr's Antenna Handbook
- DX India 10th Anniversary T-Shirts
- Special Postal covers from India on Communication
- Rare special cover on platinum jubilee of All India Radio
- Other prizes to be announced soon

In addition a Participation Certificate will be issued to all those who send entries.
The Reception reports received will be forwarded to All India Radio for possible QSL'ing.

Send the entries by post/email postmarked before 31st October 2011

Email: dxindia10@gmail.com

Address: DX India 10th Anni. Contest, PO Box 4914, New Delhi 110029, India.

Results will be declared in December 2011.

Note: Out of 29 AIR SW stations, 25 are currently active. The detailed schedules are available at:

http://www.facebook.com/l/CAQB7-6ZwAQAyFIzscQolvCw1fSMGsnqB_LzIkmlWdob9DQ/qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/loc.htm

http://www.facebook.com/l/zAQCebV9dAQDTpsuww1NZZ8ARSHnXAzJ64magWDfXskYGHQ/qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm

http://www.facebook.com/l/3AQD-prdZAQAjGf1YMFXWOMRMWnxJKI8GHfL9HMjZhHnMGg/qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm

Sponsors :

- World Radio TV Handbook http://www.facebook.com/l/3AQD-prdZAQB7Tehc8jV6NLHjK4dN63LpQAHmSCLOKm7YWg/www.wrth.com
- The Danish Shortwave Club Internationalhttp://www.facebook.com/l/XAQB8RnJ5AQAb6IRBUsHMTwMxVlauVQtYfPEHu_aesYjKbw/www.dswci.org
- DX India http://www.facebook.com/l/tAQCRhTOnAQAYrqq_85VK5ZR_fi3t8-6eLxxJLvV10SzsxA/www.qsl.net/vu2jos
- Radioactivity http://www.facebook.com/l/eAQD0-4XtAQBCXIa5sn7-cZvDpZ1FUSdjdI_t1ZqGL-JZ1A/alokeshgupta.blogspot.com

DX India special broadcast via AWR Wavescan

In the AWR Wavescan program to be broadcast on 2nd October 2011, there will be a special segment about 10th Anniversary of DX India.

The schedule of AWR Wavescan is:

1200-1230 UTC 17535 Wertachtal
1330-1400 UTC 11880 Guam
1430-1500 UTC 11720 Guam
1500-1530 UTC 11720 Guam
1530-1600 UTC 15255 Wertachtal
1600-1630 UTC 11805 Guam, 12035 Guam
1630-1700 UTC 11740 Guam

Also via WRMI.

Special QSL Cards will be issued for the same. Send your reception report at :

Address: DX India 10th Anni. QSL, PO Box 4914, New Delhi 110029, India.

Email: dxindia10@gmail.com

DX India special via Amateur Radio

BCDXers who are hams are requested to be on band for a friendly meeting on air on 1st October 2011, Saturday(10th anniversary of Dx India) and contact / monitor VU2JOS as follows.

0130-0200 UTC (7.00 am to 7.30 am IST) : 7073 kHz, LSB
1230-1300 UTC (6.00 pm to 6.30 pm IST) : 14160 kHz USB

Special QSL Cards will be issued for the same. Send your reception report at :

Address: DX India 10th Anni. QSL, PO Box 4914, New Delhi 110029, India.

Email: dxindia10@gmail.com

Looking forward to your participation !

Jose Jacob & Alokesh Gupta
DX India YG
http://www.facebook.com/l/HAQCMZ-P7AQAJeTotC5TaExSpeIl0t_S0vLLiPbTRsLzXKg/groups.yahoo.com/group/dx_india/

10th Anniversary of DX India - Contest

DX India is a email based group of radio hobbyists specializing on broadcasting in India.

It was founded on October 1, 2001. Several activities are scheduled to celebrate the 10th anniversary of DX India.

DX India Contest

The details of the contest are as follows:

Contest Period: From 0000 UTC 1 October 2011 to 2359 UTC 10 October 2011.

Monitor as many SW stations of All India Radio (AIR) as possible.

Prepare Reception Reports for each AIR station on separate sheets.

Download the reception report format here : http://tinyurl.com/43o2mwk

Points are calculated depending upon the location of the Dxer as follows:

Asia/Oceania                  :  1 point per AIR station

Europe & Africa               :  2 Points per AIR station

North & South America    :  3 points per AIR station

Prizes:      Awards for Top scoring Three Entries

- World Radio TV Handbook 2012 for top scoring entry from South Asia

- Danish SW Club Intl's Domestic Broadcasting Survey-13

- Book "This is All India Radio" by U.L.Baruah

- Joe Carr's Antenna Handbook               

- DX India 10th Anniversary T-Shirts

- Special Postal covers from India on Communication

- Rare special cover on platinum jubilee of All India Radio

- Other prizes to be announced soon

In addition a Participation Certificate will be issued to all those who send entries.

The Reception reports received will be forwarded to All India Radio for possible QSL'ing.

Send the entries by post/email postmarked before 31st October 2011

Email: dxindia10@gmail.com

Address:   DX India 10th Anni. Contest, PO Box 4914, New Delhi 110029, India.

Results will be declared in December 2011.

Note: Out of 29 AIR SW stations, 25 are currently active. The detailed schedules are available at:

http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/loc.htm

http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm

http://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm

Sponsors :

- World Radio TV Handbook   www.wrth.com

- The Danish Shortwave Club International www.dswci.org

- DX India www.qsl.net/vu2jos

- Radioactivity  http://alokeshgupta.blogspot.com

DX India special broadcast via AWR Wavescan

In the AWR Wavescan program to be broadcast on 2nd October 2011, there will be a special segment about 10th Anniversary of DX India.

The schedule of AWR Wavescan is:

1200-1230 UTC 17535 Wertachtal

1330-1400 UTC 11880 Guam

1430-1500 UTC 11720 Guam

1500-1530 UTC 11720 Guam

1530-1600 UTC 15255 Wertachtal

1600-1630 UTC 11805 Guam, 12035 Guam

1630-1700 UTC 11740 Guam

Also via WRMI.

Special QSL Cards will be issued for the same. Send your reception report at :

Address:   DX India 10th Anni. QSL, PO Box 4914, New Delhi 110029, India.

Email: dxindia10@gmail.com

DX India special via Amateur Radio

BCDXers who are hams are requested to be on band for a friendly meeting on air on 1st October 2011, Saturday(10th anniversary of Dx India)  and contact / monitor VU2JOS as follows.

0130-0200 UTC (7.00 am to 7.30 am IST) :  7073 kHz, LSB

1230-1300 UTC (6.00 pm to 6.30 pm IST) : 14160 kHz USB

Special QSL Cards will be issued for the same. Send your reception report at :

Address:   DX India 10th Anni. QSL, PO Box 4914, New Delhi 110029, India.

Email: dxindia10@gmail.com

Looking forward to your participation !

Jose Jacob & Alokesh Gupta

DX India YG

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dx_india/

Source: DX_India Yahoo Group.