Zacharias Liangas radio related e-books https://www.scribd.com/collections/7127419/Mini-publications His radio shack: http://goo.gl/MHAHJ1 all his pages : http://delicious.com/gr_greek1/zak And dont forget to look into his new e-book 25 years Malaysia a survey http://goo.gl/Pi87gp Any one buying and reviewing it will be added into a special chapter as reviewers |
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Radio related e-books
DX Extra number 22
Hello fellow DXers, it is with great excitement to release the latest shortwave news programme, DX Extra number 22 to the world wide web! It's also the last day of February! In the headlines this fortnight: - AWR special QSL Kigali - RCI "Celebrates" 70 years - New station; Radio Risala International - Radio 292; where are they now - Pirate Radio News, logs and recordings - Audio Archive: Behaviour Night WBCQ #------------------------------------------------------------------# To LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD the podcast simply head to: hriradio.org |
Radio Revival Sweden Transmission schedule
Relays this weekend Radio Revival Sweden Transmission schedule Saturday, February 28 2015 6065 kHz 10 kW A3H, 9865 kHz 5 kW AM 1100-1200 UTC Radio Nord Revival 1200-1300 UTC SDXF Sveriges DX-Förbund reports to qsl (at)sdxf.se 1300-1500 UTC Radio Merkurs reports to RNI@apollo.lv 1500-1600 UTC 78-timmen with Ola Rosengren - 78 rpm records only! 1600-1700 UTC Country Box with Kenneth Friberg 1700-1800 UTC The Ronny B Goode Show 1800-1900 UTC Hit! with DJ PeWee Every Saturday and Wednesday the programs of HLR: 07.00 to 09.00 UTC, on 7265 KHz 09.00 to 12.00 UTC, on 6190 KHz 12.00 to 16.00 UTC, on 7265 KHz Sunday 1st of March MV Baltic Radio: 09.00 to 10.00 UTC, on 7265 KHz 10.00 to 11/00 UTC, on 9485 KHz Every Sunday the programmes of HLR: 12.00 to 16.00 UTC on 9485 kHz Good Listening! 73s (Tom Taylor) |
DX Extra number 22
Hello fellow DXers, it is with great excitement to release the latest shortwave news programme, DX Extra number 22 to the world wide web! It's also the last day of February! In the headlines this fortnight: - AWR special QSL Kigali - RCI "Celebrates" 70 years - New station; Radio Risala International - Radio 292; where are they now - Pirate Radio News, logs and recordings - Audio Archive: Behaviour Night WBCQ #------------------------------------------------------------------# To LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD the podcast simply head to: hriradio.org |
DX Extra number 22
Hello fellow DXers, it is with great excitement to release the latest shortwave news programme, DX Extra number 22 to the world wide web! It's also the last day of February! In the headlines this fortnight: - AWR special QSL Kigali - RCI "Celebrates" 70 years - New station; Radio Risala International - Radio 292; where are they now - Pirate Radio News, logs and recordings - Audio Archive: Behaviour Night WBCQ #------------------------------------------------------------------# To LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD the podcast simply head to: hriradio.org |
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Digital Radio Mondiale at ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium 2015
"DRM: Clever Radio for Smart Countries" at ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Consortium will have a strong presence once again at the ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium (DBS) 2015 in Kuala Lumpur LINK, one of the premier digital events in Asia. DBS is a key event in the DRM calendar. A general update will be offered on the opening day (Wednesday 4th March) under the title 'Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) - Delivering to all your needs'.
Focusing on the significant cost and spectrum savings delivered by DRM (i.e. using Single Frequency Network deployment) the DRM Workshop "Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) - Clever Radio for Smart Countries" is to be held on Thursday 5th March 1400-1500 in Safir room 2. The event will offer participants an opportunity to learn more about digital radio and to experience the full DRM technology. Attendees will be invited to ask their own questions about the practical steps needed to create a healthy digital system involving the key stakeholders: listeners, regulator, broadcasters and the receiver manufacturing industry. The new Avion DRM radio has recently been unveiled in India and participants will be able to see and hear for themselves how the listener can experience more choice, enhanced sound quality, text and additional data services.
Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Chairman, is excited about this premier ABU event which has been supported by the Consortium for quite a number of years now because: "We can bring the latest developments to a wide range of specialists while having DRM championed by some of our best DRM experts and practitioners."
(Press Release)
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Alokesh Gupta, Via DX Asia Yahoo Group
New Delhi
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Adventist World Radio Offers Special QSL Stamp for Kigali Broadcasts
At the beginning of this current
Transmission Period B14 October 6, 2014, Adventist World Radio began a relay
service from the Deutsche Welle shortwave relay station near Kigali in Rwanda
Africa. The AWR relay via DW Kigali is
on the air for a total of 2½ transmitter hours
daily in three languages, French, Amharic & Fulfulde. In one particular time block, two
transmitters carry the programming in parallel.
However, Deutsche Welle has
subsequently announced that they plan to close their African relay station at
the end of this current Transmission Period B14 March 28, 2015 and then
dismantle the station. The last AWR broadcasts
from DW Kigali will therefor also end at the same time.
For those who would like to receive
a QSL card for these now short term broadcasts, AWR would welcome all reception
reports from listeners in any part of the world. Each reception report will be verified with a
QSL card (not an Email QSL), and the envelope will be affixed with genuine
postage stamps, not postal labels. In
addition, while supplies last, a special QSL stamp showing Kigali will be
attached to the QSL card.
It is not necessary to send an off-air
recording of your reception. We just
need your honest reception report
on paper. 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.
Also please enclose your address
label.
The only address for the special
Kigali QSL stamp is the Indianapolis address at:-
Adventist
World Radio, Box 29235, Indianapolis, Indiana 46229, USA.
All reception reports, including all
that have already been received, will be QSLed in due course. However, please be patient with us as we
already hold uncounted hundreds of reception reports still pending, and it may
take us many months to process them all.
The current AWR website shows the
following scheduling for the daily Kigali transmissions:-
0600
- 0630 UTC 15700 kHz French
0600
- 0630 17800
French
1700
- 1730 9490 Amharic
1930
- 2000 17800
Fulfulde
2000
- 2030 17800
French
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Adventist
World Radio - Regular QSL Policy
Adventist World Radio welcomes
reception reports from listeners in all countries. Please note the following items of
information:-
* Each reception report should contain
the following items of information
Date
Time,
preferably expressed in International Radio Time, equivalent to UTC
Frequency in kHz
Sufficient program
details to verify that you actually heard the AWR programming
Reports using SINPO Code
preferred
* Reception reports by postal mail are
preferred, though email is also acceptable.
* 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.
* Where possible, please enclose your
address label.
* You will receive a full data QSL card,
including location, through the postal system in response to your reception report.
* Several different QSL cards are
available.
* The envelope will be affixed with
regular postage stamps, not a postage label.
* AWR does not send out email QSLs.
* It is not necessary for you to send
and resend the same reception report.
All reception reports that we
receive are verified with a regular full data QSL card.
* It is not necessary to send an
off-air recording of your reception. We
just need your honest reception
report on paper.
* At times, there may be a delay
before you receive your AWR QSL card.
This is due to the large
inflow of reception reports we receive from listeners in so many different
countries.
* The regular postal address for
reception reports is:-
Adventist World Radio
Box 29235
Indianapolis
Indiana 46229 USA
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Digital Audio Broadcasting
DAB is a substitute for AM and FM broadcasting, providing better audio quality.
In India, the digital radio format chosen by Indian Government is DRM+.
Therefore, Digital Audio can be heard only on DRM enabled sets in India, that also for a limited number of hours.
Read more ..
Former Radio DJ wins OSCAR for Best Director
He won the OSCAR for Best Director for the film "Birdman"
A music lover, Inarritu started working for WFM radio in the 1980s while he was still a communications student at Mexico City’s Iberoamerican University.
Monday, February 23, 2015
Amateur Radio Group takes a released frequency
Deutsche Welle decided to close down one of their 500KW Shortwave transmitter near Munich in 2012.
A group containing some German radio amateurs applied for and were allocated the then available short wave frequency of 6070 KHz in 2013. This group now have an operational 10KW station on the frequency, using the driver stages from the old Deutsche Welle transmitter. Read more ..
HD Radio Technology
HD technology makes AM stations sound like FM and FM stations sound with CD quality.
Like satellite signals, HD Radio broadcasts digitally use radio waves but with different frequencies, said Yi Zheng, engineering professor at St. Cloud State University.
Read more ..
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Wavescan NWS313
*
Theme
-
00:00
“Birthday Serenade” -
Willi Glahe
*
Opening Announcement - 00:17
Welcome to “Wavescan”,
international DX program from Adventist World Radio
Researched and written in
Indianapolis, produced in studios of shortwave WRMI
Program outline
1. Railway
Radio in Australia - 1
2.
EDXC Interviews
3. SQOTW29 Special QSL
of the Week: First Reception Report from India
*
Railway Radio in Australia - Part 1 - 01:02
The first wireless transmissions
from a moving train in Australia took place during the years 1910 and
1911. A prominent wireless experimenter
in that era, George Taylor, conducted several successful experiments on moving
trains that were speeding between Sydney in New South Wales and Melbourne in
Victoria.
On some occasions, he placed a
wireless transmitter and a receiver at two different locations on the same
train and succeeded with communication between both units while the train was
in motion. On other occasions, he
succeeded in making wireless communication between two different trains running
at full speed.
However, during the next decade, all
of the radio experiments in association with trains in Australia centered about
reception on a moving train, rather than on broadcasting from a moving train.
On April 7, 1924, for example, a passenger
train left Melbourne bound for Sydney with a radio receiver aboard, and a
musical concert on the air from a mediumwave broadcasting station in Sydney was
heard quite clearly. This was an all
time first in Australia.
Six months later, a similar
experiment was conducted in South Australia.
At 2:35 in the afternoon on October 10 (1924), a special train left the
Adelaide railway station bound for Belair in the nearby Adelaide Hills, and
aboard were fifteen radio receivers.
Initially, all of the receivers were
tuned to the same radio station so that passengers could readily make a
comparison between receivers of various makes.
Soon afterwards though, the receivers were tuned to whatever station the
listener desired to hear, and they could tune in to the music programming from any of four different
stations, amateur or broadcast: 5AB, 5DN, 5RM or 5RG.
This special railroad trip attracted
so many people that the railway officials had to connect a second carriage in
order to accommodate the three hundred people who desired to participate. On the return journey, the train stopped
inside a tunnel in order to check radio reception there. However, the listeners discovered that
signals from all four radio stations were degraded inside the tunnel.
A subsequent event on a special train running
from Adelaide to suburban outer Hallett Cove on the coastline attracted five
hundred people, and nine radio receivers were installed aboard.
In June 1926, radio reception tests
were made in a VIP carriage known as the Norman Car. This carriage was attached to a train leaving
the Flinders Street station in Melbourne.
It was reported that several radio broadcasting stations were picked up
well, and that the receivers did not need an earth connection.
Similar experiments were conducted
on moving trains in country areas also, and in 1925, reception experiments were
conducted in a special carriage attached to a train running from Cockburn to
Mt. Dutton, in the outback areas towards the center of the continent. The external receiving antenna was attached
above the roof of the carriage and reception from radio broadcasting stations
was described as good..
The first radio broadcasting station
aboard a railway train in Australia was station 2XT, a 500 watt AWA transmitter
on 1175 kHz. This radio station was part
of an exhibit on board an exhibition train, known as the Great White Train,
which started out from Sydney on November 11, 1925. It is claimed that this was the first radio
broadcasting station on a train anywhere in the world.
A total of fifteen carriages carried
commercial exhibits from thirty well known manufacturing companies, and in its
two year tour throughout country areas in the state of New South Wales, the
train travelled 45,000 miles and visited more than one hundred towns,
attracting more than half a million visitors.
Station 2XT was installed in a carriage that was occupied completely
with electronic equipment manufactured by the AWA company.
The train would arrive at each new
location in the morning, the staff would then go out and visit trades people,
and in the afternoon and evening the exhibits were open to local visitors. Usually there was an official Civic Reception
in each town with local community leaders.
The first stop on this long and very
successful tour was at Gosford, north of Sydney. The stay at any particular town was extended
up to as many as five days.
The radio station 2XT was on the air
in two sessions each day, from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm and again from 7:00 pm to
8:30 pm. Live programming featured
recorded music, speeches from local civic and commercial personnel, as well as
information about the contents in each of the exhibits aboard the train.
The antenna was a single wire 60
feet long on masts at a height of 40 feet above the AWA carriage, and the rails
served as an earthing system. Reception
reports were received from listeners all over Australia and New Zealand, and
also up in New Guinea.
Sometime during month of December,
1927, mobile radio station 2XT on the Great White Train made its last program
broadcast at its last visit to a small country town in the Australian state of
New South Wales. The train returned to
Sydney and all of the exhibits were unloaded.
We can only presume that the radio transmitter was also unloaded from
the train, and perhaps sold off to a land based radio station for installation
at a new location. But where? I guess we will never know!
There are no known QSL cards or
letters verifying reception of station 2XT aboard the Great White Train. However, Dr. Bruce Carty’s splendid
large format book, On the Air: Australian Radio History, carries a picture, on
one of its early pages, of the advertising leaflet that was distributed in each
town that the train visited. The Carty
book shows the leaflet that was imprinted for the visit to the large regional
city of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales.
* EDXC Report - 07:31
Interviews
with Toshi Ohtake
George Brown Scotland
Bengt Erikson Sweden
Alexander Berostin Russia
Dave Kenny England
Christian Ghibaudo France
? Finland
*
SQOTW29 Special QSL of the Week: First Reception Report from India
- 22:12
Way back nearly forty years ago,
Jose Jacob VU2JOS in India tuned his radio to the tropical shortwave frequency
3925 kHz, and he heard a broadcast from NBC, the National Broadcasting
Commission in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
The callsign for this transmitter at the time was P2K3, the power was 10
kW, and the time of reception in India was 6:00 pm on October 25, 1976.
The QSL card issued by NBC Port
Moresby in those days showed a yellow map of Papua New Guinea together with its
surrounding islands, and the location of each of the NBC stations is shown on
the map. A typewritten note on the card
acknowledges that the reception report they received from Jose Jacob was the
very first from India.
*
Closing Announcement - 23:06
Thanks for listening to “Wavescan”,
international DX program from Adventist World Radio
Researched and written in
Indianapolis
Next week:-
1.
The Original BBC Relay Station in Singapore
2.
Ancient DX Report 1910
3.
Japan DX Report
4. SQOTW30
Special QSL of the Week: World’s Shortest Reception report
Several QSL cards available. Send your AWR & KSDA reception reports for
Wavescan to the AWR address in Indianapolis; and
also to the station your radio is tuned to: WRMI or WWCR
or KVOH, or to the AWR relay stations that carry Wavescan. Remember too, you can send a reception report to each
of the DX reporters when their segment is on the
air here in Wavescan: Japan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Australia &
India. They will verify with their own colorful QSL
card. Return postage and an address
label are always appreciated.
Wavescan address:-
Box 29235
Indianapolis
Indiana 46229 USA
Wavescan @ AWR.org
Jeff White, shortwave WRMI
*
Music of the World - 25:16
Papua
New Guinea: Wantok FM Radio
Gospel music, male
choir, electronic orchestra
*
Program Ends - 28:55
NAB Awards
The National Association of Broadcasters announced the 50 finalists for the 28th Annual Crystal Radio Awards. Since 1987, the NAB Crystal Radio Awards have recognized radio stations for their outstanding year-round commitment to community service. Winners will be announced and the finalists will be honored at the NAB Radio Luncheon. The Luncheon, sponsored by ASCAP, will be held Tuesday, April 14 during the 2015 NAB Show in Las Vegas.
This year's finalists are:
WINS-AM New York, NY
WJJY-FM Baxter, MN
KBHP-FM Bemidji, MN
WJMZ-FM Greenville, SC
KFOR-AM Lincoln, NE
WKRQ-FM Cincinnati, OH
KIKV-FM Alexandria, MN
WKSF-FM Asheville, NC
KLCK-FM Bellevue, WA
WLBC-FM Muncie, IN
KLIN-AM Lincoln, NE
WLLK-FM Somerset, KY
KPCW-FM Park City, UT
WLNK-FM Charlotte, NC
KPRS-FM Kansas City, MO
WOC-AM Davenport, IA
KRMG-FM Tulsa, OK
WPOC-FM Baltimore, MD
KSL-FM Salt Lake City, UT
WPRS-FM Silver Spring, MD
KTTS-FM Springfield, MO
WRLT-FM Nashville, TN
KUPL-FM Portland, OR
WSB-AM Atlanta, GA
KZFN-FM Moscow, ID
WSNY-FM Columbus, OH
KZZL-FM Moscow ID
WSOY-AM Decatur, IL
WAFL-FM Milford, DE
WSPD-AM Toledo, OH
WALR-FM Atlanta, GA
WSTW-FM Wilmington, DE
WBT-AM Charlotte, NC
WSUN-FM Saint Petersburg, FL
WBZZ-FM Pittsburg, PA
WTAW-AM College Station, TX
WCCO-AM Minneapolis, MN
WTMX-FM Chicago, IL
WDRV-FM Chicago, IL
WTOP-FM Washington, DC
WGY-AM Latham, NY
WUSL-FM Philadelphia, PA
WHEN-AM Syracuse, NY
WUSQ-FM Winchester, VA
WHUR-FM Washington, D.C.
WVVR-FM Clarksville, TN
WIBC-FM Indianapolis, IN
WXTU-FM Philadelphia, PA
WILV-FM Chicago, IL
WYCT-FM Pensacola, FL
Crystal Radio Award finalists were chosen by a panel of judges representing broadcasting, community service organizations and public relations firms. Finalists will be honored and winners announced at the Radio Luncheon, where Golden Globe nominee, New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio personality Marilu Henner will present a keynote address, and hosts of Southern California's longest-running a.m. drive show, the "Kevin & Bean Morning Show," Kevin Ryder and Gene "Bean" Baxter, will be inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
About NAB Show
NAB Show, held April 11-16, 2015 in Las Vegas, is the world's largest electronic media show covering the creation, management and delivery of content across all platforms. With more than 98,000 attendees from 150 countries and 1,600+ exhibitors, NAB Show is the ultimate marketplace for digital media and entertainment. From creation to consumption, across multiple platforms and countless nationalities, NAB Show is home to the solutions that transcend traditional broadcasting and embrace content delivery to new screens in new ways. For complete details, visit www.nabshow.com.
About NAB
The National Association of Broadcasters is the premier advocacy association for America's broadcasters. NAB advances radio and television interests in legislative, regulatory and public affairs. Through advocacy, education and innovation, NAB enables broadcasters to best serve their communities, strengthen their businesses and seize new opportunities in the digital age. Learn more at www.nab.org.
Info by: S S Umakanthan
Jewish Radio Station Closes in Denmark
A Jewish radio station based in Copenhagen canceled its daily broadcast for security reasons following the deadly synagogue shooting Feb. 15 in the Danish capital.
Read More ..- S S Umakanthan
Thursday, February 19, 2015
How Radios Gifted by Nitish Kumar Could be Used Against Him
While he was Chief Minister, Mr Kumar distributed lakhs of radios to families from the Mahadalit caste, which makes up 23 per cent of the state's population. He said his government would use radio broadcasts to ensure the underprivileged were aware of welfare schemes that they were entitled to.
Now the BJP says it will buy radio spots to educate Mahadalits on how ..
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Wavescan NWS312
*
Theme
-
00:00
“Birthday Serenade” -
Willi Glahe
*
Opening Announcement - 00:16
Welcome to “Wavescan”,
international DX program from Adventist World Radio
Researched and written in
Indianapolis, produced in studios of shortwave WRMI
Program outline
1.
Over the Years with PWI: USA & Europe
2. Book
Review: International Shortwave Broadcast Guide
3. International
DX News
4. Special
QSL of the Week SQOTW28: Short Term Jamming Transmission
*
Over the Years with PWI: USA & Europe - 01:02
In our continuing series of topics
regarding the shortwave stations operated by PWI, Press Wireless International,
we look at the wartime years over in islandic and continental Europe. During this era, the Press Wireless factory
on Long Island, quite near to their shortwave transmitter station at
Hicksville, manufactured many shortwave transmitters at various power levels,
including their now famous 40 kW unit, as well as their low powered mobile
units.
These PWI transmitters were shipped
to England and subsequently to continental Europe by both navy and commercial
vessels, usually with each consignment split and conveyed by different
ships. In this way, if some ships were
sunk by enemy submarine attacks, then only a partial consignment was lost, not
a complete consignment of electronic equipment.
It is known that at least one mobile station was lost in 1944 due to
enemy action, and that station still lies to this day on the floor of the
Atlantic Ocean.
Actually, Press Wireless began their
European operations in 1932 with the opening of an office in Paris France, and the
leased usage of transmitting and receiving facilities from the French PT&T
authorities in nearby country areas.
Their Paris operation collected the news flow from other countries in
Europe and fed the information to the United States via the PWI receiver
station at Little Neck on the north side of Long Island, New York.
As the onset of the European Conflict
progressed, PWI moved its European operation in the summer of 1940, initially
from Paris to Bordeaux on the Atlantic coast in the south west of France, and
then to Tours, almost in the center of France, and finally to Vichy France,
though that location was soon afterwards closed.
Towards the end of the War in
Europe, PWI began to send shipments of radio equipment from the United States,
beginning in the early part of the year 1944.
The first of the 40 kW PWI SSB transmitters to arrive on the other side
of the Atlantic was installed at Lingfield with the receiver station at Swanley
Junction, both in Surrey in the south of England. The purpose for this station was to establish
communication circuits with the United States.
Two more of these 40 kW transmitters
were transported to England; and the teams of technical radio personnel
associated with these units received their training on a similar unit located
at PWI Hicksville. In 1944, the
technical equipment and personnel were taken by ship to the British Isles.
One ship in use for this purpose was the
ex-passenger liner, “Mauretania"
which travelled across the Atlantic alone, without convoy. It was considered to be a fast ship that
could outrun any other seafaring vessels that might be in pursuit. The equipment was landed in Scotland and
taken south by road.
The radio personnel installed one of
these PWI transmitters at an army camp located at Stowe-on-Wold in
Gloucestershire, almost in the south of England. This transmitter was used for two
purposes. One was to broadcast fake
communication transmissions that would give the impression that the coming
invasion of continental Europe under what became D-Day would take place in
Calais, or perhaps even in Norway, instead of the intended Normandy; and the
other purpose was for army communications back to the United States.
Following the installation of the
transmitter in England, the PWI team landed in France and began work on the
installation of the other unit at Les Essarts, an outer
suburb of Paris. Originally, this 40 kW
PWI transmitter was planned for installation at Renne in France. However, with the progress of events at the
front line, a more advanced location, Les Essarts, was chosen.
The electronic equipment for this
station was delivered in 1,000 crates & boxes, and it was
re-assembled in 25 days by 45 personnel.
This transmitter facility was installed in buildings commandeered for
the purpose and the receiver station was located in an old farm house further
down the same road.
Power came from three Cummings diesel
generators, and rhombic antennas were beamed on the United States for
communication with PWI Little Neck, New York.
This new and rather substantial shortwave station was activated in
September 1944. A photo at the entrance
way to the station shows the callsign as CZ2T, though it identified on air
simply as Radio Paris.
The main purpose for this PWI
station in Paris was to relay news items and news commentaries from SHAEF Supreme
Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces back to the United States for
insertion into the broadcast programming of the Voice of America. On several occasions, international radio
monitors in the United States, New Zealand and Australia noted PWI Hicksville
& Paris in communication with each other for the transfer of radio news
items.
For example, in March 1945,
Radio Paris CZ2T was noted on 15920 kHz with a program relay to the United
States; and in September this station was noted on 15293 kHz with program
inserts for the NBC Blue Network. In the
reverse direction, PWI Hicksville was noted calling SHAEF Paris on several
occasions. The Hicksville channel
callsigns at the time were WPJ on 11640 kHz & WJQ on 10010 kHz.
Apparently someone in the radio
world had an insight into the workings of PWI Paris, because in September 1945,
a column editor in Australia stated that the permanence of this station was
doubtful.
However, the story does not end
here. In addition to the single 40 kW
PWI transmitter at Les Essarts, there was a multitude of other transmitters,
maybe even 15 or more. One of these was
a 10 kW shortwave broadcast transmitter that was
installed in a subsidiary building at the Les Essarts station for the relay of
radio programming from Radio Diffusion Francaise in Paris. The main coverage area from this unit was
intended to be Europe & Africa.
As far as is known, this shortwave
broadcast transmitter operated on only one channel, 9560 (9550)
kHz. The programming was always a relay
from Paris, and often in parallel with shortwave transmitters at other
locations. This station was often heard
in the United States, and sometimes in Australia & New Zealand. It was also listed in several early editions
of the World Radio Handbook.
It appears that the power of the
French shortwave station at Les Essarts was raised from 10 kW to 100 kW
somewhere around the year 1947. It is possible
then that the power level of the 40 kW transmitter was raised in the era after
peace was resumed in Europe, and after the American personnel had returned to
their homeland.
So there you have it. This PWI shortwave station located on the
edge of suburban Paris was on the air with news for newspapers, and voice reports
for radio & TV stations in the United States, as well as with program
relays for re-broadcast by the Voice of America. In addition, this shortwave station also
operated as a relay station for the international shortwave service of Radio
Diffusion Francaise.
More about PWI in Europe on another
coming occasion.
* Program
Announcement - 08:54
Allen Graham
* Publication
Review: International Shortwave Broadcast Guide - 09:43
A most remarkable shortwave book at
a most remarkable price is the Winter 2014 - 2015 edition of the comprehensive
volume, International Shortwave Broadcast Guide by Gayle van Horn at Teak
Publishing in Brasstown, North Carolina.
This twice-annual volume, now the third in this series, contains almost
500 pages of valuable and interesting information about shortwave broadcasting.
Gayle van Horn asks the question: So
why should you listen to shortwave radio?
Quite simply, she answers, because shortwave radio is your window to the
world. Throughout the world, shortwave
remains the most readily available and affordable means of mass communication
and information. It lets you listen to
voices from around the world. Shortwave
radio provides nearly instantaneous coverage of news and events from around the
Earth.
You can easily listen to shortwave
broadcast stations located in countries all around our globe, specially if you
know when to listen! That’s
where this new edition of the International Shortwave Broadcast Guide is
particularly useful.
The International Shortwave Broadcast
Guide (Winter 2014-2015 edition) is a unique information resource that provides
a 24-hour station/frequency guide to all of the known stations currently
broadcasting on shortwave radio at the time of publication. This tabulated information offers an
hour-by-hour schedule that includes all language services, frequencies and
world target areas for each broadcast station.
This new e-publication edition is an
expanded version of the English shortwave broadcast guide formerly printed in
the pages of Monitoring Times magazine for over 20 years. This one of a kind e-book is now published
twice a year to correspond with station seasonal time and frequency changes.
It is a splendid radio adventure to
peruse each page in the current edition of the International Shortwave
Broadcast Guide. For example, the first
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accessing the international and tropical shortwave bands, together with
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timings, with the shortwave stations listed in alphabetic order of
country. If you want to listen to the
world, here is your opportunity; all of the nearly 400 pages of tabulated
listings are sprinkled here and there with a reproduction in color of an exotic
QSL card from a shortwave station somewhere on planet Earth.
Towards the end of the current
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including Wavescan with all of its many timings. The final section of this fascinating eBook
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Is short-wave broadcasting
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respond to listener reception reports and issue QSL cards.
Thank you Gayle van Horn, for your
splendid service to the international shortwave world!
*
Bangladesh DX News - 14:44
Salahuddin Dolar
*
Special QSL of the Week SQOTW28: Short Term Jamming Transmission
- 18:01
Thomas Drescher in Rosrath, Germany,
tells us that he also has received a QSL card from a jamming transmission. Back in the 1970s, there were several pirate
radio stations operating aboard ships anchored in open waters in the North Sea
with programming beamed to various countries in islandic and continental
Europe. One of these ships was the Mebo
2 with on air programming under the identification RNI, Radio Nordsee
International, beamed to England and Holland, though their programming at that
stage was in English and German.
The 10 kW shortwave channel for RNI
was 6210 kHz though for a few days this transmitter channel was adjusted
slightly to 6215 kHz. The Maritime Radio
Station, Radio Rogaland, located towards the southern tip of Norway, claimed
that RNI was broadcasting on a Radio Rogaland channel and so they jammed the
programming from the pirate radio ship.
The continuous loop tape message in
English from Radio Rogaland stated:
This
is a transmission from the Norwegian coast station Rogaland Radio operating in single side band mode, upper side
band, with a carrier frequency of 6215.0 kHz. The purpose of this transmission is to
clear the channel of unauthorized and out of band broadcasting, to improve reception
conditions for ships wishing to communicate with coast stations on this frequency or on
adjacent maritime channels.
Thomas Drescher sent a reception
report regarding the jamming transmission to Radio Rogaland in Norway, and he received
a QSL in response. The handwritten QSL
text was inscribed on the back of a photograph depicting two radio officers on
duty at the control panels of Radio Rogaland.
The QSL text verified the reception of Radio Rogaland on July 8, 1970.
*
Music of the World - 20:12
Norway: Folk Music
from NRK, accordion
*
Closing Announcement - 20:38
Thanks for listening to “Wavescan”,
international DX program from Adventist World Radio
Researched and written in
Indianapolis
Next week:-
1.
Railway Radio in Australia - 1
2.
Australian DX Report
3. SQOTW29
Special QSL of the Week: First Reception Report from India
Several QSL cards available. Send your AWR & KSDA reception reports
for Wavescan to the AWR address in Indianapolis; and
also to the station your radio is tuned to: WRMI or WWCR
or KVOH, or to the AWR relay stations that carry Wavescan. Remember too, you can send a reception report to each
of the DX reporters when their segment is on the
air here in Wavescan: Japan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Australia &
India. They will verify with their own colorful QSL
card. Return postage and an address
label are always appreciated.
Wavescan address:-
Box 29235
Indianapolis
Indiana 46229 USA
Wavescan @ AWR.org
Jeff White, shortwave WRMI
*
Music Outrun - 22:19
Norway: Folk Music
from NRK, continued
Accordion orchestra
Folk orchestral
Male vocal
*
Program Ends - 28:55
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1. Press Wireless International: Radio
Stations & Transmitters
Alphabetic Order of Country
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No Country Location Topic Year to Year NWS X
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
01 Alaska Anchorage PWI 194x 76
02 Atlantic Sunken ship Over the Years with PWI 1944 312
03 Australia
QL Hemmant MacArthur Radio 1943 - 1946 6 76
04 Canada Halifax APC Dartmouth temporary 1921
- 1923 305
05 Halifax APC St. Margaret’s Bay 1923 - 1932 305
06 England Stowe DecoyTransmissions 1944 312
07 Lingfield Communicate USA 1944
- 1945 312
08 Ethiopia Asmara PWI 1942 76
09 France Paris, Vichy Over the Years with PWI 1932
- 1947 312
10 Paris SHAEF CZ2T 1945 - 1946
6 76 312
11 Germany Frankfurt PWI 194x 76
12 Hawaii Honolulu PWI Station KDG 1930
- 1941 307
13 Ewa Projected PWI Station 1944 - 1945 307
14 Italy Naples PWI 1944 76
15 Philippines Manila PWI
(Globe-Mackay) 1933
- 1941 305
16 Tacloban Station PZ 1944 - 1945 305
17 Manila Station PY 1944 - 1946 307
18 Uruguay Montevideo Press Wireless 19xx
67
19 USA
MA Needham WJK, PWI 1st station 1930 - 1932 305
20 MA West
Newton Factory 193x - 1952 305
21 LI NY Hicksville Temporary VOA Relay Station 1935 - 1957 67
22 LI NY Hicksville Factory 194x
- 1952 305 307
23 LI NY Hicksville HP Transmitter School WW2 307
Mobile Units
Pentagon ==============================================================================
2. Press Wireless International:
Press
Wireless International
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Year Date Information Reference
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Press Wireless
Backgrounds
1929 PWI
formed, dissatisfaction with WW1 news flow Time 26-8-46
1930s Serving
62 countries
WW2 Established
new factory Long Island City
WW2 Sent
several mobile stations to Europe
1945 Nov 7 PWI
Los Angeles sold into escrow for Don Wallace W6AM
1946 Aug Strike
against Press Wireless, diminishing services & income
1947 Aug 15 PWI
filed for bankruptcy
1965 PWI
acquired by ITT
19xx At
peak, PWI operated 100 transmitters at own locations
New
York, San Francisco, Manila, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo
PWI Hicksville,
Long Island, New York
1935 May Testing
as W2XGB on 4797 kHz 500 w ISWC 5-35 33
1942 Jan WCW
began test broadcasts IDXA-SPS 1-42 1
1942 Apr 20 PWI-WCW
Hicksville began VOA relay 2 hrs morning 2 hrs afternoon VOA 97.001 15-5
WW2 One
40 kW transmitter at Hicksville during WW2 REK
1944 Feb NY
stations use different call to denote service in which they are engaged R&H 2-44 35
1944 Dec 31 Appears
to be date for end of VOA relays R&H entries
1957 PWI
Hicksville closed
GF
19xx Became
a housing estate Radiomarine
PWI
Receiver Station, Little Neck, LI NY
1930 1st
Press Wireless receiver station, north side LI NR 21-7-60 21
1940s QSL
card shows receiver positions QSL card
PWI
Receiver Station, Baldwin, LI NY
1950s PWI
receiving station located at Baldwin, south side Long Island Antiqueradios
1959 PWI
Baldwin closed GF
1960 PWI
Baldwin receiver soon to close NR 21-7-60 21
PWI England
1944 Early 40
kW PWI transmitter set up at army camp in South England REK
Email
Installed
at Stowe on the Wold Gloucestershire
Left
for use by 3103rd Signal Service
Battalion, decoy transmissions
Also
used for army communications to USA
1944 May PWI
team arrived England month before D-Day
40
kW SSB PWI transmitter installed at Lingfield, Surrey
Receiver
station at Swanley Junction, Surrey
Communication
back to USA
15 kW PWI
transmitter & 400 watt Morse
1944 Jun 6 D-Day
PWI CZ2T Les
Essarts, near Paris, France
Ship
carried 40 kW PWI transmitter to Scotland
90,000
transmitters in use for Allied invasion of Europe
Originally
scheduled for installation at Renne
Delivered
in 1,000 crates & boxes, re-assembled in 25 days by 45 personnel
1944 Aug Work
began
PWI
40 kW transmitter set up in farm house location, Les Essarts, near Paris France
Power
from 3 Cummings diesel generators
Rhombic
antennas beamed on USA
Connected
to SHAEF Paris by telephone line
Receiver
station, down the road on farm property
Many other transmitters
also
Detachment
of navy personnel with own equipment
Several
units, 10 kW & less, communicate with front lines, 15 or more transmitters
Separate
building, French Paris Radio Diffusion Francaise, 10 kW
1944 Sep PWI
40 kW transmitter activated
Communicated
with PWI Hicksville
1944 Oct PWI
recently increased power, now 1 million words daily Time
1994 Nov 6
1945 May 8 VE
Day
1945 Additional
personnel came in assist operate SHAEF AM transmitter
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3. SQOTW28: Special QSL of the Week
Progressive Topics
——————————————————————————————————————————————————
No Call
Location Land IRM
kHz (k)W
Year Date Significance QSL NWS ——————————————————————————————————————————————————
001
7LA Launceston Tasmania AMP
1100 .1 1961 Nov 6 Emergency
transmitter C 282
002
RA Kabul
Afghanistan AMP 96.1 .01 1971
Jul 4 Experimental FM C 284
003
VOA Poro Philippines AMP 15000 LP 1984 Feb 19 Malfunctioning
exciter L 286
004
TTY Perth Australia AMP
1130 .2 1966 Jun 24 6NM
transmitter to 6ED DIYC 287
005
ICPA Kabul Afghanistan AMP 102.8 ½ 1972
Aug 27 Hotel Intercontinental DIYC 289
006
KSFO Frisco California AMP
560 5 1989
Oct 18 Temporary after
earthquake C 290
007
RM
Havana Cuba AMP 9600 100 1982
Feb 3 Relay Radio Tashkent C
291 008 NILB Central Pacific PH
10800 LP 1968 Dec 23 Apollo
Recovery, 1,000 SW L 292
009
AWR Ekala Sri
Lanka CG 11800 100 1981
Feb 21 Test broadcasts Africa &
ME C 293
010
PJC Willemstad Curacao PH
8694
1 1969 Jan 9 Morse
loop C
294
011
AFRTS Adana Turkey
AMP 1590 .01 1980
Mar 24 Plane, WL in ft DIYC 295
012
AWR Sines Portugal TD 9670
250 1977 Aug 26 Self-designed AWR card C 296
013
VoM Honhor Mongolia CL 12085
250 2012 Sep 14 Lived in Ulaan Baatar L&C 297
014
CRI Beijing China UQ
21660 2005 Sep 19 Firedrake
jammer C 298
015
RM Russia
AMP 11875 1984 May 2 Russian
jammer, BBC ARS? C 299
016
NBC Pt Moresby New Guinea VL 4890
35 2006 Mar 18 Reduced power C 300
017
RM
Murmansk Russia JB
5930 5 1979
Jan 13 Long wait DIYC & L
301 018 RM P’zavodsk Russia JB
5065 5 1979 Jan 21 Long wait DIYC & L
302
019
VLU2 Christmas Is Indian O. AMP
1420 .5 1977 Aug 23 Tried many
locations DIYC & L
303 020 XMX Christmas Is Indian O. AMP
341 .1 1977 Aug 28 Airplane
reception DIYC 304 021
AIR Pt Blair Andamans JJ 1440
1 1992 Nov 12 Emergency transmission L 305 022
ABC Shepparton Australia TA 6080 100 2011
Feb 4 Emergency transmission C
306 023 ORTB Benin
CO SW 1985 Sep 20 Hard
to hear, difficult to QSL C 307 024
WQTC Bryan USA-OH AMP
1520 .5 1986
Jul 17 Two words, Bryan Radio DIYC
308
025
AIR
Bangalore India
MKP 9690 500 2014
Feb 28 Memory of 1st radio
broadcast C 309 026
CHU Ottawa Canada BW 3330
3 2010 Sep 16 Low power TSW
C&L 310
027
SW
11 Sites Asia
TA 2 SW
2014 Jun 5 IRDR Trial Broadcasts
C 311
028
TMR Rogaland Norway TD 6210 1970
Jul 8 Jamming against RNI P 312
029
NBC Pt Moresby New Guinea JJ 3925 10 1976
Oct 25 1st report from
India C 313 030 VOA Hawaii
AMP
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4. SQOTW28: Special QSL of the Week
Alphabetic Listing
——————————————————————————————————————————————————
Title Call City Country IRM City
Country NWS ——————————————————————————————————————————————————
Airplane
Monitoring AFRS Adana Turkey AMP Airplane Turkey
295
XMX Christmas Is Indian Ocean AMP Airplane Indian Ocean 304
Apollo
Recovery NILB USS Arlington Pacific PH Woodland H USA-CA 292
Demonstration
Transmitter TTY Perth W
Australia AMP Perth Australia 287
Difficult to hear ORTB Benin CO Norrkoping Sweden
307 Earthquake Emergency KSFO San Francisco USA AMP Eugene USA-OR 290
Emergency
Transmitter 7LA Launceston Tasmania AMP Launceston Tasmania 282
AIR Port Blair Andaman Is JJ Hyderabad India 305
ABC Shepparton Australia TA Depok
Indonesia 306 Experimental FM RA Kabul Afghanistan AMP Kabul
Afghanistan 284
First
Report: India NBC Port Moresby New Guinea JJ India 313 Jammer:
Firedrake CRI Beijing China UQ-S Norrkoping Sweden
298
Rogaland TMR Rogaland Norway TD Rosrath
Germany 312
Russian RM Russia AMP Poona India 299
Listener
Designed QSL Card AWR Sines Portugal TD Rosrath
Germany 296
Long
Wait: 11 Years XMX Christmas Is Indian Ocean AMP Airplane Indian Ocean 304
23 Years RM Murmansk Russia JB Lexington USA-MA 301
23 years RM Petrozavodsk Russia JB Lexington USA-MA
302
Low
Power CHU Ottawa Canada BW Karoonda S Australia 310
Malfunctioning
Exciter VOA Poro Philippines AMP Lahore
Pakistan 286
Many
Locations VLU2 Christmas Is Indian
Ocean AMP Carnarvon
Australia 303
Memories:
Letter from Home VOM Honhor Mongolia CL Bloomington USA-IN
297
1st Radio Broadcast AIR Bangalore India MKP Kerala India 309
Morse
Code Loop PJC Willemstad Curacao PH Woodland
H USA-CA 294
Reduced Power NBC Pt Moresby New
Guinea VL Naples USA-FL 300
Tashkent Relay RM Havana Cuba AMP Berrien S USA-MI
291 Test Broadcast AWR Ekala Sri
Lanka CG Nice France 293
IRDR 11 sites Asia TA Depok Indonesia 311
Translation
Transmitter ICPA Kabul Afghanistan AMP Kabul
Afghanistan 289
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