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North India’s First Doppler Radar To Debut Soon

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 01:53 AM PST

Interesting development ….

North India’s First Doppler Radar To Debut Soon
http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=40371&ntype=mor

Mfr’s catalogue shows this doppler weather radar ….

CINRAD/XD (M) X Band Doppler Weather Radar
http://www.metstar.net/cn/en/product3.asp

So, assuming this will be working on the x-band 8-12 GHz, hoping no threat on HF bands.

About Doppler Radar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_radar

Related stories :

Palam village to host North India’s first Doppler radar
http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20100117/982/tsc-palam-village-to-host-north-india-s.html

Interesting story how a radar from Australia was causing interference on Amateur HF bands
http://tinyurl.com/ycm2dj9

NHK Radio Japan Urdu Frequency Change

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:55 AM PST

NHK Radio Japan Urdu Frequency Change wef 18th Jan 2010 :

1430-1515 UTC on 6200 (ex 9795) via UZB

(Gautam Sharma, Assam)

FM Logs

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:46 AM PST

Heavy fog on 2nd Jan, 2010 in northern India paralysed the road, train & air traffic, caused 3 train & numerous road accidents & tripped the regional electricity grid resulting in no electricity for the large parts in northern India for 6 to 7 hours but it also produced some excellent VHF conditions, listed below are some of my logs. Meanwhile foggy conditions continues in Northern India & its time to take your FM receivers out !!

New FM stations logged :

91.9 Radio Mantra, Agra
94.0 Krisnasar FM, Nepalgunj,Nepal (Not listed in WRTH 2010)
98.6 Radio Bheri, Surkhet, Nepal
100.2 AIR Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh

Here are few stn’s logged on 2nd & 3rd Jan 2010 :

91.9 Radio Mantra, Agra
94.0 Krisnasar FM, Nepalgunj, Nepal
98.6 Radio Bheri, Surkhet, Nepal
99.4 Shuklafanta FM,Mahendranagar, Nepal (Listed on 94.4 in WRTH 2010)
100.2 AIR Patiala,Punjab
100.2 AIR Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh
100.4 AIR Bareilly
100.7 AIR Lucknow
101.3 AIR Aligarh
101.5 AIR Sawai Madhopur
102.1 AIR Mussourie
102.3 AIR Hissar
103.0 Radio Nepal, Buditola
103.1 AIR Chandigarh VBS
107.2 AIR Kasauli

Audio Files (Mostly ID’s) :

Krishnasar FM,Nepal ID 1 94.0 2 Jan 2010
http://tinyurl.com/ye247dt
Krishnasar FM, Nepal ID 2 94.0 0349 UTC 2 Jan 2010
http://tinyurl.com/y93hbja
Radio Bheri FM, Surkhet, Nepal (500 watts) 98.6
http://tinyurl.com/yzky6kc
AIR Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh 100.2 0140 UTC 2 Jan 2010
http://tinyurl.com/yd9nbkp
AIR Sawai Madhopur 101.5 1740 UTC 2 Jan 2010
http://tinyurl.com/ybbefa8
AIR Hissar 102.3 1512 UTC
http://tinyurl.com/ybrttv6
AIR Bareilly 100.4 0659 UTC 2 Jan 2010
http://tinyurl.com/y9pj2q4
AIR Bareilly 100.4 0201 UTC 3 Jan 2010
http://tinyurl.com/y9yhbfx

Voice of Vietnam announces new contest

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 11:15 PM PST

“What do you know about Vietnam?”

2010 will see numerous celebrations held across Vietnam. These include the country’s 65th national day, the 80th anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the 120th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s birthday, the 35th anniversary of the liberation of southern Vietnam and national reunification and the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi. This year Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) will also mark its 65th anniversary. To mark the occasion, VOV will launch a writing contest called “What do you know about Vietnam?” for all its listeners overseas and the Vietnamese community abroad.

- First prize will be a free week-long trip to Vietnam

- Second prize is a free 5-day trip to Vietnam

- Third prize is a free 4-day trip to Vietnam

There will also be 10 consolation prizes, each equivalent to VND1 million or US$60.

The 5 questions will be:

01. Name Vietnam’s outstanding achievements in 2009 in areas such as economics, diplomacy, social welfare and poverty reduction.

02. When Vietnam took up its position as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council during the 2008-2009 term, what contributions did it make to the UN Security Council, especially during the two months the country chaired the council?

03. How many sites and art forms in Vietnam have been recognized by UNESCO as tangible and intangible heritages of humanity and what are they?

04. In 2010, Hanoi will celebrate its 1000th anniversary and the 11 years since UNESCO recognized it as a city for peace. What do you know about Hanoi and what do you think are the factors that helped Hanoi to win the title “the city for peace”?

05. What have been the new features and developments at Voice of Vietnam Radio over the last few years?

Please include your full name, age, address including email if any and occupation in your entry.

The time for receiving entries will be from March 1st to June 30th, 2010. You will find the answers in our radio programs. Voice of Vietnam Radio wishes you every success.

http://english.vovnews.vn/Home/What-do-you-know-about-Vietnam/20101/111573.vov

(Gautam Sharma, Assam)

VOA Creole broadcasts to Haiti now on multiple radio frequencies

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 07:43 PM PST

Washington D.C., January 17, 2010 – Voice of America (VOA) Creole-language broadcasts to earthquake-stricken Haiti are now being heard throughout that country on multiple radio frequencies, many delivered by transmitters aboard a U.S. Defense Department-sponsored aircraft that began flying Saturday. The added service features a five-hour afternoon FM program providing news and disaster relief information for the Haitian people, struggling to cope
with that country’s worst natural disaster in over 200 years.
Since the January 12 earthquake, VOA has increased its Creole programming from 1.5 hours to 10.5 hours Monday through Friday and from 1 hour to 9.5 hours Saturday and Sunday.

“We are very gratified to have the direct FM transmission to complement our shortwave and AM broadcasts in response to the crisis in Haiti,” said Danforth W. Austin, VOA director. “These broadcasts demonstrate how U.S. Government agencies can work together when disaster strikes.”

VOA Creole is covering the relief efforts in Haiti with VOA correspondents and Haitian stringer reporters on the ground, as VOA Washington headquarters and Miami bureau staffs work the crisis around the clock. Public service announcements are airing hourly to provide information about public safety and availability of water and food and other disaster assistance. VOA has also set up a call-in line to broadcast messages from family members and friends to Haiti, along with Twitter and Facebook accounts.

VOA Creole has long been a trusted source of news and information in Haiti and is the most popular international broadcaster in the country with a weekly audience reach of just over 50% of the adult population, according to independent survey research. Stories, audio reports, photos, video and survival information are posted on VOA’s main website, http://www.voanews.com/.

(VOA Press Release)

RTÉ Launches Two New Services for International Audiences

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 07:12 AM PST

RTÉ Player International

RTÉ has become one of the first broadcasters in the world to launch a comprehensive international online TV catch-up service (RTÉ Player) for those with an Irish connection living abroad. The RTÉ Player was originally launched in Ireland in April 2009. Worldwide audiences can now catch-up on RTÉ Television programmes for up to 21 days through an integrated online media player. The international version of the RTÉ Player carries a range of programmes that have been cleared for international audiences. Content available includes all RTÉ News and Current Affairs programming (eg: Prime Time, The Frontline, Nationwide), flagship entertainment programming (eg: The Late Late Show), documentaries and a range of arts and music programming, including The View. Subject to rights clearance in 2010, sports content available for catch-up will include League of Ireland matches and Monday Night Soccer in March. Rugby Extra, which gives extended post-match analysis of Ireland’s RBS 6-Nations matches will be available in February. As the GAA season returns in May, The Sunday Game will be available on RTÉ Player. There will also be basketball, boxing, greyhound racing, the RDS Dublin Horse Show and a host of special events available throughout the year. In addition to the catch-up services, News Now, RTÉ’s 24 hour live and looped online news service will be also available to global audiences.

RTÉ News Now and RTÉ Radio iPhone Apps

RTÉ has launched an international iPhone application version of RTÉ News Now. This enables international iPhone and iPod Touch users to watch a video feed of live or looped RTÉ Television News anywhere in the world [subject to network availability], as well as reading the latest news, business, sport and entertainment stories from RTÉ.

RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ 2fm have also launched iPhone Apps.
Speaking on the launch of the international service Director-General Cathal Goan said: “RTÉ has always been very conscious of the role it plays in providing an important link to home for Irish people living abroad. In the last year this has of course become all the more important as emigration has increased, particularly among younger people. With the addition of this new service to our already globally accessible radio and online services I think it is clear that RTÉ’s commitment to those with an Irish connection either living or traveling abroad is very strong. ”
Múirne Laffan, Executive Director of RTÉ Publishing says: “RTÉ delivers content to over 2.9 million unique users each month through RTÉ.ie of which 1.1 million are overseas. The development of the international version of RTÉ Player offers an enhanced and more engaging service to these audiences. This is part of an exciting roadmap for RTÉ Publishing, as the projected growth of mobile, smart phones and IPTV offers us more opportunities to extend RTÉ’s reach. We aim to grow our audiences by optimising international availability of our services and targeting new products to both Irish Communities and cohorts with an interest in Irish Television, News, Sport and Entertainment”.

About RTÉ Player
The RTÉ Player was launched for domestic use in April 2009. Since its launch 5.4 million programmes have been viewed and by December 2009, up to 1 million programmes were viewed on the RTÉ Player per month with 288,000 unique users. RTÉ Player has been developed using the latest MPEG 4 video compression technology and Flash media player. This ensures the best user experience with fast access and high audio-visual quality. For viewers with
a broadband connection, access is free, simple and instant.

www.rte.ie/player

(RTE press release)

BBC Hindi Prog Changes

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:21 AM PST

BBC Hindi has re-vamped its programme line up, some programmes have been re-named & some new programmes announced, details at :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/india/2010/01/100114_prog_changes_sz.shtml

radio

ARRL Board Elects 15th President: Kay Craigie, N3KN

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:04 AM PST

More at :

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2010/01/16/11292/?nc=1

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End of the road for shortwave?

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 10:27 AM PST

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/124187

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Special broadcasts by AIR for Republic Day 2010

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 11:50 PM PST

Special broadcasts by AIR on 25 & 26 Jan 2010

All India Radio will broadcast the following special programs in connection with the Republic Day celebrations on 26th January.

25 January 2010: 1330 UTC: President Mrs. Pratibha Devisingh Patil’s address to the nation. This will be broadcast by all stations of AIR. Delhi frequencies are 5015 6030 6085 9575 & 9835. Regional stations on SW are using 60 MB frequencies at that time. Look out especially
Kohima 4850 (1000 to 1630 UTC).

26 January 2010: Running Commentary of Republic Day parade from 0350 UTC

Hindi: 6155(Bengaluru 500 kW); 11620(Aligarh 250 kW); 15135(Delhi 50 kW).
English: 5990(Delhi 250 kW); 9810 (Delhi 50 kW); 11830 (Delhi 50 kW);15050 (Bengaluru 500 kW)

The following Regional stations will change from their Morning frequencies on 60 Meters (4 & 5 MHz frequencies ) to their day time frequencies between-0335-0350 UTC as follows:

5965 Jammu?
5985 Ranchi ?
6000 Leh
6040 Jeypore
6065 Kohima?
6085 Gangtok
6150 Itanagar?
6190 Delhi
7230 Kurseong
7240 Mumbai
7280 Guwahati
7295 Aizawl
7315 Shillong
7325 Jaipur
7440 Lucknow

(? = Normally off air)

So some unusual reception of AIR stations shall be observed.

The other following stations are already scheduled to be on air daily at this time and will also relay the running commentry.

6020 Shimla
6110 Srinagar
7210 Kolkata
7290 Thiruvanthapuram
7335 Imphal
7380 Chennai
7390 Port Blair
7420 Hyderabad
7430 Bhopal

Reception Reports to spectrum-manager@air.org.in

(Jose Jacob, VU2JOS , National Institute of Amateur Radio , Hyderabad )
Telefax: 91-40-2331 0287 Cell:94416 96043

www.qsl.net/vu2jos , www.niar.org

Via Dx_india yg, specialises exclusively on Broadcasting in India!

The latest B-2009 SW schedules of All India Radio is available at:

Complete SW in kHz order
http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm

External Services in Language order
http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/es/language.htm

External Services in Time order
http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm

Complete SW Stations order
http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/loc.htm

Update on HCJB Global in Haiti

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 11:01 PM PST

Aftershock Rattles Haiti as HCJB Global/Samaritan’s Purse Team Continues Work

Sources: HCJB Global, Baptist Haiti Mission, World Gospel Mission, Associated Press, BBC (written by Ralph Kurtenbach and Harold Goerzen)

A 5.9-strength aftershock early Wednesday, collapsing already-damaged buildings, but the HCJB Global Hands emergency medical team working at the Baptist Haiti Mission (BHM) hospital in Port-au-Prince reported they’re all fine.

The seven-member team continues working 12-hour surgical shifts, treating those injured in the Jan. 12 quake that devastated Haiti’s capital.

The powerful aftershock, centered about 35 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, sent Haitians screaming into the streets, collapsing buildings, cracking roads and adding to the trauma of a nation stunned by an apocalyptic quake eight days ago. At least one woman, traumatized by the aftershock, died of a heart attack in Port-au-Prince. The jolt matched the strongest of the tremors since the original 7.0-magnitude quake.

The multi-specialty team, working in conjunction with Samaritan’s Purse, a North Carolina-based Christian aid group, arrived Friday, Jan. 15, from Ecuador. While two surgeons, an anesthesiologist, a nurse and two family physicians have worked at the hospital with the BHM staff, water engineer Martin Harrison set up a Water Missions International (WMI) filtration plant that is now chlorinating pond water for use at the hospital compound.

“Supplies are now improving as the WMI unit produces 10,000 gallons of drinking water per day at full output,” Harrison said. “We are taking water from a fishpond of all places, passing this through the WMI water filter and filling a cistern beneath the hospital.”

Family physician Steve Nelson said the team is giving priority to the most severe cases. “We non-surgical types were out on the floors trying to triage which cases were most likely to get complicated if left longer,” he explained. “Sepsis, infected compound fractures and little kids made up our priority list.” With more complicated cases, the surgical workers totaled 15 operations in one day, finishing after midnight.

“They are not seeing any simple breaks or fractures,” Krys Baker, the hospital administrator, said of the surgical teams. “Many bones are crushed, making surgeries very difficult. They are also seeing a lot of infections. Many people have waited to come to the hospital and as a result they are having to do amputations.” Infectious diseases have not shown up yet, according to a BBC report, but tetanus and gangrene are a threat to the injured.

Several days after HCJB Global’s team arrived, another 17 physicians and nurses arrived from Samaritan’s Purse. Upon staffing a second operating room, the 100-bed hospital can now treat more injured Haitians.

In spite of limitations on fuel, water and Internet connection, the team members’ contact with their families in Ecuador has been constant. Missionary Kim Barton said from Shell, Ecuador, that her husband, Paul, “mentioned the aftershock because it woke him up. He was calling to try to find more tetanus [vaccine].” The Bartons serve at HCJB Global’s jungle hospital in Shell where Paul is an anesthesiologist and his wife, Kim, is a pediatrician.

Also from the Shell hospital, German surgeon Eckehart Wolff lay on a surgery table to donate his own blood to a patient named Alexis who was suffering from severe internal abdominal bleeding. “The lady was stable this morning; however, sadly, she died this afternoon. She must have been crushed by something in the quake,” said Harrison.

There is joy amid such suffering, Nelson said, recounting how family physician Marcos Nelson’s patient, a young girl, began to sing even as the physician cleaned her wound. Anesthetized from pain but still conscious, the girl had a wound that revealed something serious enough for her to be placed first on the list for the next morning.

“Then we all heard her start singing,” Steve Nelson related, “first in sort of a low voice and later stronger … and it seemed happier! It was in Creole, so of course none of the Spanish and English speakers could know what she was saying … but a translator brightened up nearby and said she is singing, ‘I am saved, I am saved, I am saved!’”

The aftershock also rattled the nerves of people at partner ministry Radio Lumière, which only suffered minor damage in the original quake, although three of the staff members were killed while they were away from the station.

“Everyone there was OK [following the aftershock],” said Timothy Rickel, vice president of communication at World Gospel Mission (WGM). “Most people are sleeping outdoors anyway.”

WGM engineer Paul Shingledecker helped put the station back on the air Sunday, Jan. 17, enabling the Radio Lumière to aid in communications and send out a message of hope to beleaguered Haitians.

“There is no city power, and it will be some time before there will be any,” Shingledecker added. “I’ve seen lines down all over the city, including major high-tension lines. The station is entirely dependent on back-up generators. Some diesel is available, though not a lot yet. But money to buy it is the major factor.”

A call to Radio Lumière’s satellite service produced wider bandwidth for the station to stream audio on the Internet. “This is a major praise,” said Rickel.

An HCJB Global engineer and others working at Radio Lumière when the Jan. 12 quake struck decided to “ride out the earthquake in the building,” according to David Russell who heads the HCJB Global Technology Center in Indiana.

Alan Good had traveled to Haiti on Jan. 6 to work on the station’s FM, Stereo 92. “He spent two nights there following the quake, awaiting news from his Haitian host family,” Russell said. “It turned out that they also escaped injury.”

With help from a Mission Aviation Fellowship pilot, Good re-established contact with Russell and was flown back to the U.S. on Sunday.

Low-tech radios connect Haitians

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 08:16 PM PST

By John D. Sutter, CNN
January 20, 2010 8:27 a.m. EST

When cell phone coverage and Internet failed, some Haitians turned to amateur radio to communicate.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

- Amateur radio provides a back-up link between Haiti and the world

- Proponents say radio signals are often the only way to communicate after a disaster

- A Haitian man says amateur radio helped him contact family in the U.S.

- After initial outages, mobile phone service has been returning to Haiti

Read the story here :
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/20/haiti.amateur.radio/index.html?hpt=C2

Radio stations getting back on the air in Port-au-Prince

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 08:15 PM PST

Source: Reporters sans Frontières
Date: 20 Jan 2010

Read the report here :

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/VVOS-7ZVNNA?OpenDocument

In Haiti, UN radio station resumes broadcasts with French support

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 08:14 PM PST

20 January 2010 – One week after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, the United Nations radio station in Port-au-Prince, MINUSTAH FM, is back on air with material and technical assistance from Radio France and Télédiffusion de France.

Read the full story here :

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33538&Cr=haiti&Cr1=

TDP/ DRM test transmissions from TDF Montsinery (French Guiana) to Florida

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 08:12 PM PST

TDP Radio will perform DRM test transmissions from TDF Montsinery (French Guiana) to Florida on January 21 and 22 2010 17755 kHz 1900 – 2100 UTC; may be a possibility of regular transmissions to Florida as of February 1st if test results are OK.

Frequency: 17755 kHz,
Power: 100 kW RMS,
Antenna: 4/4, azimuth 311°

DRM parameters:
- B mode,
- MSC = 64 QAM
- CR = 0,6
- Audio encoding : AAC + SBR,
- Language: English.

Wishing you successfull listenings, reports appreciated
at f6ajw@wanadoo.fr !

Regards / 73.

Jacques GRUSON F6AJW

(Via DRMNA yg)

Radio Netherlands partners AIR for co-production

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 07:35 PM PST

By: RnM Team 20 Jan 10 18:08 IST

MUMBAI: Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) has entered into a new partnership with All India Radio (AIR) for co-production of a show – Earth Beat. Both organisations will work together in the co production called Earth Beat India. The programme will be broadcast nationally by AIR in English and Hindi every two weeks.

Read the full story here :
http://www.radioandmusic.com/content/editorial/news/radio-netherlands-partners-air-co-production

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