Radio Sweden Turns 70!

Celebrate with Us!

This year, the external service of Swedish Radio (Sveriges Radio) turns 70.
On July 1, 1938 the first ever broadcast from Stockholm directed abroad was
in Swedish. A year later, programmes in English and German went on air.
Today Swedish Radio broadcasts in 13 different languages.

Radio Sweden will of course celebrate this anniversary together with YOU,
our listeners and Web users.

Ahead of our anniversary programme in September, we'll provide you with a
special archive including the most interesting reports of the previous seven
decades and an online competition.

Join us on this page for more information!

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RNZI Mailbox Documentary features Contemporary radio in Fiji, Nauru and Solomon Islands

Contemporary Radio in Fiji, Nauru & Solomon Islands
RNZI Mailbox Documentary May 12
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It's 20 years since the first military coup in Fiji. What does
contemporary radio in this Pacific nation sound like in 2008?

There are two main players [state owned Radio Fiji and private
Communications Fiji Ltd] both operating a series of national networks
from Suva studios, and a small handful of independent stations,
nearly all located in Suva as well.

Community radio stations in this country of 850,000 people don't
exist, and is this a consequence of military rule and fear of
grassroots media?

In the Solomon Islands, itself suffering civil tension, eight small
villages on Isabel Province have been broadcasting their own local
community programs five hours daily from 'radio in a suitcase'
systems.

Well supported by local villagers, these new community radio stations
offer a glimpse of a successful future for low tech, low cost and low
environmental impact FM radio across the Pacific.

A similar system operates on crisis torn Nauru, successfully
introduced by the University of the South Pacific and broadcasting as
Triple Nine FM.

Listen to Mailbox on RNZI on Monday May 12 as David Ricquish of the
Radio Heritage Foundation explores some of the issues, and plays
audio clips from four Fijian FM stations recently recorded in Suva.

Visit www.rnzi.com for shortwave frequencies and times, and to
download an audio on demand version of the program that will remain
available on line for four weeks from May 12.

For more information about broadcasting in Fiji, Nauru and the
Solomon Islands, visit www.radioheritage.net. An online version of
the program script along with images will be available later from
www.radioheritage.net.

Full searchable lists of operating AM and shortwave radio stations in
the Pacific are available free on line in the Pacific Asian Log Radio
Guides. An FM guide will be available shortly. Visit
www.radioheritage.net to access the current radio guides today.

The Radio Heritage Foundation is a non-profit organization connecting
the heritage of radio broadcasting and popular culture across the
Pacific. Our website is www.radioheritage.net.

Radio New Zealand International is the award winning shortwave
broadcaster serving the Pacific from Wellington, New Zealand since
1948, www.rnzi.com.

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[dxld] World of Radio 1405 summary

*R. Taiwan International asks listeners whether to continue on SW to
North America (via WYFR 5950, 9680)
*R. Nikkei, 6055, Japan, has bilingual with English show Saturdays 0830-0900
*Clandestines to North Korea via Darwin heard on 11775, 11690
*What`s the unID on 3370 heard in California at 1339, 1430? Trans-
Pacific, mixing product?
*Monitoring Myanmar in Europe on 5985.8, 7185.1
*Papua New Guinea on 3290, nominally R. Central, carries Karai Radio service
*Radio New Ireland, 3905, sends own QSL card to Japan
*Wantok Radio Light, PNG, after a month heard again in NZ at 0914 on 7324.96
*Mediawatch on RNZI, Sat 2110-2134 on 15720, Sun 1012-1036 on 7145
*RNZI abruptly moved from 6095 to 6170 April 16 for analog at 1300-
1550; DRM supposed to be off during this period, but heard on 7145
*WMLK, Pennsylvania has been off the air since February on 9265;
internet stream http://wmlkradio.net doesn`t work either. Second
transmitter never on the air yet but thinking of modifying it for DRM
*Strong signal with music on 4800 at 0845, 1000 believed to be XERTA reactivated
*Mexican National DX Meeting this year will be August 14-17 at Gómez
Palacio, Durango
*Salvdoran station on 1080, Radio CRET, heard in Guatemala on harmonic
2159.92 at 0230 [WRTH 2008 had it inactive]
*Mysterious ELCOR transmitter test from Guápiles, Costa Rica, 5954.134
variable, moved to earlier time, heard in Florida, CR at 2130-2156
*Radio Progreso, Cuba, heard 1032-1055 on 6005(?) before RHC opened on 6000
*Monitoring on PEI near Sackville indicates R. República on 6100 at
0200 is from same site as 6135 at 2200, 6155 at 0000, i.e. UK; it
overlaps with RCI 6100 at 0200-0204
*World of Radio 1405, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 or woradio at
yahoo.com – consult http://ww.worldofradio.org for much more info
*Thanks this week for financial support from Dario Monferini, Italy
*Get your DX news while driving, Saturdays at 1730 UT when World of
Radio via WRN is on Sirius channel 140 --- unless pre-empted by
stupid ballgames
*Two different programs from Bonaire on 6165 and 6195 at 0400-0430 and
0500-0530 produce spurs on 6135, 6225
*R. Apintie, Suriname, 4990, widely reported this week at 0930, 0620,
0450, sometimes in Dutch or English
*R. Nueva Atlántida, Iquitos, Perú, reactivated on 4790, first
reported by Rafael Rodríguez, Colombia, April 18 at 2258 to 0230
sign-off; but clashes with the other Peruvian, R. Visión, Chiclayo,
around 4790.2. Atlántida slightly on the low side around 4789.6, also
at 1003
*One of the two Brazilians on 4905 heard IDing as Nossa Radio until
0258 sign-off; a slogan or name change?
*R. Cultura, São Paulo, 9615, instead distorted on 9579 variable, at
1840
*Brazilian pirate, radio livre on 7695, Sat & Sun 0300 with 50 watts,
called Cidade Oldies, which means City Velhinhos
*R. Gazeta, São Paulo, confirmed in RGS active on 5955 and 15325 at
1900; also heard in Belgium on 15325
*Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, also has been hearing LRA36,
Antarctica, since April 14, reactivated on 15476 between 1900 and
2100 M-F; had been off since at least January 1
*First batch of 100 QSL cards for R. Saint Helena Day, 2007,
dispatched April 12
*Benin 1566 schedule in WOR 1403 was one hour off as TWR website
showed wrong timezone; really opens at 0300 and 1700; also heard from
1835 to 2215 in Italy, mixing with India and South Korea
*Big story last week, reactivated R. Africa, Equatorial Guinea on
15190, lasted only 7 days; gone again after April 17
*Botswana publication expects Zimbabwe to attack VOA relay station to
cut off communications with Washington
*Schedule of BBC Darfur Salaam service in Arabic via Cyprus
*Radio Netherlands changes 67% of frequencies in English to South Asia
at 1400-1557, new 5830 and 9885, the latter better in Georgia than
9890
*Radio 700, 1 kW private station in Krekel, Germany, testing 6005, and
heard OK in UK; but will have lots of co- and adjacent-channel
interference at various hours
*Radio Prague`s 2130 English to North America heard well on 11600
*R. Slovakia International`s A-08 English schedule
*Croatia closes down all MW transmitters except 1134 and 594=DRM
*24-hour SW schedule from inside Croatia
*Israel Radio finally starts streaming its classical music station,
http://www.iba.org.il/kolhamusica/
*Islamists propose replacing GMT/UTC, a colonial relic, with Mecca
time, since Mecca is the center of the world with zero geomagnetic
declination (at the moment); if so, should be mean solar time, since
standard time was not invented until 1888. That would be a lot more
fun to convert around the world
*Eagerly-awaited EiBi shortwave schedules for A-08 season are now
available, via http://www.eibispace.de
*Domestic Broadcasting Survey 2008 now for sale by DSWCI; details and
sample pages at http://www.dswci.org/dbs
*European Mediumwave Guide contest closes April 30, nice prizes, hard
questions: see http://www.emwg-contest.org
*Propagation outlook from Boulder issued April 22: A and K indices
peaking at 20 and 5 May 2, as solar flux declines from 75 to 70 ###

[dxld] Logs from NH-USA, April 21-22.

4669.3, BOLIVIA, R. San Miguel, 0225-0231*, Apr 22, Spanish. Ancr w/ mx & listener call-ins; off at 0231 w/ no discernible ID or ancment, poor-fair. (Barbour-NH)

4716.63, BOLIVIA, R. Yura, 0111-0123, Apr 21, Spanish. Up-beat music w/ ancr at 0115; still going at 0135 re-check; poor. (Barbour-NH)

4754.9, BRASIL, R. Imaculada Conceicao, 0141-0152, Apr 22, Portuguese. Various ancrs w/ religous talks; poor-fair w/ CODAR. (Barbour-NH)

4777, GABON, RTV Gabonaise, 0509-0527, Apr 22, French. Ancr b/w EZL Afropop/hilife music; several IDs in passing as "Radio National"; fair. (Barbour-NH)

4780, DJIBOUTI, RTD, 0302-0316, Apr 22, Arabic. Call to Prayer at t/in; ancr w/ lenghty talk; diff. ancr at t/out; poor under presumed ute of sorts. (Barbour-NH)

4800, MEXICO, presumed XERTA, 0955-1010, Apr 22, Spanish. Testing? Continuos SP ballads thru ToH; poor-fair under band noise & mild CODAR; poor-fair. Tnx R. Wilkner tip. (Barbour-NH)

4835.6, PERU, R. Maranon, 0238-0301, Apr 22, Spanish. Ballads w/ ancr b/w selections; ad string; ID ancment at 0300; poor-weak. (Barbour-NH)

4909.76, ECUADOR, presumed R. Chaskis, 0047, Apr 21, Spanish. Ancr w/ SP talk; battling w/ WWCR spur & mild data QRM; poor. (Barbour-NH)

4990, SURINAME, presumed R. Apintie, 0452-0506, Apr 22, vern./English. Prg of continuous EZL ballads in presumed Dutch & EG oldies thru ToH; weak w/ bouts of band QRN. (Barbour-NH)

5995, MALI, RTV Malieenne, 2314-2330, Apr 22, French. Ancr w/ talk b/w
hilife mx; crushed at 2330 by 6000-RHC; fair at t/in. (Barbour-NH)

11690, "N. KOREA", Nippon no Kaze via Darwin, 1501-1530*, Apr 22,
Korean. W ancr over mx w/ freq sked & tentative ment of Australia &
Taiwan; two M w/ interview; W ancr ment Tokyo w/ "live" rpt, soundbites;
W ancr b/w mx bits at 1523; s/off ancment at 1526; filler mx from 1529;
fair. (Barbour-NH)

11775, "N. KOREA", Furusato no Kaze via Darwin, 1449-1500*, Apr 22,
Japanese. W ancr b/w musical bits; ballad at 1453; back to ancr at 1456 w/
s/off ancment; filler mx from 1459; fair w/ co-ch. DGS QRM. (Barbour-NH)

Scott R. Barbour Jr Intervale,NH-USA
R8,R75,NIR10,MLB1,200'Bevs,60Mdipole

[dxld] Radio Taiwan International possible closure of broadcasts to Nth America

Hi folks,

Today on RTI's English service it was announced that RTI upper
management is thinking about closing English language SHORTWAVE
transmissions to North America. Frequencies affected are 9680 &
5950kHz in what I presume to be the 02-04UT & 07-08UT broadcasts, both
from WYFR facilities. This is a proposal only.

If listeners to these services wish for RTI to retain these shortwave
services they should contact RTI by email. The email to write to can
be found on the RTI English Internet Streaming Tuesday broadcast. At
exactly 26 minutes & 45 seconds into the feature streaming program the
email address is provided.
{It's on the we've got mail program). RTI is wondering if it's North
American listeners would prefer to listen via the Internet. The
contact person is Paula.

Here in Australia, it's the 0700UT broadcast to Nth America that
provides the best shortwave reception, so I'm very much in favour of
retaining the shortwave service to North America.

E-mail RTI today if you wish to retain this service.

Regards

Ian Baxter