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Radio Dellen from Sweden on
1602 kHz
 Radio
Dellen
from Delsbo in Sweden has begun broadcasting on
1602 kHz. The station has been logged slightly below
the official frequency at 1601.9 kHz. The station,
a joint project of radio hobbyists from the Delsbo
Radioklubb (DRAK) and Radio Ljusdal, a local FM
station, is on the 24 hours a day until August 31st
2002. The station transmits at a power of 60-65
watts. The official launch date was July 1st, but
the station was heard already in late June as far
away as Finland with its test transmissions. Radio
Dellen mostly relays the Swedish-language programs
of Radio Ljusdal, but has also a few special broadcasts
for DXers. The station is using a vertical antenna
reaching 18 meters in height. Radio Dellen can be
contacted by email directly
or via DRAK,
or by mail at Radio Dellen, c/o Erik Olsson, Knutslunda
2603, S-820 60 Delsbo, Sweden. The phone number
to the studio is +46 651 15519.
In
July 2000 and again in 2001 the same organizers
put WFÄX Radio, or Fäxradio (Barn
radio in English), on the air in connection
with a local summer festival in Färila called
Färilaveckan. This was the first time
since the 1920's that a private radio station had
been given permission to broadcast on mediumwaves
in Sweden. WFÄX had a transmitter power of
55 watts, and was heard in Finland and Germany as
well. Färila and Delsbo are located about 40
kilometers apart in the county of Gävleborg
in Central Sweden.
(DXing.info June 30, 2002,
updated July 20)
First X-band Canadian on the
air
CJWI from Montréal
Québec has begun test transmissions on 1610
kHz. CJWI is the first licensed X-band station from
Canada. According to CRTC's decision to approve
the operation, the new station will provide programming
to serve the Francophone ethnocultural communities
of Haitian, Latin-American and African descent in
the greater Montréal area. The license has
been allocated to CPAM Radio Union.com Inc, which
is a private commercial company owned by Mr. Jean
Ernest Pierre. Contact information is given as 3733
Jarry East, 2nd Floor, Montreal, PQ H1Z 2G1, telephone
514-287-1288. (Sheldon
Harvey and Barry McLarnon via NRC-AM via DXLD 2-105/106
via DXing.info June 30, 2002 / updated John Sgrulletta
via DXplorer via DXing.info August 4)
Family Radio goes global via
Merlin
 Merlin
Communications International has signed a one-year
contract with U.S. religious broadcaster Family
Radio to deliver Family Radio programming via sites
in the UK, Ascencion Island, United Arab Emirates
and South Africa. "This contract will allow
us to broadcast a much clearer signal to Africa
and other key locations”, says David Hoff,
Family Radio’s International Manager. Family
Radio programming is received by Merlin in its Central
London Control Room via FTP and fixed circuits,
and they are then distributed via satellite to its
UK and overseas sites for distribution on shortwave.
Transmission details:
| Time
(UTC) |
Transmitter site |
Coverage
Area |
Language |
| 1400-1700 |
Abu Dhabi (UAE) |
India |
English & Hindi |
| 1900-2000 |
Woofferton (UK) |
Middle East |
Arabic |
| 1700-1900 |
Woofferton
(UK) |
Western
Russia |
Russian |
| 1700-1800 |
Ascension Island |
Central Africa |
English |
| 2000-2100 |
Ascension Island |
Central & W.
Africa |
English |
| 1900-2100 |
Meyerton (S. Africa) |
Southern Africa |
English |
(DXing.info June 26, 2002)
Decision
on Internet radio royalties under fire
 Both
Internet radio webcasters and the recording industry
are unhappy with a U.S. government ruling on royalty
fees for music played over Internet radio. The Copyright
Office of the Library of Congress has decided to charge
webcasters 0.07 cents per song per listener.
The International Webcasting Association
says the rate is too high to permit small commercial
webcasters to continue to operate. Cary Sherman, president
of the Recording Industry Association of America says
that the decision doesn't reflect the fair market
value of music and means that artists and record labels
will subsidize webcasters.
Internet radio stations already pay
3.5 percent of total revenues to songwriters and publishers.
The second royalty fee, decided by the Copyright Office,
is shared by the performers and the record companies.
Traditional
radio broadcasting stations in the U.S. have been
exempt from paying royalties for each song, which
the webcasters will now have to do.
The rate applies to both Internet-only
radio stations as well as to rebroadcasting of AM/FM
stations. About 5000 broadcasting stations stream
their signals on the Internet, but there are tens
of thousands of Internet-only stations. Non-commercial
webcasters will have to pay a reduced rate of 0.02
cents per song per listener.
Unless the issue is taken to the U.S.
Court of Appeals, rates take effect in September and
first payments are due in November. (DXing.info
June 23, 2002)
Radio San Miguel from Peru
on 5500 kHz
Heard testing occasionally
since April, Radio San Miguel is now on the air
regularly, identified by Björn Malm in Ecuador.
Radio San Miguel is located in Provincia de San
Miguel, Departamento de Cajamarca, and broadcasts
on 5500v kHz (ex-6339 kHz), 1450 kHz and 101.1 MHz.
A station
identification is found in the audio section.
(DXing.info June 20,
2002)
Radio Paz Perú Internacional
new on 4678 kHz
Once again a new Peruvian
shortwave station has been heard by Björn Malm:
Radio Paz Perú Internacional from Chiclayo
logged regularly since June 12th on 4678.86 kHz.
The station transmits daily at 2300-0300 UTC. Has
email.
Paul Ormandy has later logged the station tentatively
on 4677.5 kHz. (DXing.info
June 16, 2002, updated June 24)
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La Voz de
tu Conciencia from Colombia testing on 6064.5 kHz
Previously used by Radio Super
and later by Colmundo in Colombia, a 5 kilowatt
transmitter on 6064.55 kHz is now owned by the evangelical
organization Colombia para Cristo and identifies
as La Voz de Tu Conciencia. The
station is located in Lomalinda, simulcasting on
88.8 FM and 1530 kHz AM (Radio Alcaraván).
You can reach the station via Librería Colombia
para Cristo, Calle 44 No. 13-69 Barrio Palermo,
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. Email reports are
also welcome and should be addressed to Station
manager Russel
M. Stendal.
The
station was heard as unidentified on June 6 and
7 with música llanera and occasional
gospel snippets by Rafael Rodríguez in Colombia,
Jean Burnell in Canada, Björn Malm in Ecuador,
and also by Kenneth Olofsson and Björn Fransson
in Sweden. No headway as to the origin of the signal
was made until Rafael Rodríguez got in touch
with a station representative in Bogotá,
whose phone number was mentioned in Malm's report
and also on the mediumwave station Radio Alcaraván
(1530 kHz), previously logged and reported by Rafael.
There
are station identifications of the test
transmission and the new
frequency (6060 kHz) in the audio section.
In August the station was finally heard on 6060.1
kHz. With the frequency change the station aims
to avoid interference caused by Family Radio. Programming
in English is expected to start later, says Station
Manager Russel M. Stendal in an email to Henrik
Klemetz.
In September the station moved to 6010 kHz
to comply with a request by the Ministry of Communications
to change frequency. First heard on 6010.5 kHz by
Rafael Rodríguez on September 24. (DXing.info
June 16, 2002, last update September 28)
Sharp cuts
at Radio Finland
 Radio
Finland will end foreign service broadcasts on shortwave
in English, German and French. Some foreign language
programming will however continue to be broadcast
locally for the domestic audience, the Finnish Broadcasting
Company (YLE) announced on Wednesday. While trying
to cut costs, YLE will maintain a shortwave service
in Finnish and Swedish to serve
license fee payers traveling abroad. Company sources
say that Russian broadcasts will continue to be
heard at least on the AM band, which reaches Northern
Europe. Foreign service in English, German and French
is bound to end when the current schedule expires
on October 27th 2002. The cutbacks are part of a
Development plan, which was approved by the YLE
Administrative Council on June 12th to guide YLE
operations in 2003-2005. Official decisions to confirm
the proposed measures are expected in late August.
As expected, the plan was confirmed by the YLE Administrative
Council on August 26th. English, German and French
are out, while Finnish, Swedish and Russian broadcasts
will continue. YLE plans to lay off the foreign
language staff of Radio Finland, but news production
in English will however continue at YLE24, YLE's
new digital television news channel.
(DXing.info June 12, 2002, updated August 26, 2002)
Greenland back on shortwave
 Kalaallit
Nunaata Radioa is back on shortwave with unofficial
transmissions on the frequency of 3812 kHz USB. The
transmitter is located in Tasiilaq and has a power
of only 100 watts. Broadcast times during the summer
are 1330-1430 and 2000-2200 UTC. A vintage station
identification is found in the audio section.
(Stig Hartvig Nielsen
via DXLD 2-093 via DXing.info June 7, 2002)
World Radio TV Handbook has
lost its editor
 The
leading handbook on international radio has lost
its editor in chief. David Bobbett has left the
company for another job, says WRTH publisher Nicholas
Hardyman. WRTH office in Milton Keynes UK has also
been closed. What does this mean for the future
of WRTH, which for 56 years has been the
handbook for DXers?
Hardyman
assures that the next edition will be published
on time in December 2002 and that information will
be updated. Hardyman himself has been responsible
for updating the National radio section already
since February 2001, and Sean Gilbert - who worked
as Assistant Editor to Bobbett - will now be the
editor of the International section. Technical
Editor John Nelson will continue to review new equipment
and provide articles. (DXing.info
June 6, updated June 17, 2002)
Radio Santa Rosa new from Peru
on 5122 kHz
Radio Santa Rosa from Peru
has begun test transmissions on 5122.07 kHz, sometimes
mentioning "estamos en calidad de prueba".
The station is located in distrito de Tabaconas,
la provincia de San Ignacio, el departamento de
Cajamarca, announcing address as "Avenida Huancabamba
s/n, Tabaconas". Heard by Björn Malm in
Ecuador, announcing 5120 kHz as the nominal frequency
and closing down at 0000 and 0100 UTC.
(DXing.info June 2, 2002, updated July 14, 2002)
Radio Khost from Afghanistan new
on 1300 kHz
A new mediumwave station has
begun broadcasting from Afghanistan, according to
Martin Hadlow of the United Nations in Kabul. Radio
Khost from the town of Khost is broadcasting on 1300
kHz at 0730-0930 and 1330-1530 UTC with a power of
only 500 watts. All broadcasts are in Pashto. The
station has not been heard even in the capital Kabul,
but who knows what a lucky DXer may catch... (DXing.info
June 4, 2002)
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