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It`s not the end of radio. Radio is hopefully just beginning to
reinvent itself. ¸ 2005 MSNBC Interactive (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via
DXLD)
While I'm not familiar with the technical parameters of XM's audio, I
would agree that based on personal experience (I have been using a
Roady2 for several months) the audio quality on music channels is not
quite up to snuff, at least to my ears. However I believe the
assertion that the audio is comparable to a 128KB MP3 audio file is a
bit of an exaggeration.
BTW: I just got my notice in the mail last week regarding XM's rate
increase to $12.95/month. Existing users can lock in to the current
rate structure ($9.95/month), if they pre-pay for a year or more. 73,
(Ken Kopp, KS, ibid.)
COMMERCIAL RADIO TAKES A BIG HIT FROM HIGH-TECH --- By Dave Watson
Publish Date: 10-Mar-2005 Rod Filbrandt illustration
Is commercial radio on its last legs? It could be. The same forces
eroding TV broadcasting are nibbling away at radio. What forces would
those be? The Internet, of course, but also digitization in general
and the scarce resource of the usable broadcast spectrum, which is now
coveted for other uses. And let's give proper credit to the big-
business side of radio, which has massively consolidated individual
stations into a predictable, insipid, and irritating waste of time...
http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=8563
(Georgia Straight [BC], via Bruce MacGibbon, DXLD)
** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Re WorldSpace going to subscription:
IT STINKS. Worldspace was originally set up, so we were told, as a
charitable organisation to broadcast to the poorer countries of
Africa, Asia, and eventually S America. Now that Worldspace has sold
the receivers it seems that this was a front for what has become
capitalist exploitation of those poorer areas of the world. WRN should
be ashamed to part of this exploitation. Those of us in the richer
countries are less affected where WRN is available by FTA satellite,
and terrestrial AM or FM relays or are those to be encrypted as well?
Rgds, (Gareth Foster, March 15, BDXC-UK via DXLD)
** JAPAN. The latest Radio Japan bulletin entitled NHK World News will
be the last issue. This publication has in the past covered news in
English and Japanese on programmes on Radio Japan and TV. R. Japan
will be celebrating their 70th anniversary in June this year (Michael
Murray, UK, Making Contact, March World DX Club Contact via DXLD)
Originally Radio Tokyo, from the Empire (gh)
** KOREA NORTH. Just when I said 30 and 35 MHz were dead they have
jumped back to life. Here's what I heard today:
35205v, V. of Korea. Out of the noise at 0200z with interval signal,
and at a poor level but there! No sign of it shortly after. H3 3 x
11735.
37380.2v, V. of Korea H4 4 x 9345. my first log of this, in this out
of the way, part of the band. My best hunting grounds are usually
around 30 and 35 MHz. Heard at 0235z at thresh-hold with typical QSB.
Couldn't tell the language, but had it on the R75 and R7000. Checked
for H2 18690 no audio heard and H3 28035 no audio heard. It was
drifting as I was listening to it. 73's (Dave Vitek, Adelaide, South
Australia, Icom R75 G5RV and Icom R7000 6 element on 50 MHz and a
broken NRD525 VFO does not work! March 15, harmonics yg via DXLD)
** LATVIA. EMR this weekend: 20th of March 2005 [Sunday] On 9290 kHz,
1600 UT [until?]. Good Listening 73s (Tom Taylor, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LATVIA. Radio Nord in Riga on 945 is planning to start with DRM
broadcast during the night hours from July/August. The daytime
transmissions will continue to be exclusively in analogue mode.
(Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, March 15, mwdx yg via DXLD)
** MEXICO. 2390, R. Huayacocotla, Mar 5 0045 - Frequent IDs in the
middle of brass marching band style music. Signoff announcements
starting at 0056 with trumpets, IDs and children singing. (Harold
Cones, Bodie Island NC, OBX DX via dxing.info via DXLD) So still on
** MOLDOVA. A-05 remaining services via Maiac Grigoriopol-MDA, some
vailed brokered by VT-Merlin.
5950 1700-2100 28S,38 KCH 500 180 MDA VOR GFC
7180 0000-0500 27N KCH 500 310 MDA VOR GFC
7350 2000-2200 27,28 KCH 300 310 MDA VOR GFC
7360 2000-2200 28 KCH 500 309 MDA YFR GFC
7460 0230-0315 39-41 KCH 500 116 MDA MNO GFC
7480 1800-1845 40 KCH 500 116 MDA MNO GFC
9665 0000-0500 8,9,11,27 KCH 500 295 MDA VOR GFC
11530 0400-0800 39 KCH 300 116 Kur MDA MEZ TDP
11530 0400-1600 39,40 KCH 500 115 MDA TDP GFC
11530 0800-1200 39 KCH 300 116 Kur MDA MEZ TDP
11530 1200-1600 39 KCH 500 116 Kur MDA MEZ TDP
13800 1630-1715 39,40 KCH 500 116 MDA MNO GFC
(Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX Mar 9 via DXLD)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. Further to the comments by GH in DXLD 5-045, "So
that explains what replaces 1512 with the demise of RVi!", those who
read my Feedback page published on the website on 8th March will
already have seen the following:
"Regarding the transmissions on 1512 kHz, that service will indeed end
on 26 March. From 27 March, we will broadcast at 2300-2400 UT via
Radio Sweden's transmitter on 1179 kHz. This is an interim solution,
as we want to be on the air at an earlier time, but at the moment we
can't find an alternative. Unfortunately, due to government budget
cuts, we don't have the money to buy an hour a day of airtime, and we
have to find another broadcaster with whom we can exchange airtime, as
we did with Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal. We are, of course, also
on the air via WRN on the Sky Digital satellite platform, the same
transmission that's currently being relayed by Spectrum Radio." (Andy
Sennitt, March 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
So apparently the single hour of airtime currently used by RNW at
Hörby will be relocated to Sölvesborg 1179 kHz. But I am quite
surprised about the time chosen for this broadcast, not less than two
hours later than the current late night slot. 2300 UT will be midnight
in the UK, probably just acceptable as a very late show. But in
Central Europe this will be at 1 AM, really at dead of night I would
say. Andy, perhaps you have a comment on this? And Glenn: Why in the
world 666 kHz?! All the best, (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
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