In these days when we’re faced with shortwave stations closing down, it is refreshing to know that some international broadcasters continue to defy the pundits. And so it is that the Chinese international broadcaster (Radio Peking, Radio Beijing, China Radio International) is now celebrating its 50th year of broadcasting in Tamil.
Here is the whole story from the IBN Live website.
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Posted in History, Shortwave, Stations
Tagged China, China Radio International, International broadcasting, radio, Tamil, Tamil language
Here’s a great up-to-date site; “Welcome to Africa” details transmissions from Africa available for download as PDF to have beside you when you’re DXing. The Dark Continent has always been the hardest to hear in NZ so has become a favoured target for Kiwi DXers.
And for more detail, the British DX Club’s “Africa On Shortwave” website provides all the specific and other info you’ll need.
Just read an interesting article on Radio World discussing pirate radio although the theme equally applies to clandestine broadcasts.
With countless establishment broadcasters ceasing or cutting back on shortwave broadcasts, pirate and clandestine stations offer good opportunities for the die-hard DXer.
Remember those numbers and phonetics stations with their coded broadcasts, like the famous Lincolnshire Poacher from Akrotiri RAF base in Cyprus, etc? This You Tube clip will bring back some memories.
And there is more info on Wikipedia.
“HAARP” the Alaskan-based High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project in Alaska has closed. The program was quite controversial, pumping huge amounts of RF energy into the ether and there was wild speculation that it was a form of weapon masquerading as scientific research.
When the project first commenced back in 1997, they offered QSL cards for the first transmissions.
English: HAARP antenna array (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Listeners to KVTK-AM of Yankton, South Dakota,
were recently without the station for a few
days. This is because an accident caused the
stations broadcast tower to fall to the ground.
The tower, which was 309 feet tall, was situated
in the middle of what was described as a small,
grassy field located about five miles west of the
town of Vermillion. Reportedly, a man cutting
the grass Monday afternoon June 10th clipped one
of the tower’s guy-wires, causing it to collapse
shortly after 4 p.m. local time.
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