From: xberri@quark2.aero.org (Jason E. Berri)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: SCDX 2134
Date: 12 Jul 91 20:51:00 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation
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:: SWEDEN CALLING DXERS ::
:: from Radio Sweden ::
:: Number 2134--June 18, 1991 ::
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Shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio Sweden.
This week's bulletin was written by George Wood.
Packet Radio BID SCDX2134
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We're happy to report that the conflict between Radio Sweden management and
the English Service staff has been resolved, and Sarah Roxstrom has resumed
her duties of head of the English Service.
More surprises are coming from Radio Sweden, but we can't tell you about them
yet. Stay tuned!
EUROPEAN SATELLITE-TV:
The European Space Agency has lost control over the Olympus satellite at 18.8
degrees West. The problem has stopped relays of programs from the BBC and
Italy's RAI. There are hopes that control can be regained in a few weeks when
the satellite's solar batteries have recharged.
(Reuters)
Updating our recent report that the Spanish language Galavision is now
carried only on Panamsat, Mike Guy says that Galavision is still also going
out on Eutelsat 2-F1, but the station has been frequently displaying captions
saying they will be on Panamsat exclusively from October. (Mike Guy, England)
Middle East Broadcasting, which is scheduled to start programming to Arabic
speakers in Europe next year, is reported to be already sending test pictures
on Eutelsat 2-F1 at 13 degrees Est, on 11.554 GHz. ("Elektronikvaerlden") It
will transmit news on a 24 hour basis along the lines of CNN. A second
channel on Arabsat will broadcast to the Arab countries. (BBC Monitoring)
Meanwhile, there's a new outlet on Eutelsat 1-F4 at 7 degrees East, RTV
Belgrade from Yugoslavia using the transponder at 11.178 GHz. English news is
reported at 20:30 hrs. ("Elektronikvaerlden")
EUROPEAN SATELLITE-RADIO:
Eurojazz is a new stereo jazz channel, operating 24 hours a day on the Star-1
transponder on Eutelsat 2-F2 at 10 degrees East. ("Elektronikvaerlden")
A British-based pan-European satellite radio station is to be launched in
August. Quality Europe FM will be carried on one of the BSB transponders on
Astra. It will concentrate on an audience of 35 years and up, and will offer
an information format, with news from CNN and Reuters. ("The European")
The next Eutelsat, 2-F3, is scheduled for launch on August 8th, It is to be
positioned at 16 degrees East. (Jan Johansson, Sweden)
NORTH AMERICAN SATELLITE-TV:
The new Fox cable channel started last week on transponder 2 on the Galaxy 3
satellite, at 93.5 degrees West. (Ed Ellers on CompuServe)
The ABC Network will begin scrambling most of its program feeds in September,
using the Leitch encoding system. Right now ABC is available unscrambled on
the Telstar 301 satellite at 96 degrees West and the Telstar 302 satellite at
85 degrees West, in both cases on transponder 10. (Dave Arre on CompuServe)
The Satcom C5 satellite is to be moved to 139 degrees West on July 15th, and
all Alaskan programming on the C1 satellite will be moved to C5 which will be
renamed Aurora 2. C1 will then be moved to 137 degrees and the uplinks of
network affiliates from Denver that were shifted to the Satcom 4 satellite
will be moved back to C1.
Galaxy 1 moves on degrees east next week, to 133 degrees West. Galaxy 6 will
replace Westat 4 in October, 1991.
Canada is moving its programming from the failed Anik 1 satellite to Galaxy 6
at 91 degrees, until a new Canadian satellite can be put into orbit. Anik E2
is now considered a write-off since even though Ku works, the C band antennas
failed to deploy and the bird can't be positioned or tracked without the C-
band antennas.
Three of the six Ku-band transponders on the new Spacenet 4 satellite have
gone bad and are considered unusable. ("Westsat Communications Chart" via
Guruka Singh Khalsa on CompuServe)
A direct satellite broadcasting venture called Sky Cable, which was to carry
more than 100 channels, has been disbanded, Sky had four powerful backers:
News Corporation, which owns British Sky Broadcasting, NBC, satellite makers
Hughes Communications, and the cable operators Cablevision.
However, Hughes says it has signed an agreement with United States Satellite
Broadcasting to build and run a separate DBS system by the summer of 1994.
The satellite would be able to carry up to 150 channels, including regular
cable channels, pay-per-view networks, and high definition television
services. (Guruka Singh Khalsa)
NORTH AMERICAN SATELLITE-RADIO:
A new satellite radio service for people interested in electronics is about
to begin on Spacenet 3, transponder 21, using the audio subcarrier at 6.2
MHz. Topics will be mainly amateur radio and satellite technology. (Gary
Bourgois)
ASIAN SATELLITE BROADCASTING:
The music video channel MTV and HutchVision have announced plans to launch an
Asian version of MTV. The service would be carried by HutchVision's Star-TV
satellite, to 31 countries. The Asian MTV service is to begin broadcasting in
September. ("San Francisco Chronicle")
Nippon Television Network and Mitsubishi have joined to launch a satellite
broadcast music service using digital pulse code modulation. PCM Japan hopes
to start providing the service in April, 1992. Three channels will be
available for subscription, to listeners with satellite dishes and receivers.
(Guruka Singh Khalsa)
DIRECT SATELLITE RADIO/WARC:
We've reported before about a proposed direct satellite radio system for
international broadcasters called Radiosat. Another company called
Worldspace, based in Washingtion, DC, has similar aims. Their first project
would be a service called Afrispace, which would broadcast 9 digital radio
channels to Africa. They want to use the band between 1470 and 1530 MHz.
Another company called satellite CD Radio hopes to broadcast directly to
motor vehicles through-out North America. with CD quality digital
transmissions.
All of these plans depend on the upcoming World Administrative Radio
Conference, WARC 92, being held in southern Spain in February next year,
where direct satellite radio will be discussed. Today's English edition of
Sweden Calling DXers includes and interview with Simon Spanswick, who is
working on WARC preparation for the BBC World Service.
Another World Administrative Radio Conference, to evaluate a computer program
for allocating shortwave frequency schedules, has been postponed from 1993 to
1995.
PUBLICATIONS:
Many people like to hunt stations in the tropical bands, between 2 and 6 MHz.
The 19th edition of the DSWCI Tropical Bands Survey is now available. In 24
pages, this lists all active broadcasting stations between 2 and 5.9 MHz, and
is an excellent guide for the tropical band DXer.
The Tropical Band Survey is available by airmail for 35 Danish kronor or 9
international reply coupons, or by surface post for 30 Danish kronor or 7
IRCs. The address is: DSWCI, c/o Bent Nielsen, Betty Nansens Alle 49, DK-2000
Fredriksberg, Denmark.
The Club Europeean de DX Radio TV has published the 1991 edition of "FM Radio
Stations in France". In 200 pages, this lists more than 4000 stations. It's
available in France for 120 French francs and in other parts of Europe for
130 francs, from: Club Europeean de DX Radio TV, BP 114, F-13652 Salon de
Provence Cedex, France.
The Union of Asian DXers has kept its promise to return to regular
publishing. The April issue is now out. This includes a report from Sarath
Weerakoon that Afghanistan is now broadcasting its external service in
English to South and Southeast Asia and the Far East at 09:30-10:30 hrs now
on 21750, 17720, and 4940 from the Soviet Union and on 9635 kHz directly from
Afghanistan.
Sarath also has monitored the return of broadcasting in Iraq. The domestic
service in Arabic is now on 3980 and, 4600, and 15600 kHz. There is a Kurdish
Service on 7350 kHz, with a sign-on at 01:25 hrs, and another transmission at
13:00-20:30 hrs.
And belated congratulations to Sarah Weerakoon and his new bride Niranhjalee,
who were married on May 22nd.
And that's it for this time. We'll be back with another edition of the
program in two weeks. Until then, good listening and take care!
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Sweden Calling DXers is the world's oldest radio program for shortwave
listeners. Radio Sweden has presented this round-up of radio news, features,
and interviews since 1948. The program is now broadcast on the first and
third Tuesday of each month. RS broadcasts to North America:
15:30 hrs on 17875 and 21500 kHz
02:00 hrs on 9695 and 11705 kHz
03:30 hrs on 9695 and 11705 kHz
To Latin America:
23:30 hrs on 9695 and 11705 kHz
To Europe, Africa, and the Middle East:
17:00 hrs on 1179, 6065, and 9615 kHz
18:30 hrs on 6065 and (Middle East) 15270 kHz
19:30 hrs on 1179, 6065 and 9655 kHz
20:30 hrs on 6065 kHz
22:00 hrs on 1179 and 6065 kHz
23:30 hrs on 1179 kHz
And to Asia and the Pacific:
11:30 hrs on 11960, 17740, and 21570 kHz
13:00 hrs on 11960, 17740, and 21570 kHz
01:00 hrs on 9765 kHz
Contributions can be sent to DX Editor George Wood by fax to +468-667-6283,
from Internet, MCI Mail or CompuServe (to the CompuServe mailbox 70247,3516),
through the FidoNet system to 2:201/697 or to SM0IIN at the packet radio BBS
SM0ETV.
Reports can also be sent to:
Radio Sweden
S-105 10 Stockholm
Sweden
Contributions should be NEWS about electronic media--from shortwave to
satellites--and not loggings of information already available from sources
such as the "World Radio TV Handbook". Clubs and DX publications may reprint
material as long as Sweden Calling DXers and the original contributor are
acknowledged, with the exception of items from BBC Monitoring, which are
copyright.
We welcome comments and suggestions about the electronic edition, Sweden
Calling DXers, and our programs in general.
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