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:: SWEDEN CALLING DXERS ::
:: from Radio Sweden ::
:: Number 2208--Sept. 20, 1994 ::
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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 SCDX2208
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NORDIC MEDIA NEWS:
CYBERSPACE--For several years now the Electronic Edition of MediaScan, or
Sweden Calling DXers, has been uploaded as a text file to computer bulletin
boards, online systems like CompuServe and American Online, and to a number
of newsgroups on the Usenet part of the Internet.
But now we've taken an even bigger step into Cyberspace. Sound files of these
MediaScan programs are now archived on the Internet. If you've got Net access
and a sound card for your computer, from anywhere in the world, you can
access a digital sound file of the program, complete with interviews, sound
clips, everything. The easiest place to access the programs is using the file
transfer protocol to reach:
ftp.funet.fi/pub/sounds/RadioSweden/mediascan
That same sounds library also contains programs from the Voice of America,
which in mid-August became the first international broadcaster in Cyberspace,
making programs in 15 languages available daily. funet fi has all of them,
including the latest hourly newscasts in English.
Hopefully all of Radio Sweden's programs will be there as well in the near
future. And many thanks to Kauto Huopio and funet for making this all
possible.
You can find the digital files of MediaScan in another place on the Net, via
Internet Talk Radio, a station that only exists in Cyberspace. You can find
MediaScan at:
ftp://town.hall.org/radio/Sweden
In the future, we can probably expect many radio stations to be available
live over the Internet. Right now, I know of only one program that's been
transmitted live over the Net in real time, the BBC Radio Five Live domestic
program about computers, the "Big Byte". It was carried live on the Internet
one Sunday last month, and this coming Sunday's program is also going to be
carried there too.
Note that we also have a new Internet address for Radio Sweden and
contributions to this program:
wood@stab.sr.se
SATELLITE AND SHORTWAVE--Our new broadcast schedule goes into effect this
Sunday, and there are a number of changes. First of all, our relay to North
America via the World Radio Network on the Galaxy 5 satellite is changing
time, and this change came too late for our printed program schedule. The
actual new time for our WRN relay to North America is at 01:30 hrs UTC,
replacing 00:00 UTC. That's on Galaxy 5, on WTBS's transponder 6, audio 6.8
MHz.
The WRN relay to Europe remains the same, 20:00 hrs, but Astra transponder 22
is changing September 30th from MTV to its sister channel VH-1.
Going over to our shortwave schedule, a lot of times are shifting one hour
later UTC, to make up for Europe's shift back to standard time that day. That
may cause some confusion in North America, since you change next month.
Here's the complete new schedule:
Europe
17:15 hrs 1179 and 6065 kHz
18:30 1179, 6065, 9655, and 13690 kHz (also Africa/Middle East)
21:30 1179, 6065, and 9655 kHz (also Africa/Middle East)
22:30 1179 and 6065 kHz
23:30 1179 kHz
Asia/Pacific
12:30 hrs 13775, 15120, and 15240 kHz
23:30 11910 kHz
01:30 9895 and 11695 kHz
North America
13:30 and 14:30 hrs on 11650 and 15240 kHz
02:30 and 03:30 hrs on 6200 and 9850 kHz
Latin America
00:30 hrs on 6065 and 6200 kHz
Our broadcasts on the Astra and Tele-X satellites will only be at 17:15 and
18:30 hrs. We'll continue to use the Sky Movies Gold transponder 26 on Astra
(11.597 MHz), sound 7.74 MHz, and the TV 5 Nordic transponder on Tele-X
(12.475 MHz), sound 7.38 MHz.
I've seen a lot of channel listings tables that have included us and other
stations on the Sirius satellite, which shares 5 degrees East with Tele-X.
That's wrong...there are NO radio stations currently on Sirius. Older
listings had the Stockholm private station Storstadsradion or its successor
Classic FM on the TV4 transponder on Sirius. They aren't there. The only
place you can find Classic FM is on FM in Stockholm.
CLASSIC FM--Classic FM continues to carry a continuous tape loop on 107.5 MHz
in Stockholm, with IDs in both English and Swedish, but there's also now an
announcement in Swedish saying the station intends to begin regular
broadcasts at the end of this week.
RIX/VINYL--There's been another change in local radio here. In the MediaScan
election special last time, we heard then-Finance Minister Anne Wibble
playing requests at Radio Rix. Well, that network's Stockholm outlet has now
changed names, to reflect its golden oldies format. It's now Radio Vinyl.
The other Radio Rix stations in the other parts of the country remain Radio
Rix.
Z-RADIO--Stockholm's Z-Radio, owned by the Kinnevik media empire, is finally
putting 7 of its stations in provincial towns on the air on October 3rd,
joining the outlets here, in Gothenburg, and Sundsvall in the north. (TT)
Presumeably this has to do with Z-Radio having captured one of Swedish
Radio's stars, Ulf Elving, who is going to be continuing his popular format
of afternoon talk and pop music on the new network.
SCANDINAVIAN STAR WARS--Up in the skies, Kinnevik has also scored big, and
apparently Sweden has won the Scandinavan Star War with Norway.
We've reported on Kinnevik's putting its TV3, TV6, TVG, Z-TV, and FilmMax
channels on Sweden's Sirius satellite, with TV1000 and the Norwegian version
of TV3 on the new Intelsat 702. Sharing the position at 1 degree West with
Intelsat, is Norway's Thor satellite, which has been carrying CNN, Eurosport
Nordic, Discovery, Children's Channel, MTV, and FilmNet, using the obscure
Eurocrypt S coding system.
There were probably very few subscribers outside of Norway for the package.
But now Kinnevik is the new agent for the Thor package, and they tell us they
are adding ordinary Eurocrypt M coding. That means that Scandinavians who can
access the four satellites at the two positions, will be able to receive 8
popular Nordic channels in the clear, and can subscribe to 3 film channels
and 5 popular Pan-European channels, using a single smart card. (Viasat)
It now remains to be seen if Swedish TVRO owners choose to switch from Astra
to the new constellation. If they do, then Kinnevik will be able to close its
four Astra transponders, saving a lot of money, and opening those precious
transponders up to other broadcasters. But, given that a lot of people have
invested money in their current set-ups, and will need to move their
antennas, add new LNBs, and upgrade receivers for the DBS band, don't hold
your breath.
A number of TVRO owners are wondering if Swedish Television will ever make
its signals on Intelsat 702 available for home viewers. They are currently
coded in D-MAC. But as it is Norwegian Telecom which is uplinking the
signals, Swedish Television has no control over those relays.
And the latest twist in the Thor/Tele-X saga is that NRK and Swedish
Television channel 2 have traded places. SVT2 is now on Tele-X on 12.322 MHz,
still using D-MAC and Eurocrypt S. NRK has moved from Tele-X to Intelsat 702,
on 11.176 MHz, also using D-MAC. It is currently in the clear, but Eurocrypt
S encoding will be introduced later. (Bertil Sundberg in "Paa TV")
Norway has stopped use of Intelsat 515 at 18 degrees East, having shifted the
channels there to Intelsat 702. (Bertil Sundberg in "Paa TV")
DENMARK--Tomorrow night's Danish elections will be relayed to Europe by
satellite. Denmark's TV2 will be using the Kopernikus-2 satellite at 28.5
degrees East, so that Danes living in the Faroe Islands or elsewhere in
Europe will be able to follow the election returns. (RB)
FINLAND--A recent meeting of Finnish cable television companies has agreed in
principle that VT4, a new channel formed by the US/Scandinavian media group
SBS, should be given a channel allocation and carried on cable systems
throughout the country. ("SatNews") SBS also owns Sweden's TV5 Nordic (or
"Femman") and Norway's TV Norge. There's no indicate what satellite VT4 would
use.
NORWAY--Radio Norway International is now using 1314 kHz medium wave in
additional to its shortwave channels for the broadcast at 18:00-18:30 hrs
UTC. Programming is in English on Sundays and in Norwegian the rest of the
week. (BBC Monitoring)
NORTH AMERICAN MEDIA NEWS:
TELSTAR--The most recent Ariane launch on September 8th, went perfectly, but
the satellite, Telstar 402, apparently exploded after separation. Ariane says
the problem isn't its fault. The satellite is estimated to be worth around
USD 200 million. AT&T officials indicated initially that there may have been
a construction defect in the motor on the satellite that was to place it in
its proper orbit. An AT&T spokesman said "we insured it substantially for all
its value".
Normally Ariane rockets carry two satellites, but flight V67 carried only
Telstar because of its usually heavy weight (3,331 kilograms).
The satellite carried 24 C-band and 16 Ku-band transponders. The customers of
402 were to include ABC, BSI, Fox, Global, HBO, Spaceconnection, PBS,
Keystone Communications, Starcom, IDB Communications Group, Inc., the states
of Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina and Viacom.
Traffic will likely to to Telstar 302 at 85 degrees West, until the ground
spare, Telstar 403 can be launched. It is due to be finished by the end of
the year, and will be renamed Telstar 402R. A launch date has not been set,
but AT&T ihas booked a launch aboard an Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral.
(Reuters, James Robinson, "Tele-Satellit" via Martyn Williams, and Keystone
Communications on Usenet news, via Curt Swinehart)
SCOLA--We recently reported that SCOLA has moved to digital transmissions
from Telstar 402. That was according to the World Rado Network, which uses
SCOLA to carry its radio signals. However, Dennis Eksten tells us that,
having moved from ASC-1, SCOLA can also be found on Telstar 303 at 123
degrees West, transponder 22. WRN has audio on 6.2 MHz. (Dennis Eksten)
NBC--The Walt Disney Company is reported to be discussing the possibility of
buying NBC from General Electric. Previous reports have said that Time Warner
is interested in buying NBC. (AP and Reuters)
JONES COMPUTER NETWORK--This has been launched in the US, making it the only
24-hour television channel devoted to computers. Over 300 episodes of
programs dealing with specialist computer issues are being aired, along with
timely news segments and adverts. ("SatNews")
NEWSCHANNEL--Newschannel is a new 24-hour newspaper-based all-news
US cable channel backed by Lenfest Group. The venture has an emphasis on
local and regional news, blending cable television with stories
provided by newspapers in the Philadelphia area for a newscast tailored to a
specific local audience. ("SatNews")
AFRICAN MEDIA NEWS:
INTELSAT--As Intelsat 702 has taken over from Intelsat 512, Libya's C-band
signals are much stronger. Egypt's ESC and Nile TV, on the other hand, are
weaker on the new satellite, and Gabon 1 and 2 seem to have moved away.
(Bertil Sundberg in "Paa TV")
ASIAN MEDIA NEWS:
APSTAR--Apstar-1, the recently-launched satellite owned by APT Satellite Co
Ltd, has been relocated from its planned 131 degrees east longitude orbital
position to 138 degrees east to avoid possible interference with other
satellites. Apstar-1 was launched by a Chinese Long March-3 rocket on 21
July from the Xichang Space Launch Centre in China. Rimsat-1 is currently
positioned at 130 degrees and NTT Corp's Sakura 3A satellite is at 132
degrees. Both companies hit out at Apstar's choice of location, especially as
APT failed to secure an agreed geostationary location with other satellite
operators. The satellite slot at 138 degrees was licensed by the Kingdom of
Tonga with the International Telecommunication Union, and Tonga agreed to the
slot transfer. ("SatNews")
The American-owned Rimsat is registered at a Tongan satellite slot, so it was
in Tonga's interest to move Apstar. This is a major breakthrough. The impasse
between China and the rest of the world was considered important enough to
rate a couple of pages in this week's "Time" magazine. Many Apstar customers
have protected themselves by booking transponders on PAS-2, which has the
great advantage of being accessible to uplinks in North America, without
having to go through Chinese hands. Apstar contracts say China can censor
programming.
IRAN--Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, the head of Iran's judiciary, has declared
that judges are acting within their rights to order the removal of satellite
television receiving systems and dishes because they spread corruption
amongst the public. This declaration seems to give the religious police the
right to remove dishes before modernist Iranians can discuss the action in
parliament. President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said in June that using
satellite dishes was all right pending parliament's decision, yet a
parliamentary committee drafted a bill in July that once passed would ban
satellite dishes. Iran is also close to launching its own communications
satellite. ("SatNews")
SINGAPORE--Singapore, another nation which has banned satellite dishes, is
also planning to start a satellite service to Asia. (Reuters)
KUWAIT--Kuwaiti TV plans to extend satellite transmissions to Europe and the
United states. A story from the Kuna News Agency says these relays of ther
Kuwait Satellite Channel will be over "Intersat 7" (sic) "whose satellite
covers these two countries." (BBC Monitoring) Presumeably this is an
Intelsat, possibly Intelsat-K?
TURKSAT--One of the satellites from the previous Ariane launch, Turksat, is
now in position at 42 degrees East, and Kanal D is now using 11.030 MHz,
while Kanal 6 is on 11.080. Both are directed to Turkey, and reception is
non-existent in this part of Europe. Look for transmissions in vertical
polarization on the European beams on 10.970, 11.012, 11.114, 11.162, and
11.180 MHz. The satellite goes officially into service tomorrow, September
21. (James Robinson)
INDIA--The Indian government is to expand its state-run television service
and launch an 11-channel satellite service in the coming year. Doordarshan
Television will make the multichannel service available in 11 regional
languages, expanded in time to 13. P V Narasimha Rao, India's prime
minister, said that the move was being made to counter growing threats from
overseas television services. ("SatNews")
AUROVISION, a new Indian satellite channel that beams general entertainment
programming, has started broadcasting on the Russian Raduga satellite,
located at 85 degrees east longitude. ("SatNews")
PAKISTAN--Radio Pakistan has started broadcasts over Asiasat. ("The Muslim"
via BBC Monitoring) Pakistan's PTV is also reportedly carried on satellite,
starting September 1. (BBC Monitoring) Presumeably they are sharing the same
transponder on Asiasat.
STAR'S NEW CHANNELS--STAR TV in Hong Kong is playing its trump card and
hoping to be seen as a major pan-Asian player in the process. The company is
planning to launch two Mandarin-language entertainment and film channels, an
Indian subscription channel and Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Tagalog and Cantonese
channels. Programming will be commissioned from local companies as well as
bought in from other overseas channels.
The channels will be subscription-based, allowing for a regular income
unaffected by advertising fluctuations -- although advertising accounts for
95% of STAR's revenues. Observers suggest that STAR is likely to lose USD 20
million by the end of the current financial year and that advertising rates
have plummeted. ("SatNews")
EUROPEAN MEDIA NEWS:
ARIANE--The next scheduled Ariane launch on October 4/5 (flight V68) will
carry Thaicom 2 (to be placed at 78.5 degrees East) and Mexico's Solidaridad
2 (to be placed at 113 degrees West). The question is if Astra 1D or
Eutelsat's Hot Bird-1 will be on V69 in November, or V70 in December. Bertil
Sundberg says he has been told (although he is somewhat sceptical) that Astra
1D will be on V69, and Hot Bird-1 will accompany Brasilsat B2 on V70. ("Paa
TV")
ASTRA--Interesting things are happening on Astra transponder 47, home of Sky
Sports 2. There's now a screen picture saying that Sky Soap and Sky Travel
will be starting on that channel on October 3rd. Sky Soap is scheduled Monday
to Friday 8:00 AM to Noon British time, and Sky Travel Monday to Thursday
Noon to Midnight and Fridays Noon to 6:00 PM British time.
A new channel called China News Europe is already using the transponder
overnight, from 01:00-06:00 hrs. This is different from the Chinese Channel
now on UK Living's transponder overnight, which is moving to Eutelsat because
the channel refuses the use videocrypt coding, which Sky insists should be
used on all the Multi-Channels transponders. (James Robinson)
On the other hand, "SatNews" says the Chinese Channel in Europe, operated by
Pacific media, has started charging its viewers a GBP13.99 monthly service
charge for its four-hour nightly program offering (presumeably that on the UK
Living transonder). The channel broadcasts material and films in Mandarin
and Cantonese languages, taken from the Television Broadcasts (TVB) archive
in Hong Kong. Videocrypt encryption is used to protect unauthorised
reception. Gerald Winnington-Ingrams, managing director of the Chinese
Channel, said that initial response had been overwhelming and that the
company was about to run out of the 5,000 decoders it had acquired for
customers. ("SatNews")
TVB is a rival of Rupert Murdoch's Asian service Star-TV. Following Murdoch's
accomodation with the Chinese authorities (dumping BBC World Service off
Star's northern beam because of its critical news coverage), China News
Europe may be Bejing's counter-move into Europe, aided by Murdoch. Just a
guess.....
Country Music Television is moving to share transponder 24 tomorrow,
September 21. It's unknown if CMT will remain coded or switch to clear
broadcasts. The Learning Channel is replacing it on Discovery's transponder
41. (James Robinson)
TNT/CARTOON TELETEXT--TNT/Cartoon Network has launched its own teletext
service, dubbed MOVIE TEXT and TOON TEXT. The service is set to provide
viewers with a range of detailed program information and background on its
broadcasts of classic animation and movies. Teletext is just one of the
interactive services planned by the network for its viewers. Services will
initially be in English only, although there are plans to have pages with
other European languages. ("SatNews")
MURDOCH'S VOX--The European Commission has approved the acquisition
by News International of a 49.9% stake in VOX, the failed German cable and
satellite TV channel. VOX has been on the 'market shelf' for some time but
attracted little takers to the debt-ridden company. News Corp has not picked
up any debt liability with its acquisition. VOX, according to latest figures,
holds a 2% viewer and advertising market share. ("SatNews") My theory is that
Murdoch bought Vox to keep the Astra transponder occupied so that NBC Super
Channel wouldn't be able to move to Astra.
BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING--Arthur C. Clarke, the man who first proposed
communciations satellites, in one of his science fiction stories had a
popular soft drink company somehow put its round logo on the surface of the
Moon for all to see. It looks like something like that will actually be
happening, courtesy of Rupert Murdoch and British Sky Boradcasting. They plan
to launch a satellite next year which will hover over Europe, the size of a
full Moon, and they plan to project the Sky logo onto it. Fortunately, the 18
million dollar PR stunt would only last for a few days. (Reuters)
The most frustrating thing may be that Murdoch will make everyone in Europe
look at his logo, but he continues to refuse to allow his channels to be seen
anywhere outside the British Isles, despite European Union regulations on
free access to goods and services in the EU.
EUTELSAT--On Eutelsat II-F1, 11.678 MHz, which had been thought to be the
coming home of the Sci-Fi Channel, is carrying Polsat's Polonia 1 TV. (James
Robinson and BBC Monitoring) This follows Polonia 1 being taken off the air
in Poland, pending the filing of "a proper licence application". (PAP news
agency via BBC Monitoring) So their stay on satellite may be short.
NBC Super Channel has dropped Intelfax, which ran its teletext service. A
Dutch company will take over the channel's teletext, and they hope to be in
operation on October 1. Those wishing to follow satellite news on "In Orbit"
will have to turn to page 333 on UK Gold on Astra. (Wolfgang Krause on Usenet
news, via Curt Swinehart and Bertil Sundberg in "Paa TV")
Eutelsat says it will ask for bids for a new series of satellites. The seven
satellites would be put into orbit by late 1997. They will each carry 24
transponders of 72 MHz bandwidth, and will cover Europe and the Mediterranean
basin, as well as having capacity for expansion to the most easterly parts of
Europe. (Reuters)
EURO BUSINESS NEWS CHANNEL--A new European business news channel is set to be
launched early in 1995 by Dow Jones & Co Inc in association with Flextech Plc
of the UK. The venture, known as European Business News, will be owned by Dow
Jones with a 70% stake, with Flextech holding the remainder (Flextech is a
Tele-Communications Inc affiliate.) Initially, the London-based channel will
produce 18 hours of business, financial and consumer news programming daily
before commencing 24-hour operation by the year-end. The channel will be
transmitted on Eutelsat II F6 (Hot Bird 1) and will be accessible throughout
the EC, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.
An innovative feature of the service would be an additional MPEG 2 digital
service transmitted alongside the conventional analogue channel. The digital
channel will be sold to financial specialists and dealers who will be able to
install hardware to view the channel on their PC's and office computers. This
service will offer live European news events, annual meetings, press
conferences and exclusive interviews. ("SatNews" and "Tele-Satellit" via
Martyn Williams)
EASTERN EUROPE--Reports from Poland say that Poland and Ukraine were
discussing the possibility of jointly developing and launching a
communications satellite that would cover Europe centred on East Europe. The
satellite, initially aiming for a 1997 launch, would become part of the
Eutelsat system. ("Tele-Satellit" via Martyn Williams)
INTELSAT--The Box, a successor of the Satellite Jukebox that used to be on
the Lifestyle transponder at night, is coming to Intelsat 601 in November.
Unfortunately as it will be digitally compressed, home satellite viewers will
be unable to access the channel. (James Robinson)
TV-SAT--Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, the German PTT, is looking for a buyer
to take over its TV-SAT 2 direct broadcasting satellite. RTL, Sat1 and Sat3
-- the present users of the high-powered satellite, have not renewed their
carriage contracts which expire at the end of the year. ("SatNews") All 3
channels can be found on Astra, and DBT has bought in as a part owner in
Astra's operator SES.
HISPASAT--All five Hispasat channels began regular broadcasts on September
5th. They are currently in the clear, but they will be encrypted at the
beginning of next year. (RNE Radio 1 via BBC Monitoring)
SEGA--Sega Europe is planning to launch a Spanish video games cable TV
channel by the end of 1995, allowing players to access over 50 video games
through a decoder. Discussions have already been held with Canal Plus and
Antenna 3 over bandwidth leasing. Sega is looking at providing games services
by cable in a number of countries. ("SatNews")
NETHERLANDS--For the new broadcast period beginning September 25th, Radio
Netherlands is adding a new two hour transmission in Emlgish using a medium
wave transmitter in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, on 1386 kHz. (BBC
Monitoring)
YUGOSLAVIA--The following resolution was adopted at the founding congress of
AMARC Europe on 18 September 1994. AMARC is the French acronym for the World
Association of Community Radios (Association mondiale des Radiodiffuseurs
communautaires). AMARC Europe will be its European branch. One hundred and
twenty representatives of some 43 radio stations in 35 countries, 10 national
associations of local broadcasters, and 3 international associations attended
this meeting.
RESOLUTION ON INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
The AMARC pan-European conference of community radio broadcasters held
in Ljubljana, Slovenia 15-18 September 1994:
CONDEMNS the use of the media to incite to hatred and as a warmongering
instrument particularly in the situation of the countries at war in
former Yugoslavia.
RECOGNISES the importance of the independent media in promoting freedom
of expression, dialogue, tolerance and the democratic process.
CALLS upon the international community to:
* use all means at their disposal to aid and support the independent
media which promote tolerance and pluralism in former Yugoslavia;
and
* bring pressure to bear on the present governments in Croatia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia/Montenegro for an adequate legal basis
for media independence, free expression and dialogue.
(Robert Horvitz, Regional Media Consultant, Open Society Institute, Prague)
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Sweden Calling DXers/MediaScan is the world's oldest radio program about
international broadcasting. Radio Sweden has presented this round-up of radio
news, features, and interviews on Tuesdays since 1948. It's currently
broadcast on the first and third Tuesdays of the month.
Radio Sweden broadcasts in English (until Sept. 25):
Europe and Africa:
16:15 hrs on 1179 and 6065 kHz
17:30 hrs on 1179, 6065, 9655, and 15390 kHz
20:30 hrs on 1179, 6065 and 9655 kHz
21:30 hrs on 1179 and 6065 kHz, and
22:30 hrs on 1179 and 6065 kHz
Middle East and Africa:
17:30 hrs on 6065, 9655, and 15390 kHz
20:30 hrs on 6065 and 9655 kHz
Asia and the Pacific:
11:30 hrs on 13775, 15120, and 15240 kHz
23:30 hrs on 11910 kHz and
01:30 hrs on 9695 and 11695 kHz
North America:
12:30 and 13:30 hrs on 15240 and 17870 kHz
02:30 and 03:30 hrs on 6040 and 9850 kHz
South America:
00:30 hrs on 6065 and 9850 kHz
The broadcasts at 16:15, 17:30, 21:30, and 22:30 hrs (and weekends at 20:30)
are also relayed to Europe by satellite:
Astra 1B (19.2 degrees East) transponder 26 (Sky Movies Gold) at 11.597
GHz, audio subcarrier at 7.74 MHz,
Tele-X (5 degrees East) (TV5 transponder) at 12.475 GHz, audio subcarrier
7.38 MHz.
Radio Sweden is also relayed to Europe via the World Radio Network on MTV's
transponder 22 on Astra, audio 7.38 MHz, daily at 20:00 hrs UTC.
Radio Sweden can also be heard on WRN's North American service on Galaxy-5 on
WTBS' transponder 6, audio 6.80 MHz, daily at 00:00 hrs.
Contributions can be sent to DX Editor George Wood by fax to +468-667-6283,
from MCI Mail or CompuServe to the CompuServe mailbox 70247,3516, from
Internet to wood@stab.sr.se, 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 MediaScan/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
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