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"IBC DIGITAL" "IBC DIGITAL" "IBC DIGITAL"

website: HTTP://WWW.IBCRADIO.WEBS.COM email: IBC@EUROPE.COM

MERCOLEDI' 20.30-21.00 UTC 3975 KHZ IN MFSK32 (1500 Hz) E IN OLIVIA 16-500 (2200 Hz)
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SABATO     21.25-21.30 UTC 1584 KHZ IN MFSK32 (1500 Hz)
DOMENICA   00.55-01.00 UTC 7730 KHZ IN MFSK32 (1500 Hz)
DOMENICA   11.30-12.00 UTC 6070 KHZ IN MFSK32 (1500 Hz) E IN OLIVIA 16-500 (2200 Hz) VIA "RADIO BCL NEWS"
BUONA DECODIFICA!
 


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"IBC DIGITAL" "IBC DIGITAL"
SWITCH NOW TO OLIVIA 16-500(2200 Hz)

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RSID: <<2016-11-06T11:34Z OL 16-500 @ 6070000+2200>>

 

 

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"DX ITALIA DX NEWS" by I2MQP

HAM NEWS - NOTIZIE PER I RADIOAMATORI

STATIONS ON AIR NOW OR WITHIN NEXT WEEK ---- STAZIONI IN ARIA ORA O ENTRO UNA SETTIMANA

3B8 Mauritius Nov 9 - Dec 6 3B8/DJ7RJ will be on all bands CW & SSB QSL H.C. dir
5H Tanzania Nov 7 - Dec 2 IK2GZU will sign 5H3MB QSL H.C. LoTW & ClubLog
5R Madagascar Nov 6 - Feb 4 F6ICX will be operating during his holiday as 5R8IC QSL H.C. dir & bur
5U Niger NOW F5PRU is on as 5U7RK during free time for a few months QSL H.C. LoTW & ClubLog
5X Uganda Nov 12 - Nov 28 G3XAQ will sign again 5X1XA CW only QSL G3SWH OQRS/LoTW
5Z Kenya NOW till 2019 DL2RMC will sign /5Z4 QSL H.C
5Z Kenya Now - Jan 23 LZ4NM will be /5X QSL Kenya bur
6W Senegal Nov 7 - Nov 19 Italian team will be on from AF-045 signing 6V1IS QSL IK7JWX ClubLog
8T Antartica Now - Dec 2016 VU3BPZ is active as BT2BH QSL I1HYW
9Q Congo Nov 20 - Dec 25 IS0BWM will sign 9Q0HQ/3 QSL Dir only
9Q Congo Now EA4BB has received his license and has started operating as 9Q6BB with low power QSL W3HNK
9X Rwanda Now - Dec 30 KB1ZSQ is on as 9X0JW during spare time
C9 Mozambique NOW - Mar 2017 PD0JBH is now on as C91PA QSL H.C. & LoTW
CE0Y Easter Isl. Oct 24 - Dec 2 RZ3FW as CE0Y/RZ3FW and R4WAA as CE0Y/R4WAA QSL H.C.
CY0 Sable Sep 18 - Nov 15 VA1AXC is again /CY0 QSL JE1LET dir
DU Philippines Oct 26 - Nov 25 KCOW is in as 4I7COW QSL H.C. dir
E51 South Cook Oct 29 - Nov 25 ZL1BQD as usual from Rarotonga signing E51RR QSL H.C. dir
FO/M Marquesas NOW FO5QS is moving to Marquesas where he will stay a few years QSL H.C.
J5 Guinea Bissau November Italian group will be on as J5T QSL I2YSB
J6 Santa Lucia Oct 21 - Nov 26 WA1S and WA1F will be /J6 QSL H.C.
P4 Aruba Nov 22 - Nov 29 W2GD will sign P40W QSL N2MM dir LoTW
PJ2 Curacao Nov 10 - Nov 22 PA3EYC will sign /PJ2
PJ4 Bonaire Nov 6 - Nov 13 l/N5JR, NT5V and K5JP will be /PJ4 QSL H.C. dir bur LoTW
PJ6 Saba Nov 11 - Nov 18 K2HVN will be active /PJ6 and PJ6M QSL H.C.
PY0F F. de Noronha Nov 7 - Nov 14 LU9EFO will sign /PY0F QSL F4HBW dir or QSL LU9EFO bur
T30 West Kiribati Nov 20 - Nov 26 JA1KJW as T30KJ, JA3MCA as T30MA, JA8VA as T30VE, JA1JQY as T30JY QSL H.C.
TL Central African Nov 20 - Nov 22 LA7GIA will sign TL8AO mainly CW QSL H.C. LoTW
TY Benin Oct 18 - Nov end TY5AA by F6AJL
VE Canada Oct 25 - Nov 14 VY0ERC will be active from NA-008 QSL M0OXO OQRS
V6 Micronesia November DF8AN will operate from V6 as V62AJ QSL H.C. dir & bur
VP5 Caicos Pct 16 - Nov 22 AA4FL will be /VP5 QSL H.C.
VP6 Pitcairn Sep 3 - Nov 25 DL2AH as VP6AH DL2AH
VP8 Antartica Now - April 17 MW0YCC will be at AN-001 as VP8DPJ
XT Burkina Faso Oct 13 - Nov 20 DF2WO will sign XT2AW QSL M0OXO
XU Cambodia Nov 4 - Nov 14 MDXC will be on as XU7MDC with 20 operators and 5 stations QSL IK2VUC dir bur LoTW Club
ZD8 Ascension Oct - Nov end W6NV will be active as ZD8W QSL H.C.

"DX ITALIA DX NEWS" by I2MQP
 

 

 


 


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QUESTA E' IBC, ITALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION
TRASMISSIONI IN ITALIANO QUESTA SETTIMANA / THIS WEEK:
MERCOLEDI' 18.00-21 UTC 3975/6070 KHZ
VENERDI'   02-02.30 UTC 9955 KHZ
SABATO     21-21.30 UTC 1584 KHZ
DOMENICA   00.30-01 UTC 7730 KHZ
website: HTTP://WWW.IBCRADIO.WEBS.COM
email: IBC@EUROPE.COM

"IBC DIGITAL" "IBC DIGITAL" "IBC DIGITAL"
QUESTA SETTIMANA / THIS WEEK:
MERCOLEDI' 20.30-21.00 UTC 3975 KHZ IN MFSK32 (1500 Hz) E IN OLIVIA 16-500 (2200 Hz)
VENERDI'   02.25-02.30 UTC 9955 KHZ IN MFSK32 (1500 Hz)
SABATO     20.25-20.30 UTC 1584 KHZ IN MFSK32 (1500 Hz)
DOMENICA   00.55-01.00 UTC 7730 KHZ IN MFSK32 (1500 Hz)
DOMENICA   11.30-12.00 UTC 6070 KHZ IN MFSK32 (1500 Hz) E IN OLIVIA 16-500 (2200 Hz) VIA "RADIO BCL NEWS"
BUONA DECODIFICA!

"DX ITALIA DX NEWS" by I2MQP

HAM NEWS - NOTIZIE PER I RADIOAMATORI

STATIONS ON AIR NOW OR WITHIN NEXT WEEK ---- STAZIONI IN ARIA ORA O ENTRO UNA SETTIMANA

CY0 Sable Sep 18 - Nov 15 VA1AXC is again /CY0 QSL JE1LET dir
DU Philippines Oct 26 - Nov 25 KCOW is in as 4I7COW QSL H.C. dir
E51 South Cook Oct 29 - Nov 25 ZL1BQD as usual from Rarotonga signing E51RR QSL H.C. dir
FO/M Marquesas NOW FO5QS is moving to Marquesas where he will stay a few years QSL H.C.
J5 Guinea Bissau November Italian group will be on as J5T QSL I2YSB
J6 Santa Lucia Oct 21 - Nov 26 WA1S and WA1F will be /J6 QSL H.C.
P4 Aruba Nov 22 - Nov 29 W2GD will sign P40W QSL N2MM dir LoTW
PJ2 Curacao Nov 10 - Nov 22 PA3EYC will sign /PJ2
PJ4 Bonaire Nov 6 - Nov 13 l/N5JR, NT5V and K5JP will be /PJ4 QSL H.C. dir bur LoTW
PJ6 Saba Nov 11 - Nov 18 K2HVN will be active /PJ6 and PJ6M QSL H.C.
PY0F F. de Noronha Nov 7 - Nov 14 LU9EFO will sign /PY0F QSL F4HBW dir or QSL LU9EFO bur
T30 West Kiribati Nov 20 - Nov 26 JA1KJW as T30KJ, JA3MCA as T30MA, JA8VA as T30VE, JA1JQY as T30JY QSL H.C.
TL Central African Nov 20 - Nov 22 LA7GIA will sign TL8AO mainly CW QSL H.C. LoTW
TY Benin Oct 18 - Nov end TY5AA by F6AJL
VE Canada Oct 25 - Nov 14 VY0ERC will be active from NA-008 QSL M0OXO OQRS
V6 Micronesia November DF8AN will operate from V6 as V62AJ QSL H.C. dir & bur
VP5 Caicos Pct 16 - Nov 22 AA4FL will be /VP5 QSL H.C.
VP6 Pitcairn Sep 3 - Nov 25 DL2AH as VP6AH DL2AH
VP8 Antartica Now - April 17 MW0YCC will be at AN-001 as VP8DPJ
XT Burkina Faso Oct 13 - Nov 20 DF2WO will sign XT2AW QSL M0OXO

"DX ITALIA DX NEWS" by I2MQP
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"IBC DIGITAL" "IBC DIGITAL"
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Hello and welcome to DigiDX 35 a weekly review of the latest shortwave and DX news. This episode, compiled in the MFSK32 mode, contains shortwave news and the digital mode broadcasts schedules.


DigiDX weekly schedule:

Sunday 0630-0700 on  6070 kHz via Channel 292 (10 kW, Rohrbach Wall, DE)
Sunday 2130-2200 on 15770 kHz via WRMI (100 kW, Okeechobee, FL, USA)
Sunday 2330-0000 on 11580 kHz via WRMI (100 kW, Okeechobee, FL, USA)
Monday 2000-2030 on  6070 kHz via Channel 292 (10 kW, Rohrbach Wall, DE) (irr. at the moment)


To buy shortwave time from Channel 292 at very reasonable prices go to http://www.channel292.de or from WRMI from http://www.wrmi.net/

Any other extra broadcasts will be listed on http://www.digidx.uk

If you enjoy DigiDX and find the service useful please consider donating via Paypal to reports@digidx.uk. Any money donated will go towards paying for airtime to keep DigiDX on the air to Europe and North America.



--- DIGITAL MODE BROADCASTS ---


VOA Radiogram transmission schedule (all days and times UTC):

Sat 0930-1000 5865 kHz (new frequency)
Sat 1600-1630 17580 kHz
Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz
Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz

All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.
http://voaradiogram.net/


Italian Broadcasting Corporation "IBC DIGITAL" transmission schedule (all days and times in UTC)

WED 2030-2100 UTC 3975 kHz in MFSK32 and OLIVIA 16-500 (Italy, 1 kW)
FRI 0225-0230 UTC on 9955 kHz in MFSK32 (Okeechobee, FL, 100 kW)
SAT 2125-2130 on 1584 kHz in MFSK32 (Momigno, Italy, 1 kW AM Stereo)
SUN 0055-0100 UTC on 7730 kHz in MFSK32 (Okeechobee, FL, 100 kW) (new frequency)
SUN 1130-1200 UTC on 6070 kHz in MFSK32 and OLIVIA 16-500 via Radio BCLNEWS (Rohrbach, Germany, 10 kW)

For schedule updates, visit IBC at http://ibcradio.webs.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/ITALIANBROADCASTINGCORPORATION/



--- LATEST SHORTWAVE NEWS ---

- LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel on air again*
- Ominous future for Vatican Radio's shortwave service*
- HDSDR Version 2.70 released
- Shortwave listeners' heaven for sale*
- Danish SW Club International bids farewell

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LRA36 RADIO NACIONAL ARCÁNGEL SAN GABRIEL ON AIR AGAIN


LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel from Antarctica is on air again. The antenna problems have been resolved and the station is now active Monday to Friday from 1800 to 2100 UTC. Reception reports are welcome.

Italian DXer Gianni Alberici, IU4DAI, has received the following email message from LRA:

Saludos cordiales querido amigo un gusto poder saber de su
interés. Le informo que nuevamente se comenzó a transmitir en
onda corta. en la misma frecuencia de lunes a viernes de 15 a
18 hs argentina y 18 a 21 hs UTC. solicito un informe de
recepción para saber sobrte la intensidad de mi señal

atte. LRA36 ARCANGEL SAN GABRIEL desde la ANTARTIDA ARGENTINA

(Source: http://air-radiorama.blogspot.it)


LRA36 transmits on 15476 kHz but with the current propagation conditions it will be a difficult catch. Therefore, a lot of patience and a little bit of luck will be needed.

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OMINOUS FUTURE FOR VATICAN RADIO'S SHORTWAVE SERVICE

Here follows an excerpt from a commentary published in the Italian weekly news magazine "l'Espresso" no. 44 of 2016, on the opinion page entitled "Settimo cielo" entrusted to Sandro Magister.

... The new boss of the Vatican media, placed by Pope Francis at the helm of the newly created secretariat for communication, is the Lombard monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, an expert on cinema, as far as can be imagined from the vision of his predecessor.

Vatican Radio is the epicenter of the upheaval. Entrusted since its birth, in 1931, to the Society of Jesus, it has brought the Church’s message to the farthest corners of the world.

With shortwave it could and can be listened to even in the most prohibitive places, in Siberia during the Stalin years as today in North Korea or Saudi Arabia.

It broadcasts in 40 languages, and if it were up to Fr. Lombardi it would do so in a few more. He had even been able to create a program in the Hausa language, for the northern area of Nigeria where Boko Haram is raging, with an additional cost of just 10,000 euro
per year. But those who held the purse strings in the Vatican forced him to shut it down for budgetary reasons.

Because in effect Vatican Radio costs a great deal. It does not run advertising, its revenues are paltry and its numerous linguistic sections push to about thirty-five the number of journalists on the payroll. The total shortfall fluctuates between twenty and thirty
million euro per year.

Well then, Monsignor Viganò doesn’t want to hear about shortwave anymore. He sees it as antiquated and to be dismantled, because it has been supplanted by the web. While instead for Fr. Lombardi it continues to have an essential role “of service to the poor, the
oppressed, the minorities, rather than of subjection to the imperative of the maximization of the audience.”

They are two antithetical visions. But the marching route appears to have been marked out already. In Africa, where internet access is sporadic, Viganò has announced an agreement with Facebook through which the pope’s messages will be brought to 44 countries by cell
phone, through an app.

By December, in short, Vatican Radio will cease to exist as a self-contained reality. It will be incorporated into a single centralized “content hub,” or in Viganò’s words, into “a single center of multimedia production of texts, images, audiovisuals and radio
podcasts in multiple languages,” beneath a single editorial leadership held by Viganò himself today and soon to be handed over to a “task force of journalists,” many of them drawn from Vatican Radio itself and adapted to the new role.

Pope Francis too seems to be heading in this direction, to judge by the audiences that he grants to the stars of the most modern systems of communication. He has received this year, one after another, the magnates of Apple, Google, Instagram, Facebook, Vodafone, none
of them empty-handed. And in early December he will receive the leaders of the editorial giants Fortune and Time Warner, who will promote from the Vatican a “New Social Compact” in support of the poor and refugees worldwide, with the participation of firms like IBM,
McKinsey, Siemens, WPP.
...

(source: http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351400?eng=y)


As of August 1st, 2016, the daily liturgical broadcasts of Radio Vatican on shortwave have been ceased on weekdays. Since then, the Latin Mass at 0530 UTC and the Rosary prayer at 1840 UTC are broadcast only on Sundays and catholic holy days. And the future looks
more ominous than ever.


Now follows an image captured from the Italian tv programme "A Sua Immagine", broadcast on October 15, 2016. Guglielmo Marconi speaking at the inauguration ceremony of Vatican Radio on February 12, 1931.

The video is available at:
http://www.raiplay.it/video/2016/10/A-Sua-immagine-del-15102016-8620f597-cf47-49aa-9897-76280cd0bf46.html
http://creativemedia3.rai.it/podcastcdn/raiuno/asuaimmagine/A_sua_immagine_sabato/6013962_1800.mp4


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HDSDR VERSION 2.70 RELEASED

A new beta version of HDSDR has recently been released. HDSDR hasn’t been updated since 2013, so it is good to see that the author is back in action. HDSDR is a free general purpose SDR receiver, similar in nature to other programs like SDR# and SDR-Console. It was
one of the first programs to work with the RTL-SDR dongle and despite a lack of recent updates is still a very solid piece of software.

The new HDSDR is version 2.75 Beta1 and the changes include:
- more recording options
- support for 8bit sampling format
- HDSDR runs without output soundcard
- support for 8k display resolution (7680×4320)
- extended ExtIO capabilities
- many fixes and improvements

The main visual difference we’ve noticed so far is the addition of a text dBM meter under the S-Units meter. We also discovered some new color palettes.

(source: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/)


HDSDR is a freeware Software Defined Radio (SDR) program for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10. Typical applications are Radio listening, Ham Radio, SWL, Radio Astronomy, NDB-hunting and Spectrum analysis. HDSDR (former WinradHD) is an advanced version of
Winrad, written by Alberto di Bene (I2PHD).

The new version can be downloaded from: http://www.hdsdr.de/
 

 

 

 

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SHORTWAVE LISTENERS' HEAVEN FOR SALE

Former "Spy Town" Sugar Grove Station in West Virginia is up for auction again, after the previous high bidders were unable to complete the transaction.

Auction website: https://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucdsclnk?sl=PEACH417010001


Sugar Grove Station (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Sugar Grove Station was a United States government communications site located near Sugar Grove in Pendleton County, West Virginia operated by the National Security Agency (NSA).

According to a 2005 article in the New York Times, the site intercepts all international communications entering the Eastern United States. The activity falls under the Naval Information Operations Command (NAVIOCOM).

In April 2013, the Chief of Naval Operations ordered that the site be closed by September 30, 2015, as "a result of the determination by the resource sponsor National Security Agency to relocate the command’s mission.” As of 2016, part of the base has been transferre
d to the General Services Administration for sale, while another part of the base, to the south, continues to operate.

The site was first developed by the Naval Research Laboratory in the early 1960s as the site of a 600 ft (180 m) radio telescope that would gather intelligence on Soviet radar and radio signals reflected from the moon and would gather radioastronomical data on outer
space, but the project was halted in 1962 before the telescope construction was completed. The site was then developed as a radio receiving station. The site was activated as "Naval Radio Station Sugar Grove" on May 10, 1969, and two Wullenweber AN/FRD-10 Circulary
Disposed Antenna Arrays (CDAAs) were completed on November 8, 1969. Numerous other antennas, dishes, domes, and other facilities were constructed in the following years. Some of the more significant radio telescopes on site are a 60 ft (18 m) dish (oldest telescope
on site), a 105 ft (32 m) dish featuring a special waveguide receiver and a 150 ft (46 m) dish (largest telescope on site).

The site was part of the ECHELON communications network operated by the United States and its allies to intercept and process electronic telecommunications. The network operates many sites around the world including Waihopai Valley in New Zealand, Menwith Hill in the
United Kingdom and Yakima, Washington.

Sugar Grove is located in an officially designated National Radio Quiet Zone that covers 13,000 square miles (34,000 km2) in West Virginia and Virginia. The zone was established by Congress in 1958 to facilitate its mission and that of the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory located 30 miles (48 km) away at Green Bank in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

On July 26th 2016 It was reported that online auction for Sugar Grove Station concluded on July 25th with a winning bid of $11.2 Million. This transaction has since failed and bidding has reopened as of September 13th 2016.


A promotional video of the site is available on youtube https://youtu.be/LVGWY580yBY

As it is located in a designated National Radio Quiet Zone it would be a DXer's heaven. Anyone interested?


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DANISH SW CLUB INTERNATIONAL BIDS FAREWELL

On 8 October, the Danish Shortwave Club International (DSWCI) a most respected 60 years old institution in dxing community held its latest general assembly in Kalundborg, Denmark. By the end of the year the club will gallantly end its activities.

At their Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 9 May, 2015 the Club decided the dissolution of the DSWCI by the end of December 2016. Motivations were:

"1. We are close to the end of shortwave broadcasting.
2. Less time for Club work by our ageing Board members.
3. No younger members available as substitutes.
4. We intend to celebrate our 60th anniversary, before we dissolve the DSWCI. Our Club was formed on November 18, 1956."

97% of the members at the AGM voted YES for this dissolution. The Board has decided that the capital, which the DSWCI has saved up during the years shall go back to the members in form of some free SWNs after the paid annual fee of each member runs out, instead of
donating the total capital to a Radio Museum or to charitable purposes.

(source: http://portale.italradio.org/)



Thank you for listening, please send reports, comments and shortwave related news or articles to reports@digidx.uk.

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This Weekend  6145 kHz ===>  North America,  skipzone in Europe, backscatter

Last Weekend - High Noon 6095 kHz ===> Europe

 

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This video of KBC radio reception, from Monica in Ontario, shows
the dial of a Yaesu FT897D transceiver ...

Sending Pic:175x99C;



goo.gl/UHBdAZ



Please report decode to themightykbc@gmail.com

 

 

RSID: <<2016-10-30T12:30Z MFSK-32 @ 6095000+1500>>

This video of KBC radio reception, from Monica in Ontario, shows
the dial of a Yaesu FT897D transceiver ...

Sending Pic:175x99C;



goo.gl/UHBdAZ



Please report decode to themightykbc@gmail.com

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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Welcome to program 188 of VOA Radiogram from the Voice of
America.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Washington.

Here is the lineup for today's program, all im MFSK32 except
where noted:

  1:48 Program preview (now)
  2:58 Canary Islands may be site of new telescope*
  9:13 Olivia 32-2000: New instrument for Mars**
16:33 Assortment of media news*
27:21 Closing announcements

* with image

** Op Mode > Olivia > Custom > Bandwidth: 2000, Tones: 32


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Telescope Group Chooses Canary Islands as Alternative to Hawaii

Reuters via voanews.com
November 1, 2016

The team behind a project to build one of the world's largest
telescopes said on Monday it has chosen Spain's Canary Islands in
the Atlantic Ocean as a possible alternative to Hawaii.

The decision follows opposition from Native Hawaiians and
environmentalists to plans for constructing the so-called Thirty
Meter Telescope (TMT), which would cost $1.4 billion, at the
Mauna Kea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.

Henry Yang, chair of the TMT International Observatory Board,
said in a statement the board explored a number of alternative
sites for the telescope.

Ultimately, the board selected La Palma, the most westerly of the
Canary Islands off the coast of Morocco, as the primary
alternative to Hawaii, Yang said.

His statement did not say what made that particular site ideal
for the project.

The designation of the Canary Islands as an alternative comes
nearly a year after the Hawaii Supreme Court blocked construction
of the telescope on the Big Island.

The court found state officials acted improperly when they issued
a building permit without holding a process known as a contested
case hearing where opponents could speak out.

On Oct. 20, the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
opened a new set of hearings on the project, with a retired judge
overseeing those proceedings.

The New York Times reported a decision on the latest application
to build the telescope in Hawaii could be made next year.

Yang said the Big Island continues to be the preferred choice of
the team behind the telescope and the group will continue
"intensive efforts to gain approval" for it in Hawaii.

The area around the summit of Mauna Kea, the volcano, already has
13 working telescopes, according to the website of the University
of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy.

Astronomers consider the site ideal for observing outer space
because of the dry atmosphere above the volcano and because of
its distance from urban lights.

Native Hawaiians who oppose the project have said the proposed
site for the new telescope on the Big Island is considered a
spiritual temple and also is a burial ground, adding the project
could harm those sacred lands.

http://www.voanews.com/a/reu-telescope-group-chooses-canary-islands-as-alternative-to-hawaii/3574175.html



Image: The Gran Telescopio Canarias, one of the the world's
largest telescopes, is viewed at the Observatorio del Roque de
los Muchachos on the Canary Island of La Palma ...


Sending Pic:193x184C;




VOA Radiogram now changes to Olivia 32-2000.

There will be 15 seconds of silence after the RSID to facilitate
a manual change of mode, if required ...


RSID: <<2016-11-05T16:09Z OLIVIA @ 17580000+1500>>


This is VOA Radiogram in Olivia 32-2000.

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.


New Sensor Could 'Sniff' for Life on Mars

VOA News
November 2, 2016

An instrument used to detect bio-hazards here on Earth could be
used to find signs of current or former life on Mars.

The instrument, developed by NASA technologist Branimir
Blagojevic, is called BILI, and is a "fluorescence-based lidar,"
which works like radar, but instead of using radio waves, it
analyzes light to analyze particles in the atmosphere.

"NASA has never used it before for planetary ground level
exploration. If the agency develops it, it will be the first of a
kind," Blagojevic said.

Blagojevic hopes that one day his instrument will be put in a
Mars probe where it could analyze dust plumes for
"bio-signatures."

"If the bio-signatures are there, it could be detected in the
dust," Blagojevic said, adding that BILI could detect "small
levels of organic materials from a distance of several hundred
meters" in real time.

This would be advantageous because many of the plumes are given
off from the surface on slopes, which are not easily accessible
to a rover.

"This makes our instrument an excellent complementary organic
detection instrument, which we could use in tandem with more
sensitive, point sensor-type mass spectrometers that can only
measure a small amount of material at once," Blagojevic said.
"BILI's measurements do not require consumables other than
electrical power and can be conducted quickly over a broad area.
This is a survey instrument, with a nose for certain molecules."

The next steps for BILI are to make it more rugged and smaller in
addition to "confirming that it can detect tiny concentrations of
a broad range of organic molecules, particularly in aerosols that
would be found at the ground level on Mars."

http://www.voanews.com/a/mht-new-sensore-could-sniff-for-life-on-mars/3575937.html



VOA Radiogram now returns to MFSK32

 


RSID: <<2016-11-05T16:16Z MFSK-32 @ 17580000+1500>>
...

This is VOA Radiogram in MFSK32.

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.


Here is a summary of some interesting media news during the past
few days ...


BBC History launches archive to mark 80 years of Television

BBC Media Centre
2 November 2016

To coincide with the 80th anniversary of the launch of the first
British television service by the BBC on 2 November 1936, BBC
History has today launched a new microsite that provides the
public with access to archive material from the early days of
television.

The archive, which can be viewed at
bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/birth-of-tv contains a wealth of video
and audio footage which tells the story of television -
including, the invention of television, the opening night at
Alexandra Palace in 1936, TV closure during the war and its
resurrection in 1946, TV's milestone moments such the Olympics
and the Coronations of 1937 and 1953.

bbc.in/2e6oOXd

Image: John Logie Baird, in the 1920s, experimenting with his
mechanical television system ...

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Finnish company plans HF "Internet Anywhere" system

KNL Networks press release
27 October 2016

KNL Networks, a pioneer in "Internet Anywhere" technology that
can even be used anywhere in the world, today announced it has
closed a combined total of $10M+ in a major Series A round of
funding. Representing one of the largest Nordic Series A rounds,
KNL has been in stealth mode for the past four years developing a
new wireless communications system able to provide IP
communication even to the most extreme and isolated locations on
Earth.

KNL's patented communication system relies on shortwave radio
transmissions, allowing data to be transmitted over thousands of
kilometers. By combining the very latest cognitive software radio
technologies with a completely reinvented HF-radio system, KNL is
uniquely capable of providing IP-based communications over
traditional radio waves.

bit.ly/2fgW6Qu





Goodbye, Jesuits. Vatican Media Get a New Face and New Boss

Sandro Magister
www.chiesa.espressonline.it

Vatican Radio will stop broadcasting on shortwave

bit.ly/2e6mI9z

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The following items are from ARRL, the US national association
for amateur radio, www.arrl.org ...


Naval Academy Students Planning CubeSat with HF Uplink

11/03/2016

Students at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, are
planning an Amateur Radio CubeSat — dubbed HFSAT — that would
carry an HF transponder as a primary payload as well as 2-meter
APRS as a secondary mission when power is available. The 1.5 U
CubeSat will have a linear uplink at 21.4 MHz and a downlink at
29.42 MHz.

bit.ly/2esC7zL




Maybe a Solar Minimum Can Be Too Deep for 160 Meters

11/02/2016

Propagation observer Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, recently ...
explained, while less geomagnetic field activity heading into
winter bodes favorable 160-meter propagation, more galactic
cosmic rays entering our atmosphere could become a factor.

bit.ly/2eZkus1




New Russian Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radars Set for 2017 Startup

10/31/2016

According to media accounts, more long-range, new
over-the-horizon (OTH) radars that can identify aerial and sea
targets hundreds of miles away are scheduled to begin operation
next year in the Russian Arctic. It's doubtful, however, that the
news heralds the return of interference on the level of that
generated by the so-called "Russian Woodpecker" OTH radar, which
plagued Amateur Radio HF bands in the 1970s and 1980s.

bit.ly/2eswbqr


Two Arrested in Georgia for Planning to Attack HAARP Facility in
Alaska

11/02/2016

Authorities in Georgia recently arrested two men who said they
were planning to attack the High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program (HAARP) facility near Gakona, Alaska. ...

Long of interest to the Amateur Radio community as well as a
target of various mind and weather-control conspiracies, HAARP is
now operated as an ionospheric research facility by the UAF
[University of Alaska - Fairbanks], which took it over last year
from the US Air Force.

bit.ly/2eiZHvy


630 Meter Special Event Set for Mid-November

11/02/2016

Participants in the ARRL WD2XSH 630-meter experiment, Canadian
radio amateurs, and members of the Maritime Radio Historical
Society (MRHS) will participate in a special event on Sunday,
November 13 (UTC) on 630 meters (the evening of Saturday,
November 12, in US time zones). The event will commemorate the
Berlin Treaty of 1906 that made 500 kHz the International
Distress Frequency. US Part 5 Experimental licensees will operate
in the 472-479 kHz band, using CW for two-way contacts and
beacons with commemorative messages. There may also be some
operation on 500 kHz.

bit.ly/2fmbgD6




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Thanks to colleagues at the Edward R. Murrow shortwave
transmitting station in North Carolina.

I'm Kim Elliott. Please join us for the next VOA Radiogram.

This is VOA, the Voice of America.
 



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Saturday 0930-1000 UTC 5865 kHz (new)
Saturday 1600-1630 UTC 17580 kHz
Sunday   0230-0300 UTC 5745 kHz
Sunday   1930-2000 UTC 15670 kHz

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www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/radiogram.htm

 

 QTH:

 D-06193 Petersberg (Germany/Germania)

 Ant.:

 Dipol for 40m-Band    &   Boomerang Antenna 11m-Band

 RX   for  RF:

 FRG-100B + IF-mixer  &    ICOM IC-R75 + IF-mixer

 Software IF:

 con STUDIO1  -  Software italiano per SDR     [S-AM-USB/LSB]

 Software AF:

 Fldigi-3.23.15     http://skylink.dl.sourceforge.net/project/fldigi/fldigi/readme.txt    +   flmsg-3.00.01

 OS:

 German XP-SP3 with support for asian languages

 German W7 32bit + 64bit

 PC: 

 MEDION Titanium 8008  (since 2003)   [ P4 - 2,6 GHz]

 MSI-CR70-2MP345W7  (since2014)   [i5 -P3560 ( 2 x 2,6GHz) ]

 


 

 

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------

Betreff:

+++ Changes of dates and announcements +|+ Terminänderung und Ankündigungen +++

Datum:

Sat, 5 Nov 2016 22:22:48 +0100

Von:

radio.on@gmx.de

An:

radio.on@gmx.de

 

-----Original Message-----

 

Dear listeners,

 

For reasons of the spread condition in winter, will broadcast the popular broadcasting series “Here we go!” is preferred from 19 UTC to 14 UTC.

The broadcast repeated on Sunday 12 UTC.

 

The repetitions of the old shows on Monday and Wednesday are set to 8 UTC.


Repeats can be relocated. Please check the current schedule. http://www.channel292.de/schedule-for-bookings/

 

On 25.11.2016 at 15 UTC we send a transmission “Irgendwas mit Medien” (Something with media).

The occasion is the 30th broadcast from the popular radio series “Here we go!”

In the foreground two albums, which are no longer available, are presented with different German-speaking artists.

The broadcast repeated on Saturday 26.11.2016 12 UTC.

 

In the broadcast for Christmas, we send a 19 minutes original radio recording on 23.12.2016 with "The Golden Seven", which was broadcast to England in 1940.

Further in the show, historical German Christmas recordings are played.

Immediately thereafter, there is an hour-old repetition.

On Saturday, December 24, 2016, there will be two repetitions from 12 UTC, the broadcast for Christmas and an old broadcast.

Sunday, 25.12.2016 there is the repetition 13 UTC, an additional 19 UTC.

Monday, 26.12.2016 there is the repetition 8 UTC, an additional 9 UTC.

 

On 31.12.2016 al 12 UTC we send a transmission “Irgendwas mit Medien” (Something with media).

It is reminded of switching off the last German AM radio station a year ago.
We solemnly mourn the Requiem of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The broadcast will be repeated at 13 UTC on Sunday, January 1, 2017.

 

We wish all radio listeners a good reception, peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 

Kind regards

Radio Ohne Namen (radio without name)

Ron

 

-----Original Message-----

 

Sehr geehrter Radiohörer,

 

aus Gründen der Ausbreitungsbedingung im Winter, wird die Sendung der beliebten Rundfunk Serie "Jetzt geht's los!“ von 19 UTC auf 14 UTC vorgezogen.

Die Sendung wird am Sonntag 12 UTC wiederholt.

 

Die Wiederholungen der alten Sendungen am Montag und Mittwoch,

werden auf 8 UTC gesetzt.

 

Wiederholungen können verlagert werden. Schauen Sie bitte in den aktuellen Sendeplan.

 

Am 25.11.2016 um 15 UTC senden wir das Programm „Irgendwas mit Medien“.

Der Anlaß ist die 30. Aussendung von der beliebten Rundfunk Serie „Jetzt geht’s los!“.

Vordergründig werden zwei nicht mehr erhältliche Alben mit verschiedenen deutschsprachigen Künstlern vorgestellt.

Die Sendung wird am Sonnabend den 26.11.2016 um 12 UTC wiederholt.

 

In der Sendung für Weihnachten, senden wir am 23.12.2016 eine 19 Minuten Original Radio Aufzeichnung mit „Der Goldenen Sieben“,

die nach England im Jahr 1940 abgestrahlt wurde.

Weiter in der Sendung, werden historisch deutsche Weihnacht Schallplattenaufnahmen gespielt.

Direkt danach gibt es eine Stunde alte Wiederholung.

Am Sonnabend, den 24.12.2016 laufen zwei Wiederholungen ab 12 UTC, die Sendung für Weihnachten und eine alte Sendung.

Sonntag, den 25.12.2016 gibt es zu der Wiederholung 13 UTC, eine zusätzlich 19 UTC.

Montag, den 26.12.2016 gibt es zu der Wiederholung 8 UTC, eine zusätzliche 9 UTC.

 

Am 31.12.2016 um 12 UTC senden wir das Programm „Irgendwas mit Medien“.

Es wird an das Abschalten der letzten deutschen AM Rundfunksender vor einem Jahr erinnert.

Wir trauern feierlich mit dem Requiem vom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Die Sendung wird am Sonntag, den 1.1.2017 um 13 UTC wiederholt.

 

Wir wünschen allen Radio Hörern gute Empfangbedingungen, friedliche Weihnachten und ein Gutes Neues Jahr!

 

Viele Grüße

Radio Ohne Namen

Ron