BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

they were already noisy, not much stronger than distant skywave signals
anymore.
IBB Lampertheim: I had not much time to play with the radio there, but
standing in front of the station door the three (or so) frequencies on air
from there were louuud of course.
And years ago I once tuned the 40 m hamband, noted an expeptionally strong
signal, listened closer and found out that this was an old classmate,
living about 300 m away from the signal tower were I sat. Even earlier
there were the CB radios in the neighbourhood, but these signals have
vanished altogether since.
Another technique would be to tune for the 2nd harmonic of the suspect
transmitter frequency. This little dirty trick can be especially useful to
check out longwave utility transmitters with an ordinary radio which can't
tune below 150 kHz:
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld July 29)
News items from the August issue of the German Radio-Kurier magazine:
Editorial staff at Deutsche Welle laments a continuous loss in program
quality. Many own productions were cancelled, working hours have been
lengthened. Meanwhile the majority of the German radio program consists of
ARD material that is available free of charge. Many experienced announcers
do no longer work for DW after the news announcer shifts have been
lengthened from six to more than eight hours without raising the royalties
accordingly. Meanwhile DW started to let interns, editors and other
untrained people read the news. It appears that the resulting loss in
presentation quality has been taken into account deliberately. A
responsible person commented "I got clear instructions" and "it is a
rational decision when freelancers are no longer willing to work under
such conditions, I think I would have choosen to quit as well". More and
more protests from listeners abroad come in. Internal plannings indicate
that DW will continue to save costs at the expense of program quality.
Leading personell of DW shows no interest in the efforts made by
programming staff to at least limit the resulting damage. An open letter
from the announcers cast remained unanswered so far, only an accusation
from a head of department that this would be mobbing has been withdrawn.
Satellite DXer Norbert Schlammer noted since March disruptions of C band
reception at Berlin-Schoeneweide, first during office hours and around 3.6
GHz, since June now around the clock and further spreading to the 3.5 ....
3.6 GHz range. Bundesnetzagentur told on his enquiry that this is a new
service of an Internet provider. They said that the 3.4 ... 4.2 GHz range
is available for terrestrial use now, with satellite reception there "no
longer deserving protection" acc. new regulations. The legal department of
Bundesnetzagentur promised to provide them soon.
Comment by KL: This is quite remarkable. IBB winds up its Ismaning
operations at present, but probably a third party here in Germany will
continue the redistribution of their satellite feeds done by the Ismaning
station so far, and perhaps transmitter sites here in Germany also still
use the Intelsat 907 signal rather than the Hotbird redistribution. What
if they now experience disruptions by new terrestrial applications?
Judging from Norbert's report Bundesnetzagentur could simply tell them
"your problem, C band is no longer protected". (There are almost certainly
other professional users of C band satellite signals here in Germany as
well, IBB just specifically mentioned since I'm aware of them.)
(ADDX Radio Kurier News, Kai Ludwig-D, wwdxc BC-DX July 30)
Some new, quite unusual photos of the DTK T-systems Wachenbrunn facilities
[former R Moscow relay, now VoRUS 1323 kHz]: