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freqs mentioned in your e-mail?
- What is the time of listening?
- When the interference by DRM is encountered, during the day or the night
time?
Looking forward to receive your response,
Best regards, Walid SAMI, Senior Engineer
Technical Department, EBU, Tel: +41 (0)22 717 2711
I will of course give the information requested - my equipment is simple -
SONY ICF7600G - not very far from an ordinary Medium Wave listener's
technical equipment, but the little loop antenna in my basement is doing a
decent job in eliminating a good deal of the interference. This morning I
even heard WQEW Radio Disney on 1560 kHz, but TA reception is exceptional
on this type of antenna.
Anyway, my complaints were met with interest by the EBU. Let's see what
happens in the future.
73 (Ullmar Qvick-SWE, dxld Feb 14)
HFCC The fourth Global Shortwave Coordination Conference, to be held in
Sanya, Hainan Island, China on 13 February, is expected to address the
freqs for more than 7,200 daily SW broadcasts for the new season which
commences at the end of March 2006.
Hosted by RTPRC-China, the five-day event will bring together more than
150 SW radio freq managers representing around 87 percent of the world's
international radio broadcasters, half of them from ABU Members.
The biennial global conference enables freq managers of the world's
international radio broadcasters to organise and rationalise their SW
radio txion freqs to reduce radio interference among the SW radio sces.
This considerably reduces the number of SW broadcasts that become
unintelligible because of interference and thereby prevents wastage of
hundreds of thousands of dollars on such broadcasts.
The three international broadcasters' groups that are driving this process
are the High Frequency Coordination Committee, the ABU High Frequency
Coordination Group (ABU-HFC) and the Arab States Broadcasting Union
Coordination group.
The ABU-HFC drives the SW coordination process within the Asia-Pacific
with the participation of those SW broadcasters who either broadcast from
the region or into it.
For more details on the ABU-HFC and its activities, please click here
(HFCC via BrDXC-UK, Feb 10)
HFCC Frequency coordination a success, broadcasters told.
Frequency coordination has improved listening quality of SW radio sces,
broadcasters attending the 4th Global Shortwave Coordination Conference in
Hainan were told today. Li Zhi, Director-General of the Administrative
Bureau of Radio Stations, Radio and Television of the People's Republic of
China (RTPRC), said in his opening address that the coordination
conferences had played a significant role in this achievement by
effectively promoting the economic use of broadcasting spectrum.