Clandestine Radio Watch 141
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CLANDESTINE RADIO WATCH
August 31, 2003
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Schedules - diverse
All clandestine, opposition movement and "off-beat" stations
compiled from Eike Bierwirth's 24/24 schedule 12 August 2003
http://www.eibi.de.vu/ by DXA375-Silvain Domen
0000 0030 Su CLA Conversando e.Cubanos S CUB 9955/USA
0000 2400 CLA Star Star BS (Xin Xing) M CHN 8300 9725 11430 13750
15385
0030 0045 Su CLA La Hora de Chibas S CUB 9955/USA
0030 0100 CLA V.o.National Salvation E KOR 1053 3480 4400 4450
4557 STILL ON?
0030 0130 Mo CLA Radio Oriente Libre S CUB 9955/USA
0100 0200 We,Fr CLA Hmong Lao Radio LAO LAO 17540/UZB
0100 0200 Su CLA Radio Revista Lux S CUB 9955/USA
0130 0200 Mo CLA Conversando e.Cubanos S CUB 9955/USA
0130 0530 CLA Voice of Mojahed FS IRN 4670 5350 5640 6460 6750
7000 7750 8240 8350 8600
8950 9250 ALL VARIABLE!
0200 0230 CLA V.o.Iranian Kurdistan FS,KU ME 3975
0200 0500 CLA V.o.People of Kurdistan A,KU ME 4025 4417
0200 0500 CLA Vo.Toilers of Kurdistan A,KU ME 4245
0230 0300 CLA Radio Komala KU ME 3930 4620
0230 0315 CLA R. Payem E Doost FS ME 7460/MDA
0230 0330 CLA Radio Sadaye Kashmir UR SAs 6100/IND
0230 0330 CLA V.o.Comm.Party of Iran FS ME 3880 4380
0300 0330 CLA Radio Komala FS ME 3930 4620
0300 0400 CLA V.o.Conserv.Party Kurd.A,KU ME 4167
0300 0400 CLA V.o.Mujahedin Ir.Kurd. FS,KU ME 4260-4290
0300 0420 CLA V.o.Iraqi People (2) A ME 3900 5880
0300 0600 CLA Echo of Hope K KRE 3985 6348
0300 0700 CLA V.o.National Salvation K KOR 1053 3480 4400 4450
4557 STILL ON?
0300 0700 CLA Voice of the People K KRE 6518 6600
0325 0425 Sa-Th CLA V.o.Iranian Revolution KU ME 3880 4380
0330 0350 CLA V.o.Peace and Democracy TIG EAf 5500/ETH 6350/ETH
0330 0400 CLA Arabic R./V.o.Homeland A SYR 7510/RUS-s
0340 0600 CLA Radio Kurdistan A,KU ME 4120
0340 0600 CLA V.o.Iraqi Kurdistan A,KU ME 4085
0400 0430 Sa-Th CLA V.o.Freedom and Renewal A SDN 6985
0400 0500 CLA V.o.Comm.Party of Iran FS ME 3880 4380
0400 0800 CLA Denge Mesopotamia KU ME 15675/NOR-k
0430 0500 Sa-Tu CLA R.Voice of Hope E EAf 12060/MDG 15320/MDG
0600 0700 CLA Nat.R.of Sahara AD Rep. A,S NAf 1550 7460
0700 0800 Su CLA VoDem.Path of Eth.Unity AH EAf 21550/D-j
0730 0830 CLA Radio Sadaye Kashmir UR SAs 9890/IND
0745 1200 CLA Ashur Radio, V.o.Zowaa A,ASY ME 9155
0800 0900 CLA Voice of China M CHN 11940/TWN
0800 1600 CLA Denge Mesopotamia KU ME 11530/MDA
0900 1100 CLA Radio Indep. Mekumui SLM PNG 3850 (LSB)
0900 2100 CLA Echo of Hope K KRE 3985 6348
1000 1030 135 CLA LV de la Junta P.Cubana S CUB 9955/USA
1000 1100 Sa CLA Foro Militar Cubano S CUB 9955/USA
1000 1200 CLA V.o.National Salvation K KOR 1053 3480 4400 4450
4557 6010 STILL ON?
1030 1130 135 CLA Entre Cubanos S CUB 9955/USA
1100 2100 CLA Voice of the People K KRE 3912
1200 1700 CLA V.o.National Salvation K KOR 1053 3480 4400 4450
4557 STILL ON?
1215 1300 CLA Voice of Tibet TB As 15660-15670/KAZ
21545-21560/UZB VARIABLE!
1230 1300 Mo-Fr CLA Radio Free Vietnam VN SEA 9930/HWA
1300 1400 Mo-Fr CLA Radio Togo Libre F TGO 21760/AFS
1300 1430 CLA VoJammu-Kashmir Freedom E SAs 5102
1300 0300 CLA V.o.Iraqi People A IRQ 4875/ARS-j 9563/ARS
9570-9750/ARS-j 11710/ARS
1315 2100 CLA V.o.People of Kurdistan A,KU ME 1206 4025 4417
1330 1400 Mo-Sa CLA Que Huong Radio VN SEA 9930/HWA
1330 1730 CLA Voice of Mojahed FS IRN 4670 5350 5640 6460 6750
7000 7750 8240 8350 8600
8950 9250 ALL VARIABLE!
1400 1430 Sa CLA V.o.Democratic Eritrea TIG WEu 5925/D-j
1400 1500 Tu CLA Voice of Khmer Krom KH SEA 15660/RUS-v
1430 1500 Sa CLA V.o.Democratic Eritrea A WEu 5925/D-j
1430 1515 CLA Voice of Tibet TB As 17520-17540/UZB
1430 1525 CLA Democr.Voice of Burma BR SEA 5910/KAZ 5945/UZB 17495/MDG
1430 1530 CLA Radio Sadaye Kashmir UR SAs 6100/IND
1430 1530 CLA V.o.Comm.Party of Iran FS ME 3880 4380
1430 1800 CLA Vo.Toilers of Kurdistan A,KU ME 4245
1500 1530 CLA V.o.Iranian Kurdistan KU,FS ME 3975
1500 1530 CLA Arabic R./V.o.Homeland A SYR 12085/RUS-s 12120/RUS-s
1500 1700 CLA VoKurdistan Soc.Dem.Pty KU,A ME 4140
1520 2055 CLA V.o.Iraqi Kurdistan A,KU ME 4085
1530 1600 CLA Voice of Sudan A EAf 8000/ERI
1530 1630 CLA V.o.Iranian Revolution KU ME 3880 4380
1530 1730 CLA R.Voice of Iran FS IRN 15750/F 17525?
1600 1700 Mo-Fr CLA Sudan Radio Service Vn SUD 17630/G
1600 1700 CLA Radio Freedom KU ME 3900
1600 1700 CLA Radio Komala KU ME 3930 4620
1600 1700 CLA Radio Kurdistan A,KU ME 4120
1600 1700 Th,Su CLA V.o.Ethiopian Salvation AH EAf 15670/D-j
1600 1700 CLA Voice of Independence A,KU ME 4160
1600 1700 CLA FPM V.o.Lebanon Liberty A ME 11645/RUS-s
1600 1800 CLA Ashur Radio, V.o.Zowaa ASY ME 9155
1600 1900 CLA SW Radio Africa E ZWE 4880
1630 1700 CLA Radio International FS IRN 13800/MDA
1630 1700 Tu,Fr CLA Radio Xoriyo (Huriyo) SO EAf 15670/D-j
1630 1730 CLA V.o.Comm.Party of Iran FS ME 3880 4380
1630 1755 We,Th CLA V.o.Southern Azerbaijan AZ IRN 9375
1630 1830 Mo-Sa CLA Radio Sedoye Yaran FS IRN 15790/NOR-k
1700 1730 CLA Radio Komala FS ME 3930 4620
1700 1730 Mo,Th CLA V.o.Democratic Eritrea TIG EAf 15670/D-j
1700 1730 2357 CLA V.o.Oromo Liberation OO EAf 15670/D-j
1700 1757 Su CLA Voice of Komala KU/FS ME 7560/NOR-k
1700 1800 Sa CLA Dejen Radio TIG EAf 12120/RUS-s
1700 1800 Mo-Fr CLA Sudan Radio Service Vn SUD 17660/G
1700 1800 Su CLA Radio Solidarity (Fthi) TIG ETH 12120/RUS-s
1700 1800 CLA V.o.Mojahedin Ir.Kurd. KU,FS ME 4260-4290
1700 1830 CLA Radio Komala KU,FS ME 3930 4610
1730 1758 Su CLA V.o.Eritrean People TIG EAf 9990/NOR-k
1730 1800 Mo,Th CLA Sagalee Oromiyaa OO EAf 12120/RUS-s
1730 1800 Mo,Th CLA V.o.Democratic Eritrea A EAf 15670/D-j
1730 1800 2357 CLA V.o.Oromo Liberation A EAf 15670/D-j
1755 1925 CLA V.o.Iraqi People (2) A ME 3900 5880
1800 1827 Su CLA V.o.Eritrean People TIG WEu 7530/NOR-s
1800 1845 CLA R.Payam E Doost/Bahai FS ME 7480/MDA
1800 1900 Su CLA V.o.Ethiopian Salvation AH EAf 7520/RUS-a
1800 2000 CLA Voice of Reform/Al Islah A ARS 15705/NOR-k
1830 1930 We CLA VoDem.Path of Eth.Unity AH EAf 15565/D-n
1830 1930 Su CLA V.o.Ethiopian Salvation AH EAf 12120/RUS-s
1900 2000 Fr CLA Kestedamena/R. Rainbow AH EAf 15565/D-j
1900 2000 CLA Radio Insurgente S MEX 5800
1900 2000 Sa CLA Voice of Biafra Int. NIG 12125/RUS-a
2000 2100 Su CLA Radio Togo Libre F TGO 12125/AFS
2000 2100 Su CLA Voice of Ethiopia E Eu 7520/NOR-k
2000 2400 CLA Nat.R.of Sahara AD Rep. A,S NAf 1550 7460
2000 0030 CLA V.o.National Salvation K KOR 1053 3480 4400 4450
4557 STILL ON?
2020 2030 CLA V.o.Iraqi Kurdistan E ME 4085
2100 2200 CLA Fang Guang Ming Radio M FE 6035/RUS-s 9625/RUS-s
2100 2200 Sa CLA Voice of Biafra Int. E WAf 7380/AFS
2230 2330 CLA Voice of China M CHN 7270/TWN
2300 2400 Sa CLA Foro Militar Cubano S CUB 9955/USA
2300 2400 Su CLA Radio Revista Lux S CUB 9955/USA
2300 0100 CLA Voice of the People K KRE 6600
2330 0030 CLA Democr.Voice of Burma BR SEA 9435/D-j 9760/MDG
I have omitted from this list:
1800 2057 CLA Voice of Iran FS ME 7525/NOR-k
This actually is Radio Sedoye Yaran. Now on 1630 1830 mo-sa 15790/NOR-k
1600 1630 We,Sa CLA Tigrean Int. Solidarity TIG EAf 15265/D-j
Not on DTK list anymore. Now on 1700 1800 12120/RUS-s
Some sources give this as an opposition station:
1900 1930 Mo-Fr NIG Jakada Radio Internat. HA WAf 15170/AFS
(S.Domen-BEL Aug 15, 2003 in DXA-ML)
All clandestine, opposition movement and "off-beat" stations
compiled from Eike Bierwirth's 24/24 schedule 19 August 2003
http://www.eibi.de.vu/ by DXA375-Silvain Domen
0000 0030 Su CLA Conversando e.Cubanos S CUB 9955/USA
0000 2400 CLA Star Star BS (Xin Xing) M CHN 8300 9725 11430 13750
15385
0030 0045 Su CLA La Hora de Chibas S CUB 9955/USA
0030 0100 CLA V.o.National Salvation E KOR 1053 3480 4400 4450
4557 STILL ON?
0030 0130 Mo CLA Radio Oriente Libre S CUB 9955/USA
0100 0200 We,Fr CLA Hmong Lao Radio LAO LAO 17540/UZB
0100 0200 Su CLA Radio Revista Lux S CUB 9955/USA
0130 0200 Mo CLA Conversando e.Cubanos S CUB 9955/USA
0130 0530 CLA Voice of Mojahed FS IRN 4670 5350 5640 6460 6750
7000 7750 8240 8350 8600
8950 9250 ALL VARIABLE!
0200 0230 CLA V.o.Iranian Kurdistan FS,KU ME 3975
0200 0500 CLA V.o.People of Kurdistan A,KU ME 4025 4417
0200 0500 CLA Vo.Toilers of Kurdistan A,KU ME 4245
0230 0300 CLA Radio Komala KU ME 3930 4620
0230 0315 CLA R.Payem E Doost FS ME 7460/MDA
0230 0330 CLA Radio Sadaye Kashmir UR SAs 6100/IND
0230 0330 CLA V.o.Comm.Party of Iran FS ME 3880 4380
0300 0330 CLA Radio Komala FS ME 3930 4620
0300 0400 CLA V.o.Conserv.Party Kurd.A,KU ME 4167
0300 0400 CLA V.o.Mujahedin Ir.Kurd. FS,KU ME 4260-4290
0300 0420 CLA V.o.Iraqi People (2) A ME 3900 5880
0300 0600 CLA Echo of Hope K KRE 3985 6348
0300 0700 CLA V.o.National Salvation K KOR 1053 3480 4400 4450 4557
0300 0700 CLA Voice of the People K KRE 6518 6600
0325 0425 Sa-Th CLA V.o.Iranian Revolution KU ME 3880 4380
0330 0350 CLA V.o.Peace and Democracy TIG EAf 5500/ETH 6350/ETH
0330 0400 CLA Arabic R./V.o.Homeland A SYR 7510/RUS-s
0340 0600 CLA Radio Kurdistan A,KU ME 4120
0340 0600 CLA V.o.Iraqi Kurdistan A,KU ME 4085
0400 0430 Sa-Th CLA V.o.Freedom and Renewal A SDN 6985
0400 0500 CLA V.o.Comm.Party of Iran FS ME 3880 4380
0400 0800 CLA Denge Mesopotamia KU ME 15675/NOR-k
0430 0500 Sa-Tu CLA R.Voice of Hope E EAf 12060/MDG 15320/MDG
0600 0700 CLA Nat.R.of Sahara AD Rep. A,S NAf 1550 7460
0700 0800 Su CLA VoDem.Path of Eth.Unity AH EAf 21550/D-j
0730 0830 CLA Radio Sadaye Kashmir UR SAs 9890/IND
0745 1200 CLA Ashur Radio, V.o.Zowaa A,ASY ME 9155
0800 0900 CLA Voice of China M CHN 11940/TWN
0800 1600 CLA Denge Mesopotamia KU ME 11530/MDA
0900 1100 CLA Radio Indep. Mekumui SLM PNG 3850 (LSB)
0900 2100 CLA Echo of Hope K KRE 3985 6348
1000 1030 135 CLA LV de la Junta P.Cubana S CUB 9955/USA
1000 1100 Sa CLA Foro Militar Cubano S CUB 9955/USA
1000 1200 CLA V.o.National Salvation K KOR 1053 3480 4400 4450
4557 6010 STILL ON?
1030 1130 135 CLA Entre Cubanos S CUB 9955/USA
1100 2100 CLA Voice of the People K KRE 3912
1200 1700 CLA V.o.National Salvation K KOR 1053 3480 4400 4450
4557 STILL ON?
1215 1300 CLA Voice of Tibet TB As 15660-15670/KAZ
21545-21560/UZB
1230 1300 Mo-Fr CLA Radio Free Vietnam VN SEA 9930/HWA
1300 1330 Sa CLA Degar Radio DEG VTN 7115/RUS
1300 1400 Mo-Fr CLA Radio Togo Libre F TGO 21760/AFS
1300 1430 CLA VoJammu-Kashmir Freedom E SAs 5102
1300 0300 CLA V.o.Iraqi People A IRQ 4875/9570-9750/ARS-j
9563/11710/ARS
1315 2100 CLA V.o.People of Kurdistan A,KU ME 1206 4025 4417
1330 1400 Mo-Sa CLA Que Huong Radio VN SEA 9930/HWA
1330 1730 CLA Voice of Mojahed FS IRN 4670 5350 5640 6460 6750
7000 7750 8240 8350 8600
8950 9250 VARIABLE!
1400 1430 Sa CLA V.o.Democratic Eritrea TIG WEu 5925/D-j
1400 1500 Tu CLA Voice of Khmer Krom KH SEA 15660/RUS-v
1430 1500 Sa CLA V.o.Democratic Eritrea A WEu 5925/D-j
1430 1515 CLA Voice of Tibet TB As 17520-17540/UZB
1430 1525 CLA Democr.Voice of Burma BR SEA 5910/KAZ 5945/UZB
17495/MDG
1430 1530 CLA Radio Sadaye Kashmir UR SAs 6100/IND
1430 1530 CLA V.o.Comm.Party of Iran FS ME 3880 4380
1430 1800 CLA Vo.Toilers of Kurdistan A,KU ME 4245
1500 1530 CLA V.o.Iranian Kurdistan KU,FS ME 3975
1500 1530 CLA Arabic R./V.o.Homeland A SYR 12085/RUS-s 12120/RUS-s
1500 1600 Su-Fr CLA Falun Dafa Radio M FE 9930/HWA
1500 1700 CLA VoKurdistan Soc.Dem.Pty KU,A ME 4140
1520 2055 CLA V.o.Iraqi Kurdistan A,KU ME 4085
1530 1600 CLA Voice of Sudan A EAf 8000/ERI
1530 1630 CLA V.o.Iranian Revolution KU ME 3880 4380
1530 1730 CLA R.Voice of Iran FS IRN 15750/F
1600 1630 Tu-Sa CLA Falun Dafa Radio M FE 9930/HWA
1600 1700 Mo-Fr CLA Sudan Radio Service Vn SUD 17630/G
1600 1700 CLA Radio Freedom KU ME 3900
1600 1700 CLA Radio Komala KU ME 3930 4620
1600 1700 CLA Radio Kurdistan A,KU ME 4120
1600 1700 Th,Su CLA V.o.Ethiopian Salvation AH EAf 15670/D-j
1600 1700 CLA Voice of Independence A,KU ME 4160
1600 1700 CLA FPM V.o.Lebanon Liberty A ME 11645/RUS-s
1600 1800 CLA Ashur Radio, V.o.Zowaa ASY ME 9155
1600 1900 CLA SW Radio Africa E ZWE 4880
1630 1700 CLA Radio International FS IRN 13800/MDA
1630 1700 Tu,Fr CLA Radio Xoriyo (Huriyo) SO EAf 15670/D-j
1630 1730 CLA V.o.Comm.Party of Iran FS ME 3880 4380
1630 1755 We,Th CLA V.o.Southern Azerbaijan AZ IRN 9375
1630 1830 Mo-Sa CLA Radio Sedoye Yaran FS IRN 15790/NOR-k
1700 1730 CLA Radio Komala FS ME 3930 4620
1700 1730 Mo,Th CLA V.o.Democratic Eritrea TIG EAf 15670/D-j
1700 1730 2357 CLA V.o.Oromo Liberation OO EAf 15670/D-j
1700 1757 Su CLA Voice of Komala KU/FS ME 7560/NOR-k
1700 1800 Sa CLA Dejen Radio TIG EAf 12120/RUS-s
1700 1800 235 CLA Mesopotamia RTV KU ME 7560/RUS-s
1700 1800 Mo-Fr CLA Sudan Radio Service Vn SUD 17660/G
1700 1800 Su CLA Radio Solidarity (Fthi) TIG ETH 12120/RUS-s
1700 1800 CLA V.o.Mojahedin Ir.Kurd. KU,FS ME 4260-4290
1700 1830 CLA Radio Komala KU,FS ME 3930 4610
1730 1758 Su CLA V.o.Eritrean People TIG EAf 9990/NOR-k
1730 1800 Mo,Th CLA Sagalee Oromiyaa OO EAf 12120/RUS-s
1730 1800 Mo,Th CLA V.o.Democratic Eritrea A EAf 15670/D-j
1730 1800 2357 CLA V.o.Oromo Liberation A EAf 15670/D-j
1755 1925 CLA V.o.Iraqi People (2) A ME 3900 5880
1800 1827 Su CLA V.o.Eritrean People TIG WEu 7530/NOR-s
1800 1845 CLA R.Payem E Doost FS ME 7480/MDA
1800 1900 Su CLA V.o.Ethiopian Salvation AH EAf 7520/RUS-a
1800 2000 CLA V.o.Reform/Al Islah A ARS 15705/NOR-k
1830 1930 We CLA VoDem.Path of Eth.Unity AH EAf 15565/D-n
1830 1930 Su CLA V.o.Ethiopian Salvation AH EAf 12120/RUS-s
1900 2000 Fr CLA Kestedamena R. Rainbow AH EAf 15565/D-j
1900 2000 CLA Radio Insurgente S MEX 5800
1900 2000 Sa CLA Voice of Biafra Int. NIG 12125/RUS-a
2000 2100 Su CLA Radio Togo Libre F TGO 12125/AFS
2000 2100 Su CLA Voice of Ethiopia E Eu 7520/NOR-k
2000 2400 CLA Nat.R.of Sahara AD Rep. A,S NAf 1550 7460
2000 0030 CLA V.o.National Salvation K KOR 1053 3480 4400 4450
4557 STILL ON?
2020 2030 CLA V.o.Iraqi Kurdistan E ME 4085
2100 2200 CLA Falun Dafa Radio M Eu 5925/RUS-s (from Sept.)
2100 2200 Sa CLA Voice of Biafra Int. E WAf 7380/AFS
2200 2300 CLA Falun Dafa Radio M FE 9625/RUS-s (till Sept.)
2230 2330 CLA Voice of China M CHN 7270/TWN
2300 2400 Sa CLA Foro Militar Cubano S CUB 9955/USA
2300 2400 Su CLA Radio Revista Lux S CUB 9955/USA
2300 0100 CLA Voice of the People K KRE 6600
2330 0030 CLA Democr.Voice of Burma BR SEA 9435/D-j 9760/MDG
I have omitted from this list:
1800 2057 CLA Voice of Iran FS ME 7525/NOR-k
This actually is Radio Sedoye Yaran. Now on 1630 1830 mo-sa 15790/NOR-k
1600 1630 We,Sa CLA Tigrean Int. Solidarity TIG EAf 15265/D-j
Not on DTK list anymore. Now on 1700 1800 12120/RUS-s
Some sources give this as an opposition station:
1900 1930 Mo-Fr NIG Jakada Radio Internat. HA WAf 15170/AFS
(S.Domen-BEL Aug 19, 2003 in DXA-ML)
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Logs - AFGHANISTAN
Hit Shortwave
4050 Hit Shortwave Aug 18 1735-1746 44333 English, Arabic and pops music.
ID at 1742.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 18, 2003 in JAP 278)
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Logs - ASIA
Radio Free Asia
11520, Radio Free Asia, 3 Aug, 1400-, in Vietnamese. SINPO 44333. News
and various talks. It's the only frequency that provides intelligible
reception here. Weak parallels were 9455 (15221) and 9635 kHz (22432). No
reception at all on remaining scheduled frequencies (9930, 11510, 11605,
11765, 13775, 15705). But of course, the pattern in Vietnam itself may be
different. As far as I know, Vietnam does not jam RFA broadcasts.
(D.Mezin-RUS Aug 3, 2003 in DX Signal 106)
9555, Radio Free Asia, 7 Aug, 1602-1618, in Uighur. First I thought that
the frequency is totally free of jamming, but then music jammer appeared
here (nevertheless, interference was not heavy, and RFA broadcast
continued to be quite legible). SINPO 44333 initially, down to 43333
then. All scheduled parallels either carried only Chinese opera, or were
totally silent.
(D.Mezin-RUS Aug 3, 2003 in DX Signal 106)
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Logs - CHINA
Voice of Tibet
15660 V.O.Tibet Aug 18 1211-1221 34333-32332 Tibet, Music. 1215 Opening
music and announce. Talk. //21560 kHz.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 18, 2003 in JAP 278)
15660 V.O.Tibet Aug 20 *2111-2120 35433-32332 Tibet, 2112 s/on with
music. 2115 Opening music and announce. Talk.//21560 kHz (34333).
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 20, 2003 in JAP 279)
15670 V.O.Tibet Aug 22 *2112-2120 35333-32332 Tibet, 2112 s/on with
music. Opening music and announce. Talk. New frequecy?. //21560 kHz
(35333).
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 22, 2003 in JAP 279)
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Logs - ERITREA
Voice of Democratic Eritrea
15670 V.O.Dem.Eritrea Aug 7 *1700-1710 44433 Tigrigna, 1700 s/on with
opening music. ID. Opening announce. Talk. Mon and Thu only.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 7, 2003 in JAP 278)
15670 Voice of Democratic Eritrea, via DTK, 1700+, Agosto 18, con
apertura de transmisiones en vernacular. Musica e ID muy clara por OM.
anuncios. Noticias leidas por locutora. Hermosos temas regionales. 34443
(A.L.Slaen-ARG Aug 18, 12003 for CRW)
Voice of Democratic Eritrea : Le 25-08-2003 de 1700 à 1800 UTC sur 15670
KHz SINPO#43334 Des informations en langues locales + à 1725 Utc de la
Music régionale et à 1830 UTC changement de langue.
(M.Kallel-TUN Aug 25, 2003 for CRW)
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Logs - ETHIOPIA
Dejen Radio
12120 Dejen R. Aug 9 *1700-1710 35443 Tigrigna, 1700 s/on with local
music. 1704 ID and opening announce. Talk.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 9, 2003 in JAP 278)
Voice of Ethiopian Salvation
15670 V.O.Ethiopian Salvation Aug 10 *1600-1610 32332-33333 Amharic,
1600s/on with IS and ID. Opening music and announce. Talk. Thu and Sun
only.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 10, 2003 in JAP 278)
Voice of Oromo Liberation
15670 V.O.Oromo Liberation Aug 8 *1700-1710 25432 Oromo, 1700 s/on with
opening music. ID and opening announce. Talk. Wed and Fri and Sun only.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 8, 2003 in JAP 278)
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Logs - INDIA
Voice of Jammu Kashmir Freedom
5102 V.O.Jammu Kashmir Freedom Aug 18 *1300-1322 43443 Kashmiri, 1300
s/on with opening music. ID. Koran. Talk. 1316 ID.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 18, 2003 in JAP 278)
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Logs - IRAN
Radio International
13800 R.International Aug 18 1630-1636 35333 Farsi, ID at 1630 and 1634.
Talk.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 18, 2003 in JAP 278)
Radio Sedaye Iran
7460, Radio Sedoye Payeme Doost, *0227-0315* Aug 11, musical opening,
woman with ID and announcements in Farsi. Some vocals but mainly long
talks. At 0310 a man with ID and sign off announcements with music played
until carrier cut. Good signal.
(R.D'Angelo-PA-USA Aug 10, 2003 in DXplorer-ML)
Radio Sedaye Yaran
15790 Radio Sedaye Yaran, 1726+, Agosto 18. Transmision en farsi.
Entrevista a OM. Identificacion muy clara a las 1731. Muy pobre recepcion
antes de las 1726. A partir de esta hora llega con 24442/3
(A.L.Slaen-ARG Aug 18, 12003 for CRW)
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Logs - IRAQ
Voice of Iraqui People
9563.1 V.O.Iraqi People Aug 18 1720-1732 33333 Arabic, Talk and arabic
music. ID at 1729. //4785 kHz.11710 kHz.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 18, 2003 in JAP 278)
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Logs - KOREA (SOUTH)
Voice of National Salvation
3480, The Voice of National Salvation, 1115-1200, Jul 19, Korean ID: "
Kuguge sori pangsong-imnida" with trumpet solos, interval signal \\
4120.5, 4450, 4557 and 6009.9. All freqs jammed except 4120.5.
(R.Schulze-PHL Jul 19, 2003 in dswci DX Window Aug 11, 2003 via BCDX 634)
ex Voice of National Salvation
KCBS heard on ex Voice of National Salvation frequencies of 4450 and 4557
at 1240, both // 2850. 4450 and 4557 were jammed. I checked 3480, 4120,
4400, and 6010. Nothing was heard on these channels, but don't read too
much into that as Wyoming is a long way away from Korea.
(H.Johnson-WY-USA Aug 15, 2003 in CDX-ML)
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Logs - KURDISTAN
Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan
Clandestine station Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan seems to have rather strong
harmonic on 8170 (2x4085). Noted on 13 (correctec -CRW) Aug at 1740,
getting stronger at 1800.
(J.Savolainen-FIN Aug 13, 2003 in HCDX-ML)
4085 V.O.Iraqi Kurdistan (P) Aug 18 1640-1720 34333 English, Talk and
music.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 18, 2003 in JAP 278)
Voix du Kurdistan : Le 25-08-2003 de 1700 à 1714 UTC sur 8170 KHz
SINPO#35222 Les news en arabe + de la music Kurde.
(M.Kallel-TUN Aug 25, 2003 for CRW)
Voice of Komala
7560 V.O.Komala Aug 17 *1700-1720 24332-23332 Kurdish, 1700 s/on with
opening music and ID. Talk.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 17, 2003 in JAP 278)
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Logs - MIDDLE EAST
Radio Sawa
15725 R.Sawa Aug 8 1430-1444 34433 Arabic, Music. ID at 1432 and 1437 and
1441.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 8, 2003 in JAP 278)
12010 PHILLIPINES [corr. to MOROCCO below -QIP], Radio Sawa via VOA AUG
24 2137-2154 - playing "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" by New Kids on the
Block from 1988 followed by a jingle featuring short bits of AA and
international pops with mention of "Arabia Saudia", followed by an Arabic
pop tune, then "Sawa" jingle followed by Jennifer Lopez - Glad, then
Radio Sawa jingle followed by nx, then Arabic pops presented by a male
announcer. Fair to very good reception, //12040 wich had only poor-fair
reception. Both NEW !
(A.Chiochiu-QC-CAN Aug 24, 2003 in CDX-ML)
I too hear R. Sawa on 12010 and after checking website
http://www.radiosawa.com/radiosawa_swavefreqs.cfm
no mention of location but have to say I have never gotten anything out
of the Phillipines this strong. I have to think from a different
location. Signal level very close to that of what was on the the 41 mtr
band in the past, ie 7175, 7185.
Thanks for the tip.
(B.Montgomery-PA-USA Aug 24, 2003 in CDX-ML)
I just received an e-mail from a DX`er called Bob Montgomery that did
point to me the Radio Sawa transmitter on 12010 was from Marocco not from
the Phillipines (the PWBR do not list any Moroccan station on this
channel, and the Phillipines seemed to me the most likely outlet of all
the stations listed on 12010 in PWBR). I will try to obtain the WRTH as
it may be more precise than the PWBR.
(A.Chiochiu-QC-CAN Aug 24, 2003 in CDX-ML)
MOROOCO 12010, 2305-2330, R. Sawa Aug 24 R. Sawa in Arabic. Excellent
signal level of 10/s9 and some slight fades noted. Male announcer with
lots of id's and promos. Tentive nx items at 2315. Several interviews in
EE. News items about Rio at 2319. Then to something about the Talaban. ID
as R. Sawa at 2320 and then to more Arabic mx. at 2320.Very
professionally done. Excellent audio. Thanks for the tip from Aurel
Chiochiu.
(B.Montgomery-PA-USA Aug 24, 2003 in CDX-ML)
These frequencies are not aired from the Philippines: 12010 is from
Morocco at 75 degrees (scheduled 2100-2400), 12040 from Greece at 104
degrees (scheduled 1700-2400).
There seems to be a misunderstanding about Radio Sawa. Radio Sawa has no
direct connection with Iraq and is not aired "via" VOA. It is one of the
outlets of the US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), in row with
RFE/RL, VOA, Radio Martí, Radio Free Afghanistan and Radio Free Iraq.
Radio Sawa is produced in Washington DC and is directed to young
listeners in the whole Arabic World. It is on the air since March 2002.
However, Radio Sawa has 3 streams which slightly differ in the music
taste: Radio Sawa Levant (on MW 990/1260kHz towards Eastmediterranean
countries), Radio Sawa Iraq (on SW for listeners in Iraq), Radio Sawa
Egypt (on SW for listeners in Egypt) and Radio Sawa Gulf (relayed on FM
in Arab states around the Persian Gulf). Both 12010 & 12040 carry the
Iraq stream of Radio Sawa.
Later : I just wrote a wrong number in my previous message - as
explained, Sawa has *4* streams (not "3").
(B.Trutenau-LTU Aug 24, 2003 in CDX-ML)
MORROCCO-radio sawa hrd in arabic at 2333 utc on 12.010 mhz with
excellent signal,with frequent ids by female and traditional arabic mx
and western pop mx signal excellent
(R.Trotto-IL-USA Aug 24, 2003 in ASWLC-ML)
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Logs - SAUDI ARABIA
Voice of Reform
15705, Sawt al-Islah (Voice of Reform), 1915-2001* Aug 10, presumed the
one with long Arabic talks by various men with a couple of musical
selections as bridges. Fair signal but heavy jamming reduced reception to
poor level. Although transmission ended, jamming continued past 2025 tune
out.
(R.D'Angelo-PA-USA Aug 10, 2003 in DXplorer-ML)
Al-Aslah : sounds like they are still on shortwave 15705 jammed, but a
bit of weak talk heard in LSB. Can anyone confirm?
(H.Johnson-USA Aug 30, 2003 in CDX-ML)
Al-Aslah : Yes. S/off at 2000. Jammer still there alone at 2010.
(M.Ritola-FIN Aug 30, 2003 in CDX-ML)
15705, R. Al-Islah (pres.), *1800-2000*, s/on w/March-like songs. M anncr
in lang at 1806 but just too weak. Back to instru. mx at 1807. Came back
at 1930 and noted a bit stronger w/M anncr host and speech excerpts. M
vcl singing at 1954. Men anncrs then, but cut off in mid-sentence at
2000:33. Weak signal w/quick
QSB. Heavily jammed but still getting through w/some audio.
(D.Valko-USA Aug 30, 2003 in CDX-ML)
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Logs - SRI LANKA
IBC Tamil
17495 IBC-Tamil Aug 17 *1228-1237 44433 Tamil, 1228 s/on with music. 1230
ID and opening announce. Talk. ID at 1234.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 17, 2003 in JAP 278)
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Logs - SYRIA
Arabic Radio / Vo Homeland
Arab Radio, I heard the statione on 24-08-2003, from 1500 till 1530 UTC
on 12120 kHz SINPO*55555. The first broadcast is "Kalem Nes" (the words
of people) and the second is "Bin oubinek my Kales el Hob" (among us with
best regards).
Le 24-08-2003 de 1500 à 1530 UTC sur 12120 KHz, SINPO#55555. Les
émissions commence avec du Korn, la première émission est ‘Parole des
gens’ (kalem el nes) + de la music arabe avec une préférence pour le
chanteur Abd Halim + et la deuxième émission ‘entre nous avec les
amitiés’ (bini ou binek ma kales el hob).
(M.Kallel-TUN Aug 25, 2003 for CRW)
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Logs - VIETNAM
Que Huong Radio
9930 Que Huong Radio, 1330+, Agosto 18. Apertura de transmisiones en
vietnamita, con una marcha, seguida de otra y a continuacion
identificacion por OM. Anuncios por OM e YL. Charla, 24442
(A.L.Slaen-ARG Aug 18, 12003 for CRW)
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Logs - ZIMBABWE
SW Radio Africa
4880 SW R.Africa Aug 16 1845-1900* 33433-34333 English, Talk and music.
ID at 1857. Music. 1900 s/off.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 16, 2003 in JAP 278)
------------xxxxxxxxxx QSL Verifications xxxxxxxxxx------------
Qsl's - CHINA
V of Tibet no rp 21465 kHz, qsl-card 53 (via Tashkent).Addr: Lobsang
Tauttrim, Editor-in-Chief, Narthang Building, Gangchen, Kyishong,
Dahramsala 176 215 H.P. India
(L.Botto Fiora-I in BDXC-UK QSL-Report Aug 2003)
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Qsl's - ERITREA
Voice of Democratic Eritrea
Vo Dem. Eritrea no rp 5925 kHz, qsl-letter 215 days (via DTK Jülich.
Addr: ELF-RC, PF 1946, D 65409 Rüsselsheim, Germany)
(L.Botto Fiora-I in BDXC-UK QSL-Report Aug 2003)
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Qsl's - ETHIOPIA
Netsanet R
Netsanet Le Ethiopian R., 12110 kHz, QSL card (TDP card) in 423 days for
EG report & 1$. Report sent to TDP office in Belgium.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 30, 2003 for CRW)
Radio Xoriyo
R Xoriyo no rp 15670 kHz, qsl-letter 40 (via DTK Jülich)
(L.Botto Fiora-I in BDXC-UK QSL-Report Aug 2003)
Voice of Ethiopia
Voice of Ethiopia 7520 kHz verfied with a det. card in 161 days via TDP.
1 US-$ for RP. QTH: TDP, c/o Ludo Maes, Box 1, 2310 Rijkevorsel, Belgium.
v/s Ludo Maes
(P.Robic-AUT Aug 19, 2003 for CRW)
Voice of Oromiyaa
Voice of Oromiyaa, 12120 kHz, QSL card (TDP card) in 423 days for EG
report & 1$. Report sent to TDP office in Belgium.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 30, 2003 for CRW)
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Qsl's - IRAN
Radio Azadi
Radio Azadi, 9835 kHz, Prepared QSL card (v/s:Hartini Lim) in 157 days
for EG report & 1$. Report sent to RFE/RL Office in Washington.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 30, 2003 for CRW)
Radio Farda
Radio Farda, 9835 kHz, Prepared QSL card (v/s:Hartini Lim) in 157 days
for EG report & 1$. Report sent to RFE/RL Office in Washington.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 30, 2003 for CRW)
Voice of Iran / Radio Sedaye Iran
11575 Radio Sedaye Iran, K.R.S.I., 9744 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 207,
Beverli Hills, CA 90212. QSL letter full data in 72 days.
(A.Slaen-ARG Aug 17, 2003 in HCDX)
Voice of Iran (R.Seda-ye Iran), 11575 kHz, QSL letter in 15 days for EG
report & 1$. Report sent to 9744 Wilshire Blvd., Siute 207, Beverly
Hills, CA 90212, USA.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 30, 2003 for CRW)
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Qsl's - KURDISTAN
Mezopotamian Radio & TV
Mezopotamian Radio & TV 12115 kHz verfied with a det. card in 330 days
via
TDP. 1 US-$ for RP. QTH: TDP, c/o Ludo Maes, Box 1, 2310 Rijkevorsel,
Belgium. v/s Ludo Maes
(P.Robic-AUT Aug 19, 2003 for CRW)
Voice of Komala
Voice of Komala 7560 kHz verfied with a det. card in 245 days via TDP. 1
US-$ for RP. QTH: TDP, c/o Ludo Maes, Box 1, 2310 Rijkevorsel, Belgium.
v/s Ludo Maes
(P.Robic-AUT Aug 19, 2003 for CRW)
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Qsl's - MIDDLE EAST
Radio Sawa
Radio Sawa, 6060 kHz, QSL card (VOA card) in 192 days for EG report & 1$.
Report sent to VOA office in Washington.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 30, 2003 for CRW)
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Qsl's - NIGERIA
Voice of Biafra
Voice of Biafra Int., 12120 kHz, QSL card (TDP card) in 423 days for EG
report & 1$. Report sent to TDP office in Belgium.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 30, 2003 for CRW)
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Qsl's - SAUDI ARABIA
Voice of Reform
Radio Al Islah 7590 kHz verfied with a det. card in 249 days via TDP. 1
US-$ for RP. QTH: TDP, c/o Ludo Maes, Box 1, 2310 Rijkevorsel, Belgium.
v/s Ludo Maes
(P.Robic-AUT Aug 19, 2003 for CRW)
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Qsl's - VIETNAM
Voice of Khmer Krom R
Voice of Khmer Kampuchea Krom, 15725 kHz, QSL card (TDP card) in 423 days
for EG report & 1$. Report sent to TDP office in Belgium.
(K.Hashimoto-J Aug 30, 2003 for CRW)
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Qsl's - ZIMBABWE
SW R Africa
SW R Africa sae 6145 kHz, lt 5 days (v/s Simon Surrey, Tech.Manager.
Addr; PO Box 243 Boreham Wood, Herts,WD6 4WA QSL said TX location is
restricted for security reasons, But is believed to be Meyerton)
(A.Pennington-G in BDXC-UK QSL-Report Jul 2003)
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Update for the CRW Clandestine Radio QSL Gallery
.. no, unfortunately not many new pictures, but ..
You can now see all Clandestine Radio QSLs from the CRW Clandestine Radio
QSL Gallery as a Thumbnail !
Go to http://www.schoechi.de/pic-cla.html
and click on 'Thumbnail'. (But it needs some time to load all 378
pictures ..)
Any new pictures are welcome. But please contact me (CRW editor)
regarding the format etc. before sending something to me !
(M.Schöch-D Aug 28, 2003 for CRW)
2nd Update for the CRW Clandestine Radio QSL Gallery
All QSL's mentioned by Kenji Hashimoto in this CRW issue can be seen at
above mentioned page of the CRW Clandestine Radio QSL Gallery.
(M.Schöch-D Aug 31, 2003 for CRW)
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Misc - CHINA
FALUN GONG FOLLOWERS SEND "ILLEGAL SIGNALS" ON CHINESE TV |
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New
China News Agency)
Beijing, 15 August: Sino Satellite, a Chinese TV satellite, was taken
over by illegal TV signals transmitted by Falun Gong cult followers at
9.05 p.m. Tuesday and at 8.23 p.m. Wednesday [local times 12 and 13
August], the Ministry of Information Industry said Friday.
The state monitoring centre on wireless communications under the ministry
said illegal signals sent by Falun Gong cult activists had hindered the
Chinese audience from watching routine programmes of China Central
Television (CCTV), China Education TV Station (CETV) and ten provincial
TV stations.
The TV hijacking was also confirmed by the Ministry of Education and the
State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. The banned cult
attacked the satellite for several times between June and November last
year. ource: Xinhua news agency, Beijing, in English 0806 gmt 15 Aug 03
(via BBCM via DXLD 3-147)
CHINESE SINO SATELLITE SPOKESMAN CONDEMNS FALUN GONG JAMMING ACTION |
Text of report by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News
Agency) Asia-Pacific service
Beijing, 15 August: This reporter learned from the State Radio Monitoring
Centre of the Information Industry Ministry that at 2105 local time [1305
gmt] on 12 August and 2023 local time [1223 gmt] on 13 August, Sino
Satellite was hijacked by illegal signals sent by the "Falun Gong" cult
again. The transmissions of many channels - China Education TV Station,
China Central Television, and ten other provincial TV stations were
respectively seriously jammed. The viewers could not watch long-distance
education programmes and other TV programmes. This information has been
further confirmed by the Education Ministry and the State Administration
of Radio, Film and Television. This is another crime committed by the
"Falun Gong" cult. It is not only against the basic principles of
civilian communications, but also interrupting routine radio and TV
broadcasts, and violating the rights and interests of the masses.
A responsible person at the Sino Satellite Communications Company pointed
out: The way that the "Falun Gong" cult openly trampled on the state law
and the basic principles of civilian communications, and maliciously
attacked civilian communications satellites many times is a challenge to
the social order and modern civilization. It is information terrorism and
banditry in the age of high technology. It also seriously invaded the
rights of the satellite company and damaged the reputation of the
satellite company. The Sino Satellite Communications Company will retain
rights to investigate the legal responsibility of the "Falun Gong" cult.
A responsible person at the State Administration of Radio, Film and
Television said: The acts in which the "Falun Gong" cult disregarded
social ethics and interrupted regular TV broadcasting several times have
once again revealed the "Falugong" cult's nature in causing grave harm to
the country and the people. The hidden forces supporting and indulging
the cult will have unshirkable responsibility for the illegal acts of
"Falun Gong." They will eventually bring trouble to themselves and eat
their own bitter fruit.
The interrupted TV viewers feel furious about the "Falun Gong" cult's act
of wantonly trampling on public opinion. They think that while the whole
society is paying attention to the country's socialist modernization, the
acts of the "Falun Gong" - repeatedly hijacking the satellite, depriving
the rights of the masses to watch regular TV programmes, and disturbing
the steady lives of the masses - have made them an enemy of the people
and society. It is necessary to severely punish the cult to safeguard the
interests of the people.
Sino Satellite, launched into space by the "Long March [Changzheng or CZ]
3B" carrier rocket in 1998, has served the "Cuncuntong" radio and TV
project [designed to bring radio and TV programmes to every village] of
the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television; the transmissions
of China Education TV Station's programmes; and dozens of other users,
including China National Offshore Oil Corporation, China Unicom
Corporation, and China Netcom Corporation. From June 2002 to November
2002, the "Falun Gong" cult sent illegal signals to attack Sino Satellite
many times from the Taipei area of Taiwan province.
Source: Xinhua news agency, Beijing, in Chinese 0852 gmt 15 Aug 03 (via
BBCM via DXLD 3-147)
CHINA CONDEMNS FALUN GONG INTERFERENCE IN TV SATELLITE SIGNALS |
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New
China News Agency)
Beijing, 15 August: China Friday [15 August] condemned the Falun Gong
cult for hijacking again the satellite signals of government-run Sino
Satellite, which violated the basic principles of relevant civilian
communications.
The TV satellite, belonging to the Sino-Satellite Communications Co Ltd,
was taken over by illegal TV signals transmitted by Falun Gong cult
followers twice, once at 9.05 p.m. Tuesday and once at 8.23 p.m.
Wednesday [local times 12 and 13 August], according to the Ministry of
Information Industry.
The illegal signals hindered the Chinese audience from watching routine
programmes of China Central Television, China Education TV Station and 10
provincial TV stations.
"Falun Gong's law-breaking activity is information terrorism and banditry
in the high-tech era," said a company executive. "It infringes on the
rights and interests of our company, and its reputation as well. We
retain the right to investigate the legal responsibility of the cult."
A senior official of the State Administration of Radio, Film and
Television said the TV hijacking once again indicates the cult's goal to
cause damage to the country and the people.
Those who back up and connive with the banned cult should be held
responsible for the illegal act and will eventually eat their own bitter
fruits, the official said.
The public who were disrupted from receiving the country's radio and
television programmes also angrily condemned the Falun Gong cult's evil
act. They urged the cult be severely punished to safeguard the interests
of the people.
This week's hijackings were not the first time Falun Gong cult activists
had broadcast illegal TV signals to cut into transmission using Sino
Satellite.
The satellite was taken over on 21 September last year, during the Middle
Autumn Festival when people should have been enjoying entertainment
programmes on TV with their families.
Their attacks in late June last year also disrupted people in many remote
villages in China from being able to watch the World Cup finals.
Sino Satellite, launched in 1998, serves dozens of clients including
those of prime importance to the daily lives of Chinese, such as the
State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the Chinese Offshore
Petrol Corporation, the National Meteorological Bureau and China Unicom.
Through this satellite, TV programmes are able to reach rural residents
in remote villages in most landlocked areas in the country, and China
Education TV Station broadcasts education programmes to students
nationwide.
Source: Xinhua news agency, Beijing, in English 0932 gmt 15 Aug 03 (via
BBCM via DXLD 3-148)
Falun Gong Cult Devotees Hijack Chinese TV Satellite
Xinhua News
August 15, 2003
http://english.eastday.com/epublish/gb/paper1/995/class000100004/hwz154597.htm
Sino Satellite, a Chinese TV satellite, was taken over by illegal TV
signals transmitted by Falun Gong cult followers at 9:05 p.m. Tuesday and
at 8:23 p.m. Wednesday, the Ministry of Information Industry said Friday.
The state monitoring center on wireless communications under the ministry
said illegal signals sent by Falun Gong cult activists had hindered the
Chinese audience from watching routine programs of China Central
Television
(CCTV), China Education TV Station (CETV) and ten provincial TV stations.
The TV hijacking was also confirmed by the Ministry of Education and the
State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
The banned cult attacked the satellite for several times between June and
November last year.
(Xinhua News Aug 15, 2003 via N.Grace-USA)
Falun Gong Take TV Satellite
Associated Press
August 15, 2003
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1402860,00.html
Beijing - Practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual movement commandeered
China's major television satellite twice this week, the Chinese
government said on Friday, reporting the latest satellite hacking by the
outlawed group.
Sino Satellite, known commonly as SinoSat, was "taken over by illegal TV
signals" transmitted by Falun Gong at 21:05 on Tuesday and at 20:23 on
Wednesday, the Ministry of Information Industry said.
The action prevented Chinese audiences from watching programmes on China
Central Television, China Education Television and 10 provincial
stations, the government said.
Though the government's Xinhua News Agency did not detail what programs
were aired during the disruptions, Falun Gong - in hacking activities
that began early last year - typically replaces regular fare with
messages about its movement and the abuses it says it endures.
Falun Gong representatives in the United States acknowledge their hacking
activities and say it is the only way they can circulate their message
within China.
"(Falun Gong) practitioners in China have discovered a non-violent means
- one that harms neither people nor equipment - to break through the
information blockade and let the people see programs that openly show the
human rights violations happening in their own country," Falun Gong
spokesman Erping Zhang said last week in a release posted on the group's
Web site.
The Chinese government banned Falun Gong in 1999 as a threat to public
safety and considers it an "evil cult."
The movement has attracted millions of followers with a mix of
traditional Chinese calisthenics and doctrines drawn from Buddhism,
Taoism and the ideas of its founder, Li Hongzhi, a former government
clerk.
Since it was banned, thousands of its followers have been detained by the
Chinese government. Activists abroad say scores have died in police
custody from beatings or mistreatment.
(AP Aug 15, 2003 via N.Grace-USA)
China Condemns Falun Gong Cult's Hijacking Satellite
People's Daily
August 15, 2003
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200308/15/eng20030815_122396.shtml
China Friday condemned the Falun Gong cult for hijacking again the
satellite signals of government-run Sino Satellite, which violated the
basic principles of relevant civilian communications.
China Friday condemned the Falun Gong cult for hijacking again the
satellite signals of government-run Sino Satellite, which violated the
basic principles of relevant civilian communications.
The TV satellite, belonging to the Sino-Satellite Communications Co.,
Ltd., was taken over by illegal TV signals transmitted by Falun Gong cult
followers twice, once at 9:05 p.m. Tuesday and once at 8:23 p.m.
Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Information Industry.
The illegal signals hindered the Chinese audience from watching routine
programs of China Central Television, China Education TV Station and 10
provincial TV stations.
"Falun Gong's law-breaking activity is information terrorism and banditry
in the high-tech era," said a company executive. "It infringes on the
rights and interests of our company, and its reputation as well. We
retain the right to investigate the legal responsibility of the cult."
A senior official of the State Administration of Radio, Film and
Television, said the TV hijacking once again indicates the cult's goal to
cause damage to the country and the people.
Those who back up and connive with the banned cult should be held
responsible for the illegal act and will eventually eat their own bitter
fruits, the official said.
The public who were disrupted from receiving the country's radio and
television programs, also angrily condemned the Falun Gong cult's evil
act. They urged the cult be severely punished to safeguard the interests
of the people.
This week's hijackings were not the first time Falun Gong cult activists
had broadcast illegal TV signals to cut into transmission using Sino
Satellite.
The satellite was taken over on Sept. 21 last year, during the Middle
Autumn Festival when people should have been enjoying entertainment
programs on TV with their families.
Their attacks in late June last year also disrupted people in many remote
villages in China from being able to watch the World Cup finals.
Sino Satellite, launched in 1998, serves dozens of clients including
those of prime importance to the daily lives of Chinese, such as the
State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the Chinese Offshore
Petrol Corporation, the National Meteorological Bureau and China Unicom.
Through this satellite, TV programs are able to reach rural residents in
remote villages in most land-locked areas in the country, and China
Education TV Station broadcasts education programs to students
nationwide.
(People's Daily Aug 15, 2003 via N.Grace-USA)
China Says Falun Gong Disrupts TV Signals
Reuters
August 15, 2003
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters08-15-020016.asp?reg=PACRIM
BEIJING, Aug. 15 - The banned Falun Gong spiritual movement disrupted
television signals three times this week, Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong
Quan said on Friday.
The group, labelled an "evil cult" and banned in 1999 after a massive
protest in Beijing, hijacked satellite signals on August 12 and 13,
interrupting state broadcaster CCTV, CETV and 10 provincial networks,
Kong said in a statement.
"This attack is a new crime committed by the Falun Gong cult, who
violated the basic principles of civil-use communication, interfered with
normal broadcasting and infringed on public interests," he said.
The signals, transmitted by the state-owned Sinostat satellite, were
suspended three times, lasting between nearly six and 30 minutes, the
statement said.
A CCTV official told Reuters the television screens looked black during
the disruptions. He declined to elaborate on the regions affected.
The case is not the first in which the much maligned spiritual group has
tried to promote its cause with the public by taking over television
airwaves.
The group hijacked radio and television signals in the second half of
2002 in some areas with broadcasts promoting their cause. China said last
September it had traced the origin of a television disruption to Taiwan's
capital, Taipei.
Dozens of practitioners have been jailed for hacking into television
networks.
Falun Gong was banned after practitioners staged a mass sit-in near
Beijing's leadership compound demanding recognition. It combines a
mixture of Taoism, Buddhism, traditional Chinese breathing exercises and
ideas of its founder, Li Hongzhi.
(Reuters Aug 15, 2003 via N.Grace-USA)
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Misc - CUBA
Throwing A Bone To Miami's Cubans
By NBC 6 Reporter Hank Tester
POSTED: 12:15 p.m. EDT August 19, 2003
UPDATED: 9:05 p.m. EDT August 19, 2003
http://www.nbc6.net/hanktester/2415506/detail.html
MIAMI -- NBC-6 has learned that early in September the Bush
administration will announce that the signal for TV-Marti will be beamed
into Cuba via satellite.
The satellite delivery system announcement is an attempt to answer harsh
criticism by Cuban exile power brokers and politicos that TV-Marti is a
failure. They charge the U.S. Government has been unable to figure out
how to penetrate the Castro government's electronic jamming of TV-Marti's
over-the-air signal.
For years the local exiles were staunch supporters of the U.S. government
operated TV station, which broadcasts from an Aerostat balloon, anchored
just north of Key West. This despite constant congressional criticism
that the operation was a waste of taxpayer's money because no one in Cuba
could see the broadcasts.
In recent weeks Republican Cuban-American politicians and exile leaders
have pounded the Bush administration for what is considered a weak
position on Cuba. Cuban-American movers and shakers feel they are
responsible for putting President George W. Bush in the White House by
making the vote difference in the 2000 election in Florida. The threat:
influential Cuban-American leaders will think hard about whether or not
they will support Bush in the next Presidential election.
Four demands have emerged from the frustrated exiles. They demands are:
increase support for the dissidents on the island, indict Fidel Castro
for ordering the 1996 shoot down of the Brothers to the Rescue airplanes,
modify the "wet foot/dry foot" immigration policy, and boost the TV-Marti
signal.
Word from Washington and Miami indicates that there is little
administration appetite to tinker with the immigration policy...
indicting Fidel Castro is viewed as rife with problems.
There are those with the view that Havana-U.S. Interest Section Chief
James Cason is doing a pretty good job of supporting the island
dissidents. Other than a little more money, not much needs to be done.
On May 20, a U.S. military C-130 equipped with a radio transmitter and
possibly a television transmitter flew a pattern off the Cuban coast.
Reports are that the signals carrying a message from President Bush were
heard load and clear on the Island. Exiles would love to have the flights
continue but NBC 6 has been told the cost prohibits a prolonged effort.
So the bone that will be tossed to the Cuban exiles is the satellite
scheme to get the TV-Marti into the island.
The problem is there are not that many individually owned satellite
dishes in Cuba. And not many Cubans have the financial ability to
purchase black market dishes. An additional hurdle is that the dishes can
easily be spotted and confiscated. The satellite project is patchwork at
best.
In addition, one must remember recent stories concerning allegations that
the Cuban government cooperating with the government of Iran was jamming
U.S. satellite signals. Those signals carry programming urging a
governmental change in Iraq. It is well known that Cuba does have the
technology to jam satellites.
Could the TV-Marti satellite project end in another failure?
Cuban American politicians and leaders that are in the know are at best
disappointed and at worst bitter. They want a bigger commitment from
Washington but, at this writing, they do not think there is much more in
the administration's gas tank when it comes to Cuba.
---
Hank Tester often reports on the Cuban exile community. Besides his daily
reports on NBC 6, he is heard on WFFG Keys Talk Radio. Copyright 2003 by
NBC6.net.
(NBC 6 Aug 19, 2003 via H.Tester-FL-USA for CRW)
US plans satellite broadcasts of TV Marti to Cuba
Text of report from US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) web site on
21 August
Miami, Florida, 21 August 2003: At a press briefing this morning in
Miami, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Kenneth Y.
Tomlinson, joined by Office of Cuba Broadcasting Director Pedro Roig and
fellow BBG Governor Joaquin Blaya, issued the following statement
concerning Radio and Television Marti:
"We have been working diligently to strengthen the signals of Radio and
TV Marti, to allow the people of Cuba access to uncensored news and
information. As part of this effort, I am pleased to announce that we
will soon undertake testing to see if TV Marti can be sent to the Cuban
people by satellite. This would allow viewers in Cuba to receive the TV
Marti signal via state of the art satellite technology through
free-to-air reception. Free-to-air means that the satellite signal is not
encrypted and can be viewed by anyone with a dish and an ordinary digital
receiver. Radio Marti's signal would also be included in the
transmission.
"Hispasat will provide a powerful signal with a footprint that fully
covers all of Cuba and nearly all of Latin America. Satellite receivers
now on the island that are able to receive direct-to-home, free-to-air
can be easily tuned to receive the signal. According to various
commercial sources, satellite dishes are being used by more and more
Cubans, and the numbers continue to rise. Moreover, we expect that as a
powerful television signal with reliable, objective news and information
becomes available to the Cuban people, it will inevitably find viewers.
If we build it, they will come.
"VHS tapes with the best of the week's programming on TV Marti will also
be made available to the Cuban audience. We are confident that with the
extraordinary resourcefulness of the Cuban people, and with the
assistance of those outside Cuba who wish them well, these VHS tapes will
quickly find an eager and growing audience of Cubans who thirst for
unbiased, fair and professional reporting that is otherwise unavailable
to them. We are confident that broadcasting the truth is not only right,
and our duty. It is also comfort and an encouragement to the dissidents
living in Cuba who - as did their predecessors in Poland, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union - brave the dictator's anger to speak
the truth.
"But the Castro regime is not content only to misinform the Cuban people.
The Cuban government also spends huge sums to block Radio Marti and its
television services. We hope that the measures we are announcing today
will make it easier for the Cuban people to hear and see our signal
through the electronic curtain that Fidel Castro has caused to descend
upon the unfortunate Cuban people. But if our efforts to penetrate this
obstacle do not succeed, we will not stop trying. We will succeed.
"We are also making improvements in our programming to Cuba. TV Marti is
now implementing a new format with a heavy emphasis on news and
information programmes. As a result, news programming will nearly double.
On the entertainment side, we have arranged for Major League baseball
games to be broadcast on TV and Radio Marti, including the playoffs and
World Series. The Voice of America's half-hour radio programme, "Ventana
a Cuba", that is now aired on Saturday and Sunday will be increased so
that listeners can hear it every day. Cubans with access to the Internet
will be able to receive the entire increased output of US international
broadcasting on-line.
"All of these efforts are part of the administration's commitment both to
strengthen and modernize TV and Radio Marti, and to improve the content
and usefulness of our broadcasts. The freedom of Cuba's long-suffering
people remains a high priority for this administration as it does for the
American people. So long as the Cuban people remain in chains, the
liberty of all people is threatened. Our efforts to provide a reliable,
accurate and accessible source of news and information to the people of
Cuba will advance the day when they can breathe free."
Source: Broadcasting Board of Governors web site, Washington, in English
21 Aug 03 (BBCM Aug 21, 2003)
U.S.-FUNDED TV MARTÍ TO REACH CUBA VIA SATELLITE
BY MADELINE BARO DIAZ, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Posted on Thu, Aug.
21, 2003
MIAMI - (KRT) - Officials with U.S.-funded TV Martí, the television
station that broadcasts an alternative to Cuba's state-run media,
announced Thursday that they will start using a satellite to reach the
island.
The Office of Cuba Broadcasting, based in Miami, said the effort was
aimed at thwarting the Cuban government's repeated jamming of TV Martí`s
signal. Within a few days, its employees will begin using the Histasat
satellite, located over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa and
near the equator, to strengthen the signals of both TV Martí and Radio
Martí.
"We have great confidence that this platform, this satellite, is the
answer we have been waiting for," said Pedro Roig, director of the Office
of Cuba Broadcasting. "It is the most modern communications technology
available."
Cuba analysts, however, described the Bush Administration's attempt to
strengthen the ability of the stations as not just an attempt to evade
the blocking technology of Fidel Castro's government. Experts said the
plan also helps address a wave of criticism from prominent Cuban-
Americans that the administration has not had a tough enough policy
towards Cuba - much as the indictment Thursday of a Cuban general and two
pilots for the 1996 deaths of four Cuban-American fliers did.
Jaime Suchlicki, director of the University of Miami's Institute for
Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, said those moves were only a start.
"The Cuban community would like to see more," Suchlicki said. "They had
big expectations."
TV Martí, which went on the air in 1990, broadcasts its signal from a
balloon that is tethered to Cudjoe Key. Because of Cuba's efforts to
block its signal, the U.S. government has had better luck with Radio
Martí, which Cubans have been able to pick up on shortwave radios or on
AM radio outside of Havana.
Using satellite technology will cost close to $1 million, money that will
come from TV Martí's $10 million annual budget.
Although the satellite might get around the jamming, only Cubans with
satellite dishes will be able to pick up the signal. Roig said he did not
know how many Cubans have satellite dishes, but some estimates put the
number at close to 20,000. Officials also said Cubans might be able to
fashion a device that would allow them to get the signal.
In Cuba, the plan was met with some skepticism.
Elsa Morejón, whose husband Oscar Elias Biscet was convicted in April
along with 74 other dissidents in Cuba, is a weekly contributor to Radio
Martí, where she speaks about Cuba's penal system. She called the plan to
send Radio and TV Martí signals to Cuba via satellite "unviewable"
because only a few privileged Cubans have satellite dishes at home.
"What are they going to do, broadcast for foreigners?" she asked. "Those
(dishes) are concentrated in the capital because this is where the
foreigners and the money are, but in the interior provinces they don't
exist."
Satellite dishes cost about $700 for 200 channels on the black market -
almost 100 times more than an average Cuban's salary. Some Cubans tape
new release movies and sporting events and make a brisk side business
renting the videos for a few cents. Though the satellite dishes are
generally tolerated, last year the government swept several Havana
neighborhoods and seized some. Cubans generally hide the dishes in water
tanks or other receptacles on their roofs and sometimes share programming
by splitting cables into various apartments in a building.
Morejón also said beaming Radio and TV Martí programming via satellite
might cause the Cuban government to clamp down on those who have dishes.
"Maybe there is tolerance now because most people only watch
entertainment," she said. "They (the government) will see who has
satellites and taken them away."
Radio Martí officials said even if the latest signal is jammed they are
committed to getting TV Martí into Cuba. The station hopes to nearly
double its programming, with a heavy emphasis on news and sports.
Otto Reich, Bush's chief adviser on Latin America, touted the satellite
broadcast as "one more step the Bush administration is taking to break
through the information blockade."
In Miami, however, the announcement failed to satisfy some of the Bush
administration's staunchest critics, who have alleged that a lack of
political will - not a lack of adequate technology - has kept TV Martí
off the air.
"This is a mockery," said Cuban exile activist José Basulto, who earlier
this year broadcast a video message to Cuba from a plane to show how
easily the U.S. bypass the Cuban government's jamming. "This will only
reach the hotels and Cuban government officials."
(South Florida Sun-Sentinel correspondent Vanessa Bauza contributed to
this report.)---
(South Florida Sun-Sentinel Aug 21, 2003 via M.Cooper-CAN in DXLD 3-151)
TV MARTÍ WILL TRY TO REACH CUBANS WITH SATELLITE TRANSMISSIONS
BY NANCY SAN MARTIN, Knight Ridder Newspapers, Posted on Thu, Aug. 21
MIAMI - (KRT) - TV Martí will begin satellite transmissions to Cuba as
early as next month in an effort to break through the government jamming
that has left the $11 million-a-year station largely unable to get its
pro-democracy message to its intended audience, U.S. officials announced
Thursday.
"The freedom of Cuba's long-suffering people remains a high priority for
this administration," Kenneth Tómlinson, chairman of the federal agency
that oversees the broadcasts, said at the Miami office for TV Martí. "Our
efforts to provide a reliable, accurate and accessible source of news and
information to the people of Cuba will advance the day when they can
breathe free."
The decision was viewed by some Cuban-Americans as part of an effort by
the Bush Administration to quell rising frustrations among South
Florida's exile community, which has openly criticized Washington in
recent weeks for doing little to step up U.S. pressures on Cuba.
Thursday's announcement came as federal authorities unsealed a Miami
grand jury indictment against two Cuban MiG pilots and the head of the
island's air force for the 1996 shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue
planes that killed four people.
At a monthly cost of about $80,000, the satellite TV broadcasts will
begin with a three-month trial period and, if deemed successful, will be
extended on an annual basis for up to seven years, Tomlinson said. The
signal for Radio Martí, now broadcast on short-wave and AM frequencies,
will also be broadcast on satellite now, he added.
TV Martí also will nearly double its airtime to eight hours, from 6 p.m.
to 2 a.m. daily, to include more news programs as well as Major League
baseball games - Cuba's national sport. Its top programs will be copied
on VHS tapes and given to travelers to the island for distribution to
friends and relatives.
"We hope that the measures will make it easier for the Cuban people to
hear and see our signal through the electronic curtain that Fidel Castro
has caused to descend upon the unfortunate Cuban people," Tomlinson said.
"But if our efforts to penetrate this obstacle do not succeed, we will
not stop trying. We will succeed."
One State Department official dismissed the assertions that the TV Martí
decision was politically inspired, saying that "This is part of a
long-standing and continuing effort by the administration to provide more
and better information to the Cuban people."
Pedro Roig, director of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, operators of TV
Martí, characterized the satellite transmissions as "historic," adding
that "this will break the monopoly of information that Castro has over
Cuba."
TV Martí currently relies primarily on a regular TV signal, broadcast
from a balloon tethered 10,000 feet above Cudjoe Key in the Florida Keys.
Those transmissions have been easily blocked by the Cuban government, and
few Cubans have ever seen its programs.
Cuba may be able to block the TV Martí signal, however, since jamming out
of Cuba briefly disrupted U.S. government and private Los Ángeles station
broadcasts this summer to Iran of programs critical of the Shiïte Muslim
government there.
The signal will be broadcast from the Hispasat satellite, operated by a
private Spanish company, which orbits above the Atlantic and close to the
Brazilian coast. It will allow Cubans with any satellite dish and
receiver, such as those used by Direct TV subscribers, to obtain the
free-of-charge transmissions.
Hispasat provides a powerful signal with a "footprint" that covers all of
Cuba and a large portion of Latin America, making it more difficult to
jam, Tomlinson said. It is also widely used by broadcasters in Latin
America and Europe.
U.S. broadcasters hope to tap into a flourishing but illegal satellite
receiver market in Cuba that has become apparent over the past five
years. U.S. authorities estimate that as many as 15,000 satellite dishes
are now in operation at Cuban households.
Cuba's jamming of the regular TV Martí broadcasts has been so effective
that a survey done in September in Havana, commissioned by Tómlinson's
Board of Broadcasting Governors, sampled 1,000 adults and found that only
0.1 percent reported they had watched TV Martí within a one-week time
period.
"This indicates, at least numerically, that at least 1,700 people tuned
in that week. What it doesn't tell you is how well they were able to see
the broadcasts," said BBG spokesman Joe O'Connell.
(The Miami Herald Aug 21, 2003 via M.Cooper-CAN in DXLD 1-151)
LA HABANA INFORMA A E.U. QUE DIPLOMATICOS IRANIES EN LA ISLA INTERFERIAN
SEÑALES DE SATELITE DE COMUNICACIONES ESTADOUNIDENSE
El gobierno de Cuba ha informado al de los Estados Unidos que la fuente
de interferencia que afectaba las transmisiones estadounidenses en lengua
farsi hacia Iran, via satélite, procedía de unas instalaciones
diplomáticas iranias en o en los alrededores de La Habana, según ha dicho
el Departamento de Estado. Y en lo que parece ser una insólita muestra de
cooperación desplegada entre los dos antiguos enemigos de la Guerra Fría,
La Habana parece haber actuado para satisfacer una reciente protesta
formal de Washingon.
"La interferencia ha cesado," dijo Jo-Anne Prokopowicz, una vocera del
Departamento de Estado. A mediados del pasado mes de julio, tras negar
que su régimen fuera responsable por la interferencia, Cuba prometió
investigar la denuncia estadounidense y finalmente ha informado a Estados
Unidos que ha encontrado la fuente de la interferencia y le ha puesto
fin. "Cuba nos informó el 3 de agosto que había localizado la fuente de
la interferencia y que había tomado acción para detenerla," dijo
Prokopowicz.
"El gobierno cubano nos has comunicado que la interferencia provenía de
una facilidad diplomática iraní", y agregó: "Ahora le daremos a este
asunto seguimiento con el gobierno de Iran." El 15 de julio pasado, la
Junta de Gobernadores de los Servicios de Transmisiones de Estados Unidos
acusó a Cuba de interferir su programación dirigida hacia Irán al igual
que la de una emisora privada de la oposición iraní que opera desde
territorio estadounidense y transmite hacia Irán. La interferencia
afectaba todas las transmisiones en lengua Farsi que utilizaban el
satélite Loral Skynet, en un momento en que tenían lugar en Irán
protestas públicas crecientes contra el régimen de Teherán.
Terranet --- AFP --- Lebanon --- USA --- La Nueva Cuba --- Agosto 21,
2003
(TOMADO DE LA EDICION ELECTRONICA DE "LA NUEVA CUBA" FECHA 21 DE AGOSTO,
2001 [2003 -QIP]. http://www.lanuevacuba.com/master.htm via O.de
Céspedes-FL-USA in Lista ConDig-ML via DXLD 1-151)
RADIO, TV MARTÍ TO BE BROADCAST VIA SATELLITE, OFFICIALS SAY
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-dmarti22aug22,1,1163747
.story?coll=sfla-news-miami
(Sun-sentinel Aug 22, 2003 via M.Terry-G in DXLD 1-152)
REFUERZAN LAS TRANSMISIONES DE RADIO Y TV MARTÍ RUI FERREIRA
El Nuevo Herald
http://www.miami.com/mld/elnuevo/news/world/cuba/6588738.htm
(via Ó.de Céspedes-FL-USA in Lista ConDig-ML via DXLD 1-152)
CASTRO LAUGHS OFF US PLANS TO STRENGTHEN TV MARTÍ
Cuban President Fidel Castro says he is not concerned by the latest plan
by the Bush administration to raise the profile of its TV Martí service.
Last week the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) announced that it
would shortly start beaming Radio and TV Martí into Cuba free-to-air via
Hispasat. The BBG says a growing number of Cubans are receiving TV via
satellite. The programming of TV Martí is also being revamped, with a
heavy emphasis on news and information programmes. On the entertainment
side, Major League baseball games will be broadcast on TV and Radio
Martí, including the playoffs and World Series. But Castro predicts that
the initiative will fail, like earlier efforts. "Up to now, experience
has shown that it has gone badly," he said. "I read something about that
and I was laughing. They are always inventing something."
(Radio Netherlands Media Network Aug 25, 2003 via DXLD 3-153)
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Misc - IRAN
Iran: Opposition condemns regime's alleged "jamming" of satellite
broadcasts
Text of report in English by Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO) web site on
20 August
Mullahs' regime uses its espionage and terror nests (under cover of
embassy) for "satellite terrorism":
The Cuban government has declared that the religious fascism ruling Iran
has in recent months been using its diplomatic centre and installations
in the suburbs of Havana to jam and disrupt Persian-language satellite
television programmes.
The Iranian resistance calls on the UN Security Council and competent
international authorities to condemn this blatant breach of international
law and conventions by the mullahs' regime. It underscores the need to
adopt binding decisions against the medieval regime ruling Iran.
The mullahs' Supreme National Security Council, chaired by Mohammad
Khatami, assigned the Intelligence Ministry in summer 1999 to jam and
disrupt Persian-language satellite television broadcasts with the help of
the state television, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, the
Revolutionary Guards' Directorate of Electronic Warfare (known as JANGAL)
and the Army's Directorate of Communications and Electronics (known as
ARAL).
On the basis of an independent investigation by Britain's DERA Defford
(Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) satellite communications
company, the Iranian resistance announced in 2000 that jamming signals
were beamed from a location inside Iran near the Caspian Sea in northern
Iran. Subsequently, the mullahs used more sophisticated technology to
continue jamming satellite programmes from several locations.
The use of diplomatic installations by the religious, terrorist
dictatorship ruling Iran to jam and disrupt satellite broadcasts shows a
new stage in the extension of terrorism to satellite communications. It
also displays the mullahs' fear of any cracks appearing in the wall of
censorship and repression in Iran.
The Iranian resistance calls on the UN Secretary-General, the Security
Council and the International Telecommunications Union to adopt effective
measures and impose binding sanctions on the religious tyranny ruling
Iran. Inaction and silence by international agencies only emboldens
Tehran's rulers to continue their blatant violation of international law
and conventions.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, 20 August 2003
[The US State Department on 20 August said it had received information
from the authorities in Cuba that an Iranian diplomatic facility was
responsible for jamming American satellite television broadcasts aimed at
Iran in July 2003. A State Department spokeswoman said the Cuban
government had informed the United States that it had taken action to
stop the interference. The US had previously accused Cuba itself of
jamming the television broadcasts, a charge the Cuban authorities denied.
The jamming affected Persian-language broadcasts carried by the Loral
Skynet satellite, and reportedly became more pronounced during
anti-government protests in Iran.]
Source: Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO) web site in English 20 Aug 03 (BBCM Aug
20, 2003)
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Misc - IRAQ
The media in Iraq - updated 26 August 2003
New publications continue to appear in Iraq since the fall of Saddam
Husayn's regime in April 2003. At the time of writing, more than 180
newspapers and other publications are available. Many of the new papers
are published by lesser-known organizations.
The Iraqi Media Network (IMN), operated by the Coalition Provisional
Authority, continues to dominate domestic broadcasting. The role of the
IMN in shaping post-war national broadcasting in Iraq, and the extent of
its powers, came under the international spotlight at the beginning of
August, when senior IMN official Ahmad al-Rikabi, head of US-backed Iraqi
TV, resigned. Rikabi complained that inadequate funding prevented the
station from competing with rival channels from Iran and the Gulf states.
The US authorities have appointed Simon Haselock as media commissioner to
govern broadcasters and the press in Iraq, establish training programmes
for journalists and plan for the establishment of a state-run radio and
TV network, the Washington Post newspaper reported on 19 August.
Haselock's last appointment was as spokesman and media supervisor for UN
authorities overseeing Kosovo.
An FM radio station describing itself as Iraq's first independent music
station has been heard in Baghdad. Across Iraq as a whole, however,
independent radio and TV stations have been slow to emerge.
International broadcasters such as the BBC, Radio Monte Carlo-Middle East
and the US-run Radio Sawa are all available on FM in Baghdad and some
other Iraqi cities. Internet services are on offer in the capital, and
the state internet service provider, Uruklink, is back in operation after
several months offline.
The Paris-based organization Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) on 23 July
published a report on developments in Iraq's media in the previous four
months. The full report can be seen on the RSF web site, www.rsf.fr
The following new Iraqi press and broadcast sources have been traced
since the previous 1 August 2003 issue of "The media in post-war Iraq":
NEW RADIO BROADCASTS IN IRAQ SINCE 1 AUGUST 2003
IQ4 Radio Iraq In Baghdad, a previously unidentified FM radio station on
104.1 MHz playing continuous Arabic and Western pop music was observed on
16 August with the following announcement in English: "This is IQ4 Radio
Iraq, Iraq's first independent music station, 104.1 FM".
New Iraq Radio The previously unidentified radio station broadcasting in
Arabic and Kurdish on 657 kHz mediumwave in Baghdad has now been
identified as New Iraq Radio, Voice of the Iraqi Media Network.
The US surrogate broadcaster Radio Free Iraq has been observed on a new
FM frequency in Baghdad, 102.4 MHz, which is listed on their web site as
102 MHz.
With the arrival of Polish troops in Iraq as part of the international
stabilization force, public Polish Radio is setting up a correspondents'
unit in Iraq and plans to start broadcasts for the Polish military
contingent in the country, Polish radio reported on 9 August.
NEW IRAQI PRESS SINCE 1 AUGUST 2003 [deleted by CRW]
PRESS [deleted by CRW]
POST-WAR BROADCAST MEDIA
RADIO
FM BAND IN BAGHDAD (MHz)
89.0 - BBC World Service in Arabic
89.9 - Iranian Payam network in Persian
90.1 - Iranian Voice of the Mujahidin in Arabic
92.3 - Continuous US pop music - no identification announcements
93.0 - Iranian Javan (Youth) network in Persian
93.5 - Radio Monte Carlo-Middle East
95.0 - Radio Freedom from Baghdad in Arabic (operated by the PUK)
97.1 - Unidentified Western music
97.4 - Continuous US pop music (as 92.3)
97.7 - Continuous US pop music (as 92.3)
98.1 - BBC World Service in English
98.3 - Baghdad FM Radio
100.4 - US Radio Sawa in Arabic
101.6 - Iranian Javan (Youth) network in Persian
102.4 - Radio Free Iraq (RFE/RL)
104.1 - IQ4 Radio Iraq in English
107.8 - American Forces Network in English
AM/MEDIUMWAVE (kHz)
531 - (Iranian) IRIB Radio Sarasarye network in Persian
540 - Radio Kuwait Main Programme in Arabic
558 - IRIB Radio Farhang network in Persian
576 - IRIB Arabic Service
585 - (Saudi) BSKSA General Programme in Arabic
612 - IRIB Arabic Service
630 - Radio Kuwait Koran Programme in Arabic
657 - New Iraq Radio, Voice of the Iraqi Media Network in Arabic and
Kurdish
666 - IRIB Radio Sarasarye network in Persian
693 - US Information Radio in Arabic
711 - IRIB Ahwaz regional in Arabic
720 - Voice of the Mujahidin in Arabic
756 - Information Radio in Arabic
783 - BSKSA 2nd Programme in Arabic
819 - Syrian Arab Republic Radio Main Programme in Arabic
855 - BSKSA Koran Programme in Arabic
864 - Radio Nejat in Persian
873 - BSKSA Koran Programme in Arabic
900 - IRIB Radio Sarasarye network in Persian
909 - Radio Nahrain
936 - BSKSA Koran Programme in Arabic
954 - Radio Qatar in Arabic
972 - IRIB Radio Sarasarye network in Persian
1000 - Voice of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq
1026 - Iraqi Media Network - Radio Baghdad in Arabic
1053 - Republic of Iraq Radio, Voice of the Iraqi People in Arabic
1089 - BSKSA 2nd Programme in Arabic
1134 - Radio Kuwait Main Programme in Arabic
1161 - IRIB Arabic Service
1170 - (US-run) Radio Farda in Persian
1188 - IRIB Radio Payam network in Persian
1224 - IRIB Arabic Service
1242 - Radio Sultanate of Oman
1251 - IRIB Radio Sarasarye network in Persian
1269 - Radio Kuwait Modern Arabic Music Service
1278 - IRIB Kermanshah regional in Persian
1296 - Voice of Azerbaijan in Azeri - Radio Liberty relay
1305 - IRIB Bushehr regional in Persian
1314 - (US-run) Radio Free Iraq via Abu Dhabi
1332 - IRIB Tehran regional in Persian
1341 - Radio Kuwait 2nd Programme in Arabic
1395 - Voice of Armenia in Armenian
1422 - BSKSA Foreign Language Programme in French
1440 - BSKSA General Programme in Arabic
1449 - IRIB World Service in Russian
1467 - BSKSA General Programme in Arabic
1476 - Emirates Radio, UAE, in Arabic
1485 - IRIB Radio Sarasarye network in Persian
1503 - IRIB Radio Sarasarye network in Persian
1521 - IRIB Radio Farhang network in Persian
1530 - IRIB Radio Sarasarye network in Persian
1539 - (US-run) Radio Farda in Persian
1548 - (US-run) Radio Sawa in Arabic
1566 - Radio of the Land of the Two Rivers in Arabic
1575 - Radio Al-Mustaqbal
1575 - Radio Asia, UAE, in Urdu
1593 - VoA English/Kurdish/Persian + Radio Free Iraq
Iraqi Media Network, Voice of New Iraq - operated by the Coalition
Provisional Authority. Has also identified as Republic of Iraq Radio from
Baghdad and Voice of Free Iraq (Sawt al-Iraq al-Hurr). Broadcasts on 98.3
MHz FM in Baghdad.
On 27 May 2003 the station was observed on 1026 kHz announcing as Iraqi
Media Network-Radio Baghdad.
Shamin Rassam, an Iraqi-American, directs IMN's FM radio outlet as well
as news bulletins on the mediumwave station, according to the Washington
Post.
IQ4 Radio Iraq In Baghdad, a previously unidentified FM radio station on
104.1 MHz playing continuous Arabic and Western pop music was observed on
16 August with the following announcement in English: "This is IQ4 Radio
Iraq, Iraq's first independent music station, 104.1 FM".
Radio Nahrain Since the end of March 2003, Radio Nahrain, also known as
Twin Rivers Radio, has been transmitting on FM on 100.4 and 94.6 MHz from
a location south of Basra. It has also been monitored on 96.0 MHz and 909
kHz mediumwave. The station is operated by British forces, but was due to
be taken over at some stage by the Coalition Provisional Authority.
With the arrival of Polish troops in Iraq as part of the international
stabilization force, public Polish Radio is setting up a correspondents'
unit in Iraq and plans to start broadcasts for the Polish military
contingent in the country, Polish radio reported on 9 August.
Voice of Freedom, Voice of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan radio in
Arabic and Kurdish is operated by the PUK. It broadcasts daily from
1000-1900 gmt on 95.0 MHz. The station identifies on air as "Radio
Freedom".
Turkomaneli TV and radio was launched in Kirkuk in April 2003 and
broadcasts on behalf of the Iraqi Turkoman Front. Turkomaneli Radio
opened radio stations in Talla'far and Mosul on 6 and 8 May respectively,
the Iraqi Turkoman Front newspaper Turkomaneli reported on 11 May.
Dangi Komal-Kirkuk radio broadcasts on 1341 kHz in Kurdish, Arabic and
Turkish to Kirkuk on behalf of the Kurdistan Islamic Group.
The Worker-Communist Party of Iraq's "Radio Bopeshawa" is reportedly back
on the air. The internet site of the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
(www.wpiraq.org) reports that Ila al-Amam (Forward) Radio [usually
rendered as Radio Bopeshawa, meaning "Forward"], voice of the
Worker-Communist Party of Iraq, broadcasts for one hour a day on
shortwave from 1100 gmt (half an hour in Arabic and half an hour in
Kurdish), to the areas of Arbil, Kirkuk and Mosul. The same programme is
repeated between 0500-0600 gmt the next day. Identifies on air as "Voice
of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq".
The following are among stations in operation before April 2003 that
continue to be heard inside Iraq:
Voice of the People of Kurdistan, operated by the PUK
Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan, operated by the Kurdistan Democratic Party
(KDP)
Radio Azadi, Voice of the Communist Party of Iraqi Kurdistan
Ashur Radio - The station reportedly began operation in April 2000 and is
operated by the Assyrian Democratic Movement, an opposition organization
in northern Iraq. It broadcasts in Assyrian and Arabic on shortwave,
reportedly from a transmitter in Azerbaijan.
Voice of the Iraqi People, Voice of the Iraqi Communist Party - The
station broadcasts from northern Iraq, possibly using Kurdish facilities.
Voice of the Mojahed, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization's radio, may
still be located in Iraq. This radio broadcasts via shortwave, satellite
and with archive audio files on the Internet. Following the fall of
Saddam Husayn, the station was observed to have ceased broadcasting for a
few days in April. The station is currently heard on various shortwave
frequencies and on the Telstar 12 satellite at 15 degrees west, on
frequency 12588 vertical, in parallel with the terrestrial frequencies.
The web site of the radio station is at: www.iran.mojahedin.org
Al-Mustaqbal [The Future] radio is operated by the Iraqi National Accord.
TELEVISION
The Iraqi Media Network launched on 13 May. The Washington Post reported
on 11 May that the US planned a nationwide Iraqi TV network to succeed
the airborne Towards Freedom TV. The programme, initially for two hours
but projected as a 24-hour full-service network, includes 30 minutes of
news each night, including a local news segment, the report said.
The station began broadcasts amid squabbling between its US and Canadian
advisers, and complaints from its Iraqi journalists about "American
censorship", international agencies reported.
Since around 20 June the Iraqi Media Network TV has broadcast to Iraq
from Eutelsat W1, located at 10 degrees east.
The role of the IMN in shaping post-war national broadcasting in Iraq,
and the extent of its powers, came under the international spotlight at
the beginning of August, when senior IMN official Ahmad al-Rikabi, head
of US-backed Iraqi TV, resigned. Rikabi complained that inadequate
funding prevented the station from competing with rival channels from
Iran and the Gulf states.
The IMN's director, George Mansur, said in an interview with the French
news agency AFP on 22 August that the network had received new equipment
and would broadcast 24 hours a day "within a few weeks".
"The move is hoped to end weeks of squabbles at the channel, seen by many
as nothing more than a mouthpiece of the coalition authorities in Iraq,"
the AFP report added.
According to the Washington Post, the IMN's television network is capable
of reaching about two-thirds of Iraqi homes.
Karbala - a local TV channel was launched on 16 April, according to
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi TV on 6 May. Similar small-scale local
channels are reported to be operating in Najaf and Kut, according to BBC
News Online reporter Tarik Kafala, who visited the stations in June 2003.
Ninawa TV was launched in mid-July 2003. The Baghdad newspaper Al-Ittihad
reported on 14 July that an independent radio station called Ninawa Radio
also operates in the city.
Freedom TV [Al-Hurriyah TV] is a PUK-sponsored television station that
began test transmissions from Baghdad on 30 April. A PUK statement said
viewers can access Freedom TV on UHF channel 38 from 1700-2200 gmt.
Mosul TV was the "first station" to resume transmission in Iraq after the
overthrow of Saddam Husayn, Dubai-based news channel Al-Arabiya TV
reported on 10 May.
Kirkuk TV channel started broadcasts on 23 April "under the supervision
of the coalition forces", according to a report by the Iraqi Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP) newspaper Brayati on 25 April.
Turkomaneli TV and radio was launched in Kirkuk in April 2003 and
broadcasts on behalf of the Iraqi Turkoman Front. Turkomaneli Radio
opened radio stations in Talla'far and Mosul on 6 and 8 May respectively,
the Iraqi Turkoman Front newspaper Turkomaneli reported on 11 May.
The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization's (MKO) "Vision of Resistance TV"
(Sima-ye Moqavemat) which was relayed by the former Republic of Iraq
Television before and after normal broadcasting hours has not been
reported on the air recently. Reportedly the studios were in Ashraf,
north of Baghdad in Central Iraq. The only MKO TV programmes being traced
at present are via satellite on the station "Simaye Azaidi Iran National
TV" (Vision of Freedom National Iran TV), which is not located in Iraq
but which the sat-address.com web site gives UK-based contact details.
The web site is http://www.iranntv.com and satellites are the
trans-Atlantic Telstar 12 at 15 degrees west (12588 MHz vertical), beamed
to Europe and the Middle East.
KurdSat, the television station of the PUK, has expanded its broadcasts
to Kirkuk and Khanaqin.
The KDP's television station Kurdistan TV now beams its programmes to
Kirkuk and Mosul.
The Iraqi newpaper Al-Qabas reported on 3 June that eight million
satellite dishes would be imported from the United States, Japan, Korea
and China.
TV BAND IN BAGHDAD (sound frequencies in MHz )
VHF
194.75 - Iraqi Media Network Television
222.75 - Iranian Television First Channel
UHF
484.75 - Iraqi Media Network Television
508.75 - Iranian Television First Channel
532.75 - Iranian Television Regional Service
604.75 - Iraqi Media Network Television
644.75 - Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Radio (in parallel with radio
transmission on 4025 kHz)
IRANIAN BROADCAST MEDIA ACCESSIBLE IN IRAQ
TELEVISION
The Iran-based Al-Alam TV channel in Arabic and English is a 24-hour news
channel transmitted on four satellites (Arabsat, Asiasat, Telstar and Hot
Bird satellites) and can be received in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and
America. Al-Alam broadcasts into Baghdad from a powerful transmitter
about 150 km away, just over the Iran-Iraq border. It is the only foreign
channel that can be viewed by Iraqis without a satellite dish. That has
sent its viewership soaring among Iraqis, who cannot afford a satellite
dish and receiver.
The Arabic channel began broadcasting in February 2003. English content
currently is limited to horizontal news subtitles or news tickers. The
station has a web site at www.alalamnews.com .
Sahar Universal Network 1 and 2 television, Iran's external satellite TV
service on the Hot Bird 1-6 satellites, is viewable across Iraq and
includes Arabic programming. It broadcasts on the 13 degrees East Hot
Bird 1-6 satellite daily from 0500-2300 gmt. Its web site is located at
http://www.sahartv.com .
Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran television in Arabic is based in
Tehran and sponsored by the state-run Vision of the Islamic Republic of
Iran. It broadcasts daily to Iraq on the satellite parameter 11172 MHz V
(6.8 MHz) 62 degrees East Intelsat 902.
Al-Thaqalayn TV This channel, affiliated to an Iranian cultural institute
of the same name, is targeted at viewers in Iraq and broadcasts religious
programmes, the Tehran Times newspaper reported on 14 July. People in
Iran's Ilam Province can watch the programmes as well, the report noted.
Resistance Channel - this TV channel is called "Al-Estiqamah TV" in
Arabic; in April 2003 it was reported to be using the facilities of
Iranian radio and TV, including the aerial of Iran's Education Channel,
to broadcast to Iraq. The station was inaugurated in early April 2003 by
Ayatollah Baqr al-Hakim, the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq [SCIRI], according to the Tehran-based Baztab web
site.
The channel was untraced when checked from 5-7 July 2003, and may no
longer be operational. A search of internet sites on 6 July revealed that
the channel has left Intelsat 902, Hot Bird and Arabsat.
RADIO
Voice of the Mujahidin First observed on 17 April and broadcasting in
Arabic, the station's content suggests that it is operated by the
Iranian-backed Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq
(SCIRI). In addition, the station is transmitting on one of several
frequencies used by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting for its
external transmissions. Has been heard on 90.1 MHz FM, in parallel with
720 kHz. The content generally parallels that of the main SCIRI web site
located at http://www.majlesaala.com .
Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran (VIRI) external service in Arabic
can be heard on mediumwave and shortwave inside Iraq as well as via the
Internet at http://www.irib.com .
Voice of Rebellious Iraq - broadcasts in Arabic and supports the
Iranian-sponsored Shi'i group, the Supreme Council of the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI); believed to transmit from Iran. The station
was untraced when checked from 5-7 July 2003.
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
Major international radio and television stations, such as pan-Arab
satellite television stations, the BBC Arabic and World service radio,
the Paris-based Radio Monte Carlo-Middle East, US Radio Sawa and
US-sponsored Radio Free Iraq are available in Iraq.
BBC World Service is now 24 hours a day in Arabic on FM in Baghdad and
Basra. The FM frequencies are 89.0 MHz in Baghdad and 90.0 MHz in Basra
in Arabic. In Basra, the World Service can also be heard in English on FM
on 88.0 MHz and 98.1 MHz.
Radio Monte Carlo-Middle East is now on FM on 93.5 MHz in Baghdad for 24
hours a day.
Radio Sawa is on FM in Baghdad (100.4 MHz), Arbil (100.5 MHz) and
Sulaymaniyah (88.0 MHz), as well as on 1548 MW.
Since mid-May 2003, Libya has been broadcasting specifically to Iraq in
Arabic. The shortwave broadcasts carrry the following announcement: "This
is the general centre for broadcasts beamed from the Great Jamahiriyah: A
message to the people of the two rivers [Iraq]." Libya broadcasts to Iraq
daily on 17600 kHz from 1200-1300 and on 7245, 9605, and 11660 kHz from
1800-1900 gmt.
Syrian Arab Republic Radio is the Syrian state-owned radio's external
service. It broadcasts on shortwave on 12085 and 13610 kHz. It has also
been heard in Iraq on the MW frequency of 819 kHz between 1100 and 1145
gmt. Its satellite parameters are 11572 MHz H (7.2 MHz) on 16 degrees
East Eutelsat W2, and 3803 MHz LCHP 40.50 W NSS 806. Its broadcast times
are from 1100-1145, 1350-1450, 1830-1915 and 2215-2315 gmt.
Radio Kuwait is the state-owned Kuwaiti radio. It can be received in Iraq
on the MW frequency of 540 kHz 24 hours.
Voice of Israel is Israel's state-owned radio. It broadcasts daily in
Arabic on shortwave from 0300-2115 gmt on 5915 kHz and 12150 kHz.
Access to all broadcast media is limited by the availability of
electricity, radio and TV sets and the satellite equipment.
INTERNET
Uruklink, the Iraqi state internet service provider, was observed back in
operation on 12 July after several months offline. The web site at
http://www.uruklink.net includes links to live audio streams from the BBC
Arabic Service, Radio Sawa and Radio Monte Carlo-Middle East.
The US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) that is administering
postwar Iraq has a web site (http://www.cpa-iraq.org). The web site
carries transcripts of speeches by CPA administrator L. Paul Bremer and
other officials, fact sheets on Iraqi ministries, public service
announcements, press releases and official documents such as regulations
and orders issued by the CPA.
An official source at the Ministry of Transport and Communications
announced at the end of June 2003 that internet services to private
subscribers in Baghdad would be resumed soon, and would be "free of
charge", Al-Shira newspaper reported.
Source: BBC Monitoring research 26 Aug 03 (BBCM Aug 26, 2003)
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Misc - KOREA (NORTH)
According to Mr. Tohru Yamashita of Asian Bcing Institute, North Korea
lost patience to the fact that South Korea did not stop their propaganda
bc to North in return for the close of "Voice of National Salvation" on
August 1.
"Korean National Democratic Front", the parent organization of "Voice of
National Salvation", announced in Pyogyang on August 12 that they will
relay Korean Central Bcing Service for 12 hours a day from August 15.
On August 15 they bc at 0700-1300 and 1700-2300 KST (2200-0400 and 0800-
1400 UTC on August 14-15) on 1053 (Haeju), 3480 (Wonsan), 4557 (Haeju),
4450 (Pyongyang) with the name of "Pyongyang branch of Korean National
Democratic Front". The stn is not a clandestine, but a formal one from
North Korea now.
(T.Akabayashi-JPN Aug 15, 2003 in BCDX 634)
Re: KOREA NORTH. SOUTH KOREA TO HEAR NORTH'S RADIO "WITHOUT FILTRATION"
FOR ANNIVERSARY |
--- I guess this statement refers to KCBS put on former Voice of National
Salvation frequencies as observed by Hans Johnson? I wonder whether or
not 1053 is on, too. There is already a KCBS outlet with 1500 kW from
Haeju on 1080, I bet that two 1500 kW rigs are installed there side by
side, one for 1080 and the other one for 1053.
Re. jamming: The main mediumwave frequencies (at least 657 and 1080) and
also some shortwave outlets of KCBS and Pyongyang Pangsong are jammed in
Seoul. I think we had a detailed report a couple of months ago?
(K.Ludwig-D Aug 17, 2003 in DXLD 3-149)
---
Activists Plan to Float Radios into North Korea
Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com
August 13, 2003
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1214495.html
Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - South Korean activists funded by
Western rights groups are planning to slip radios into North Korea, to
give ordinary people the opportunity to hear outside broadcasts that
challenge the Stalinist party line coming out of Pyongyang.
The campaigners, part of a volunteer network that helps North Koreans to
defect in the hope this will eventually bring down the regime, believe
they have found a way of smuggling the radios into one of the world's
most closed societies - by balloon.
One of the network's leaders, Korean-American pastor Douglas Shin, said
everything had been prepared for a trial run, and the group was just
waiting for the right winds before launching the balloons from an
undisclosed location near the heavily-guarded Korean border, within the
next fortnight.
Six hundred AM-FM radios, bubble-wrapped and fitted with batteries, would
be placed in plastic vinyl sacks - about 30 to a sack - and be carried by
22 helium-filled balloons across the border. The radios are about the
size of a cigarette pack.
Where they landed would depend largely on wind conditions.
Speaking by phone from Seoul, Shin said the goal is to get the radios
into the hands of ordinary North Koreans, who would be then be able to
hear Korea-language broadcasts on four short-wave channels - the Voice of
America, Radio Free Asia, the South Korean state broadcaster and an
evangelical Christian station called Far East Broadcasting.
He conceded that a North Korean who came upon one of the radios would
face a dilemma, and said the campaigners expect an initial "survival
rate" of only 10 percent.
Many North Koreans would probably turn them in to local Communist Party
officials.
"But those who are desperate enough, or hungry enough for outside
information will hide it away and keep coming back to the hideout, and
listen."
Shin acknowledged that there are some who disapprove of the plan because
they feared it would put North Koreans unnecessarily at risk of severe
punishment.
He said the volunteers welcomed the criticism, because it "gives us the
opportunity to reflect on what we are doing."
They had discussed that issue with refugees from the North, who
invariably agreed they would like to have had access to radios, despite
the risks.
"I want to give them their ears back. They can either have them, or plug
them up by turning in the radios [to the authorities]. But it's better
for them to have that choice."
According to refugees' and defectors' accounts, in past years radios had
been allowed but had to be registered with state officials, who ensured
the sets were locked to the official state broadcast frequency.
But North Koreans had discovered that, by holding a metallic object such
as a spoon close to the radio, it was possible to get a faint signal of
outside stations whose frequencies were very close to the ones used by
state radio, Shin said.
Radios were gradually banned, and most people now only had access to
"speakers with an on-and-off switch" which deliver only official
programming.
"You can imagine how thirsty they are for outside information. As the
refugees testify, North Koreans are not animals. They have human
instincts - to learn, to absorb information. We're giving them the choice
- it's better to have the choice than to be deprived of it."
'World's worst press freedom violator'
The radio project has won the support of some Western human rights
groups, including Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Frontiers,
or RSF) and Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF).
Vincent Brossel of RSF confirmed Tuesday that the Paris-based
organization was giving support, including financial support, to the
campaign.
"We think it is an excellent idea and courageous because in the region,
all the governments fear North Korea reaction to anything, but they do
not act to improve the chance of the [North] Korean people to be more
open to the world."
In RSF's annual press freedom ranking, North Korea was named the world's
worst press freedom violator, Brossel said.
He recalled that the organization had tried a similar project in the
Balkans during the Bosnian War, but later found out that the Bosnian
recipients had been unable to afford batteries to operate the sets.
In the Korean project, not only will the radios have batteries, but spare
batteries will be added to the packages, according to Shin.
Willy Fautre of HRWF said the group was supporting the radio operation
"morally and financially."
The hope is that giving North Koreans access to outside sources of
information will help "to develop their freedom of thought so that a
civil society, which is currently non-existent, can emerge," he said from
Brussels.
Fautre recalled that during the Cold War, radio stations broadcast
programs in all of the languages of the Warsaw Pact countries.
"This contributed to civil resistance to the oppressive regimes and to
the creation of local human rights groups. The same should be done with
North Korea, the last Stalinist regime in the world."
Messages of hope
The religious freedom group Voice of the Martyrs has been using
helium-filled balloons for many years to carry copies of the Christian
Gospel across the border from China into North Korea.
Shin said if the radio project takes off, the campaigners hope to flood
the North with radios, and eventually also to give ordinary South Koreans
the opportunity to provide other cargoes for future deliveries.
What they had in mind, he said, was for South Koreans to write messages
of encouragement and hope to their compatriots in the North.
"This is our version of the 'sunshine policy,' " he said, in reference to
the policy of rapprochement with Pyongyang, pursued by former South
Korean President Kim Dae-jung.
Kim's policy, which envisaged North-South family reunification visits and
other ways of improving relations between the two Koreas, was widely
criticized by conservatives who said it provided the North with aid, but
won no concessions in return.
That foreign aid flowing to the North, the critics said, was poured into
nuclear and military programs, rather than used to improve the lot of its
impoverished citizens.
With the approach of multi-party talks aimed at resolving the crisis over
North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, activists like Shin are pressing
for the U.S. and other governments involved to put the plight of the
North Korean people onto the agenda.
(CNSNews.com Aug 13, 2003 via N.Grace-USA)
Police Stop Radio Air-Drop into N Korea
UPI
August 22, 2003
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20030822-051616-1698r.htm
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Human rights activists in South
Korea say they just wanted to inform people in North Korea about what is
happening in the outside world.
But police didn't appreciate that stand and stopped their effort to send
balloons attached to radios into North Korea, the BBC reports. A German
activist was reportedly injured in the ensuing scuffle.
The activists were trying to launch more than 20 helium-filled balloons
across the Korean border. Each balloon was carrying about 20 to 25 small
transistor radios.
Douglas Shin, a Korean-American rights campaigner who took part in the
attempted launch, said the activists were not aware they were acting
against the South Korean authorities.
He said the incident was "politically connected," apparently in reference
to the planned six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear arsenal starting
in Beijing next week.
(UPI Aug 22, 2003 via N.Grace-USA)
Radio Air-Drop into N Korea Thwarted
BBC News
August 22, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3173541.stm
South Korean police have blocked a group of human rights activists from
sending balloons attached with radios into North Korea.
The activists said they wanted to help the people of the secretive
communist state find out what was happening in the outside world.
Veteran German activist Norbert Vollertsen was reportedly injured in the
ensuing scuffle.
Douglas Shin, a Korean-American rights campaigner who took part in the
attempted launch, told the BBC that the activists were not aware they
were acting against the South Korean authorities.
They "cheated us into believing this was OK to do", Mr Shin told the East
Asia Today programme.
"But when we got there it was a different story," he said.
Asked if he thought the alleged about-face was related to upcoming
six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear arsenal, Mr Shin said: "It's
all politically connected".
It is hoped that the talks, which start in Beijing next week, will help
break the political deadlock on the Korean peninsula.
'Thirsty for information'
The activists were aiming to launch more than 20 helium-filled balloons
across the Korean border.
Each balloon was carrying about 20-25 small transistor radios.
Officers stopped the activists' truck as they approached the border town
of Cholwon, saying the air-drop was not authorised by the South Korean
Government.
"Norbert tried to fill up just one balloon as a token, and they
pre-empted it by... swarming over him," Mr Shin said.
Mr Vollertsen was later taken to a nearby hospital, complaining of a leg
injury.
The campaign was aimed at overcoming North Korea's strict ban on outside
broadcasts.
North Korean radios and televisions can only tuned in to government
channels, which feature mostly army music or gushing praise for leader
Kim Jong-il.
"We are doing this because North Korean media is awful. There is no news
at all - only propaganda," Norbert Vollertsen told the BBC's World Today
programme on Thursday, before the attempted launch took place.
"The ordinary people are thirsty for information because... silence is
killing North Korea," he said.
Mr Vollertsen is a 45-year-old German doctor, who was once honoured in
North Korea for his humanitarian work there, but was expelled in 2000
after condemning the country's human rights record.
(BBC News Aug 22, 2003 via N.Grace-USA)
Plan to 'Fly' Radios to N. Korea Blocked
Associated Press
August 22, 2003
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,206152,00.html
CHIRWON - Police yesterday blocked human rights activists from releasing
balloons carrying tiny radio sets into communist North Korea.
The activists want North Koreans to use the solar-powered radios to tune
in to foreign stations, such as Washington-based Radio Free Asia or Voice
of
America.
They believe that bringing outside news will help reform North Korea.
When Dr Norbert Vollertsen, a 45-year-old German doctor, and 20 South
Korean activists travelled to the town of Chirwon near the central border
with North Korea to release the balloons, police stopped their bus and
truck, saying their campaign was not authorised by the government.
Dr Vollertsen tried to fill some balloons with helium gas, but was
quickly overpowered by police.
The activists had planned to send 200 balloons carrying a total of 600
radios. Each radio weighed 150g.
Radio Free Asia was created by the US Congress in 1996 to give
information to Asian nations without a free press.
(AP Aug 22, 2003 via N.Grace-USA)
Activists Thwarted in N Korea Radio Balloon Bid
Reuters
August 22, 2003
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters08-22-023704.asp?reg=PACRIM
SEOUL - South Korean police on Friday thwarted a group of activists
trying to launch balloons carrying transistor radios into North Korea in
a bid to undermine the communist government, an activist said.
Speaking by telephone from near the border between the two countries,
activist Rev Douglas Shin said Norbert Vollertsen, who works on behalf of
North Korean refugees, was slightly hurt in a scuffle with police, who
said the demonstrators did not have a permit for a balloon launch rally.
"We were told this morning that the government would not interfere, but
in Cholwon we were told there was a change of orders," said Shin, a
Korean-American human rights campaigner. He said Vollertsen had injured
his knee in the scuffle.
Local police could not immediately be reached for comment.
The group of mainly South Korean activists had gathered at Cholwon, a
town 80 km (48 miles) northeast of the South Korean capital, to try to
fly more than 20 balloons, each six metres (18 ft) tall and carrying
about 30 small radios, into North Korea.
The "Give the Ear to a North Korean" campaign was aimed at overcoming
North Korea's strict ban on its people receiving outside broadcasts.
North Korean radios and televisions are built so they can only tune in to
government channels, which run mostly martial music or praise of
reclusive leader Kim Jong-il.
The Voice of America and South Korea's KBS -- both government-run
broadcasters -- air programmes aimed at North Korea, but face jamming.
Vollertsen is a German doctor once decorated by North Korea for
humanitarian work there, but was expelled in 2000 after condemning the
communist state's human rights record.
He has since campaigned to help North Koreans refugees in China secure
asylum in South Korea and other countries, and helped plan a spate of
incursions by North Korean refugees into foreign diplomatic missions in
Beijing last year.
Friday's incident came as the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan
and Russia prepared to meet in Beijing next week in an attempt to defuse
the North Korean nuclear crisis.
(Reuters Aug 22, 2003 via N.Grace-USA)
Invading North Korea
Wall Street Journal
August 22, 2003
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9514
Weather permitting, an invasion of North Korea begins today. The
objective? Bringing down what Undersecretary of State John Bolton
recently called the "hellish nightmare" of Kim Jong Il's regime.
No soldiers will be involved in this invasion. The airlift will be
provided by 20 large balloons launched from South Korea. The weapons
they'll carry are 600 hand-held AM-FM radios. Their target is ordinary
North Koreans who have no access to information about what is happening
in their own country or the rest of the world. More balloon drops are
planned, along with radios in bottles floated off the coast.
The "Give an Ear to a North Korean" campaign is being organized by
Douglas Shin, a Korean-American minister, and Norbert Vollertsen, a
German physician. "Silence is killing North Korea," they say in a
statement issued from Seoul. In Kim's police state, radios must be
registered with the authorities and are permanently tuned to
government-run stations. The radios being dropped into the North would
allow people to listen to Radio Free Asia, Voice of America and
broadcasts from South Korea.
Pastor Shin and Dr. Vollertsen have long been active in the underground
railroad that helps North Koreans escape to freedom, mostly through
China. Their network of supporters has helped escapees seek amnesty at
foreign embassies in China and Southeast Asia. Earlier this year they
attempted, but failed, to smuggle two boatloads of refugees from China to
South Korea.
The radio project -- which is timed to coincide with next week's
six-party talks on the North's nuclear program -- is one of several that
activists are working on to encourage North Koreans to flee. Another
involves stationing ships in international waters off the coast of North
Korea to pick up those escaping by boat. Another calls for approaching
high-level North Korean officials visiting Seoul to try to persuade them
to defect.
Human rights aside, encouraging refugees is also a political strategy.
Word of a safe harbor overseas would surely spread throughout the North,
creating more internal pressure on the already troubled Kim regime.
That's why Kansas Senator Sam Brownback has written a letter urging
President Bush to declare such a safe harbor. He also supports, as do we,
a plan under consideration by the Bush Administration to admit 30,000
North Korean refugees currently in China. The U.S. could also put more
pressure on China to let the United Nations help the nearly 300,000 North
Koreans who may already be hiding there.
Mr. Brownback proposes to expand the S-2 visa for aliens who provide
assistance in the wars on terror and drugs. The number of "snitch visas"
should be increased to 3,500 from the current 250 a year, he says, with
eligibility extended to people offering information about rogue-state WMD
programs. The mere chance that this would induce operatives in
Pyongyang's WMD programs to defect is worth a try.
Alas, none of these sensible, creative efforts to help North Koreans are
welcome in the one place in the world where you'd expect them to be
greeted most warmly: South Korea. The government in Seoul -- led,
ironically, by a president who was a human-rights lawyer -- seems more
worried about the potential costs of resettling refugees in the South
than it is about the plight of their brothers and sisters in the North.
No one wants to exercise the military option on North Korea. Every war
game shows the West victorious, but at great cost in human life. How much
better to adopt policies encouraging an outflow of refugees -- and the
internal implosion of Kim's brutal regime.
(WSJ Aug 22, 2003 via N.Grace-USA for CRW)
Radio Air-Drop into North Korea Foiled
South China Morning Post
August 23, 2003
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/Weekly2003/08.19.2003/Korea4.htm
South Korean police yesterday thwarted a group of activists trying to
launch balloons carrying transistor radios into North Korea in an attempt
to undermine the communist government, an activist said.
Speaking by telephone from near the border between the two countries,
activist Reverend Douglas Shin said Norbert Vollertsen, who works on
behalf of North Korean refugees, hurt his knee in a scuffle with police,
who said the demonstrators did not have a permit for a balloon launch
rally.
"We were told this morning that the government would not interfere, but
in Cholwon we were told there was a change of orders," said Reverend
Shin, a Korean-American human rights campaigner.
Local police could not be reached for comment.
The group of mainly South Korean activists had gathered at Cholwon, a
town 80km northeast of the South Korean capital, to try to fly more than
20 balloons, each six metres high and carrying about 30 small radios,
into North Korea.
The "Give the Ear to a North Korean" campaign was aimed at overcoming the
North's ban on its people receiving outside broadcasts.
North Korean radios and televisions are built so they can only tune in to
government channels, which run mostly martial music or praise of
reclusive leader Kim Jong-il.
The Voice of America and South Korea's KBS - both government-run
broadcasters - air programmes aimed at North Korea, but face jamming.
Mr Vollertsen is a German doctor once decorated by North Korea for his
humanitarian work there. However he was expelled in 2000 after condemning
the communist state's record on human rights.
He has since campaigned to help North Koreans refugees in China secure
asylum in South Korea and other countries.
(South China Morning Post Aug 23, 2003 via N.Grace-USA)
Minister Plans to Drop Radios on North Korea
By Jeremy Kirk, Stars and Stripes
August 23, 2003
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=17165
SEOUL - If the wind is just right this weekend, Douglas Shin’s hopes for
a unified Korea will go lofting over barbed wire and land mines and into
North Korean airspace.
Helium-filled balloons - wired with razors and slow-burning mosquito
coils functioning as crude releases - will drop $3 Chinese radios that
will let finders tune in at least three radio stations, said Shin,
coordinator of the drop.
His hope, he says, is for more attention to the plight of North Koreans,
who have suffered years of human rights abuses and a devastating famine
since the mid-1990s.
"The huge media interest will change the attention of the South Korean
people and even the attention of the South Korean government, so they
don’t turn a blind eye to this poor situation in the North," said Shin,
48, an American minister who lives in Los Angeles.
"The plight of the ordinary people in the North is ignored."
Shin has raised about $8,500 for his project, mostly from U.S. and South
Korean donors. As long as the wind is going north Friday or Saturday, 25
balloons - all about 3.5 feet wide and 20 feet tall - will be released
near Chorwon, an area about a half-mile south of the Demilitarized Zone.
Each balloon will carry about 40 radios and parachutes to cushion their
descent.
About 100 regular party-style balloons carrying a radio each also will be
released, Shin said. The radios - contained in zippered plastic bags -
have instructions, headphones and spare batteries.
The radios are AM-FM tunable and should pick up at least three stations,
Shin said: the Christian station Far East Broadcasting company; Radio
Free Asia, a private station funded by Congress; and the Korean
Broadcasting System, a major South Korean radio and TV broadcaster.
Of course, anyone finding the radios could be in for trouble: Listening
to foreign broadcasts is illegal in North Korea.
(Stars and Stripes Aug 23, 2003 via N.Grace-USa for CRW)
South Korea Foils Airlift of Radios to North
By JAMES BROOKE
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/23/international/asia/23KORE.html
HOLWON, South Korea, Aug. 22 - All in all, it was a perfect day for
breaking North Korea's information monopoly, and Dr. Norbert Vollertsen
and his band of volunteers were determined to take advantage of it. A
brisk wind from the south was driving clouds and, Dr. Vollertsen hoped,
large balloons carrying transistor radios north over the barbed wire of
the demilitarized zone into North Korea, a country closed off from the
rest of the world.
But before the specially designed cargo balloons could be inflated with
helium, South Korean police officers clambered aboard the truck and
subdued Dr. Vollertsen, who is German, so roughly that he needed medical
treatment.
"The law requires that organizers of rallies or demonstrations notify the
local police 48 hours in advance," said Kim Bu Wook, Kangwon Province's
police chief.. This was before a two-hour standoff degenerated into a
shoving match between riot policemen and members of a growing
international movement to break the half-century information monopoly
that North Korea's Communist government has maintained over its 22
million people.
Until 2000, South Korea's military sent thousands of balloons north from
border towns like this one, usually in the summer when the prevailing
winds were favorable. But under the so-called sunshine policy of
reconciliation, South Korea has tried to avoid irritating North Korea.
By blocking the private efforts to distribute radios, however, South
Korea has placed itself on a collision course with Washington. Over the
summer, both chambers of the United States Congress voted overwhelmingly
to expand the daily Korean-language broadcasting of Radio Free Asia to 24
hours from 4 hours.
By law North Koreans are allowed to have only radios and televisions that
are locked onto the state frequencies. Residents with illegal tuneable
sets can listen to Korean-language government broadcasts from China,
Russia and South Korea, a Christian group in South Korea, and two
stations financed by the United States government, Radio Free Asia and
Voice of America.
But few North Koreans have access to normal radios and televisions, and
North Korean defectors say that information controls in North Korea are
far tighter than they were in Eastern Europe under the Communists.
South Korean officials said earlier this week that they would allow the
balloon launchings to go ahead. But the government apparently reversed
that decision to avoid provoking North Korea in anticipation of
six-country negotiations over North Korea's nuclear program, scheduled to
start in Beijing on Wednesday.
(NY Times Aug 23, 2003 via M.Brooker-ON-CAN in HCDX)
POLICE PREVENT RELEASE OF BALLOONS CARRYING RADIOS TO NORTH KOREA
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) called on South
Korea today to explain why riot police prevented human rights activists
releasing balloons that were to drop radio sets over North Korea. . .
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=7847
(via J.Dybka-USA in DXLD 3-155)
RSF WANTS EXPLANATION FOR BAN ON BALLOON RADIO SCHEME
Press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has asked South
Korea to explain why riot police prevented human rights activists
releasing balloons that were to drop radio sets over North Korea. "The
government's job is of course to maintain law and order on its territory
but how does sending tiny radio sets to North Koreans threaten South
Korea's security?" asked RSF in a letter to South
Korean Administration and Home Affairs Minister Kim Doo-kwan.
Police prevented a score of activists releasing about 200 balloons
carrying more than 600 radio sets on 22 August at Chulwon, near the North
Korean border. A German doctor, Norbert Vollertsen, was roughed up by the
police and hospitalised with a foot injury and bruises. He was trying to
fill the balloons with helium despite the police ban.
The project was launched by Korean-born American pastor Douglas Shin and
Dr Vollertsen, who was deported from North Korea in 2001 for criticising
the human rights situation there, and aimed to give hundreds of people in
the north a chance to pick up Korean-language broadcasts by foreign
stations, including Radio Free Asia, on the solar-powered sets. Radio and
TV sets sold in North Korea can only receive the state-controlled media.
According to the scheme's organisers, the South Korean foreign ministry
had been told about the launch and had not formally objected. However, no
official request for permission to stage it had been made. The law allows
demonstrations to be banned if the organisers have already been involved
in a violent demonstration or if the site of the protest is considered
unsuitable
(Radio Netherlands Media Network Aug 27, 2003 via DXLD 3-155)
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Misc - KOREA (SOUTH)
Desperation tactics --- When North Korea declared its intention to
silence the previously covert Voice of National Salvation radio
broadcasts against South Korea late last month, the international press
was quick to call the station a "Cold War relic" and paint the
announcement as a positive development in North-South relations. Almost
immediately, calls rang out to pressure Seoul into closing its own
clandestine broadcasting efforts while American and European pundits
began beating the drums of appeasement and international containment.
But, as Nick Grace of Clandestine Radio watch points out, the truth
behind this development is somewhat different. [illustrated, further
links]
http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/features/html/korea030815.html
(RN Media Network newsletter Aug 15, 2003 via DXLD 3-147)
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Misc - KURDISTAN
Kurdish KDP satellite TV opens Baghdad office
Text of report by Iraqi independent newspaper Al-Zaman on 18 August
Umar Botani, official of the fifth branch of the Kurdistan Democratic
Party [KDP], opened the Baghdad office of the Kurdistan satellite
yesterday morning, on the anniversary of the establishment of the party.
[Passage omitted: On content of the ceremony]
Source: Al-Zaman, Baghdad, in Arabic 18 Aug 03 (BBCM Aug 18, 2003)
Iraq/USA: KDP paper criticizes US Radio Sawa for ignoring Kurdish affairs
Text of report by Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) newspaper Khabat
on 24 August
Following the war to liberate Iraq, [US-run] Radio Sawa became the most
listened-to radio station. Many people listen to it in Arab countries as
well.
In our Kurdistan region, youths pay attention to it and listen to it
eagerly. But, surprisingly, the radio station broadcasts only one Kurdish
song in one hour or more, although the Kurds form a great part of the
Iraqi people. It broadcasts other songs, like Arabic, English, French,
etc, although there are no English or French people in the country.
This is the radio's own policy: it does not pay attention to Kurdistan's
politics and affairs.
People listened to the Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan [which broadcasts in
support of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP], which carried a big
message for the people, at home, in the markets, streets and roads, and
it was getting a great deal of attention abroad too.
With the beginning of the Iraq freedom war, the broadcasting of the nice
Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan on FM stopped. The Kurdish songs and singers
were stopped because Radio Sawa replaced it with its Arabic news and
Arabic and foreign songs.
This will have a great effect on the national feeling of our youths. It
would be better if the Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan returned to the people
immediately, as it was established because there was a historical need
for it. We need it to educate our youths, to serve the cause of Kurdish
culture and to deliver our political message. Restoring the service is a
glorious historical task.
Source: Khabat, Arbil, in Sorani Kurdish 24 Aug 03 (via BBCM via DXLD
3-153)
Iraq: Kurdistan Satellite TV announces new news bulletin schedules
Text of report by Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) satellite TV on
27 August
The coordination department at Kurdistan Satellite TV announces to
viewers that the schedules of news bulletins in Kurdish, Arabic, English
and Syriac will be as follows as from 1 September:
The first bulletin in Kurdish will be broadcast at 1430 [1130 gmt], local
time in the Kurdistan region. The second bulletin will be broadcast at
2030 [1730] and the third bulletin at 0030 [2130 gmt]
There will be two bulletins daily in Arabic: the first at 1030 [0730 gmt]
and the second at 2230 [1930 gmt].
The two news bulletins in English will be broadcast at 0800 [0500 gmt]
and 2000 [1700 gmt].
A news bulletin in Syriac will be broadcast once every two days at 1600
[1300 gmt].
Source: Kurdistan Satellite TV, Salah-al-Din, in Sorani Kurdish 1800 gmt
27 Aug 03 (BBCM Auf 28, 2003)
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Misc - MEXICO
here is the fragment text of the presentation of Radio Insurgente on past
August 9, 2003. Please look at the web site:
http://chiapas.mediosindependientes.org and 'click' on "Esta es Radio
Insurgente" :
Este es Radio Insurgente, transmitiendo desde las montañas del sureste
mexicano.
Bienvenidos a esta primera emision intregalactica de Radio Insurgente
Radio Insurgente, voz del Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional,
transmitiendo en los 5.8 megahertz de la banda de 49 metros de onda corta
y cuando somos interferidos por el supremo gobierno entonces circulamos
en CD's piratas. Queremos mandar un saludo a nuestras distintas filiales
de Radio Insurgente, la voz de los sin voz, en los Altos de Chiapas, en
la Selva Fronteriza y en la Selva Tseltal.
Un saludo tambien a las tropas insurgentes, que se mantienen alerta en
nuestras posiciones de montaña y tambien a todas las bases de apoyo del
Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional. Este es Radio Insurgente En
esta ocasion estamos mandando saludos especiales para las sociedades
civiles que en estos momentos se encuentran en El Caracol de Oventik,
participando en la fiesta de la muerte de los Aguascalientes y el
nacimiento de los Caracoles y las Juntas de Buen Gobierno.
Mandamos tambien saludos a los hermanos y hermanas del Frente Zapatista
de Liberacion Nacional, a la Red Zapatista en Movimiento por la
Liberacion Nacional. Y un saludo hasta Alemania, especialmente a los
parroquianos del Bar Diater Zeler, o como se diga, que esta en Gotingen,
o como se diga. Saludos tambien para Free Speech Rader News, Big Noice y
Autonomous Media Projects.
Bienvenidos y Bienvenidas a Radio Insurgente, la voz del Ejercito
Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional. Como todos saben el Ejercito Zapatista
de Liberacion Nacional esta formado por un numero indeterminado de
trasngresores y transgresoras de la ley, que no hacen otra cosa que
dedicarse a crearle problemas al supremo y al respetable. Su actividad no
ha dejado de trarle enemistades de todo tipo y para demostrar que son una
guerrilla postmoderna, los zapatones han globalizado esas enemistades y
han logrado lo que ninguna organizacion: tener cuando menos un enemigo en
cada rincon del planeta. Bueno, eso no deja de ser soberbio porque el
gobierno norteamericano tiene cuando menos un chingo de enemigos en cada
parte del mundo. Y ahora como exclusiva para los pocos despistados que
nos estan sintonizando, les tenemos una noticia exclusiva: nuestro
eficiente y profesional equipo de reporteros... bueno, de reporteras,
porque las hembras aca son, como en todo, la mayoria (y asi nos va).
Bueno, les decia que nuestro equipo de reporteras ha hecho un trabajo
paciente y dedicado y ha descubierto algo de los zapatudos. Resulta que
lo que quieren realmente los zapatistas es hacer un mundo nuevo, un mundo
donde quepan muchos mundos. Y no solo, tambien hemos descubierto que para
esa subersiva tarea cuentan con complices en todo el planeta tierra y
segun se rumorea, no lo hemos confirmado, tambien en otras galaxias. Y es
que dicen los zapatistas que debe haber un mundo mejor en algun lado.
"Debe haber un mundo mejor en algun lado"... mmmm.... ahhh.... a mi
tambien me sono conocida esa frase.
Asi que me puse a buscar en todos los libros y manuales que pude y no, no
dijo esa frase Carlos, ni Groucho Marx, no la dijo Lenin, ni el Sub, ni
el Che Guevara, ni Emiliano Zapata. Por supuesto que no me desanime y
dispuesto a todo por desenmascarar a los encapuchados segui investigando
y me encontre, si, esta frase subersiva la dijo B.B.King y la hizo un
blues. Asi que aqui esta en exclusiva para Radio Insurgente el zapatista
vergonzante, el rey, B.B. King y esta rola que se llama impudicamente
"There must be a better world somewhere", -Debe haber un mundo mejor en
alguna parte-. Aqui en Radio Insurgente, la historia, cansada de andar,
se
repite. Si el trabajo permitio la transformacion del mono en hombre, la
guerra esta haciendo posible la transformacion del hombre en mono.
Y claro que los primeros en protestar han sido los monos y los monitos, o
sea las caricaturas. Y las caricaturas protestan porque la imagen de la
clase politica las supera con mucho en comicidad. Asi, las tiras comicas
languidecen frente a la competencia desleal de las paginas de la politica
nacional e internacional. Basta un vistazo general. Aca se lee que el
Señor Bush no sabe deletrear nada que no sean bombas y la prensa
norteamericana sufre para tratar de poner en palabras inteligibles lo que
no deja de parecer un gruñido.
Por alla es el señor Berlusconi, que ha perdido las nociones de tiempo y
espacio, y no distingue entre gobernar y hacer un programa de television.
(....) Ahi nomas para acasito el señor Garzon, seguramente agotado por su
intenso trabajo de cerrar periodicos, perseguir la lengua vascuense,
interrogar torturados, tomarse fotos con familiares de los muertos en
atentados y hacer campaña para el nobel de la paz, decide tomarse unas
vacaciones. Claro que para seguir en ambiente, decide que sus vacaciones
sean en Chiapas, lugar que en estos dia abunda y redunda en ilegales y en
medios de comunicacion, las dos grandes pasiones del juez Garzon.
De nuevo por alla, el señor Blair, enfrenta una duda existencial, pero
no, se equivoca uno si supone que duda en que decir para justificar el
escandalo de los falsos informes sobre la amenaza iraqui. No, el señor
Blair duda, porque no sabe que traje ponerse. Cerca de ahi, el Assnar y
el reyecito se reunen porque sus servicios de inteligencia en Mexico, o
sea el gobierno mexicano, le han informado que los zapatones no han
abandonado la idea de invadir la Union Europea, desembarcando por
supuesto en tierras ibericas.
Y puesto que como ha sido publico y notorio, yo me cago en las
monarquias, me llevo el recorte del periodico a la letrina para
reflexionar sobre la clase politica, sentado en la misma posicion de El
Pensador de Rodin. De regreso, en la flamante comandancia general del
E.Z.L.N. leo una carta que dice textualmente "no dejo de pensar en ti".
Yo me emociono, entorno los ojos segun la mirada numero siete del
catalogo de "miradas seductoras" tomo uno, y suspiro. Pero tampoco por
mucho tiempo porque casi inmediatamente me doy cuenta que la carta va
dirigida a Brad Pitt, que por cierto estara de invitado en nuestro
programa.
Archivo entonces mi mirada seductora numero siete en la carpeta de
"gestos inutiles" y sabiendo que voy a ser duramente criticado por este
programa, recurro a Cuco Sanchez y esta rola que bien pudiera ser el otro
himno de los zapatistas. Se llama como se llama: "no soy monedita de
oro".
Seguimos pues en la programacion especial intergalactica de Radio
Insurgente. La programacion intergalactica quiere decir que transmitimos
con tan poca potencia que ni con viagra electronico la levantamos y solo
se nos puede escuchar con tecnologia intergalactica. Aun asi, tenemos
nuestros modos para que el supremo gobierno no nos detecte y no
interfiera la señal de la escurridiza del cuadrante Radio Insurgente.
Por ejemplo, cada tanto ponemos la cancion que escucharan a continuacion,
para que el enemigo piense que esta escuchando otra estacion, a saber, la
69 punto G. Asi que, con Joaquin Sabina, esta produccion del album
"dimelo en la calle", la rola que se llama "69 punto G" y con ella
mandamos un saludo a Panchito Varona, que seguramente no nos esta
escuchando pero no le aunque...
Esta usted escuchando Radio Insurgente, la voz del Ejercito Zapatista de
Liberacion Nacional, que no transmite en el 69 punto G, pero ganas no nos
faltan. Si, no nos faltan ganas... resulta que a uno le dicen "Si" pero
no le dicen cuando. Con el mariachi Vargas, "el son de la Negra".
(Fuente: Sitio de Medios Independientes de Chiapas, MEX via G.Ivan
Barrera-ARG Aug 16, 2003 for CRW)
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Misc - MOLDOVA
MOLDOVA'S SEPARATIST LEADER LAUNCHES WEB SITE |
Text of report by Moldovan news agency Infotag
Chisinau, 15 August: Dniester [Moldovan separatist region] president Igor
Smirnov's web site has been launched in [Dniester capital] Tiraspol. The
so-called presidential web site will also function as a state portal and
contribute to the creation of a comprehensive representation of the
region. The site will represent all ministries and district state
administrations and feature up-to-date information about their activity.
[The web site will become operational on 20 August at
http://www.president-pmr.org the Dniester government news agency
Olvia-press web site, Tiraspol, in Russian, said on 15 August 2003.]
Source: Infotag news agency, Chisinau, in Russian 1532 gmt 15 Aug 03 (via
BBCM via DXLD 3-147)
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Misc - SAUDI ARABIA
UK-based Saudi opposition TV reportedly stops broadcasting
Text of report entitled: "TV transmission stops 'hopefully temporary'.
Radio channel still beamed on the old frequency"; published by Movement
for Islamic Reform web site on 29 August
Transmission of Al-Islah [satellite] television has ceased once again due
to pressure from the Saudi government on Eutelsat, [the company] which
owns the satellite through which the channel broadcasts. Eutelsat used
the pretext of some missing documents and chose the end of the week in
order make it difficult for officials in charge of the channel to resort
to lawyers or official and legal parties. The movement [MIRA] hopes that
the channel's disappearance will not be for long and that steps will be
taken to resume transmission and force the party that discontinued the
transmission to pay compensation for the duration of the stoppage.
We want to point out that transmission on the radio channel is still
being carried on the old frequency: that is, 11096 with vertical
polarity.
Information for the radio channel:
Satellite: Hotbird 6
Satellite Channel: 129
Bouquet: Deutsche Telekom
Polarity: Vertical
Symbol Rate: 27500
FEC: 3/4
Video PID: 8191
Audio PID: 74
Source: Movement for Islamic Reform web site, UK, in Arabic 29 Aug 03
(BBCM Aug 29, 2003)
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Misc - SOMALIA
Radio Galkayo, Aug 2003
Looks like this town Galkayo may become the centre command for a multi
African peace keeping force as agreed to at the conference of Somali
leaders in Kenya who are forming a government for Somalia.
Am doing 2 half hour English programs at the end of the 2 Somali language
broadcasts on 6.980MHz AM on short wave radio.
It is being heard well in Ethiopia and has been heard in South Africa. I
was able to hear it from Sydney earlier. It operates 1000-1230 UTC and
1600-1730 UTC daily.
The radio wants to expand the English if the peace keepers come.
In the English we have included Swahili , Omoro and yesterday we
broadcast news in Arabic so everyone is preparing to be ready for the
international visitors if they come.
[..]
Our first student from outside this town specially came from Mogadishu to
join the radio school and he is now studying Ham radio full time.
He will become the technician at a new community radio station to be
privatly set up in Mogadishu on FM and as soon as possible on short wave.
He is learning from scratch, his reasonable English means he will do
quite fine. He follows everything well.
(S.Voron VK2BVS, 6O0A in Somalia Aug 4, 2003 via M.Watts-AUS for CRW)
Radio Galkayo - History & Amateur radio
Hello from Galkayo, Somalia, [..]
When the Radio Galkayo community short wave broadcast station is not
broadcasting it is used as the home of the Amateur Radio Training School
of Somalia.
Radio Galkayo uses 6.980MHz AM from 1000-1230 and 1600-1730 starting in
Somali. The last half hours are in English with a sprinkling of a few
other International languages. The English program also contains a 5
minute daily amateur radio course on the air called learning radio on the
radio.
1993- Radio Galkayo starts with the first ham radio training courses
conducted by Sam Voron VK2BVS in 1993 and 1994. Anyone who wants no money
and no food is welcome to come and learn radio. These people off the
street have now kept that station on air for 10 years.
18 August 2003 will be the 10 year birthday of that service.
Somali Volunteers have since got jobs with the 3 different telephone
companies and Internet cafe as they opened over the years to do business
in the town. They still come each day to make programs and broadcast
keeping the station on the air in a country that had no and still has no
effective national mgovernment.
1994- Rotary in Boulder with half Australian Government funds upgrade the
equipment donated by Australian volunteer Sam Voron in 1993 and send Sam
back as a volunteer to Somalia to instal the new equipment and train
Somali volunteers in its use.
Oxfam Canada with Canadian Government funding identified Radio Galkayo as
one of the few community radio stations in the country and has been
allocating yearly funds to send Somali volunteers for further training in
the media and journalism to increase the human resourse capability in the
country during these 10 years of need.
Currently the leaders of Somalia are meeting in Kenya to form a
government and thousands of African peace keeping troops will be
stationed in Somalia.
BBC has said that Galkayo will be the central base of those operations.
As the most peaceful region and being in a central position this means
that Radio Galkayo is now looking to expand its English program to cater
for the needs of the International force and the NGOs and humanitarian
organisations that knowledge of the safety of this region of Somalia will
attract.
The training underway in the latest Amateur radio course will not be able
to meet the high demand for knowledge in radio communications and
broadcasting when the new government is established and finds that people
with such knowledge will be needed in every town to meet broadcasting and
communications needs.
Therefor all students are also being trained as teachers so that they can
form Amateur Radio training Schools through out Somalia.
A Federal system of Government has been decided on at the conference.
Galkayo is in the Puntland State. There is currently no other State
formed in Somalia. The Puntland State was formed on 1 August 1998. All
organisations such as the United Nations request its permission before
undertaking activities in North East Somalia.
The Ministry of Information, Telecommunications and Culture in the
Puntland Government have signed a document allowing amateur radio
training, examining and licensing to be carried out by Sam Voron and when
formed these powers will be transfered to the national Somalia Amateur
Radio Society. It is necessary to up date that Government agency with
details of all call signs allocated.
The national society will therefor be conducting training, exams and
issuing call signs on behalf of that Government agency.
All Amateur call signs including visitor amateur radio licences will be
issued free of charge and for life unless cancelled by the Government.
Anyone with an overseas amateur radio call sign will be issued a Visitor
Somalia amateur licence no matter what level of ham licence they have.
This is described as a curtesy to overseas visitors.
For Example someone from the UK who has done a 2 day foundation class
amateur will be able to get the Visitor Somalia licence which is valid
inside Somalia only and has the same conditions as the Somalia
unrestricted amateur radio license.
However Somalis who do the license qualifying course for the same license
in Somalia must reach the level of the Australian unrestricted amateur
radio license.
Visitors can only receive the licence on arrival in Somalia. It can not
be sent in advance however once issued it is for life and visitors can
use it every time they came to Somalia.
Visitors can email or telephone Somalia to be met at the airport with
their visitor visa and visitor amateur license all prepared. While I am
here such visitors can email me at svoron@hotmail.com
On my departure I will outline any change of email address.
(S.Voron VK2BVS, 6O0A in Somalia Aug 5, 2003 via M.Watts-AUS for CRW)
REPORT TO Oxfam Canada and Rotary Boulder,West Australia.
REGARDING RADIO GALKAYO, SOMALIA.
FROM- SAM VORON, AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEER TECHNICIAN and English language
program announcer.
10 Aug 2003.
As we near the 18 Aug 2003 which marks 10 years of operation of Radio
Galkayo and its volunteer staff I want to let Oxfam, Canada and its
supporters know how far sighted they were in identifing the benifits of
building up the human capacity of these people in the feild of community
broadcasting and media over the most difficult years in a country with no
effective national government.
I also want to thank Rotary Boulder in West Australia who in 1994
provided high power short wave transmitting equipment that is still in
use today.
I have been here almost 3 months and have decided to extend my stay by a
further 3 months.
Yesterday FM transmissions for the Galkayo area were added to the nation
wide AM short wave transmissions here at Radio Galkayo. This will allow
those travelling in cars around the Galkayo area, those in Galkayo
suffering interference from near by 2-way radios and those with am/fm
only receivers to listen to the programs. An additional 3 hours will be
transmitted in a morning FM program starting this week.
Meanwhile those in the remote corners of the country or in towms with no
radio station will still be served by the stations short wave AM radio
transmissions.
Yesterday the station was connected to the towns 220Volt electricity
supply after almost 10 years of deisal generator operation.
Currently the stations board of directors and staff are revising all
regulations in relation to the operation of the station and financial
procedures.
The English service staff under training has been expanded with a veiw of
increasing the number of hours of that broadcast should the African peace
keeping force move into Galkayo which BBC has said would be their centre
of operational control for the country.
With moves at the peace conference in Kenya to establish an effective
national government the staff at Radio Galkayo are gearing up to be ready
to play their role.
Oxfam, Canada efforts over recent years in providing the wide scope of
training from computer usage, to radio programming content to management
skills and more have been praised by the staff here and has greatly
contributed to the growing professionalism of these volunteers.
These people are now an established part of the countries network of news
exchange and staff exchanges.
I am currently providing training to qualify students for the Somali
amateur radio operators licence here at Radio Galkayo. This is the same
training I conducted in 1993 and 1994 which launched Radio Galkayo. The
course is free and open to anyone. We already have the first students
from outside Galkayo attending, one from Mogadishu and another from
Bossaso.
If you know others that would benifit in Somalia or overseas they would
be welcome to join this course which goes for 3 months and which can be
started anytime new students join.
The course covers International radio regulations, worldwide amateur
two-way radio communications, hobby radio broadcasting and the technical
theory of radio transmitters, receivers, antennas, power supplies,
electronic circuit
and block diagrams, radio propogation, interference situations and their
cure etc.
Regards, Sam Voron, Sydney, Australia volunteer in Galkayo, Somalia.
(S.Voron VK2BVS, 6O0A in Somalia Aug 10, 2003 via M.Watts-AUS for CRW)
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Clandestine Radio Symposium 12 Sept - Bournemouth Uni
Anyone with a special interest in clandestine radio may be interested in
attending the DEHS (Defence Electronics History Society) Symposium on
Clandestine Radio to be held on Friday 12th September (9.30am-4.30pm) at
the Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus.
Registration fee (for non DEHS members) is £16 - but you need to send in
your remittance very quickly (by Aug 29 or not long afterwards according
to the lady I spoke to at the University).
Speakers will talk about:
Polish Clandestine Radio in WWII
German Clandestine Radio in WWII
The Romney Marsh Clandestine Station
Clandestine Radio in the Cold War Period
Radio Surveillance in Modern Times.
Full programme details at:
http://histru.bournemouth.ac.uk/CHiDE/Events/Symposium.htm
(BDXC-UK-ML Aug 27, 2003 via W.Büschel in A-DX)
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Thanks to the following contributors : Andy Sennitt, Arnaldo Slaen,
Gabriel Ivan Barrera, Hank Tester, Kenji Hashimoto, Lim Kwet Hian, Max
Watts, Mohamed Kallel, Patrick Robic, Wendel Craighead, Wolfgang Büschel
Source Abbreviations:
A-DX : A-DX-mailing list-Austria
BBCM : BBC Monitoring-UK
BCDX : Broadcast DX-Germany
CDX : Cumbre DX-USA
ConDig : Conexion Digital-Argentina
CRW : Clandestine Radio Watch-Germany
DXLD : DX Listening Digest-USA
DXW : DX Window-Denmark
HCDX : Hard-Core-DX-mailing list-USA
JAP : Japan Premium-Japan
OBS : Observer-Bulgaria
QIP : QSL Information Pages-Germany
RMO : Radio Marti Observer-USA
TDP : Transmitter Documentation Project
BBCM items are Copyright BBCM 2003.
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