IRDR Trial - Jakarta

Mail from:

Kim Andrew Elliott

Producer and Presenter

VOA Radiogram

Hello friends,

A coordinated shortwave broadcasting event will take place during the trial of International Radio for Disaster Relief (IRDR), during the Media Summit on Climate Change, ICTs and Disaster Risk Reduction, 5-6 June 2014, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

More information, including the transmission schedule, is here...

http://hfcc.org/humanitarian/irdrtrial.phtml

Reception might be difficult in North America. Try this web-SDR receiver in the Netherlands: htp://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

The U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau slots are 0800-0830 and 0900-0930 UTC both days. I prepared a special VOA Radiogram for this event, but VOA/IBB decided, for whatever reason, to use a BBC program instead.

The special VOA Radiogram will be transmitted this weekend, 7-8 June, during its usual four half hours...

(all days and times UTC)

Sat 0930-1000 5745 kHz

Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz

Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz

Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz

All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.

During this weekend, please send reception reports to HFCC, the shortwave frequency coordination association and organizer of  International Radio for Disaster Relief, at info@hfcc.org -- as well as to the usual VOA Radiogram address: radiogram@voanews.com .

You might mention to HFCC how text via shortwave can be useful during and after emergencies and, unlike DRM, reception does not require a special shortwave receiver.

I will send another e-mail later this week with results of our EasyPal experiment and more information about the next VOA Radiogram, program 62, 7-8 June 2014.

Kim

Kim Andrew Elliott

Producer and Presenter

VOA Radiogram

voaradiogram.net

More info:

http://hfcc.org/doc/HFCC_RAD_2014-004-IRDR_Jakarta_Presentation.pdf

UTC	Organisation	Notes
0200-0230	21840 kHz ABC Radio Australia Antenna HRS 4/4/0.5, 329deg 100 kW Shepparton
0230-0530	15650 kHz BBC/Babcock/DRM Nakhon Sawan, Thailand LPH 150 deg.
0500-0530	21840 kHz Radio Vatican
0530-0600	15650 kHz SLBC Sri Lanka Trinkomalee
0600-0700	15650 kHz First Response Radio/FEBC Philippines
0700-0730
0730-0800	21840 kHz MGLOB Madagascar 250 kW bearing 085 deg. antenna TM	Alternative: 0930-1000
0800-0830	15650 kHz IBB Site: UDO
0830-0900	15650 kHz NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN Palau - 270 deg.
0900-0930	15650 kHz IBB Site: PHT
0930-1000
1000-1030	15650 kHz All India Radio Bangalore 500 kW 4/4/0.5 at 120 deg
1030-1100	21840 kHz RTC - China Standard Chinese site: BEI
1100-1130	15650 kHz KTWR Guam

'73 IK1XPK Claudio