Contest of a lifetime from the Happy Station Show

a reminder to our readers....

PCJ is continuing their '83rd Anniversary of the Happy Station Show - with chance of a lifetime contest. The contest will run until March 16, 2012. The prize two round trip tickets and hotel to Taipei, Taiwan.

Three prizes will be drawn on a live edition of Happy Station on March 17th between 0200 and 0255UTC. The three prizes are the following.

3rd Prize: 1 Tecsun S2000 receiver
2nd Prize: 1 Sangean ATS909X
1st Prize: 2 tickets, round trip to Taipei, Taiwan from China Airlines Taiwan's national carrier and a week at the Radisson. Plus a Sangean ATS909x, and 15,000NTD (around 500USD) spending money. Some of the activities planned are the following: Visit to the 101 Building, day trip to Wulai the historical hot spring area of Taiwan, visit to the Presidents Office, visit to the National Palace Museum, visit to the National Radio Museum

Send your entries to taiwan2012@pcjmedia.com please include your name, country, phone number. You can also enter by leaving a message on our answer line and having your message used on the show. The number is +44 20 3286 1399 have fun and say what you want.

Entries must be submitted from 0000UTC on November 14, 2011 to 2359UTC March 16, 2012.
NOTE: Those affiliated with PCJ are not eligible to enter.

Link: http://www.pcjmedia.com/
(Yimber Gaviria, Colombia)

PCJ Media launches communications magazine on WRN

PCJ Media has announced that its weekly communications magazine is coming to the World Radio Network from 30 July. The program will be broadcast at the following times at
www.wrn.org/

Saturday to Africa & Asia at 1000-1030 UTC
Saturday to Europe at 1300-1330 UTC
Saturday to North America at 2100-2130 UTC

Below is the satellite tuning information for each region:

North America

Galaxy 19 at 97º West
Transponder 27, 12.177 GHz
Vertical polarisation
Symbol Rate 23,000 Msym/s
FEC 3/4
DVB MPEG2, Choose Audio Channel: WRN1 (English), Service-ID: 13.
WRN is also available on channel 120 on both Sirius and XM. For further information on subscribing to Sirius Satellite Radio in the USA, please visit the website: siriusxm.com.

Europe

Sky Digital, Channel 0122 (Eurobird 1, 28.5º East)
Transponder C2, 11.224 GHz
Vertical polarisation
Symbol Rate 27.500 Mbaud
FEC 2/3
MPEG2 DVB audio stream. Select WRN Europe from audio menu.
Eutelsat Hot Bird 6, 13º East
Transponder 94
12.597 GHz, Vertical
Symbol Rate 27.500 Mbaud
FEC 3/4
MPEG2 DVB audio stream. Select WRN English from audio menu.

Asia/Pacific

Intelsat 10 at 68.5 degrees east
Transponder: 14 (C band), downlink frequency: 3808 MHz
Vertical polarization
Symbol rate: 10.340 Msym/sec
FEC: 3/4.

Africa

Intelsat 10 at 68.5 degrees east
Transponder: 14 (C band), downlink frequency: 3805.5 MHz
Vertical polarization
Symbol rate: 6.670 Msym/sec
FEC: 3/4.
You can also receive WRN via DStv. For details contact DSTV on +27 11 289 2222, Fax +27 11 577 4901, E-mail: enquiries@multichoice.co.za or visit the DSTV website at www.dstv.com.
(Source: PCJ Media/WRN/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

PCJ Media announces new shortwave service

For Immediate Release

PCJ Media announces the creation of a new international shortwave radio service with targeted programming to Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific.

PCJ sees an opportunity to fill a void being left by large publicly funded broadcasters. In the last few months a number of well-respected international broadcasters have dropped their shortwave transmissions to these regions in favor of internet and podcasts. Most notably are the significant cuts to the BBC World Service and the Voice Of America transmissions.

To fill this void, PCJ’s new service would broadcast in five languages, with programming targeted to the audiences of those specific languages. New distribution platforms such as the internet will also be used.

The five language groups which PCJ Radio would target are:

Farsi – Middle East
Mandarin – China
Spanish – Latin America
Ukrainian/Russian – Eastern Europe
English - to regions mentioned above

Launch date TBA.

For more information please contact Keith Perron of PCJ Media.
Email: pcjmedia@gmail.com
Tel: +886 938 408 592
(Keith Perron via Monitoring Times Shortwave Central Facebook page)

PCJ Media to present Ears To Our World Nov. 21

On November 21 at 0200 and 1400 UTC, PCJ Media will present a special show looking at Ears To Our World, a US-based charity that provides schools and teachers in Africa with radios. This special show will also focus on the important role SW radio plays in Africa.

Frequency 9955 kHz
Web: www.wrmi.net

Guests include:
Thomas Witherspoon - Founder, Ears To Our World
Fred Osterman - Universal Radio
Walter Hess - Etón Corp.
David Smith - formerly with Radio Canada International, Radio Netherlands, and United Nations Radio.
Soule Issiaka - an expert on the role of radio in Africa and freelance with Radio Netherlands