PRESS RELEASE FROM
THE DANISH SHORTWAVE CLUB
INTERNATIONAL (DSWCI)
NEW SURVEY AVAILABLE :
The DOMESTIC BROADCASTING SURVEY 18 (DBS-18),
April 2016
edited
by DSWCI Chairman, Anker Petersen.
ISSN
1399-8218
The 59 years old DSWCI, which counts experienced DX-ers
in 33 countries all over the world as members, will in April issue
the 18th Edition of its annual Domestic
Broadcasting Survey. This survey is divided into three parts:
Part 1: The
44th edition of the Tropical
Bands Survey covering all ACTIVE
broadcasting stations on 2300 -
5700 kHz, including clandestines.
Part 2:
Domestic stations on international shortwave bands above 5700 kHz broadcasting
to a domestic audience.
Part 3:
Deleted frequencies between 2 and 30 MHz which have not been reported heard
during the past five years, but may reappear.
This new
Survey is based upon monitoring by our members, many official sources and
DX-bulletins. A16 schedules are included
when available. About 65 domestic shortwave
stations frequencies have left the bands. In order to make the DBS reliable, our own monitors around the
world have checked throughout the period April 2015 – March 2016, if each of
the 500 station frequencies is on the air.
ACTIVE stations are marked with an A (”Regular”), B
(”Irregular”) or C (”Sporadic”) in the list.
D means ”Likely inactive”.
A unique feature is the right column called ”Last log”.
It shows the last month and year before DBS deadline on March 31, 2016 when
the particular station was reported logged by a DX-er somewhere in the world. This
is another way of indicating the current audibility of the station. To
avoid inactive stations in this DBS, most
frequencies which have not been heard during the past year, have been deleted
and are moved to Part 3. No other frequency list has this feature!
Other useful features for easy identification (ID) are
the parallel frequencies and reference to Station ID slogans.
All
buyers of DBS-18 will get a username and password to the monthly updates on the
tropical bands published as "Tropical
Bands Monitor" on our website. The similar, historical data from 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 are available to
anybody at www.dswci.org/tbm .
The 18
pages A-4 size DBS-18 is available by e-mail as
pdf-format (about 350 kB).
A limited
number is also available printed on paper for the last time, because the DSWCI
is dissolved at the end of 2016!
Both are
sold by the treasurer until December 01, 2016:
DSWCI,
c/o Bent
Nielsen, Egekrogen 14, DK 3500 Vaerloese, DENMARK