Another JSWC broadcast over HCJB

 

AUSTRALIA/JAPAN   - Another JSWC broadcast over HCJB Japanese December 30/31

Japan Shortwave Club (JSWC) will broadcast 30 minutes year-end program Shortwave World in 2022 in Japanese by the club members -Toshimichi Ohtake and Takahito Akabayashi, over HCJB Japanese of Reach Beyond Australia (from Kununurra 75 kW 5 deg azimuth).

December 30 at 2230-2300 UT on 15420 kHz, repeated December 31 at 1100-1130 UT on 11905 kHz.

This is the last chance to get JSWC's 70th-anniversary special eQSL. Reception reports should be addressed to jswc70qsl@gmail.com

JSWC will prepare another new QSL in 2023. HCJB-Japan will also send their own eQSL for the report to  hcjbjapan.office@gmail.com

(Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo-JPN, Dec 23/Top News 27 Dec 2022)

Engineers Install Additional Shortwave Stations in Central African Republic

Imagine living in a country where you can't access the Internet, watch television, read newspapers or even receive mail. Except in Bangui, the capital city of the Central African Republic (C.A.R.), that's what life is like for most of the country's 4.5 million residents. Their lifeline to the rest of the world? Radio. People in C.AR., a country about the size of Texas, depend on radio broadcasts to keep informed. Almost every village has a radio, and some have more than one. The sets are affordable, costing as little as US$6, usually coming from countries such as Nigeria and Niger. The radios typically have FM, shortwave and medium-wave bands.

Until 2005 there were only six private FM stations and one governmental shortwave station in this country where villagers have a life expectancy of just 44 years. It was then that Integrated Community Development International (ICDI), a partner of HCJB Global, was granted permission to open the country's first privately owned shortwave radio station, Radio ICDI.

In early 2006 the ministry acquired an eight-acre tract of land on the plateau above the town of Boali. A road to the transmitter site was built, and electricity was installed. Equipment was transported in large shipping containers, and eventually one of the 20-foot-long metal containers was converted into a studio and transmitter building.A year later a team from
HCJB Global Technology Center in Elkhart, Ind., spent three weeks at the broadcast site, installed the first shortwave radio station. They also put in two satellite downlinks that provided access to the Internet and made it possible to receive French-language Christian programming from Trans World Radio, another HCJB Global partner.

Last month HCJB Global engineers returned to C.A.R. to put in two additional regional shortwave radio stations in Boali, similar to the station installed in 2007. One of the new stations will help extend the broadcast hours of the existing ICDI station into the nighttime. Each station only works well during a portion of each day because of how shortwave signals travel through
the atmosphere.

The new ICDI radio stations will provide more programming opportunities for broadcasting the gospel across C.A.R. in Sango (the country's trade language), French and various tribal dialects. Additional hours will also increase the opportunity to air more community development programs on AIDS prevention, orphan care, well-water repair programs and many other relevant humanitarian topics.

Curt Bender, manager of broadcast services at HCJB Global in Elkhart, said, "I want to give the Lord recognition for sustaining our team through two difficult installations in the past three years and to praise Him for the success."

For more information visit http://www.icdinternational.org/
(HCJB Global,Jean Muehlfelt via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India)

HCJB German broadcast December 25

Miss Esther Neufeld, from HCJB Voice of Andes, German Section, has wrote me this (I translate it from the original mail)

"On 25th December, (78 Anniversary of HCJB Radio) will be for the diexist interested a special program in German language of Horst Wiese, broadcasted by HCJB Australia in Kununurra, in the frequency of 15.340 KHz at 1500 UTC
(Eduardo Peñailillo Barra, Santiago, Chile)

Interviews from Radio Heritage

A major new interview about the work of the Radio Heritage Foundation can be heard as audio on demand from HCJB for the DX Partyline program of January 30 2009 at http://www.hcjb.org/ .

Host Allen Graham in the Quito studios talks with Radio Heritage Foundation chairman David Ricquish about how the Pacific wide radio heritage preservation project got started, its progress, and the importance of making such an effort to protect and preserve the stories of radio.

Since going live on line some 5 years ago, the website http://www.radioheritage.net/ has received millions of visitors, page views and hits from some 125+ countries, and has become a popular free resource for researchers, students, people in the broadcasting industry, radio listeners and enthusiasts and increasingly, genealogists.

In the same period, thousands of original items of radio memorabilia have been saved from damage or loss, hundreds of original articles and photos placed on line, some 30 major radio heritage documentaries researched and broadcast over RNZI, and much more.

Amongst the international board members that help give the Radio Heritage Foundation its unique global perspective on radio heritage issues are well known broadcasters Dr Adrian Peterson [Adventist World Radio], Jonathan Marks [previously with Radio Netherlands] and
Martin Hadlow [until recently with UNESCO].

The Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization connecting radio heritage and popular culture across the Pacific. Visit www.radioheritage.net to learn more about its current activities and programs, and to find out how you can get involved.

You can also support the radio heritage programs by donations, materials, radio memorabilia and ephemera, and your time and goodwill. These are challenging times financially for all heritage preservation projects, and your donation will help save our Pacific radio heritage for future generations.

Radio Heritage Foundation, PO Box 14339, Wellington 6241, New Zealand. Visit us today at http://www.radioheritage.net/ , listen to this latest interview on HCJB at www.hcjb.org/media/dx_partyline/dxpl_audio_files.html [January 30 2009], and listen to our latest documentaries on RNZI at http://www.rnzi.com/ audio on demand Mailbox programs of January 25 and February 8 2009

Cook Islands
A new Radio Heritage Foundation documentary exploring the history of radio in the Cook Islands can be heard as audio on demand from RNZI for the Mailbox program of February 8 2009 at http://www.rnzi.com/ .

This special documentary covers early broadcasting in the 1940's and 50's right through until today, looks at the difficulties involved with providing radio service to 2.2 million square kilometers of the South Pacific from a population base of less than 20,000, and is accompanied by traditional Cook Islands music.

You'll learn about the new outer island radio network, hear a rare station ID from TK3ANA, excerpts from Radio Cook Islands, Matariki FM and Radio Ikurangi KCFM including station IDs, jingles, local adverts and music, and other program highlights.

This is a rare glimpse into what radio on Rarotonga really sounds like, and you'll also enjoy visiting www.radioheritage.net to read the article 'ZK1ZA Cook Islands' which tells the story of early radio from these islands in the South Pacific.

'Cook Islands Radio' is part of an ongoing series of radio heritage documentaries covering the islands of the Pacific, often featuring exclusive audio recorded locally and drawing heavily on private radio archives to which the Radio Heritage Foundation now increasingly has
access.

The Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization connecting radio heritage and popular culture across the Pacific. Visit www.radioheritage.net to see hundreds of articles, photos and much more, including the popular Pacific Asian Log Radio Guides.

You can support the radio heritage programs of the Radio Heritage Foundation by donations, materials, radio memorabilia and ephemera, and your time and goodwill. These are challenging times financially for all heritage preservation projects, and your donation will help save our Pacific radio heritage for future generations.

Radio Heritage Foundation, PO Box 14339, Wellington 6241, New Zealand. Visit us at www.radioheritage.net and listen to us on RNZI at http://www.rnzi.com/ .
(Dario Monfeiri/playdx2003)