N8KDV wrote:



Mike Terry wrote:

Tuesday, March 09, 2004

This item is taken from the March newsletter of the National Association of
Shortwave Broadcasters:

SRI's Ulrich Wegmuller explained at the closing plenary session of HFCC in
Dubai that his station will be ending its shortwave broadcasts at the end of
October 2004. At that time, SRI's programs will be transmitted only via
Internet. As a result of SRI's move to end shortwave broadcasts for the time
being, the station's only remaining transmitter in Switzerland (in Sottens)
will be idle, and its owner - Swisscom - is willing to sell the transmitter
whole or as spare parts. It's an ABB 500-kilowatt, type SK55 C3-P, operating
from 5.9 to 26.1 MHz with a PSM modulator and Dynamic Carrier Control (DCC).
The unit was built in 1989.

Anyone seriously interested should contact Media Network at Radio
Netherlands via who will pass on the enquiry.

# posted by Andy Sennitt @ 22:21 UTC

QSL 'em whilst you can. Countries are disappearing at an accelerating rate from
the SW bands.


AFAIK only a few countries have dropped SW entirely, and they are the
ones that broadcast to a limited number of expatriates who are generally
rich enough to afford satellite or internet. The BBC has explicitly
stated that it is interested only in a narrow slice of potential
listeners who all have satellite or internet. I don't know why Deutsche
Welle quit English broadcasts, but their German service is still going
strong-I've logged them in German several times over the past couple
weeks.

"tommyknocker" wrote in message
...

AFAIK only a few countries have dropped SW entirely, and they are the
ones that broadcast to a limited number of expatriates who are
generally
rich enough to afford satellite or internet. The BBC has explicitly
stated that it is interested only in a narrow slice of potential
listeners who all have satellite or internet. I don't know why
Deutsche
Welle quit English broadcasts, but their German service is still going
strong-I've logged them in German several times over the past couple
weeks.


Countries aren't budgeting as much money for International Broadcasting
as they did in the Cold War. I think one reason for the cutbacks is to
ration the useful life of their transmitters. If so, when the old
transmitters get too expensive to maintain, we'll see more countries
drop brodcasting entirely.

Frank Dresser

QSL 'em whilst you can. Countries are disappearing at an accelerating rate from
the SW bands.


[SRI]


Shame that....

I first found SRI, about 10 years ago - listened to Swiss Shortwave
Merry Go round - Hosted by Bob Thomann, and Bob Zanotti (HB9ASQ, and
HB9GX, respectively)

I've even got an SRI QSL, and a few years ago, I QSLd Bob Thomann, while
he was working a special event station in Manchester, UK - You can't
miss his distinctive voice - And I've, as yet, never worked him!

IIRC SRI are now on Worldspace - Asiastar, to be exact!

73

Mark (MW1MDH)