BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

outside the towns and villages - and KNR will no longer be available for
the fishermen at sea nor the Inuit population in Canada.
The decision was made because the transmitters were getting old and too
costly to maintain. Besides - very few people are using the MW
transmissions.
Weather forecasts will be available for fishermen and others via VHF
coastal radio.
At a point it was considered replacing the aging MW transmitters with one
or two new SW AM-transmitters near Nuuk, but it was estimated that it
would cost 4 million DKK (535.000 Euro) to establish such a new SW
operation. It was also felt that few listeners would invest in a SW
receiver and the quality would be 'doubtful' - suffering from 'atmospheric
phenomena'. So these plans were given up.
Full report (in Danish) here:
(Stig Hartvig Nielsen-DEN WMR, mwdx Dec 10)
Greenland closes SW and MW on Feb 11 2011.
Alas, indeed they are! Even the relatively recent low-power missionary
stations that brought back for a fleeting moment rare DX that HCJB and
others have supported, never really made it.witness The Cross Radio in
Pohnpei (gone), Wantok Radio Light (still on but with much reduced power
these days), Radio Peace (supposedly expanding, but not on the air these
days), Dunamis Shortwave in Uganda (rarely, if ever heard, with
transmitter problems), ELWA (gone again), Radio Veritas Liberia (gone),
CRN in PNG (gone), and on and on the list goes. The only one still
reliably operating is Radio Kahuzi in DR Congo. The story is the same in
most cases - unreliable equipment and a lack of trained staff to support
the station technical operations.
(Bruce Churchill-CA-USA, DXplorer Dec 10)
INDIA Strike threat by AIR again. Many staff members of All India Radio
& Doordarshan TV have given call for boycott of duties for 72 hours from
0330 UTC of
Monday 13 Dec 2010 to 0330 UTC of
Wednesday 16 Dec 2010.
The strike may go on indefinitely also. Their recent strike affected most
AIR stations. Several stations were off air, some with music or test tones
only. So watch out AIR stations this Monday 0330 UT onwards.
(73 Jose Jacob-IND VU2JOS, DXindia Dec 10)
IRAN/U.K. Wiki-leads. Retaliation planned after Iran jammed BBC
broadcasts. US Embassy secret cable 4 February 2010 includes:
"HMG is exploring ways to limit the operations of the IRIB's Press TV
service, which operates a large bureau (over 80 staff) in London. However,
UK law sets a very high standard for denying licenses to broadcasters.
Licenses can only be denied in cases where national security is
threatened, or if granting a license would be contrary to Britain's
obligations under international law.
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