Apparently-to: scdx@get.pp.se
From: "George Wood" 
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  ::           MediaScan             
  ::      SWEDEN CALLING DXERS       
  ::       from Radio Sweden          
  ::    Number 2276--August 5, 1997    
  ::            Part 2 
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Satellite, shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio
Sweden.
This week's bulletin was written by George Wood.
Packet Radio BID SCDX2276
Updated Web edition at: http://www.sr.se/rs/english/media/
All times UTC unless otherwise noted.
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CYBERSPACE
SINGAPORE--Singapore's Internet users will be able to access
multimedia services using "broadcast links to cable television"
(whatever than means), according to officials at the service,
MediaManager. The interactive broadcast service allows users to
receive multimedia sound and images at higher speeds via
television antennas (20 Mbps) than traditional dial-up phone
lines. (Reuters)
FLOODS--The European Space Agency is providing satellite images
concerning the recent floods in northern Europe, at:
http://pooh.esrin.esa.it:8888/ew/floods.htm
(ESA)
SCREENSHOTS--A new Web site features "DX-Satellite-Screenshots".
See:
http://home.t-online.de/home/CvanderVen/homepage.htm
WORLD ON RADIO--The Online "The World on Radio" website features
a list of all radio stations that can be heard on shortwave in
Belgium:
http://www.club.innet.be/~ind1570
PUBLICATIONS
LA DXING--After a 5 year break, the Japanese club focusing on
DXing tropical stations in Latin America, Radio Nuevo Mundo, has
published a new edition of the booklet "LA DXing". The new
edition 6 is 270 A5 pages long, and includes a list of stations
by frequency, profiles of 49 Peruvian stations (legal and not),
articles about Radio Rebelde in Cuba and the last days of the
apparently CIA-backed station Radio Impacto in Costa Rica, and
more. It's available for USD 20, 20 IRCs, or JY 2,200 from:
Tetsuya HIRAHARA (RNM)
5-6-6 Nukui-kita, Koganei-shi,
Tokyo 184, JAPAN
For inquiring about bulk orders (more than 5 copies to a single
address) e-mail can be sent to: PXK00602@niftyserve.or.jp
(Radio Nuevo Mundo)
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Sweden Calling DXers/MediaScan is the world's oldest radio
program about international broadcasting. Radio Sweden has
presented this round-up of radio news, features, and interviews
on Tuesdays since 1948. It's currently broadcast on the first and
third Tuesdays of the month.
Radio Sweden broadcasts in English:
Europe and Africa/Middle East: 
Satellite:
12:30 and 17:30 hrs on Eutelsat II-F1 (NBC Europe -- 10.987 GHz,
audio 7.56 MHz)
19:30 hrs (21:30 CET) via the World Radio Network on Astra
transponder 22 (VH-1) audio 7.38 MHz
Via WRN to Africa and the Middle East on Intelsat 707 3.9115 GHz
Right-hand circular polarization, Symbol Rate 8.022 Mbaud, FEC
3/4, in MPEG-2, Audio Stream "WRN1", Saturdays only also at 00:30 UTC
(02:30 CAT). This can also be heard in South Africa on SAfm 104-107.
The WRN relays can also be heard in South Africa on the
MultiChoice digital direct-to-home service on PanAmSat 4, 68.5
degrees West, Audio Channel 51.
Shortwave:
17:30 hrs    1179, 6065, and 13800 kHz (Sundays 9590 and 13800) 
19:30        1179 and 6065 kHz  
20:30        1179, 6065, and 13625 kHz (weekends only) 
21:30        1179, 6065, and 9430 kHz 
Asia/Pacific:
Satellite:
Via WRN on AsiaSat-2 on 4.000 GHz, Vertical polarization, MPEG-2
DVB, Symbol Rate 28.125 Mbaud, FEC 3/4 (Select WRN1 from audio
menu), Saturdays only at 00:30 UTC (10:30 AET).
Shortwave:
12:30 hrs    13740 and 15240 kHz
13:30 hrs    13740 kHz
01:30 hrs    9435 kHz
North America:
Satellite:
Via WRN on Galaxy 5 transponder 6 (WTBS), audio 6.8 MHz at 9:30
PM EST, 6:30 PM PST
Across Canada on CBC Overnight Monday to Friday at 2:05 AM local
time, weekends at 3:05
Shortwave:
11:30 hrs on 11650 and 15240 kHz
13:30 hrs on 11650 and 15240 kHz
02:30 hrs on 7135 kHz
03:30 hrs on 9430 kHz
Latin America:
01:30 hrs on 7290 kHz
Each program Monday to Friday, recorded at 13:30 hrs UTC, is
available in the RealAudio format at:
http://www.sr.se/rs/english/sounds/english.ram
Our World Wide Web page is at:
     http://www.sr.se/rs
An html and a RealAudio version of this bulletin can be found at:
     http://www.sr.se/rs/english/media/scdx.htm
Earlier versions of the bulletins in text and RealAudio or au-
format recordings:
     http://www.sr.se/rs/english/media/media3.htm
Contributions can be sent to DX Editor George Wood by fax to
+468-667-6283 or by e-mail to: george.wood@rs.sr.se
Reports can also be sent to: 
      Radio Sweden 
      S-105 10 Stockholm 
      Sweden 
Contributions should be NEWS about electronic media--from
shortwave to   satellites--and not loggings of information
already available from sources  such as the "World Radio TV
Handbook". Clubs and DX publications may reprint material as long as
MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXers and the original contributor are
acknowledged. 
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Sweden Calling DXers, and our programs in general. 
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Thanks to this week's contributors            Good Listening!
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