A revolutionary fighter - What is Che’s relevance today?
“..it is not for revolutionaries to sit in their doorways of their houses waiting for the corpse of imperialism to pass by”
(Second Declaration of Havana, 1962)
read how Che used radio to make revolution happen in Cuba
Revolution! Clandestine Radio and the Rise of Fidel Castro By Don Moore
RTE are still testing 252LW with Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) signal beyond the end of publicly stated tests. They tested up to 6am on Saturday the 8th September and stopped leaving a silent carrier until 12:09 pm (6 hours later) when the 252LW tx was switched off. It returned two minutes later with RTE Radio 1 programming midway through the MF Sunday Show. This i live blogged in my micro blog on twitter. [1] [2]
02/09/07 hurling & 16/09/07 football
SHORTWAVE FREQUENCIES FOR AFRICA AND THE FAR EAST
Target Frequencies
West of Central Africa 17860 kHz/11735 kHz
East of Central Africa 17710 kHz/11635 kHz
Southern Africa 9470 kHz
DRM (Digital AM Radio) FREQUENCIES FOR EUROPE
Target Frequencies
Europe 17495 kHz/11735 kHz
Niall Gormley (Northside People) wrote a good piece on the demise of the Vincent Browne Show on RTE Radio 1.
apologies I can’t link to the text its only in print in this weeks Northside People
He dismisses the number crunching that I think is JNLR based. I disagree here, flawed or not the numbers may be inaccurate but at least they are consistently inaccurate allowing us to compare station against station and quarter on quarter. But Niall fixes in on the fact the 20,000 listeners as a bottom base is still way too many to drop a show (and he has a point) I heard commercials on the VB 2nite show, im sure I did, wogan interiors! anyone else hear commercial advertising during that late night show?
He suggests that RTE’s resource excuse is thin, suggesting RTE can take this show online or split frequency MW/LW and have muzak on FM - I like the idea, couldn’t radio schedulers who work in the business come to this conclusion or do RTE really not want VB anymore.
Gormley fails to reach the conclusion I reach. The bourgeoisisation of RTE Donnybrook Dublin 4.
Listen to radio1 and you will feel that pseudo D4 suits run it, own it, programme it and listen to it. Yes the rest of the Irish population and diaspora listen (agreed, see yestersdays happy clappy JNLR numbers for Radio1) but the day and night is filled with market loving SSIA promoting rugger boys! and Brown was the last man standing in the sticky corner the FF’ers used to red scare about. FF’ers hated RTE so much in 1988 things happened like the CAP, the century radio setup, the forcing of RTE to carry independent signals on their network and the proposed privatisation of 2FM, we even had a module dedicated to the century radio antics of rambo in the tribunals, tribunals - browne getting the link?
Browne v Bertie (and Mara) during May ‘07 election, the summer stand in choices by RTE radio1 and the gifting of half price legal costs to Bev Flynn TD (indie FF) are not isolated actions, its RTE doing what modern RTE does well. They are the Irish marketing department for James Murdochs Sky TV.
The sale of their OB unit, the audience council, their lack of vision in DAB DTT and HD, and their abject failure to offer DVB direct to home Free To Air.
The problem is not the losing of tonight with VB, we have lost an entire national broadcaster to the whims and wishes of an elite few who are driving RTE to a place far away from where Irish people are, case in point the afternoon show (rte1 tv), packed with fashion and hand bags worth €1000’s not to giggle at but to aspire to and the same goes for its food fascism and body image and money advice. By, for and devoted to an elite that we Irish are not.
If this was the other way round the press would call it a coup, a revolution a take over. Keep paying the licence fee, i think their salaries are going to need it.
The Times Online does (~warning its the august silly season)
There are more than 150 illegal stations across Britain. The communities worst afflicted by gang murders are often those that resound to the pounding hardcore hip-hop, reggae and “grime” transmitted by pirate radio stations. Many are said to be run by criminal gangs who use them as a front to sell drugs. Police raids have found drugs, guns and ammunition among piles of CDs.
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Pirate DJs have been involved in the world of gangs and drug dealers when coded text messages are read over the airwaves[2]. But they see themselves as social entrepreneurs, who have an influence over communities that authority figures lack.
this is more like it the traditional 999/airport anti pirate radio spin
Ofcom operates a community radio licensing scheme and awarded 107 local licences last year. Mainstream radio stations accuse pirates of interfering with FM signals, to the annoyance of listeners and emergency services. Special K said that pirates were catering for music fans whose tastes are ignored by official stations.
I’ve been around stations that were raided for drugs. Other stations sent the police![1] cop on, if these guys were criminals they would shy away from 100watts of tower block publicity, you do not run a criminal empires from a honey pot studio were the fuzz may turn up any minute.
[1] I never went to prison! No drugs were found, I did not run ‘that’ station!. Other stations would try and hop our frequency while the transmitter (bungie) was leaving the scene. Radio broadcasting without a licence is a civil offense and selling Class A drugs is a criminal offense.
[2] you do not co-ordinate crime on public airwaves with code it is counter productive, but if you work for the Times you may think counter productive is a process of kitchen assembly.
The DRM tests have ended, we have our ears up to a paper cup against the walls in RTE to hear any feedback that comes in.
1. Did you hear the trials?
2. What did it sounds like?
3. Was signal good?
thanks to dónal for the screen grabs. we tried to relay the IF signal over a skype call but the soundcards didnt have the audio bandwidth or was it skype?
also RTE DRM image B
t’was all of 4 months ago that I posted the last wxtc cast. we’re back see below
tomorrow is the 40th aniversary of the UK’s Marine offences act
RMG will relay Radio Caroline all day 14th!
version 1.1 is always better, cheaper and less stressful. iMoan. would I queue? No. would I use it? yes! but hard buttons are a joy to use when coming down off the XDA mini screen, at least my XDA mini has a full hard qwerty.
flick photo by Paul Lloyd lloydyweb
this post was about the iPhone made by Apple Inc. we are not connect with nor engaged nor do we own an iPhone yet.
McHugh himself was a shop on Talbot Street Dublin that sold valve radios (in fact they sold this very radio) on HP as they were too expensive to purchase!
[listen here realplayer] [web] [web2]
40 years after the introduction of the marine offences act in the UK in 1967 the BBC commemorate the historic event with a tribute to the men the Postmaster General Tony Benn Edward Short took off the air (except for Radio Caroline)
do you think RTE will ever commemorate the jamming of Sunshine Radio & Radio Nova?. No, not even if John Clarke is director general, and Ken Hammond is still reading the news.
back in March we posted that RTE were installing a DRM transmitter to replace the old 252LW. While RTE has no firm plans for DRM they are about to test DRM anyway.
Our radio friend Enda O’Kane writes
DRM will be carried on RTE’s longwave 252kHz transmitter.
Nightly commencing 08/08/07 until 15/08/07 from 0100hrs to 0700hrs UTC,
In addition to above :
Mon August 13th commencing 2100hrs ending 0800hrs on Tues Aug 14th.
Tues August 14th commencing 1400hrs ending 1400hrs Wed Aug 15th
These tests are to gauge public reaction to this technology and RTE regrets any inconvenience to listeners.
After these tests RTE will review the results.
It is important to stress that RTÉ has, as yet, no plans for a DRM launch
UTC is one hour behind summertime
in other radio news Radio Luxembourg launches podcasts of vintage broadcasts
