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Message of the UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, on the occasion of the World Radio Day, 13 February 2012. UNESCO makes this audio message - available in English, French, Russian and Spanish. Feel free to listen to it and diffuse it.   Audio message from Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO to be recorded in English/Russian/French and Spanish on the occasion of World Radio...


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Photo by http://www.wythallradioclub.co.uk/ Over a decade ago, HAM radio operators set up base in Sabarimala to help prevent disasters like the one at Pullumedu that claimed the lives of over a 100 devotees on makaravilakku day, last year. Now the HAM Emergency Communication and Disaster Management Society (HECDMS) has set up control rooms at Sannidhanam, Pampa and the Idukki collectorate to ensure...


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While searching deep space for extra-terrestrial signals, scientists at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico have stumbled across signals broadcast from Earth nearly half a century ago. Radio astronomer Dr. Venn described how he made the historic discovery after analysing a number of signals originating from the same point in space. "I realised the signal was in the VHF Band and slap bang...


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The station is WWJ in Detroit, a contemporary to KDKA as one of the country’s first radio stations. We are in the transmitter room in the Detroit News Building in early 1922. The broadcast studio is located in a separate room.Photo from the Detroit News Archives  The rig seen beyond the operator’s desk is actually the station’s second transmitter; it replaced a primitive DeForest 50 Watt transmitter...


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In the Congo, short wave radio is being used to provide an early warning network for isolated rural communities. The NGO Invisible Children have been installing an HF Early Warning Radio Network that enables local communities to provide information that is fed into an online graphical database that can be displayed on PC's or smartphones around the world, see http://www.lracrisistracker.com/ This...


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UNESCO’s Executive Board approved item 13 of its provisional agenda “Proclamation of a World Radio Day” to be celebrated each February 13th. The Executive’s decision is as follows: Recommends to the [UNESCO] General Conference that it proclaim a World Radio Day and that this Day be celebrated on 13 February, the day the United Nations established the concept of United Nations Radio; Invites...


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This website is a search engine for finding radio stations in the United States and all around the world. Radio-Locator uses a unique search engine to find all the radio stations that can be heard at a specific geographic location in the United States. This locator search engine takes into account each radio station's transmitter power, antenna height, frequency, and antenna pattern, as well as the topography...


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The article & Photo copied from Radioworld.com My first dabbling in low-power “broadcasting” occurred in childhood. A Radio Shack P-Box kit, namely a wireless AM microphone, was the start. The study of electronics and my work at a community radio station as a teen soon would benefit my pursuits in the world of commercial broadcast engineering. Fast-forward two and a half decades. Now a former...


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