From 70247.3516@compuserve.com Date: 20 Sep 94 17:09:35 EDT From: George Wood <70247.3516@compuserve.com> To: alley , Andy , BBC MS <100121.655@compuserve.com>, Ham Distribution Net , Hermod , Internet , Jeff <71163.1735@compuserve.com>, Unknown CompuServe address , Kauto , Kent , Michael <70630.560@compuserve.com>, Minitel <100113.1517@compuserve.com>, radioinfo , satnews , Scott <76703.407@compuserve.com>, shortwave paradise , skyguide , Terry , Unknown CompuServe address Subject: SCDX 2208 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: SWEDEN CALLING DXERS :: :: from Radio Sweden :: :: Number 2208--Sept. 20, 1994 :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio Sweden. This week's bulletin was written by George Wood. Packet Radio BID SCDX2208 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NORDIC MEDIA NEWS: CYBERSPACE--For several years now the Electronic Edition of MediaScan, or Sweden Calling DXers, has been uploaded as a text file to computer bulletin boards, online systems like CompuServe and American Online, and to a number of newsgroups on the Usenet part of the Internet. But now we've taken an even bigger step into Cyberspace. Sound files of these MediaScan programs are now archived on the Internet. If you've got Net access and a sound card for your computer, from anywhere in the world, you can access a digital sound file of the program, complete with interviews, sound clips, everything. The easiest place to access the programs is using the file transfer protocol to reach: ftp.funet.fi/pub/sounds/RadioSweden/mediascan That same sounds library also contains programs from the Voice of America, which in mid-August became the first international broadcaster in Cyberspace, making programs in 15 languages available daily. funet fi has all of them, including the latest hourly newscasts in English. Hopefully all of Radio Sweden's programs will be there as well in the near future. And many thanks to Kauto Huopio and funet for making this all possible. You can find the digital files of MediaScan in another place on the Net, via Internet Talk Radio, a station that only exists in Cyberspace. You can find MediaScan at: ftp://town.hall.org/radio/Sweden In the future, we can probably expect many radio stations to be available live over the Internet. Right now, I know of only one program that's been transmitted live over the Net in real time, the BBC Radio Five Live domestic program about computers, the "Big Byte". It was carried live on the Internet one Sunday last month, and this coming Sunday's program is also going to be carried there too. Note that we also have a new Internet address for Radio Sweden and contributions to this program: wood@stab.sr.se SATELLITE AND SHORTWAVE--Our new broadcast schedule goes into effect this Sunday, and there are a number of changes. First of all, our relay to North America via the World Radio Network on the Galaxy 5 satellite is changing time, and this change came too late for our printed program schedule. The actual new time for our WRN relay to North America is at 01:30 hrs UTC, replacing 00:00 UTC. That's on Galaxy 5, on WTBS's transponder 6, audio 6.8 MHz. The WRN relay to Europe remains the same, 20:00 hrs, but Astra transponder 22 is changing September 30th from MTV to its sister channel VH-1. Going over to our shortwave schedule, a lot of times are shifting one hour later UTC, to make up for Europe's shift back to standard time that day. That may cause some confusion in North America, since you change next month. Here's the complete new schedule: Europe 17:15 hrs 1179 and 6065 kHz 18:30 1179, 6065, 9655, and 13690 kHz (also Africa/Middle East) 21:30 1179, 6065, and 9655 kHz (also Africa/Middle East) 22:30 1179 and 6065 kHz 23:30 1179 kHz Asia/Pacific 12:30 hrs 13775, 15120, and 15240 kHz 23:30 11910 kHz 01:30 9895 and 11695 kHz North America 13:30 and 14:30 hrs on 11650 and 15240 kHz 02:30 and 03:30 hrs on 6200 and 9850 kHz Latin America 00:30 hrs on 6065 and 6200 kHz Our broadcasts on the Astra and Tele-X satellites will only be at 17:15 and 18:30 hrs. We'll continue to use the Sky Movies Gold transponder 26 on Astra (11.597 MHz), sound 7.74 MHz, and the TV 5 Nordic transponder on Tele-X (12.475 MHz), sound 7.38 MHz. I've seen a lot of channel listings tables that have included us and other stations on the Sirius satellite, which shares 5 degrees East with Tele-X. That's wrong...there are NO radio stations currently on Sirius. Older listings had the Stockholm private station Storstadsradion or its successor Classic FM on the TV4 transponder on Sirius. They aren't there. The only place you can find Classic FM is on FM in Stockholm. CLASSIC FM--Classic FM continues to carry a continuous tape loop on 107.5 MHz in Stockholm, with IDs in both English and Swedish, but there's also now an announcement in Swedish saying the station intends to begin regular broadcasts at the end of this week. RIX/VINYL--There's been another change in local radio here. In the MediaScan election special last time, we heard then-Finance Minister Anne Wibble playing requests at Radio Rix. Well, that network's Stockholm outlet has now changed names, to reflect its golden oldies format. It's now Radio Vinyl. The other Radio Rix stations in the other parts of the country remain Radio Rix. Z-RADIO--Stockholm's Z-Radio, owned by the Kinnevik media empire, is finally putting 7 of its stations in provincial towns on the air on October 3rd, joining the outlets here, in Gothenburg, and Sundsvall in the north. (TT) Presumeably this has to do with Z-Radio having captured one of Swedish Radio's stars, Ulf Elving, who is going to be continuing his popular format of afternoon talk and pop music on the new network. SCANDINAVIAN STAR WARS--Up in the skies, Kinnevik has also scored big, and apparently Sweden has won the Scandinavan Star War with Norway. We've reported on Kinnevik's putting its TV3, TV6, TVG, Z-TV, and FilmMax channels on Sweden's Sirius satellite, with TV1000 and the Norwegian version of TV3 on the new Intelsat 702. Sharing the position at 1 degree West with Intelsat, is Norway's Thor satellite, which has been carrying CNN, Eurosport Nordic, Discovery, Children's Channel, MTV, and FilmNet, using the obscure Eurocrypt S coding system. There were probably very few subscribers outside of Norway for the package. But now Kinnevik is the new agent for the Thor package, and they tell us they are adding ordinary Eurocrypt M coding. That means that Scandinavians who can access the four satellites at the two positions, will be able to receive 8 popular Nordic channels in the clear, and can subscribe to 3 film channels and 5 popular Pan-European channels, using a single smart card. (Viasat) It now remains to be seen if Swedish TVRO owners choose to switch from Astra to the new constellation. If they do, then Kinnevik will be able to close its four Astra transponders, saving a lot of money, and opening those precious transponders up to other broadcasters. But, given that a lot of people have invested money in their current set-ups, and will need to move their antennas, add new LNBs, and upgrade receivers for the DBS band, don't hold your breath. A number of TVRO owners are wondering if Swedish Television will ever make its signals on Intelsat 702 available for home viewers. They are currently coded in D-MAC. But as it is Norwegian Telecom which is uplinking the signals, Swedish Television has no control over those relays. And the latest twist in the Thor/Tele-X saga is that NRK and Swedish Television channel 2 have traded places. SVT2 is now on Tele-X on 12.322 MHz, still using D-MAC and Eurocrypt S. NRK has moved from Tele-X to Intelsat 702, on 11.176 MHz, also using D-MAC. It is currently in the clear, but Eurocrypt S encoding will be introduced later. (Bertil Sundberg in "Paa TV") Norway has stopped use of Intelsat 515 at 18 degrees East, having shifted the channels there to Intelsat 702. (Bertil Sundberg in "Paa TV") DENMARK--Tomorrow night's Danish elections will be relayed to Europe by satellite. Denmark's TV2 will be using the Kopernikus-2 satellite at 28.5 degrees East, so that Danes living in the Faroe Islands or elsewhere in Europe will be able to follow the election returns. (RB) FINLAND--A recent meeting of Finnish cable television companies has agreed in principle that VT4, a new channel formed by the US/Scandinavian media group SBS, should be given a channel allocation and carried on cable systems throughout the country. ("SatNews") SBS also owns Sweden's TV5 Nordic (or "Femman") and Norway's TV Norge. There's no indicate what satellite VT4 would use. NORWAY--Radio Norway International is now using 1314 kHz medium wave in additional to its shortwave channels for the broadcast at 18:00-18:30 hrs UTC. Programming is in English on Sundays and in Norwegian the rest of the week. (BBC Monitoring) NORTH AMERICAN MEDIA NEWS: TELSTAR--The most recent Ariane launch on September 8th, went perfectly, but the satellite, Telstar 402, apparently exploded after separation. Ariane says the problem isn't its fault. The satellite is estimated to be worth around USD 200 million. AT&T officials indicated initially that there may have been a construction defect in the motor on the satellite that was to place it in its proper orbit. An AT&T spokesman said "we insured it substantially for all its value". Normally Ariane rockets carry two satellites, but flight V67 carried only Telstar because of its usually heavy weight (3,331 kilograms). The satellite carried 24 C-band and 16 Ku-band transponders. The customers of 402 were to include ABC, BSI, Fox, Global, HBO, Spaceconnection, PBS, Keystone Communications, Starcom, IDB Communications Group, Inc., the states of Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina and Viacom. Traffic will likely to to Telstar 302 at 85 degrees West, until the ground spare, Telstar 403 can be launched. It is due to be finished by the end of the year, and will be renamed Telstar 402R. A launch date has not been set, but AT&T ihas booked a launch aboard an Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral. (Reuters, James Robinson, "Tele-Satellit" via Martyn Williams, and Keystone Communications on Usenet news, via Curt Swinehart) SCOLA--We recently reported that SCOLA has moved to digital transmissions from Telstar 402. That was according to the World Rado Network, which uses SCOLA to carry its radio signals. However, Dennis Eksten tells us that, having moved from ASC-1, SCOLA can also be found on Telstar 303 at 123 degrees West, transponder 22. WRN has audio on 6.2 MHz. (Dennis Eksten) NBC--The Walt Disney Company is reported to be discussing the possibility of buying NBC from General Electric. Previous reports have said that Time Warner is interested in buying NBC. (AP and Reuters) JONES COMPUTER NETWORK--This has been launched in the US, making it the only 24-hour television channel devoted to computers. Over 300 episodes of programs dealing with specialist computer issues are being aired, along with timely news segments and adverts. ("SatNews") NEWSCHANNEL--Newschannel is a new 24-hour newspaper-based all-news US cable channel backed by Lenfest Group. The venture has an emphasis on local and regional news, blending cable television with stories provided by newspapers in the Philadelphia area for a newscast tailored to a specific local audience. ("SatNews") AFRICAN MEDIA NEWS: INTELSAT--As Intelsat 702 has taken over from Intelsat 512, Libya's C-band signals are much stronger. Egypt's ESC and Nile TV, on the other hand, are weaker on the new satellite, and Gabon 1 and 2 seem to have moved away. (Bertil Sundberg in "Paa TV") ASIAN MEDIA NEWS: APSTAR--Apstar-1, the recently-launched satellite owned by APT Satellite Co Ltd, has been relocated from its planned 131 degrees east longitude orbital position to 138 degrees east to avoid possible interference with other satellites. Apstar-1 was launched by a Chinese Long March-3 rocket on 21 July from the Xichang Space Launch Centre in China. Rimsat-1 is currently positioned at 130 degrees and NTT Corp's Sakura 3A satellite is at 132 degrees. Both companies hit out at Apstar's choice of location, especially as APT failed to secure an agreed geostationary location with other satellite operators. The satellite slot at 138 degrees was licensed by the Kingdom of Tonga with the International Telecommunication Union, and Tonga agreed to the slot transfer. ("SatNews") The American-owned Rimsat is registered at a Tongan satellite slot, so it was in Tonga's interest to move Apstar. This is a major breakthrough. The impasse between China and the rest of the world was considered important enough to rate a couple of pages in this week's "Time" magazine. Many Apstar customers have protected themselves by booking transponders on PAS-2, which has the great advantage of being accessible to uplinks in North America, without having to go through Chinese hands. Apstar contracts say China can censor programming. IRAN--Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, the head of Iran's judiciary, has declared that judges are acting within their rights to order the removal of satellite television receiving systems and dishes because they spread corruption amongst the public. This declaration seems to give the religious police the right to remove dishes before modernist Iranians can discuss the action in parliament. President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said in June that using satellite dishes was all right pending parliament's decision, yet a parliamentary committee drafted a bill in July that once passed would ban satellite dishes. Iran is also close to launching its own communications satellite. ("SatNews") SINGAPORE--Singapore, another nation which has banned satellite dishes, is also planning to start a satellite service to Asia. (Reuters) KUWAIT--Kuwaiti TV plans to extend satellite transmissions to Europe and the United states. A story from the Kuna News Agency says these relays of ther Kuwait Satellite Channel will be over "Intersat 7" (sic) "whose satellite covers these two countries." (BBC Monitoring) Presumeably this is an Intelsat, possibly Intelsat-K? TURKSAT--One of the satellites from the previous Ariane launch, Turksat, is now in position at 42 degrees East, and Kanal D is now using 11.030 MHz, while Kanal 6 is on 11.080. Both are directed to Turkey, and reception is non-existent in this part of Europe. Look for transmissions in vertical polarization on the European beams on 10.970, 11.012, 11.114, 11.162, and 11.180 MHz. The satellite goes officially into service tomorrow, September 21. (James Robinson) INDIA--The Indian government is to expand its state-run television service and launch an 11-channel satellite service in the coming year. Doordarshan Television will make the multichannel service available in 11 regional languages, expanded in time to 13. P V Narasimha Rao, India's prime minister, said that the move was being made to counter growing threats from overseas television services. ("SatNews") AUROVISION, a new Indian satellite channel that beams general entertainment programming, has started broadcasting on the Russian Raduga satellite, located at 85 degrees east longitude. ("SatNews") PAKISTAN--Radio Pakistan has started broadcasts over Asiasat. ("The Muslim" via BBC Monitoring) Pakistan's PTV is also reportedly carried on satellite, starting September 1. (BBC Monitoring) Presumeably they are sharing the same transponder on Asiasat. STAR'S NEW CHANNELS--STAR TV in Hong Kong is playing its trump card and hoping to be seen as a major pan-Asian player in the process. The company is planning to launch two Mandarin-language entertainment and film channels, an Indian subscription channel and Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Tagalog and Cantonese channels. Programming will be commissioned from local companies as well as bought in from other overseas channels. The channels will be subscription-based, allowing for a regular income unaffected by advertising fluctuations -- although advertising accounts for 95% of STAR's revenues. Observers suggest that STAR is likely to lose USD 20 million by the end of the current financial year and that advertising rates have plummeted. ("SatNews") EUROPEAN MEDIA NEWS: ARIANE--The next scheduled Ariane launch on October 4/5 (flight V68) will carry Thaicom 2 (to be placed at 78.5 degrees East) and Mexico's Solidaridad 2 (to be placed at 113 degrees West). The question is if Astra 1D or Eutelsat's Hot Bird-1 will be on V69 in November, or V70 in December. Bertil Sundberg says he has been told (although he is somewhat sceptical) that Astra 1D will be on V69, and Hot Bird-1 will accompany Brasilsat B2 on V70. ("Paa TV") ASTRA--Interesting things are happening on Astra transponder 47, home of Sky Sports 2. There's now a screen picture saying that Sky Soap and Sky Travel will be starting on that channel on October 3rd. Sky Soap is scheduled Monday to Friday 8:00 AM to Noon British time, and Sky Travel Monday to Thursday Noon to Midnight and Fridays Noon to 6:00 PM British time. A new channel called China News Europe is already using the transponder overnight, from 01:00-06:00 hrs. This is different from the Chinese Channel now on UK Living's transponder overnight, which is moving to Eutelsat because the channel refuses the use videocrypt coding, which Sky insists should be used on all the Multi-Channels transponders. (James Robinson) On the other hand, "SatNews" says the Chinese Channel in Europe, operated by Pacific media, has started charging its viewers a GBP13.99 monthly service charge for its four-hour nightly program offering (presumeably that on the UK Living transonder). The channel broadcasts material and films in Mandarin and Cantonese languages, taken from the Television Broadcasts (TVB) archive in Hong Kong. Videocrypt encryption is used to protect unauthorised reception. Gerald Winnington-Ingrams, managing director of the Chinese Channel, said that initial response had been overwhelming and that the company was about to run out of the 5,000 decoders it had acquired for customers. ("SatNews") TVB is a rival of Rupert Murdoch's Asian service Star-TV. Following Murdoch's accomodation with the Chinese authorities (dumping BBC World Service off Star's northern beam because of its critical news coverage), China News Europe may be Bejing's counter-move into Europe, aided by Murdoch. Just a guess..... Country Music Television is moving to share transponder 24 tomorrow, September 21. It's unknown if CMT will remain coded or switch to clear broadcasts. The Learning Channel is replacing it on Discovery's transponder 41. (James Robinson) TNT/CARTOON TELETEXT--TNT/Cartoon Network has launched its own teletext service, dubbed MOVIE TEXT and TOON TEXT. The service is set to provide viewers with a range of detailed program information and background on its broadcasts of classic animation and movies. Teletext is just one of the interactive services planned by the network for its viewers. Services will initially be in English only, although there are plans to have pages with other European languages. ("SatNews") MURDOCH'S VOX--The European Commission has approved the acquisition by News International of a 49.9% stake in VOX, the failed German cable and satellite TV channel. VOX has been on the 'market shelf' for some time but attracted little takers to the debt-ridden company. News Corp has not picked up any debt liability with its acquisition. VOX, according to latest figures, holds a 2% viewer and advertising market share. ("SatNews") My theory is that Murdoch bought Vox to keep the Astra transponder occupied so that NBC Super Channel wouldn't be able to move to Astra. BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING--Arthur C. Clarke, the man who first proposed communciations satellites, in one of his science fiction stories had a popular soft drink company somehow put its round logo on the surface of the Moon for all to see. It looks like something like that will actually be happening, courtesy of Rupert Murdoch and British Sky Boradcasting. They plan to launch a satellite next year which will hover over Europe, the size of a full Moon, and they plan to project the Sky logo onto it. Fortunately, the 18 million dollar PR stunt would only last for a few days. (Reuters) The most frustrating thing may be that Murdoch will make everyone in Europe look at his logo, but he continues to refuse to allow his channels to be seen anywhere outside the British Isles, despite European Union regulations on free access to goods and services in the EU. EUTELSAT--On Eutelsat II-F1, 11.678 MHz, which had been thought to be the coming home of the Sci-Fi Channel, is carrying Polsat's Polonia 1 TV. (James Robinson and BBC Monitoring) This follows Polonia 1 being taken off the air in Poland, pending the filing of "a proper licence application". (PAP news agency via BBC Monitoring) So their stay on satellite may be short. NBC Super Channel has dropped Intelfax, which ran its teletext service. A Dutch company will take over the channel's teletext, and they hope to be in operation on October 1. Those wishing to follow satellite news on "In Orbit" will have to turn to page 333 on UK Gold on Astra. (Wolfgang Krause on Usenet news, via Curt Swinehart and Bertil Sundberg in "Paa TV") Eutelsat says it will ask for bids for a new series of satellites. The seven satellites would be put into orbit by late 1997. They will each carry 24 transponders of 72 MHz bandwidth, and will cover Europe and the Mediterranean basin, as well as having capacity for expansion to the most easterly parts of Europe. (Reuters) EURO BUSINESS NEWS CHANNEL--A new European business news channel is set to be launched early in 1995 by Dow Jones & Co Inc in association with Flextech Plc of the UK. The venture, known as European Business News, will be owned by Dow Jones with a 70% stake, with Flextech holding the remainder (Flextech is a Tele-Communications Inc affiliate.) Initially, the London-based channel will produce 18 hours of business, financial and consumer news programming daily before commencing 24-hour operation by the year-end. The channel will be transmitted on Eutelsat II F6 (Hot Bird 1) and will be accessible throughout the EC, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. An innovative feature of the service would be an additional MPEG 2 digital service transmitted alongside the conventional analogue channel. The digital channel will be sold to financial specialists and dealers who will be able to install hardware to view the channel on their PC's and office computers. This service will offer live European news events, annual meetings, press conferences and exclusive interviews. ("SatNews" and "Tele-Satellit" via Martyn Williams) EASTERN EUROPE--Reports from Poland say that Poland and Ukraine were discussing the possibility of jointly developing and launching a communications satellite that would cover Europe centred on East Europe. The satellite, initially aiming for a 1997 launch, would become part of the Eutelsat system. ("Tele-Satellit" via Martyn Williams) INTELSAT--The Box, a successor of the Satellite Jukebox that used to be on the Lifestyle transponder at night, is coming to Intelsat 601 in November. Unfortunately as it will be digitally compressed, home satellite viewers will be unable to access the channel. (James Robinson) TV-SAT--Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, the German PTT, is looking for a buyer to take over its TV-SAT 2 direct broadcasting satellite. RTL, Sat1 and Sat3 -- the present users of the high-powered satellite, have not renewed their carriage contracts which expire at the end of the year. ("SatNews") All 3 channels can be found on Astra, and DBT has bought in as a part owner in Astra's operator SES. HISPASAT--All five Hispasat channels began regular broadcasts on September 5th. They are currently in the clear, but they will be encrypted at the beginning of next year. (RNE Radio 1 via BBC Monitoring) SEGA--Sega Europe is planning to launch a Spanish video games cable TV channel by the end of 1995, allowing players to access over 50 video games through a decoder. Discussions have already been held with Canal Plus and Antenna 3 over bandwidth leasing. Sega is looking at providing games services by cable in a number of countries. ("SatNews") NETHERLANDS--For the new broadcast period beginning September 25th, Radio Netherlands is adding a new two hour transmission in Emlgish using a medium wave transmitter in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, on 1386 kHz. (BBC Monitoring) YUGOSLAVIA--The following resolution was adopted at the founding congress of AMARC Europe on 18 September 1994. AMARC is the French acronym for the World Association of Community Radios (Association mondiale des Radiodiffuseurs communautaires). AMARC Europe will be its European branch. One hundred and twenty representatives of some 43 radio stations in 35 countries, 10 national associations of local broadcasters, and 3 international associations attended this meeting. RESOLUTION ON INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA The AMARC pan-European conference of community radio broadcasters held in Ljubljana, Slovenia 15-18 September 1994: CONDEMNS the use of the media to incite to hatred and as a warmongering instrument particularly in the situation of the countries at war in former Yugoslavia. RECOGNISES the importance of the independent media in promoting freedom of expression, dialogue, tolerance and the democratic process. CALLS upon the international community to: * use all means at their disposal to aid and support the independent media which promote tolerance and pluralism in former Yugoslavia; and * bring pressure to bear on the present governments in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia/Montenegro for an adequate legal basis for media independence, free expression and dialogue. (Robert Horvitz, Regional Media Consultant, Open Society Institute, Prague) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (until Sept. 25): Europe and Africa: 16:15 hrs on 1179 and 6065 kHz 17:30 hrs on 1179, 6065, 9655, and 15390 kHz 20:30 hrs on 1179, 6065 and 9655 kHz 21:30 hrs on 1179 and 6065 kHz, and 22:30 hrs on 1179 and 6065 kHz Middle East and Africa: 17:30 hrs on 6065, 9655, and 15390 kHz 20:30 hrs on 6065 and 9655 kHz Asia and the Pacific: 11:30 hrs on 13775, 15120, and 15240 kHz 23:30 hrs on 11910 kHz and 01:30 hrs on 9695 and 11695 kHz North America: 12:30 and 13:30 hrs on 15240 and 17870 kHz 02:30 and 03:30 hrs on 6040 and 9850 kHz South America: 00:30 hrs on 6065 and 9850 kHz The broadcasts at 16:15, 17:30, 21:30, and 22:30 hrs (and weekends at 20:30) are also relayed to Europe by satellite: Astra 1B (19.2 degrees East) transponder 26 (Sky Movies Gold) at 11.597 GHz, audio subcarrier at 7.74 MHz, Tele-X (5 degrees East) (TV5 transponder) at 12.475 GHz, audio subcarrier 7.38 MHz. Radio Sweden is also relayed to Europe via the World Radio Network on MTV's transponder 22 on Astra, audio 7.38 MHz, daily at 20:00 hrs UTC. Radio Sweden can also be heard on WRN's North American service on Galaxy-5 on WTBS' transponder 6, audio 6.80 MHz, daily at 00:00 hrs. Contributions can be sent to DX Editor George Wood by fax to +468-667-6283, from MCI Mail or CompuServe to the CompuServe mailbox 70247,3516, from Internet to wood@stab.sr.se, or to SM0IIN at the packet radio BBS SM0ETV. 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, with the exception of items from BBC Monitoring, which are copyright. 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