ARLA/CLUSTER: Radioamadores alemães operam antigo emissor da Radio Deutsche Welle reconvertido alugando por 15 €/Hora

[Pedro Ribeiro]

Fantástico, parabéns aos colegas "DL", outrora tive uma ideia igual para 
cá, mas à nossa dimensão e disponibilidade é complicado.

73!

On 23-02-2015 14:29, João Costa > CT1FBF wrote:
> Amateur radio based group rescues released broadcast frequency
>
> When the 'Deutsche Welle' decided to close down one of their 500 KW
> short wave broadcast transmitters near Munich at the end of 2012, a
> group containing some German radio amateurs applied for and were
> allocated the then available short wave frequency of 6070 KHz in 2013.
>
> This group now have an operational 10KW station on the frequency,
> using the driver stages from the old Deutsche Welle transmitter. The
> rest of the transmitter was built by and is run by Rainer DB8QC . The
> licence allow transmission 24/7 but at present most transmissions are
> on a weekend during daylight hours.
>
> Content is mainly provided by existing Internet Radio stations wanting
> to get their material "on-the-air" this includes several soceities
> that remember the days of the Pirate Radio pop music stations in the
> North sea between England and Holland and a lot of their music content
> is from the 60's and 70's.
>
> Additional content is being sought and at only 15 Euros an hour, this
> is not a corporate big business rather a facility where smaller groups
> can afford to buy time to transmit their content. One such group is
> the Deutsche Amateur Radio Club, the National Amateur Radio Soceity in
> Germany, who hope to have a weekly 2 hour slot on the station from
> mid-March to send a DX orientated program, probably from 6pm local
> time on Sundays.
>
> The DARC DX magazine will be in the German language and targeted
> towards German speaking listeners. Amateur radio is an international
> medium however so there are thoughts of also producing an
> international / English hour in addition, to reach out across Europe
> not only to radio amateurs but also to short wave listeners and the
> general public.
>
> When I talked with another Rainer DF2NU who is one of the group
> running the station and the president of the Munich South section of
> the DARC, he told me that they hope to be able to broadcast more often
> once sufficient content is available however they are already seeing
> other broadcasters such as Radio China moving onto the frequency in
> the evenings as those stations percieve 6070 KHz as a free frequency.
>
> Rainer told me that currently "Channel 292" has airtime bookings for
> 20-25 hrs a week, mostly on weekends at which times it runs at 10 kW
> output. When the station is idle (as there is no booking), the
> transmitter power is reduced to 1kW and transmits an infinite
> music-loop with no actual program. Late evenings, after 8pm local, the
> transmitter is switched off completely in order to save energy costs.
> Rainer stressed that the license is for 24/7 so they can use the
> frequency at any time when they have content.
>
> With a current rate of EUR 15,-- per hour airtime you cannot earn any
> money. This broadcast station is an extenion of the amateur radio
> hobby and the group seek to simply cover their costs.
>
> Thinking back to the very start of amateur radio, Hams were allowed to
> transmit music, news and entertainment programs, so it's nice to see
> some of this coming back onto the short wave bands thanks to the
> efforts of groups like this one.
>
> I wonder as we see more and more broadcasters leaving the short wave
> bands in favour of Internet broadcasting, whether we'll see more
> licences and surplus transmitters being picked up by amateur radio
> groups? This seems to be somewhat of a repeat of the situation when it
> was said 200 metres and up is useless for broadcasting - give it to
> the amateurs. We all know what then followed.
>
> Perhaps amateur Radio groups around the world can put new life into
> released shortware broadcast frequencies?
>
> For program information about "Channel 292" simply go to their website
> atwww.channel292.de
>
> Why not give 6070KHz AM a listen?
>
> Channel292 coverage map
>
> The Channel292 station covers a lot of Western Europe but has also
> been heard in Russia and the US
>
>
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