[A-DX] Fw: Nakhon Sawan, Thailand, Transmitter Complex

[Wolfgang Bueschel]

Abwärtsspirale:
Nunmehr eine weiterer Sargnagel im internationalen KW Rundfunk:

nach der Verschrottung von Tanger, Kavalla, Sri Lanka,
Rampisham/tlw.Skelton, und Wertachtal.

Die Thais haben sich {bisher} nicht mit dem British Foreign Office / Babcock
über eine Fortführung des Thai Relais geeinigt.

Die kleinen Kilowatt Funzeln weit weg in Armenien und Uzbekistan können
niemals ein vergleichbarer Ersatz über Tausende Kilometer Distanz hinweg für 
den properen 250 kW Sender-Komplex in Nakhon Sawan sein, der selbst als 
Ersatz für den Verlust des Hong Kong Relais errichtet wurde.

Senderkapazität in vergleichbarer Menge und Sendestärke in Ostasien,
gibt es nur noch in Tinang Philippinen und Yamata Japan.
In Trincomalee Sri Lanka wären vielleicht auch noch zwei Sender frei,
wenn man denn dort genügend Antennen Richtung norden/Nordost zur Verfügung 
hätte.

Aber da müssten erst mal staatlichew Mietverträge her,
sowie die Satellitenanbindung an das BBC weltweite Verteilnetz.

Nakhon Sawan sollte ja auch für den neuen BBC London
Korea Dienst ab dem 26. März eingesetzt werden ....

HFCC und IBB Monitoring zeigen noch keine neue Datenlage.

wb


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U.K.(non)  From January 1 BBC World Service has stopped broadcasting from
one of its major global transmission stations situated in Nakhon Sawan,
Thailand.

All of NAK frequencies are transferred to other transmitter sites as
follows:

0000-0030 on  5875 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SEAs Burmese, ex NAK
0030-0100 on  5875 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs Bengali, ex NAK
0100-0130 on  9560 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg to SoAs Hindi, ex NAK
0100-0200 on  9410 SNG 100 kW / 315 deg to SoAs English, ex NAK
0100-0200 on 12095 SNG 100 kW / 013 deg to SoAs English, ex NAK
0130-0200 on  9560 SNG 250 kW / 340 deg to SoAs Bengali, ex NAK
0200-0230 on  7485 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg to SEAs Burmese, ex NAK
0200-0230 on  9560 SNG 250 kW / 340 deg to SEAs Burmese, ex NAK
0200-0230 on 15755 SNG 100 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex NAK
0230-0300 on 15755 SNG 100 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Dari, ex NAK
0830-0900 on 17720 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Dari, ex NAK
0900-0930 on 17720 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex NAK
0930-1000 on 17720 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Dari, ex NAK
1000-1030 on 17720 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex NAK
1030-1100 on 17720 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Dari, ex NAK
1200-1300 on 11895 SNG 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAs English, ex NAK
1300-1330 on 15510 DHA 250 kW / 020 deg to CeAs Uzbek, ex NAK
1330-1400 on  5855 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs Bengali, ex NAK
1330-1400 on  7565 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs Bengali, ex NAK
1330-1415 on  7485 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg to SEAs Burmese, ex NAK
1415-1500 on  7485 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg to SEAs Burmese Mon-Fri, ex NAK
1500-1600 on  9920 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Urdu, ex NAK
1545-1600 on  7600 ERV 100 kW / 125 deg to SoAs Tamil, ex NAK
1630-1700 on  5875 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs Bengali, ex NAK
1630-1700 on  7600 ERV 100 kW / 125 deg to SoAs Sinhala, ex NAK
1700-1730 on  5875 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Dari, ex NAK
1700-1730 on  9810 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Dari, ex NAK
1730-1800 on  5875 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex NAK
1730-1800 on  9810 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex NAK
1800-1830 on  5875 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Dari, ex NAK
1800-1830 on  7560 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Dari, ex NAK
1830-1900 on  5875 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex NAK
1830-1900 on  7560 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex NAK

In HFCC Database are still registered these frequencies
as NAK, but all are cancelled, according IBB Monitoring

0000-0100 on  7465 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs English
0000-0100 on  9410 NAK 250 kW / 275 deg to SoAs English
0200-0300 on 15310 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs English
1000-1200 on  9740 NAK 250 kW / non-dir to SEAs English
1000-1200 on 11895 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs English
1000-1100 on 17760 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English
1100-1200 on  9740 NAK 250 kW / non-dir to SEAs English
1200-1400 on  5875 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English
1300-1400 on 15310 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg to SoAs English
1430-1800 on  5845 NAK 100 kW / 290 deg to SoAs English DRM
2200-2300 on  5840 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English
2200-2300 on  5905 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs English
2300-2400 on  5840 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg to EaAs English
2300-2400 on  5840 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English
2300-2400 on  7490 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English
von Ivo aus Sofia Bulgarien, 8. März.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Hauser Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2017 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [dxld] Nakhon Sawan, Thailand, Transmitter Complex
> Yes, per this story, over two months ago and no one in the DX world
> noticed?
>
> Other sites took over; yet public HFCC as of Feb 28 is still full of NAK
> registrations effective until 0326!
>
> They must be jittery at IBB over Udorn ---
> Glenn
>
> THAILAND. BBC's Thai transmission towers fall silent as junta talks
> falter === By AFP  |   Published: 08th March 2017 04:08 PM  |
> Last Updated: 08th March 2017 04:08 PM  |   A+A A-   |
> http://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2017/mar/08/bbcs-thai-transmission-towers-fall-silent-as-junta-talks-falter-1579106.html
>
> A pedestrian walks past a BBC logo at Broadcasting House in central
> London. | File Reuters
>
> BANGKOK:  The BBC World Service has stopped broadcasting from one of its
> major global transmission stations situated in Thailand, AFP has learned,
> after talks broke down with a junta riled by its uncensored coverage.
>
> Sources with knowledge of the negotiations said the BBC's Thai-language
> output was an obstacle in discussions about renewing the 20-year lease on
> the complex, one of the network's main shortwave broadcast stations for
> Asia.
>
> The suspension comes as the World Service rolls out its largest
> foreign-language expansion for decades.
>
> The centre's large red and white transmission towers in Nakhon Sawan 150
> miles (240 kilometres) north of Bangkok beamed local language news into
> tightly-controlled countries such as China and North Korea, and into
> places where many still rely on radio like Pakistan and Afghanistan
>
> But it went off air on January 1 following the expiry of the lease.
>
> "Despite extensive negotiations, we have been unable to reach an agreement
> to re-commence transmissions," the BBC said in a statement.
>
> The BBC World Service, part-funded by the British government but
> editorially independent, currently produces uncensored news in 29
> languages.
>
> The Asia transmission station moved to Thailand from Hong Kong in 1997
> after the city was handed back to China.
>
> The BBC did not give details of why the talks broke down. But two sources
> said its Thai-language service had become a sore point.
>
> Thailand's royalist establishment was incensed by a profile of new King
> Maha Vajiralongkorn which the BBC Thai service published following the
> October death of his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
>
> - Unvarnished reporting -
>
> Thailand's monarchy is protected from scrutiny by a ferociously enforced
> lese majeste law, forcing media inside the kingdom to heavily self-censor.
>
> The unvarnished profile was published out of the BBC's London office. It
> went viral in a country unused to seeing unfiltered reporting of its
> monarchy.
>
> A dissident student leader was charged with royal defamation for sharing
> the profile, the first prosecution under Vajiralongkorn's reign.
>
> Sansern Kaewkumnerd, head of Thailand's government Public Relations
> Department, confirmed discussions had faltered but did not say why.
>
> "It is still unclear whether the contract would be extended or not
> extended," he said.
>
> But foreign ministry spokesman Sek Wannamethee said there were "no
> sticking points" and that the BBC had made a "unilateral decision to
> terminate the negotiating process without consulting the Thai side".
>
> Thailand's 2014 coup brought to power a group of ultra-royalist generals
> who stamped down on dissent and cramped media freedoms.
>
> Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a Thai politics expert at Chulalongkorn University,
> said Thailand had become a "more problematic place for media companies", a
> trend that has worsened under the latest military government.
>
> "The longer the military regime is entrenched, the more damage we'll see
> to basic Thai freedoms," he said.
>
> It its statement the BBC said it had been able to absorb the fallout of
> the closed Thai station by "transmitting non-English services via
> shortwave from other locations".
>
> Within Asia, the network owns transmission sites in Singapore and Oman.
>
> The timing of the closure comes as the World Service plans to increase its
> output to 40 foreign languages, near its post-World War II peak of 45.
>
> After years of slashing funding, the British government announced an
> additional $352 million for the 2015-2020 period.
>
> The move was partly a response to the huge expansion of state-sponsored
> media competitors in countries like Russia, China and the Middle East.
>
> The extra money is aimed at increasing local-language broadcasts to
> countries like North Korea, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Russia.
>
> The cash injection also went towards hiring extra BBC Thai staff, both in
> Bangkok and London (via Artie Bigley, DXLD)
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Wed, 3/8/17, > wrote:
>
> Subject: [dxld] Nakhon Sawan, Thailand, Transmitter Complex
> Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 1:49 PM
>       Did all transmissions from Nakhon
> Sawan cease on 1 January? See:
> http://swling.com/blog/2017/03/bbc-cuts-broadcasts-from-thailand-transmission-station/
> --
> Richard Langley