[A-DX] BBC World Service erweitert Kurzwellensendungen auf Hindi, Englisch & Urdu

[Roger]

Am 15.08.2019 um 21:08 schrieb Tom DF5JL:
> Die jüngste Einführung von vier neuen Sprachdiensten für Indien -
> Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi und Telugu - nach zusätzlichen Investitionen
> der britischen Regierung - hat es der BBC ermöglicht, ein breiteres
> Portfolio an Sprachen und Vertriebswegen für eine Region anzubieten, die
> sowohl geographisch vielfältig als auch politisch angespannt ist. Die
> diesjährige Global Audience Measure-Kampagne für die BBC zeigte, dass
> Indien mit einem wöchentlichen Publikum von 50 Millionen der größte
> Markt des Weltdienstes ist.
>
>
> Quelle: BBC-Pressemitteilung via Alokesh Gupta; übersetzt von Tom
> DF5JL. 73



Hier ein aktueller Artikel zu dem Thema, aus Indien.
Da macht sich jemand Gedanken, erläutert physikalische Hintergründe
und es gibt sogar einen Ausflug in die deutsche Geschichte:
https://thewire.in/the-sciences/kashmir-valley-article-370-shortwave-radio

"....According to Electronics Notes, a trade magazine, the skip zone can
be as high as 2,500 km for the E region and 5,000 km for the F2 region.
So to get shortwave signals into the Kashmir Valley, a transmitting
station can be set up in, say, northeast Kenya, northwest Poland or
south Sumatra. When the BBC World Service began shortwave transmissions
into North Korea in September 2017, the transmitting stations were
reportedly situated in Taiwan and Uzbekistan...."


"...There are similar stories from India’s freedom struggle. In January
1942, Subhash Chandra Bose began broadcasting shortwave messages into
India from Berlin, with the support of his new ally, Adolf Hitler. In
September that year, two amateur operators named Bob Tanna and Nariman
Printer used shortwave broadcasts (7.12 MHz) from Bombay to gather
support for the ‘Quit India’ movement that M.K. Gandhi had launched only
a month before....."

http://www.oocities.org/vayujeet/netaji.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20080628201331/http://www.wr6wr.com/newSite/articles/features/mahatmashams.html
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhash_Chandra_Bose
(im deutsche WIKIPEDIA-Artikel keinen Hinweis auf KW-Aktivitäten)

Azad Hind Radio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azad_Hind_Radio
"....Azad Hind Radio was a propaganda radio service that was started
under the leadership of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Germany in 1942 to
encourage Indians to fight for freedom. Though initially based in
Germany, its headquarters was shifted to Singapore and later to Rangoon
following the course of the war in South East Asia. Following Netaji's
departure to South East Asia, the German operations were continued by
A.C.N. Nambiar, the head of the Indian Legion in Germany and later
Ambassador of the Arzi Hukumate Azad Hind in Germany......"


Ansonsten viele historische Informationen hier:
https://archive.org/stream/TheEarlyShortwaveStations/TheEarlyShortwaveStations_djvu.txt
".....Starting in March, the anti-British
clandestine, Voice of Free India, also
known as Free India Radio and Azad
Hind Radio, was heard at 1000-1200 on
9395 and 11470 kc., and at 2130-2330
on 9395. English news was at 1110 and
2300, and the station also used 15220
kc., which was believed to be the
Huizen transmitter. Over its lifetime the
station appears to have broadcast from
several Axis locations, including
Germany, occupied Holland, Podebrady,
Tokyo, Saigon, Singapore,— and
perhaps Shanghai. The 9395 kc. channel
soon switched to 9590, where two other
Indian clandestines, Azad Moslem
Radio (Free Moslem Radio) and
National Congress Radio, broadcast at
0930-0945 and 1215-1255
respectively. All three stations were
nominally part of the Biiro Concordia,
but they functioned autonomously under
the guidance of Indian nationalist Subhas
Chandra Bose, who had escaped
confinement in Calcutta and who, on a
visit to Berlin, found his goals of an
independent India in at least temporary
alignment with the Axis strategy of
destabilizing and sowing discontent in
the subcontinent. (In 1943, Axis stations
were broadcasting over 15 hours daily
in Indian languages.)

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roger