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Sat, 14 March 2015
We started with news about Radio Tirana, VOA Liberia, Spectrum Radio in London has a problem with interference from Radio Caroline. BBC is changing its focus, cancelling Japanese but expanding to Europe.
Part of this programme was recorded in Washington DC at a time when Voice of America broadcast to Brazil and was looking at ways to replace shortwave. SW audiences in Brazil were never large (except in the Amazon) - it's always been dominated by TV. Niels Linquist headed the VOA Brazilian Branch. He believed in finding radio talent rather translators with a written language skill.
We also talked with Lou Josephs who has been reading a new book about pirate radio in the USA. And we reviewed the DAK Industries MR101 portable radio, which was one of the first cheaper portable digitally-tuned receivers.
Direct download: MN.11.07.1990.VOABrazil.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 7:04 PM
Sat, 14 March 2015
This programme had good news about Radio Canada International. Andrew Simon was also investigating commercials on RCI. Radio Denmark is closing its shortwave site, hiring airtime out of Norway instead. Dutch radio is going to make more radio plays. Booklist Edition 12 is out. We find out more about Radio Clarin. Jeff White says the SW transmitter on 11700 kHz is coming back. We also discuss some of the stations targeting Cuba. Professor John Campbell explains why listening in the Pacific is often better in Europe. He notes the end of many Indonesian broadcasters on shortwave. Victor Goonetilleke has been hearing AIR's new Banglore transmitting station just in time for the elections. He also has news about clandestine stations targeting Burma. Listener Kauto Huopio also helped us make a profile of Finnish Local Radio. And DXers have been looking at South Korean clandestine stations broadcasting towards Pyongyang.
Direct download: MN.26.12.1991.finland.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 6:33 PM
Sat, 14 March 2015
A very technical edition of the programme. After announcing some frequency changes, we look at the possible use of single sideband (SSB) for shortwave broadcasters. in theory, 2015 should have been the point at which AM could be switched off. In the end that's probably true, except that it wasn't replaced by SSB. This was before anyone saw the opportunities of the Internet. Trevor Brook of Radio Fax was completely sceptical. Peter Senger of DW was also realistic. It was all about the availablity of receiving equipment. We did an indepth on-air review of the Drake R8, and spoke with John Bryant, one the authors of Proceedings 91. This was an excellent collection of indepth technical articles. A great read if you can find a copy!
Direct download: MN.19.09.1991.DrakeR8.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 6:32 PM
Sat, 14 March 2015
This programme was recorded on location at the HAM-FEST in Friedrichshaven, Southern Germany. We talked to Uwe Bräutigam of the German clubc ADDX about the German BC scene. We've seen some stations cease broadcasting in the German language. They heard from many people during the Gulf War. VOA has also resumed a new half hour programme in Germany. We also looked at the various English language services coming out of Yugoslavia. Radio Slovene also appeared with its side of the story. The Receiver NewsDesk. 8 radios are being seen here in Europe for the first time. In the case of Sony ICF-SW55 and the ICFSW-77. The Sony car radio XRU882 also had shortwave coverage. DW was also working on a system to add an inaudible label via medium or shortwave. Peter Senger explains how the system could work. There is also a total eclipse of the sun o July 11th. Dave Rosenthal has been checking into what might happen to shortwave propagation.
Direct download: MN.04.07.1991.sonycarradio.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 6:17 PM
Sat, 14 March 2015
This news edition covers media developments in Yugoslavia and a group in Canada supporting Croatian independence. Radio Libertas has been using WHRI. Radio For Peace International has a new transmitter on the air on 15030 kHz. Austrian SW Panorama is returning to air after a short hiatus. ELBC is back on the air in Liberia with English news at 0700 on 7275 kHz. Radio Netherlands announces expanded services to the Pacific, adding 0830 UTC. 0930 UTC is also new. Arthur Cushen is dismantling antennas at Shepparton, so European beams will become a thing of the past. Radio Bras carrying the programmes of Radio Beijing has also been logged by Arthur. Satellite dish owners in Latin America have noticed that CNN is scrambling its signal. It turns out the signal was being pirated. They are also experimenting with more Spanish language material from Atlanta. A new cassette with off-air recordings of Brazilian radio stations has been produced. Lou Josephs adds a note about US ham radio operators in space.
Direct download: MN.04.04.1991.pacificexpansion.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 6:14 PM
Sat, 14 March 2015
This was a news edition of the programme which starts with a short survey of English programmes coming out of the Baltic States and the Soviet Union. Radio Vilnius is still being relayed by Russian transmitters. Radio Riga, Latvia is on the air at 2130. Each Monday, Radio Tallinn Estonia is also heard at 2130 UTC on 5925. English programmes have also appeared from Kazakhstan, Radio Alma Ata.
Radio4 International RTBF says they are going off the air. We also tell the story of how Belgian international broadcasting began in Zaire.
Philips and Thomson are cross that high definition standard D2MAC has not got the support of satellite broadcasters like Astra.
A private transmitter called Radio Centrus is operating in Lithuania. The 1991 Soviet Radio tour is being organized by ANARC. Spend a week in Moscow and Leningrad! Wolf Harranth reports that Radio Tirana in Albania is suddenly cutting back.
We look at satellite radio regulations and the story of Intelsat and Tongasat, in what was a Polynesian power play. BBC reports that Radio Kuwait is back on the air. Radio Baghdad has also returned to the air. Gulf Voice Radio is also being heard. Radio Monte Carlo is also being heard in French. The programme ends with the propagation survey from Mike Bird.
Direct download: MN.07.03.1991.VRT.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 6:11 PM
Sat, 14 March 2015
Try our national anthem contest, although the closing date was in 1991. Radio Vilnius, Lithuania is calling members of the public to help defend broadcasting house. Radio Riga International, Latvia has now expanded its English language output, twice a week. Peter Walsh in Australia has a question of the Icom ICR-1. Kim Andrew Elliott sends in a bizarre recording of Radio Beijing New Year Staff party. We visit Radio Free Europe, in those days based in Munich, and talked to William Marsh. He explains how the audiences to shortwave are going down. BBC is now being heard on FM in Czechslovak republic. Peter Herman explains how the RFE's audience survey's worked. Interesting that the slogan in those days was "Crusade for Freedom". That has very different overtones now.
Direct download: MN.17.01.1991RFE.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 6:05 PM
Sat, 14 March 2015
This edition includes tuning suggestions from Arthur Cushen – Caribbean Beacon is trying a shortwave relay. Bob Tomalski is delighted that a universal video recorder NVW-1 that will handle PAL and NTSC. But at £2000 it is expensive. Paul Ballster in London has spotted two VOA Europe programmes. So which is the real one? Eric Beauchemin researched a piece on a planned radio station from RTL-4, the new commercial network that grew out of RTL Veronique. Iceland is being heard on shortwave as a result of b ad weather. We also talked to a listening group in Vilnius about the serious situation in Lithuania and why Russia is still relaying programmes. RCI's funding is still up in the air. Jeff White says that the budget estimates are between 10-13 million Canadian dollars. Atlantic 252 has won a court case about its mast in the Irish country side. And ABC has been criticized for its coverage of the Gulf War.
Direct download: MN.21.02.1991.RTL4.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 6:00 PM
Sat, 21 February 2015
This programme looks at the private initiatives beaming into mainland China as a result of events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Now, two years later, the June the 4th Production company has been active from Chicago. We also hear that WYFR is reducing its broadcasts because of a funding challenges. Radio Austria International is resuming transmission of its SW Panorama programme. Sarath Weerakoon reports on what happened as a result of the military coup in Thailand.
Direct download: MN.28.02.1991.freechina.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 9:53 AM
Sat, 21 February 2015
The programme starts with the news that Irelands only commercial radio network Century FM has closed. We analysed why. Herbert Visser called with news that Radio Caroline has not sunk as reported by some mainstream media, but it did lose its anchor and drifted. A special ham radio event is being held in India. Domestic public broadcasting is reacting to a report that no-one is listening to Radio 5 on mediumwave. What has happened to Radio Vilnius in Lithuania? Queensland Australia is being heard in Europe. Andy Sennitt reports that Radio Surinam International has signed off. We do a follow-up on Radio Polonia and recent changes to its focus. And Mark Deutsch says the BBC has time on 17 stations in Poland.
Direct download: MN.21.11.1991.carolinesinks.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 9:44 AM
Sat, 21 February 2015
This was a news programme in which we looked at DX programmes to replace RCI's DX Digest which has ceased transmission. World of Radio from Glenn Hauser runs via WWCR. And Radio Havana Cuba's Arnie Coro reported his station was doing tests with compatible single sideband. Western media this week have speculated that a new clandestine station called Voice of Free Iraq coming out of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is actually backed by the CIA. Richard Measham of BBC Monitoring has details of clandestine stations operating out of Kurdistan. Sarath Weerakoon in Sri Lanka is hearing a new service out of Radio Baghdad which also seems to be aimed at Kurdistan. We hear about a new FM station in Jaffna run by the Tamil Tigers. That part of Sri Lanka at the moment is going through very difficult times, with batteries being banned and no mains electricity being available. BRTN Teletekst reports that Libya has started broadcasts to Eastern Europe with German and Russian being monitored so far. And the Francophone part of Belgium wants to revamp its international radio service in French with a new name.
Direct download: MN.18.04.1991.srilanka.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 9:42 AM
Sat, 21 February 2015
This was a news edition of the programme. Kol Israel is planning to cut its shortwave broadcasts in half. We also aired the impossible context presented by voiceover artist Jim Cutler (pictured). The 10th anniversary contest promo later won a gold medal at the New York Radio Awards. We had a barrage of listener complaints - which subsided when we aired a proper contest a few weeks later. Victor Goonetilleke reports a successful convention for DXers in India. The Radio 5 Africa project, a joint project of several Francophone countries, appears to be building momentum.
Direct download: MN.16.05.1991.anncontest.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 9:40 AM
Sat, 21 February 2015
There are terrible shortwave conditions at the moment because of solar flares. We looked at new stations, including Radio Northern, the Voice of Oro in Papua New Guinea which is now on the air, as Gordon Darling reports. The BBC has announced that the Daventry transmitter site is to close in 1992. VNG Time signal services will change frequencies. Icelandic National Broadcasting Service has started a new English news broadcast via the phone! The main feature looks at the last 10 years of commercial shortwave broadcasting in the USA. WWCR has sold all of its airtime. Jeff White helped us with the interview with George McClintock of WWCR (transmitter site picture is their current facility). The programme also includes clips from the various stations broadcasting to Cuba.
Direct download: MN.13.06.1991.USprivate.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 9:37 AM
Sat, 21 February 2015
Radio Tirana has stopped using the Internationale and announced some curious changes to its transmissions, including taking adverts! Vasily Strelnikov on Radio Moscow says hallo to Radio Netherlands and wants a programme schedule! Radio Moscow is running syndicated programmes from Australia and has also made some drastic cutbacks to its English service. There has been a 10% cutback last year. BBC Monitoring has spotted a new station called Voice of Free Iraq. It mimics the real Radio Baghdad in its use of music. Paraguay is being heard on 11945 kHz with just 500 watts. Richard Ginbey reports that test transmissions have started from BBC's Lesotho site. Namibia Broadcasting Corporation has new station Idents, and to go on shortwave. Radio Truth targeting Zimbabwe has closed down. Rudy Van Dalen, reports hearing the Lincolnshire Poacher numbers station out of Cyprus. Clandestine station Agent 847 is also jammed. An anti-Sudanese clandestine station is also being blocked with a very old fashioned jamming sound. Radio France Internationale has been given the go ahead for a major transmitter upgrade. BFBS Middle East has started shortwave broadcasts plus operating an FM station out of al-jubail, a city in Northern-Eastern Saudi Arabia. NHK has started a morning broadcast in Urdu via Ekala, Sri Lanka. The BBC may have to close it's Hong Kong relay station. It is 41 degrees in Melbourne, where Mike Bird has the propagation news.
Direct download: MN.10.01.1991.bfbstogulf.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 9:27 AM
Sat, 21 February 2015
A listener-powered edition of the programme, with a range of updates from the shortwave bands. What power is being used by Radio Luxembourg on 15 MHz? The answer is 10 kW. Julius Hermans has been listening to Radio Ala, and Radio Dublin is back on 6910 kHz. There is a shortage of books about HF propagation. Dave Rosenthal has been reviewing what's available. Radio Netherlands English broadcasts are expanding to the Pacific. So why isn't QSL and DX in the Oxford English Dictionary. Victor Goonetilleke has been following broadcasts from Kashmir. A Purple Hair story from Hungary. In 1995 experiments with digital radio experiments (DAB) are due to start in the Netherlands. Arthur Cushen has media news updates from Tonga. The shortwave transmitter on 5030 kHz has been moved to a new building. Radio Free Bougainville is verifying reports via Sam Voron.
Direct download: MN.05.03.1992.schedule.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 9:24 AM
Sat, 21 February 2015
This was one of the few broadcasts to originate from a train. I was on my way back from London after meeting Richard Astbury, of British Forces Broadcasting Service based at that time in studios next to Paddington Station. He explained why they had started shortwave broacasts to Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Gulf. Andy Sennitt was trying to get a FIDO bulletin board working in Amsterdam and a company in Bussum wanted to use broadcast networks in Holland for scrambled distribution of programmes in the middle of the night. Bert Steinkamp and Andrew Taussig explain what international broadcasters are trying to do to improve coverage of their own continent. Trevor Brook of Surrey Electronics has critical remarks about Dynamic Amplitude Modulation.
Direct download: MN.03.05.1991.BFBSLondon.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 9:21 AM
Sat, 24 January 2015
We covered developments at RTL Luxembourg several times towards the end of the 1980's as RTL phased out several mediumwave services (like the great 208) and invested in a station in Ireland (Atlantic 252). In this programme there's an extensive update of the scene in 1989, and we ponder on the problem of explaining wavelengths and frequencies to listeners. With the arrival of satellite, tuning information was becoming ever more complex.
Direct download: MN.13.04.1989.luxembourgSES.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 11:02 PM
Sat, 24 January 2015
This edition of the programme includes the news that the American Forces Radio relay in Berlin is to sign-off. We also reported on the death of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, as reported by Radio Pyongyang. BBC Caversham reports that Rwanda may be returning to shortwave, which we assumed was the transmitter site built by Deutsche Welle in Kigali. VOA is looking to expand their FM distribution in Africa.
Direct download: MN.12.07.1994.AFNBerlin.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 10:52 PM
Sat, 24 January 2015
At one time, Radio Netherlands was planning to build a third relay station to improve its shortwave radio coverage into South Asia and China. the late Bert Steinkamp and Jim Vastenhoud went on a fact finding mission to look at possible sites. Jim Vastenhoud came into the Media Network studio to explain the findings. In the end, the BBC found the money to build a station in Thailand - and Radio Netherlands did not.
Direct download: MN.09.06.1988.TransmitterThailand.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 10:40 PM
Sat, 24 January 2015
Twenty years ago, I was part of a Radio Netherlands delegation to a conference in Quito, Ecuador on the future of radio, especially community radio. At that time many local radio stations were finding it difficult to compete with the new giant (international) music networks delivering slickly presented music programmes via satellite. They were buying up local FM licenses across the continent. Most of this programme was recorded in Quito and includes several off-air montages of stations broadcasting at that time. Enjoy.
Direct download: MN.30.11.1995.quito.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 10:33 PM
Tue, 23 December 2014
This was the first of several visits we made to the VERON amateur radio news station, which operated at that time out of a tower in the Sikkens (now AKZO) paint factory in Sassenheim. You could see the antennas as you passed by the factory on the A44 motorway. The news service from the VERON still exists, and can also be followed on line via Youtube. Again, remember this is all 10 years before the Internet was invented. So the only way to exchange news about ham radio was by radio or in a printed bulletin. The VERON did both.
Direct download: MN.20.01.1983.PAOAA.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 10:31 PM
Tue, 23 December 2014
Here we are 32 years after this programme was made and some people still hope that AM stereo is going to work. Of course, AM Stereo was analogue technology. In the meantime, several attempts have been made to digitize the AM broadcast dial with technologies like HDRadio and DRM. Frankly, I think the conclusions we drew in 1983 apply now. It isn't going to happen. But it is still fun to discuss why. Enjoy this vintage edition of Media Network.
Direct download: MN.29.09.1983.AMSTEREO.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 10:29 PM
Tue, 23 December 2014
I remember Malta on my radio map because Deutsche Welle built a relay station for North Africa on the island, which was later nationalised. Malta started getting closer to both Algeria and Libyan. In this programme we interviewed the new station manager of the "Radio Mediterranean". The aim was to give Malta a voice in the world.
In the official story of the Broadcasting Authority of Malta, there's a passage indicating that these government agreements for stations like DW and Radio Mediterranean were set up directly by the Maltese government.
Although the contractual relationship that existed between the Broadcasting Authority and the Rediffusion were also operative with the Telemalta Corporation (when the latter became responsible through its broadcasting division, Xandir Malta) the same cannot be said for those stations which operated under direct licence from the Government. At the start of 1979 these included the Central Mediterranean Relay Station; the British Forces Broadcasting Service; the Deutsche Welle Relay Station; TiveMalta Ltd.; the Voice of Friendship and Solidarity (later Voice of the Mediterranean operating under joint management provided by the Maltese and Libyan Governments); and Radio Mediterranean (a joint venture between the Maltese and Algerian Governments) – all these were not contracted by the Authority
Thanks to Mario J Cachi for the photo of Valetta. Never been to Malta myself , but one day...
Direct download: MN.13.01.1983.MALTA.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 10:25 PM
Tue, 23 December 2014
This is a very early Media Network magazine documentary about broadcasting in Southern Africa, when apartheid South Africa had stations operating from the various "homelands". We had no internet, only cassettes - and the link to the late Frits Greveling who had presented and produced the previous DX show to this one, DX Juke Box. He returned to Johannesburg to work for several South African radio stations. Although the style is totally out of date, the information about broadcasting in Southern Africa in the early 1980's remains fascinating.
I note that there's a site dedicated to the memory of Capital 604 Transkei. You can find most of the jingles they used here.
You may also find the video interview with David Smith to be interesting. He also had adventures with Capital Radio which can be found here.
Direct download: AfricanSafari1981Part2.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 10:21 PM
Tue, 23 December 2014
In 1983, Media Network broadcast a series of features on forces broadcasting. At the time, the Dutch were part of a UN peace keeping mission in Lebanon. It was also the era of FM pirate radio stations in many cities in the Netherlands. So, infact, Dutch forces radio had its origins as a pirate radio station. Infact the story of the Dutch forces is now brilliantly told at the new Dutch National Military Museum, which opened on December 13th 2014 on the grounds of the former American Air Force base in Soesterberg.
Direct download: MN.06.01.1983UNIFIL.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 9:55 PM
Tue, 23 December 2014
In 1983, Media Network ran a series of thematic features on Forces Broadcasting. This was the final part, which featured the British Forces Broadcasting Service. Apart from an FM transmitter in the South of the Netherlands, BFBS was heard widely on the cable radio systems in many cities across the Netherlands. FM signals could be picked up from neighbouring Germany by the aerials on the top of the cable head ends. But propagation was not reliable enough to hear FM signals from the UK. So, no BBC Radio 4. Remember this is 5 years before we saw the launch of SKY television. The photo is of BFBS in Hamburg in 1946, which is referred to in the interview.
Direct download: MN.05.05.1983.BFBS.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 9:51 PM
Sun, 2 November 2014
This was a new edition of the programme covering the strange move by President Reagan to use clandestine Radio Liberation broadcasting from El Salvador. VOA Spanish is much better received in the target area of Nicaragua. We also learned that Radio France Internationale has decided against putting a relay station in Sri Lanka, looking at the island of Reunion instead (later dropped when they discovered the island is prone to very high winds). Mark Deutsch at BBC World Service explains their expansion plans for satellite coverage of Europe. People are not watching the new Superchannel service because there are no subtitles on the programmes. Radio Lebanon has been off the air because of a heat wave in Beirut. We also covered the Berlin Audio and Video Fair. Sony has launched a radio with a fax receiver built in SR6768. We learn about EuroMac and why Philips believes DAT will not take off as a consumer tape standard. Wolf Harranth reports on an Italian station broadcasting to Slovenia. Enthusiasts in the Netherlands have discovered a way to make free international calls via Denmark.
Direct download: MN.26.08.1987.NicaraguaSuperchannel.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 12:14 PM
Sun, 2 November 2014
A nice summer edition of Media Network in which Diana and I looked at a revival of Radio Caroline in the Netherlands, organised by Sietse Brouwer from Harlingen. Land-based pirate stations have been meeting in London. Bob Tomalski reports on one of the biggest booze-ups in 35 years. Bob laments that the old passion has gone. Audio quality is not what it used be. Bryan Clark reports from New Zealand on the reappearance of American Forces stations on shortwave. And that includes Diego Garcia. We also looked at the future of radio design, highlighting some work going on at the University of Twente.
Direct download: MN.23.08.2000.Pirates.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 8:48 AM
Sat, 1 November 2014
This was a documentary I made about Indonesian radio broadcasting, based on a holiday trip I took in 1988. I recall taking an ICF2001D and a Walkman Professional so as to capture sound effects of the train journey.
The tape of this documentary did not survive well - some print through because the tape was in poor condition and not complete. But I have processed it so it probably sounds better than it did on shortwave back then. The sounds of RRI in English, especially on the local stations was something out of a living radio museum.
Direct download: MN.08.04.1988.Indonesiarepaired.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 5:00 PM
Sat, 1 November 2014
This was an early attempt to do longer investigative features. We start the programme looking at the challenges facing the satellite broadcast industry (remember this is well before the launch of SKY television). Richard Ginbey also did a marathon overview of the history of broadcasting in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. I think the off-air recordings are rather unique - not sure that much has survived. He put this togther using cassette tape recorders - must have taken ages. And the programme ends with tuning suggestions from Andy Sennitt and Arthur Cushen.
Direct download: MN.01.09.1983.Zimbabwe.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 4:33 PM
Sat, 1 November 2014
Radio South Atlantic was a short-lived clandestine radio station started by the UK Ministry of Defence with programmes aimed at Argentine troops on the Falkland islands. This programme was broadcast from a transmitter on Ascension Island which was temporarily taken away from BBC World Service.
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British overseas territories in the South Atlantic: theFalkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It began on Friday 2 April 1982 when Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands (and, the following day, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) in an attempt to establish the sovereignty it had long claimed over them. On 5 April, the British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force before making an amphibious assault on the islands. The conflict lasted 74 days and ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982, returning the islands to British control. In total, 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel and three Falkland Islanders died during the hostilities.
This is a studio copy of Radio South Atlantic. In May 1982, the British government decided to set up a Spanish language radio station targeting Argentine troops. This was probably in response to an Argentine radio station (nicnamed Argentine Annie by the UK press) which appeared on shortwave some weeks earlier using the Beatles theme "Yesterday" as a signature tune.
I was editing the Media Network programme at the time. We could hear Radio South Atlantic in Hilversum - but the signal was very weak. So I rang the British embassy in the Hague and asked if it would be possible to get a studio copy of the programme to use in a documentary feature we were making. A few days later, a courier riding a large motorbike arrived at RN's reception and asked for me. I went down to the front-desk to sign for the tape. "But you can't keep this tape. You can only listen to it" was the message from guy in the helmet. "I have to take it back to the Hague in about half an hour". I said I'd look for an empty studio, gave the guy a large coffee and wandered casually round the corner. Then I made a mad dash to the fast copy-room used to make tape copies of RNW transcription programmes for other radio stations. It had a machine that could copy tapes at around 8 times faster than normal. Luckily, Jos, the guy in charge, saw my challenge, set up the machine immediately and 15 minutes later I was back in reception to return the tape to the messanger. And I had a copy.
It seems the British dropped leaflets over the Falklands to try and spread the word that this shortwave radio station existed. And we later analysed the programme. It was classic Sefton Delmer (Black Propaganda), although rather poorly presented. Bit like calling up Vera Lynne if the British had a dispute with France.
But this is one of the few surviving recordings of Radio South Atlantic. You be the judge of how effective it all was.
Direct download: RadioAtlanticodelSur.mp3
Category:Radio Netherlands Specials -- posted at: 4:28 PM
Sun, 5 October 2014
This programme has a strong Latin American flavour starting with the news of test transmissions from Radio For Peace International in Costa Rica. Sky Channel in the UK is not making money yet but has no intention of stopping. Some broadcasters are experimenting with AM stereo. Don Rhodes in Australia reports that Deutsche Welle is going to start testing the new 22 metre shortwave band. A special shortwave broadcast is on the air from a station in Syria during the Mediterraean Games.
We then announced the Radio Netherlands SSB Feeder Challenged. RNW has to bridge a four-week gap in the satellite feed to Madagascar. A special SSB transmitter was hired at a transmitter site at Ruislede, Belgium.
The first edition of Passport to World Band Radio is reviewed with Harry Kliphuis.
Christian Zettl from Austria is travelling in Central America and has been investigating some strange political clandestine radio stations in Guatemala, including one with a connection to a recording by Nat King Cole.
Direct download: MN.25.09.1987.Guatemala.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 8:48 PM
Sun, 5 October 2014
Jonathan gets a tube of "on-air" radio toothpaste. China is being relayed by Swiss Radio International, some transmissions being well heard. We started to spot strong signals from Radio Beijing but not coming from Europe. Dave Rosenthal explains Electrometeors and why lightning can make shortwave radios suddenly insensitive. Carefully tuned outdoor antennas can "blow-up" the front end of a portable radio. In fact, the Sony ICF2001D was particularly suspectible. A lightning arrestor is a bit of a misnomer.
We review the RFB40L shortwave portable from Panasonic.
We also report on superconductor research displayed at Telecom 87 in Geneva by AT&T.
Direct download: MN.06.10.1987.superconductors.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 8:46 PM
Sun, 5 October 2014
A New Year has dawned but without the expected reduction in Soviet jamming of Western broadcasters. West German television airs the wrong new year speech from Chancellor Kohl. The Dutch have been measuring devices for radio interference levels, banning two devices because of poor shielding. We also talk to the UK engineers who had to shield a football stadium in Saudi Arabia, because of a nearby 1.2 Megawatt mediumwave transmission tower. Solar specialist Mike Bird reviews 1986 from a radio reception point of view.
Out in the Iraqi desert, French transmitter manufacturer Thomson is to build 16 high power transmitters. We look at satellite radio with the BBC's Jonathan Stott.
On 6009 kHz a clandestine radio station in Libya has been making some mistakes. Radio Truth, a clandestine in South Africa targeting Zimbabwe, has made a clever frequency change. Radio West in The Hague, a station of 18 people, has just started operations. Willem Bos has been testing a special device for scanner enthusiasts.
Direct download: MN.08.01.1987.riyadh.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 8:30 PM
Sun, 5 October 2014
We start this programme with news of a two-in-one RS-10 and RS-11 amateur radio satellite launched by the Russians. Pat Gowan reports. Radio Moscow has started a summer programme for the tourists to the capital. Radio Danubius in Budapest is doing something similar. Poland objects to a new Israeli relay station for VOA (never built). India is upgrading its time signal station. Philips says its solved the problem of poor resolution on LCD displays. We also discuss radio broadcast radiation and it's danger to humans. Wim van Amstel explains.
We also discuss clandestine broadcasting to Iran, using transmitters in Iraq. We solve the mystery of the number station contest, and Anne Blair Gould reviews the Guide to Broadcasting Stations by Philip Darrington.
The programme concludes with Arthur Cushen's DX report including a very clear recording of Radio Luxembourg signing off in English on 49 metres.
Direct download: MN.02.07.1987.Monster.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 8:18 PM
Sun, 5 October 2014
We're postponing a series of features until the satellite link with Madagascar is resorted after maintenance.
Europe-1, a commercial network in France, has been heard on a Radio Caribbean on 1210 kHz 05 UTC. It seems it's the start of a major expansion plan.
We tell the story of Atlantic 252, which apparently was an idea from Luxembourg. More than 4 million pounds has been invested in the project. Radio Tara was the project name.
We explain the Stickers on the Move contest. Radio Nacional Venezuela is being heard more regularly.
Paris KISS-FM has started a station Tahiti. We were clearly intrigued at how the signal got to the Pacific. Radio Finland has started using a new higher power transmitter on 963 kHz.
Japanese cordless phones are being monitored on shortwave radios in India because they are so poorly made. We take the situation to its illogical conclusions. Ben Kobb explains that Citizens Band radio didn't start on 27 MHz but infact began in 1947 in 460 MHz.
Direct download: MN.02.10.1987.europe1.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 8:10 PM
Sun, 5 October 2014
This edition of the programme discusses how the US Emergency Broadcast System works. This was a predecessor to what is now called the Emergency Alert System. Benn Kobb elaborates and Frank Lucia explains how President Truman gave the go-ahead for the development of the CONELRAD system. Gary Burgeois also explains what could go wrong at 9.33 every Saturday morning. It sounds like stations then were better prepared than today.
The programme also discusses changes to the domestic shortwave service in Australia. Andy Sennitt explains that Nigeria has discontinued some of its shortwave services and the location of Radio Sovereign. Bob Tomalski (known as Roger Tate in those days) reports on DAT digital recorders.
The tape of this programme didn't survive as well as others, which explains the slightly higher level of hiss than other editions at the start of the programme. But it quickly gets better.
Direct download: MN.04.09.1987.emergency.mp3
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Sun, 5 October 2014
Vanuatu has been counting the cost of a major cyclone to hit this Pacific island chain. They've asked Radio Australia to help out while repairs are made to Radio Vanuatu. We also discuss progress 10 days into the WARC 1987 conference in Geneva. Jim Vastenhoud reports about the technical decisions being made. Single Sideband raises its head again. Of course SSB never happened.
Willem Bos looks at decoders to receive and decode "telex over radio". At that time there was a large group of enthusiasts monitoring utility stations. We also review a new book about Radio Wave Propagation written by antenna specialist Fred Judd.
Direct download: MN.12.02.1987.vanuatu.mp3
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Sat, 4 October 2014
This news edition of the programme starts with a major raid by Amsterdam police on the four largest pirate radio stations in the Dutch capital. We solved the mystery of very strong signals from Radio Beijing (now China Radio International) beamed to North America from a new relay station in Africa. It turned out this was a new project in Mali.
There were other news headlines: Ariane launches TVSat1, which later turned out to be one of the most expensive launch failures. The D2MAC TV standard is having development challenges in Germany. Ralf Carlson of KUSW explains his plans. The Ross Revenge antenna has collapsed. We announced the results of the Radio Netherlands SSB Find-the-Feeder Challenge.
The programme also looked at the challenges of pollution from batteries. That was 100 million in 1987. (Wonder what it is now?) I talked with Lucas Reinders about what's been agreed to reduce the amount of mercury in alkaline batteries.
Richard Dearborn of the Christian Science Monitor in Boston explains what they're planning to do with the rock station KYOI on Saipan which they purchased. Victor Goonetilleke closes out the programme with tuning suggestions including a clandestine station targeting listeners in Iran.
Direct download: MN.27.09.1987.mali.beijing.mp3
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Sat, 4 October 2014
I remember this edition of Media Network broadcast in August 1987. At that time digital recording was only just becoming possible, using a PCM adaptor connected to a Umatic video tape recorder. The late Joop Zuidam was a music producer at Radio Netherlands and he told me he was heading to Breda to record another in his series about carillons, the set of bells in church towers. Radio Netherlands had been using an ancient recording of the carillon in Den Bosch, but the tape had been copied so many times that it sounded awful, especially when played back on a cartridge. So I asked Joop if he could arrange for Jacque Maasens, the carillon player of the Great Church of Breda, to record a new version of the interval signal played at the start of each broadcast from Radio Netherlands on shortwave. It seems there is an interview with Jacques in Dutch on Youtube, also taken in the same tower. I will always remember the view (pictured). And we also recorded a few jokes, including Yankee Doodle, the theme used by the VOA at the time.
This edition also includes news that the BBC is to start transmitting from Hong Kong on shortwave and Pirate radio sovereign has been broadcasting again. We look at the pirate radio scene on FM in Paris. Arthur Cushen has a bumper crop of tuning suggestions from his listening post in the Pacific.
Direct download: MN.06.08.1987.HongKongBreda.mp3
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Mon, 1 September 2014
Great to hear the voices of John Brannigan, a Scottish radio propagation specialist, who was the perfect interviewee. He really knew his field and could explain things in non-technical language. The other guest in this programme is BBC World Service Chief Engineer Keith Edwards. He was one of the first top managers to turn up at shortwave listener gathering and explain what they were trying to do at the transmitting end. He also anticipated home satellite radio and TV reception several years before it took off in hobby circles. Remember this is well before the launch of Sky Satellite Television.
Direct download: MN.04.04.1985BranniganEdwards.mp3
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Mon, 1 September 2014
One of a series of Media Network programmes that originated from the 1985 Expo in Tsuba, just North of Tokyo. I used the visit to the expo to visit Akihabara, called Electric Town, even then. The Sony ICF2001D has just gone on sale, and I remember picking one up for considerably less than in Europe. Just had to make do with a Japanese only instruction booklet. We also look at the domestic shortwave radio station Radio Tampa. This was one of the first Media Network safaris, exploring media in other countries. Remember it is nearly 30 years old!
Direct download: MN.04.07.1985.JapanExpo2.mp3
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Mon, 1 September 2014
Radio Netherlands won't be getting access to 747 kHz. Things are going to plan for PA6FLD ham radio station operating from the new Flevoland transmitter site. I also did a marathon edition of SW Feedback live from the transmitter site.
Radio Jackie gets raided again in South West London. Bob Tomalski, later a contributor to Media Network, looks at whether they were a community station or just in it for the money. In the Netherlands, Broadcast minister Elco Brinkman says that pirate radio stations will not get access to extended FM bands. Roger Tidy in London has started a new monitoring magazine.
Direct download: MN.07.02.1985.RadioJackie.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 7:08 PM
Sun, 17 August 2014
In 1985, we didn't know much about a new station that had gone on the air in Costa Rica, but was clearly targeting listeners in neighbouring Nicaragua. As Don Moore wrote in 1992, Radio Impacto did little to hide its Contra connection. On its staff were an official spokesperson for the FDN, some announcers from former Somoza radio stations in Managua, and several former staffers for La Prensa, the the primary anti-Sandinista newspaper in Nicaragua. Elsewhere, Impacto's Tegucigalpa correspondent actually doubled as the FDN's local spokesman. The strongest evidence for the contra connection came from Edgar Chamorro, former director of communications for the FDN, who told the World Court that Impacto was a CIA operation.
Direct download: MN.12.09.1985.radioimpacto.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 8:52 AM
Sat, 16 August 2014
I remember going on a trip to the BASF chemical factory in Ludwigshafen, Germany. We went to see why Chrome Dioxide cassette tape was such a superior recording medium. At that time, there were stories in the scientific press that audio and data could be stored in "bubble memory". BASF said that this was a long way off. In this programme the prediction was that solid state memory with a capacity of 650MB might be around by 2014. It shows how difficult it is to predict the rapid advance of techology, since some of the high end iPads now have 128 GB of solid-state storage. The machine I'm using for this entry has 256 GB.
Direct download: MN.13.06.1985.BASF.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 4:11 PM
Sat, 16 August 2014
We delve into the Media Network archives to look back at the early days of commercial shortwave broadcasting from the United States. On October 15, 1927, Walter Lemmon, a radio inventor, was granted the first shortwave radio license in the United States and began experimental shortwave station W1XAL in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1935, the station began transmitting non-commercial, educational, and cultural programs. Supported by charitable institutions it was a not run for profit. The broadcasts came from a transmitter site in Scituate, Massachussets.
I found some recordings of the station in the audio section of the US Library of Congress for this programme. And Lou Josephs got me the recordings from a later stage in the station's history when it was WNYW, Radio New York World Wide. He used to work there as a Saturday job in the 1970's, and made some great studio recordings which I haven't heard elsewhere.
Direct download: MN.18.07.1985.wrul.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 3:57 PM
Sat, 16 August 2014
This was my first visit to Copenhagen when the radio and television production were in two separate houses in the downtown area of the city. Radiohuset (literally "Radio House") was located on Rosenørns Allé in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. Vacated by DR when DR Byen was inaugurated in 2006, the buildings now house the Royal Danish Academy of Music as well as the Museum of Music.
On my visit to DR we went to a tiny room where a Revox tape-recorder on a time-switch was playing out the shortwave service of Radio Denmark. But there had been grander times. I also heard the story of DX Window, one of the world's first DX programmes which had more of a style of the off shore pirate stations. There was talk of working together with the Norwegians to make a Scandinavian external service. But when this was recorded, it was simply an idea.
Direct download: MN.19.09.1985.denmark.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 3:45 PM
Tue, 5 August 2014
Radio Caroline is back from the North Sea, complete with sounds of the generators. And we talk to Ruud Hendriks, producer of the media show on Veronica Radio which translated as the Enormous Confusion. Ruud is now a presenter on Business News Radio. Some would say that 32 years later, it is even more confused in Hilversum.
Direct download: MN.25.08.1983.EnormousConfusion.mp3
Category:Media Network Archives -- posted at: 8:05 PM
Mon, 4 August 2014
Africa Number One is still around, although unless you're in Libreville, Gabon, you'll need to listen online. Mind you, the station's audio quality via TuneIn is superb which is more than could be said for the shortwave signal in the 1980's.
This edition of Media Network discusses the thorny problem of jamming of Western broadcasters. NHK Radio Japan is testing via the new shortwave transmitter site in Moyabi, Gabon. FIBS in the Falklands has switched its frequency of 2380 kHz. (Those bumps on the line with Andy were the counting system that worked out the cost of the call). We reviewed the new book by Ellic Howe called The Black Game. We later returned to the subject in the editions entitled Wartime Deception. Professor John Campbell reports strange broadcasting on 3345 kHz. Sometimes its Radio Mayak. The radio situation is Chad is confusing with at least two stations operating. Radio Bardai is being heard on 2009 kHz. The programme also contains a comparison of the NRD515, ICR70, and the Drake R7A. Michael Schaay has tested all three.
Direct download: MN..07.07.1983.NHK.mp3
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Sun, 3 August 2014
A news edition of the programme, most of it triggered by listeners.
Norman Scott reports that Dr Gene Scott is planning major expansion of his shortwave ministry. Andy Sennitt reports changes to WJCR, Voice of Vietnam, the rumour about Country Nights, a special station on RTL 1440. Richard Measham reports on the radio of the Bosnian Serbs, on 9720 and 6100 kHz. BBC resumes broadcasts in Albanian after a break of 26 years. Uganda changes their media law. Radio Hope in Somalia. Radio Ala, the station of the Bards, has disappeared. Voice of Iranian Kurdistan is being heard in the UK. James Robinson, Birkenhead has been monitoring Quality Country Music on satellite. Nick Meanwell reports on new shortwave radios. Grundig Yacht Boy 222 isn't as good as the Grundig Yacht Boy 206. We look at the difficulty of operating some shortwave receivers if you are visually disabled. And Bill Whitacre updates up on Chinese jamming of US broadcasts relayed via transmitters in the former Soviet Union.
Direct download: MN.25.02.1993._RadiofortheBlind.mp3
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Rhubarb Sauce
Has anyone ever put up Rhubarb Sauce (or anything else w rhubarb)? I make it just like applesauce, but w rhubarb. The kids and I love - especially on ice cream (yum!). I have tons of rhubarb coming in now and love to make a bunch of the sauce and can it. Any advice would be appreciated.
We can as much Stewed Rhubarb sauce as we can get each sping. Also can rhubarb syrup, Strawberry-Rhubarb jam and jars of rhubarb pie filling. It also freezes well chopped and then can be used later for most anything.
Just a point I noticed in digdirt's recipe. It said to use rhubarb from a spring or late fall crop. That advice is very much climate dependent and appears to be aimed at places where rhubarb goes dormant in the summer. In more temperate climates where rhubarb grows all summer the late fall stems can be very stringy and tough. So if that's your climate don't use late rhubarb.
Good point floral!
Rhubarb Pie Filling -
For each quart:
3 1/2 cups rhubarb, diced, blanched and drained
3/4 cups (more or less to taste)
1/4 cup+ 1 T. Clear Jel***
1 cup water
3 T. bottled lemon juice
3-4 gtts red food coloring (optional but good if using green rhubarb)
Blanch rhubarb in boiling water for 1 minute and drain.
Combine sugar, Clear Jel, and water and cook over medium heat until mixture thickens, stir in lemon juice and boil 1 minute, Stir well to avoid scorching.
Mix in rhubarb and fill the hot jar. Leave 1" headspace. Process in BWB canner for 30 minutes adjusting for altitude.
*** We don't like Clear Jel so we don't use it and can without it. We then use our preferred thickener - cornstarch - after opening the jars to make the pies. If you use it I would suggest cutting the recommended amount it in half unless you like really stiff pie filling.


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Those D&%# (Darn) Bugs!
I've got my citrus situated in its winter spot (my first winter with them), lights strung up and watering/fertilizing schedule set.
After being inside for a few weeks, we've noticed what we first thought were fruit flys buzzing around. Well, they've multiplied like crazy.
We Neem'd them last weekend, but it doesn't seem to have made them go away. So far, the plants and leaves seem healthy, but these yellow sticky traps are chock-full of the little buggers.
Any advice is very welcome!
Ok..What you are doing is very good. Look at all those DEAD ones!
I would use Mosquito dunks and kill the rest of them
I would watch to make sure you are not keeping you mix overly wet since rotting organic damp matter is a primary home for them
I would also consider a much more porous mix with much less organic matter come the spring with a bare rooted process.
Preferrable about June when your trees are much stronger after a long winter and a refresher of a spring.
By the way, from a distance, your trees look pretty.
Pluto, they are most likely 'fungus gnats' which thrive in very rich, decomposing, water retentive soils. They feed off dead and decaying matter, something you want to discourage in your pots, especially with citrus.
That is why I suggested doing your mixes all over next year and using one that does not allow these dreadful bugs to lay a hold in your pots for next winter. You can basically never have a problem with them again as I don't.
As for the dunk? I have many friends that use them, but I have never had to. I think they are sold at most hardware stores and or nurseries and they should come with directions. Good luck:-=)
This post was edited by meyermike_1micha on Sat, Dec 1, 12 at 16:49
Mosquito Dunks look like a small doughnut/ring of compressed granular. They are meant to float in ponds. I wouldn't know how to go about using them for fungus gnats, other than maybe break off a small piece and soak it in water till it disolve's . Hopefully someone who has used them will look in and be able to help further.
You might be better off ordering some Gnatrol, which is consists of the same active ingredient as the dunks only much easier to apply. These products contain Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti), a naturally occuring bacterium that infects the larvae of certain insects in the Diptera order....flies, mosquitoes, midges, gnats.
If you watch the surface of the potting soil when you water, you'll probably see the little wormy larvae. Your Gnatrol solution should be applied on watering days only....not as an extra drench. Follow the directions on the label for the number of treatments required.
Changing the type of potting medium you use can prevent these little pests. I haven't seen a fungus gnat in over twenty years, longer... solely due to my choice of potting medium.
For now, keep trapping the adults and order the Gnatrol so you can kill the larvae in the soil. Be careful about over watering and plan on transplanting in the spring or summer.
I have used Gnatrol with very good results. I had to apply it several times to get rid of the gnats. What potting medium are you using? I found that it wasn't so much my potting medium that was the issue, but buying a plant that was already infested. Sometimes hard to tell as the nursery or garden center.
Patty S.
Just crush up the mosquito dunks(not to dust maybe pea sized or a little smaller), sprinkle it evenly over the surface of the soil on each container and you're done. The active ingredient last about a month, which should be enough time to get rid of them. Gnatrol is good but you have to apply it with water, something you may be trying to control this time of the year. Luckily I have not had an issue with gnats this year, but Ive got a 6 pack of dunks ready to break out at a moments notice.
Thanks, all! I feel pretty good about my potting soil. I started with the Logee's house soil (it's what they plant all of their fruit trees in), and mixed in a bunch of orchid chips and sand. The mix is about 1/2 Logee's, 1/4 sand, and 1/4 orchid chips. It feels a lot like the mix they were in when i bought them all. Plus, I put about 1 1/2 inches of gravel at the bottom of the pots.
plutomedia, I would not use sand in your potting mix, it will compact and suffocate your roots. Search our forum for "511" mix. This is the mix Meyermike uses with great success. Also, gravel at the bottom will not assist in drainage and actually cause more issues than no gravel. I would suggest using the 511 mix, or, you can also search our forum for Farfad's Professional Potting mixes for one of their 2 or 3 options for an excellent bagged mix.
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Any suggestions?
Found growing in Queensland, Australia, mid summer. the land owner brought in the mower the next day. One of the Paper flowers?
Any ideas?
Thanks guys
The land is actually part of the grounds at the back of Kingaroy Hospital. I have attached another pic which is the only other one I have. When I next go back there, this December, I will try and get a closer picture, as long as they haven't cut it again. It is beautiful sight.
Alison and Desirai
It looks like both of you are on the ball. Because of the profusion in the meadow type environment, I assumed that they were native.
Researching Coreopsis in Queensland, I was gob-smacked to find that Coreopsis lanceolata is well established in Qld and NSW with the potential of becoming a major weed problem.
Thanks, both of you.


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The present invention relates to a method of compacting a plurality of flat, stacked, non-woven, cotton, cotton blend, and fibrous articles from a normal size to a greatly reduced size to form a package of such articles that saves exterior packaging, shipping, handling, and warehouse costs. The pressure and time dwell are selected to compact the stacked articles to the extent necessary to cause the desired size reduction, but not sufficient to either damage the articles or compact them to the degree that a liquid or other means is required to recover them from their compacted to their original state.
1. A method of compacting a plurality of substantially flat, stacked, nonwoven, cotton articles from a normal size to a significantly reduced size comprising the steps of: positioning the stacked articles in a shaping environment; subjecting the stacked articles to an elevated pressure for a predetermined period of time so that the stacked articles are compacted and reduced in size, and removing the pressure from the articles in the compacted condition whereby the articles can be individually removed from the stacked relationship and will thereafter return to their original, uncompacted condition without the application of additional substances, wherein the stacked articles are cotton T-shirts and the pressure applied to compact the articles and achieve a volume reduction of up to 50% is in the range of from 30 psi to 200 psi.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the period of time is no greater than three seconds.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to a method of compressing flexible articles to a usable reduced size and more particularly to a method of compressing a plurality of flat stacked flexible articles into a compressed, compacted form which the articles will retain after removal of the applied pressure. The compacted articles can be subsequently returned to their original form and condition without the addition of additives or special procedures.
2. Description of the Prior Art
There are numerous available techniques for compressing fibrous articles but no known techniques for compressing a plurality of flat, stacked, non-woven, cotton and cotton blend flexible articles. For example, U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,659,935 (Hammon); 2,952,462 (Planin); 3,306,966 (Matejecek); 3,189,669 (Goldfein); 3,342,922 (Karpovich, et. al.); 3,504,064 (Bauer); and 4,529,569 (Palau) generally relate to methods for compressing a sponge material to a compacted, stable condition. A variety of techniques are disclosed in these patents, including the application of different agents, adhesives, temperatures, and pressures. In all cases, however, some type of liquid agent, usually water, is required to return the sponge article to its original, normal and expanded condition. Moreover, in all of these patents, the article has approximately the same configuration in the compressed and expanded conditions. Some of the patents, for example Bauer, require even more extreme conditions to return the article to its original shape; i.e. the application of both heat and steam.
There are also a number of patents relating to machines and methods for making tampons. See, for example, U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,134,930 (Reynolds); 2,336,744 (Manning); 2,425,004 (Rabell); and 2,462,178 (Ganz). These patents disclose a variety of different techniques for compressing fibrous materials to form tampons. These are notably different from the present invention. The material used is loose fibrous materials, as exemplified by the Manning patent in which fibrous material enter through an opening and is deposited on the screen where air pressure causes it to form the pads. In addition, the nature of the product is such that there is no necessity for the product to be able to resume any original, uncompressed state in the absence of moisture. Further, many of these patents disclose quite elaborate folding or forming techniques. See, for example, the Rabell patent.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,096,230 is another example of a sponge material which is compressed and is capable of returning to an uncompressed condition. This reference again relies upon the use of moisture to return the sponge material to its original shape. The article is a dehydrated prosthesis for insertion end-wise into a body opening; i.e. the ear canal, where it absorbs moisture and returns to its original shape.
In all known prior art cases, any compression of sheet articles to a compacted, solidified form, which is stable after the pressure has been released, requires the article to be soaked in water for it to return to its original loose and uncompressed state. In general, the technique used is somewhat unsophisticated with the applied pressure and other parameters not being significantly controlled. In many cases, operators are unaware of the exact conditions to which the articles are subjected. This technique is applied to such articles as face clothes where it is acceptable to soak them in water to return the articles to their original state. Since a face cloth is wet prior to use, soaking it to bring it back to its original size is not detrimental or disadvantageous.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,241,007 (Tanaka et. al.) is an example of the technique for producing a compressed cloth-like article which can be returned to its original state by absorption of water. Thus, this patent is intended for use on face clothes and the like and suggests the use of very high pressures, in the range of 1,100 to 1,500 kilograms per square centimeter, and preferably 1,200 to 1,300 kilograms per square centimeter. This significant pressure range is equivalent to pressures of 15,640 psi to 21,330 psi. In light of the discoveries made by the present applicant, these pressures are extraordinarily high.
Applicant has discovered that, for a variety of materials, pressures in excess of a few thousand psi result in damage to the article. The Tanaka et. al. patent refers to a process which utilizes a pressure as low as 30 kilograms per square centimeter or approximately 425 psi. Again, this apparently is for an article which can be recovered to its original state only by absorbing water. The Tanaka et. al. patent discusses in its examples the use of a binderless cellulosic non-woven fabric. Binderless cellulosic non-woven fabric appears to be higher in compression elasticity, thereby requiring higher pressures to ensure a well compressed product which is not wrinkled at the edges. Indeed, the example uses a control at a pressure of 1,000 kilograms per square centimeter to show that the compression and molding is inadequate at this pressure.
In many cases, wetting a compressed article as purchased in order to return it to an original uncompressed condition for use is entirely unacceptable. In effect, a user would have to first wet the article to loosen and expand it, and subsequently dry the article.
It has been discovered, while working with non-woven articles that a plurality of flat sheets of such articles can be dramatically reduced in volume. Compacting such articles can bring about significant environmental benefits in that it will reduce the exterior packaging by a minimum of 10% to a maximum of 60%. It will also reduce transportation costs which directly contribute to environmental hazards.
The wide range of articles which utilize the present form of compacting packaging can also save costs associated with handling and warehousing.
The general purpose and hence the primary objective of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a compressed stack of non-woven, cotton, flexible, flat, sheet articles which can be returned to their original state without the application of water or other liquids which would render the sheets initially unusable. Another objective of the present invention is to provide a method as described that will reduce exterior packaging, shipping, handling, and warehouse costs because of the size and resulting space reduction experienced.
Yet still another object of the present invention is to implement a method covering the present inventive concept which will significantly reduce all manufacturing and distribution costs without a significant increase in cost.
The present invention comprises a method of compressing and compacting a plurality of flexible, flat, stacked, and non-woven sheet articles to achieve a volume reduced compacted package of the articles by applying a predetermined amount of pressure to the article to reduce its regular volume and without causing damage to the articles and subsequently permitting the articles to return to their original uncompressed condition. Pressure and dwell times are selectively predetermined depending on the materials being compressed. Significantly, the articles are returned to their original state without the application of water or other substances which can affect their subsequent performance. Articles that can be used with the present invention include non-woven materials, for example, cotton T-shirts.
FIG. 1 is a side elevational and schematic view of a captured plurality (stack) of soft, flat, sheet articles before compaction;
FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of the captured plurality (stack) of sheet articles of FIG. 1 being compacted using the method of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the captured plurality (stack) of sheet articles of FIG. 1 and 2 after compaction resulting from the use of the method of the present invention; and
FIG. 4 is a side elevational, comparison view of the pre- and post-compaction stages of the stacked sheet articles of FIGS. 1, 2 and 3.
Referring now to the drawings and particularly to FIG. 1, a shaping environment, shown generally as 10, has a lower body 12 that defines a cavity 14. Cavity 14 is closed at its lower end 16. A plunger 17 is sized to conform to the inside shape of element 12 to form a close sliding fit in cavity 14.
As indicated by arrow 18, plunger 17 is positioned to move downwardly into cavity 14. Obviously, it is immaterial whether the mold body 12 and plunger 17 move and, indeed, both elements can be moved simultaneously towards one another. A soft, flexible flat sheet article is indicated schematically at 20.
FIG. 2 illustrates the downward movement by piston 17 which causes the application of a preselect pressure to the stacked articles 20.
FIG. 3 illustrates a compressed and compacted bundle of stacked articles formed in conjunction with the present inventive concept that can be manually and singularly handled and that will regain their original dimensions.
FIG. 4 shows a volume comparison before and after compaction of the plurality of stacked, flat articles utilizing the present invention.
The present invention resides utilizing the method described herein in the low pressure ranges that have been determined to successfully accomplish the volume reductions desired. For example, pressure levels as low as 25 psi applied for time intervals as short as one second have been found to result in quite satisfactory results, for example, cotton T-shirts have been successfully reduced 50% in volume by compaction using pressures from 30-200 psi applied for an interval of three seconds.
In all cases utilizing the present concept, a significant reduction in size is accomplished without the necessity of applying water or some other additive to bring the size-reduced articles back to their original size and condition.
For most items, it is sufficient to compact the articles for comparatively short times, thus directly reducing labor costs. Moreover, inserting these reduced size packages into a shipping container will result in additional cost efficiency.
With respect to the above description, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of the invention, to include variations of size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed herein. Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation shown and described. All suitable modifications and equivalents that fall within the scope of the appended claims are deemed within the present inventive concept.
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