{"id":8675,"date":"2014-01-25T08:13:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T12:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8675"},"modified":"2014-01-25T08:13:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T12:13:55","slug":"hfcc-conference-shortwave-remains-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/hfcc-conference-shortwave-remains-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"HFCC Conference: “Shortwave remains essential”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ABU-logo\"<\/a>(Source: Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“Short wave will continue to be an important part of broadcasting, a coordinating conference hosted by the ABU in Kuala Lumpur has been told.<\/p>\n

The 10th Global Shortwave Co-ordination Conference of the High Frequency Coordination Conference (HFCC) with the ABU and the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) from 20-24 January 2014 is part of the regular twice-yearly seasonal management of shortwave frequencies around the globe to coordinate usage and minimise interference.<\/p>\n

Mr Bassil Zoubi, Head of Transmission at ASBU, said: \u201cShortwave programs will continue to be vital in addressing and communicating with some important parts of the world, especially with Internet penetration in the Arab countries around 34% while in some other parts of the worlds it is less than 10%.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the ASBU had adopted T-DAB+ as a delivery platform for regional audio broadcasting, though the union continued to support [shortwave] DRM as a important delivery medium for international as well as national coverage, which was why the ASBU was calling for a universal radio chipset.<\/p>\n

HFCC Chairman Mr Oldrich Cip said shortwave radio was important for travellers and isolated people, and it reached across the digital divide to the most disadvantaged and marginalised societies.<\/p>\n

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies had underlined this role of wireless radio in the 2013 World Disaster Report.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt said that marginalised populations may not have the money or the knowledge to take advantage of the digital revolution,\u201d Mr Cip said. \u201cThe report has noted that with only six per cent of people in low-income countries using the Internet in 2011, the digital divide was still stark and therefore access to low cost media technology was really the key.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also urged the conference that effort was needed to ensure that terrestrial broadcasting was part of the framework of the Global Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction.<\/p>\n

ABU Director of technology Dr Amal Punchihewa reiterated the importance of ensuring there were mechanisms in place to deliver information technology to the most needy and vulnerable populations around the globe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ABU will continue to work with our partners to ensure this technology will survive and thrive for the benefit of the population, in times of crisis, in areas of isolation and at the most vulnerable times,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Gary Stanley, Rapporteur of the HFCC Steering Board, thanked the ABU for hosting the conference and said shortwave radio was still very important for disseminating news and information to regions where Internet penetration was low and other ways of receiving international media were limited.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union) “Short wave will continue to be an important part of broadcasting, a coordinating conference hosted by the ABU in Kuala Lumpur has been told. The 10th Global Shortwave Co-ordination Conference of the High Frequency Coordination Conference (HFCC) with the ABU and the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) from 20-24 January 2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[2540,633,2541,34,4082],"class_list":["post-8675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-asia-pacific-broadcasting","tag-hfcc","tag-high-frequency-coordination-conference","tag-shortwave","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2fV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35814,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/frequency-coordination-news-and-irdr-updates\/","url_meta":{"origin":8675,"position":0},"title":"Frequency coordination news and IRDR updates","author":"Thomas","date":"January 31, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Hughes, who shares this article by WRMI's Jeff White in Radio World magazine.\u00a0Besides covering updates in the A19 broadcast season, and Radio Exterior de Espa\u00f1a's increased broadcasts, Jeff notes frequencies and updates for the International Radio for Disaster Relief initiative. 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