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Radio HD

Most consumers probably know that we are moving to a digital TV format called high-definition television, or HDTV. Few people know however that there is an audio counterpart, HD radio.
As the name suggests, the format is designed to offer big improvements in quality and a host of new services. But, just as digital TV, the reality of high-definition radio is revealed far below expectations.
Like its cousins, digital XM satellite radio and Sirius satellite radio, HD radio relies on equipment to produce special sounds better than conventional analog broadcasts. The
Hdfm offers a quality almost as Cd, roughly comparable to that of American Xmo Sirius satellite broadcasters, while the HDAM should be close to normal FM broadcasts, according to its promoters.
But the only digital AM stations I could find did not offer anything but talk. So that those stations Am Fm are fortunately free of noise and hiss, but if the signal is weak, the sound breaks up like a conversation via phone from an area not covered.
Unlike XM and Sirius, HD radio is free and open to everyone with equipment capable of receiving. I tried two different sistemi, il Polkaudio I-Sonic, che è in grado di ricevere il ser vizio Xm, e il più economico Radioshack Accurian Tabletop Hd radio.
Come prevedibile, l'I-Sonic (599 dollari) offre un sound migliore ed è più efficace nel captare segnali deboli. Ma le persone vorranno spendere per questi costosi apparecchi, solo per una qualità del suono superiore? Ne dubito. Nel caso della radio satellitare, è la programmazione, non una migliore qualità audio, che giustifica una spesa di 12,95 dollari al mese. Ahimè, la radio ad alta definizione, almeno quella che esiste oggi, corrisponde per lo più a quel vasto deserto di quella tradizionale, con stazioni che propongono un repertorio piuttosto expressed in a few limited, repetitive formats.
As digital broadcasting uses the bandwidth much more efficiently than analogue broadcasting, the spectrum assigned to a single analogue radio station it is possible to spend two and sometimes three digital channels. But unfortunately there are few channels that are exploiting this opportunity. In Washington, there are 18 stations that broadcast in high definition and only half of these offers a second channel. I was happily surprised to see that American University has found a second home for American country music, he had banished from his WaMu-FM radio, but I was disappointed to discover that the Weta-fm radio (issuer of the region of Washington, ed) has not done the same for classical music.
stations, which are about to launch a major publicity campaign to promote HD radio, they promise for the future a variety of services, including real-time information about songs and singers, programming on demand, and the ability to record programs automatically. But to get these features already, you must subscribe to a satellite radio. Hd Radio

Like any other new entertainment technology, HD radio obviously faced some obstacles. It is difficult to attract listeners if you do not have a lot of content and cheap players, but without important audience no one wants to provide content or produce the radio. XME Sirius are spending liberally to the funds of their shareholders to create a market, but digital radio has no funds (...).

Stephen Wildstrom

(Copyright BusinessWeek) from 'The World' (Digital-sat.it) and "Giornaleradio" - Year 1, No 3, pg. 10

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Christmas gift

CHRISTMAS GIFT


year you want to give a Christmas like they used to be,
with angel wings on the port
ad that is always cheering!

I wish there was a bit 'of snow but as light as cotton candy


whitened the landscape because the world seems more candid and mild.

I would like a soft velvet sky of a comet up there with

sparkling stars and a dancing procession
because no one will feel more lost.

Then the common people, shepherds and sheep bells in the night
rintoccanti
and on us as light coats,
music that melts away all pain. Finally

for you here ... A cradle
place to rest your wounded heart
there on the straw near the Redeemer
that whispers "Do not be afraid"!


Emanuela Fimiani

1998
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Non riusciamo ad immaginare un Natale senza un vero augurio:
che la festa più bella dell'anno porti nei vostri cuori pace, amore e serenità.
Per chi è malato o è solo... possano le stelle vegliare su di voi e la luna custodire i vostri sogni.
Ed infine un augurio per il nuovo anno:
il futuro appartiene a coloro che credono alla bellezza dei propri sogni.
Quindi non smettete di sognare… il futuro vi appartiene!

Auguri di Buon Natale e di un Felice 2009 pieno di successi!
Radio Studio Centro – Consorzio Radio
Siciliano (Due Erre Italy Group)

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Affinity of intent, mutual respect and consideration!

A little more than thirty years after the onset of free radio, we realized that the company has changed and today there Calls for a guide to the season of the "adventure" in which we were involved with thousands of other radio fans throughout Italy. The idea of \u200b\u200bthis Blog on the Net is not thus a vintage, although inevitably the memories of the adventures, achievements related to radio is dominant, but it is the only way to talk about our history, the history of our nation through the adventure called Radio. Speaking also of all those people who have linked their fate to this fascinating phenomenon ...
We started talking about those friends who have been important for the growth of our channel and we will continue to do so because it is important to remember who supported us and continues to do so. Because the ether is a passion, a cult, and many people have devoted much of their lives, of their precious time, giving up entertainment, neglecting his family, to watch or listen to something different to the public. To make people more freedom to be more informed to be able to think for themselves head, to have his own opinion, to express their choices and opinions, thanks to the many media available today.

Joseph Schilleci is the friend we want to talk. "Pino" to his friends is almost a genius electronics, modest as he says that is not true, but we can only confirm it. But Pino is not only this, is a nice person, serious, full of kindness and selflessness, a man of another era. Always available to lend a hand to those seeking help and cooperation. As it binds its history with Radio Studio Center - Consortium Siciliano radio is simple to explain. He began his work in Marineo in the seventies as a radio engineer. Soon his talent was recognized by everyone, not just Marineo but also to nearby towns. Born in 1976 the first free local radio and television. The radio was already in place in our town, but lacked the signals of local television. Just from that fact went to Pino's interest in this new world as they face the. His genius did the rest, finding fertile ground in other persons who called to cooperate with him. Participate in the installation of the tower in the mountains for the first repetition of the signal station radiofonica provinciale che aveva sede a Marineo, progettò in che modo poteva offrire alla gente la possibilità di vedere i tanti canali televisivi che trasmettevano nella città di Palermo e che non erano visibili nella zona di Marineo. Come per la radio, sino a quel momento arrivava solo il primo e il secondo canale della RAI. Pino fece quindi la scommessa di dare la possibilità di vedere altre programmazioni televisive. Grazie alla sua idea di libertà, mise a disposizione le sue conoscenze di elettronica, per costruire, in sinergia con una ditta elettronica di Palermo, delle apparecchiature di alta frequenza, chiamati “ponti caldi”, che in pratica erano dei ripetitori banda-banda. Delle apparecchiature da installare in montagna che ricevevano il segnale con una semplice antenna, come un normale televisore, da Monte Pellegrino a Palermo o Monte Cammarata ad Agrigento, ritrasmettendolo in un'altra banda, spesso in fuori banda cioè in una frequenza non vedibile con un normale apparecchio televisivo e questo per avere un segnale più pulito. Pino aveva creato dei ponti di trasferimento come c’è ne sono tanti oggi in commercio, senza l’utilizzo di ricevitori, modulatori e amplificatori che in quel tempo non erano facilmente reperibili, perché eravamo solo agli albori di questo nuovo ed entusiasmante fenomeno chiamato radio e televisione libera. Trasmettendo con pochissima potenza e in fuori banda, il “genio” progettò dei convertitori-amplificatori che actually convert the signal, bringing it back on the frequencies using the television receiver, amplifying it to be seen without any interference. The project was widely reported and many people were able to see the latest movies, concerts of famous singers, performances recorded live, being able to participate in the full game shows that local TV stations transmitted, together with all those transmissions information and culture. All transmissions were unthinkable in those days of radio and television monopoly.

In 1985, when planning to install our repeater not think twice to contact Joseph Schilleci for advice. Surely with his experience, la sua preparazione, poteva aiutarci a realizzare nel migliore dei modi il ripetitore per la nostra radio. Ci dette lezione sulle antenne, sui tralicci, sui box da realizzare per ospitare le apparecchiature, sull’areazione degli stessi e su tante cose che in tanti anni di esperienza in montagna aveva imparato. L’esperienze di tanti anni di duro lavoro messe a disposizione di noi giovani ragazzi che avevamo intenzione d’intraprendere questa nuova avventura. Individuò anche il sito dove poter costruire il nostro box, un po’ più piccolo del suo, ma come egli stesso ci promise, tale da poterci entrare in piedi, perché chi va in montagna per lavorare sui ripetitori deve avere il giusto spazio. Infatti i box dei concorrenti, erano delle cabinette alte meno di un metro e per poterci lavorare era necessario stare in ginocchio o peggio ancora sdraiati per terra; e in aperta campagna se in estate poteva anche andare bene, in inverno, con la pioggia o la neve, erano guai seri. Pino è stato ed è tutt’oggi disposto ad ogni sacrificio per far rimanere in funzione tutte le apparecchiature a lui affidate nel corso degli anni da tante televisioni libere, sfidando ora le intemperie, ora il grande caldo. Non curandosi dei giorni di festa o dell’alternarsi del giorno e della notte. Tutto deve essere sempre perfettamente funzionante, il resto non esiste o meglio non può esistere, perché chi come Pino si occupa dell’Etere è sicuramente una persona particolare, un sognatore linked to the sky, not easily understood by those who are far from this world.
Fortunately, to date, Pino has been with us in all the battles we have to bear. Sometimes complicated, as when we were victims of theft or sabotage to prevent passing, and to restart the signal we used the redundant equipment and much experience of Pino. Sometimes the simplest, so to speak, as when the lightning burned the repeater to operate in the mountains and we saw our friend, with a few tools of luck, to repair the problem and let us start immediately. In conclusion, we believe the philosophy of life for those who own radio or television is that if something goes wrong we should not kill because with the help of a trusted friend and everything works always work.

Thanks to our most trusted friend! Pino Schilleci, tomorrow I'll see you again in the mountains because there are many other fabulous adventures radio to be done!

Unless Rallo

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Remember that surface, nostalgia for times gone by ...

The world at the time of the first free radio and TV in the mid-70s, was comparable to the conquest of the West. The ether was to conquer the West and many of us were the pioneers of this achievement. For young people today is very difficult to imagine what happened in those years, this revolutionary phenomenon that changed our lives. If you are under thirty years, was born and grew up with radio and television commercial, with color TV, with thousands of channels of every genre and listeners and predictability with dozens of different means. It would seem that everything was always there, but by stepping back and going back to 1974, in Italy there was only one radio and one television, RAI. It was not until 1976 to start talking about the phenomenon of "free radio" and those who have made this possible.

reaching our age is naturally recall his youth, memories emerge and nostalgia for times gone by, is the host. We want to start talking about those people, that with their passion, their dedication, their preparation, losing hours, days, destroying their car to get up in the mountains to transmit those signals as desired by the society of that time and which today we're almost addicted, have allowed the challenge of those years would turn into reality. We will talk only to those people who have gravitated around and still gravitate to our Radio Studio Center - Consortium Radio-Siciliano, but talking about them, their experience, we can expand the conversation and talk about all those pioneers who changed the ether face of our Italy, claiming a right guaranteed by the Constitution, namely freedom of expression of proprie idee con qualunque mezzo disponibile.

Iniziamo a parlare del compianto Salvatore Muratore , tecnico di alta frequenza, scomparso alcuni anni fa in un incidente avvenuto in una stazione ripetitrice di Monte Pellegrino a Palermo, di cui nessuno oggi parla, ma che a nostro parere dovrebbe essere sempre ricordato. Iniziò la sua attività a Marineo, un centro che dista 25 km da Palermo, che ha sempre avuto un ruolo rilevante nel settore radiofonico, dove, nel 1976, nacque la prima emittente radiofonica provinciale siciliana; molti di noi in quegli anni iniziarono con lui l’esperienza radiofonica come speaker.

Nel 1980 nacque la nostra radio, Radio Studio Centro, trasmetteva come emittente zonale frequency of 90.00 MHz with a transmitter and we had a DIY antenna on the roof of our headquarters which allowed us to reach the area between Marineo and Misilmeri. As you cross the Mason story of Toto with that of Radio Studio Center is easy to explain. In 1982, for technical issues we have asked his advice and he began to deal with problems without the high frequency of our station. It was so much love for the profession and the confidence to make a contribution through his art, which paid no attention to the fact that we were those who were exiled from his radio to make another, even took to heart this new creature in the meantime grew.

Nel 1985, con un nuovo assetto societario, Radio Studio Centro – Consorzio Radiofonico Siciliano intendeva estendere la propria zona di copertura a sud - est della provincia di Palermo e in zone della stessa città. Occupandosi di alta frequenza, cioè della produzione e della installazione di apparecchiature per la trasmissione dei segnali in FM, ci affidammo a Totò per la realizzazione del ripetitore. Totò Muratore era un nostro compaesano, lo conoscevamo sin dai nostri esordi radiofonici, ci ha visto crescere prima come speaker e poi come proprietari della nuova radio. Era preparato e molto professionale in questo lavoro, caratteristiche impensabili in quei tempi dove andava di moda il fai da te. Ci propose di sdoppiare la frequenza, lasciando il primo segnale sui 90,00 Mhz in trasmissione da Marineo centro e di accendere una nuova frequenza sui 102,500 Mhz in montagna, in contrada Costa Zita. Le apparecchiature che ci consigliò di installare erano all’avanguardia. Mentre quasi tutte le radio avevano un collegamento in Banda e cioè sulla frequenza 88-108 Mhz oppure, nel migliore dei casi, in fuori banda tra 52 e 68 Mhz, noi installammo un ponte professionale CBM a 1 Ghz sulle frequenze che oggi sono usate dai telefonini, sugli 800-900 Mhz. Il risultato fu stupefacente, ci ascoltavamo ovunque, abbiamo ricevuto delle relazioni di ascolto, che ancora oggi conserviamo gelosamente, dalla Campania, dall’Emilia Romagna e perfino dalla lontanissima Svezia. A contribuire al nostro success was also an audio processor, a historic Hiletron Toto that made us buy the same because, ahead of its time, as we said then, a radio that you listen well, with a signal-bodied, it is followed, and then winning.

But the story was coming to the sad ending. It was 1987, due to a failure of the transmitter on 90.00 Mhz we thought it was time to take a big step, that is to further widen our catchment area to the City, taking advantage of its historical one frequency. It was a Friday in late March, we brought the equipment by Toto to fix it and to lay the foundation for our project. We would see, to have repaired the transmitter and plan that long awaited expansion of the coverage area, the following Wednesday, April 1, that is after the commitment he had taken with the issuer Punto Radio that was broadcast its signal in the City. We asked Toto, we knew full employment as the echo of his professionalism was known in Sicily as well as outside, not to make us the joke of the fish in April not to repair the transmitter. He was also a man of a joke and told several anecdotes concerning him, among all, that of a day in winter, with snow in the mountains, which was chosen to install the antennas. On 25 meters high tower, we went with a cigarette in his mouth and the glasses da sole, le antenne sulle spalle, dicendo alle persone che si trovavano con lui, preoccupate che quella non era la giornata ideale per lavorare in montagna, che proprio quella era la giornata ideale per quel tipo di lavoro.

Ma arriviamo a lunedì 30 marzo 1987, alle ore 20 ricevemmo una telefonata che ci annunciava la triste notizia… Totò Muratore era morto! La vita, a volte gioca brutti scherzi. A 32 anni morire folgorato a Monte Pellegrino, per una banale disattenzione, mentre esegui il tuo tanto amato lavoro di radiotecnico è una beffa alla vita. Chissà quante cose avrebbe potuto ancora fare Totò negli anni a venire, sia nella sua vita, sia nel settore radiofonico, sia per la nostra Radio. Il primo di aprile, quel April Fool's Toto did, we kept the appointment with him but we were at his funeral. A note or a dull and gloomy signal arose at that time by all the radios to give a final farewell to those who had given his life for love immeasurable called Radio.

Unless Rallo