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Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Deutsche Welle: Satellite Broadcasts Blocked Once Again
Bettermann pointed out the Deutsche Welle's Farsi service via shortwave in
and around Teheran has been a problem for quite some time.
Never heard about this before ...
pure nonsense? local Tehran PLC hiss ?
DWL Bulgarian was jammed by Bulgarian communist dictatorship til Dec 1988,
Amharic broadcasts in last year by broadband DRM-like hisssing data jamming
by Ethiopia.
Regularly Iranian army security services jamms whole transmissions of
VoIranian Revolution, VoIranian Communist Party, Radyo Dengi Kurdistana
in 3 and 4 MHz band.
Kol Israel remaining Persian service in 9, 11 and 13 MHz band is also jammed
regularly.
wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alokesh Gupta" Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 7:39 AM
Subject: [dxld] Deutsche Welle: Satellite Broadcasts Blocked Once Again
Deutsche Welle: Satellite Broadcasts Blocked Once Again,
As of Wednesday, February 10, 2010, the broadcast of Deutsche Welle's
television program has been jammed once again. According to the information
received by Germany's international broadcaster, the satellite interference
- like that in December 2009 - is most likely coming from Iran.
In a letter to the Iranian Embassy in Germany, Director General Erik
Bettermann insistently objected to the "direct interference of the reception
of international information offerings". He went on to say that the repeated
limitation of freedom of opinion and freedom of speech by the Iranian
administration is "no longer acceptable". The Director General pointed out
that not only has the television broadcast been jammed, but that Deutsche
Welle radio and especially Internet content has been censored by Iran.
Since Wednesday afternoon, DW-TV's satellite broadcast has been selectively
jammed. The signal, which is broadcast using Hotbird 8, a satellite that
provides programming for Europe and bordering regions - including Iran - was
available for a few hours overnight, but was once again jammed on the
morning of Thursday, February 11.
Hotbird 8 is also used as relay point for the Nilesat satellite and the
provider of Deutsche Welle's live stream service - both of which were also
affected due to the interference. In this respect, there have been problems
in receiving DW-TV programming for Europe (English and German) and for the
Arab world (Arabic and English) as well as the Farsi radio service. The
DW-TV ARABIA broadcast has in the meantime been re-established using a
Hotbird transponder.
Deutsche Welle had already experienced interference on December 7-8, 2009 on
its Hotbird transponder. According to the information provided by Eutelsat,
the source of the interference could be clearly localized and identified:
the jamming signal came from Iran.
Bettermann pointed out the Deutsche Welle's Farsi service via shortwave in
and around Teheran has been a problem for quite some time. However, radio
programming was still available on the website www.dw-world.de/persian and
although this was regularly blocked, users in Iran knew of technological
ways to access it.
(Press Release)
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Alokesh Gupta
New Delhi
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