[HCDX] [radiostamps] Play-DX Philatelic (JAPAN), Set 2002

["Horacio A. Nigro" <hanigro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am pleased to introduce and post into this reflector, the contents of
"Play DX Philatelic", the excellent column written by well-known DX-er and
DX-Philatelist Mr. Christer Brunström, from Sweden.

This work is regularly published in "Play DX", the Italian hardcopy bulletin
edited by another well-known DXer and collector, also member of this
"radiostamps" list, Mr. Dario Monferini.

With due credits given, it follows below.

Many thanks, Dario!
Congrts to Christer for the continued good work!

Regards from Horacio Nigro,
Montevideo - Uruguay

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                                   PLAY DX PHILATELIC

The hot and sunny summer period is slowly coming to its end (at least in the
northern part of Europe) and it is time to resume normal DX activities. Also
when autumn approaches many stamp collectors once again take an interest in
their collections. There have been a number of radio-related new issues over
the past several months and they will be featured in a number of columns
here in the Play-DX bulletin. 

We start today with a new stamp from Japan. On November 15, 2001, the
Japanese Postal Service released an 80-yen postage stamp honouring the 50th
anniversary of commercial radio and TV in the country.

The stamps depicts the images of the microphone used when commercial radio
broadcasting began, the first monochrome television camera used for
commercial television broadcasting, and a television set up for street
viewing. In addition, the left surface colours express a television screen
and the three primary colours (red, green and blue) of light.

The very first commercial radio station in Japan went on the air in 1951. It
was the Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd. in the city of Nagoya. Using the
call sign of JOAR, the station serves listeners in the Nagoya area on medium
wave 1053 kHz where it broadcasts with a power of 50 KW. JOAR can often be
heard in Lapland during the winter period.
 
Today Japan has some 50 commercial AM stations as well as a similar amount
of commercial FM stations. This is a fairly limited number considering that
Japan is a nation of almost 130 million people. It would appear that the
Japanese radio market is not as deregulated as is the case in many other
countries.

Strangely enough, Japan has a commercial station broadcasting on shortwave.
Called Radio Tampa, the station offers a selection of very specialized
programming catering to the needs of different groups of listeners Radio
Tampa can often be heard in Europe and is known for its beautiful QSL-cards.

Commercial television began in Japan in 1953. The first station was called
Nippon Television Network Corporation.

I suppose most DX philatelists would have appreciated a slightly different
design. JOAR is not mentioned in the design of the stamp which of course is
a great pity.

Readers interested in obtaining a copy of the new Japanese stamp can contact
me by e-mail for further details:
<christer.brunstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(Credits: Christer Brunström, Sweden via Play-DX, Nº 1166, Dario Monferini,
Milano, Italy, Sep. 15, 2002.)

The original article -xeroxed- reproduces the stamp in B/W.


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