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Further Exploration - Correspondence 1997
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Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 12:23:04 +1000
From: Don Shorock <shorock@midusa.net>
Subject: Contribution to your site
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
I enjoyed looking at the gallery of old Radio Australia memories. Seeing the
QSL letter made me think that one thing you wouldn't have in your files would
be QSL's that had actually been sent to listeners like me.
As it happens, I do have a QSL that Radio Australia sent to me forty years ago.
I also have a scanner. This evening, I dug out the old QSL, scanned it and will
try to attach it to this e-mail. You are most welcome to include it in your
photo archives if you wish.
By the way, I'm now 52, so I was 12 years old when I got the QSL. (And I still
listen to Radio Australia.)
Don Shorock
P O Box 501
Great Bend, KS 67530-0501 USA
http://homepage.midusa.net/~shorock
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 14:29:08 -0800
From: Suzanne Shaw Thompson <ssthomp@voicenet.com>
To: ratx@radioaus.abc.net.au
Subject: Schedule Question
Impressive Website! Thank you for the comprehensive information -- I do need
help in understanding the listed times of your broadcast frequencies for North
America -- I am in the Eastern US time zone (NY, Washington, Atlanta, etc.) Are
the times listed for USA/Canada set to any one North American time zone, GMT,
or Australian clock? Thank you.
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 12:49:28 -0500
From: K Woolnough <woolly@microtec.net>
Reply-To: microtec.net@microtec.net
To: ratx@radioaus.abc.net.au
Subject: ABC
For obvius reasons it is slow downloading in RA at 14.4. But could you indicate
the file size so that the receiver has an idea of how long it MAY take to
download.
thank you
Keith Woolnough, Montreal,Quebec, Canada
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997
From: "Vasanthan S. Dasan" <Vasanthan.Dasan@central.sun.com>
To: ratx@radioaus.abc.net.au
Subject: outdated realaudio file for radio australia
In << http://www.wrn.org/stations/abc.html >> the 0130UTC Real
Audio clip is outdated. It's still shows 3rd Jan 97 clip. Can you
update that please.
Vasanthan
Sun Micorsystems Inc
Colorado Springs, USA.
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 21:45:56 +1000
From: James R Dash <jardee@pcug.org.au>
Subject: FORBIDDEN news items
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
in my daily checkup of the international news on
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newsrael/default.htm
i was alarmed to find a FORBIDDEN message against the 4 items: 976095.htm,
941274.htm, 935825.htm, 935783.htm
i don't know how many others were also censored
please eMail these items to me asap, as i guess by the time you read this,
they'll have dropped off the web
best regards
canberra james
box 1187 po
tuggeranong act 2901 australia
jardee@pcug.org.au
kelehe@abcaus.com [for business]
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:26:48 +1000
From: James R Dash <jardee@pcug.org.au>
Subject: FORBIDDEN news
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
now even the default file [the list of news items] is forbidden/censored !!!
is this still Australia ???
canberra james
box 1187 po
tuggeranong act 2901 australia
jardee@pcug.org.au
kelehe@abcaus.com [for business]
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997
From: LY1101 <LY1101@worldnet.att.net>
To: ratx@radio.abc.net.au
Subject: listen cantonese radio australia X-Url:
how to listen the cantonese radio australia with real audio in internet.
I live in New York.
thank you
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 1997 20:44:37 +1000
From: "S. Blazina" <sblazina@mb.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Your website
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Just a note to let you know that I think you have created a great website. I
live in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. At the present time the temperature outside
is minus 29 Celsius. It is too bloody cold to do anything other than to sit
indoors and roam around the 'Net.
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:02:02 +1000
From: Don Shorock <shorock@midusa.net>
Subject: Re: A 'Boomerang' QSL?
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
If we had problems once, we could easily have the same problem again, so I have
a better solution. While I don't have enough space on my site to permanently
post the QSL picture in question, I certainly have time to put it up there
right now. You can then grab it with your browser and then I can remove it from
the site. Since there won't be any links to it from anywhere (except this
letter), nobody will be looking for it here after it's gone. (I've tried this
method with my parents and it's a much better way to pass along a graphic than
are "attachments". OK - here's the URL:
http://homepage.midusa.net/~shorock/ra-qsl57.gif
Let me know when you've "grabbed it".
Russell Naughton wrote:
Don
The vagaries of the ABC's internal mail system prevented me from getting your
attachment.
Please send again to my home eMail and it will be no problem I'm sure.
russelln@netspace.net.au
thanks for the offer - I'll sure add it to the site with a few words describing
its history.
for the record your'e the first to offer such an 'item' to the 'collection'
regards
Russ Naughton
I'll also onpass the info to our transmission management team
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:38:18 +1000
From: James R Dash <jardee@pcug.org.au>
Subject: Re: 'Forbidden' News ??
To: "Russell Naughton<"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
At 13:26 13/01/97 +1000, you wrote:
Dear James
I can assure you that no index page nor individual item is 'censored'.
We do occasionally however have glitches in the on line news system known as
'WebNews' but relative to the volume that emanates from the newsroom itself we
don't do to bad at all.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
The ABC and Radio Australia On Line News services (incl.the French service)
are automatically generated by a robot program that is fed from our central
newsroom computer system BASYS.
The robot interrogates a database of items, sees items specifically tagged for
On Line and then after automatically writing the HTML code pastes them into a
template on the particular web page.
your reply sounded like a government department, or a minister at question time
in parliament!!!
i still don't have access to the items i wanted to see !! where are they
archived, so i can read them?
i'd appreciate a properly informative reply this time, without the kind of
_***wash_ you sent last time
thanx in anticipation and
best regards ...
canberra james
box 1187 po
tuggeranong act 2901 australia
jardee@pcug.org.au
kelehe@abcaus.com [for business]
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:07:02 +1000
From: James R Dash <jardee@pcug.org.au>
Subject: THANK YOU
To: NAUGHTON RUSSELL <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
thank you for your 2nd reply
if you can track down a self-help' site for me to go hunting anything that's
not available on the day, that would help.
if either my computer or my internet provider is on the blink for 12 hours, i
can't track down the missing ra items at the moment -- the other sites i use
for png news all have archive sites for tracking 'back' news -- some even go
back a couple of years, but all i need from ra is about a week, or up to a
month, to cover illness, etc
hoping you have time to help ...
canberra james
box 1187 po
tuggeranong act 2901 australia
jardee@pcug.org.au
kelehe@abcaus.com [for business]
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:36:05 +1000
From: Michael Spence 333-1857 <"SPENCE MICHAEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: Requested Radio Australia Stories
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
How strange to hear of that guy's story. ABC in a cover up? What was he
thinking?
Anyway, with respect to Chinese news, I have not been following the progress so
much as there is no BASYS involvement, so I had left it with Henry and Simon.
I think you should probably speak to one of them and see how they are going.
Let me know if you need anything else.
Thanks,
Michael Spence
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:11:07 +1000
From: Don Shorock <shorock@midusa.net>
Subject: Re: On Line Interaction...
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Looks fine. Using my e-mail address is fine. Maybe someone will drop me a line
as a result. I've put a link directly to the QSL page from my donsw.htm page.
Russell Naughton (03)626-1943 wrote:
Don
Suggest you have a look at http://www.abc.net.au/ra/gallery/qsl57.htm
Thanks for the contribution
Hope it was OK to use part of your eMail - it gave it a 'real' touch
Russ Naughton
Don Shorock,
P O Box 501,
Great Bend,
KS 67530-0501
USA
http://homepage.midusa.net/~shorock
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 07:05:05 +1000
From: Michael Spence <"spence michael"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au> Subject:
Requested Radio Australia Stories
To: jardee <jardee@pcug.org.au>
James,
A collegue, Russell Naughton had suggested that you had requested some stories
from the RA web page that you could not get access to.
I have retrieved them from the archive, and here they are...
Note: - I could not find the first one 976095.htm (title unknown) Tip: - If the
text looks all out of line, widen your mail browser a bit
REQUEST ON PAPUA NEW GUINEA SOLDIER HOSTAGES
Thursday 9 January, 1997 (7:29pm AEDT)
VOLCANO ERUPTS NEAR RABAUL
Thursday 9 January, 1997 (5:58pm AEDT)
TWO INDONESIANS RESCUED FROM SEA OFF WEST NEW BRITAIN
Thursday 9 January, 1997 (5:58pm AEDT)
Thanks,
Michael Spence
spence.michael@a2.abc.net.au
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 08:17:04 +1000
From: don mizell <donmizell@msn.com>
Subject: "Fourth area: The role of interactivity..."
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Mr. Naughton:
I am researching the status and future of Internet Radio Broadcasting in
connection with a consulting project to recommend areas for my client to
explore.
I read with great interest your article "Adventures in CyberSound: A Future for
Radio?...." In it you note (and summarize) a fourth area of your research: "The
role of 'Interactivity' then, now and in the future?" and indicate that this
may be the subject of a future article. Have you written such an article? If
so, how may I obtain a copy?
I would appreciate a pointer to your research as well as any other information
you may recommend I consider.
As I am under time constraints in this project, I would appreciate a response
as soon as possible.
Thank you for any aid you are able to give.
Don Mizell
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:12:38 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Interactivity/Radio
To: Remote Addressee <donmizell@msn.com>
Don
Thanks for the eMail and the interest taken in my work.
Adventures in CyberSound has now been granted Doctoral status the key argument
for the upgrade being to enable expansion on just the topic you are after - the
role of interactivity and on line services delivery.
As such the work is ahead of me and I don't think I can help you out in the
short term.
I am happy however to answer any specific requests though which although not
'in print' yet maybe living in my research notes.
I think you and your client can safely assume that 'radio' as we know it will
indeed become (within 3-5 years?) almost exclusively a 'narrowcast' operation
ie 'on demand' source of 'data' and inevitably with a 'pay per access' cost
structure.
Pay per access will in turn = advertising and as such, money making potential
with very defined market targeting possibilities.
Within my time constraints I am happy to advise further. Though I recommend you
get out on the we looking for others with I'm sure the same ideas of 'radio'
and the 'Net.
Best wishes
Russell Naughton
On line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 19:05:10 +0100
From: eertman <eertman@zeelandnet.nl>
To: ratx@radio.abc.net.au
Subject: Greetings from the Netherlands
I recently discovered the wonderful world of Real Audio. I am thrilled about
the possibility to listen to news from Australia using the WRN broadcast files.
As we do not have WRN on cable, the internet service is a very good
alternative. Keep up the good work.
Cheers,
Richard Eertman.
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:58:50 -0000
From: "Jonathan Bourner" <jbourner@ix.netcom.com>
To: <ratx@radio.abc.net.au>
Subject: Radio Australia on the Net
As an Australian living in the USA it was great to find out about the Radio
Australia service on the Internet. It is great to hear an Australian ascent,
over than the family's and to hear news from home. Keep up the great work we
appreciate it.
Jon Bourner
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 05:53:05 +1000
From: paget <paget@racp.edu.au>
Subject: Telemedicine
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russell,
I am following up on the introduction to you made by John Bird a couple of
weeks ago. I only got back to work last Monday, and in the usual catch-up
period did not have a chance to contact you last week - although I have been
thinking about what John described of your activities.
We are in the position in the College that we are now trying to develop means
of providing access to clinical forums, self-assessment programs and the like
in interactive, multi-media modes for Fellows who are spread throughout
Australia, New Zealand and points further away. It has been a slow process in
getting the structures in place to begin this process, then working with an
appropriate provider that gives us the required security, and most importantly
starting to link our specialists in Internal Medicine and Paediatrics into the
activities. We currently have about 1500 Fellows on-line, with the potential to
go to the full 7,000. What is more encouraging is that many of the other
medical colleges are following our lead and are running with the same provider
(Med-E-Serv).
We have an important meeting on the 7th March when we are trying to put
together a series of proposals to the Board of Continuing Education concerning
our future directions in the electronic arena. Perhaps it would be most helpful
to us if you were able to give me some information on where you see the future
heading in areas such as telemedicine. It seems important that we tap into
expertise both locally and overseas, and I would be most interested in your
views. If there was some way that the College could assist you in entering the
medical domain I would be delighted to help in any way possible.
I look forward to hearing from you.
With best wishes,
Neil
Neil Paget
Director of Education
Royal Australasian College of Physicians
145 Macquarie Street,
Sydney 2000,
Australia
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 05:12:31 +1000
From: John Mills <jmills@worldcom.ch>
Subject: Re: RA for RA
To: "Russell Naughton<"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
Thanks very much for the detailed response and I'm checking out the sites you
pointed me too. I guessed the Real Audio costs were probably an issue.
I worked for RA as an overseas correspondent from 1983 - 86 in Delhi and for
two more years in the Philippines. Fond memories.
cheers,
JM
jmills@worldcom.ch
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:43:16 +1000
From: Jonathan Bourner <jbourner@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Radio Australia on the Net
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
As an Australian living in the USA it was great to find out about the Radio
Australia service on the Internet. It is great to hear an Australian ascent,
over than the family's and to hear news from home. Keep up the great work we
appreciate it.
Jon Bourner
Computer Consulting
Services Corporation
200 Ashford Center North Suite 200
Atlanta, GA
30338
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:24:02 -0600
From: randy clark <rndclark@comet.net>
To: ratx@radio.abc.net.au
Subject: internet
I've only recently discovered Radio Australia but would much prefer that your
service continue to be available on the Internet. Thank you.
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:59:41 +1000
From: russelln@netspace.net.au (Russell Naughton)
Subject: Radio and Society
To: LIBTEC <LIBTEC@library.ntu.edu.au>
Reply-to: LIBTEC@library.ntu.edu.au
Dear All
I am doing a Ph.D. at RMIT University on 'Radio and Society'. This is somewhat
a simplification of the topic but you get the idea. My research is focussed on
both the technology of radio, past and present and the role radio has played in
society over the last 100 years.
Does anyone have any original material printed in the mid to late 1920's
through to the late 1930's dealing with radio under either of these two areas?
I am presuming that items much older than these would be unavailable for
loan?
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997
Russell,
Have you seen the book Radio, television & modern life : a phenomenological
approach by Paddy Scannell? Published by Blackwell, 1996. ISBN 0631198741,
063119875X (pbk). The introd. starts "This book picks up where the first volume
of the "Social History of British Broadcasting (Scannell and Cardiff 1991) left
off.
Good luck
Jan
Jan Gill
Technical Services Division
Louis Matheson Library and Information Services Building Monash University
CLAYTON, Victoria, 3168
Jan.Gill@lib.monash.edu.au
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 1997
Dear Jan
Thanks for ifo on Scannell text - no I was not aware of it.
Regards
Russ
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 1997
Russell,
I take it that you would have been in touch with the National Film and Sound
Archives - they have an office in Victoria and you can check out the National
Library on the Web at: http://www.nla.gov.au/
Good luck,
Jeanette Regan
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1997
I don't know if it would help you, but a few years ago Australia
Post published a book and audio tape (and stamp set) called "Golden days of
radio" (I think!) The tape has excerpts of radio programs from many different
times including old serials, etc.
I you need a copy of the tape I can send you one or you may still be able
to buy from Australia Post (try the National Philatelic Bureau in
Melbourne first.)
Matt
Matt
I was aware of the book and tape you mention but when I conducted a search some
months back, the answer at every turn was a no go.
A cassette copy would be MOST appreciated and I'll send you back a blank
replacement.
Sould you be interested in this subject let me know as I am gathering together
quite a collection.
Many many thanks
Russ Naughton
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997
Hi Russ, and thanks for such a nice web-site.
I'm a broadcast historian from
the United States (Boston, Mass) and we may have run into each other via the
Net. You may have encountered some of what I write on the Boston Radio Archives
or in the Broadcast FAQ which my friend and colleague Barry Mishkind put
together or on some of Jeff Miller's history of radio and tv pages. My own
specialty is women and minorities in early radio.
By the way, most scholars
today question the veracity (and the accuracy) of Sarnoff's alleged 1916 memo
predicting a radio music box - none of us dispute that he wrote it, but recent
research suggests he wrote it years later and back-dated it... Ditto for KDKA -
yes it had the best publicity machine, but WWJ in Detroit and WGI (at that
time known still as 1XE) in Medford Hillside (Boston) were on the air months
before KDKA. However, KDKA's owners (Westinghouse) were masterful at getting
publicity, so they get credit for what other stations may have already been
doing
... sigh... anyway, want to know more about WGI or about early women or
black broadcasters? Not everyone who contributed to early radio was an
engineer-- were it not for the beloved performers and announcers, whom the
audience accepted as friends, radio might not have spread as quickly... Thanks
for such a wonderful site and for so much hard work. There is even a link to
your page on a Spanish web site that I noticed, so you truly are an
international success!!! Are you a professor or just a fan, by the way? Love
and best wishes, donna h
Donna Halper
dlh@donnahalper.com
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 12:17:24 +1000
To: ratx@radioaus.abc.net.au
From: Pat Murphy <clyst@mbox2.singnet.com.sg>
Subject: Radio Australiam on Real Audio
I live in Singapore but am away a lot. When home, I used to enjoy listening to
the news (especially on SE Asia) from Radio Australia on REAL AUDIO. What has
happened to it? Could you please enlighten me, and advise how to get tuned
in.
Thanks and regards
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 12:34:21 +1000
From: "Robert S. Eslinger" <radiodoc@neca.com>
Subject: Link etc.
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi Russ. Thanks for your message on the upcoming link..it's appreciated. All is
well here. The Boston Globe just did a nice article on me last week and the
phone has been quite busy! I'm in the process of building a new 3300' shop to
do antique radio restorations more efficiently and will have new pictures on my
pages by the end of August..if all goes well.
Take care and stay well,
Bob Eslinger at Antique Radio Restoration & Repair
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 02:14:52 +1000
From: Simon Pockley <simonp@gaffer.cinemedia.com.au>
Subject: Re: sent this
In-reply-to: <NAUGHTON.RUSSELL@a2.abc.net.au>
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ
Thanks for your help sent this to both Age and SMH. Wonder if they will print
it?
Radio with pictures
Sir,
It should be pointed out that Radio Australia is not just a vital provider of
credible news delivered by shortwave and satellite throughout the world. It
also offers the same credibility in the design and use of on-line broadcast
services via the internet. These services are not only in English but in
French, Tok Pisin and soon, I am told, Chinese.
The internationally recognised work of Mr Naughton expands the very notion of
radio and what it means to be a broadcaster when your audience can talk back.
A growing audience within Australia (now 50,000 per month) is discovering how
valuable topical on-line news items presented in these languages can be to the
learning of these languages.
To lose such a valuable resource, just as distance education is being nurtured
by most Australian Universities, would demonstrate an appalling lack of
foresight.
Simon Pockley (RMIT - Melbourne)
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 12:50:00 +1000
From: Vidal-Sanderson <vidal@voyager.co.nz>
Subject: Mansfield info required urgently
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hello Russell:
I am a freelance writer, currently preparing an article for Radio World
magazine on the proposed closure of Radio Australia.
I wonder if you could assist me in obtaining some information. Unfortunately, I
couldn't find an email address for ABC or RA Public Affairs, so perhaps you
could forward this, if appropriate.
I need to know:
1. Who is Bob Mansfield? ie. his current job, background, qualifications, or
why he was chosen to prepare the report.
2. What was the outcome of the ABC Board meeting which was, I believe, to be
held on the 5th of February?
My deadline for submitting this article is Tuesday 11 February, so I would
really appreciate your prompt assistance.
Best regards,
Neil Sanderson
VIDAL-SANDERSON Communication & Education Services
48 Ferry Parade,
Herald Island,
Auckland1250,
New Zealand
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:00:08 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton (03)626-1943" <"NAUGHTON
RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Software
To: Remote Addressee <thogarth@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>
Tom
Have your software
1 x ZTerm
1 x Mac Web
I'm not sure if you have a 'SLIP' or 'PPP' connection which will enable you to
use a browser program in the first place even though the MacWeb Browser unlike
Netscape etc, will work on B&W Macs such as the Plus, Classic I and II and
the Powerbook 100.
Lastly, I'm not quite sure from your signature file where to actually post the
disks. Please advise and they'll be on their way with RA's compliments.
Regards
Russ Naughton
RA
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:10:40 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Radio Australia
To: Remote Addressee <jdcourt@indo.net.id>
John
Got your eMail third hand sorry for any delay.
Most of what you wish to know is on our "Mansfield" site
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/mansfield
It includes a wealth of material including a transcript of the "Recommendation
18" It is only a few pages. Long
The opposition spokesperson address is not there (I will adjust)
The Chair of the Senate Committee is not there (I will adjust)
Thanks for your support.
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
PS: The best RA eMail for Mansfield comments is <<
ratx@radioaus.abc.net.au >>
and our Internet home page is
<< http://www.abc.net.au/ra >>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 23:28:42 -0500
From: Mario Vaillancourt <mariov@quebectel.com>
To: ratx@radio.abc.net.au
Subject: Radio Australia
Hello:
A few words to tell you that I like listening to Radio Australia on the
Internet. Hopefully, the signal will get better with time. Thank you.
Mario Vaillancourt, Québec City, Qc, Canada
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:12:40 +1000
From: Barry Taylor <"TAYLOR BARRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: SENATE INQUIRY INDON PAGE
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
Indonesian announcement re Senate inquiry follows....
Hotlink is
Radio Australia mau ditutup? Bagaimana pandangan Anda?
(Translation: Radio Australia to be closed? What do you think?) Should grab
their attention!
Body of text
Komisi Senat Australia akan melakukan penyelidikan terhadap peranan dan masa
depan Radio Australia serta saluran televisi Australian Television - A-T-V.
Komisi sangat mengharapkan masukan dari anda untuk dijadikan bahan
pertimbangan.
Misalnya, apabila Radio Australia sampai ditutup, apakah Anda akan merasa
dirugikan?
Pada hemat Anda, sampai di mana nilai Radio Australia serta peranannya sebagai
sebuah badan siaran yang mandiri?
Menurut pendapat Anda, apakah penting bahwa Radio Australia menyiar dalam
bahasa Indonesia? Kalau memang demikian, apa alasannya?
Jika dibandingkan dengan badan badan siaran internasional lainnya, bagaimana
mutu acara acara Radio Australia?
Komisi Senat Australia juga ingin mengetahui apakah pada hemat Anda Radio
Australia bermanfaat bagi kepentingan Australia sendiri, misalnya dalam bidang
perdagangan dan diplomasi khusus di kawasan Asia-Pasifik?
Masukan dan pandangan Anda sangat diharapkan, boleh dalam bahasa Ingeris atau
pun Indonesia, baik lewat surat atau pun fax, sebelum tanggal 10 Maret 1997,
langsung dialamatkan kepada:
The Secretary
Senate Inquiry into Radio Australia,
Parliament House,
Canberra, 2600.
Australia.
Fax: 61 6 277 5818
Date: 18/2/97 4:39 PM
To: John Bird <birdy@aim.py.rmit.edu.au>
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear John
Last while been most hectic. Will ring you tonite to catch up. All well but
tired. Two new babies launched today and by yet to be 'doctors' !
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newsrama, http://www.abc.net.au/nature
Russ
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 19:39:53 -0800
From: Carole Sewell <jaz@stol.com>
To: ratx@radio.abc.net.au
Subject: radio australia
X-Url: http://www.abc.net.au/ra/mansfield/default.htm
I listen to Radio Australia every night of the week. You might say I am
"addicted". Australia has a warm place in my heart solely because of the
programs I am able to receive on my shortwave radio. I have learned so much
about your vast and exciting country and its people. Also, Radio Australia
gives us news of the region we never read or hear about in the U.S. I feel much
more informed. That can only be an asset for the region.
Carole Sewell, New Orleans, LA
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1997
Dear Di
For your information, should it be appropriate, Radio Australia now offers news
and information in Chinese on its web site.
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newsrama
Hoping this might fit into your curriculum as did (and does ?) our French
site.
We will soon be adding Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamnese and Khmer.
Kind regards,
part of your 8 cents a day...
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 12:39:46 +1000
From: Tom Hogarth <thogarth@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Mac Software
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Russell Naughton wrote:
Tom,
Software on its way today or tomorrow.
Thanks very safely arrived last week, thanks for that! Will also look into
'Eudora' or similar for eMail. We will overcome... Hang on that sounds like a
refrain from an alston free environment !
Regards
Tom
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 12:38:47 +1300
From: "Bill Rosoman" <billr@voyager.co.nz>
To: "Radio Australia" <ratx@radio.abc.net.au>
Subject: Re Senate Inquiry into RA
Bill Rosoman
PO Box 96
Tokomaru Bay. 3853
New Zealand. Aotearoa.
Radio Australia
Senate Inquiry
1 March, 1997
Tena Koe,
I wish to add my voice that Radio Australia should not be closed down as a
short sighted misinformed cost saving measure.
The benefits to Australia and to citizens of the Global Village of having Radio
Australia (RA) far outweigh any costs of having RA on air 24 hours a day.
The benefits for me are
Speaks my language
Offers Informed information
Offers Unbiased information
Only real source of news about the Pacific and Asia
Only real source of information about Australia
It is free
It is coming from an informed democratic country
Reliable news and information
Great as entertainment (Cricket, Music)
Gives me a real flavour of Australia and its people (Knacker on Sunday
morning)
Some great programmes available (PM, Pacific Beat)
Beats commercial Radio and Television hands down
Has a good coverage of the Region
Overall service and reliability on a par with BBC, VOA and other major
International Broadcasters
It is irreplaceable as there is no other comparable country of the size,
geopolitical situation and eminence as Australia and in particular as RA has
been for the over 30 years that I have personally listened to its broadcasts
The benefits for Australia are
Promotion of Australian Cultural, Economic, Political and Social ideas,
happenings and information through a very cost effective and ongoing medium.
Still the cheapest and best means of communicating to a mass audience along
with RA's excellent Internet Site and perhaps Satellite avenues of mass
communications.
A cheap and easy option for receivers of the broadcasts (on the road I use a
$27 radio made in China and 10m of wire for an aerial) The new Technologies
like Satellite and Digital Radio give International Radio Broadcasts a
wonderful future
The need for unbiased informed information has never been greater, as the new
world order seems to be even more chaotic at times As a leading power in the
region it is paramount that information reaches all corners of the region, even
those corners that are restricted by remoteness, political interference,
religious intolerance, or just plain ignorance of world events and systems like
democracy. The sharing of information empowers people to look at other
cultures and systems and to perhaps be aware and even implement better systems
and democratic processes by hearing about other societies and cultures The
decimation of information in many languages to reach all peoples of the region
is very important .
The promotion of Human Rights and the right to be informed and to make up ones
own mind on matters of importance
The telling of the whole story not some biased, abbreviated and politically
correct version of the truth is very important in the Post Cold War era.
Similar reviews have been undertaken in New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom and
USA and in all cases the broadcasts were seen as necessary and desirable both
by the countries involved as well as the listeners. In all cases the broadcasts
have been continued Australia would in fact be leading a giant leap backwards
and would set a dangerous precedent for the region and the world. It would be
the only major country that would not have a voice on shortwave and the other
mediums that are available to an International Radio Broadcaster.
I look forward to many more years of wonderful radio listening with Radio
Australia
Arohanui
Bill Rosoman
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:35:03 +0700
From: "gerard kelly" <gpkelly@tinet.ie>
To: <ratx@radio.abc.net.au>
Subject: stickers
Hi, I collect radio merchandise as a hobby. I have a huge collection of
stickers, keyrings, pins, photos and other kinds of merchandise. I would be
most honoured to have any of the above mentioned of your station, so if
possible please could you send me some. It would be very much appreciated!
p.s. your web site is excellent and most enjoyable to view!!!
my name and address is....
Paul Kelly
103 st Patricks rd
Greenhills
Dublin 12
Ireland
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 19:02:10 +1000
From: John Blachford <roednat3@netvigator.com>
Subject: Can you broadcast....
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Can you broadcast the AFL Football LIVE Through Radio Australia [On the Net]
: Use Realaudio player....
http://www.realaudio.com
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997
Hi, I collect radio merchandise as a hobby. I have a huge collection of
stickers, keyrings, pins, photos and other kinds of merchandise. I would be
most honoured to have any of the above mentioned of your station, so if
possible please could you send me some. It would be very much appreciated!
p.s. your web site is excellent and most enjoyable to view!!!
my name and address is....
Paul Kelly
103 st Patricks rd
Greenhills
Dublin 12
Ireland
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 08:25:00 +1000
From: Bird Paul <birdp@anz.com>
Subject: Foreign Language web sites
To: "Naughton, Russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hello Russell,
It was great to meet you at the Netscape opening the other night. I have since
checked out your web site and was very impressed at what you have done.
I was interested in your description of the language software that allows
display in foreign character sets. If you get a chance in your busy schedule,
could you send me some details of this software and also how you do the
translation of stories and info from one language to another?
Thanks heaps (& keep up the good work!)
Paul Bird
ANZ Banking Group
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 00:02:23 +1000
From: ragip erten <rerten@escortnet.com>
Subject: Australian F1 Grand Prix coverage
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hello,
Will Radio Australia be covering the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix Live this
weekend on the Web?
After Eurosport satellite TV channel stopped live coverage of Formula One,
English-language coverage of F1 is not avaliable in Turkey. However we can
watch the race on German on Italian satellite TV channels and I am desperately
searching for a live English language commentary.
If not on the Web, will Radio Australia be covering the Grand Prix on
short-wave transmissions?
Thanks and Regards
Ragip Erten
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:24:49 +1000
From: Rachel Mawhood <rachel@longitude0.compulink.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Save both The BBC World Service AND Radio Oz
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hello Russell
I sent you this reply, this morning, but it bounced. I am trying again, but to
naughton.russell@a2.abc.net.au, rather than russell.naughton@...
Thank you for your e-mail and link. I have just visited your site and will add
your link this morning. If/when you get around to having a logo, would you let
me know; I will then "come along" and collect it to put with the link.
Kind regards
Rachel
volunteer and webmistress for Save the BBC World Service
http://www.longitude0.co.uk/save-ws/
Russell Naughton wrote:
Dear World Service
Like you, we at Radio Australia are under threat.
I have placed a "Save BBC World Service" link on my front page.
<< http://www.abc.net.au/ra >>
If you feel so moved, a link to our "save RA" page would be most welcome.
<< http://www.abc.net.au/ra/save_ra.htm >>
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 16:18:14 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Thanks from RA
To: Remote Addressee <rachel@longitude0.compulink.co.uk>
Rachel
Many thanks for link to our SAVE RA page
graphic asap (I'll do it at home tonite, Wed 5th) in
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/special/for_beeb.htm
Thanks again
Russell Naughton
Radio Oz
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 16:11:13 +1000
From: Rachel Mawhood <rachel@longitude0.compulink.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Thanks from RA
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hello Russell
>graphic asap (I'll do it at home tonite, Wed 5th) in
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/special/for_beeb.htm
Er, doesn't seem to be there, in /special/, though other gifs are. :-)
Kind regards
Rachel
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 04:57:11 +1000
From: stan peet <stan@mks.com>
Subject: 15 Minute RA News segments
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hello from Canada.
I downloaded two ra news files and both sounded like a creature from Star Wars,
clicks and gurgling noises. Have you had any other similiar complaints. I was
hoping to hear a little Aussie News.
thanks
Stan Peet
stan@mks.com
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997
Dear Russell,
I am very grateful to you for your interesting snd comprehensive "Adventures in
CyberSound". Lots of valuable information. Your thesis is a real 'appetizer'
for further reading.
Audun Hjelle (65)
Geologist, radio amateur (LA3CC) and amateur wireless historian.
Hjelle@npolar.no
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:26:26 +1000
From: "Thomas R. Sundstrom" <trs@pics.com>
Subject: Re: Addition to RA Resources Index Page
To: Russell Naughton <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
I'm resending this, Russ. There is something wrong in the e-mail address the
system attaches to your name. When I do a reply, the message always bounces...
and it did it again yesterday.
Regards, Tom
At 11:30 AM 3/13/97 +1000, you wrote:
>Tom
>Finally got around to linking the Receiver and Booklist pages.
>Many Thanks
>Russ Naughton
>Radio Oz
>http://www.abc.net.au/ra/res/reshome.htm
Thanks for the note, Russ. I looked at the page... nice... and I appreciate the
credit. I passed along your note to Jonathan Marks at RNW for his info.
Hope all goes well in the Senate hearing. I work for the state of New Jersey,
and we go through budget nonsense every year. I can appreciate how
nervewracking it is.
Regards, Tom
Thomas R. Sundstrom
trs@trsc.com
TRS Consultants
http://www.trsc.com
PO Box 2275,
Vincentown,
NJ 08088-2275,
USA
Contributing Editor,
Radio Netherlands' (www.rnw.nl) Media Network
Contributing Editor, "Radio and Communications", ACP Syme Magazines
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:03:54 +1000
From: "Carita Konsult o. Service" <carita@algonet.se>
Subject: E-Mail adress?
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Just trying to help a friend of mine, here in Eskilstuna Sweden: We are looking
for an eventual E-Mail adress to a newspaper in Alice springs: (If they4ve got
one of course) Centralian Advocate, Alice Springs 2 Gap Road, Alice Springs.
Here in Eskilstuna (about 120 km west Stockholm) the weather is about + 8
centigrades and the spring is just around the corner. How is the wether
"downunder"?
Best regards
Arne Carlsson
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1997
Dear Audun
Thankyou for your very kind eMail.
I am soon to put up a greatly expanded version of the site as part of my move
from an MA to a PhD.
If you like the MA site, then you'll LOVE the PhD one. Lots and lots to
read....and there will be lots more to come.
I have assembled hundreds more images which I am slowly working through,
editing for the web. They will go up next.
Best Regards, please keep in touch (its mail from persons as yourself that
makes the many hours in front of my Macintosh worth while.)
thanks again
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 02:25:59 -0800
From: marymihalko <"mihma@hhs.net"@hhs.net>
Organization: Helicon On-Line
To: ratx@radio.abc.net.au
Subject: Radio downloading.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I can't seem to find where you download the 15 minutes of Australian news any
more???? Can you tell me the address for the page with the little cassettes you
click onto....or however you get it now. Also are there any other Australian
Real Audio links you are aware of that are good?
Thankyou for your help.
Paul.
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 03:40:37 +1000
From: johnowen <johnowen@IslandNet.com>
Subject: Program Guide
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Please send me a program guide for North America (Canada) Thanks
John Stackhouse
560 Kilmalu Road, RR2
Mill Bay, BC
Canada
V0R 2P0
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:53:09 +1000
From: marymihalko <mihma@hhs.net>
Subject: Radio downloading.
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Sir/Madam,
I can't seem to find where you download the 15 minutes of Australian news any
more???? Can you tell me the address for the page with the little cassettes you
click onto....or however you get it now. Also are there any other Australian
Real Audio links you are aware of that are good?
Thankyou for your help.
Paul.
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:47:14 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Web Update
To: Terry Brown <"BROWN TERRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear all
your Russell of sunshine here...
Last week we once again came in second on web hits at around 50,000 only second
behind News at 80,000 and ahead of JJJ at 35,000 and RN at 17,000.
We also pegged up our first 10,000+ hit day on the 14th.
Some very warming figures in that 50,000...
Indon around 1,000+ (up from 600+ last week - finally getting through !)
English news, a staggering 40,000+ our best week yet if I remember right.
French news a healthy 3,600+
Chinese News a good 340+
and last but by no means least, 700+ downloaded the daily 15 minute news and
sport sound file bulletin.
If you're not aware of it I archive (on a weekday basis) the WRN News feed
and offer it again (plus the last two weeks worth) to 'local' RA 'browsers'.
Oh how the punters want sound on RA - and finally we're giving it to them.
Finally..
For the record, the interest in all things Mansfield, Senate enquiry etc., have
dribbled off to around 160+ and 70+ hits respectively - they may have had their
run ?
As the notices are slowing down our home page considerably I await any
discussion about removing the bulk of the info leaving just some basic pointers
to the info pages.
All the best
your friendly webmeister
Russ
to put things in perspective - this time last year all up we were getting
around 1,000 hits per week. ie we've improved by a factor of 50 to 1 in less
than twelve months. That has to be some kind of record.
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 15:28:55 +1000
From: kaxelson <kaxelson@panix.com>
Subject: Comment Regarding Radio Austrailia
To: fadt_ctte <fadt_ctte@senate.aph.gov.au>
Cc: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Sirs,
Thank you for inviting general comment about this issue.
I am a 40 year old computer analyst in NYC, NY, USA. I certainly appreciate the
facts of changing management thinking and new technologies for public
communications.
I have been listening to Radio Austrailia for about 25 years now, as time
permits. I would like to say that services such as this one can be valued and
permanent connections between people around the world.
In my opinion, the existence of programming which is not strictly local, but
which also attempts to interpret one culture to another, is important
regardless of the medium through which it is transmitted.
I enjoy listening to local broadcasts around the world, whether over the radio,
on my cable TV, or these days, over the Internet. But I am certain that some
things are lost 'in translation' this way, as compared to having programming
prepared by a skilled staff who understand when to provide background
information appropriate to foreign audiences.
My particular career does not involve me directly in economic or political
concerns between our countries, however, growing up with contact with Radio
Austrailia and other international radio services did affect my outlook towards
the world. I would say it has been a meaningful factor in the the considerable
time I have spent in international charitable causes over the years.
Additionally, I have about a half dozen visitors from Austrailia per year
through a cultural exchange program I belong to, and I feel I understand them
better because of programming from Radio Austrailia.
This is just one person's experience, however I hope it will add to your
appreciation of the contribution your international programming staff makes on
your countries' behalf.
Sincerely,
Kevin Axelson
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:05:26 +1000
From: "Douglas Gilbert"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Subject: Web pages like we had infinite bandwidth
Sender: dougg <dougg@iggy.triode.net.au>
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hello,
Even though my email address seems to indicate I'm in Bondi, Sydney
(triode.net.au) I'm actually in Bergen Norway with quite a good internet
connection.
However abc pages, especially the glitzy first one, take yonks to download
while they flash meaningless drivel at me. The main news page needs to be fully
downloaded before I see _anything_ newsworthy. This is bad web page design.
Someone in the abc should get themselves an isp somewhere in Europe (e.g.
Norway), remotely logon and pull the abc webpage.
It's more fun firing up the old shortwave but I guess the pollies will soon
make sure that signal disappears.
Microsoft is beginning to understand the value of bandwidth, how about the abc
...
Douglas Gilbert Email: dougg@triode.net.au
2b Berowra Road [now at: Strandgaten 207, 5004 Bergen Norway]
Mt Colah, 2079, Australia Tel (in Norway): +47 55900260
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 18:27:49 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: PNG Special Broadcast Anncmts
To: ROGER BROADBENT <"BROADBENT ROGER"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Gentlemen
Home page links to two special png pages announcing new program @ 0600 PNG Time
each links to the other ie English to Tok Pisin and reverse.
Went up on line approx 1830 aedt tues 25
Russ
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:03:44 +1000
From: cbcovernight <cbcovernight@toronto.cbc.ca>
Subject: Nowhere else to turn ????
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hello Russell,
If you've a moment, could you provide me with Roger Broadbents E-mail
address.
Thanks for your time
Chuck Jutras, Producer
CBC Radio Overnight
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997
To: ratx@radio.abc.net.au
From: Damien J Little <djl20@cornell.edu>
Subject: afl broadcasts
Hi, I am a keen AFL fan but am currently studying in the U.S. However I would
like to be able to listen to the footy. I was wondering I you could tell me
whether Radio Australia is broadcasting any games, and how I can listen to
these. I would appreciate your help.
Thankyou.
Damien J Little
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 09:25:55 -0300
From: "Alan E. Wootton" <alanw@netalpha.com.br>
To: ratx@radio.abc.net.au
Subject: Fantastic reception in north eastern Brazil.
As an Englishman, with .. finally a 36.6 modem, I'm astounded at the marvellous
reception over the net using Real Audio. Keep up the good work!
Pity the BBC-London doesn't follow your example
Best Regards
Alan E. Wooton
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 10:17:03 +1000
From: Theusch Family <theusch@peoples.net>
Subject: Do you have schematics for crystal radio(s)?
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Any chance of getting the schematic for the "modern crystal radio"? The link to
crystal_radio_0.gif doesn't bring up any picture. Getting reference information
for school schience project. Nice site. Thanks.
theusch@peoples.net
Lee Theusch Waupun Wisconsin USA
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 00:41:23 -0500 (EST)
From: KSutherlin@aol.com
To: ratx@radio.abc.net.au
Subject: Transmission Schedule
Please advise if the schedule currently posted on the Internet is still valid.
It is dated October 26, 1996, but no end date is specified.
My husband is an avid listener to Radio Australia on shortwave. We live in
Bellevue, Nebraska (Omaha metro area).
Thanks.
Kristin Sutherlin
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:25:17 +1000
From: "Geoff Cutter" <gcutter@melbpc.com.au>
To: <ratx@radio.abc.net.au>
Subject: Copying a picture
While in the area of
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/cant/canthome.htm
I belive, I tried to copy (select) the Chinese (Cantonese) letter, which was a
picture but I couldn't. I dont know if this is a fault in my procedure of setup
or we aren't allowed to copy the picture.
Anyway, good site, informative, interesting.
Regds
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 13:04:19 +1000
From: Jerry Schapker <JerrySchapker@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: World Wide Web service
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
I have been accessing Radio Australia's internet service for slightly more than
one month. I find it very informative. I have really become interested in
Australia in the past year due to the short-wave broadcasts.
The internet allows me to get more news of Australia any time of day. I hope RA
short-wave and internet services can continue. News of your area is difficult
to find in my home area of Evansville, Indiana USA.
I have gotten information from your services that are available nowhere else.
Thanks, and keep up the great work.
Jerry Schapker
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 13:23:23 +1000
From: "Edward J. Pelegrino" <ejp@peganet.com>
Subject: Site du Jour of the Day (970408)
To: ejp <ejp@peganet.com>
Site du Jour of the Day (970408)
April 8, 1997
Radio Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/default.htm
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Before there was the Internet or satellite television, the best single source
for international news was short wave radio. For many people in remote areas
this is still the only way to receive news and entertainment without a great
deal of effort and expense. As with the Internet, English was established as
the "official" language of world radio due mainly to the BBC in London, the ABC
in Australia and Americans phoning in reports from around the globe.
What you will find at this site is news from the Pacific Basin to include
Japan, China, Thailand, Australia and all points in between, written in plain
good English. For those of us living in the Western Hemisphere this is _the_
place for Australian/Pacific news and information. Not just because it
originates in Australia, but because it is part of the much larger Australian
Broadcasting Corporation and is non-commercial. This source of public
information is similar to PBS here in the United States and incidentally, is
also facing the woes of budget cuts brought on by the Federal government.
The news is updated frequently at this site, sometimes as often as every five
minutes. When I was last looking at the Australian news section, a story about
the resolution of a Federal court case over the ownership of intellectual
property rights attached to the Aboriginal flag had just been posted. I would
have never heard about this story with traditional newscasts in the USA, much
less ever learned of the judgement. Indigenous artist Harold Thomas it was
decided, does hold the copyright on the flag he created in 1971. The
international coverage here is also unbiased and outstanding.
If you are interested in hearing these reports, ten minute (plus) Real Audio
versions are available along with the schedules, programming information and
short wave frequency listings for the world.
Ed
If you would like to start or stop receiving Site du Jour of the Day send your
request to ejp@peganet.com with SdJotD as the subject.
Copyright 1997 Edward J. Pelegrino. All rights reserved but may be forwarded
for non-commercial purposes. Thanks.
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 11:24:07 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton<NAUGHTON.RUSSELL@abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: FWD: Site du Jour of the Day (970408)
To: Terry Brown <BROWN.TERRY@abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear All
A little joy in the gloom.
We (RA) have been selected by the sender as his Site of The Day.
I'm not quite sure what his credentials are nor the reach of his emails but its
nice to get such a plug
Russ Naughton
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 18:03:10 -0700
From: Maxwell/Schroeder <badcat@earthlink.net>
Organization: Admin Kit Investigator
To: ratx@radio.abc.net.au
Is there anyway that we can listen to Australian radio over the Internet? In
the USA we can listen to a few radio stations in real-time on the Internet. Do
you know of any such stations in Australia?
All of my wife's family live in Australia and have lived there all of there
lives. We would like to be able to hear the news and music from your part of
the world.
Please respond with any information that you can. We live in Issaquah,
Washington USA that is about 20 miles east of Seattle, Washington.
Thank you in advance for all of your help.
Sincerely,
Howard Maxwell
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:18:09 +1000
From: Christine Kilmartin <chrisk@aifs.org.au>
Subject: what to be done?
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Radio Australia
in touch with .1% of the W....
If you are developing a list of the 'hopping mad' who would be prepared to
start some form of subscription service to keep RA alive, please add me to it.
I would appreciate hearing of any actions being taken publicly in the face of
this cut to RA operations.
Christine Kilmartin
chrisk@aifs.org.au
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 09:20:43 +-1100
From: Ross<ross@offratel.nc>
Organization: Australian Institute of Family Studies
To: "'ratx@radioaus.abc.net.au'" <ratx@radio.abc.net.au>
Subject: Radio Aus Home Page
Last night was my third and so far longest attempt to access your Radio Aus
page. I spent seventeen costly and eventually fruitless minutes waiting to be
connected. Is there something wrong with the site or is this sort of delay
normal? I was actually seeking the transcripts from the last two Science File
programs which I understood could be accessed from the home page. I hope you
can advise me how these transcripts can be obtained by more traditional
means?
Regards Ross Smith,
ross@offratel.nc
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 17:55:37 +0000
From: Gerry Bourke <gbourke@candw.to>
Organization: Cable & Wireless plc
To: ratx@radio.abc.net.au
Subject: http://www.wrn.org/stations/abc.html
Have attempted to listen to news services from links on above url but
continually getting "requested server not valid messages" Is this the case or
can it be a config issue at my end - I have been able to get other on demand
services without any problem.
Gerry Bourke
Cable & Wireless plc Tonga
http://www.candw.to
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 07:22:29 +1000
From: Matkovic Vladimir <ignis@eunet.yu>
Subject: - no subject (01II44H4188YBG1E6D)
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear friends,
I am so pleased to look your web pages. I am intrested in australian issues. It
would be nice to have more informations on culture and arts. Please If zou
could e mail me some press reviews of australian press.
Sincirely yours
Vladimir Matkovic from belgrade
ignis@Eunet.yu
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 10:36:22 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: A Future for Russ Naughton in Multimedia?
To: COLIN GRIFFITH <"GRIFFITH COLIN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Colin
I will ring you this week to discuss the following matter but thought it best
to summarise my thoughts in advance for your pre-phone call digestion.
I will be brief...
1. I have been advised that there is unlikely to be a position for me in the
new minimalist Radio Australia structure announced yesterday.
2. Despite the temptation of a very large (29 years service) redundancy
package, I would like to ...
2.1 continue working with the ABC.
2.2 continue working in Melbourne
2.3 continue working in the on line media area.
2.4 continue working in the 'international' arena
3. Might you now put in your multimedia 'planning box' the examination of a
scenario that could satisfy all or most of these parameters?
I believe that the continuation of an on line international presence, which
both enhances the ABC's present satellite and short wave output and in the
future, might enable 'external' educational and business co-development, could
warrant the seeding funds necessary to establish such a position.
Regards
Russ
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:18:10 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Schedules
To: Remote Addressee <Raimo.Lonka@mespek.inet.fi>
Dear Raimo
Here is the response from our tx management re the schedule matter you asked
about.
Stay tuned
Regards
Russ Naughton
Russ,
the reason we don't include relay sites on RA schedules is because we don't
have any!! (yet)
Cheers Nigel
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:28:22 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Hello from Radio Australia
To: Remote Addressee <ignis@eunet.yu>
Dear Vladimir
Thankyou for your kind eMail.
The best Australian site for almost anything 'aussie' is
http://werple.net.au/~lions/aussie.htm
News wise, I guess I should recommend our parent organisation the ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/news
Best Wishes
Russell Naughton
On Line Service Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:40:42 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: WRN Access?
To: Remote Addressee <gbourke@candw.to>
Gerry
WRN performing normally as far as I can determine.
Not sure where the problem may lay.
Are you using Real Audio 3.0? That may be the problem.
I can access the ftp sites from here at RA but our firewall prevents me from
checking the existence / quality of the 'streaming' feeds.
Let me know how you go.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Service Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 17:43:50 +1000
From: editor <editor@stateart.com.au>
Subject: Re: Sorry...
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russ
Thanks for your email .. it was not necessary.
Good luck and keep in touch.
Best wishes
Margret
>Margret
>I was possibly a little huffy in my last eMail.
>Things are not good here - I've had it for starters (after a mere 30 years
with 'Aunty') and even more sadly, the site is in doubt as well.
>My apologies for my abruptness if it was taken that way and thanks for your
best wishes.
>Regards
>Russ Naughton
>to guarantee a response, you might cc. to my private eMail for any future
comms. russelln@netspace.net.au
State of the Arts
PO Box 243
Kings Cross NSW 2011
Australia
http://www.stateart.com.au
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 22:04:32 +1000
From: Ted Wright <TedWright@msn.com>
Subject: Help contacting an Australian radio station
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Mr. Naughton -
Recently, Someone from an Australian radio station with the call letters that
sounded like "K-rock" left a voice mail message on my phone in the United
States. The phone number that they left was 61-613-5221955. I have tried that
number, but I am unable to get through. With your radio resources, could you
tell me if 1) this is a radio station; 2) if they have an e-mail address; and
3) if they have a fax number. The radio station in question was trying to reach
me to arrange an interview with one of my clients, so I'd appreciate any help
you can give me.
Thanking you in advance,
Ted Wright
Washington D.C., United States
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 11:02:52 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: KROCK FM
To: Remote Addressee <TedWright@msn.com>
Ted
Yes KRock does exist. It is an contemporary music format FM station
the phone number grew somewhat...
I made contact with them (via directory assistance)
you should dial your international code
then 61 for Australia
then 3 for the state code of Victoria
then the local 8 digit number 5223 1955
ie:
your international code + 61 3 5223 1955
their eMail is << krock@austasia.net >>
they are about to launch a web site - date undisclosed
otherwise the best source of all things 'down under'
http://werple.net.au/~lions/aussie.htm
and of course Radio Australia
Regards and glad to have been of some help
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 11:21:39 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <NAUGHTON.RUSSELL@a2.abc.net.au>
Subject: Russ' s Future
To: erica@rmit.edu.au
Dear Erica
Sadly it looks like my time with the ABC and RA is about to end. I have been
advised to seek other employment.
I have however also been advised to explore a relationship with the Multi Media
Unit in Sydney before looking externally.
This quest is in progress though if the cuts to the rest of the ABC in a
fortnights time are as savage as RA has received, then other ABC employment is
a very slim option.
I cannot tell you how mad it makes me feel - not from a specific job point of
view - but of the shortsightedness of the ABC (and by default - the Federal
Government) within the new media climate of the 21st C.
I am considering several options at the moment but will try to concentrate on
ones that will tie in with my studies.
I am hoping (as we have already discussed Erica) that the University will
look kindly on me modifying my study direction to allow for this turn of fate.
I firmly believe that I can still bring credit to RMIT and the media
environment both here in Victoria and possibly Australia if given the option to
adapt my studies.
As it so happens I have (somewhat by accident) come across interesting aspect
related to my original study on which to possibly base a 'rejigged' PhD
claim.
Briefly, it revolves around the long term (more than I had first envisaged)
interlinked development of the three primary AV media, radio, television and
cinema into the 'set top box' truly interactive multimedia information delivery
system of the future.
If you like - I will propose that the so called 'convergence' theory extended
back not to 1960 (micro computers and the first Internet) but to 1860 when
wireless telegraphy, facsimile devices and primitive cinema and television were
born.
My research so far (including much from original historic data) though
finding detailed information on the individual processes has yet to uncover any
evidence of such convergence examined or even considered.
I will be in touch as the first wave of options unfolds (approx 2 weeks) ie
whether or not I stay at RA and whether or not the RA Website will exist to
continue with the 'future for radio, radio for the future' project as
planned.
Regards
Russ
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 14:08:41 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: A Thought from Russ
To: Derek White <"WHITE DEREK"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Derek
As part of the 'help' the ABC might offer to those staff soon to depart, might
the following concept be considered.
The establishment of an On Line CV/Resume service for staff seeking both
interstate and overseas appointments.
The Internet would be widely available to prospective employers whether in the
broadcasting or educational sector and the CV could have built in eMail for
easy correspondence.
The staff whilst still here (May - June) would also have easy access to the
email facility should they not be so outfitted at home.
Short program pieces etc., showcasing the persons language and presentation
skills could also be included as appropriate.
I would be happy to volunteer the creation and maintenance of this service as I
presume I am to be one of those affected and will no longer be required for
normal duty.
Regards
Russ
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 17:24:07 +1000
From: raimo lonka <lonkra-1@pop.inet.fi>
Subject: Re: Schedules
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi Russ,
Thank you for your answer. I really didn't expect to have any. Yes you are
correct to what comes to RA's relay stations in their original meaning:
relaying transmission from far away site somewhere abroad near target area.
But I really meant transmitter sites in Australia used by RA. As a DX'er
(since
1976) I'm interested in transmitter locations and because I've not been able
to
QSL RA Brandon yet, I would like to have up-to-date information about current
frequencies and their respective transmitter locations. I think internet is in
it's best providing this kind of information, which have to be updated
regularly. Printing and sending schedules to listeners must be more expensive
and heavy.
So far I've found this information best available and organized in Voice of
America's web pages.
Anyway, Radio Australia has always been one of my favourite swl targets.
73's
Raimo Lonka
At 12:18 PM 5/1/97 +1000, you wrote:
Dear Raimo
Here is the response from our tx management re the schedule matter you asked
about.
Stay tuned
Regards
Russ Naughton
Russ,
the reason we don't include relay sites on RA schedules is because we don't
have any!! (yet)
Cheers Nigel
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 01:02:34 +1000
From: erica <erica@rmit.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Russ' s Future
To: NAUGHTON RUSSELL <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russ
In haste between the Friday meetings.... How dreadful, sad and appalling that
the ABC can farewell its talent with impunity. Well, Russ, at least you now
have options and can plan your future while still young, energetic and
creative. Please accept my heartfelt empathy and be in touch, please, when you
know more. (It will not be a problem for the university re PhD topic). Perhaps
you could convert back to full-time if not in Sydney.
Warmest regards
Erica
Associate Professor Erica Hallebone
Department of Social Science and Social Work Faculty of the Constructed
Environment
RMIT
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 01:37:26 +1000
From: "Prof.John Bird" <birdy@rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Russ' s Future
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
I will ring and have a chat with you as soon as possible (3:18pm Friday) I
have only just got this message.
Wear it with pride Russ, you have made (along with many of your RA colleagues)
an historic contribution to the culture of Australia. One in which history will
treat you with respect and admiration.
I can well understand how very sad an event it for you, knowing the love and
dedication you gave to "Aunty" for over 30 years.The pioneer role you played in
making the ABC Web-aware it is a doubly cruel blow and tragic loss of
expertise.
The Radio Australia WWW site was an historic an pioneering venture - it will
remain a tribute to your vision and your almost single-handed efforts.
You have been a person of great talent and generosity of spirit, many people
including myself have been been the beneficiaries of 'the good will of Russ
Naughton'.
Your spirit of gracious goodness has also reached your RA Web audience. You
gave the lead, set the tone.. it will be a hard act to follow!
Kindest regards and thanks,
John
Adjunct Professor: John Bird
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - University Faculty of Art,Design
& Communications.
Animation & Interactive Media
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 01:45:21 +1000
From: "Prof.John Bird" <birdy@rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Resume - Russell Naughton
To: Russ Naughton <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
Have had email from Dom F' he seems's more optimistic about you been offered a
position than you do (hope he is right).
Please send me email address for Colin Griffith (I have some other eggs I am
hatching).
John
Adjunct Professor: John Bird
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - University Faculty of Art,Design
& Communications.
Animation & Interactive Media
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 16:46:14 +1000
From: raimo lonka <lonkra-1@pop.inet.fi>
Subject: RA tr's
To: NAUGHTON RUSSELL <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi Russ,
Thank you very much for the information about RA's transmitter sites and
especially timetable of Brandon site. I will pass this informationto finnish
DX-magazine "Radiomaailma" to reach other DX'ers. I'm also one of the
collaborators of Radiomaailma-magazine: I gather loggings of Asia, Oceania,
Central-and South America into magazine.
Best regards,
Raimo Lonka
Helsinki, Finland
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 17:15:19 +1000
From: "Stephen J. Williams" <sjw@rmit.EDU.AU>
Subject: webmaster position
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell--
I spoke to you some time ago about the RMIT Webmaster position. It is likely
that RMIT will advertise this position shortly.
I've attached a word file of the position description. Your advice, or ideas,
about its contents would be appreciated.
I would like to advertise the position electronically and accept only
electronic applications (in the form of a URL). What do you think?
Personally, the idea of trying to find someone to do such a job for only ONE
YEAR seems ludricrous. I expect that whomever gets the job will either use it
as a launching-pad for other work, or try to make themselves indispensible (not
hard!). --No doubt RMIT will continue to need a webmaster.
Regards,
Stephen.
Steve J. Williams
Corporate Publications Manager
RMIT [ University ]
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997
Hello Russell,
I have come across your site at RMIT through the 'hard' copy of your article in
MIA. I have been looking for resources for a brand new course I am teaching
this semester at Monash's Gippsland Campus on Radio/TV: News and Current
Affairs. I have to say I wish I'd found you earlier!
The course is making use of digital editing packages for audio and video, and
we are now pretty much up and running as far as the production side goes.
From the dates of your research, I wasn't sure of what stage you are
at in your project, but I was wondering if you would be interested in a guest
spot in our course?
I know it's not much notice, but the last lecture that I have planned for the
semester is on the internet and broadcasting, and if you were able to pay a
visit to discuss the state of the technology and its possibilities, it would be
a very interesting finale to the course.....
...I look forward to hearing from you.
Cheers
Justine
Justine Lloyd
Justine.Lloyd@arts.monash.edu.au
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 23:20:41 +1000
From: Thorsten Koch <iguidebc@hotmail.com>
Subject: Radio Australia email addresses
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi!
Just as an information: Due to a email from a reader of my Internet Guide To
International Broadcasters (http://swl.sds.se/iguide), I have included the
various electronic mail addresses of Radio Australia in my list.
Best wishes,
Thorsten Koch
Internet Guide To International Broadcasters http://swl.sds.se/iguide/
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 10:30:54 +1000
From: "Prof.John Bird" <birdy@rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Thanks....................many ooooops!
To: Russ Naughton <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
It is now past the pumkin hour.12:15am.
7.6 installation was ..far from trouble-free.
I think I may now have things in a working state..but I will not press my luck
at this hour in case I find myself still here when the milkman calls.
What I was unaware of till the screen turned lime green/grey......(and I turn
bright orange after about six hours of frustration) was a new system corrupts
the AppleVision Monitor settings.
Nothing I did would return it to the "factory setting" (default). I removed
preferences, extensions etc etc, re-installed the AppleVision software .. NO
JOY!
I finally had to completely re-install 7.6 again......then re-install over it
the AppleVision software (it must go in that order .. for the record).
Finally the 'factory default' did get me out of lime spider green. The screen
alignments don't seem correct ..but having worked from 7:30 am till 12:28 am
Tomorrow has come.
Thanks for all you help today ..could not have made it without your
assistance.
Regards,
John
Adjunct Professor: John Bird
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - University Faculty of Art,Design
& Communications.
Animation & Interactive Media
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 08:59:17 +1000
From: Lee Schaeffer <schaefer@nb.net>
Subject: Corrections & additions
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
The net was finally fast enought for me look at you site in detail - can spend
a few days here - thanks for the effort.
Under KDKA you list the locations as East Liberty (Where I was born. The
correct location should be EAST PITTSBURGH - a small town where Westinghous had
it's major electrical equipment plants.
The Photo of the KDKA shack on top of the "K" building and is from 1920 and is
the equipment used in the first broadcast. The picture was taken a few weeks
later when they realized that they were making history. We have recreated the
shack and hope to eventualy have it as a center peace of the The National
Museum of Broadcasting. http://trfn.clpgh.org/nmb
Under the history of television:
http://songs.com/philo (Top Ten Site)
Philo Farnsworth should be given more credit (even though Zworkin worked about
a mile from where I teach) Farnsworth's tube was called the "Image disector" -
the Image Orthacon tube was developed by a team at RCA (where Zworkin was
working)
The UNKNOWN Anouncer: Harold Arlin
He is credited with being the first regular announcer on radio? Harold Arlin,
started his work at KDKA in February 1921.He introduced guests and performers
and later reported baseball and football games. For all intents, it was he who
created the profession of the radio announcer. As programming expanded, others
were hired to assist Arlin.
It is interesting to note that most announcers in the earliest days of radio
were not permitted to identify themselves over the air. The stations apparently
did this out of a fear that announcers might become too popular and hard to
control.
Source: http://trfn.clpgh.org/nmb/nmb20s.htm
Lee Schaeffer
Pittsburgh
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 11:56:46 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Hi from Australia
To: Remote Addressee <schaefer@nb.net>
Lee
Thanks so much for the fan mail re my 'Cybersound' site.
What a coincidence! Only yesterday I finished correcting the last (hopefully)
HTML coding errors on the first version of my new site.
I'm writing this eMail on the 20th and the changes have yet to go up (I'm a
guest on my server and can't put them across myself) so have another look in a
couple of days.
In the mean time, if you get any messages that say...
File Not found
The requested URL /SFCV-RMIT-Annex/rnaughton/phd8100.htm was not found on this
server.
then add an extra "l" to the .htm
the link will then work. (there's 78 of these 'mistakes' - ugh - they should
be updated by the time you read this though.
At work I use the 8.3 pre Win 95 format (.htm) and at home the normal Mac
format (.html) - hence the occasional brain fade.
The new site works from the same address and all the 'old' pages lead you to
the new site.
http://www.cinemedia.net/SFCV-RMIT-Annex/rnaughton/rnaughton/rnaughton.html
The new site is the result of an upgrade of my studies to PhD status and has
been some six months in the making.
Initially I have concentrated on Text additions (of which there are many) but
have made a few corrections to old files along the way as in the case of Harold
Arlin.
I will add your details to the appropriate pages including the museum site
http://trfn.clpgh.org/nmb - how come I didn't come across this one ???
I have some 200 - 300 images scanned and will as soon as time permits add them
into the site as well. They come from original magazines and texts of the 20's
right through to contemporary works.
I can honestly say I've scoured the 'net and all local and interstate libraries
for both text and images to go with the new site and some of the stuff I've
turned up is simply fantastic.
There are whole new sections on the prehistory of Television and Cinema for
example.
Please keep in touch especially as far as the museum etc is concerned.
Thanks again for your interest - it makes all the hours preparing the content
worthwhile.
Russell Naughton
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 16:53:34 +1000
From: Lee Schaeffer <schaefer@nb.net>
Subject: Re: Hi from Australia
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell Naughton wrote:
>then add an extra "l" to the .htm
I learned that lesson the hard way to! Now I try to make all my links to *.htm
so I don't have that problem and I can still run my internal links offline.
>I will add your details to the appropriate pages including the museum site
http://trfn.clpgh.org/nmb - how come I didn't come across this one ???
I has only been online a few weeks and the web crawlers have bot found it
yet.
>I can honestly say I've scoured the 'net and all local and interstate
libraries for both text and images to go with the new site and some of the
stuff I've turned up is simply fantastic.
There seems to have been a lot added in the last few months.
How did you get interested in this subject? My father kept bringing me home old
radios he found in flea markets in the 1950's with the idea that I would
eventually learn to fix them! I wish I had some of the ones I ditched befor I
learned. I had a whole collection that my parents "discarded" when they moved
to a smallere house during my senior year in college. My prized set was a 1950
GE 12" TV with a copper chassis and 4 tubes in the IF section that would pull
in stations all over the country on a good night. I have 2 Hallacrafter 9" sets
from 1948 that need every electolytic replaced! My working 1949 DuMont camera
with GE logo is unique. From what I understand, GE was on strike and had to
fill some orders so the bought the cameras from DuMont and paited them GE
Blue.
Lee Schaeffer
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 12:06:52 +1000
From: HOWARD DEER <"DEER HOWARD"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE INDONESIAN NEWS QUOTE.
To: Michael Spence <"SPENCE MICHAEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Michael,
your quote is accepted. Please liase with Russ to implement on his advice.
Charge to RA 523 211 9711.
thanks, Neil Deer
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 13:20:36 +1000
From: Richard Mauro & Micayla Carl <beauty@indigo2.net>
Subject: Radio Program
To: <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi:
I'm looking into syndicating my own radio program, and just want to share
information about what I do in the United States.
From 9am till noon, I produce a program called Sunday Brunch on WPVR
94.9 FM in Roanoke Virginia. It's a commercial FM station with 100k watts of
power reaching into three states. It's a very eclectic program of new age,
world beat, international, electronic, ambient, celtic, space, folk and some
genre's mixed in between.
Each week I feature a release, playing through the whole cd. I also have
interviews with selected artists from time to time. I also help listeners
locate any of the music heard on my programs.
I provide listeners my playlist each week, which they subscribe to, as well as
faxing/e-mailing the play list to the artists/labels of who I played on that
weeks program.
My play lists can be viewed on the web too, at:
http://www.yoyosurf.com/newsounds
On Sunday nights I host and produce a similar program, called New Sounds, on
Public Radio WVTF 89.1 FM - also a 100k watt station with repeaters. The
program airs 9pm till midnight.
I can supply a weekly hour or two hour program on DAT, with 55 to 58 minutes of
program content per hour.
I would be glad to discuss this with you further, and can be reached at the
number below, or at my e-mail address.
Thanks for your time.
Sincerely,
Richard Mauro
Sunday Brunch on ARROW 94.9 FM (WPVR Roanoke, VA) Sunday 9 a.m. till noon
&
New Sounds on Public Radio WVTF 89.1 FM (Roanoke, VA) Sunday 9 p.m. till
midnight
Richard Mauro (host/producer)
P.O. Box 8764
Roanoke, VA 24014
USA
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 00:05:33 +1000
From: Simon Pockley <simonp@gaffer.cinemedia.com.au>
Subject: Re: Small HTML Errors
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ
Many thanks - some of these I had found but others not. Very appreciative
S
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 00:49:17 +1000
From: Simon Pockley <simonp@gaffer.cinemedia.com.au>
Subject: Re: Image Research
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ
1. Thanks for the link to Stanford they have my paper 'Lest we Forget' there as
well (URLs out of date so have emailed them).
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/pockley/pockley1.html
Michael lesk is the author of one of the best papers on digital preservation
see:
http://community.bellcore.com/lesk/auspres/aus.html
2. What was the Minsky piece a foreword to?
3. The Pictorial represeentation piece looks great !
Good stuff thanks Russ
I'm off to see Erica this afternoon and Helen Richardson tomorrow at the ABC 11
am - Will pop in and say goodday.
S
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 07:46:23 +1000
From: "Prof.John Bird" <birdy@rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Most pleasing News!
To: Russ Naughton <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
Julie and I send you our very best wishes and congratulations upon your new
appointment re-appointment to the ABC.
I am sure this is news which will be celebrated both inside and outside the
ABC.
Your long-standing faith and dedication to "Auntie" through thick and thin,
rough and tough, bleak and boring, is what has made the ABC such an important
part of Australian life.
It is a moment of optimism for us all to see talent and dedication rewarded
(even when it may mean another 10 years of convict like hard labour in the
under-funded salt mine of the ABC).
We are proud of you and all the slaves to quality service in OUR ABC.
Best wishes,
John and Julie.
Adjunct Professor: John Bird
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - University Faculty of Art,Design
& Communications.
Animation & Interactive Media
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 23:01:45 +1000
From: "Prof.John Bird" <birdy@rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Thanks
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
Thanks for the treasure trove of information.
Would suggest you/Dom contact (political) AFTRS today. Dennis Gree AFTRS down
tomororw my Report in his hands tomorrow too. Hence anything done to show close
relationship between AFTRS and ABC helpful.
Will go into Dr. Naughton's ....Russ Radio ... with wiskers URL soon
Best wishes..
PS Quote has just come in from Jim Valle for External hard drive etc.. Jim was
suggesting that different speeds of HD were suitable for Audio and higher speed
drives were required for Video (naturally more expensive too).
Dear JB
Thanks for your congrats. I will make the ABC very glad they decided the way
they did.
Dom has 7.6 and it goes to Sydney with Cinnamon Pollard's replacement (ex RN
Webber) - name eludes me sorry.
Dom also now knows about MS Office Manager fix
Dom also has my copy (full version) of Connectix Video Conferencing
software.
This is the commercial version (no Cornell Uni mirror site needed) of
CUSeeMe.
He is getting a camera from MMU (Colin/Stephen)
We will establish (cable modems permitting) a link betwixt AFTRS and Dom's
office asap.
Believe a Southbank Multimedia Lab with Dom, myself and Peter Jackson a real
possibility. Colin/Stephen keen.
Co located , combined resources and maybe a bit of new gear AV Mac plus a CDROM
Burner.
Harry has also loaded up first version of my PhD site. To say the least it is
quite large but is definitely the best 'one stop shop' for anyone looking at
radio, tv and cinema history.
when you get the time, have a look
http://www.cinemedia.net/RMIT/rnaughton
the shortform URL takes you to the front door and I hope you don't find too
many broken links !!
There are now some 700 files and 50 megabytes of info.
Thanks again for everything
Russ
Adjunct Professor: John Bird
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - University Faculty of Art,Design
& Communications.
Animation & Interactive Media
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 10:20:43 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: ELP/Pac Web Tasks
To: ROGER BROADBENT <"BROADBENT ROGER"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Roger
As requested.
FRENCH
Minimal routine work - news is quite automated.
PERSONALLY I FEEL IT MUST BE MAINTAINED POST CUTS IF AT ALL POSSIBLE.
Depending on the outcome, a more adventurous site may warrant / need to be
constructed - downloadable archives etc. even full program.
PNG
Only one routine job - approx once per week - marking up news items received
from Pius on eMail.
time approx one hour per week
IT SHOULD BE AUTOMATED EX BASYS ASAP AS PER FRENCH AND SOON INDON NEWS.
As with French site may warrant further expansion at some later date.
We also may need to cater more for the non PNG national 'surfer' who wants to
access pages in Tok Pisin for other reasons - anthropological - yes I have a
few such enquiries.
ENGLISH
Text News - fully automated ex Basys - no maintenance as such
Audio News and Sport - daily - one half hour - to access pre coded WRN feeds,
cut and paste into our site directly and update menu.
Weekend bulletins I 'record' at home and load up on Monday as available. This
may need to be revised.
Sport (non WRN)
Monday (usually) 'Capture' Weekend football results and ladders ex 'helpful'
site.
Rewrite slightly so info is presented on our pages with the 'RA' 'look and
feel'
Update 'coming weeks' games
Time needed approx one hour that day
Tuesday (sometimes) add in results and modify ladder to account for Monday
nite match.
Time needed approx 15' that day
As appropriate update cricket pages. Less regular but more fiddly to 'capture'
and re code.
Time needed approx one hour per 'session' - say once per week - Tests take a
little longer. Mainly getting pages to 'look' the same with text columns of
sometimes long unwieldy names to be tabled.
TRANSCRIPTIONS
Barry Taylor provides marked up scripts for Innovations, Charting Aus and
Science File. You will need to speak to Barry re his time for these tasks.
As for my role...
Checking, correcting as necessary, (there are quite a few places where
mistakes can occur which if out by even one 'letter' can disable a page.) Barry
as it happens is very thorough and rarely makes an error.
My time, approx one hour per week.
I also receive approx once a week (sometimes as with this past week several in
one hit) Indian Pacific.
This I mark up, modify menu, write summary for menu
Time approx one half hour per program.
I believe we should seriously look at audio transcription service delivery via
the net asap.
SCHEDULES
Very fiddly and time consuming when they need to be done - several days work
approx three or four/times per year. A new role for new pot cut TX Management?
EMAIL
eMail specific to elp/pac matters that need 'tech' attention ie not program
based as such
approx two per day possibly half an hour to respond/ on pass/ find info etc.
Hope this helps Roger. I'm bound to have missed something - hope not.
Russ
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 11:32:30 +1000
From: Tim Potter <"POTTER TIM"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: CRICKET
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell -
I received this email from (I assume) one of your listeners:
Date sent:Thu, 22 May 1997 22:35:22 +0800
To:local.radio@your.abc.net.au
From:chris@brunet.bn (Christopher Ting)
Subject:cricket radio broadcast schedule
Hello
I'd appreciate if you could send me a schedule of ABC cricket broadcast to
South East Asia for cricket matches between Australia and England this season.
Thanks!
Chris
I have done a local radio cricket page
http://www.abc.net.au/local/cricket.htm
but I doubt that it is really useful for RA b/cast times.
I hope you can help.
Tim.
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 00:48:37 +1000
From: lward <lward@cdh.net>
Subject: - no subject (01IJ8T4SXIO2BMA7L5)
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
how do I get an e mail addres to radio australia Lawrence Ward
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 04:07:09 +1000
From: chbryan <chbryan@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: Hi from RA
To: "Russell Naughton NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
I am writing in hopes you are still employed by RA. I imagine that is the
truth, for they would have to hire someone else to do the cutting edge stuff on
the internet in any case.
I sent another message to the Senate Enquiry, getting a bit testy about
bureaucracies, and lo and behold, they did respond to me. However, I do not
have wordperfect or Word file capability at this end, or rather I don't know
how to do that yet, and so did not respond to them further. I think it was a
filter so that fewer messages got through.
However, the news was apparently good, unless you live in French Caledonia or
(was it Singapore?). When I think of the Southwest Pacific, all my thoughts of
the culture there are modulated by what I learn from Radio Australia. I know
that's expensive, but what's it worth? It was worth people's lives in this
century.
I see lately, you all are kind of cheesed off by the New Zealander plant
experts who diagnosed fire blight on some trees in Sidney. I don't think fire
blight affects the quality of fruit, if the tree can set fruit. I think the
Japanese are probably very touchy about it, though, given their import
strictures. I have had to battle it on my apple trees here in Colorado, and one
or two sprayings seems to have taken care of it. However, the cure is expensive
for only a couple of trees, and the whole tree farm getting it could be really
bad.
I hope anyone who intentionally spreads such diseases will pay for it in this
life through Karma, or in the next life.
Hope you get this, and best of luck.
Carey
Russell Naughton wrote:
Carey
Thanks for writing to the Senate Enquiry.
They had a lot of problems with their server I'm told and the fact that you
didn't get a response (even an automated one) doesn't surprise me.
They recieved thousands of eMail, letters etc.
There is one more set of public sessions for locals to appear in person to
state their opinions.
It will more than likely go the way of the past three or four - everyone
without exception wants RA to stay and that seems to even also be the wish of
the senate enquiry members.
The basic facts are though that the ABC is destined to have some 70 million
dollars (100 million US Dollars) taken from it's annual allowance of 550
million for the next three years.
In real terms this will probably see the end of RA and at least one or more
domestic networks.
All told about one in three staff will have to leave.
The future of RA is indeed bleak and I'm not sure how long we have left but
spirits are quite high considering and we all are getting on with the job.
Best Wishes
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 12:36:10 +1000
From: Tim Potter <"POTTER TIM"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: ANOTHER LISTENER E-MAIL
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ -
I assume this bloke is writing from the US, and he wants to tune into some
shortwave b/cast of the cricket -- either ours or the Beebs. Can you help
please?
Tim.
Date sent: Sat, 24 May 1997 12:32:25 -0400
Subject: frustrated yank; loves cricket
To: local.radio@your.abc.net.au
From: Andrew.Hecht@turner.com
i'm going out of my skull "watching"on cricinfo's "ball by ball" site and i was
curious if there was anyway to pick up the radio broadcast of the one days or
the tests via the internet.
please let me know.
cheers,
andrew hecht
CNN Interactive International Sports
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 00:37:42 +1000
From: Melanie <m.knight_smith@cowan.edu.au>
Subject: Masters thesis
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi Russell,
It's Melanie again. Just needing to ask you questions about the masters you
enroled in at RMIT. Was it by coursework or thesis? Was the establishment
lateral enough for you to do it by thesis or did you study M. Eng., by
coursework.
Melanie
Melanie Knight-Smith
Computer Support Engineer
School Of Mathematics, Information Technology and Engineering
Edith Cowan University
http://www.fste.ac.cowan.edu.au/support/Welcome.html
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 03:02:25 +1000
From: Melanie <m.knight_smith@cowan.edu.au>
Subject: Masters by project subject
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
It's me again. I will probably be emailing you a fair bit as I'm very
interested in doing some appropriate research to radio such as Towards
Cybersound. I have already have a brief conversation with you about 2 weeks ago
and have been speaking to a man called Rod Staples about the possibility of
giving my course a digital broadcast\multi-media flavour.
You are a very knowlegeable person in this area and I will need your guidance
and continuing opinion in this area. I wish to combine my studies with what
goes on at head office in Sydney at the ABC and have contacts at Alphatech over
here.
Russell, Rob has told me that I may need to take some of the upgraded BCOP
subjects to design a smooth transmission protocol for those stations in
Australia transferring to a digital media. Do you think this would be
appropriate? Or am I better off enhancing the already developed websites
currently existing in the way of stereo vision, video on demand or other up and
coming cyber-netfads.
Yours sincerely,
MAKS
Melanie Knight-Smith
Computer Support Engineer
School Of Mathematics, Information Technology and Engineering
Edith Cowan University
http://www.fste.ac.cowan.edu.au/support/Welcome.html
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 07:55:30 +1000
From: "mail.tm.net.my" <mail.tm.net.my@mail.tm.net.my>
Subject: Re: ASHES SERIES
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thank for your email dated 27th May 1997. Could you kindly update the
information on the Grand Stand - Cricket on the Internet if there are any
changes. Your last update was 14/05/97
Thank You
Stephen Anthony
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 16:17:20 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Cricket Update
To: Remote Addressee <mail.tm.net.my@mail.tm.net.my>
Stephen
Cricket updated today - sorry for the delay - I have been off sick and the RA
website is a 'one man band'.
Regards
Russell Naughton
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 16:22:28 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Hello from Russ Naughton
To: Remote Addressee <nignight_smith@cowan.edu.au>
Dear Melanie
First let me say that I consider it a pleasure to play somewhat of a mentor
role.
Secondly - sorry for the delay in answering - I have been most unwell with a
terrible cold and am in only this afternoon to keep the RA site afloat.
I have briefly read your eMails and will write again asap (read - I need a
clear head)
In Brief:
1. I was accepted into the MA program and indeed the PhD without a first
degree.
Unusual to say the least but I was trading my 30 years of broadcasting
experience against formal paperwork.
I also has some industry leaders lobbying for me as well.
We can discuss this more fully later.
2. The MA and indeed also the PhD is by Project. In my case to build a
'prototype' but in fact as has turned out, a 'real' interactive radio station
being Radio Australia or more exactly what it will become over the final two
years of my study.
3. My PhD site is now up on the web and much of this is explained more fully
there. The site has a long way to go but the basic framework and much of the
research material and bibliography is up and running.
http://www.cinemedia.net/RMIT/rnaughton
4. I am guest lecturing at Monash Uni next week and what with the changes in RA
management - post cuts - I may not get back to you for a few days.
Give me a little time and I'm sure I will be able to help you end up in the
right place at the right time.
Regards
Russ
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 16:41:53 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Cricket in the Internet
To: Remote Addressee <Andrew.Hecht@turner.com>
Andrew
Your mail onpassed to me at Radio Australia
We are broadcasting the cricket on Shortwave
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/cricket
the Pacific feed on 9860 kHz might get to you.
As yet RA and indeed its parent body the ABC (Australian Broadcasting
Corporation) does not run to Real Audio - It is in the pipeline for later this
year I'm told.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 16:47:42 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Radio Australia Contact List
To: Remote Addressee <lward@cdh.net>
Lawrence
for eMail and other contact with Radio Australia check out
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/res/contact.htm
regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 16:41:53 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Cricket in the Internet
To: Remote Addressee <Andrew.Hecht@turner.com>
Andrew
Your mail onpassed to me at Radio Australia
We are broadcasting the cricket on Shortwave
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/cricket
the Pacific feed on 9860 kHz might get to you.
As yet RA and indeed its parent body the ABC (Australian Broadcasting
Corporation) does not run to Real Audio - It is in the pipeline for later this
year I'm told.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 16:52:58 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Thanks for your concern...
To: Remote Addressee <chbryan@ibm.net>
Carey
Yep I did draw a lucky number - I will be one of the sixty or so to stay out of
the 140 or so currently here.
We also did at least maintain a minimum asia service along with the originally
agreed pacific services.
Thanks for your continued support - It IS appreciated
Regards
Russell naughton
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 16:17:55 +1000
From: Matty Taylor <mattyt@ibm.net>
Subject: Couple of Suggestions
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
I have been checking out the Radio Australia site and its pretty good but I
have a couple of suggestions which I think could be of benefit to others.
How about placing the current time in melbourne, UT and GMT on the site. That
could make it a bit easier to work out the correct frequency for shortwave. Or
you could go whole hog and actually display the current transmission
frequencies in addition to the static timetables you have available now.
This doesn't have to be dynamic (I see that you are trying to keep the site
quick by having minimal graphics - good move !). A refresh each time you enter
the site, taking the time from the server woul do it. I havn't done much HTML
stuff but a mickey mouse little 'C' routine could do it pretty easily and
wouldn't slow down the site noticably.
I was also just cruising around and found the site below. Could you add a link
to it ? Check it out - it's pretty good. http://www.wrn.org/stations/abc.html
Keep up the excellent work. I'm stuck in the USA and its great to hear news
from an Australian perspective from all over the world rather than US centered
stuff. (World news to americans is news related to america interests - tunnel
vision !)
Anyway you probably get heaps of suggestions and I hope this helps. Matty.
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:40:17 +1000
From: <"ESTERMAN FRANCINE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: 1997 Ethnic Affairs Commissionof NSW Multicultural Awards
To: <"GRIFFITH COLIN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Colin,
I received the nomination form today for the 1997 Ethnic Affairs Commission of
NSW Multicultural Marketing Awards (I rang them for a copy last week.)
Nominations close 11.7.97 and the winners are announced in November.
I thought we could enter the ABC Online Radio Australia news service (which
includes:
* weekly Aust News and Info in Chinese
* daily Asia Pacific Region news and Current Affairs in French
* weekly news summaries in Tok Pisin
* a "This is Radio Australia" Sound File Archive in Cantonese
Or perhaps just one of these?
We would go under the "Government" section which is open to any government
department or agency in Australia.
The category looks for creativity, innovation and effectiveness in marketing
the organisation's services (eg: our news service) in a way that recognises
cultural diversity in Australia.
What do you think?
Regards
Francine
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 12:13:54 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Thanks for the suggestions
To: Remote Addressee <mattyt@ibm.net>
Matty
Always glad to get ideas on improving the service. After all its you the
'client' if you will that I'm trying to please.
Re the time clock - I'll follow that one up - have often thought it might be a
good addition. Not sure whether ABC 'IT' department agrees - will check.
Re the schedules and time - I'm not a programmer but the guys in Sydney may
also be able to look at that one.
Re WRN - we do link to it - http://www.abc.net.au/ra/res/elpwrn.htm
I also store an archive at...
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/wrnsound/default.htm
Thanks again for the email
Regards
Russ Naughton
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:29:30 +1000
From: <NAUGHTON.RUSSELL@abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Hits for March April and May
To: <MCCAFFERTY.CATHERINE@abcnet.abc.net.au>
Cath
I have finally figured out how the new stats generator works.
As time permits today? (this week) I'll give you a monthly breakdown but for
the moment here is a three month breakdown (March April May)
To help you this time around I'll add in the area that each line refers to
HITS % HITS DIRECTORY RUSS' DEFINITION
183885: 29.13%: /ra/newsrael/ english news
32248: 02.38%: /ra/ ra home page
31402: 02.22%: /ra/newsrafr/ french news
9479: 00.53%: /ra/elp/ elp home page
8830: 00.38%: /ra/res/ resources home
7938: 51.74%: /ra/wrnsound/ english news soundfiles
6886: 00.39%: /ra/newsrama/ mandarin news
5093: 00.65%: /ra/indon/ indonesian home page
4336: 00.11%: /ra/french/ french home page
4043: 01.28%: /ra/png/ png home (incl. 1712 news)
2602: 00.11%: /ra/newsrama/big5/ mandarin news (Big5 encoding)
2598: 00.44%: /ra/gallery/ gallery home page
1650: 00.34%: /ra/elp/innovatn/ innovations transcripts
1492: 00.25%: /ra/elp/sincfile/ science file transcripts
1439: 00.05%: /ra/football/ football home page
1256: 00.13%: /ra/elp/chrtaust/ charting australia transcripts
1016: 02.12%: /ra/mansfield/ mansfield home page
973: 00.03%: /ra/mand/ mandarin home page
802: 00.02%: /ra/cant/ cantonese home page
517: 00.01%: /ra/viet/ vietnamese home page
492: 00.09%: /ra/elp/indpac/ indian pacific transcripts
488: 00.03%: /ra/cricket/ cricket home page
316: 00.01%: /ra/thai/ thai home page
287: 00.01%: /ra/khmer/ khmer home page
248: 05.49%: /ra/cantsound/ cant news soundfiles (NB 1)
NB 1. that the cantonese sound files have only just begun and these hits only
reflect the last month.
NB 2. that this new stats system is very critical in its assessment and only
counts true accesses to the sites. Compared with the former stats package it is
ultra conservative.
Russ
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 12:03:17 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Cricket on Radio Australia
To: Remote Addressee <osdavis@netvigator.com>
Dear All,
Pardon the 'group' email - resources stretched
RA Cricket schedules, frequencies and scoreboards results etc at
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/cricket
any eMail regarding these transmissions should be directed to ...
ratx@radioaus.abc.net.au
regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 12:16:56 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Hello Kate...
To: Remote Addressee <kmjak2@student.monash.edu.au>
Kate
Thanks for the eMail. I ended up with a mild dose of pleurisy - wot fun.
To business...
First question
Audience Research
I'll copy this one to our Audience Research specialist - Mark Colbert. He will
be able to send you some sites to start your search I'm sure - Thanks Mark.
Second Question
Radio and the Internet.
I think the best way around this is to my RMIT site which has amongst a lot of
'radio' information, a links page to specific stuff on Internet and Radio.
http://www.cinemedia.net/SFCV-RMIT-Annex/rnaughton/phd8525.html
If you have the inclination it might be best to also come in the front door and
look at other aspects of the site...
http://www.cinemedia.net/SFCV-RMIT-Annex/rnaughton/
...there 's bound to be some other info that you can make use of (espec. the
bibliography)
Keep in touch
Regards
Russell Naughton
your eMail
TO: naughton russell (naughton russell@A1)
Subject: public radio
Russell,
How's your cold? I hope you are feeling better. This is Kate, a journalism
student at Monash. After your lecture the other day I decided to focus my next
assignment on public radio. We have to research audiences. Do you know of any
good sites that contain information about researching audiences of public
radio?
Another component is about radio futures, could you please explain a little bit
more about radio on the Internet?
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 14:07:03 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: More info for you Kate
To: Remote Addressee <kmjak2@student.monash.edu.au>
kate
some public radio sites I found for you to explore...
http://www.scu.edu.au/sponsored/cbaa/index.html
http://people.kfem.or.kr/macbride/paper20.html
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/hi/ho/thornley/thornley.html
http://kali.murdoch.edu.au/~hopehume/bcast.html
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/5UV/history_comrad.html
regards
russ naughton
aunty abc
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:20:14 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: New Music
To: Remote Addressee <cmcclure1@fuse.net>
Charles
Thanks for the eMail
Radio Australia is essentially a news and current affairs oriented station.
At present we only play a small amount of what you might call 'new' music.
The best source would be either the ABC's "TripleJ" and the commercial network
"TripleM"
<< http://www.abc.net.au/triplej >>
<< http://www.mmm.com.au >>
Both these are primarily FM networks across Australia.
TripleM may have Real Audio over the net.
Real Audio will be coming soon to TripleJ as it will to all other ABC outlets
such as Radio Australia.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:29:00 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Real Audio
To: Remote Addressee <bigt@theone.net>
Dear BigT
Real Audio is not as widespread here in Australia as it is in the USA.
You can try out "Wired Audio"
http://www.wiredaudio.com.au/main.html
and also
http://www.village.com.au/airwaves/austereo/net_nite/net_nite.htm
..let me know please if you find any others and I'll post them up on the RA
site.
regards
Russell Naughton
regards
Russell Naughton
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 14:07:03 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: More info for you Kate
To: Remote Addressee <kmjak2@student.monash.edu.au>
kate
some public radio sites I found for you to explore...
http://www.scu.edu.au/sponsored/cbaa/index.html
http://people.kfem.or.kr/macbride/paper20.html
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/hi/ho/thornley/thornley.html
http://kali.murdoch.edu.au/~hopehume/bcast.html
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/5UV/history_comrad.html
regards
russ naughton
aunty abc
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:14:42 +1000
From: Jim Della-Giacoma <jimdella@rad.net.id>
Subject: Query on International news service
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
Just a quick query on the RA International news summaries that appear on your
site. First, as a working jounalist, I find the RA internet service very
helpful for keeping well informed about what is happening in the Asia-Pacific
region.
I access it a couple of times a day when in Jakarta and was wondering if these
were just straight copies of the scripts that are read over the air on RA or is
it a news service which acts independent of what is broadcast?
Regards
Jim Della-Giacoma
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:41:44 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: Internet "Hits"
To: Mark Colbert <"COLBERT MARK"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear All
The new ABC 'hit' or more exactly 'access' generator (software name = ANALOGUE
) is of the new type which only measures actual accesses to a given page. It is
not influenced by graphics etc.
This is the reason why our 'hit' rate has come 'down' from 50,000 per month to
some 35, 40,000 per month.
I still believe with 'local' cacheing etc. that our real rate is still somewhat
higher.
Russ
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:58:53 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: News on RA
To: Remote Addressee <jimdella@rad.net.id>
Jim
The English language 'on line' news on RA and for that matter the French,
Chinese and soon Indonesian News are produced this way...
The original copy is typed up in our BASYS newsroom system. For the Chinese
itis produced in MS Word on a Windows PC running ChinaStar 'DoubleByte'
software to allow scripted characters.
Certain stories are 'earmarked' for the web and copies saved on a separate
servers.
A robot program "webnews" (written by ABC staffer) 'visits' the servers at
predetermined times depending on the language and takes the stories so
earmarked, adds HTML coding plus headers and footers and creates the 'story'
pages.
The "webnews" program then takes the headline, the time stamp and the first 20
words from each story and creates the index page that you first see when
accessing the news.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:14:17 +1000
From: Jim Della-Giacoma <jimdella@rad.net.id>
Subject: Re: News on RA
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
Thanks for the info.
cheers.
Jim
At 11:58 AM 20/6/97 +1000, you wrote:
>Jim
>The English language 'on line' news on RA and for that matter the French,
Chinese and soon Indonesian News are produced this way...
>The original copy is typed up in our BASYS newsroom system. For the Chinese
it
>is produced in MS Word on a Windows PC running ChinaStar 'DoubleByte'
>software to allow scripted characters.
>Certain stories are 'earmarked' for the web and copies saved on a separate
servers.
>A robot program "webnews" (written by ABC staffer) 'visits' the servers
at predetermined times depending on the language and takes the stories so
earmarked, adds HTML coding plus headers and footers and creates the 'story'
pages.
>The "webnews" program then takes the headline, the time stamp and the first
20
>words from each story and creates the index page that you first see when
accessing >the news.
>Regards
>Russell Naughton
>On Line Services Coordinator
>Radio Australia
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:11:53 +1000
From: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: NSS Switcher Output
To: Brian Hancock <"HANCOCK BRIAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Brian,
For purposes of broadcasting live audio on the Internet via our Real Audio
server in TR&D, could you please assign a switcher output from the NSS with
mnemonic WWW1.
I understand that the available outlet is outlet 45 and that we need this
jumpered to MDF E04K04 (the line to TR&D).
Russ Naughton in Radio Australia will be forwarding the corresponding ROSS
Schedule to the NSW ROSS Officer (Allin1 address "ROSS NR") early next week .
Many thanks,
-rob.
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:22:22 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: NSS Switcher Output
To: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Rob
With all respect I'm not sure of what you need of me re...
"...Russ Naughton in Radio Australia will be forwarding the corresponding ROSS
Schedule to the NSW ROSS Officer (Allin1 address "ROSS NR") early next week"
The ROSS Schedule should come from the ROSS officer shouldn't it?
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to add to / include / whatever to the Real Audio
Hong Kong Project other than supply audio material as discussed and that being
some or all of the following...
Programs 1 - 5 of Cantonese Audio Programs (already on Web in .au format)
Have I missed something?
Please update me as to what you need other than above.
Regards
Russ
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:30:42 +1000
From: "SUE SLAMEN <"SLAMEN SUE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: FWD: RE INDONESIAN NEWS QUOTE.
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Monday 23rd June
Subject: PUTTING RA INDONESIAN NEWS ON THE NET
Russell,
As you know, I am very keen to have RA's Indonesian News up on the Net to
coincide with our new transmission arrangements on 30th of June.
- All the necessary templates have been translated.
- Do we require IT to do anything more to make it happen?
- Or, is it now simply a matter of showing our IPCs in Indonesian
the necessary key strokes to make it happen.
I took heart from Michael Spence's earlier E-Mail when he said that, quote,
... " adding an extra service is a fairly trivial task in the scheme of
things..."
Please let me know, if I need to prod anyone and whether freeing up someone
from RA or the ABC who is familiar with tyhe BASYS/NET transfer to show Indon
staff the necessary key strokes would help move things along.
Many Thanks,
Sue Slamen,
Regional Manager,
Southeast Asia Service.
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 15:15:01 +1000
From: "Kieran Ryan <"RYAN KIERAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: FTP account for hongkong
To: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Rob,
The ftp account hongko5b has been set up. The password is edding8c.
(I've tried it and it works).
Kieran.
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:51:58 +1000
From: Rhonda Smithies <rhonda@rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re Masters Lecture Series..
To: Russell Naughton <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
David & Russell,
Many thanks for agreeing to present at the Lecture Series next Thursday. Usual
time 7pm at Radio Theatre. If you have any specialist requirements, please let
me know beforehand. I will organise to have the normal link ups to the Internet
with the library A.V. Department Technician. See you next week and thanks once
again. At this stage there is only the two of you, however I'm working on the
possibility of one other presenter. Hope you can join us for a drink and/or a
curry afterwards...
Cheers
Rhonda.
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:02:28 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Text for /hongkong/default.htm
To: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Rob
Here below is text for the page
/hongkong/default.htm
It is largely 'borrowed from an eMail from Suzan Campbell re the RN programming
plan which is by default the main source of content for the 'on line'
transmission.
Unless I hear other wise I will get this translated into chinese (Wed)
for the record the other two pages are constructed and Dom is doing some more
artwork (buttons) tonite.
Russ
forgive the HTML code - ta.
From 10pm on Monday June 30 (1200 Hrs UT, "Universal Time") till 6pm on
Tuesday July 1 (0800 hrs UT), <B>ABC ON Line</B>, using for the
first time its new <B>Real Audio</B> server technology combined
with the programming resources of ABC News and Current Affairs, Radio National
and Radio Australia, will broadcast live on the Internet, 24 Hours of news and
information primarily focussed on the handover of Hong Kong to China at
Midnight Hong Kong Time (2am Melbourne time and 1600 hours UT).<P>
The coverage will begin and end with <B>Late Night Live</B> hosted
by <B>Phillip Adams</B>. On <B>Monday, June 30</B>,
Late Night Live broadcasts from <B>BritishHong Kong</B>. They'll
discuss the Western Legacy and the future of the territory with prominent Hong
Kong people. They'll also look at how the issue is playing in Britain as the
sun finally sets on the old empire.<P>
On <B>Tuesday, July 1st</B>, Late Night Live broadcasts from
<B>Chinese Hong Kong</B>, and the focus is on China and the
changing politics of the region. The program will begin with Phillip Adams
observations of the handover ceremony and the mood on the streets of Hong Kong,
followed with a discussions about corruption and the relative business values
of East and West. As <B>Tung Chee Hwa</B> takes power, he will test
his independece as he tackles organised crime and cross-border
corruption.<P>
Finally, we'll take a look at The Chinese Century - as China's economy grows,
will its political ambitions also expand, and what will this mean for the world
of the 21st century?<P>
In between times we'll feature many of your favourite <B>Radio
National</B> programs and some not so familiar from <B>Radio
Australia</B> including a series of Cantonese Language programs made
especially for the Internet.<P>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 19:04:21 +1000
From: hipnt <hipnt@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Subject: Re: hello from a fellow student of radio
To: Russell Naughton <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Russell Naughton wrote:
>Dear Phoebe
>My name is Russell Naughton. I am a VERY mature age (51) Ph.D. student at
RMIT University in Melbourne.
I am a VERY VERY mature age (54) PhD student.
>Like you, I am studying radio. (I have in fact worked in radio, Aunty ABC,
for just on 30 years and thought before I die I should 'make my academic'
mark)
Perhaps you know Grahame Steel. He was with 'Aunty' nearly that long and is now
manager of the community station 2NUR-FM here at the University of Newcastle,
where I am an occasssional volunteer.
>I came across your pages whilst searching for info on public radio for a
Monash Uni student that I taught when a guest lecturer a few weeks back.
>The content on your site is very good but I felt that the 'look' of the
pages themselves could do with some help.
I'm glad my information was of some use.
>I put on my 'day job' hat - On Line Services Coordinator (aka 'WebMaster')
for Radio Australia, (the international service of the Aust. Broadcasting
Commission) and produced the new files now located at...
><< http://www.abc.net.au/ra/thornley >>
It seems to me you have only redesigned one of the pages, the first one. All
subsequent pages seem identical to me.
>You are most welcome to use these or be you totally annoyed at my
impertinance to have interfered - file them in the circular filing cabinet at
the bottom of your screen.
>trusting that you actually might prefer the new appearance.
I am touched at your interest and I am quite happy to have my pages duplicated.
I am not at all annoyed at your impertinance and interference. I appreciate
your intentions very much. HOWEVER, sorry to disappoint you, but I prefer my
pages just the way they are. I know some people won't take the time to scroll
down the picture to get to the information (particularly those on very slow old
computers) but I'm very fond of my pictures, that's why I put them there. I am
actually very proud of the fact, that as a five times grandma I am still
capable of learning new skills, such as using html and creating my own pages.
They are all my own work. I took the trouble to learn because my son and his
wife have set up a new directory under the umbrella of _Readers' Digest_, and I
thought I ought to understand what they are on about. Their directory is
LookSmart and you can find it at http://www.looksmart.com.
>yours faithfully as a kindred radio 'spirit'
>Russell Naughton
><< http://www.abc.net.au/ra >>
Your page indicates you work for Radio Australia. I thought that was 'on the
way out'. Your page does not appear 'past tense'. Are you assured of a
future??
>...for the day job and...
><< http://www.cinemedia.net/RMIT/rnaughton >>
I have just had a look at this page on your PhD. Is that something to do with
what 5UV and 2NUR-FM are now doing, broadcasting their programs on the 'Net'.
>...hopefully (eventually) my ticket to 'doctordom'
Well, hopefully, we will both get there, one day. I would list your thesis on
my page of other relevant research, if it was relevant. I think yours might be
a little too much 'now' whereas mine is more 'then'. But if you can convince me
it is relevant I will add it to my list. Thanks again for your interest. It is
nice to know that cyberspace is not empty, that in fact people do look at what
we put there. Even if we don't agree on www layout.
Always a kindred spirit on radio,
Phoebe Thornley.
Phoebe Thornley
Department of History Radio 2NUR-FM
University of Newcastle
NSW 2308
Australia
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 02:52:46 +1000
From: "G. Erkelens" <columbia@worldonline.nl>
Subject: Some Questions
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hello sir,
This is a little message from the netherland. I am working for a little local
radiostation here in the netherlands. On the second of july, we are going to
talk about your country and especially about radiostations in australia. I want
to know, if it's possible to give some general information about your
radiostation.
I hope you will, because I can use this information in my radioshow on the
second of july.
Special thanks and with friendly regards,
Bert
columbia@worldonline.nl
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Some HTML to Check for Russ Please
To: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Rob
This is the head part of the file << hongkong/live.htm >>
Can you please check the HTML of the two bold lines below.
I am having difficulty in accessing the test transmission and am starting at
the beginning by making sure that the link on the hong kong page is as you gave
it to me over the phone.
ta russ
<TABLE BORDER =0 width=500>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN =LEFT>
<FONT SIZE=4>
<B>ABC Radio and Radio Australia Programs in Real Audio</B> <TD
ALIGN =CENTER><FONT SIZE=3>
<A HREF="prn://202.6.74.5/abctestlive.ram">
<IMG BORDER=0 SRC="play.gif" ALT="button"></A> <TR>
<TD>
<TD ALIGN =CENTER><FONT SIZE=3>
<A HREF="prn://202.6.74.5/abctestlive.ram">Play</A>
I question this as when I tried to play the Classic FM feed the player
indicated that the prefix should be pnm not prn
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:03:37 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Russ
To: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Rob
Have checked thru MMU Help
Have re configured player as per instructions
have then fed 'default' location in
<<pnm://audio.realaudio.com/welcome.ra>> as per dialog box
the player comes to life
contacts realaudio.com then stops - with no audio heard ?
Russ
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:23:59 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Hong Kong - more
To: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Rob
please confirm / correct fetch dialog boxes for access to extenal server for
hongkong job
Host www.abc.net
UserID hongko5b
PW edding8c
Dir /web/external/
above continually gives message host unreachable
ta russ
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:27:20 +1000
From: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au> Subject: RE:
Russ
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
yeah sorry, we've just had the server down for some reconfiguration. Here are
the (final I hope) details.
Live feed is at pnm://202.6.74.5/abclive.ra
The feed is now streaming Radio Australia's ELP service and we are still
fiddling with the levels to optimise quality.
Later in the day it should also be possible to reference 202.6.74.5 as
audio1.abc.gov.au.
-rob
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:36:15 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE Real Audio / Hong Kong etc
To: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Rob
As the inevitable would have it I cannot access the Real Audio feed as a lovely
dialog box tells me I need to upgrade my player. (3.0 I guess)
However from memory I don't think the new player will work on my computer
that's why I have been reyling on the older version I have.(version 2.0)
I will try again
I may also have some troubles with encoding using the encoder 2.0
Russ
Neil - the lack of a contemporary computer suitable for mm development is now
starting to impact daily on my ability to carry out my duties.
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:37:06 +1000
From: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au> Subject: RE:
Hong Kong - more
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
that should be www.abc.net.AU
-rob.
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:38:17 +1000
From: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Wow - HK live!
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Hey, I am hearing something on HK law on pnm://202.6.74.5/abclive.ra.
-rob.
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:27:17 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Real Audio 3.0 Incompatibility
To: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Rob
As I thought RA 3.0 seems not to be a goer on my 68040 Mac
I think it must be the 'software' FPU all else seems? OK ?
I have checked all the prefs (proxy etc) in 3.0 but it just keeps on
freezing/crashing machine.
Version 2.0 quite stable but as stated before won't replay the HK feed.
We will try and access all the stuff we need via DOM's machine. At least its a
PPC albeit for some reasons far slower than my Quadra 605.
We try and try again but sometimes DON'T succeed eh.
Russ
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:52:46 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Real Audio
To: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Rob
Seems I can get RA 3.0 for 68040 Mac but it needs an FPU (I am running
software FPU and that may work) downloading now. Will get back to you if it
doesn't work.
No sign of DM and Colin yet - sorry
Cannot use newest player RA 4.0 on 68040 anything - needs PPC etc.
Russ
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:58:01 +1000
From: "JEAN PORTAIL <"PORTAIL JEAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Russell fin
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell:
here are the two death notices for the French service.
Hope it's OK with you.
JJ
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:14:23 +1000
Subject: Russell fin
Russell: this first page corresponds to the Home page frhome.htm
FIN DES EMISSIONS EN FRANÇAIS DE RADIO AUSTRALIE
Suite à la décision prise par le Conseil d'Administration de
l'Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) en Avril dernier, Radio Australie
cesse à la fin du mois de juin ses émissions en
français.
En conséquence, nous regrettons de ne plus être en mesure de
fournir le bulletin quotidien de nouvelles sur la région
Australie-Pacifique que nous avions mis en place l'an dernier sur l'Internet.
Nous remercions tous ceux qui nous ont été fidèles au
cours de ces 9 derniers mois et qui ont démontré par cette
fidélité qu'il existe une réelle demande pour des
informations en français sur cette partie du monde.
Un grand merci de la part de toute l'équipe pour votre soutien.
This page corresponds to the news page newsrafr/default.htm:
27 6 97: APRES 57 ANS, RADIO AUSTRALIE CESSE D'EMETTRE EN FRANÇAIS
Le service français de Radio Australie, l'un des plus anciens de la
maison, a cessé d'émettre.
Créé en 1940, au début de la deuxième guerre
mondiale, le service français a longtemps diffusé vers le
continent africain, les pays d'Asie du sud est, l'Amérique du nord et
l'Europe.
Depuis 1991, il avait été réduit à un service
d'informations d'une demi-heure vers les pays et territoires francophones du
Pacifique où il a joué, à sa mesure, un rôle de
trait d'union entre le Pacifique anglophone et les territoires francophones.
Le Conseil d'administration de l'Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC),
confronté à des coupes sévères dans son budget, a
finalement décidé le 30 avril dernier de supprimer les
émissions en thailandais, en cantonais et en français.
En conséquence, le service n'est plus à même de
présenter, sur ce site, son bulletin quotidien de nouvelles sur la
région du Pacifique et l'Australie.
Nous nous en excusons auprès de tous ceux qui nous étaient
fidèles et les remercions chaleureusement pour le soutien qu'ils ont
manifesté à ce service depuis sa création.
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 09:33:07 +1000
From: "ROGER BROADBENT <"BROADBENT ROGER"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RA's French Language Service: final broadcast
To: [ all staff ]
The ABC's international service, Radio Australia, is losing its long
established and respected French language service.
Established in 1940 as a Government wartime propaganda service aimed at Europe,
it will broadcast its final programme today. It will be heard across the
Pacific at 1000 EDT.
Since 1992 the service has been an integral part of Radio Australia's dominent
role as information provider in the Pacific.
Despite the reduction in staff from 8 to four in 1992 as a budget cutting
measure, the French service built up a loyal following amongst its target
audience of French-speaking listeners in the Pacific and beyond.
As well as broadcasting daily on shortave its programmes have been relayed by
radio stations in Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Tahiti.
Last year the service established a news service on its Internet home pages. It
was an immediate success. The average monthly hit rate is in the order of
20,000.
The service will leave a void in our Pacific service which be impossible to
fill.
Having been their Manager since 1992 I have developed a tremendous admiration
and respect for their professionalism and commitment to their audience. It
speaks very highly of them that they have managed to maintain their high
quality service until the very last day.
On behalf of their listeners in the region and their colleagues here at
Southbank I would like to thank them for their many years of service and
loyalty.
Roger Broadbent,
Manager, English & Pacific Services
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:04:16 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton (03)626-1943" <"NAUGHTON
RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: NSS Switcher Output and ABC On Line for Hong Kong Gig To: Brian
Hancock <"HANCOCK BRIAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Brian
re
For purposes of broadcasting live audio on the Internet via our Real Audio
server in TR&D, .....I understand that the available outlet is outlet 45
and that we need this jumpered to MDF E04K04 (the line to TR&D).
Russ Naughton in Radio Australia will be forwarding the corresponding ROSS
Schedule to the NSW ROSS Officer (Allin1 address "ROSS NR") early next week .
Many thanks,
-rob (garnsey).
response from russ......
Brain , Rob
At this point in time the best run down I can offer is thus:
Hong Kong Transition - Special Program Feed to TR & D Real Audio Server
AEST UT ABC Radio and Radio Australia Programs - June 30, 1997
2200 1200 Radio National
2300 1300 Radio Australia English Language Service
0000 1400 Radio Australia English Language Service
0100 1500 Radio Australia English Language Service
0200 1600 Radio Australia English Language Service
0300 1700 Radio Australia English Language Service
0400 1800 Radio Australia English Language Service
0500 1900 Radio Australia English Language Service
AEST UT ABC Radio and Radio Australia Programs - July 1, 1997
0600 2000 Radio National
0700 2100 Radio National
0830 2230 Radio National
0900 2300 Radio Australia English Language Service
1000 0000 Radio National
1100 0100 Radio Australia English Language Service
1200 0200 Radio National
1300 0300 Radio Australia English Language Service
1430 0400 Radio National
1500 0500 Radio Australia English Language Service
1600 0600 Radio Australia English Language Service
1700 0700 Radio National
1800 0800 Radio National
this provides a continuous feed of material the real audio server
regards
Russ
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 14:27:47 +1000
From: Michael Spence <"SPENCE MICHAEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: French is gone
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
I have turned off the RA French Service so it will as of now stop updating the
staging area.
You can now at your leisure put up a notice in place of the default.htm and it
should be transferred from the staging area to the external web for you as that
process is still in place.
Thanks,
Michael Spence
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 15:12:40 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: French is gone
To: Michael Spence <"SPENCE MICHAEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Michael
Many thanks re French
We at least can look forward to the indon news and soon after that I'd like to
revisit the 'chinese' variant to get our vietnamese news up in a similar
'double byte' / Pluto way
Russ
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:27:58 +1000
From: "Clare Arthurs <"ARTHURS CLARE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: thanks russ
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
It's 1630 and Anita's madly tapping away so should have it to you soon.
I'm leaving today Russ - it's been a pleasure. Thank you.
Kind regards
Clare
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 04:07:15 +1000
From: Rachel Mawhood <rachel@longitude0.compulink.co.uk>
Subject: Re: RA loses French and Cantonese Services
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hello Russell
Thank you for your e-mail; I have forwarded it to all the SWS organisers,
including those who write the text for the SWS web-site.
Kind regards
Rachel
web-mistress and volunteer for SWS/FWS
Russell Naughton wrote:
Hi from RA
You may wish to read the latest from us - not good news I'm afraid.
ref: URL << http://www.abc.net.au/ra/special.htm >>
Thanks for your continued support
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 11:32:32 +1000
From: Kevin O'Connell <kevin.oconnell@virgin.net>
Subject: Radio Ausralia advice net and analogue
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear ABC,
I am buried on the foot hills of the peak district in north-mid-central
England. Rupert M provides SKY which, bless him, delivers two hours of Rex
Hunt's endogenous zone, which, although I have been gifted a present of
fractured, week old replays, it is not the somnolent pleasure of Tim May's oohs
and 'Crackers' insightfulness.
Question one
Is there any way of picking up live ABC footy coverage via the wireless. (I
have tried burying sheep in the peat bog and connecting their dags with copper
wire connected to my short wave radio but ...)
Question two
Is there an internet service which will provide me with audible (albeit poor
quality) live coverage of the beautiful game.
I miss the coverage and although the Melbourne Age site and various other user
groups and club sites are very welcome, it would be wonderful to get proper
live, angstful, passionate coverage.
Any advice will be received with great thanks.
Kevin O
Expat
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 13:48:04 +1000
From: Bob Rosenberg <rarosenb@rci.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Thomas A. Edison Papers
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Mr. Naughton,
You have done quite a bit of impressive work already. May I add that the Thomas
A. Edison Papers now has a web site < http://edison.rutgers.edu > with a
searchable index of about 80,000 documents and 14,000 names. We will be linking
the index to images of the documents as they are digitized over the next two
years, and we will be adding as many documents again in the next decade.
Best of luck in your endeavor.
Bob Rosenberg
Robert Rosenberg
Thomas A. Edison Papers
Rutgers University
rarosenb@rci.rutgers.edu
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:06:43 +1000
From: DIANE MARTIN <"MARTIN DIANE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: IPAC
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
many thanks for getting those programs up Friday ... you were here very late -
I can only hope it wasn't only on IPAC's behalf.
Again thanks
di martin
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 17:47:59 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Thomas Edison
To: Remote Addressee <rarosenb@rci.rutgers.edu>
Dear Bob
Thankyou for your kind words re my Edison research / info.
My aim at this stage is to gather together all of the oft (not in Edison's
case I might add) scattered information about the various pioneers in my field
of study.
I have sadly have also found that much good info goes the way of the 'trash
can' once a 'student' has left an institution.
As such, when I come across a site that has a suspect 'feel' about its
longevity, I capture it, re vamp it to match my own site's 'look and feel' (
austere but functional) and re publish it on my site which is guaranteed to
survive.
As you would have seen, I make sure to give comprehensive credit to the
original author / source.
I have a huge amount of images (from literally hundreds of sources) to be
taken from the scan stage to the web page and I hope to get to them next
holidays. There is quite a lot of Edison/Dickson material.
Re Edison Papers site again...
I will watch the new site with interest and if I might, link to it.
Thanks again for your interest and should you link to my site, I'd love to hear
of it and add it to my collection of reverse links.
http://www.cinemedia.net/RMIT/rnaughton/phd8580.html
Regards and thanks again for your kind words
Russell Naughton
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:44:11 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: Footy on RA
To: Remote Addressee <kevin.oconnell@virgin.net>
Kevin
As you are aware RA is being dismembered limb by limb these daze but in
amongst
the gloom things like Real Audio are beginning to glow.
We are running a Real Audio feed of RA program at the moment (mainly
'sponsored' by the Hong Kong event) which you might like to test out.
http://www.abc.net.au/hongkong
It is scheduled to still be available this coming weekend (read Grandstand)
although control of server is in Sydney hands not here in Melbourne.
I have in fact suggested that RA might become the defacto source for our Real
Audio Feed in the future but have also alerted those involved to possible
infringement of copyright on matters such as the football...we will see.
Best bet push button on the day and it (the football) may be there - sorry I
can't be more sure at this time.
Best regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 12:03:21 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: Various
To: ROGER BROADBENT
Roger
could you please comment, act on, advise on the following as your time
permits.
1. No news from PNG since june 5 ish - is this service to continue
2. They complained of lack of basys terminal access in past which prevented
live basys to internet activity - will not the lack of french usage now make
this possible ?
3. WRN recordings now out of whack can you please advise WRN of new record
times to achieve news and sport as per last month or so
4. Weekend program rundown soon please
5. Apologies for misinterpreting upper case and lower case program entries on
first go at ne mon to fri - indicating RA and RN input - now fixed.
Russ
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 12:57:19 +1000
From: hipnt <hipnt@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Reply from Russ
To: Russell Naughton
Cc: hipnt <hipnt@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
I have now looked at your effort on my 'local files' and I probably do prefer
yours, except that I'd still want the pictures with the links.
I plan to update the Research file shortly as I have more information so I
might combine the best of your efforts and mine. 'Keep watching this
space....'
Phoebe.
Phoebe Thornley
Department of History Radio 2NUR-FM
University of Newcastle
NSW 2308
Australia
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Russell Naughton wrote:
Dear Phoebe
Forgot to change the links from home page to local files for People interviewed
etc.
The links were just pulling up your originals again. Have a look at least to
see what I intended and then as you said - be happiest with your own work. Like
you, I am in no way offended. Best wishes and good luck
Russ Naughton
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:44:48 +1000
From: "ELIZABETH WESSELS"
<"WESSELS ELIZABETH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: INVITATION
To: Russell Naughton
Russell,
Congratulations - you will shortly be the recipient of a 25 year service medal
which will be presented to you on Thursday 3 July.
Attached is an email which gives details of the time and venue.
See you there......Liz
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:36:28 +1000
From: "ELIZABETH WESSELS"
<"WESSELS ELIZABETH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE - 25 YEAR SERVICE MEDALLIONS
To: Russell Naughton
I would like to confirm arrangements for presentation of the 25 year service
medallions to the following people.
Venue: Lounge area - South East Asia Section
Time: 1615
Date: Thursday 3 July
Recipients: Rudi Munir, Resmi Davidson, Joseph Istanto (not attending), Ario
Soengkono (not attending), Peeti and Chetana Suvarnasara (not attending), Terry
Brown, Sue Slamen, Neil Deer, Russell Naughton, Julia Wei, Barry Seeber, June
Barton, Istas Pratomo Hidayat
I will arrange champagne and nibbles and mineral water to celebrate -
Regards
Liz
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 05:38:38 +1000
From: Sam Rosano <sr247370@wcupa.com>
Subject: Hello
To: naughton russell
We are inquiring about your interesting site about the history of Lee de
Forest. Our mass communication webcourse linked to your site below. We were
wondering if it will ever be back or if there will be a replacement?
http://www.cinemedia.com.au/SFCV-RMIT-Annex/rnaughton/DEFOREST_BIO.html
Thank You,
Internet Presentations Group(West Chester University)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 14:05:09 +1000
From: "Sandeep Jyoti"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Subject: cricket coverage
Sender: sandeep <sandeep@viper.tor.servtech.com>
To: naughton russell
Hi,
I am not sure if you are the right person i should be contacting this for, but
do you have any idea where i can get some information about your schedule for
cricket coverage. (shortwave).
Are there any plans to include Real-Audio brodcasts for Cricket coverage. That
would be an excellent thing
Thanks
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 11:41:30 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: Lee De Forest
To: Remote Addressee <sr247370@wcupa.com>
Dear Sam
Firstly, let me thankyou for taking an interest in my work. It makes all the
long hours worthwhile.
Secondly let me apologise for what was simply a typographical error when
converting some older files from my Masters site to my PhD site.
The file you are after is (and should have always been)
DE_FOREST_BIO.html
the underscore break between DE and FOREST was missed initially but is now
definitely fixed.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
If you haven't examined the new PhD site please do it may have other relevant
info for your needs.
It is some number of times more comprehensive than my MA site.
Best (at least for the first time) go via the new 'Front Door' then you can
bookmark what you need.
New site
http://www.cinemedia.net/RMIT/rnaughton
Best Regards
Russell Naughton
PS: Would appreciate URL of your page that actually refers/links to my site
for
my 'reverse Links' page.
http://www.cinemedia.net/RMIT/rnaughton/phd8580.html
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 13:58:20 +1000
From: Sandeep Jyoti <sandeep@viper.tor.servtech.com>
Subject: Re: Cricket on Radio Australia
To: "Russell Naughton"
Great to her from you. It would be really nice if you could brodcast cricket
over Real Audio...
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Russell Naughton wrote:
Dear ....
For our coverage of the test in England please see
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/cricket
unfortunately since this page was created we have had to make major
revisions to our coverage
please see http://www.abc.net.au/ra/special.htm
the former page will be updated as soon as possible.
Thankyou
Russell Naughton
On line services coordinator
Radio Australia
we are trialing Real Audio at the moment but I am unsure as to whether or not
we will be running cricket due to copyright problems. Real Audio Test (largely
Radio Australia programming) now avail on http://www.abc.net.au/hongkong
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 02:37:06 +1000
From: "Rosano, Serafino D." <SR247370@wcupa.edu>
Subject: Re: Lee De Forest
To: "'naughton.russell@a2.abc.net.au'"
Dear Mr. Naughton,
We thank you for giving us the new url address and appreciate your long hours
of work very much. Our url address that refers to your page is:
http://iws.wcupa.edu/webcourse/com212/radio/ra-birth.html
Have a nice holiday,
Sam Rosano
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 21:10:02 +1000
From: Melanie <m.knight_smith@cowan.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Hello again...
To: "Russell Naughton"
Russ,
are you still there?
I am taking a masters research unit this semester, along with some multi-media
objectives. These courses will enable me to possess the skills to develope
something interactive on-line which is exciting or develop areas that currently
need attention. This could be audio streaming or incorporating more visual
design into an existing or new site.
Looking forward to hearing from you
MAKS
At 04:57 PM 5/30/97 +1000, you wrote:
Dear Melanie
Firstly let me say that I consider it a pleasure to play somewhat of a mentor
role in your future. I am as it happens playing a similar role to a young (25
) digital imaging specialist at Ilford here in Melbourne.
Secondly - sorry for the delay in answering - I have been most unwel l with a
terrible cold and am in only this afternoon to keep the RA site afloat. I have
briefly read your eMails and will write again asap (read - I really need a
clear head)
In Brief:
1. I was accepted into the MA program and indeed the PhD without a first
degree. Unusual to say the least but I was trading my 30 years of broadcasting
experience against formal paperwork. I also has some industry leaders lobbying
for me as well. We might discuss this more fully later.
2. The MA and indeed also the PhD is by Project. In my case the project is to
build a 'prototype' but in fact as has turned out, a 'real' interactive radio
station and that being Radio Australia or more exactly what 'RA' will become
over the final two years of my study.
3. My PhD site is now up on the web and much of this is explained more fully
there. The site has a long way to go but the basic framework and much of the
research material and bibliography is up and running.
http://www.cinemedia.net/RMIT/rnaughton
4. I am guest lecturing at Monash Uni next week and what with the changesin RA
management - post cuts - I may not get back to you for a few days. Give me a
little time and I'm sure I will be able to help you end up in the right place
at the right time.
Regards
Russ
Melanie Knight-Smith
Computer Support Engineer
School Of Mathematics, Information Technology and Engineering
Edith Cowan University
http://www.fste.ac.cowan.edu.au/support/Welcome.html
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 10:56:08 +1000
From: Sydney MCR <"MCR SYDNEY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: REAL AUDIO TRIAL ON WEB
To: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
As I haven't received any further details of the Real Audio Trial (WWW1)
conducted up until the 5/7, I will presume the trial is over and audio is no
longer required on this channel. If in future audio is required could you
please E-mail the ROSS Officer (ROSS NR) with details.
I would appreciate at least one week's notice as many switching modifications
are involved when providing Radio National audio on this network. ELP audio
only is relatively simple. Could you also include Master Control (MCR S) on
your distribution list as they must check and oversee all switching.
Cheers,
Sue Griffiths MCR
A/ROSS Officer
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 11:39:47 +1000
From: "Roberto C. Galloso" <galloso@icanect.net>
Subject: REPLY
To: "Russell Naughton"
DEAR MR. NAUGHTON:
IN REPLY TO YOUR RECENT E MAIL, I AM GLAD THAT RADIO AUSTRALIA
WILL SURVIVE BECAUSE I CONSIDER IT AN INSTITUTION AND I HAVE
BEEN A FAN SINCE I WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD LISTENING TO YOU ON
SHORT WAVE RADIO (WHICH IS IN 1970) AND I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP
IN TOUCH WITH YOU AND IF POSSIBLE REMAIN ON YOUR MAILING LIST.
THIS IS MY ADDRESS
ROBERTO C ALVAREZ-GALLOSO
2340 SW 6 ST
MIAMI FLORIDA 33135-3110 USA
galloso@icanect.net
P.S. I SENT SOME SOUVENIRS VIA REGULAR MAIL TO RADIO AUSTRALIA.
PLEASE REPLY WHEN YOU GET THEM BECAUSE ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA IS FAMILY TO ME
From: Russell Naughton <NAUGHTON.RUSSELL@a2.abc.net.au
To: galloso@icanect.net
Subject: From Radio Australia
Date: Tuesday, July 01, 1997 12:47 AM
Dear Roberto
Terry Brown has asked me to thank you for your recent eMail.
Radio Australia IS going through bad times at the moment but as before, we WILL
survive.
Thankyou for your best wishes and support
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 14:31:08 +1000
From: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: REAL AUDIO TRIAL ON WEB
To: Sydney MCR <"MCR SYDNEY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Sue,
It is correct that the Hong Kong program schedule as advised by Dom Frigugletti
on 26 June finishes on 5 July.
We would, however, like Radio Australia ELP to continue until further notice on
WWW1 if that is possible. No further switches to Radio National are envisaged
in
the immediate future.
Please let me know if this causes any problem. I've noted all of your
requirements about notice and people to advise. Thanks for your patience.
-Rob.
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 14:41:17 +1000
From: JOHN CLANCY <jclancy@minerva.com.au>
Subject: copyright person
To: naughton russell
Dear Russell
congratulations on your page - looks great. you mentioned to me at muv that i
should get hold of a name of someone in copyright at abc would you know any
names?? much obliged if you do
john clancy
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 15:09:00 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: The 'New' RA
To: Remote Addressee <tonyw@mozart.inet.co.th>
Cc: Terry Brown <"BROWN TERRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Tony
Thanks for you eMail of support and sadly the poor reception report.
The latest on all our 'adjustments' can be found at
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/special.htm
I will also onpass this eMail to our Frequency Manager for his info.
Thanks again and let me/us know if you have any more hassles - we need to know
-
even if its BAD news.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
you wrote...
Subject: Frequencies for Asia
Sirs:
I share with you the pain that the engineers and programming staff must feel
inflicted upon them at having to surrender the Darwin facility to near-sighted
politicians in Canberra, and I strongly miss your powerful signal into Asia.
Here in Thailand I would listen to RA first for the news, especially given its
former orientation towards Asian news.
I notice that you have yet to update your home page for Asian frequencies, and
hope that you can make some recommendations. Tuning around all I can find now
from your part of the world is National Radio out of Auckland on 6110 in the
late afternoon here. Not a whimper out of Australia to be found anywhere.
I am not alone in this sense of loss. Many friends have complained, missing the
ball -by-ball commentaries or other features of your great (formerly
world-wide) shortwave service.
(Note: I did send a letter to the Senate Hearings Committee -- a lot of good
that did!)
Sincerely, and in hope that someone -- or a future Government -- will
reconsider this move, that I regard a self-inflicted injury for Australia and
its international standing and image.
Tony Waltham
Bangkok, Thailand
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 19:04:32 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: Update to footers on World News pages
To: Michael Spence <"SPENCE MICHAEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Cc: Brendan Kerrison <"KERRISON BRENDAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Michael, Brendan
Since the cessation of the French news and the addition of Chinese and
Indonesian we need to update the footers on both the index and item pages of
<< newsrael >>
As it's such a small fix I wonder if one of you wouldn't mind doing it when
you
get a free moment.
the line that needs updating is
plus ...news from the Asia Pacific Region in Frangais and Tok Pisin
the replacement code - same for both pages - (boldface and separated by a
large space on either side is...)
Return to the <A HREF"default.htm">World News Menu</A>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3> plus ...news from the Asia Pacific Region in
<A HREF"/ra/newsrain/default.htm">Indonesian</A>,
<A HREF"/ra/newsrama/default.htm">Chinese</A> and
<A HREF"/ra/newsratp/default.htm">Tok Pisin</A>
<P>
</FONT>
<P>
<B>
<a href"/common/copyrigh.htm" target"_top">© 1996 Australian
Broadcasting Corporation</a>
</B>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=2>
<CITE>Wed Jul 2 07:30:00 1997 (<A HREF"#time">AEST</A>
)</CITE>
<P>
<A NAME"time">AEST Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours
ahead
of UTC (Greenwich Mean Time)</A>
</FONT>
</CENTER>
</BODY>
</HTML>
The last one, the Tok Pisin one doesn't exist as yet but in anticipation of the
change to a basys feed news rather than the current cut and paste I'll 'fake'
them in and around this via some links. This will save you having to rewrite
the link once again in a week or
so's time.
Regards
Russ
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 16:06:36 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: RE: Radio Australia on Internet In-reply-to:
<"E329ZWXPKW800*/R=ABCNET/R=A1/U=GARNSEY ROBERT/"@MHS>
To: Robert Garnsey <"GARNSEY ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Cc: STEPHEN RAPLEY <"RAPLEY STEPHEN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
DON FRIGUGLIETTI <"FRIGUGLIETTI DON"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
COLIN GRIFFITH <"GRIFFITH COLIN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thankyou all for opportunity to use RA ELP as the defacto feed for the coming
times.
By default it will be across RN for quite some hours per day anyway as ELP
takes RN live quite often now.
I fully realise it is a limited access, on test and available elsewhere for
other occasions, but for us here at RA surrounded by 'gloom' it may bring some
light relief.
Thanks all for both a successful test and in advance for the coming
extension.
Russ N
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:03:38 +1000
From: chbryan <chbryan@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: Thanks for your concern...
To: "Russell Naughton"
Russell Naughton wrote:
>
>Carey
>
>Yep I did draw a lucky number - I will be one of the sixty or so to stay
out of
>the 140 or so currently here.
>
>We also did at least maintain a minimum asia service along with the
originally agreed >pacific services.
>
>Thanks for your continued support - It IS appreciated
>Regards
>
>Russell naughton
Russell,
Well, I have somewhat survived the closure of the Brisbane transmitter. It
seems that the best signals on the 9 and 6 mhz bands were from there. I have
found other services, but only in the wee small hours here, and have found some
transmissions in tok pidgin. The language seems peppered with the word
"b'long", or is it just "long" now. I can receive RA on 31 meters, but you seem
to be gone altogether on the six mhz band.
I am still glad that you have some projection into China, to english speakers
in Papua New Guinea, India, Southern Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Southeast
Asia.
I heard the bit about the expatriate Australians in Phnom Penh being put into
danger by the silencing of the Northern Australia station in Brisbane last
week. I hope you heard me applauding over the miles. Bravo to the legislator
who made the comment that the whole deal of closing down the transmitter is
ill-conceived.
However much I miss your transmissions, it is more important to project freedom
of speech and truth as you see it into those parts of the world that need it.
Folks can make up their own mind, if you give them your best estimate of the
situation. It's honesty.
This may be just the thing over the years that has allowed us to relax our
vigilance. I hope that things prosper there and the station can be brought out
of mothballs. The more likely scenario is that some civilian contractor has
gotten the contract to demolish the whole transmitter site with bulldozers so
if it is needed again, it will be much more expensive to revitalize, and
someone will make money in the private sector building anew.
So much for the doom and gloom. I am enjoying hunting you down, but the
strength and fading of the signal makes it even more difficult to receive you.
I guess I need a parasitic array to point down under to receive you. It would
be of heroic proportion, and on my city lot, an impossibility. One thing I note
is that the more interesting the interview or foreign reporter, the thicker the
accent is and the harder for me to understand the speaker. I remember Ms.
Chadry from India, some of the more interesting characters from the outback,
the native reporters from the pacific nations north and east of you as being
particularly hard for me to understand with the selective fading. Maybe I can
find a synchronous detector circuit for my R-2000, and that will
help.
Took too much of your time, but am glad you are still aboard. I still hear some
of my favorite announcers, and they seem to be going in new directions than
before, not always super smoothly, but interesting nonetheless.
Best from the benighted states,
Carey
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 13:38:44 +1000
From: "JOHN CRONE"
Subject: KHMER NEWS SERVICE ON THE INTERNET
To: Terry Brown
Cc: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Terry
Given that Radio Australia's Khmer Service is likely to have as many potential
followers in places like France, the United States and Australia as in Cambodia
itself with the situation in that country worsening, I think we should be
looking at providing a once or even twice daily News Service in the Khmer
written language on the Internet
John Crone
Manager
North Asia Department
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 16:14:27 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: RE: KHMER NEWS SERVICE ON THE INTERNET
To: JOHN CRONE
Cc: Terry Brown <"BROWN TERRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Russ happy to negotiate on Khmer to Internet as per the Chinese.
Needs some work and I propose that we do it in tandem with the Vietnamese to
make better use of time from reqd. from Sydney (Simon Goldschmidt)
Essentially...
Phase 1
Create Folders/ Page Templates (Russ + assist from Hahn and Ta re graphics)
Phase 2
Commission quote from IT Syd for server connection, creation of custom upload
templates etc. etc (non Basys remember - as per Chinese PC)
Phase 3
Simon Goldschmidt visits Mel to install and train users - 2 days with costs
spread between services.
Phase 4
Testing on Line (chinese internet savvy staff as back up assist)
Phase 5
Launch
Russ
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 16:26:19 +1000
From: "JOHN CRONE"
Subject: KHMER ON INTERNET
To: Russell Naughton
Cc: Terry Brown <"BROWN TERRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
SUE SLAMEN
Russ
From our experience in developing the Weekly Roundup of Australian News in
Chinese for publication on the Internet, the plan you propose for getting News
in Khmer up on the Internet makes sense .
It's now up to Terry and Sue Slamen to say if they want to proceed with the
proposal and approve expenditure of the necessary funds .
John Crone
Manager
North Asia Department
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:54:54 +1000
From: steven <steven@stevenvote.com>
Subject: My God, it's working!
To: "Russell Naughton"
I love you Russell - well at least you should know that I am smiling from ear
to ear. It works! It is playing now as I type to you. Currently it is 8:50 pm
EST 11:50 am on Friday in Sydney. It appears that is actually a TV feed,
interviews with immigrants I guess? I know you are testing but is there an
address where I can get a program.
Thank you so much again!
Steven
PS I endeavoured to log on Tuesday - no luck.
>Steven
>We are trialling Real Audio now with our English Service
>Be the first on your block...
>http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/abclive.ram
>enjoy and let us know what you think
>Regards
>Russell Naughton
>On Line Services Coordinator
>Radio Australia
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:30:02 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: Really Good Audio ...
To: Remote Addressee <steven@stevenvote.com>
Steven
So glad to hear from a satisfied customer.
As I understand it (remembering that the server and therefore real 'control'
is in Sydney) RA is to become / is already the default setting for the Real
Audio 'test' period.
At this stage however we don't have exclusive access to the feed so Sydney
may
without notice switch it across some other ABC output.
I think you can safely say though that Real Audio is here to stay with rumours
of 1000 streams coming on line soon !
Program wise, it should follow our ELP schedules which are as I write being
downsized to fit in with our dear government's idea of strangling its
international voice.
So weekdaze << http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elpmtof.htm >> and
weekends
<< ....../elp/elpstos.htm >>
As I said I'm in the middle of creating the weekend sched and I have been given
some further mods to the weekday one but essentially there about right.
Regards
Russ Naughton
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 14:56:53 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: Khmer / Vietnamese News on the Net To: Simon Goldschmidt
Cc: SUE SLAMEN <"SLAMEN SUE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
JOHN CRONE <"CRONE JOHN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
HOWARD DEER <"DEER HOWARD"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Terry Brown <"BROWN TERRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Simon
Here we go again....
Can you quote for the following.
Enable as separate entities the Khmer (Cambodian) and Vietnamese News
Services
to go on line in the same manner as the Chinese.
Notes:
1. I am unsure at this stage of frequency of uploads - it probably will be once
per day as was the French.
2. The Khmer use a PC I believe (will check) the Vietnamese are Mac based.
Once again I will check. I/We will have to posibly sort out reliable double
byte system for Mac other than using the Vietnamese Operating System - there
has to be a simple ('Chinese Star' solution)
3. Once translations are done I will load up templates << newsravi
>>and << newsrakh >> onto development server.
4. The constant texts will be GIFs as with the Chinese with an English subtitle
also acting as a hot link. (Once again as per << newsrama >>)
5. I suspect that the news will be timely news rather than the Chinese
encyclopaedic style - ie no sub heads.
6. In quote please allow two days in Mel to set up and test/train staff (one
nite accom)
More to come eh ...
Regards
Russ
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:37:06 +1000
From: Russell Naughton
Subject: Revision of Recording Shedules for Radio Australia on WRN
To: technical <technical@wrn.org>
Cc: broadbent roger <"broadbent roger"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Dear WRN
As you are aware Radio Australia has recently, due to horrendous budget cuts,
made equally large changes to its program schedule.
I have spoken with Roger Broadbent about this matter and offered on his behalf
to sort out our schedule changes as they affect RA and WRN.
I am assuming that the financial matters have been settled for the coming 12
months between RA and WRN.
Referring to Rogers eMail to me today (cc below), I see the best scenario to
be the recording of the some 59 minutes program at 1500 UT and if possible, a
sub component of 15 minutes from 1500 - 1515 for just the news and sport
segment
ie there would be 4 item only on the 'new' WRN RA page
English News, Sport and Features Rec 1500 UT updated 1630 UT
Streaming and FTP
English News and Sport Rec 1500 UT updated 1530 UT
Streaming and FTP
Can you accomodate the above?
Best wishes and thanks again for your support during our recent crisis
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:42:02 +1000
From: Michael Ewing <mcewing@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: On Line News in Indonesian from Radio Australia
To: Russell Naughton
Russell,
Thanks for the information about Radio Australia's Indonesian language
site. I've added a link to it on Melbourne Uni's Indonesian program web
site and will pass the word around.
Michael
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:05:06 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: Radio Australia On Line - Update July 97
To: ELIZABETH WESSELS <"WESSELS ELIZABETH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
A little over one year old the Radio Australia website continues to grow both
in
popularity and content variety. From a humble beginning of some 4000 'hits'
per
month the site now attracts some 40,000 to 60,000 'hits' per week.
In addition to our news in English we now publish local, regional and world
news in Chinese, Indonesian and Tok Pisin. We are soon to expand access to our
news even further by adding Khmer (the language of Cambodia) and
Vietnamese.
Also at the cutting edge, Radio Australia's English Language Service (which
following the recent budget cuts, now includes large slices of Radio National
programming), has become the default setting for the ABC's new 'streaming
audio' technology providing a 'real time' comprehensive mixture of ABC Radio
services 24 hours a day all around the globe.
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 07:07:34 +1000
From: rci <rci@montreal.src.ca>
Subject: RA Web site
To: naughton russell
Dear Sir:
I thought that you might like a fan letter, from someone who's had a few
opportunities to visit, and explore, the Radio Australia Web site over the past
several weeks.
Though I'm not really terribly experienced in navigating the Web (not having a
computer at home, I have to use one here at work, at odd moments), I have found
the RA Web site to be easy to download, and quite easy to find one's way
around. I do appreciate the fact that you've kept the graphics simple and
uncluttered, for ease in downloading. (None of that waiting for several minutes
while a Home page appears on the screen...thankfully!)
I must, in particular, mention that I've quite enjoyed the Gallery section,
detailing the history of Radio Australia. I've taken quite an interest in the
history of international broadcasting stations...from my 31 years as a listener
to shortwave, and now from my part-time work here at RCI. Some stations have
nothing about their history on their Web site...some have a couple of pages of
text...some do better. Your Gallery, though, is the only one I've seen to use
artifacts from the various decades to illustrate
your history, which is a novel and most enjoyable way to put the material
across. I did know something about RA's history (having a copy of your booklet
"The Constant Voice," marking your 25th anniversary in 1964, on my bookshelf),
but I've certainly enjoyed looking through your Gallery...and have found out
some things which I didn't know.
It's certainly been dismaying to follow what Radio Australia has had to go
through, over the past six months or so. We here can certainly empathize, given
the attempts in late 1995 and 1996 to shut down Radio Canada International. I
was one of those who made a submission to the Senate committee hearings, a few
months ago, in the hope that your government would keep full funding for Radio
Australia. It's a pity that they didn't listen!
Finally, let me give you my postal address, just in case:
3525 Aylmer Street, Apt. 610
Montreal, Quebec, CANADA
H2X 2C1
Yours faithfully,
Bill Westenhaver
Audience Relations
Relations avec l'auditoire
Radio Canada International
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 13:49:19 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: Hi from 'RA'
To: Bill Westenhaver <rci@montreal.src.ca>
Bill
What can I say but thankyou for the kind words re RA site and especially the
Gallery - the putting together of which was no mean feat.
I have in fact many more items of interest to put up from both RA's history and
also from our 'mother' organisation, the ABC but time oh time where art thou
!
To be honest there is more than enough work for a full time archivist but with
things as they are now (160+ staff to less than half after this week) there's
not to much time around to spare.
Our 'Frequency Management' section, 4 persons plus the position of overall
output manager (1) goes down to one yes 1 person. How they (the ABC or the
government) expect us to continue with mail, etc is beyond me.
Anyway - gloom aside we've just added the Indonesian News, I'm working on
Khmer
and Vietnamese next and if you really want more pix and Radio History info then
pop over to my studies site at
<< http://www.cinemedia.net/RMIT/rnaughton >>
and have a wander around.
Thanks again for the kind words and your support for RA - please keep in
touch
Russell (Russ) Naughton
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:49:42 -0400
To: rci@montreal.src.ca
From: rci@montreal.src.ca (Radio Canada International)
Subject: Web sites
Dear Russell:
Thanks very much for your prompt reply to my message of yesterday...and thanks,
as well, for passing along the URL of your studies site. I should have a chance
to check it out sometime this week (if not today), and will let you know what I
think.
That's amazing about RA's frequency management section being reduced to just
one person! Our Engineering section, here at RCI, isn't particularly large, but
we can do better than that. I guess that that means that replies to reception
reports will become pretty slow...if they can be answered at all. (That's how I
originally started working here. Audience Relations was reduced, after the 1991
cutbacks, to just one person, so the president of the Canadian International DX
Club volunteered the club's services to answer reception reports and issue the
QSL cards. I was the volunteer, and am still doing that.)
By the way, have you ever had a chance to check out the history of RCI which
is up on our Web site <www.rcinet.ca>? It's one of the better ones which
I've seen...though I may be biased, not only because it's about RCI, but
because the author has become a friend of mine. Actually, he's not an employee
of RCI; he's a longtime listener to, and fan of, the station. I somehow think
that nobody in-house could have written it, since keeping up the archives
doesn't seem to have been a priority here. I'm sure that you can understand
that, given the RA situation.
Anyway, thanks again for your reply...and thanks, too, for the Gallery on the
RA Web site.
Cheers from summery Montreal (roughly 30, sunny and very humid)!
Bill Westenhaver
Audience Relations
Relations avec l'auditoire
Radio Canada International
P.S.: As you can see, I misaddressed it the first time around...let's hope
it goes through this time.
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 04:48:16 +1000
From: rci <rci@montreal.src.ca>
Subject: Re Web site & history
To: holmes nigel <"holmes nigel"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Nigel:
Thanks very much for your reply to my note to Russell Naughton, re the Gallery
section of the RA Web site. I'm glad to make your acquaintance.
Yes, I downloaded the photo of the Transmission Management team. It's a real
shame that the department is being cut back so far! Even though we at RCI have
undergone sizeable cuts since 1991, we still have more people than that in our
Engineering department.
I'm really glad that you and Russell have been able to keep up at least a bit
of historical presentation for RA. As I've been exploring the Web sites run by
international broadcasters, I've been disappointed that more of them don't have
any sort of historical material about the station...and that those which do
don't have a whole lot. As I said yesterday, the Gallery is an innovative
approach to this, with the photos, texts and sound samples.
Thanks, too, for the updated frequency listing, in the wake of the unfortunate
closure of Darwin. I've found, over the past couple of weeks, that 9580 kHz is
still doing relatively well...but 9860 used to be just as good, and sometimes
better. Too bad that there aren't enough resources that we have a choice!
Anyway, thanks for getting in touch...and thanks, again, for your work on all
the "broadcasting junk."
Cheers from summery Montreal (roughly 30, sunny and very humid)!
Bill Westenhver
Audience Relations
Relations avec l'auditoire
Radio Canada International
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 11:45:15 +1000
From: Nigel Holmes <"HOLMES NIGEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: FWD: Re Web site & history
To: Russell Naughton
Russ,
I wrote to Bill recently. He certainly likes your Gallery Page.
Cheers nigel
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 13:30:40 +1000
From: "T.Matthew Ciolek" <tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Asia-Pacific Online News - Radio Australia
To: asia-www-news <asia-www-news@postbox.anu.edu.au
Cc: pacific-islands-l <pacific-islands-l@postbox.anu.edu.au>
What's New in WWW Asian Studies Online Newsletter ISSN 1323-9368 URL
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-news.html
17 Jul 1997
Asia-Pacific Online News - Radio Australia
Radio Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia
Radio Australia, the international service of the ABC, has recently added World
News in Indonesian to the existing range of online news: Weekly Summary of
Australian News & Information in Mandarin Chinese; Weekly Summary of Asia
Pacific Region News in Tok Pisin; This is Radio Australia - Sound File Archive
in Cantonese.
URL http://www.abc.net.au/ra/
Information supplied by: Russell Naughton (naughton.russell@a2.abc.net.au)
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]:
Useful
WWW Asian Studies Announcements: July 1997
- regards -
Dr T. Matthew CIOLEK
tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au
Head, Internet Publications Bureau,
Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, http://coombs.anu.edu.au/
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 14:24:53 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton
Subject: Viet and Khmer Templates Up
To: Simon Goldschmidt
Cc: SUE SLAMEN <"SLAMEN SUE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Barry Taylor <"TAYLOR BARRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
TA RATH <"RATH TA"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
HANH TRAN <"TRAN HANH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Matthew Filkins <"FILKINS MATTHEW"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Brendan Kerrison <"KERRISON BRENDAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Simon
<< newsrakh >> and << newsravi >> up on both servers.
Have modelled them on Indon pages << newsrain >>
each folder has twotemplates/pages
<< default.htm >> and << viet_item.htm >> or <<
khmer_item.htm >>
..and away we goooooo
Russ
Re other data asked for - more to find out but prelim investigations show
Khmer
wite in Word with Khmer font (name ?) and save as word document. If they save
in RTF or Plain Text they lose Khmer character set.
Have suspicion Vietnamese use font VINPALA. Will spend time with Hahn and Ta to
find out more.
More to come.
PPS: Have I got the right IT team members listed - Brendan and Matt - do you
want to be / need to be across all this . If not let me know and I'll
just email Simon.
Russ
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 13:02:31 +1000
From: Steven <steven@stevenvote.com>
Subject: Re: RA in RA
To: "Russell Naughton"
Russell,
I'll stay tuned!
Steven
>Steven
>Happy to hear from you anytime.
>note the following
>if it happens you will most probably find it via the ABC Home Page
>http://www.abc.net.au
>Regards
>Russ Naughton
>from our internal mail system ...in part
>"6WF Perth are holding a major broadcast on August 6, which they'd like to
>simulcast via RealAudio on the Internet.
>From 0600 to 2200 WAT (0800 to 2400 EAT) they are broadcasting from the
Royal >Perth Hospital. It's a special one-off event and they're calling it
"A day in the life". >It's an innovative piece of radio and they'd like to
use the innovative new technology >of RealAudio.
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 01:02:05 +1000
From: rci <rci@montreal.src.ca>
Subject: More Web sites
To: naughton russell
Dear Russell:
Hope that you got my previous e-mail message...the one which I had incorrectly
addressed the first time. That was the one in which I mentioned doing the QSL
cards here, and also talked about the history of RCI which was up on our Web
site. If you didn't get it, let me know, and I'll resend it.
Anyway, I did want to tell you that I managed to get onto your personal Web
site on Wednesday, and enjoyed looking through it. In fact, your section on the
early history of radio came in handy. I got drafted to do a small segment on
our Mailbag show, taped for broadcast this coming Sunday, concerning Marconi.
(Sunday is the 60th anniversary of his death.) Anyway, I needed some historical
background on him in print, so that I could look it over and sound
intelligent...and the information you had on the site about him was of great
help...particularly the anecdote about radio stations
marking his death by observing two minutes of silence. I used that...and the
producer of the show thought it was a nice touch. So...many thanks!
I'll try to check out the site again, occasionally, as you add more information
to it.
Hope you're having a good weekend!
All the best,
Bill Westenhaver
Audience Relations
Relations avec l'auditoire
Radio Canada International
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:05:56 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: Marconi etc...
To: Remote Addressee <rci@montreal.src.ca>
Bill
You are going to swell my head with all this praise
Thankyou
I have tried to gather a composite of all that's avail on the web about not
only the 'big' guys like Marconi but also those who just missed out on making
the big time.
Did you know that an Elisha Grey tried to file a patent for a telephone system
only TWO HOURS after AG Bell had visited the same office with his patent
application. Talk about tough !
Thanks again these lots more to come - oh if only I had the time !!
Russ Naughton
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:20:47 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: RE: Set up of Vietnamese and Khmer Macs
To: Simon Goldschmidt
Cc: John Mann John <"MANN JOHN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Simon, John
I will assist in this also.
sorry I haven't done it already - a bit busy with other matters.
believe they use Word 5 plus specific language fonts.
will invesigate tomorrow Tues
Russ
will attach news item in word to a netscape mailer Simon not sure how to do it
in all in one.
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 21:51:39 +1000
From: Mel and Russell <MelnRussell@ibm.net>
Subject: RA live via Real Audio
To: naughton russell
Hi Russell,
I 'm writing to ask for the URL to live streaming of RA for Real Audio.
I found a link on the first of July stating that RA could be heard live during
the Hong Kong hand over. This worked beautifully and I can now connect anytime
from the Real Audio application by clicking on File; Open Recent; abclive.ra.
What I hear appears to be live and the quality is astounding.
I would like to be able to share this great discovery with friends overseas. I
can't work out what the URL is that friends would have to open from Real Audio
to get the same feed I am getting. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My compliments for an excellent web site.
Russell Knudsen
Jakarta.
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 06:37:53 +1000
From: Emmanuel Tsesmelis <Emmanuel.Tsesmelis@cern.ch>
Subject: Radio Australia on the Internet
To: naughton russell
Dear Sir,
First of all I would like to thank you for making it possible to access Radio
Australia live on the Internet. It sure beats searching for the correct
frequency on shortwave, especially in Europe !
I just have one request. As a fervent Australian Rules Football supporter, I
would like to ask if it would be possible to broadcast live the `GRANDSTAND'
programme on the weekends. Perhaps a separate `PLAY' button to simulate the
separate shortwave frequencies ?
Many thanks in advance,
Emmanuel Tsesmelis (Geneva, Switzerland)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:05:33 +1000
From: Andrew Mann <monarchentertainment@msn.com>
Subject: letting you know what i think about the new service
To: naughton russell
I clicked on the file for Sunday July 20 but it does'nt work.
Andrew Mann
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:21:32 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: RA on RA
To: Remote Addressee <Emmanuel.Tsesmelis@cern.ch>
Dear Emmanuel
Thanks for your eMail and the success you have found with our Real Audio.
Re Grandstand:
At his stage I (RA) don't have easy access to the 'controls' which operate
the Real Audio server. It is based in Sydney and RA has the single feed as a
default condition in this exploratory phase of Real Audio in the ABC (our
'mother').
This took some lobbying as some of our other networks would kill to have that
luxury.
The other concern I have (and I haven't had time to check it out) is the
'right's to broadcast the football on the Internet.
I have a feeling that such rights may already be 'sold' to one of the local
television networks. I will have to investigate more.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:32:33 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: RA on RA
To: Remote Addressee <MelnRussell@ibm.net>
Russell
Thanks for your eMail.
We, RA 'owns' the Real Audio feed only on a 'default' basis at present.
RA lobbied to be the 'default' setting due to its broad programming range which
now also includes large chunks of our domestic network output (AM, PM, the
World Today etc).
We currently (The ABC that is) have 80 streams available but I'm told this
will rise to 1000 in the not to distant future.
The easiest way to access both the feed and a program guide is to go to the
Weekday / Weekend schedule pages
<< http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elpmtof.htm >> and
<< http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elpstos.htm >> respectively
Please let me know if you have any problems accessing the site in the future
although I must add that as we are only the 'default' feed we will certainly
have to surrender it to other areas of the ABC so they too may 'have a go'
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 00:39:49 +1000
From: Karl Miosga <karlm@wrn.org>
Subject: Re: RA on WRN New Schedule.
To: "'Russell Naughton"
Done.
Sent: 21 July, 1997 3:24
To: karlm@wrn.org
Subject: RA on WRN New Schedule.
Karl
Thankyou for the update.
Regards
Russ Naughton
PS Our 500 pixel Header Graphic appears to be too big for your page layout with
the side frame. I have made a 70% version for you to use - looks a bit scrappy
- will do a better one when I get home to a REAL machine. In the mean time the
substitute is now available to download on http://www.abc.net.au/ra/special
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 10:22:51 +1000
From: Andrew Mann <monarchentertainment@msn.com>
Subject: the new archive systems for radio
To: naughton russell
I clicked on it today but it does not work for the second day in a row
Andrew Mann
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:01:04 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: New Archive
To: Remote Addressee <monarchentertainment@msn.com>
Andrew
Thanks for the eMail
Will double check files this end
Puzzled - however things are a bit strained at RA at moment and I could have
blundered somewhere in process.
Sorry in advance if this the case
will get back to you
Russell Naughton
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:37:38 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: I goofed - sorry
To: Remote Addressee <monarchentertainment@msn.com>
Andrew
A small problem of naming a file 2007a.ra instead of 2007.ra was the culprit
for 20 and 21 07 97 archive hassles - fixing it now - adding 2207 as well -
should
be right by the time you read this eMail.
thanks for catching me out - I missed it when testing.
regards
Russ Naughton
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:18:51 +1000
From: "JOHN CRONE"
Subject: CANTONESE AUDIO ON THE INTERNET
To: Russell Naughton
Russell
Could you please remove the series of audio features on HongKong's Return to
China recorded in Cantonese from Radio Australia's homepage .
Whether we will provide any Cantonese audio on the Net in the future will
depend on whether Radio Australia's foreign language units are allowed to put
audio segments on the Net which can be downloaded easily and within a short
space of time (i.e. like the RA News and Sports Roundup originating from WRN)
.
John Crone
Manager
North Asia Department
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 01:09:46 +1000
From: "Lester Langford, RA Training"<lester.langford@reuters.com>
Subject: Current International TV schedule on the Web
To: naughton russell
From: Lester Langford, RA Training
Fri 25 Jul 1997
CURRENT INTERNATIONAL TV SCHEDULE ON THE WEB
I am spending the weekend in Indonesia at a hotel I know has AusTV
International, this I am looking forward to, but...
I have spent bloody ages surfing around looking for the AusTV Int'l Schedule
for this weekend. Where is it? "Current", currently has "June" and the
copyright message says 1996 (although most others in the site say 1997)
I would also suggest that you add a few more 'hooks' from different places in
the site into the contact page.
Cheers/Lester
Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except
where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 06:51:04 +1000
From: rci <rci@montreal.src.ca>
Subject: Marconi, etc.
To: naughton russell
Dear Russ:
Thanks very much for your e-mail of the 21st. Sorry for the delay in getting
back to you; I'm filling in, at another position, during that person's
holidays, so there's lot new to do and to get used to.
Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to go onto your personal Web page since
last week, but I will keep checking it occasionally. As I said, I'm glad that
you had that information about Marconi there, and I'm sure that there will be
other interesting found when I next log on.
Hope you're having a good weekend.
All the best,
Bill Westenhaver
Audience Relations
Relations avec l'auditoire
Radio Canada International
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 13:09:23 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: Hi Again
To: Remote Addressee <rci@montreal.src.ca>
Bill
Always please to hear from you.
I update my personal site about once a fortnight. It takes about that time to
get together a reasonable body of new stuff.
What with a family and the ABC, my studies often get put on hold and its the
wee hours that try to see some productivity.
I'm including a sort of 'what's new' option now on the very front door
http://www.cinemedia.net/RMIT/rnaughton
clicking on the version number takes you to a log of the most recent stuff
added and the date it was added.
The webmaster (harry sokol) has just put up the latest stuff this morning
(28th)
There is no pattern to what goes in - just as I get time or feel special about
a particular item I've unearthed.
Also a 'new' version might simply contain a number of bug fixes from the
previous upload (read: sloppy HTML at 3am in the morning)
hear from you again
Regards
Russ
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 13:27:26 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: ATVI
To: Remote Addressee <lester.langford@reuters.com>
Lester
I have checked the ATVI schedule and yes, it has just run out.
Most ABC OnLine sites like the RA one are one person operations and if for any
reason that person goes sick etc there is usually no one to cover.
This is especially true in non Sydney locations.
I will see if I can find out who puts up the site and query the omissions.
Sorry we (the ABC) have let you down.
Darwin (home of ATVI) and us here at RA have taken a drubbing over the last
few months and this may be one of the first cracks to show.
regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:46:59 +1000
From: "JOHN CRONE"
Subject: AMENDMENTS TO THE MANDARIN CHINESE HOMEPAGE
To: Russell Naughton
Russ
Many thanks for making the amendments to the Mandarin Chinese
Homepage we requested .
Cheers
John Crone
North Asia Department
Radio Australia
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:49:11 +1000
From: "JOHN CRONE"
Subject: AUSTRALIAN NEWS IN CHINESE ON AUSTEMBASSY BEIJING HOMEPAGE
To: Russell Naughton
Cc: Terry Brown <"BROWN TERRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
HOWARD DEER <"DEER HOWARD"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
COLIN GRIFFITH <"GRIFFITH COLIN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ
The Australian Embassy in Beijing has given a very prominent position on their
Homepage to the Hotlink for our weekly roundup of Australian News in Chinese.
It is in fact under the heading "What's New" which in turn contains the title
of the News Bulletin in Chinese characters
Unfortunately the impact of this arrangement is completely lost by the ensuing
linkages.
After clicking on the Chinese characters for our News Service in Mandarin
Chinese, you get the following message with an ABC logo "The Page or File you
have requested does not seem to exist" ! (This of course is in English !!)
One then has to click on the Hotlink of "Homepage" which then brings up the
standard ABC Homepage entitled "Explore Your Interests" - Radio TV Shop News
International, (All this is in English as well)
After clicking on "International", you then get the ABC International Homepage
featuring Australia Television and Radio Australia .
And so you finally get to the Radio Australia Homepage with the Hotlink to the
Weekly News and Information in Mandarin Chinese !!!
Is there anything we can do to make the Hotlink more direct ?
I would really appreciate that .
Thanks
John Crone
Manager
North Asia Department
RADIO AUSTRALIA
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 01:46:55 +1000
From: Andrew Mann <monarchentertainment@msn.com>
Subject: Re: I goofed - sorry
To: "Russell Naughton"
Russell
Some constuructive critisism of the new set up. One file takes too long to
download and 90 % of the file is stuff i dont want ie Australian versions of
international news. I'm foccusing on the sport which is NOT available in Canada
and secondly the AUSTRALIAN news also not available in Canada.
On another point the sport is often cut off as there is some file size
restriction. Despite the urban myth that people buy newspapers for general
news, studies show a huge proportion of people read the paper back to front
i.e. the sport first. This same principle applies to radio. I and many others
only listen to the sport. I hope this helps you to understand your target
audience
AWM
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:15:01 +1000
From: larcher <larcher.ccdef@dyadel.net>
Subject: emissions en francais
To: naughton russell
Je realise actuellement un projet personnel de site internet et je veux y
consacrer une part importante a la radiodiffusion en ondes courtes puisque je
suis un SWL. Dans cette page il me semble interessant de mettre une grille
horaire des emissions en langue francaise realisees par differentes stations.
C'est pour cela que je serais heureux que vous acceptiez de me communiquer
cette grille de vos emissions francaises avec l'indication des dates de
validite. Beaucoup de stations modifient leurs friquences d'emission et leurs
horaires au mois d'octobre. Si c'est votre cas pouvez-vous me donner cette
grille qui commencera en Octobre 1997? L'indication de votre adresse postale et
de l'URL de votre page web pourra figurer dans mon site internet si vous me les
communiquez. Je vous remercie beaucoup de votre aide et je vous ferai connaitre
l'URL de mon site quand il sera termine.
73'S d'un auditeur de France
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 12:40:04 +1000
From: "Kieran Ryan"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Subject: Finding those hidden files
To: Multiple recipients of list WEB-DEV
<WEB-DEVELOPERS@YOUR.abc.net.au>
Hello Web Developers,
The Multimedia unit and ITS have been working together to provide searching
facilities for the ABC's web site. Yep, that's right a search engine for ABC
Online.
<bold>What areas will it cover?
</bold>There will be a search index on the whole ABC site i.e all HTML
documents in all presentation areas will be indexed. Presentation specific
indexes can also be created.
<bold>How does it work?
</bold>People browsing our site will be able to do a "keyword search"
to
locate the pages they are interested in. Pages are retrieved in order according
to the frequency of the words contained in the document.
<bold>When will it become available?
</bold>The service should be available in about a fortnight. (A firmer
date coming soon.)
<bold>*** HIDDEN FILES ***
</bold>The search engine will find all the files in your presentation
area. So if you've got content up there that you don't want anyone to see, you
may want to delete it. I will provide a list of all content on the server early
next week. I will also provide information about how to go about removing
files.
<bold>
More Information
</bold>The Multimedia unit and ITS will be providing support for web
developers to set up their own search pages. An email will be coming out soon
to explain how to go about using this service. If you'd like to see an example
of the type of search engine available, please try this URL:
http://win.abc.net.au/home.htm and click the Intranet Search icon.
<bold>Questions/Issues
</bold>If you have any questions or issues to raise, why not raise them
here? That way we can all share the knowledge.
Regards,
Kieran Ryan x82-1836
Inet Project Team
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:05:03 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: RE: AUSTRALIAN NEWS IN CHINESE ON AUSTEMBASSY BEIJING HOMEPAGE
To: JOHN CRONE
Cc: Terry Brown <"BROWN TERRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
HOWARD DEER <"DEER HOWARD"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
COLIN GRIFFITH <"GRIFFITH COLIN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
John
The problem is that they must have the wrong URL 'under' the link to us
1. please onpass that the link should be
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newsrama
or
2. send me the URL of the embassy page which I will investigate the matter
more
fully, contact them as appropriate and advise their webmaster of changes
needed.
Russ
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:11:16 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton"
Subject: News Sport etc on RA
To: Remote Addressee <monarchentertainment@msn.com>
Andrew
Thanks for the eMail - always happy to get criticism.
The archive material both quality and quantity is somewhat out of my hands - I
need to tell you the how and wherefore though so as you can understand - bear
with me.
1. Radio Australia pays the World Radio Network (WRN) to record off air,
encode into Real Audio and place on their site two files per day (currently 1
x 1 hour and 1 x one half hour - soon to go to another full hour.)
http://www.wrn.org/stations/abc.html
2. This arrangement on the Internet is a development out of a some 5 or 6
year
association with WRN that started as a satellite relay of our services to
Europe and the USA, itself a way around our fading shortwave 'power'.
We have in fact now lost all transmitters other than the WWII site at
Shepparton in Victoria and a small low power job in northern Queensland that
services New
Guinea.
3. We cannot afford for WRN to archive for us (a few others do) so I decided
to set up my own archive.
4. As I haven't contemporary computer gear (with basic audio in and out) nor
indeed a Real Audio encoding licence (the ABC has one but it is not
transferrable) I simply down load the file each day from WRN (admittedly on a
fast link - 15kbs) and recycle it on the new page.
5. Ideally under our new program setup I wanted just the 15 minutes at the top
of the clock (News and Sport) but the next 15 was just presented to me and
although it takes longer to download 'beggars can't be choosers' as we say and
I can't afford to 'throw away' the extra program time that can also be heard
live (streaming)
6. Bottom line is
a. RA no longer has an Internet person - it was and has been me from April last
year.
b. I being one of the 60 or so left out of the 140+ earlier this year have been
reallocated to the ABC's MultiMedia Unit with a main though now not exclusive
mission to 'tend' the RA page.
This I do to the best of my abilities but with 'found' equipment - no budget
other than my salary - my options are limited. In fact much of the site was
'built' at home.
Hope this makes sense of what might seem a simple matter on the surface but in
fact is a whole series of interconnected matters deeper down.
Regards
Russ Naughton
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:24:48 +1000
From: "JOHN CRONE"
Subject: AUSTRALIAN NEWS IN CHINESE ON AUSTEMBASSY BEIJING HOMEPAGE
To: Russell Naughton
Cc: Terry Brown <"BROWN TERRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
HOWARD DEER <"DEER HOWARD"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
COLIN GRIFFITH <"GRIFFITH COLIN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ
Thanks for that assessment .
I will E-mail the people concerned at the Embassy about it .
Cheers
John Crone
Manager
North Asia Department
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 02:13:52 +1000
From: kmjak2 <kmjak2@student.monash.edu.au>
Subject: Re: More PR for You
To: "Russell Naughton"
Dear Russ,
Firstly thankyou for the addresses you sent in reference to public
radio. I did recieve them some time ago now, however I have been
trying to hook up to my uni pmail account from home, to no avail! I
am at uni today so I thought I would return all my Email while I
had a chance,
Thanks again
Kate.
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 05:08:56 +1000
From: Andrew Mann <monarchentertainment@msn.com>
Subject: Re: News Sport etc on RA
To: "Russell Naughton"
thanks for the response I wont get so frustrated with RA but instead the
idiots in Canberra.
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 19:26:26 +1000
From: David Hurburgh <dhurburgh@ashton.net.au>
Subject: world radio network
To: naughton russell
Dear Russell
great site
how about some links to www.wrn.org ???- it seems to be where its happening in
shortwave/satellite/cable/internet cybercasting
how about some more real audio live streams ??
it has to be the way to go - when considering the bang you can get for your
(alston limited) bucks
with promotion of your RealAudio streams I bet you can rebuild audience after
getting Darwin TX shut down
let us know what you think
Regards
david
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 09:09:00 +1000
From: "JOHN CRONE"
Subject: HOTLINK TO RADIO OZ'S AUSTRALIAN NEWS IN CHINESE
To: Remote Addressee <Yanhong.Krompacky@dfat.gov.au>
Cc: Remote Addressee <Mary.Drury@dfat.gov.au>,
Remote Addressee <Jinmei.Zhang@dfat.gov.au>,
Russell Naughton
Date : 4 August 1997
From : John Crone
Manager
North Asia Department
Radio Australia
Melbourne
Mrs. Yanhong Krompacky
Radio Australia is extremely grateful for the prominent position you have given
to our Weekly Roundup of Australian News in Chinese on the Embassy's Homepage
.
Unfortunately the impact of this arrangement has been lost through a typing
error in the Internet address used for the Hotlink to our News Service .
This means anyone wishing to access the News has to go through a series of
intermediate steps (five in fact !!) before getting to it .
Accordingly I would be grateful if you could correct the Web Page address used
in the Hotlink to read
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newsrama
For your information the address being used at the moment is as follows
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newsrarma
Many Thanks
John Crone
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 13:18:30 +1000
From: hipnt <hipnt@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Subject: Re: My Web site
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
Don't know if you are still interested but my Web site has been updated, using
your background colour and your font size, if you'd like to look at it.
Thanks for your help,
Phoebe
Phoebe Thornley
Department of History Radio 2NUR-FM
University of Newcastle
NSW 2308
Australia
Internet: hipnt@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 13:15:04 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Always interested in a fellow soul(radio)mate's efforts
To: Remote Addressee <hipnt@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Phoebe
Nice work - very readable - keep up the good work
I am linking to your site from...
http://www.cinemedia.net/RMIT/rnaughton/phd8535.html
regards and please keep in touch thru abc as...
naughton.russell@a2.abc.net.au
or privately as...
russelln@netspace.net.au
Russ
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 13:22:33 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Real Audio
To: Remote Addressee <dhurburgh@ashton.net.au>
David
Thanks for the eMail
In answer to your queries..
1. Real Audio is still 'on trial' here at ABC (and RA) and we only have one
input feeding 80 streams at present. I'm told that this will increase
in time.
We were also quite lucky to score the default setting to be 'across' RA
rather
than Triple J or Radio National etc.
2. We do actually link to WRN both at the top of the wrn archive page...
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/wrnsound/
and also from the WRN Satellite page (accessable from either the ELP
Home Page
or the Resources Page)
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/res/elpwrn.htm
I must admit though that I must update the above page to the current
recording/download schedule.
Good Listening
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:41:26 +1000
From: "COLIN GRIFFITH <"GRIFFITH COLIN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE AUDIO ON THE INTERNET
To: JOHN CRONE
Cc: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
HOWARD DEER <"DEER HOWARD"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Terry Brown <"BROWN TERRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
John
As you may be aware, the ABC now has the infrastructure to start streaming
audio on the internet on a trial basis. Radio Australia English language
service is currently bein streamed as a live feed from MCR.
We need to conduct a trial to determine a number of issues about the what audio
material in streaming onto the internet, production and operation issues and
what capacity can the ABC afford. We have appoint Michael Lamrock from Training
to act as a trial co-ordinator for a three month period. He will be contacting
all the radio networks to investigate your priorities.
Russ should be able to show you the material that is already up on the ABC
site. It should be possible to start putting some of your material up on the RA
site on a trial basis.
Regards,
Colin
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:08:24 +1000
From: Nigel Holmes <"HOLMES NIGEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: extended 9580 etc
To: Remote Addressee <rmcclean@igc.apc.org>
Cc: Russell Naughton
Dear Mr McClean,
Thank you for you observations about RA's transmissions.
Since our Government closed down the Darwin transmitters we have had to carry
all RA broadcasts from our old Shepparton site. Our Asian services are now
carried on aerials (antennas) that were built in 1944. Most importantly from
your perspective we have had to reduce the number and duration of transmissions
to the Pacific.
At the moment 9580 kHz is broadcast from 0800 - 1200 UT on a broad azimuth
aerial - the signal is radiated over a wide horizontal angle - so as to cover
as much of the Pacific as possible. After 1200 UT we use the same aerial but
on 9415 kHz from 1200 - 2100 UT. This strategy isn't working too well so I will
be making some changes in two weeks. I am planning to extend 9580 to run from
0800 - 1300 UT with 5995 kHz after that. 9415 kHz will continue to be available
on the broad azimuth aerial from 1200-2100 UT. The new 9580 will be on a more
narrow aerial beam that should increase the signal strength at your end. Your
report on the new transmission would be greatly appreciated. I'll confirm the
new schedule by email.
Can you get good reception of 9415 at 1200 UT at the moment?
Because RA's staff has been reduced by 65 % we have to source a lot of our
programming from our domestic colleagues and we rely on their switching
computer to make the transfers. It seems to be causing the poor presentation
that you noted and we are trying to solve that one.
Good listening,
Nigel Holmes
Transmission Manager
Radio Australia
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 14:21:49 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton
Subject: RE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE AUDIO ON THE INTERNET
To: JOHN CRONE
Cc: COLIN GRIFFITH <"GRIFFITH COLIN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
HOWARD DEER <"DEER HOWARD"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Terry Brown <"BROWN TERRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Folks
Just to set one matter straight
Each day the World Radio Network WRN carries one and a half hours of English
language output - one hour at 0700 and one half hour at 1500
The 1500 block is soon go to one hour.
The audio is available in 'real time' ie streaming or as downloadable
files.
As a bonus, I download the current half hour block and archive it on our own
site.
this archive site is our second or third most popular 'hit' some several
thousands per week.
I believe WRN gets directly about 4,000 hits per week.
Russ
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:11:33 +1000
From: HOWARD DEER
Subject: REAL AUDIO
To: COLIN GRIFFITH <"GRIFFITH COLIN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Cc: Russell Naughton
Colin,
thanks for the notes on internet audio. The question will arise asto what
would be the cost for RA to set up its own Real Audio server? Do yiu have a
ballpark figure on that?
regards, Neil
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:28:41 +1000
From: "SUE SLAMEN <"SLAMEN SUE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: VIET & KHMER INTERNET PROGRESS
To: Russell Naughton
Cc: Simon Goldschmidt <"GOLDSCHMIDT SIMON"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Matthew Filkins <"FILKINS MATTHEW"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Brendan Kerrison <"KERRISON BRENDAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
HANH TRAN <"TRAN HANH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
TA RATH <"RATH TA"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
7th of August, 1997
Subject: Adding RA Vietnamese and Khmer Language Text to the Internet
Hi Russ. and I.T Folk,
Thanks for helping us get the ball rolling for the inclusion of Radio
Australia's Vietnamese and Khmer language Services on the ABC/RA Internet
site.
Apart from the small but influential Vietnamese and Cambodians in-country who
will access information in their own language there is a potentially
substantial secondary audience among the Vietnamese and Cambodian communities
in the U.S and France, in particular.
In view of our current difficulties in trying to get a reliable shortwave
signal out of Shepparton, Victoria, since the Darwin transmitters were closed
July 1st, we need to go for broke in utilising all alternative means of
delivering our Asian information
services.
Any chance of a progress report ?
And - please let us know if we, through our Vietnamese and Cambodian contacts
here and abroad, can assist with research on any pertinent matters.
Many Thanks,
Sue Slamen,
Regional Manager,
Southeast Asia Service.
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 13:06:16 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton
Subject: RE: VIET & KHMER INTERNET PROGRESS
To: SUE SLAMEN
Cc: Simon Goldschmidt <"GOLDSCHMIDT SIMON"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Matthew Filkins <"FILKINS MATTHEW"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Brendan Kerrison <"KERRISON BRENDAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
HANH TRAN <"TRAN HANH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
TA RATH <"RATH TA"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Sue
All is well in hand
Simon G and I are and have been in regular communication.
The templates exist
I have some Viet info to send to Syd - will do today/tomorrow
I have sent lots of stuff to Simon G - he will contact you direct re quote
I think you can safely say we'll be up in about a month or less all being
well.
Russ
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 15:14:39 +1000
From: Lea Redfern <"REDFERN LEA"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: Radio Australia Info Update
To: Russell Naughton
Dear Russell,
Thanks for that - now I know who to contact.
Cheers,
Lea Redfern
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 16:37:12 +1000
From: "Kieran Ryan<"RYAN KIERAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: FTP account
To: Russell Naughton
Russ,
Your ftp account "raus6f" has a new password: hello98
Let me know if you have any problems getting in.
You should use these settings in your ftp profile:
host gatekeeper
userid raus6f@www
Regards,
Kieran.
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:54:32 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton
Subject: RE: VIET & KHMER INTERNET PROGRESS
To: Simon Goldschmidt
Cc: SUE SLAMEN SUE <"SLAMEN SUE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
HANH TRAN HANH <"TRAN HANH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
TA RATH TA <"RATH TA"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
MICHAEL Spence Michael <"SPENCE MICHAEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Barry Taylor <"TAYLOR BARRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Simon and all
Barry Taylor will assemble a vietnamese 'pack' asap and forward it by
mail.
it will contain...
a news bulletin in Vietnamese as they normally produce it
a saved copy in word format to floppy disk
a copy of Vin Pala (the viet font) as used to write the document. also on
floppy disk (both items should fit easily.)
my apaologies to all for my slowness recently - it is solely due to ill
health
the coming one month holiday should fix.
regards to all
Russ
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:59:51 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton
Subject: RE: FTP account
To: Kieran Ryan <"RYAN KIERAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Kieran
Thanks for info re acces to ftp external server
for my info - does this mean I could update direct to external serverfrom a
distant (non abc point) eg home.
I do this for my uni work on my 'private' server using fetch etc..
I say this as I'm about to go on leave and some web matters are not easily
achievable by asking others to cover for me during my absence.
if not, well they'll have to wait till I get back
Russ
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:03:31 +1000
From: chris boldiston <boldiston@sprynet.com>
Subject: Thanks!
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
I just found the Radio Australia Real Audio web site. After being in the US now
for 4 months it is fantastic to hear the voices and news as it is happening. I
just hope that The Planet will be broadcast. If not why not?
Thanks for the great work ABC
Chris Boldiston
boldiston@sprynet.com
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 23:23:49 +1000
From: Colin Sheppard <colinws@wearnes.com.sg>
Subject: Enquiry about Radio programs on the Net...
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hello,
I noticed in the Australian Newspaper online today that the ABC will be
offering some radio programs on the Internet soon. What is the content and
schedule of this?
I have been living in Singapore for the past 8 months and miss some sort of
meaningful discussion like we could get like "Australia Talks Back" and the
Science show.
Is there much of Open University on line as well?
Thank you kindly for your assistance.
Yours Sincerely,
Colin Sheppard
Software Engineer
Wearnes Multi Media
Singapore
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:45:36 +1000
From: David Post <post@FSL.ORST.EDU>
Subject: RA on the WWW
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
A thousand thank-you's for at last putting RA on the Internet! A few questions.
Will the coverage include Grandstand on the weekends so we can listen to the
Australian Rules and Rugby League coverage?
Is there any way we can check in advance which games will be covered? Will they
be stored if we can't listen to them live?
Thank you again. This is the only way we can listen to Australian news and
sport here in the US (and in many other countries too I'm sure).
Regards,
David.
Dr David Post
Department of Geosciences
Oregon State University
Mailing Address :
Forestry Sciences Laboratory
3200 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis
OR 97331
USA
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 14:18:52 +1000
From: "Simon Goldschmidt <"GOLDSCHMIDT SIMON"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: List of Vietnamese characters
To: HANH TRAN <"TRAN HANH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hanh,
in order to produce Vietnamese text that can be read on a web browser I need to
convert every Vietnamese character. Below I have included a list of what I
believe is every character used in the language. Please let me know if I have
left any out.
Can you please create a Word document containing each of these characters in
upper and lower case (in the VinaPala font), save it on a floppy disk, and
internal mail it to me.
Many thanks,
Simon Goldschmidt
ITS
level 6, Ultimo
A
A acute
A grave
A hook-above
A tilde
A dot-below
A breve
A breve acute
A breve grave
A breve hook-above
A breve tilde
A breve dot-below
A circumflex
A circumflex acute
A circumflex grave
A circumflex hook-above
A circumflex tilde
A circumflex dot-below
B
C
D
D bar
E
E acute
E grave
E hook-above
E tilde
E dot-below
E circumflex
E circumflex acute
E circumflex grave
E circumflex hook-above
E circumflex tilde
E circumflex dot-below
F
G
H
I
I acute
I grave
I hook-above
I tilde
I dot-below
J
K
L
M
N
O
O acute
O grave
O hook-above
O tilde
O dot-below
O circumflex
O circumflex acute
O circumflex grave
O circumflex hook-above
O circumflex tilde
O circumflex dot-below
O horn
O horn acute
O horn grave
O horn hook-above
O horn tilde
O horn dot-below
P
Q
R
S
T
U
U acute
U grave
U hook-above
U tilde
U dot-below
U horn
U horn acute
U horn grave
U horn hook-above
U horn tilde
U horn dot-below
V
W
X
Y
Y acute
Y grave
Y hook-above
Y tilde
Y dot-below
Z
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 03:05:05 +1000
From: Sridhar Kudupudi <kudupudi@engr.LaTech.edu>
Subject: Copyright violation by CricInfo To: naughton russell <"naughton
russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Sir,
First let me thank you for the wonderful coverage of Radio Australia programs
24 hours a day on Real Audio. Thanks a lot.
Being a cricket fan, I am much enjoying the present Ashes coverage via Radio
Australia. But here one thing which is disturbing me.
If you check this site Cricinfo at, http://www.cricket.org/ and follow the
"Live Match Coverage" Link there, you see that they have given a link to YOUR
real audio file directly under the name "ABC".
So what happens is, when people click on this click, they directly get to the
real audio broadcast, giving them an impression as if it is Cricinfo which is
doing the realaudio broadcast and not you.
I hate to see such a worthy effort by you people, being stolen so cheaply by
that site called CricInfo at http://www.cricket.org/.
Please take the appropriate action against these guys..and thank you
Sridhar.
PS : I would like to remain anonymous...hence you can quote my points if
needed, but pleasse donot quote my name anywhere.
Thank you.
PPS: I am sending a copy of this mail to the Australian Cricket Board site at
http://www.acb.com.au since they have the rights to host all Australia involved
matches and this is another blatant violantion of that rule too.
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 08:46:26 +1000
From: Will Darnell <wdarnell@onramp.net>
Subject: Real Audio Broadcast of Radio Australia
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Just wanted to say thank you for making your broadcasts availible on the
internet. The broadcast allows me to keep in touch with news and culture in
Australia and I hope to see it continue.
Will Darnell
Dallas, TX USA
wdarnell@onramp.net
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 07:58:06 +1000
From: "Michael Powell" <powell@dascom.com>
Subject: Thanks!
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi,
Just wanted to say thanks for the addition of the RealAudio live webcast of
Radio Australia. I work in a company in the US with a large Aussie contingent
and its great to be able to finally listen to familiar programs.
Thanks again,
Michael A. Powell.
Senior Engineer.
Dascom, Inc.
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 07:41:46 +1000
From: John Hamill <jh@lan1.com.au>
Subject: The Real audio service
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Can you advise if any AFL games are broadcast via real audio?
I am listening in the US.
John Hamill
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:30:04 +1000
From: Donald Sutherland <DonSuth@sj.bigger.net>
Subject: Radio Australia on the Web
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Sirs,
Thank-you very much for putting RA on the Web. I live in an area that does not
allow large antennas with which to receive Shortwave broadcasts so reception is
not the best. By having RA on the Web, I can listen to it more often.
Especially when propagation wouldn't allow me to get it on my SW Radio. Still,
it is fun to use the SW so I can get QSL cards for my collection. I assume you
don't give QSL cards for Internet recep- tion but in case you do, let me know
and I'll send it. Again, thanks for a great site!
Sincerely,
Don Sutherland
DonSuth@sj.bigger.net
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 04:03:20 +1000
From: Matt Buttsworth <matt.buttsworth@bluewin.ch>
Subject: Football
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Sir,
I heard on the internet today that you will be broadcasting the football finals
over the internet. Wonderful. I will really enjoy them. However in Switzerland,
the football begin at 6.30 in the morning and are very hard to hear as we are
either having breakfast or are asleep. In America it would be the middle of the
night. Could you please therefore for European and American listeners, also as
you do with news, have the file in FTP form as overseas listeners can download
the file in the middle of the night when internet is cheap, and listen to it at
leasiure in the day.
I loved listening to Grandstand on crackly shortwave. Thankyou very much for
giving me a chance to listen to it again.
Matt Buttsworth Switzerland
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 01:48:50 +1000
From: brow267 <brow267@ibm.net>
Subject: AFL
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Can you tell me if Radio Australia is intending to braodcast any of the AFL
fottball finals over the internet ??
Alistair Brown
Paris
brow267@ibm.net
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 13:59:48 +1000
From: <"GOLDSCHMIDT SIMON"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: Implementation of RA Viet. and Khmer online news
To: SUE SLAMEN <"SLAMEN SUE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Sue,
sounds like I might be better off aiming for Wednesday and Thursday (10 - 11
September) for implementation.
On the first morning it is important that I be able to survey someone about the
computers that will be used to publish online news. Then I will need relatively
free access to machines for about an hour (in each area) to install software
and test the system.
If there are no problems at this stage I am flexible to perform as many
training sessions as necessary. I would like to train everyone who may be
responsible for publishing online news. Any problems will be resolved on day 1
so that all of day 2 can be dedicated to training.
On day 2 I'll also schedule a couple of hours with you and with the acting RA
online co-ordinator to discuss the launch of the services, support, and future
development (amongst other things).
Please let me know if Wed - Thu implementation is a better idea.
Simon Goldschmidt
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 05:46:03 +1000
From: jeremy_shapiro <js346w@nih.gov>
Subject: please help!
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi,
I am an Australian living in Washingotn DC and trying hard to get the AFL footy
broadcast over the net. I have Real Player and have listened to live Radio
Australia in the past as well as the Ashes live on the BBC.
Are you guys broadcasting it? If not is anyone else??
Hope you can help,
Cheers,
Jeremy Shapiro
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 08:05:09 +1000
From: Edmond Roy Laffernis <edmond@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in>
Subject: can't hear ra...
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
russell,'
it's edmond roy in new delhi here...
i was trying to listen to ra live on the web, and have done so in the past, but
today couldn't for some reason. according to microsoft it says "
error 14#
requsted file not found.the link you followed may be outdated."
so what is going on???
trust you can help,
cheers
ed
edmond roy
abc, new delhi
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 09:39:16 +1000
From: Bob Bristow <bob@kisser.net.au>
Subject: Bad link
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
gidday there
got a bad link on the radio australia live page.
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/abclive.ram
cheers
Bob Bristow, Karratha Western Australia
email bob@kisser.net.au.
Homepage HTTP://www.kisser.net.au/bob
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 14:49:47 +1000
From: Angus McDougall <amcdoug@informix.com>
Subject: RAdio Australia Live
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russell,
Great feature being able to listen to RA live! I nstalled the Real Audio
software during the week and tested it - no problems! And today, when I tune in
to listen to Tim Lane and Peter Booth call the Swans/Footscray game - no luck!
I get Error 14, at the following URL:
http://www.real.com/help/errors/error14.html
Can you help - please!!
Thanks,
Angus
Angus McDougall
Director - Sales & Marketing
Informix K.K Japan
Email: amcdoug@informix.com
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 14:51:09 +1000
From: Teri Sweetin <Teri.Sweetin@mci.com>
Subject: ABC Live
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Is there still live radio over the internet. I'm getting an error trying to
load it in Real Audio
Thanks
Teri Sweetin
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 15:54:38 +1000
From: Paul McGrath <pxminco@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Problems with abclive.ra
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
I have been attempting to tune in to Radio Australia on the net and apparently
the site is out of action. I get the following error :
"Requested file not found. The link you followed may be inaccurate or out of
date."
Hope you can get it fixed soon as I really appreciate tuning in from Denver,
Colorado and getting the news from home.
Paul McGrath
Denver (formerly Bendigo)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 10:00:37 +1000
From: "SUE SLAMEN <"SLAMEN SUE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: FWD: RE: Implementation of RA Viet. and Khmer online news
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
8th of September
Welcome Back Russ,
As you'll see from the attached E-Mail, Simon will be at RA on Wednesday and
Thursday to set up the terminals and walk everyone through the process of
putting Vietnamese and Khmer text on line.
Regards,
Sue Slamen.
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 10:07:23 +1000
From: "SUE SLAMEN <"SLAMEN SUE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: FWD: Quote for RA Viet & Khmer FYI
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:23:27 +1000
From: <"GOLDSCHMIDT SIMON"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Quote for RA Vietnamese and Khmer online news systems
To: SUE SLAMEN <"SLAMEN SUE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Sue,
I have attached a quote for the development work to build two systems that will
enable the online publication of a Vietnamese and a Khmer news service.
The quote includes travel expenses for a Sydney developer to spend two days in
Melbourne to perform software installation and train users.
Under current arrangements, ITS will provide on-going support of the systems at
no additional cost.
With your approval we can begin development now and will be ready to implement
by Thursday, 28 August.
Please note that there will still be a number of tasks remaining to launch the
news services, including:
1. producing instructions for users to configure web browsers 2. altering the
Radio Australia site to facilitate navigation to
the bulletins
3. publicising new services through ABC and other web sites
We can sort out the co-ordination of these tasks during the implementation.
Simon Goldschmidt
ITS NewsCAff team
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:19:47 +1000
Subject: Viet/Khmer quote
Development tasks for online news systems:
1. Determine input and output file formats 3h
2. Design text conversion programs 6h
3. Design procedures for bulletin creation 3h
4. Design administration interfaces 3h
5. Produce technical documentation 3h
6. Code and test text conversion programs 6h
7. Code and test programs for bulletin creation 6h
8. Produce administration interfaces 4h
9. Conduct system testing 6h
10. Install software and train users 8h
Total: 48 hours
ITS development rate: $63 per hour
Cost of development: $3,024
Travel expenses: $770 (approx)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:45:13 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: RADIO AUSTRALIA ON THE INTERNET
To: JOHN CRONE <"CRONE JOHN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
John
Your message and some comments in upper case
Russ
Whilst in Canberra on a private visit over the weekend, I had the opportunity
of seeing over the new Parliament House . I found most if not all of the
offices of federal MPs have access to the Internet .
When I called up the Radio Australia Homepages, I found :
(A) The ABC Homepages are in the process of being revamped
SOME WEEKS BACK THE ABC CHANGED IT'S HOME PAGE - NOT RA. I ALSO CANT BELIEVE
THAT THE ABC LEFT IT THAT WAY FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR OR SO AT MOST. THERE IS
ONLY A MOMENTS BREAK BETWEEN UPDATING ONE HOME PAGE TO A NEW ONE.
I SUGGEST THAT THE STAFF THERE NEVER CLEAR THEIR CACHES AND AS SUCH KEEP
GETTING THE SAME OLD PAGE - A COMMON ERROR IN NEW USERS
(B) There were no E-mail addresses or contact names for the different Program
Departments on Radio Australia's Home Pages
SINCE DAY ONE WE HAVE HAD A 'CONTACT' PAGE LINKED FROM THE RA HOME PAGE WITH
ALL EMAIL, FAX NUMBERS ETC INDICATED.
I AM WONDERING WHAT PAGE WAS APPEARING AS THE RA HOMEPAGE - IT SHOULDN'T HAVE
BEEN TOO DIFFERENT FROM THE CURRENT ONE GIVE OR TAKE A LINE OF TEXT - WAS IT
BASICALLY THE SAME ?
(C) The Australian Weekly News Roundup in Chinese was unreadable gibberish.
(Not exactly the best impression to convey to the casual browser) .
THE CHINESE SITE CAN ONLY BE READ IF THE USER SETS UP HIS OR HER MACHINE TO
DECODE THE TEXT. IT IS NOT A DEFAULT OPTION
Would it be possible to take advantage of the opportunity offered by the revamp
of the ABC Homepages to try and get a more visible presence for Radio Australia
?
SEE ABOVE RE REVAMP - RA I FEEL WILL EVER ONLY BE GIVEN A PRESENCE AS IT HAS
NOW IE THAT OF ANOTHER NETWORK IE RADIO NATIONAL JJJ ETC. - SORRY - NOT FOR ME
TO DECIDE
Would it be possible to include E-mail addresses for each Program Output unit
on the Radio Australia Homepage ?
SEE ABOVE RE EMAILS
As in the past, can we provide all users of the Internet with the ability to
sight real Chinese text (and indeed Vietnamese and Khmer as well) on the
Internet rather than lines of gibberish ? That is, give them access to AsiaSurf
and/or Union Way ?
FROM THE RA CHINESE NEWS HOME PAGE, THE VIEWER HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO GO
STRAIGHT TO A PAGE OFFERING SEVERAL CHINESE TEXT TO WEB BROWSER CONVERTERS EG
CHINESE STAR, NJ STAR, TWIN BRIDGE AND UNION WAY.
THERE IS ALSO THE NOT SO SUCCESSFUL MACVIEW FOR MACINTOSH USERS BUT AS MOST
CHINESE WEB BROWSERS USE WINDOWS THIS HASN'T BEEN TOO MUCH OF A PROBLEM SO FAR.
THE KHMER AND VIETNAMESE PAGES WILL REQUIRE NO CONVERSION - THIS IS BEING
WRITTEN INTO THE ABC'S WEBNEWS SYSTEM
HOPE THIS INFO CLEARS A FEW THINGS UP
RUSS
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:31:47 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton (03) 9626 1943"
<"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Reply from Russell Naughton Radio Australia
To: Remote Addressee <colinws@wearnes.com.sg>
Colin
Firstly let me apologise for the delay in answering your email - I have been on
leave and you are one of several dozen of some 141 eMails that greeted me when
I got back this morning (08 09 97)
Radio Australia and in fact the ABC our 'mother' network, is still
experimenting with audio on the net both as streamable files (real time
listening) and as downloads ie an archive of past programs.
At the present we have only one feed available to serve some 80 simultaneous
listeners. This is feed is fed from the general English service of Radio
Australia which by default also includes some Radio National programming plus
healthy doses of sport, news and current affairs - a good 'default' for a one
station Real Audio service 'on trial'
We (the ABC) are planning to increase this service in the near future but
funds and person power are limited and it all takes time.
In the mean time the best bet for Real Audio as I've outlined above is from the
elp shedule sites from which you can also see what programs are scheduled.
Weekdays
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elpmtof.htm
or
Weekends
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elpstos.htm
regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Service Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tuesday, September 09, 1997 11:29 AM
From: Russell Naughton <NAUGHTON.RUSSELL@a2.abc.net.au>
To: jh@lan1.com.au
Subject: Real Audio on Radio Australia
John
Firstly let me apologise for the delay in answering your email - I have been
on leave and you are one of several dozen of some 141 eMails that greeted me
when I got back this morning (08 09 97)
Radio Australia and in fact the ABC our 'mother' network, is still
experimenting with audio on the net both as streamable files (real time
listening) and as downloads ie an archive of past programs.
At the present we have only one feed available to serve some 80
simultaneous listeners. This feed is 'across' the general English service of
Radio Australia which by default also includes some Radio National programming
plus healthy doses of sport, news and current affairs - a good 'default' for a
one station Real Audio service 'on trial'
We (the ABC) are planning to increase this service in the near future but
funds and person power are limited and it all takes time.
In the mean time the best bet for Real Audio as I've outlined above is
from the elp shedule sites from which you can also see what programs are
scheduled.
Weekdays
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elpmtof.htm
or
Weekends
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elpstos.htm
regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Service Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:31:37 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton (03) 9626 1943"
<"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: Remote Addressee <DonSuth@sj.bigger.net>
Don
I'm sorry to have taken so long to reply but your eMail arrived whilst I was on
leave.
Radio Australia's Real Audio facility is still on test and I can't guarantee it
will always be there during this next few months BUT we are working on a full
implementation which will see both streaming and downloadable audio as a vital
part of our future.
In this new world of the Internet could this eMail be regarded as a QSL
equivalent?
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:51:40 +1000
From: Michael A Powell <powell@dascom.com>
Subject: Re: Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: NAUGHTON RUSSELL <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thanks for the reply Russell.
I've actually been tuning in loyally every day to catch up on current affairs
back home. I even caught the final Ashes test on RealAudio. Great job! This
service is really appreciated by the Aussies abroad.
Cheers,
Michael.
Michael A. Powell.
Senior Engineer.
Dascom, Inc.
Email: powell@dascom.com
According to Russell Naughton:
Michael
I'm sorry to have taken so long to reply but your eMail arrived whilst I was on
leave.
Radio Australia's Real Audio facility is still on test and I can't guarantee it
will always be there during this next few months BUT we are working on a full
implementation which will see both streaming and downloadable audio as a vital
part of our future.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:46:56 +1000
To: Remote Addressee <brow267@ibm.net>
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Football on Radio Australia
Alistair
I'm sorry to have taken so long to reply but your eMail arrived whilst I was on
leave.
We are indeed planning* to broadcast the football on the net in real time
see: << http//www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elpstos.htm >> for the magic on
button and broadcast shedule (Grandstand)
Please keep in mind however that Radio Australia's Real Audio facility is still
on test and I can't guarantee it will always* be there during this next few
weeks.
We are working on a full implementation which will see both streaming and
downloadable audio as a vital part of our future which includes sport and in
particular Aussie Rules.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 12:07:08 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Hello from RA
To: Remote Addressee <edmond@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in>
Edmond
You 'ole bastard - how the hell are you. Hi from Russ Naughton as in Richard
Naughton as in East Burwood.
Hear you on the wires then and now especially late at nite when I get a chance
to toon in on RA. Re Real Audio...still in 'test mode' ...one feed to 80
streams ie 80 listeners at one time. Suggest when you tried, we were simply all
full up.
Rumour has it that we are soon to go to a 4000 stream server. Be patient - we
are working hard to please you and all the troops out there in Internet land.
PS How's the tennis going !
Regards
Russ Naughton
On Line Services Coord
Radio Oz
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 12:57:34 +1000
From: jeremy_shapiro <js346w@nih.gov>
Subject: Re: Football on Radio Australia
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
thanks for the detailed reply!
Jeremy
At 12:04 PM 9/9/97 +1000, you wrote:
Jeremy
I'm sorry to have taken so long to reply but your eMail arrived whilst I was on
leave. We are indeed planning* to broadcast the football on the net in real
time.
See: << http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elpstos.htm >> for the magic
on button and broadcast schedule (Grandstand)
Please keep in mind however that Radio Australia's Real Audio facility is still
on test and I can't guarantee it will always* be there during this next few
weeks.
We are working on a full implementation which will see both streaming and
downloadable audio as a vital part of our future which includes sport and in
particular Aussie Rules.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:28:33 +1000
From: Edmond Roy Laffernis <edmond@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in>
Subject: Re: Hello from RA
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
russ and richard,
trust you guys to be still hanging around master control !!!
great to hear from you, yes the tennis is progressing steadily but the heat
kills of any gains.
i thought you had disappeared into the ether along with the rest of RA...glad
to hear they have some use for guys like us. now that they've shut down
transmitters to this side of the globe, the only way I can listen to the footy
is through the net. that too if real audio is working...anyway tell the
bastards if they are listening that the only real people who listen to the
radio are in this part of the world, and now that RA is gone, they have all
gone on to listen to VOA or Duestchewella or the BEEB. But they never cared for
that sort of thing, did they?
be good and keep in touch, and richard stay out of the way of those women !!!
cheers
edmond roy
abc, new delhi
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:34:50 +1000
From: Angus McDougall <amcdoug@informix.com>
Subject: Re: Real Audio Problems
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell - thanks for the response. I actually tried again on Sunday, and it
worked fine (unfortunately the footy wasn't on then !).
Great to see Radio Oz doing such innovative stuff - congratulations!
Angus McDougall
Tokyo
At 13:47 09/09/97 +1000, you wrote:
Angus,
I'm sorry to have taken so long to reply but your eMail arrived whilst I was on
leave.
Re Real Audio...still in 'test mode' ...one feed to 80 streams ie 80 listeners
at one time. Suggest when you tried, we were simply all full up. We are working
on a full implementation which will see both streaming and downloadable audio
as a vital part of our future.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Angus McDougall
Director - Sales & Marketing
Informix K.K Japan
Email: amcdoug@informix.com
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 02:33:56 +1000
From: John Hamill <jh@lan1.com.au>
Subject: Re: Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thanks.. after I emailed you I found out that Grandstand was broadcast on
Saturdays. It works really well. Thanks.
John
From: Russell Naughton (03) 9626 1943 NAUGHTON.RUSSELL@a2.abc.net.au> To:
jh@lan1.com.au
Subject: Real Audio on Radio Australia
Date: Tuesday, September 09, 1997 11:29 AM
John
Firstly let me apologise for the delay in answering your email - I have been on
leave and you are one of several dozen of some 141 eMails that greeted me when
I got back this morning (08 09 97)
Radio Australia and in fact the ABC our 'mother' network, is still
experimenting with audio on the net both as streamable files (real time
listening) and as downloads ie an archive of past programs.
At the present we have only one feed available to serve some 80
simultaneous listeners. This feed is 'across' the general English service of
Radio Australia which by default also includes some Radio National programming
plus healthy doses of sport, news and current affairs - a good 'default' for a
one station Real Audio service 'on trial'
We (the ABC) are planning to increase this service in the near future but
funds and person power are limited and it all takes time.
In the mean time the best bet for Real Audio as I've outlined above is
from the elp shedule sites from which you can also see what programs are
scheduled.
Weekdays
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elpmtof.htm
or
Weekends
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elpstos.htm
regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Service Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:44:42 +1000
From: HOWARD DEER <"DEER HOWARD"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RA ON THE INTERNET.
To: JEAN MANGUY <"MANGUY JEAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Terry Brown <"BROWN TERRY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>, COLIN GRIFFITH
<"GRIFFITH COLIN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
With all going well and by the end of this week, RA will have all of its
language services up on the Website as text. To the best of my knowledge the
work of Simon Goldschmidt and Russ Naughton along with the assistance of the
language staff has created a site that cannot be matched by any other
broadcaster regardless of size (I will keep looking !).
May I suggest that this is worthy of a Press announcement and even an official
opening, perhaps involving Stockdale. This development has important
implications for the continuing future of RA as well as for ventures such as
the Monash project.
Neil Deer
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 16:32:31 +1000
From: "Kieran Ryan RYAN KIERAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RA Index
To: Jonathan Squire <"SQUIRE JONATHAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Jono,
Could you please setup a search index on www with these characteristics:
Collection name: ra
Description: Radio Australia
Directory: /web/external/abc/ra
Include subdirectories: Yes
File Type: HTML
Files: *.htm
Reindex at --> 05:00 Everyday.
Regards,
Kieran.
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 12:50:49 +1000
From: "ROGER BROADBENT <"BROADBENT ROGER"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RA AUDIO ON THE INTERNET
To: COLIN GRIFFITH <"GRIFFITH COLIN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Colin,
In my capacity as Manager of RA's English service I would like to thank you and
the rest of the Multi Media unit for your support in recent weeks. Our
availability via the ABC's Internet audio streaming test has provided us with a
tremendous boost during the most difficult of times. More importantly it has
provided many of our former shortwave listeners with their only link with RA
following the closure of Darwin. I attach a selection of appreciative emails
from 'listeners' who have discovered our audio on the Internet.
It is very much in our interest at the moment to promote this link, however I
am aware that we have been asked to keep our promotion of this test to a
minimum. Should we continue to maintain this low key approach and can you give
me some indication of your plans for audio streaming?
Of course all of us are eager for this to become a permament outlet for RA's
English language programmes and indeed hope that there may also be
opportunities for our foreign language broadcasts.
Regards,
Roger Broadbent,
Manager,
English & Pacific Services,
Radio Australia.
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 12:52:23 +1000
To:"ROGER BROADBENT <"BROADBENT ROGER"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
From: RUSSELL NAUGHTON <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: INTERNET EMAILS
Hi Russell,
I found a link on the first of July stating that RA could be heard live during
the Hong Kong hand over. This worked beautifully and I can now connect anytime
from the Real Audio application. What I hear appears to be live and the quality
is astounding. My compliments for an excellent web site.
Russell Knudsen
Jakarta
My God, it's working! I love you Russell - well at least you should know that I
am smiling from ear to ear. It works! It is playing now as I type to you..
Currently it is 8:50 pm EST 11:50 am on Friday in Sydney. It appears that is
actually a TV feed, interviews with immigrants I guess? I know you are testing
but is there an address where I can get a program (guide). Thank you so much
again!
Steven
New York
Russell - thanks for the response. I actually tried again on Sunday, and it
works great. Great to see Radio Oz doing such innovative stuff -
congratulations!
Angus McDougall
Tokyo
......I've actually been tuning in loyally every day to catch up on current
affairs back home. I even caught the final Ashes test on RealAudio. Great job!
This service is really appreciated by the Aussies abroad.
Cheers,
Michael
USA
Can you tell me if Radio Australia is intending to braodcast any of the AFL
football finals over the internet ??
Alistair Brown
Paris
Thank-you very much for putting RA on the Web. I live in an area that does not
allow large antennas with which to receive Shortwave broadcasts so reception is
not the best. By having RA on the Web, I can listen to it more often.
Especially when propagation wouldn't allow me to get it on my SW Radio. Still,
it is fun to use the SW so I can get QSL cards for my collection. I assume you
don't give QSL cards for Internet recep- tion but in case you do, let me know
and I'll send it. Again, thanks for a great site!
Sincerely,
Don Sutherland
Dallas USA
Hi,
Just wanted to say thanks for the addition of the RealAudio live webcast of
Radio Australia. I work in a company in the US with a large Aussie contingent
and its great to be able to finally listen to familiar programs.
Thanks again,
Michael A. Powell
USA
Just wanted to say thank you for making your broadcasts availible on the
internet. The broadcast allows me to keep in touch with news and culture in
Australia and I hope to see it continue.
Will Darnell
USA
Dear Sir,
First of all I would like to thank you for making it possible to access Radio
Australia live on the Internet. It sure beats searching for the correct
frequency on shortwave, especially in Europe !
Emmanuel Tsesmelis
Switzerland
Mr. Russell,
On this moment I listen for the first time to Radio Australie by Internet. I
would like to ask you why the sound is in Medium Wave quality ? Is there a
possibility that I can hear you in full stereo by Internet.
Best regards,
John Lindgreen,
Terneuzen,
Netherlands.
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 13:31:12 +1000
From: Gary Roman <roman@magic.mb.ca>
Subject: great
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Just a quick note to let you know I enjoy your web radio very much. Listen at
least 3-4 days aweek for probably 3-4 hours each time. Lots of great news in
the area and the islands. Please up the great work, with the news, the updates,
and general interest topics. Thanks,
Gary Roman
roman@magic.mb.ca
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 12:08:39 +1000
From: tyrone1 <tyrone1@prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: Grandstand on the net
To: <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thanks,
I will keep checking it.
I have to say that I think that Shortwave is the best way to reach people,
satelite the worst. Internet is in between-It still is expensive to have
access
Tom
Radio Australia's Real Audio facility is still on test and as such I can't
guarantee that it will always be there during this next few months nor indeed
across certain programs on certain days BUT we are working as fast as possible
on a full implementation which will see both streaming and downloadable audio
as a vital part of our future which will of course include a comprehensive
sports service.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 12:15:45 +1000
From: "JEAN MANGUY <"MANGUY JEAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: INTERNET VIETNAMESE & KHMER NEWS
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Great job Russ on the search engine and the Vietnamese and Khmer news.
Can you or Neil liaise with Caroline to put something out for the media.
Jean-gab
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 12:13:05 +1000
From: Michael A Powell <powell@dascom.com>
Subject: Re: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi Russell,
Thanks for the heads-up.
Michael.
Senior Engineer.
Dascom, Inc.
Email: powell@dascom.com
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:45:56 +1000
From: frank kozmet <fkozmet@mb.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thanks, much appreciated.
Frank Kozmet
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:11:58 +1000
From: Michael_Liley%NAG <Michael_Liley%NAG@nabasia.com>
Subject: Re: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thank you - I have been using the Real Audio facility on the RA site a lot and
find it works really well.
Michael Liley
Hong Kong
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:44:20 +1000
From: Donald Sutherland <DonSuth@sj.bigger.net>
Subject: Re: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi Russell,
I've tried Radio Australia and boy is it great! Thanks for the advance notice
of the AFL finals, I look forward to listening in. Keep up the good work. I
guess you're correct, this must count as a cyber-space QSL. All this technology
still amazes me.
Best wishes,
Don Sutherland
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 20:14:59 +1000
From: mrice <mrice@cuphyb.phys.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thank you for the inmormation re the netcast of the footy! I look forward to
listening.
Matthew Rice
At 10:19 18/09/97 +1000, you wrote:
Dear faithful listener, websurfer
Due to your demonstrated interest in the availability / future of audio on
Radio Australia's website (and specifically AFL football broadcasts) we have
decided to give you advance notice of our intention to netcast the AFL finals
series starting this Friday night Australian Time.
I'm not sure at time of writing what actual announcements will be made either
on air (shortwave , satellite) or indeed on the RA web site but thought that
you have 'earned the right' to have first option at the 80 or so streams that
will be available.
All the best and apologies in advance if...
1. this information is of no interest to you at this point in time or
2. that something goes astray at the last moment with our server, broadcast
rights whatever and we don't actually make it to 'air' as promised.
The URL will be as 'normal' << http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elphome.htm
>>
Time: from 1930 East Coast Australian Time (0930 UT)
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:35:09 +1000
From: tyrone1 <tyrone1@prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thanks for this! "there's many a slip twix the cup and the lip" or something
like that
Your notice expresses it perfectly.
Tom McElhone
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:46:10 +1000
From: Angus McDougall <amcdoug@informix.com>
Subject: Re: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell - may I be the first to nominate you as the next Minister of
Communications!
I look forward to hearing the dulcet tones of Tim Lane, Peter Booth, Crackers
et al in the 3LO broadcast. Fantastic!!
Thanks again,
Cheers,
Angus McDougall
Tokyo
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997
From: "Russell Naughton (03) 9626 1943"
<"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: Remote Addressee
Tom
Radio Australia's Real Audio facility is still on test and as such I can't
guarantee that it will always be there during this next few months nor indeed
across certain programs on certain days BUT we are working as fast as possible
on a full implementation which will see both streaming and downloadable audio
as a vital part of our future which will of course include a comprehensive
sports service.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:44:20 +1000
From: Donald Sutherland <DonSuth@sj.bigger.net>
Subject: Re: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi Russell,
I've tried Radio Australia and boy is it great! Thanks for the advance notice
of the AFL finals, I look forward to listening in. Keep up the good work. I
guess you're correct, this must count as a cyber-space QSL. All this technology
still amazes me.
Best wishes,
Don Sutherland
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
From: "John T. Shay" <johns@prognet.com>
Subject: ABC/PN
To: "griffith.colin" <griffith.colin@your.abc.net.au>
Colin,
I'm enroute back to Sydney to catch up with my US bound flight and wanted to
take a moment to thank you for taking the time to meet with me and Mark
Samuels.
While in Melbourne, I had the great fortune of meeting John Bird at the
Firmware seminar. John was kind enough to invite me over to ABC radio to meet
both Russell Naughton and Domenic Friguglietti. Although our meeting was brief,
I was very impressed to see how forward thinking you and ABC are in regards to
the internet and global cybercasting.
I look forward to a return visit to Australia and to working with ABC on future
projects.
Regards,
John
John Shay - International Business Development Manager
Executive Producer Hong Kong Handover Cybercast
johns@prognet.com
Progressive Networks
1111 Third Avenue, Suite 2900
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 674-2268
(206) 674-2697 fax
http://www.real.com http://www.timecast.com
http://www.liveconcerts.com http://www.webactive.com
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:34:40 +1000
From: Paul McGrath <pxminco@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
All I can say is "You bloody beauty ! "
Thanks
Paul McGrath
Denver, Colorado, USA
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:30:30 +1000
From: Adam Wetstein <wetman@arcos.org>
Subject: Re: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Austr
To: <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thx in advance for the offer of the AFL Final. It's great
Unfortunately, The time difference between Canada and Australia makes it
impossible to listen live and get some sleep. Please notify the next person on
the list
Yours Truly
Adam Wetstein
Toronto Ontario
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:46:40 +1000
From: Jeremy Shapiro <jshap@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Australia To:
<"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
You guys are champions!
Well done for getting the match up and running. Sound quality excellent. No
interruptions either. Able to download mail/surf net at same time - amazing!!
Go sainters!
Jeremy,
Washington DC
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:33:24 +1000
From: tyrone1 <tyrone1@prodigy.net>
Subject: Yahoo is NOT a search engine!
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Just heard you on Real Audio link (waiting for sport) 1:15 GMT
Yahoo does not search sites and index words . Real people enter each site in
the directory. If you look at Yahoo home page on the bottom, or go to
http://www.yahoo.com/docs/info/include.html all will be revealed!
Any thing about Radio Australia was put in by someone. You could offer a
listing if you want.
Not to worry. I am one of the few people who know this and I just found out 2
weeks ago! Its never been a secret or anything, just not realized by many.
Tom
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 06:09:38 +1000
From: Emmanuel Tsesmelis <Emmanuel.Tsesmelis@cern.ch>
Subject: Re: The AFL Finals Series in Real Audio on Radio Australia To:
"Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russell,
Many thanks for providing the AFL football live on the Internet. It was a real
treat waking up on Saturday morning (European time) to the sounds of the crowds
at the MCG. I hope that this excellent service may be continued also during the
home-and-away games.
Best regards and thanks once again,
Emmanuel Tsesmelis (Geneva/Switzerland)
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Russell Naughton wrote:
Dear faithful listener, websurfer
Due to your demonstrated interest in the availability / future of audio on
Radio Australia's website (and specifically AFL football broadcasts) we have
decided to give you advance notice of our intention to netcast the AFL finals
series starting this Friday night Australian Time.
I'm not sure at time of writing what actual announcements will be made either
on air (shortwave , satellite) or indeed on the RA web site but thought that
you have 'earned the right' to have first option at the 80 or so streams that
will be available.
All the best and apologies in advance if...
1. this information is of no interest to you at this point in time or
2. that something goes astray at the last moment with our server, broadcast
rights whatever and we don't actually make it to 'air' as promised.
The URL will be as 'normal'
<< http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elphome.htm >>
Time: from 1930 East Coast Australian Time (0930 UT)
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:12:14 +1000
From: Colin Barry <bazza@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Radio Australia in Boulder, CO US
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Bravo ABC,
just picked up Radio Australia on the Internet using streaming audio.
Cheers
Colin
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 01:50:35 +1000
From: jason romain <jasonr@netline.cl>
Subject: ARL grandfinal
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Sir,
I am currently working in Santiago, Chile and I am a huge Manly Fan.
I was wondering if you are going to be playing the grandfinal of the ARL live
on real audio?
If not do you have any hints on were I can listen in?
Thanks for your assistance.
JR
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:21:02 +1000
From: "JENNY CAMPBELL <"CAMPBELL JENNY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Health and Risk Unit
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi Russell,
You are a real pal....
Thank you for your excellent press release, I have forwarded to John Presbury
for him to have a look at.
I really appreciate your help with this project.
Don't be surprised if you read it a little later on down the track.
I owe you another coffee....
Luv
J
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 18:16:07 +1000
From: Felix Hude <mrfelix@netspace.net.au>
Subject: Software request!
To: Russell Naughton <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Software request!
Does anyone have a copy of "DiskDoubler" and "AutoDoubler" for the Mac?
I'm trying to un-double and un-auto some files.
Thanks, and if you email me a version I'd be most grateful.
Felix Hude
Felix Hude - Spokesturkey Animation
PO Box 1323, St Kilda Sth VIC 3182, Australia
mrfelix@netspace.net.au
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:53:44 +1000
From: Gary and Maree Marshall <marshall@monmouth.com>
Subject: Re: The Big Men Fly Again...
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thank-you Russ,
I'm looking forward to listening to it. I have not had much luck with
conventional Radio Oz in New Jersey and this might be the solution.
Go Sainters!!!
Gary Marshall
Subject: The Big Men Fly Again...
Date: Thursday, September 25, 1997 12:56 AM
Dear All
Just a brief note to say that we have just had clearance from the AFL to
'netcast the Grand Final.
Be the first on your block...
Happy Listening
Russ Naughton
Radio Oz
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 16:27:18 +1000
From: Angus McDougall <amcdoug@informix.com>
Subject: Re: Update to Real Audio feed of Grand Final
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell - not only are you a Saint, but you folow them as well!
Angus
Tokyo
At 14:54 26/09/97 +1000, you wrote:
Dear followers of the worlds greatest sport
Should you be unable to access the Radio Australia Real Audio Feed (ie the 80
feeds are all taken) then it would be worth trying MMM who are also
advertising a coverage.
http://www.mmm.com.au
Go Saints
Russell
Angus McDougall
Director - Sales & Marketing
Informix K.K Japan
amcdoug@informix.com
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 19:06:20 +1000
From: barts <barts@pacific.net.sg>
Subject: Thankyou
To: <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thankyou for providing your service live over the Internet. I live in Singapore
where the shortwave radio is very poor in its reception in many areas.
I live an an area where cable tv is not available yet to recieve ATVI (which I
only heard about on RA) It is a blessing.
A few of us will gather for the football final on Sunday and can't believe we
can do this.
It is so enjoyable to hear RA after a steady diet of the BBC which is good but
its programming has become a little mundane (2 years of the same programs
always at the same time)
Now if JJJ would follow suit I could have my news and music.
Mark Bartier
A very happy ABC listener
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 14:27:39 +1000
From: Felix Hude <mrfelix@netspace.net.au>
Subject: Cyber blessings!
To: <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi Russell,
Thanks for that!
I'll take it home tonight and let it rip, cyber blessings,
felix
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 10:47:17 +1000
From: MJThane <MJThane@aol.com>
Subject: Re: The Big Men Fly Again...
To: NAUGHTON RUSSELL <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Congratulations on being able to 'netcast' the GF. I wasn't able to tune in - I
was miles from a phone line, much less a computer!
Hope things keep working out for ABC World Service.
Dave Thomas
Chicago, USA
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 17:48:53 +1000
From: "KEVAN NEWMAN <"NEWMAN KEVAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: STAFF COSTINGS to NEW DEPARTMENTS
To: Ian Merry <"MERRY IAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Cc: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Ian,
I have been advised by A/Controller Broadcasting Sue Crane that the following
staff are to be transferred out of RA and their salaries are to be costed as
follows:
R. Naughton P460583 employee no 212091 costed to HQ103-401 Multi Media National
Networks.
Please move staff off RA establishment.
regards
Kevan
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 15:12:21 +1000
From: "ROGER BROADBENT <"BROADBENT ROGER"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au> Subject:
RE: FWD: Melbourne Cup broadcasts
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Jean-Gab/Russ,
As in past years I propose that we relay Cup coverage on all available RA
frequencies 'live'. This being the case, unless we take steps to block its
'broadcast' via the web, it will automatically be heard on the Internet and via
Palapa.
I'll look into the legal ramifications of it going out on the net.
Roger.
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 23:37:34 +1000
From: momo <momo@smart.net.au>
Subject: Thank you!
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russell
Thank you very much for sending me the information about Japanese WP. It's so
kind of you.
I will try it in this weekend, although I don't have much confidence about its
success because of the lack of my computer knowledge. Anyhow, I try my best.
If you have anything which I could help you, please tell me. Thank you very
much again.
Atsuko McQuire
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 22:19:38 +1000
From: Andrew Roberts <harts@echuca.net.au>
Subject: - no subject (01IOKW1R3J4ICK1VLT)
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russell,
I logf onto Real Audio and listen to a selection of news broadcasts daily. Is
there a chance abc news can be listed on the real audio site for easy access?
If not, is there any way ALL ABC news broadcasts, sports, rural, national and
international be listed under the one index so it is easier to find all and
listen to news from an Australian perpsective. I have just spent half an hour
going thru this site...it is very confusing, and it will take me the same
amount of time next time as the real audio programs are so hard to find. I
consider myself relatively competent, having voicechat and conferencing
programs being used most days, and feel the usage of these programs would
increase tremendously if lumped together. I imagine it would depend on how the
various departments like the idea. In the short term, is it possible to email
me the urls for the real audio ABC files so I can bookmark them all in the one
folder?
many thanks for looking into this.
Regards,
Andrew Roberts
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 21:42:16 +1000
From: byron d nygreen <bnygreen@telepath.com>
Subject: RA.ra.and www
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
I am so glad Radio Australia is now on real audio on the world wide web. Here
in Oklahoma short wave reception is often less than satisfactory but now I can
listen to RA on demand without static and a fluctuating signal.Once
again,Thanks.
Byron Nygreen
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 14:40:43 +1000
From: Peter Batchelor <peterbat@rmit.edu.au>
Subject: talking at RMIT
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi Russell, I'm helping to put together a session on what is happening with the
web, particularly around RMIT. I thought that your perspective on what can be
done with RealAudio would be useful, if I could persuade you to come along and
talk. It should be happening on December 15. Not sure about the time as yet.
Is it a possibility?
Peter
Peter Batchelor,
Sunrise Research Laboratory
Department of Visual Communication
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
+613 9660 3141
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:01:13 +1000
From: momo <momo@smart.net.au>
Subject: Re: Reading Japanese on the Internet
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russell
Thank you very much for telling me the information.
I tried it but somehow, I still can't print the info in Japanese on the
Internet although I can read them in Japanese. However, the 'japanese and
computing' and the 'online manual for JWP program' are very useful to me.
Sometime in next year, I plan to buy the 'Windows 95 Japanese version' when
I'll go back to Japan. So, if you or your son want it, I'm happy to copy it.
Again, thank you very much.
Atsuko McQuire
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:07:37 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Landmark Date for Radio Australia On Line
To: JEAN MANGUY <"MANGUY JEAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear All
Just a moment ago I opened the link to the On Line Khmer News Service.
We now offer a regularly updated text based news from all language services - I
believe a world first especially with non roman script based languages.
I will write today/tomorrow a draft press release for JGab/Tony to issue as
they see fit.
Special thanks are due to Simon Goldschmidt and the News Caff IT team in Sydney
for their help.
Russ Naughton
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:35:34 +1000
From: "ROGER BROADBENT <"BROADBENT ROGER"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au> Subject:
RE: Landmark Date for Radio Australia On Line
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
Both our listeners and the BBC's Monitoring Service have been closely following
your collective efforts to get both Vietnamese and Khmer on-line via your
reports on Feedback. I am sure they will be relieved to hear that your work has
been successful.
Congrats to you and your cohorts. Radio Australia shows the way ahead, yet
again!
Roger.
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 04:29:38 +1000
From: Simon Montagu <simon.montagu@muohio.edu>
Subject: RA online
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
I have to let everyone at RA know how grateful I am RA went online. The
government's decision to shut down the Darwin transmitter made my shortwave
radio totally useless, but your creative solution has allowed me to keep in
touch with all that's going on in Australia and the S. Pacific.
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!
Let Howard know his decision to cut the ABC's funding made a labor voter out of
me!
Cheers
Simon Montagu
Assist. Prof
Dept of Geography
Miami University, Oxford, OH.
(home: Woombye, Qld.)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:52:08 +1000
From: HOWARD DEER <"DEER HOWARD"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE LANDMARK DAY.
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
great work, and very timely as I see from the web statistics that Cambodia is
coming online as far as accessing the RA site (there were no Cambodian accesses
in July).
neil
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:49:31 +1000
From: "COLIN GRIFFITH <"GRIFFITH COLIN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au> Subject:
RE: Landmark Date for Radio Australia On Line
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ
Congratulations to you and the team for this achievement.
I look forward to the press release.
Regards
Colin
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:55:25 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Press Release DRAFT
To: JEAN MANGUY <"MANGUY JEAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
RADIO AUSTRALIA LAUNCHES ON LINE NEWS SERVICES IN VIETNAMESE AND KHMER.
Following the success of its on line news services in Indonesian, Chinese and
Tok Pisin (a language of Papua New Guinea), Radio Australia has just launched
similar services in its remaining two non english languages, Vietnamese and
Khmer (the language of Cambodia).
The news text begins life as a Microsoft Word document created using native
fonts and keyboard mapping. Then, using a variation of the ABC proprietry
system 'WebNews', the text is converted into web browser savvy documents, fed
into pre-made templates and finally and automatically, loaded onto the Radio
Australia website.
The 'magic' doesn't stop there as the 'WebNews' system then creates and or
updates an index page of items just 'published' from which the viewer can
choose items of interest. The viewer does admittedly require compatible fonts
installed in their computer but these are obtainable from a link on each news
index page.
With the reduction in its shortwave transmission output following recent budget
cuts, Radio Australia, always one for innovation, has now quickly moved to take
advantage of the global coverage that the internet offers in broadening the
coverage potential of all its news and information services.
Along with program information, transcripts and audio archives of many of its
key programs and a host of other 'on line goodies', the latest news from Radio
Australia, in all it's six langages, can be readily accessed from the Radio
Australia website 24 hours a day from << http://www.abc.net.au/ra
>>
For further information, please contact either
Jean Gabriel Manguy
Network Manager
Radio Australia
Tel:
eMail:
or
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Tel: 61 3 9626 1943
eMail: naughton.russell@a2.abc.net.au
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:48:11 +1000
From: "TONY HASTINGS <"HASTINGS TONY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: VIETNAMESE & KHMER NEWS ON THE NET
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Colleagues,
Following our success in getting Indonesian, Chinese and Tok Pisin News on the
internet, RA has now launched News in Vietnamese and Khmer.
Thanks to the efforts of Russ Naughton and our colleagues in the Multi-Media
Unit and IT, RA is now a leader in placing non-Roman text on the net.
Tony Hastings.
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 21:58:33 +1000
From: Jim Tumeth <jim.tumeth@aftrs.edu.au>
Subject: Hi
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
I am Jim Tumeth from the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney
where I work in Training Development in Multimedia. Prof. John Bird has been
here with me this afternoon telling me about the great work you're doing at ABC
in Melbourne. He gave me your web address and suggested I email you. He assures
me that next time I am in Melbourne he is taking me out to Southbank to see
your studios. I hope that isn't too far away.
John was telling me of some software you have been working on that will allow a
journo to edit and file a story from a laptop. I would be very interested in
knowing a bit more about that. We have a number of audio nonlinear packages
here including Fairlight MFX, SADIE, ProTools and a PC based package called
SAWPlus.
I have been streaming our radio students onto the net this year using the
RealAudio Server but as yet I haven't streamed any live video. We got a great
response to our RealAudio stream. The ABA gave us an open narrowcast for 100.1
FM and we streamed at the same time. Our freinds at APRA and AMCOS waived the
fee for the music.
We are hoping to continue to stream with next year's students (this years radio
students are all now working in the "real" world).
Hope to meet you soon.
Jim Tumeth
Australian Film Television and Radio School Sydney
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 07:17:21 +1000
From: "JOHN CRONE <"CRONE JOHN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RA CHINESE NEWS ONLINE
To: Simon Goldschmidt <"GOLDSCHMIDT SIMON"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Cc: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Simon
Thanks for your E-mail . We continue to have faith in your ability to identify
and resolve problems as quickly as they arise .
The latest hits for the RA Chinese News Online for the 28 days to 19 October of
5,549 are most encouraging .
I am sure they can go higher yet .
For your information, the Australian High Commission in Singapore recently
launched some publicity of the service in that Chinese-speaking republic .
John Crone
24 October 1997
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:28:44 +1000
From: "ROBERT JOHNSTON <"JOHNSTON ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au> Subject:
RE: Daylight Saving
To: Michael Spence <"SPENCE MICHAEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Cc: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Colleagues:
I don't want to throw a spanner in the works but have we considered whether we
should be going to summer time given that it's not universal.
Online has kicked this around over the past few days and we wonder if -- given
the international and cross-border nature of the online service -- whether we
should stay with Eastern Standard Time.
Please don't misinterprete this as a peculiarly Qld perspective. (I'm one of
the eight Qlders who voted for daylight saving!)
But we did not change over say, when Tasmania went to daylight saving three
weeks ago, so why do it now.
I guess one argument is that the bulk of the Australian population in the
eastern states has moved to summer time and we should reflect that.
On the other hand, the online dynamics are different from the broadcast
environment which has to acknowledge local time zones.
I'm not strong on it -- but I'm wondering if we've considered whether there is
a wider issue.
Regards.
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:30:30 +1000
From: Michael Spence <"SPENCE MICHAEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Daylight Saving
To: ROBERT JOHNSTON <"JOHNSTON ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>,
Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Guys,
I think for once we are one step ahead.
We have modified the time references on all automatically generated News pages
to refer to AEDT (Aust Eastern Daylight Time) which is 11 hours ahead of UTC.
Please let me know if you find anything that has been missed or is not
correct.
Thanks,
Michael Spence
Information Technology Services
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:05:27 +1000
From: "HANH TRAN <TRAN HANH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: VIETNAMESE & KHMER NEWS ON THE NET
To: TONY HASTINGS <"HASTINGS TONY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear all,
Does anyone know if we need to put in an instruction page on how to make our
text appear properly on readers' monitor?
Hanh
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:35:16 +1000
From: "TONY HASTINGS <"HASTINGS TONY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: FWD: RE: VIETNAMESE & KHMER NEWS ON THE NET
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Cc: HANH TRAN <"TRAN HANH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
Can you please liaise with Hanh on this.
Hanh,
Russ is away today and tomorrow (Mon & Tues). Can you please talk to him
about this on Weds.
Thanks,
Tony.
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:04:57 +1000
From: Helen Page <hpage@slv950.slv.vic.gov.au>
Subject: Re: Updated Rembrant Files
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russell
Thanks for getting those files done - I'm not sure that when they get through
to me that they're in the right format - they have no extension on them so
can't be identified. They come over as untitled. Does your mailer have a
facility for identifying the type of file attachment? I need the file to be
specifically identified.
To save problems in transition - can you do me another favour and send the
files to the Purple Group - their email is purple@purplegroup.com.au
Thanks
I'll try phoning you later - bit flat out at the moment.
Regards
Helen
Helen Page, Multimedia Project Manager
National Gallery of Victoria, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Vic 3004
AUSTRALIA
Email: hpage@slv950.slv.vic.gov.au
WWW: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:54:07 +1000
From: "ROGER BROADBENT <"BROADBENT ROGER"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au> Subject:
Article and Logo/Image for WRN Magazine
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Just to let you know that WRN has confirmed receipt of the article and have
managed to download the logo and image for use in their first 'Club WRN
Magazine'. They have promised us a copy as soon as it comes of the press.
Thank you both for your speedy attention to their request. They were mightily
impressed by your article Caroline. Very up beat they said! As you say, you do
have a flare!!
Roger.
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:50:09 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: FWD: RE: VIETNAMESE & KHMER NEWS ON THE NET
To: TONY HASTINGS <"HASTINGS TONY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Cc: HANH TRAN <"TRAN HANH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hanh, Tony
Unlike the Khmer site the Vietnamese "Browser SetUp" site
<< http://www.yarranet.net.au/acacia/homebase/install.htm >>
...is most comprehensive and I believe doesn't really warrant a further set of
instructions.
Russ
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:14:46 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: Daylight Saving
To: ROBERT JOHNSTON <"JOHNSTON ROBERT"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
point taken by Russ
happy to go with majority decision
reality is though that most news 'dates' from east coast but is an hour a
critical factor to someone OS who is probably in the land of Nod when the
'timely' event happens anyway.
Russ N
RA
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:36:50 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton (03) 9626 1943"
<"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Real Audio on Radio Australia
To: Remote Addressee <mholani@istar.ca>
Matthew
Not sure what's gone astray with your Real Audio feed from us here at RA.
We have had a few teething troubles but generally the reports are most
favorable.
Checking the current source << http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/abclive.ram
>>
Alternately you could go again to the World Radio Network Site but check you
are not accessing a local cache file which may be giving you the older URL
which was used for the Hong Kong handover if memory serves me right.
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 22:43:14 +1000
From: Helen Page <hpage@slv950.slv.vic.gov.au>
Subject: Re: Real Audio files for Rembrant Web Site
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thanks Russ - Michael in Sydney ABC resent the files to me yesterday and they
work fine.
Hope you're better.
Take care
Helen
Helen Page, Multimedia Project Manager
National Gallery of Victoria, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Vic 3004
AUSTRALIA
Email: hpage@slv950.slv.vic.gov.au
WWW: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 16:03:09 -0700
From: Geoff Scott <scottgek@mail.cadvision.com>
Subject: Australia All Over/Melbourne Cup
To: raelp@your.abc.net.au
What a delight to hear AAO clear and crisply over the Internet! Spent most of
my Saturday afternoon enjoying the chat and the bird sounds...first time in
many years as my shortwave radio connection had been marginal, and more so with
"the changes". Granted, this form of communication costs a lot more than a
portable SW set, but it's a pleasant feature if you've made the investment.
The Melbourne Cup broadcast was unbelievably clear! Do we get video next
year??
Regards,
Geoff Scott, Strathmore, Alberta
CANADA
PS When I clicked your email link it did not "self-address"; I had to address
the message myself. Is this as you planned?
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 16:55:58 +1000
From: Tim Potter <"POTTER TIM"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: THEY'RE STARTING ALREADY
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Date sent: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 21:52:38 -0400
From: Arthur Abraham <marthur@carib-link.net>
To: local.radio@your.abc.net.au
Subject: Radio Frequency
Kindly send me the radio(shortwave) frequencies for the fortcoming N.Z.tour of
Australia.
Send to marthur@carib-link.net
Is the address I should put on the cricket web page for international
enquiries
ratx@radioaus.abc.net.au
?
Thanks -
Tim.
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:31:59 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: THEY'RE STARTING ALREADY
To: Tim Potter <"POTTER TIM"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Tim
Re Cricket (very limited coverage due to no Dawin TX)
Info: << http://www.abc.net.au/ra/cricket >>
Mail: << raelp@radioaus.abc.net.au >>
Basically there is no one left at "ratx" - 3 out of the 4 staff got the bullet
and the remainder is on 2 months LSL.
Happy Days eh !
Russ
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 13:21:01 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: PNG NEWS (TOK PISIN) EX BASYS
To: Michael Spence <"SPENCE MICHAEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Michael
At the soonest possible could you make contact with Pearson Vetuna (Tok Pisin
service) to coordinate the programming of a terminal to activate the WebNews
service into the Tok Pisin news site (currently cut and paste)
<< ra/newsratp/ >>
The same filenames and structure should exist as per << newsrain >>
with the index page being << ra/newsratp/default.htm >>
and the items being subsets eg << ra/newsratp/item.htm
Index page should have same concept of headline and first 20 words
text = roman
frequency of upload = once per day
stories live = two days or up to 40 stories whatever the greatest
I am avail to chat tomorrow Friday and from next Tues (off Monday)
I will place templates on develpment server asap and will notify you by email
when they are there in folder named << newsratp >>
In the interim you could use a copies of the Indonesian templates as they will
be my model
I will need appropriate translations done of certain phrases - copyright etc.
Might I dob in Alan Morris or similar to go thru any proceedures as necessary
to speed up process once 'electronics' in place.
Regards
Russ Naughton
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 14:25:01 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Translations Please
To: PEARSON VETUNA <"VETUNA PEARSON"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Pearson
Could you please eMail me with translations of the following phrases
Thanks, Russ
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Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 18:14:53 +0000
From: Marco Schuler <ms0014@wuerzburg.baynet.de>
Subject: Real Audio
To: raelp@your.abc.net.au
Dear Sir and Madam,
I listen to Radio Australia via Real Audio every day. Since Thursday I have
great difficulties to listen to your station. The data rate is only 3300
bit/sec. I use ISDN with 64000 bit/sec. I am connected to the German Science
Network. This Network is one of the fastest in Europe. I have normally 20000
bit/sec. when I listen to your station.
I suppose that there might be a "fraffic jam" in the internet somewhere between
Australia and the USA. The German Science Network has a 90 Mbit line to MCI San
Francisco. I hope that my description of the problem can help you.
Yours faithfully
Marco Schuler
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:09:31 +1000
From: "Davenport, Stefan (DITS)"<Davenport.Stefan@saugov.sa.gov.au>
Subject: RealAudio broadcast
To: "'naughton.russell@a2.abc.net.au'" <"naughton
russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
I'm just e-amiling to say that I love your broadcast of Radio Australia over
the internet. I've been tuning in to the Australia vs New Zealand Test and it's
been working beautifully, mind you my access speed here is certainly better
than what I would get from a modem.
Keep up the good work,
Stefan Davenport (avid listener)
Date: Monday, November 10, 1997 7:46 PM
From: Russell Naughton <NAUGHTON.RUSSELL@a2.abc.net.au>
To: Meulmjo@flash.net
Subject: RA on RA
Dear John
Sorry you've had problems - we did have a crash over the weekend but also
please understand that as the service (Real Audio) becomes more popular it
may be harder to get on every time, first time.
We currently run 100 'streams' and if you are no. 101 you simply don't get a
connection. Your eMail however proves that Real Audio is a working and will
help us justify more streams.
Thanks for your your eMail
Regards
Russ Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Original Message
Is there a problem with the real audio broadcasts on the WWW for Radio
Australia and the Cricket coverage?
I am now unable to connect to either of these services that worked fine on
Saturday AEST.
Is there a location to which the status of these services is posted?
This has been a wonderful service that eased the disappointment from no longer
being able to tune into the Australian Broadcasts via short-wave radio here in
the USA.
Hoping to hear that this is a temporary glitch.
Regards,
John Meulman
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 11:38:43 +1000
From: MICHAEL LAMROCK <"LAMROCK MICHAEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au> Subject:
RE: TEST AND ONE DAY SERIES IN REAL AUDIO
To: ROGER BROADBENT <"BROADBENT ROGER"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Cc: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Yes, Roger, we can keep it there through the summer.
It really is creating some traffic though, so listeners to other RA progs
during cricket times may have problems. We're writing to RealNetworks to see if
we can increasse the stream licence number.
Sorry to not get back to you officially before this....it's moving fast!
Regds,
M
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 11:46:28 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RA on RA
To: Remote Addressee <Meulmjo@flash.net>
Dear John
Sorry you've had problems - we did have a crash over the weekend but also
please understand that as the service (Real Audio) becomes more popular it
may be harder to get on every time, first time.
We currently run 100 'streams' and if you are no. 101 you simply don't get a
connection. Your eMail however proves that Real Audio is a working and will
help us justify more streams.
Thanks for your your eMail
Regards
Russ Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Original Message...........................................................
Is there a problem with the real audio broadcasts on the WWW for Radio
Australia and the Cricket coverage?
I am now unable to connect to either of these services that worked fine on
Saturday AEST.
Is there a location to which the status of these services is posted?
This has been a wonderful service that eased the disappointment from no longer
being able to tune into the Australian Broadcasts via short-wave radio here in
the USA.
Hoping to hear that this is a temporary glitch.
Regards,
John Meulman
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 12:12:23 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: Tok Pisin news
To: Craig Penfold <"PENFOLD CRAIG"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Craig
Oops - you have me here - this info has always come from your end.
In fact I've never been across the Basys part of the process at all.
I undestood that the keyboard was set up from your end, ie YOU told US what key
key/combination was to be used.
I think you will need to speak to whoever set up the Indonesians (the last lot
to come out of Basys)
The PNG contact is Pearson Vetuna 83 1860 but he is new to all this and would
need to work with an experienced operative (say from Indon section) to put
his first stories up.
Can you chat with Michael and then let me know what I might do to help out at
this end.
Regards
Russ Naughton
Original Message...................
As you know, I have been setting up the Tok Pisin news service on the internet.
One thing that I need to know, however, is how the stories from other
categories (eg Indonesian) are usually transferred from BASYS.
What I'm really asking for is:
* What BASYS Keyboard(s) is(are) used.
* Who performs the transfers to the abcwire.send-iws queues.
* Which key they use to send the stories.
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 12:21:45 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: FWD: RealAudio broadcast
To: MICHAEL LAMROCK <"LAMROCK MICHAEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Finally - a WINNER !!
Thanks Michael for all your help.
Russ
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:06:34 +1000
From: John & Ruth Meulman <Meulmjo@flash.net>
Subject: Re: RA on RA
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
Thank you for your response, I have really valued the service that is provided
and did not realise that I have been as fortunate as I have to get one of the
100 streams. Is it possible to provide a count of the streams in use on the
http://www.abc.net.au/local/cricket.htm page?
This service has been a boon with the removal of the shortwave radio
transmitters.
Regards,
From a Dallas bound Aussie.
John Meulman
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:10:20 +1000
From: "ROGER BROADBENT <"BROADBENT ROGER"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au> Subject:
RE: TEST AND ONE DAY SERIES IN REAL AUDIO
To: MICHAEL LAMROCK <"LAMROCK MICHAEL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Cc: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Michael,
Thanks for getting back to me.
I was listening to the cricket a little while ago and heard an apology for
those wishing to hear the cricket via Real Audio.
Do you have any way of logging any details of those listening via Real Audio?
It would be really helpful if we could identify where they are. These days any
statistics about listenership are really important.
Keep up the good work.
Roger.
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:40:04 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RA on RA
To: Remote Addressee <gahern@facstaff.wisc.edu>
Gerard
Thanks for your email
Sorry you've had problems - we did have a crash over the weekend but also
please understand that as the service (Real Audio) becomes more popular it
may be harder to get on every time, first time.
We currently run 100 'streams' and if you are no. 101 you simply don't get a
connection. Your eMail however proves that Real Audio is a working matter and
will help us justify more streams.
Regards
Russ Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 16:51:24 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Radio Australia Sound
To: Remote Addressee <tosekiya@nsv1.tiara.or.jp>
Tomoyuki ' Tom'
You may use the sound as requested as long as it is in good taste - and does
not defame Radio Australia or Australia itself.
There are no other conditions but please advise us of web site address so we
may see/hear final product.
Best Wishes
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:22:00 +1000
Subject: multimedia award
ABC Online wins Best Media Web site
I know that I speak for everyone at the ABC when I take this opportunity to
congratulate our colleagues in multimedia, and everyone who contributes to the
web site, for their latest achievement in providing such a high quality service
- winning Best Media Web site at the Australian Internet Awards.
These annual awards acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of Australian
talent and expertise on the Internet. The aim is to promote excellence and
skill in the development of Australian web and Internet projects.
There were 500 nominations which gives you some indication of the scope of the
competition.
The people behind ABC Online again have demonstrated their creativity, initiate
and energy. The judges' comments are significant and go to the heart of what we
at the ABC are about.
"The winning site displayed an impressive depth and breadth of content and
currency of information. It provides a valuable information resource to diverse
sectors and groups, for example, youth and rural industries, and is well
integrated with the broadcaster's other media channels".
This is absolutely what we're striving for at the ABC.
Again, congratulations to everyone who contributes to the web site.
ANDY LLOYD JAMES
Acting Managing Director
Wednesday 12 November 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 18:52:27 +1000
From: stephenw <stephenw@aus.compassnet.com.au>
Subject: Radio Australia Live
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
At 7.50pm on 12NOV97 I tried to listen to RA using real audio and got Error 29
- which is I believe server too busy - just thought you may like to know
Regards,
Steve Walker
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 02:32:13 +1000
From: Tomoyuki Sekiya <tosekiya@nsv1.tiara.or.jp>
Subject: Re: Radio Australia Sound
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear.Mr.Russell Naughton,
At 16:51 +1000 97.11.11, Russell Naughton (03) 9626 1943 wrote:
TTomoyuki ' Tom'
>You may use the sound as requested as long as it is in good taste - and
does not
>defame Radio Australia or Australia itself.
I have no reason to defame Australia, and Radio Australia. I'm like your
station and your country very much.
>There are no other conditions but please advise us of web site address so
we may
>see/hear final product.
My BCL page's address is http://www.tiara.or.jp/~tosekiya/bcldoc/index.html
and
The Sound of RA Japanese program was introdeced on
http://www.tiara.or.jp/~tosekiya/bcldoc/natsuj.html All contents are written in
Japanese. To hear the sound, please click Real audio icon (link) in this
page.
Thank you very much for your cooporating. Best Wishes,
Tomoyuki Sekiya
E-mail: tosekiya@nsv1.tiara.or.jp
http://www.tiara.or.jp/~tosekiya/index.html
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:39:31 +1000
From: "JENNY CAMPBELL <"CAMPBELL JENNY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au> Subject:
Website
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi Russ,
Again my congratulations to you on being involved with the prise winning
multimedia website. You are a very talented person, I just hope the ABC can
appreciate your talents.
Enjoy your day, see you next week.
Jenny
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 16:54:00 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Stats for August - October 1997
To: TONY HASTINGS <"HASTINGS TONY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
RADIO AUSTRALIA ON LINE STATISTICS AUGUST - OCTOBER (Incl.) 1997
OCTOBER 1997
Total successful requests: 147 100
87620: /ra/newsrael/ english news
14913: /ra/elp/
11156: /ra/
8100: Real Audio Server
6679: /ra/newsrama/ chinese news
5692: /ra/newsrain/ indonesian news
2872: /ra/res/
2779: /ra/newsrama/big5/ chinese news big5 text
2481: /ra/gallery/
2128: /ra/indon/
1980: /ra/wrnsound/ wrn archive news (audio)
1612: /ra/elp/indpac/
1202: /ra/newsravi/ vietnamese news
1142: /ra/elp/sincfile/
1079: /ra/elp/innovatn/
771: /ra/newsratp/ png news
639: /ra/newsrakh/ khmer news
548: /ra/png/
346: /ra/french/
269: /ra/mand/
269: /ra/elp/chrtaust/
248: /ra/cricket/
208: /ra/khmer/
187: /ra/viet/
164: /ra/football/
86: /ra/newsrafr/
16: /ra/europeans/
13: /ra/special/
SEPTEMBER 1997
Total successful requests: 110 077
Khmer and Viet News Services come online same week as AFL Grand Final
67198: /ra/newsrael/ english news
15901: /ra/elp/
11111: /ra/
7600: Real Audio Server
3000: /ra/res/
2453: /ra/newsrama/ chinese news
1465: /ra/newsrain/ indonesian news
1161: /ra/wrnsound/ wrn archive news (audio)
898: /ra/elp/indpac/
879: /ra/indon/
737: /ra/gallery/
672: /ra/newsrama/big5/ chinese news big 5 text
609: /ra/elp/sincfile/
541: /ra/elp/innovatn/
493: /ra/football/
438: /ra/png/
426: /ra/newsratp/ png news
365: /ra/french/
308: /ra/newsrakh/ khmer news
288: /ra/elp/chrtaust/
284: /ra/europeans/
167: /ra/mand/
165: /ra/newsravi/ vietnamese news
161: /ra/cricket/
128: /ra/khmer/
107: /ra/viet/
104: /ra/newsrafr/
AUGUST 1997
Total successful requests: 101 646
63753: /ra/newsrael/ english news
11383: /ra/elp/
10284: /ra/
5000: Real Audio Server
2716: /ra/res/
2658: /ra/newsrama/ chinese news
1700: /ra/newsrama/big5/ chinese news big 5 text
1667: /ra/wrnsound/ wrn archive news (audio)
1387: /ra/newsrain/ indonesian news
878: /ra/indon/
735: /ra/elp/innovatn/
565: /ra/elp/sincfile/
521: /ra/elp/indpac/
479: /ra/football/
444: /ra/french/
419: /ra/png/
396: /ra/cricket/
355: /ra/gallery/
347: /ra/newsratp/ png news
328: /ra/elp/chrtaust/
213: /ra/mand/
182: /ra/newsrafr/
94: /ra/viet/
74: /ra/khmer/
42: /ra/europeans/
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 17:06:10 +1000
From: Thomas Marvan <marvan@home.com>
Subject: Re: Hello from Radio Australia
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell Naughton (03) 9626 1943 wrote:
>Tom
>Thanks for your kind words regarding the RA Website. It is, apart from the
basics a labour of love for me having begun and probably to end my career at
Radio Australia (1968 - ?).
>Glad you like the cricket coverage so much and I'll copy this eMail to the
ELP dept to get an answer on the other matches.
>Russell Naughton
>On Line Services Coordinator
>Radio Australia
Thank you for your reply. I look forward in earnest to the other games,
Yours,
Tom Marvan
PS: Hopefully Australia will dominate, thus erasing bad memmries of my belovd
St. Kilda in the Grand Final!
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:31:47 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: STATS RA ON LINE JULY 1997
To: TONY HASTINGS <"HASTINGS TONY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
RADIO AUSTRALIA ON LINE ACCESSES JULY 1997
Total successful requests: 101 173
65374: /ra/newsrael/
10235: /ra/
7602: /ra/elp/
2844: /ra/res/
2794: /ra/wrnsound/
2394: /ra/newsrafr/
1902: /ra/newsrama/
1785: /ra/newsrain/
781: /ra/indon/
750: /ra/gallery/
602: /ra/newsrama/big5/
593: /ra/png/
511: /ra/football/
454: /ra/cricket/
426: /ra/french/
338: /ra/mand/
309: /ra/elp/innovatn/
285: /ra/newsratp/
239: /ra/elp/sincfile/
205: /ra/cantsound/
174: /ra/elp/chrtaust/
141: /ra/elp/indpac/
120: /ra/khmer/
109: /ra/viet/
47: /ra/mansfield/
34: /ra/cant/
29: /ra/thai/
25: /ra/special/
22: /ra/images/
21: /ra/newsravi/
18: /ra/newsra
ACCESSES vs HITS
The more liberal method of tabulating the success rate of a web page or site is
to refer to so many 'Hits'
A 'Hit' is where the client links to your page but does not necessarily
download the full page to their computer due usually to frustration in waiting
for the full transfer or indeed the connection to occur in the first place.
A 'Hit' will register on a given web page or site for each frame or graphic the
client's browser 'sees' in making the connection.
An 'Access' (the method now used by the ABC) is far more critical of the
users actions and thus will show a lower but far more accurate numerical tally
for a given page or site.
An 'Access' is where the full page or site is downloaded to the clents computer
(the 'done' command registering in the browser) and not influenced by the
site having multiple windows, fancy graphics etc.
SUMMARY
Although the measurement of success of a given web page or site is still quite
difficult to guage (it can't take into account multiple parties - say in a
school room environment viewing the same page nor the 're reading' of the page
by the client re purposing the data eg by Fax, Photocopying or eMail), the
current method used by the ABC is the best current method available.
Factors of three to ten are bandied about for Accesses to Hits relationships.
18 months ago we recieved say 5,000 'hits' per month. today we recieve 50,000
'accesses' per week.
It could therefore be argued that we now get (measured by 'hits') anything up
to half a million 'hits' per week or 25 million 'hits' per year.
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:51:30 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: PNG NEWS
To: JEAN MANGUY <"MANGUY JEAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Please be all aware that the PNG News service is now live from Basys
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newsratp
Thankyou all
Russ
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:56:00 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RA NEWS ON LINE
To: TONY HASTINGS <"HASTINGS TONY"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Tony, JG, Colin
As of a few minutes ago RA now has all it's web news services fully automated
either out of Basys (English, Tok Pisin and Indonesian) or standalone
Macs/PCs (Chinese, Khmer and Vietnamese).
Basically a 12 month plan comes to fruition.
Russ
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:01:35 +1000
From: "JEAN MANGUY <"MANGUY JEAN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RA SITES
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Great job Russ.
Now you can focus on our Christmas presents!
Congrats.
JGabriel
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 15:48:35 +1000
From: "PEARSON VETUNA <"VETUNA PEARSON"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: PNG NEWS
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Thanks Ross for the help with arranging the input of Tok Pisin news into the
Internet.
Regards
Pearson
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:07:37 +1000
From: John Meulman <meulmjo@flash.net>
Subject: Real Audio ABC Broadcasts
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
I have found the real audio broadcasts of Radio National and the cricket to be
of great interest and try to connect to these streams on a daily basis.
As an Australian in Dallas Texas for the past three years, I started my time
over here with a shortwave radio. Unfortunately, there were always mixed
results in listening to Radio Australia and the number of times I was able to
listen to the cricket could be counted on two hands.
The Real Audio streams have been terriffic, and given the ease with which I can
normally connect, I was surprised to hear you in a recent interview indicating
that the ABC only had 100 streams available. Within what timeframe will this be
increased?
May I suggest that there be a status indicator for the Radio Australia and
Cricket streams to indicate whether they are working or not. For most of today
there is just static coming from the Radio Australia stream.
Thanks from a happy Dallas listener.
Regards,
John Meulman
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:13:21 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Accomodation
To: Remote Addressee <vincent.messager@shiva.istia.univ-angers.fr>
Vincent
Your email requesting accomodation info has been onpassed to me.
I would suggest you try one or all of the following...
Australian Embassy in your home city
French Embassy in Australia
Alliance Francaise in Australia
Regarding Sydney as a city.
The best spot to start is the info page on our own ABC metropolitan station 2BL
http://www.abc.net.au/2bl/sydney.htm
this site also includes a tourism site
http://www.abc.net.au/2bl/tourism.htm
which may be of some help.
Good luck, keep in touch.
regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:24:27 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton (03) 9626 1943"
<"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Do not adjust your set....
To: Remote Addressee <greg@2ROOS.com>
Greg
As with all things that go bump in the night - real audio - or more importantly
real audio from radio australia is still in shall we say a 'trial phase'.
It does work - It works I am told by non biased parties (ie not my mother)
really well (most of the time).
Reasons for non performance.
1. we are overloaded - ie when you log on there are no more 'streams'
available. There is a finite number licenced (100).
2. we are running fine then the server crashes - just to remind us that even
machines can have a bad day.
As I write we are down and hopefully will be up to netcast the start of the
cricket a few hours from now.
Just checking the addresses for the combined info page/play button
24 hours a day (god willing) general english service
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/elp/elphome.htm
cricket and only during actual match play (copyright limitations)
http://www.abc.net.au/local/cricket.htm
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:12:20 +1000
From: David Shread <"SHREAD DAVID"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: The Beat DOESN'T go on...
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
I have performed some testing on downloading the file you indicated. You may be
interested to know that the maximum rate I could download the file to here at
4kbps.
I then performed some tests on an internal ftp sites (eg
ftp://inet.abc.net.au/test) and loaded files at much more acceptable and
expected rates of 30 kbps to Southbank and 100 kbps in Sydney. Note the device
is in Sydney.
Finally I ftp'd from an Australian site (ftp://ftp.telstra.com.au/pub) where I
was able to a data throughput of 30kbps to Ultimo to Southbank.
This would indicate to me that the problem lies outside the ABC's network. I
can only suggest that if you can get faster response by dialling into the
Internet, or accessing it from some other site you should do so.
David Shread.
From: Russell Naughton
Sent: Thursday, 20 November 1997 14:41
To: David Shread
Subject: The Beat DOESN'T go on...
David
After hours of trying to get on the 'net today, I have just spent a time
wasting half an hour downloading my speed benchmark/ daily world radio network
1.7 meg file largely at the frustrating speed of 1.5kbs.
I cannot believe we (the ABC) cannot fix this unbelievably basic problem even
if I, the only really serious user of Internet in Southbank have to be given a
special permanent 'gold plated' wire to god him/herself.
Every so called enhancement to date, including the 256k added this week, has
done nothing to improve the matter.
This whole comms thing, day four out of four this week alone, is simply a
totally and thoroughly non professional joke and once again forcing me to go
home to complete my work.
Russell Naughton
PS: A quick survey reveals yet again that this slowness is for today at least (
but however always seems the case whenever questioned) building wide.
PS: I reiterate a comment from a previous email that if one were to go round
and switch off the cache option in peoples browsers - they too would suddenly
realise how slow things REALLY were. I doubt whether 1 in 10 users even know
they have a cache.
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:14:43 +1000
From: Christine Rogers <"ROGERS CHRISTINE"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: The Beat DOESN'T go on...
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell,
I'm not sure whether David has replied or not.
I would like to make a few points which won't placate you but which will
explain things as far as ITS' involvement concerned.
The ABC's network was never designed to allow you to download large files and
certainly not during prime time. It is a wonder we haven't been barraged with
complaints because of the effect you have had on everyone else's response time.
The network can be designed for large amounts of data transfer but there are
certain precursors, mainly money.
As far as fixing your problem goes, you may have whatever capacity you wish
(well, almost) as long as you have the money to pay for it. ITS is currently
funded to provide a network service for the ABC as a whole but only to a
certain limited capacity. It certainly doesn't extend to the current trend to
drag large files in over the Net and transfer them around within the ABC.
If you have requirements beyond the current capacity of the SHARED network
service, you should discuss them with us so that we can plan for them and
ensure that the appropriate funding is available, either from your own area or
from the organisation as a whole is the need traverses several portfolios.
So if you do have requirements and a sufficient business case to secure
funding, would you please talk to David Swan about them.
Having said that, we are actively looking at the Internet network requirements,
with the view to determining what level of service is warranted. However, the
extent to which we will be able to improve the service will depend on money.
Christine
From: Russell Naughton
Sent: Thursday, 20 November 1997 2:41 PM
To: David Shread
Subject: The Beat DOESN'T go on...
David
After hours of trying to get on the 'net today, I have just spent a time
wasting half an hour downloading my speed benchmark/ daily world radio network
1.7 meg file largely at the frustrating speed of 1.5kbs.
I cannot believe we (the ABC) cannot fix this unbelievably basic problem even
if I, the only really serious user of Internet in Southbank have to be given a
special permanent 'gold plated' wire to god him/herself.
Every so called enhancement to date, including the 256k added this week, has
done nothing to improve the matter.
This whole comms thing, day four out of four this week alone, is simply a
totally and thoroughly non professional joke and once again forcing me to go
home to complete my work.
Russell Naughton
PS: A quick survey reveals yet again that this slowness is for today at least (
but however always seems the case whenever questioned) building wide.
PS: I reiterate a comment from a previous email that if one were to go round
and switch off the cache option in peoples browsers - they too would suddenly
realise how slow things REALLY were. I doubt whether 1 in 10 users even know
they have a cache.
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:52:03 +1000
From: HOWARD DEER <"DEER HOWARD"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: INTERNET PROBLEMS.
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
in case I do not catch up with you on Monday would you send your observations
on using the Network to me so that I can consolidate them into a database,
which can then be used by IT in coming up with some options for the
future.Although this will not solve immediate problems it would be useful in
the longer term.
thanks, Neil
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 13:38:27 +1000
From: murph2 <murph2@webtv.net>
Subject: Internet Broadcast
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
I heard your internet broadcast today. Being in Miami, it was impressive to
hear such high audio quality given all the problems some real audio sites have.
I hope this service will continue.
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 10:35:54 +1000
From: Greg Phillips <greg@2ROOS.com>
Subject: Missed your e-mail response
To: "Radio Australia <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi Russell,
Our e-mail server crashed last week and I think I missed the reply to the
e-mail you sent me.
Could you please resend it.
Thanks
I heard you on Saturday afternoon here (Sunday morning Oz) talking about the
network. Thanks for the good work land lets hope that the funding keeps up.
Regards,
Greg
Greg Phillips
President, CTO
The Phoenix Research Group, Inc.
Lions DenWeb: www.2roos.com
Fairmont, WV 26554
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:54:28 +1000
From: "HANH TRAN <"TRAN HANH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: On Line News Mon 24/11/97
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russ,
Because of frequent crashes, we were unable to post our bulletins on the Net.
Is there any way to post old bulletins (eg. 1 or 2-day old)? I'm afraid people
will get disappointed with our site and desert it the way our short-wave
audience have deserted us since the loss of Darwin.
Cheers,
Hanh
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:53:26 +1000
From: vincent messager <messager@shiva.istia.univ-angers.fr> Subject: Re:
Accomodation
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
A 11:13 20/11/1997 +1000, vous avez écrit :
VVincent
>Your email requesting accomodation info has been onpassed to me.
>I would suggest you try one or all of the following...
>Australian Embassy in your home city
>French Embassy in Australia
>Alliance Francaise in Australia
>Regarding Sydney as a city.
>The best spot to start is the info page on our own ABC metropolitan
station 2BL
>http://www.abc.net.au/2bl/sydney.htm
>this site also includes a tourism site
>http://www.abc.net.au/2bl/tourism.htm
>which may be of some help.
>Good luck, keep in touch.
>regards
>Russell Naughton
>On Line Services Coordinator
>Radio Australia
>Russell,
Thank you for your help!
I am very hurry to discover Sydney.
If you have other information, do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards
Vincent MESSAGER
39, rue du Mail
F - 49100 ANGERS
Mailto:vincent.messager@shiva.istia.univ-angers.fr
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 01:47:12 +1000
From: Phil Schoen <philsoc@satelnet.org>
Subject: WCQ-Australia-Iran on Real Audio?
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
I've been led to believe you will be carrying live coverage of the final WCQ
this weekend. I run a website for Soccer on the Radio and would like to find
out if this is true and if you provide any other coverage of soccer on your
regular sports programs.
Thanks,
Phil Schoen
http://sefl.satelnet.org/~philsoc/socrad/
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:20:02 +1000
From: SEGGY <SEGGY@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Cricket
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Congrats on getting the cricket on the web..I listen to it in New York as
though I was on Sydney harbour!!
The ABC live is also wonderful.
This clearly shows the ABC's determination to keep up with the times...it is
nice to see that you are riding the wave of technology.
Thanks..keep up the good work
David Segelov
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:22:12 +1000
From: Britta <brittak@wrn.org>
Subject: Re: Radio Australia Logo
To: "'naughton.russell@a2.abc.net.au'" <"naughton
russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russel,
Thanks a lot for the quick reply. We are just able to read the 'gif images' not
the others. As the magazine is going to the printer today, we are going to use
your letter head logo.
Yours sincerely,
Britta Kellermeier
World Radio Network
----------
From: Russell Naughton
Sent: 27 November 1997 02:11
To: brittak@wrn.org
Subject: Radio Australia Logo
<<File: rabanner.gif>>
<<File: rabanner.gif.sit>>
<<File: ATT00000.att>>
<<File: RA_LOGO.gif>>
<<File: RA_LOGO.GIF.sit>>
radio australia graphics
a. web page banner
b. letter head logo
1 x stuffed of each
1 x unstuffed of each
please confirm safe arrival asap
thanks
Russ Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 07:20:44 +1000
From: Thomas Marvan <marvan@home.com>
Subject: Cricket Coverage
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hey, what happened to the cricket/real audio page! It's gone! It claims it does
not exist, but I know it does.Where is it hiding....?
Tom Marvan,
San Diego.
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 09:32:14 +1000
From: "JOHN CRONE <"CRONE JOHN"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: SCRIPT IN WORD 7 FOR HAWTHORN ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTRE
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ
Can you assist in opening up the text contained in the attached E-mail so that
I can read it ?
Many Thanks
John Crone
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 11:12:47 +1000
From: David Hitchins <davidhit@netspace.net.au>
Subject: SCRIPT IN WORD 7 FOR HAWTHORN ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTRE
To: crone john <"crone john"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi John,
This is the script for the new voiceovers (Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese)
of the Hawthorn video. Please use only one voiceover person for each language
(not two) as discussed. ALSO, PLEASE WAIT TILL WEDNESDAY BEFORE COMMENCING THE
TRANSLATIONS TO GIVE THEM TIME TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS ABOUT THE EXACT WORDING OF
THE SCRIPT.
Thanks.
Please let me know by phone or fax (9348 2348 fax, 9349 5199 phone) if you have
received this e-mail as my e-mail address is changing tomorrow to something
new!
DAVID HITCHINS
FASTCUT VIDEO SERVICES
davidhit@netspace.net.au
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 13:45:41 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Soccer
To: Remote Addressee <philsoc@satelnet.org>
Paul
Thanks for you email
Yes we are planning / scheduled to cover the Aus/Iran game - all fingers
crossed etc.
We are to use the same set up as we have been using for the cricket so as
that's working then all should be well.
Try home page link first
http://www.abc.net.au/ra
then if that's not working? go direct to page
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/cricket and click on link there.
we also are 'publishing' and 'in house' 'freebie' by a couple of abc soccer
enthusiasts re local soccer.
http://www.abc.net.au/soccer/
happy listening
Russell Naughton
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 13:55:39 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: CrikInfo
To: Remote Addressee <arambuk@ozemail.com.au>
Ashley
Thanks for your eMail
sorry for delay.
Ill health and a one person operation don't mix well.
I have on psssed your eMail to the powers that be above me for consideration
It should happen - hopefully by SA test - legalities (rights) permitting
I will get back to you
Mutual benefits etc.
Regards
Russ Naughton
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 21:20:39 +1000
From: apc18 <apc18@columbia.edu>
Subject: Possible problem with the sports live stream.
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
I'm hoping to follow the Australia-Iran Match. Earlier the rausports.ra file
was perfectly clear - now it is barely audible. Other files from your sites
work just fine.
Thanks,
Anthony
Perhaps this is just because there is nothing on until the game?
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 03:05:36 +1000
From: Andrew Crawford <andrewc@nfld.com>
Subject: Favourable comment
To: raelp <raelp@your.abc.net.au>
Cc: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Just a note from an expatriate Australian now living in St John's,
Newfoundland, Canada; having recently purchased a new computer I am now able to
listen to your service on the internet and endeavour to do so frequently.
Thanks for the innovation and the service.
Regards
Andrew Crawford
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:36:44 +1000
From: Oskuie <Oskuie@www.dci.co.ir>
Subject: Please help me...
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi,
I have a question. How can I download your Real Audio files via ftp service ?
Sincerely,
Mohammad Oskuie oskuie@www.dci.co.ir
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 12:49:59 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: FTP RA
To: Remote Addressee <Oskuie@www.dci.co.ir>
Dear Mohammad
Thanks for your eMail.
At present the only Radio Australia ftp site is via the world radio network
http://www.wrn.org/stations/abc.html
we hope to expand both our real time and ftp access in the near future.
regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 03:03:31 +1000
From: Melanie Knight-Smith <m.knight_smith@cowan.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Consultancy
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russ,
That's great. The site has grown enormously since I discovered it about 8
months? ago. It looks great and is destined not to just be "flash in the pan"
material.
Congratualations on the PhD upgrade to you and your very supportive family.
I will be in contact soon.
Melanie
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 08:02:50 +1000
From: "HANH TRAN <"TRAN HANH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: Latest Stats
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russell,
It is noteworthy that it seems there is no one acsessing Viet site from inside
VN. If this is true, then it confirms my argument that our website would not
serve our target audience because Vietnamese Govt has not allowed people access
to WWW. If we could put our materials on Internet email, then at least some of
the elites in VN would be able to read them.
Cheers,
Hanh
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 22:58:45 +1000
From: byron d nygreen <bnygreen@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Audio Quality
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Russell Naughton (03) 9626 1943 wrote:
>Byron
>Not sure on this one
>no changes made locally
>onpassing to those who might know
>Russ
>RA
>TO: NAUGHTON RUSSELL (NAUGHTON RUSSELL@A1)
>Subject: Real Audio bandwidth
>Brought up my real audio player and opened recent files, clicked on Radio
Austalia and heard audio like it was coming from a tin can -lots of echo, a
"hollow" sound. Brought up statistics and noticed 8kbs transmission. I thought
your bandwidth was 16kbs. Have you changed your bandwidth or is my memory
faulty? Audio quality before today has been much better. I hope it improves in
the future.
Brought up RA on real audio this morning local time and service is back to
normal. Bandwidth is 16kbps and audio quality is much better than yesterday.
Whatever occured to impair audio quality appears to have been corrected.
Looking forward to listening to Radio Australia for many years to come.
Byron Nygreen
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 08:43:40 +1000
From: "Geoff Jackson x2523"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au
Subject: Real Audio Netcast
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi,
I'm an Australian living currently in the US and would like to thank you for
the RealAudio live broadcast of Radio Australia and RA Sports cricket coverage.
Since the cutbacks at RA I have found reception on shortwave more difficult in
the US so this has been a big boon.
I was wondering if there were any plans of expanding the web broadcast to
include Radio National and Triple J ? I have really missed Triple J especially
and would love to be able to "tune in" to it on the WEB.
Thanks alot for the great work you are all doing at the ABC and Radio
Australia. It really is important to us ex-pats around the world.
Regards,
Geoff Jackson
Geoff Jackson
Information Storage Devices Senior Design Engineer
2045 Hamilton Avenue
San Jose, CA 95125
email: gjackson@isd.com
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:50:14 +1000
From: "HANH TRAN <TRAN HANH"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: RE: FWD: web access stats and hit parades
To: Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russell,
That's very good news, but it highlights the need to sort out the problems with
the Mac we have in SEA. We have another Mac now, so I will report to you on its
performance next week.
Hanh
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 11:35:46 +1000
From: "Roberto C. Galloso" <galloso@icanect.net>
Subject: CHRISTMAS
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
ROBERTO
galloso@icanect.net
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 12:16:57 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Real Media etc (Vision) on Radio Australia Site
To: Remote Addressee <Johnnyfive@webtv.net>
Johnny 5
It is my plan, ABC expertise/finances/desire permitting that by the end of 1998
RA should have text, audio and video firmly integrated on its web site.
The text situation is now setting world standards especially with with the
asian news services (in native script) a real goer and the definite success
of live sport in Real Audio.
How this might actually be enhanced with pictures is still very much open to
examination.
We have a TV studio here at Southbank (similar to TV Pres units at Ripponlea
and Gore Hill - read one camera) and some form of news bulletin scenario as we
produced for ATV a year or so back in all the different languages would be one
option.
Live feeds of sport would be another obvious one but obtaining/paying for the
rights to webcast football/cricket might be our undoing with Rupert and Kerry
enhancing their web efforts lately.
Essentially I'll be giving the Radio Australia punter three options depending
on their connection speed
Text: with a definite non gui compatibility - (currently avail all languages)
Audio: currently avail only in English (due to server/stream restrictions)
Video: Initially English special events, sport, then news then other progs not
necessarily in English.
Hope that answers your question(s)
Regards
Russell Naughton
On Line Services Coordinator
Radio Australia
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 03:41:53 +1000
From: thierry celaudon <thierry.celaudon@hol.fr>
Subject: (pas d'objet)
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
bonjour à radio australia
je suis a paris et je désirerais dialoguer avec vous autres ici c'est
l'hivers il fait 0deg.
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 09:09:09 +1000
From: Sasha Baer <sashab@tcm.com.au>
Subject: Radio Australia World News
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
The Radio Australia World News does not appear to have been updated since
Monday night?? Is there a technical problem??
Regards
Sasha Baer
Tress Cocks & Maddox
sashab@tcm.com.au
http://www.tcm.com.au
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 14:55:57 +1000
From: Jonathan Hill <jrh9642@acs.tamu.edu>
Subject: cricket
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
To radio Aus,
You blokes are fantastic. My wife & I are sitting up in bed late at night
listening to the cricket LIVE from the MCG!!!! We just can't describe the
welcoming feel that hearing Stacky & Jim Maxwell on the radio gives us
after putting up with non-stop in-your-face American sport. The thinking
person's game & commentary is an absolute pleasure to hear again for the
first time in 2 years!! Can't wait for on-line video.
Warm regards,
Jon & Margot Hill
Texas A&M University
College Station Texas USA
Email <jhill@cvm.tamu.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 12:00:38 +1000
From: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Subject: Ptolemy Update
To: Remote Addressee <kjetil.kjernsmo@astro.uio.no>
Dear Kjetil
Thankyou for your eMail..
I must admit the receiving of mail about one's work even when it is to point
out mistakes/erronoeous duplication of other's errors is the best part of the
study.
Thankyou for the information and yes, much is just onpassed information to set
up waht we call here in Australian ' the urban myth' ie a fact or series of
facts onpassed in varing forms for so long that the actual truth becomes pretty
blurred and often assumes a total fantasy factor.
This is so common in areas of so called invention eg Edison did NOT invent
either the movie camera or gramophone - he simply claimed the invention as his
own as he in his mind owned the work created by others whilst in his employ.
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 08:45:06 +1000
From: Richard Cuff <rdcuff@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: On-Demand Audio Availability
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hello from the USA -
I have the privilege of working for a company with T-1 Internet access over its
internal LAN, so I'm excited to be able to listen to Radio Australia programs
via RealAudio.
It would be handy if you were to create program archives, as I'm not in the
office when some of my favorite RA programs - e.g. Late Night Live, and
Countrywide - are broadcast. Are there plans to create one-day or one-program
audio archives?
Alternatively, can you suggest any add-on programs that would automatically
start up my RealPlayer and point it to the RealAudio feed at a pre-determined
time?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Regards,
Richard Cuff
Somerset, NJ, USA
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 00:12:24 +1000
From: Ashley Rambukwella <arambuk@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Re: Crikinfo
To: "Russell Naughton <"NAUGHTON RUSSELL"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russell
Many thanks. Looking forward to the coverage.
Regards, Ashley
Russell Naughton (03) 9626 1943 wrote:
>Ashley
>I can't get sense out of the system so close to Xmas
>Lets go with the link
>http://www.abc.net.au/ra/cricket/
>As you realise with our Real Audio still officially 'on test' we can only
serve 100 concurrent feeds and by going to that page means I can give fair
warning of the potential failure to connect should 100 listeners be exceeded.
>Best wishes
>Russ Naughton
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 01:21:50 +1000
From: Richard James Boivin <rb@voyageurs.net>
Subject: Greetings from the Montreal Area
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
I wish to send to You and All the Personnel at ABC " Wishes for a Merry
Christmas
and the Best Wishes for the New Year ".
Your Web Pages are excellent in every way, especially the audio part which I
enjoy
so very much so.
Cheers,
Richard
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 09:05:37 +1000
Subject: CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
TO ALL RADIO AUSTRALIA COLLEAGUES
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
As the year comes to an end, I wanted to thank all of you for keeping us going,
over the past few months. While Tony and myself have been busy going through
the restructuring and matching exercises, you have kept RA On Air, maintaining
our high standards.
These are not hollow words as I know the atmosphere has been quite depressing
in some services with the uncertainty about who is staying...who is really
listening...where we are heading.
I'd like to believe we have made substantial progress in the past months with,
now, a clearer appreciation of where we stand in terms of human resources and
broad objectives.
The HF (Shortwave) Transmission issue will be addressed by the government
mid-February but, as you might guess, nothing indicates this will mean a return
to pre-July this year. At least, we will get a clear indication as to whether
we can expect a change of heart from Canberra.
In the meantime, I am glad to say that the Chinese, Indonesian and Khmer units
have been actively looking for rebroadcast opportunities and have already made
very positive contacts.
Through International Development and the Mekong Training Project, I have
agreed to go and deliver some training in Phnom Penh in a couple of weeks. I'll
use this opportunity to secure some rebroadcasts in Cambodia and to go up to
Hanoi for a couple of days to explore opportunities with Voice of Vietnam.
The PNG Unit is putting together a stronger program lineup for 1998 with
increased Caff content and more focussed programming. In ELP, the Monash
Distance Education project should get underway in the next couple of months
and, hopefully, the Pacbeat lineup can go up soon on our Net site.
In the News&Caff area, we are aiming at getting a new Asia-Pacific program
up in a couple of months in collaboration with Radio National. Details and
adequate resourcing still need to be sorted out but everyone on the desk is
working on it.
I'll be away until 19 January and Tony will be at the helm over the Christmas
period. Caroline will be away until the 5th January and Barry Taylor will be
around over most of the Christmas period.
As you can see, 'there is movement at the station'. I believe we have left the
hard times of the past year behind us and are moving on. HAPPY 1998!
Jean-Gab
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 00:43:01 -0000
From: "Allen Prato" <aprato@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: real audio coverage
To: <raelp@your.abc.net.au>
Hi I hope this coverage of the cricket will continue. I am now based in the UK
and even though it is now 00:40 in the morning I will be listening for a while
yet and probably on and off for the next few nights. Occasionally get some
network congestion. Hopefully it will not get worse as people start getting on
after Xmas is over.
Regards Allen Prato
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 07:15:13 +1000
From: Ultranet Support <u-esb@ultranet.com>
Subject: No subject was specified.
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Just a quick thank you for Radio Australia's RealAudio program. After lots of
frustration with shortwave here in North America it is great to finally here
the ABC again. I can't wait to here Macca and AUstralia All over when it starts
up again. Also the Cricket is great. By the way I'm not an ex-pat but an
american who fondly remembers the years I spent in Melbourne.
Cheers
Dr. Jim Ranville
1020 Homestake Dr.
Golden, CO 80401
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 11:19:10 +1000
From: judas <judas@netmatters.co.uk>
Subject: Australia - South Africa RA coverage
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
G'day from England,
Just a quick note to say thanks for the Real Audio coverage of the test match.
It's been great listening to the commentaries of Jim Maxwell, Neville Oliver
and Gerald du Kok again, and I hope it will continue for the rest of the
series.
One suggestion I might make depending on what space and bandwidth you have
available: archived audio highlights, either downloadable or on demand.
Sometimes the time difference between Northern and Southern hemispheres gets in
the way of listening to the full days' play, and highlights would be a cool way
of getting around that.
Keep up the great work!
Brian Dowling - Birmingham, England
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 08:35:19 +1000
From: JC <chatterj@in-tech.net>
Subject: Request for calender of 1998 :)
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
One thing that has happened to me in 1997 is that I have become lazy :)
Previously, I used to go to great pains to pick up the signals of distant
foreign broadcasts. Nowadays, thanks to internet and real audio technology, I
just relax and let the web bring my favourite signals to my living room. Thanks
for making me lazy.
Have you published any calender for 1998 ? If so, can I have one as a memento
?
Wishing everyone at Radio Australia the best of 1998.
Joydeep Chatterjee
USA
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 10:31:47 -0500
From: Steven Feinstein <sfeinstein@mdbusiness.state.md.us>
Subject: real audio stream
To: "'ratx@radioaus.abc.net.au'" <ratx@your.abc.net.au>
Did you just change your stream from a HTTP only to either TCP or something
else.
I'm behind a severe firewall, but, with HTTP only, yours was the only stream I
was able to pick up live. Now, I am not able to and one day into this I miss
the station greatly.
Hopefully, this is fixable.
Steve Feinstein
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 14:25:30 +1000
From: Dorian Sabaz <dorian@lightspeed.bc.ca>
Subject: Re: The fantastic work you've done.
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Dear Russell,
I hope you don't mind me calling you by your first name.
I would like to compliment you on the fine work you and the ABC have done, on
the web site. I am right now listening to a live audio of the SA/Australia test
match. FANTASTIC!!!!! Oh, you don't know how excited I am. I've been living in
Canada for 3 years without cricket. But now I can hear it. FANTASTIC!!! Bloody
beauty!!!! This is great stuff. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. A
quitillian thank yous.
Dorian
What's the chances of ever seeing it, one day?
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 16:40:33 +1000
From: gan <ganby@pacific.net.sg>
Subject: Live Streaming Error Message
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi,
I was trying the Radio Australia Live streaming via Real Audio and the error
message from my Real Player is as follows:
Requested file not found. The link you followed may be outdated or inaccurate.
For more info, please see Error 14 at www.real.com/help/errors
I wonder if any other listeners out there has similar problems.
Thanks a lot and Happy New Year.
Best regards,
Bock Gan
email: ganby@pacific.net.sg
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 22:41:35
From: "Alan Mcdonald" <alanmcd@usa.net>
Subject: Real Audio broadcast of the cricket
To: raelp@your.abc.net.au
Thank you very much for the Real Audio broadcast of the cricket which you are
presently trying.
Unfortunately, whenever I enter the Real Audio broadcast from here in the USA,
I get a few seconds of commentary, then a few attempts at Rebuffering Net
Congestion, then my modem disconnects.
I have tried with some other Real Audio sites and don't have the same problem -
they are using 8kbps rather than the 16 kbps beig used for the cricket. Is
there any way I can "tap into" a cricket Real Audio broadcast which is at 8
kbps?
Thanks for your help,
Alan Mc Donald
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 05:35:06 +1000
From: Richard Cuff <rdcuff@usa.net>
Subject: Status of Real Audio Live feed -12/29
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Mr. Russell:
I attempted to click on the live RealAudio feed a couple times today, but came
up with an "Invalid Link - Error 14" message from RealAudio. Just thought you'd
be interested in knowing.
Regards,
Richard Cuff
Somerset, NJ
rdcuff@usa.net
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 13:12:47 +1100
From: "Tom McQuillen" <austforen@bigpond.com>
Subject: How do I listen real time
To: <raelp@your.abc.net.au>
Can you please advise me how I can listen to the cricket on the ABC live whilst
working on my computer.
Thank you
Tom McQuillen
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 17:55:00 +1000
From: Rory O' Brien <roryob@indigo.ie>
Subject: Link up
To: naughton russell <"naughton russell"@a1.abcnet.abc.net.au>
Hi,
My mane is Rory O' Brien and I am the Chief Engineer / Breakfast Jock here in
M&NWRFM in Ireland. We cover a quarter of the country from 5 transmitter
sites.
I was wndering if there was a possibility of doing a link up with yourselves
via the phone or ISDN on the new year change over. My thinknig is that I am
going to be on the air here in ireland when you are celebrating the new year.
if you think that this is a runner please mail me back asap or call me on any
of the following telephone numbers
+353 86 8198480
+353 88 570330
+353 71 60108
Many thanks in advance + Happy New Year
Rory O' Brien
Chief Engineer M&NWR
Sligo
Eire.
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