RADIO TODAY January 1995 Volume 24, Number 'I
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SHORTWAVE RADIO TODAY January 1995 Volume 24, Number 'I FIRST IN SHORTWAVE GILFER SHORTWAVE-AMERICA'S OLDEST SWL CENTER-INVITES YOU . ODISCOVER THE EXCITING WORLD OF INTERNATIONAL RADIO-, A GILFER EXCLUSIVE! THE NRD-535GS A custom Gilfer-modified NRD-535 for the ultimate in SWBC DXing! The stock intermediate SSB filter is replaced by a custom 3.5 kHz (@ -6d13) narrow AM filter specially developed for the NRD-535GS by Kiwa Electronics. For SSB, JRC's 2.4 kHz crystal filter is installed in the narrow filter position. An additional crystal filter (customer's choice of 300 Hz, 500 Hz, 1.0 kHz, or 1.8 kHz) is installed in the auxiliary position. For enhanced audio fidelity, a rear -panel switchs added, allowing users to bypass the auxiliary filter, plus the AF circuit is modified -cp increase high -frequency audio response for brighter sound quality. The automatic gain circuit is modified for faster AGC decay rate in both FAST and SLOW AGC positions. 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Don't delay-Offer valid through 1/31/1995 NEW HOURS: 52 Park Avenue M -F 10am-8pm GIL PER Park Ridge, NJ Sal.7 Oorn-5pm SHORTWAVE 07656 TOLL FREE ORDER LINE: (800) GILFER-1 NJ & Technical: (201) 391-7887 Fax: (201) 391-7433 Your guide to what's happening in radio AU REVOIR FROM WHEELING JANUARY 1995 Au revoir? Well,friends,that is true. correspondence, several new friends With this column I complete my thirty-sixth around the world. I'dliketo personally and final DXpen'ence. That makes threethank all of you who have taken the time full years since I began early in 1992, taking tocontributearticles andenter my over for the honored and venerable John contests. PositionsontheDXperience Trautschold. As I close the book on this Honor Roll go to Bob Fraser for almost single- part of my life in the DX world, I thought I handedly supplying my contest prizes and should take some time to reflect on myto Don Weber forhis many months of years as editor.Okay, to be honest,I have providingtheinternationalholiday lists. very little else to write about this month, so Withoutallof you, I would never have this is more of that filler thatI complainedmade it through three months! about a few issues back.(A word to the I guess some of you might want to know wise: continued support of your editors whyI am leaving my role as editor and cuts down on random rambling by the likes what the future holds for the DXperience. of people like me!) Well, to answer the first question, I could Checking out that February 1992 cite the typical reasons of increased family bulletin, I noticed the lack of a catchy title and work responsibilities, but my real reason like Shortwave Radio Today.I also noticed for stopping now is twofold.First, the club how many ofourcurrenteditors were is in a strong, active position at the present already inplace: Daniel Sampson, Don time. The transitionof publishing duties Thornton, Paul Wakefieldand William fromEddie to Don Thorntonhas been Westenhaver. The big news items werecompleted and thebulletin is running VOA's 50thanniversary,the opening of smoothly.Secondly, everybody gets stale their Botswana transmitter, AWR after a while, and Ifelt the fillerI was using broadcasts from Russia and the dissolution during lean months was beginning to fade of the USSR and its renaming as the CIS. Ed in quality.It's time for a fresh outlook. Janusz was the ever -faithfulpublisher of When Ilast talked to Don Thornton, the thebulletin. plan was for that new perspective to be A word of tribute to Eddie.Somehow, provided by an expanded Shortwave To he and a couple of other editors got theGo! column, ably edited by my esteemed idea in the fall of 1991 thatI might make a colleague Richard Hankison.Any of the decent candidate to replace John standard or offbeat stuff you used to send Trautschold after his retirement.He had no to me can now go to Rich who will put it idea if I could write or even ifI owned a into his space.Don promised to give him typewriter or computer.Eddie seems tosome another page ortwo,so fillhis have a lot of hunches that work out well. mailbox! He coaxed andcoached me into So once again, thanks forallof your becoming a columnist and showed mesupport, and best of luck to Rich.If anyone the ropes.We share an interestin John would like to correspond with me, I have Coltrane's music and a similar bemusedjust received an Internet address from my attitude toward the Chicago Cubs. His school (good timing, huh?).Feel free to faith in me and his friendship will always be contact me at dbrame©nslsilus.org and I'll valued. get back to you.I need the practice with Speaking of friendship, this position has e-mail! helped me tomeet,atleastthrough And now onto more standard fare... THE SPEEDX SCOREBOARD Well, the final totals are in! We managed tmpgLngAgg in the last two months of 1994 to add several pilce 2 African stations to our lists.In the heard column, thanks toPaul Wakefield (Ivory Coast), John Kecskes (Malawi), Rich 'The 1994 SPEEDX Scoreboard D'Angelo (Somalia) and several SPEEDXers for St. Helena. We also added Guinea to theverified column, thanksto Rich AREA HIC VIC Hankison. There aretwo interesting EUROPE 33 32 omissions from our 1994 reports: Mongolia AFRICA 43 18 and Antarctica. I guess those sunspots (or MIDDLE EAST 16 12 lack thereof) are making these countries a ASIA 23 18 lot harder to snare.In any event, here are PACIFIC 11 11 the totals of all station loggings and QSLs NORTH AMERICA 3 4 as printed in Shortwave Radio Today for the CENTRAL AMERICA 8 8 1994 calendar year. How 'bout a big round SOUTH AMERICA 12 13 of applause for all of our hard work? ANTARCTICA 0 0 TOTALS 149 116 DSWCI DXCONTEST via BobFraser The Danish Shortwave Clubs three participantswill be awarded non - International is sponsoring its 7th cash prizes; three additional prizes will be International DX Contest, "The Grand Tour drawn from among all participants with Cancer and Capricorn."The contest regardless of scoring. runs from 3/24/95 at 1800 UTC to 4/2/94 at Speaking of scoring, the contest uses 2400 UTC.It is open to all shortwave listenersan interesting method of determining the regardless of their membership in any DXpoints awarded for each logging.If you club. You can get a copy of the entry hear a specific country, your totalis 1000 blank for 1IRC by writing to Jaroslav Bohac, points divided by the number ofother Jizerska 2900/11, 400 11 Ustin.L.,Czech entrants thatheard that same country. Republic or the DSWCI at Tavleager 31, DK-There are also various bonus categories 2670 Greve, Denmark. and a trivia contest to help you increase The contest fee is4 IRCs or USS 3.00. your total. Eachparticipantwillrecieve a contest This looks like a lot of fun, so let's see if a diploma withhis/her classification and aSPEEDXer can come out in the top three. list of participants with their results.The first Good luck to all! RADIO LUXEMBOURG'S CLAIM TO FAME from the Chicago Tribune,11/27/94 Trivia question:What radio station was spokeswomansaid. the first ever to play a record by the then It was bought by Mikel Barsa, a Madrid unknown group, the Beatles?The answer, man who works in the music business and of course,is Radio Luxembourg!Here's a plans to hang it on a wall at home. The disc story about that record: was put up for auction by British disc jockey The first Beatles record ever to be played Tony Prince, who inherited the record when on radio fetched $17,200 Saturday, a world Radio Luxembourg was cullingitslibrary. record price for a commercially produced Bonham's said Prince wrote to ex-Beatle disc, Bonham's auctioneers said. Paul McCartney, who confirmed that, as A spokeswoman said the recording offar as he knew, Luxembourg was the first "Love Me DO" played by Radio radio station to play a Beatles record.The Luxembourg in 1963 launched the Liverpoolvinyl disc was a demonstration copy signed pop group on their way to fame and byPaulMcCartnet-whose name was fortune. "This record was thefirstever misspelled "McArtney" on the Parlophone played (on radio). It was responsible for label-as co -writer of the song with John launching 'Beatlemania,'" the Lennon. DON'T MISS THE FINAL DXPERIENCE CONTEST ON PAGE 4! WWCR TAKES COUNTRY tnKLogmliama WORLDWIDE by Brett Atwood,Billboard,11/19/1994 itmce via Peggy Thompson As country music expandsitsglobal Commercialcountrymusic is mostly following,internationalshortwavestation absent from shortwave radio, though the WWCR is taking an unconventional VOAbroadcastsablockof country approachtowrangling up commercial programming once a week.