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The DX Radio Magazine for Active SWL's Volume XIV December 1984 Number 12 I .Àg111111111111111111 The DX Radio Magazine for Active SWL's Volume XIV December 1984 Number 12 I .Àg111111111111111111.. SPEELX :.[SPOT[IGHTS1 THESE SPECIAL DX'ers and SWL's David Sharp, Editor 17602 Meadowbridge, Lutz, Florida 33549 Deadline: 12th of month new Howdy friends. This month, we start the column with a bang, as six members have achieved full membership. Congrats, folks: FERDINAND DE CASSAN..AUSTRIA SUSAN MOLL MI MICHAEL FEMYER AZ DONALD UNRUH HI JOEL GOODMAN IA MICHAEL WINIARZ PQ cert- You all now enjoy full voting rights and have a nice full member ificate to grace your listing post. Enjoy:: ******************************************,r*********************t***** fold This month, we greet 31 new and rejoining members to the SPEEDX Joyce Philip Kenneth Burke Dean Bianco Forest Grove, CANADA Calesburg, IL Eastchester, NY Gary Stone William Peace Stan Hotaling Spokane, WA West Dennis, MA Las Vegas, NV Flanagan Edward Blackman John Mickles John Newton, MA Tucson, AZ Portland, ME West Kazuhiro Matsumoto Yutaka Tazima Murray A. Lund ONT. Saitama, JAPAN Saitama, JAPAN Willowdale, Charles Frank Bruce Chituck John F. Stone Manchester, NH Patuxent River, MD Tacoma, WA Wayne Benkinney Ray Forsgren James Caporossi NJ Burton, MI Chippewa Falls, WI E. Brunswick, Zaveda Jon Garner Billy Hunt Bill Bronson, FL Durham, NC Don Mills, ONT. Robey Dan Birkner Fred Weinstein John NY Parkersburg, WV Spokane, WA Farmingdale, Haden M. Mendez Leon Bernhardt Jerome Luis LA West New York, NJ New York, NY Metairie, UMDX George Greenwood Mark Holmes Winnipeg, MANITOBA Ithaca, NY College Park, GA William Macaulay, Mesa, AZ soon.... Hope you enjoy SPEEDX, and we hope to see your contributions CUN DX MONTAGE, S 0 club info con tests humor fun david sharp, 17602 meadowbridge, lutz, fl 33549 deadline: 12th of the month DECEMBER, 1984 Hi again, everyone, and welcome to DXM. The recent warm weather we were ex- periencing here in the Sunshine State have given way to colder temperatures so it looks as though winter has finally arrived. At last, I'll get a brea- ther from mowing the lawn, hi: anyway, we have some fine contributions this month, so let's go see what the members have been sending in *************************************************************************** If you missed last month's notice, please remember to now send all your ads to Tom Kephart in MI, and not yours truly. Do to increased publicity work for SPEEDX, I am no longer able to do the ads, but I'm sure Tom will do an excellent job. Those of you who've sent ads to me, don't worry, they have been sent to Tom for inclusion in a future issue, ds. Ring in the New Year with a 1985 calendar: The Deutsche Welle is offering a multi-lingual calendar featuring color photographs of Germany. Radio Sweden and Radio Australia have wallet -size calendars, and the CBC (not RCI) has a calendar that is available by writing to CBC Ideas at their Toronto address. The BBC sells its calendar for 12.25 sterling. Available from their Bushib- use address in London, it features 13 original views of Britain as seen by photographer Derek Harris. (Many tks to Lori Klosowski-FL for this. ds.) VOA Negotiates with Hellenic Government: In the New York Times, there rec - ently was an item entitled, "U.S. Talks With Greece on Voice of America st- ations." The article stated that American officials will try to negotiate a new agreement concerning the operation of the two VOA radio stations, which Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou is threatening to close. In Greece, the VUA relays have been providing more than 6,000 hours of programs monthly, and have been used over the past 20 years to beam programs to the Soviet Union and Athe the Middle East. Also, the VOA has provided xmtrs and air `11 time since 1978 to Greece for their main state -run broad- N U RhODES casting service. (Thanks to Ruth Hesch-NY for this. ds.) Part Three Radio Dublin, Ireland: In June, 1980, RD commenced SW transmis- sions, and -eventually got up to a'power of 800 watts. For most of this time RD operated on 6315 kHz, but after reports of interference caused to a Bri- tish government station, another move was made- this time to 6287.8 kHz and finally to their present frequency on 6910 kHz. Radio Dublin's SW, MW and FM programs are transmitted simultaneously for eighteen hours every day. At 6:00 PM the second channel broadcasts seperate programs on one MW frequency and FM. It broadcasts until midnight, then re - links with the primary channel. Radio Dublin hopes to continue expanding their broadcasts, and they hope to introduce a second SW frequency, either on 14.4 or 28.0 MHz. Over the years, RD has been instrumental in bringing about numerous changes in the local and national radio scene. Radio Dublin's policy hasal- ways been to give the listener what he wants if possible, and help charit- able causes. (Continued on the next page ds.) ***HAPPY HOLIDAYS:*** 0 Radio Dublin was the first station to settle in one location despite a number of raids and the only one to use the owner's phone number while on the air. The popularity of RD's programming forced the national network in 1979 to bring out a second channel with popular music to compete with Ra- dio Dublin. (We will conclude this series in January. ds.) Canadian members can get WRTH at discount too, Via Don Moman-Alta, comes word that the Canadian DX Club is again ottering (in Canada only)the WRTH at a special pre -publication price. It is suspected the WRTH will be sold for over $27 Canadian, however, advance orders to CIDX will be taken at $22 Canadian postpaid, or $25 each, Special Delivery. postpaid. Send your orders, by January 1, to: CIDX, 6815- 12 Ave., Edmonton, Alberta T6K 3J6. (Tks for sending this in, Don! ds.) DX Special to air on ABC Talkradio: On December 15th, at 0806 OTC, DX'ing goes nationwide over the Ray Briem Show. Join Ray and his guests, Stewart MacKenzie and Dr. Richard Wood for an interesting and informative program on the various workings of our hobby. Listener participation is encoura- ged, and you can call -in at: 800-423-8255. (Via Don Johnson -CA. Hey Don, I enjoyed your last letter. It was great hearing from you: ds.) Time Seems to Pass Greenwich By but It Begins There Still: At the Green- wich Observatory, situated in this leaty London suburb, are the old tele- scopes and pendulem clocks that were once used to observe and to time the earth's motion in relation to moon and stars. Not far away is the brasa strip set into the ground to designate the prime meridian. By placing a foot on either side of the line, as visitors are sure to do, one can str- addle the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Never mind that the day-to-day work of the observatory moved several years ago to a 15th century castle in southern England, where air pollut- ion is less severe and the heavens easier to see. Greenwich, and the strip of brass, still represents the starting point from which longitude is de- termined and time zones are reckoned. In fact, this year is the centennal of Greenwich as prime meridian, and Greenwich is celebrating. The brass strip is being drawn-out with tennis -court -marking fluid from the observ- atory down the green hill that leads into town, and towns through which the meridian passes will hold special events. If you have a globe, you can put your finger on Greenwich and trace the meridian north: through the suburban community town of Hoddesdon, thence to Buntingford, onward to the town of Louth, then into the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, eventually to the North Pole, over the top, down to Antarctica, up again through the South Atlantic Ocean, Ghana, Burkina - Faso, Mali, Algeria, Spain, near Lemans in France, into England just east of Brighton and back to Greenwich. If you have a taste for adventure, you could follow the route of Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wyckham-Flennes, whose team of explorers two years ago was the first to round the globe by land and sea following the prime mer- idian. Stopping in Abidjan,'Cape Town, Paris and other civilized locations to hawk the wares of their commercial sponsors, the explorers also found themselves scaling 30 -foot ice ridges, floating stranded for 99 days on a disintegrating ice floe, and battling a polar bear. On returning to Green- wich from their 35,000 mile trip, they were proclaimed "mad but marvein's" by Prince Charles. (Next month, we will conclude this article by looking at the history of the prime meridian. Thanks so much to Abbie Mathew, who forwarded this from a Wall Street Journal article by Erik Calonius. ds.) DXM Trivia Corner: Paris' best-known monument, the Eiffel Tower, was sa- ved from demolition in 1909 because there was an antenna, of great impor- 1,000 tance to French radio telegraphy, mounted at the top of the nearly interesting foot structure. (Tks to eegu Thompsom-CA for forwarding this piece of trivia from Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts. ds.) 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