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SPEEDX ateralomeyraxene of Jkitepave 44ne& Keynotes DX Montage hoo4 4 Technical Topics 4// HAPpenings onz7oei SWBC DX Western Hemisphere eat44eze/ Europe- Africa helk".e/a//5 Asia -Oceania kel6,11171 Station Skeds .2cf Utility Report na//t QSL Section o n7% i35 Tips and Topics faixel Speedx Contributors emtoota /974 te,s(,,t/a/ iieme/e..ea/Aea/ ad7eat Oct. 1914 Vol. IV - No. IX KEYNOTES CONGRATULATIONS TO 7 NEW FULL MEMBERS LOIS MCCIAIN ROGER A. GIANNINI RALPH FAMULARO CORTE MADERA, CA BEILEVIILE, IL JERSEY CITY, NJ WES MU1IEN HOBART BEAL BOB HILL HELENA, MT WAIIA WAIL 4, WA BERKELEY, CA JAY LEVIN NEW YORK, NY Certificates of Full Membership and a copy of the SPEEDX Constitution were mailed to each of the above Full Members in September. * * * SPEEDX WELCOMES THE FOLLOWING NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERS GEORGE SOLVINSKI JR. ROBERT KELLY THOMAS COLLINS JR. SCOTT YOST VENICE, CA NASHVILLE, TN APO NEW YORK, NY KALKASKA, MI JOHN CLEMENTS GEORGE CONWAY CHRISTOPHER TRAIL BOB HUNT NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA OXNARD, CA WORTHINGTON, OH ENGLAND, GB HIROKAZU KOIZUMI DENNIS SCANNELL TOKYO, JAPAN SAN DIEGO, CA SPEEDX urges all of you to support the various columns by sharingyour loggings with all members. We are looking forward to hearingfromall of you often. Go get em and report em. * * * MERRY CHRISTMAS SPEEDX STYLE The December issue will again contain a HOLIDAY GREETINGnage listing the names of contributors of $1.00 or more to HAP.(HANDICAPPED AID PROGRAM) The beautiful artistically designed page is usually prepared bySPEEDXER Alan Brooks. In lieu of sending greeting cards to your DX friends, send a donation to SPEEDX Headquarters as soon as possible to insure all names are listed. Indicate the money is for the HAP Christmas Tree Fund. * * * SUBURBAN PHILADELPHIA AREA OXERS S The SPADES to meet October 19 at Harlan Bye's Apt.#917 WildmanArms Apts, Swarthmore, Pa 19081. Phone 215-K1-4-6573. All interestedpersons, please write or phone Harlan, or John Vockeroth 1238 Wycombe Ave. Darby, Pa - - 19023. Phone 215-IU-6-5957. Wish I could make it John & Harlan --OE. THE LONG WAVE CLUB Will meet Oct. 19 & 20, at the Travel Lodge 16117 Ventura Blvd. Encino,Ca. All DXers welcome. Contact new SPEEDXER John Clements, 11425 AlbersSt. - Apt #5 North Hollywood, Ca 91601 Phone 213-761-2491. Reg. fee $ 3.00. John is knowledgeable on all phases of radio and DX, and promisesan interesting two day meet, starting at 9:00 AM both days. * * * SINPO REPORTING CODE Read SOAP Box, then order your copy of BIP-3 from HDQs. Thecost one SASE. 2 KEYNOTES CONT. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA DXERS Would you beleive,SCADS is meeting again. International Radio Club of America 12536 Arabian Way Poway, CA 92064 announces the meet to be at the above address on November 23. All DXers are invited to see an actual Club (radio) put out an actual bulletin! See the John Kolb DX shack, after he has cleaned it up so you can enter it!! 51.50 registration fee. Contact Grant Manning at above address, phone 714-748-6538, or John Kolb, 12532 Arabian Way, phone 714-748-6405. Please advise if you plan to attend. An interesting day is promised. See groovy receivers & electronic gadgets. * * * NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA DXERS October 26 is a date you should have circled on the calendar. That is the day the NOCADS are meeting at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Doug Snyder, 3130 Woodmont Drive San Jose, CA. Let Doug know you will be there. * * * FOR SALE Andris Straumanis has many used books on short wave listening and Amateur Radio that he will sell at a reasonably low price. Too many to list here, but includes, Hints and Kinks, etc. Contact Andris for list & price. Add. Rural Route 1 - Box 213 Murphysboro, IL. 62966. * * * RADIO CANADA SHORTWAVE CLUB During the month of October and November Radio Canada International will be issuing a special OSL Card to promote the World Aid Campaign. There will be a special edition of the Radio Canada Shortwave Clubpro- gram on November 2/3, devoted to the WDXHAC, and to the Handicapped Aid Program. All reception reports of this special edition of the Club pro- gram will be verified with another specially designed OSL card. This card will be issued only to verify reception of the special Club program, and will not be issued on any other occasion. * In the spirit of WDXFY 73 INI A Special Editionof the cams amuses COYOTES OE IRA ID I CP - A NI OA SHORT WAVE CLUE 0 Dedicated to the 0 L World DX L handicapped aid campaign NOV 2, 3, 1974 * * * TROPICAL BANDS SURVEY The Danish Shortwave Club International has published the second edition of TBS covering all active stations in the frequency range 2000-590) kHz. and their transmission times. DXers in 33 countries have contributed to this unique survey. Cost 8 IRC's airmail. Order "TBS-2" from DSTICI, DK 8382 Hinnerup, Denmark, Europe. 3 §t1 RESEARCH/COMPILATION/REDACTION by A. W. BROOKS 74 Massachusetts Road Oakdale, Connecticut 06370 TODAY DAMASCUS...TOMORROW KABUL (or "Abidjan Uber Alles")i Every DXer has his own distinctive QSling nemesis. Each of arj,4044.:(,44K1194.M us harbors some minor paranoia when the subject of overdue IMMAM ARAB REPUBLIC verifications crops up. For some it may be Burma...and for others it may be those less exotic like Lebanon....we even know of one enthusiast for whom it took three tries to get an initial acknowledgement from Radio Portugal!: Though my personal paranoia may not be as exciting as the anticipat- ion of that reply from Azad Kashmir or Alma Ata, it's easy to build up public frustration and private humiliation if you are two years overdue on your fourth follow-up...while others are periodically announcing receipt of QSL from any or all of these broadcasters. Yet patience...learned after too many replies from Luthero Toledo...was justifiably re- warded recently with a long deliquent response from Radio Damascus. Whether or not Dr.Kissinger has discovered long sought cures for zenophobia is not as pertinent as the joy unbridled by this long sought Syrian arrival. Oops, got to mail a fifth follow-up to Afghanistan and the Ivory Coast. ."N1-'"*rlarvsE" TIE A RED -GREEN RIBBON 'ROUND THE OL. OLIVE REALISTIC NEWS THAT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD, If TREE, Tons of mail have backed up in Rome's you read the May edition of Communications post offices because of strikes and worker News then you already know that Radio Shack slowdowns. Many business firms have begun ...which already operates 2,500 stores here using courier service for the mail from the on earth, has just purchased 849,000 acres "out" basket because the postal system is a of property on the moon. The sale was made major victim of the current economic chaos. by the Oklahoma Science and Art Foundation East Coast SPEEDXer Bob French forwards an and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Kirk- excerpt of Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News indi- patrick Planetarium,which received title to cating another possible postal by-pass. It the moon after its annexation by the City seems that in recent months the mail volume Council of Oklahoma City in 1965. According in Vatican City's 3 post offices has jumped to Radio Shack's retail sales promotion man- over 80%...with the increased traffic evi- ager, who negotiated the purchase, 100 -acre dently involved the correspondence of many parcels of lunar real estate will be award- who no longer entrust their mail to Italy's ed to store managers as a sales incentive. service, So, if you haven't gotten your QSL Now how can you be certain that salesperson from RAI...pazienza, fratello...pazienza... really isn't a moon maid in a girl -suit???? YOU'RE NOT LIKELY TO HEAR IT ON RADIODIFFUSION-TV BEIGE. BUT.... According to a UPI release the plane carrying the Danish Premier and the Icelandic delegate to the summit with President Nixon... remember him?...taxied to the Brussels airport terminal and the Belgian military bandmaster raised his baton...and a little man in blue sprinted from the terminal toward the band.He skidded to a halt as the distinguished Dane stepped from the plane and the band blared Denmark's national anthem. At the conclusion of the anthem as the band awaited the Icelandic delegate the little man galloped to the bandmaster, spoke, and waggled his hands. Quick- ly, the bandmaster swung toward the band and stagewhispered.... "Iceland, Iceland, for God's sake, Iceland". The band shuffled its music. A second later the Icelandic dignitary stepped out to the strains of Iceland's anthem. It seemed that only the little man in blue, a Belgian protocol officer, had noticed an error in the official program that identified the representative as Irish and called for the playing of the national anthem of Ireland.... THE SEARCH FOR Aar "UNCLE TOM-TOM", The gov- ACORNS FROM OAKDALE' ernment of Zaire has ordered that the trad- Buy your girl a string bikini itional 21 -gun salute for visiting heads of state be replaced by the beat of the "tom- ..it's the least you can do tom". Officials are now seeking recruits... for her... 4 jr-'Thr:LLI7CaC A DIVISION OF 'DX MONTAGE" Mocivialal,SAC., 4/ SPEEDX staffer Jim Whitehead forwards the following comments: "It would seem it's time to get up on the SOAP BOX re SIO reporting and reasoning ..in January's MONTAGE you touched briefly on what I believe is a major problem in our hobby...namely that most DXers tend to overrate reception conditions.