Editorial Staff: ISSN 0106-3731 Danish Short Wave Club International Shortwave Tips: Tavleager 31, DK-2670 Greve, Denmark Klaus-Dieter Scholz, Home page: http://www.dswci.org Postfach 45 02 34, D-99052 Erfurt, Germany Board: Tel.: +49 (0)361 - 21 68 96 5, Fax: +49(0) 69 - 13 30 63 72 07 8 Chairman and representative to the EDXC: Web::http://www.dswci-sw-logs.dxer.info/yourlogs.htm Anker Petersen, E-mail: [email protected] Udbyvej 11, DK-2740 Skovlunde, Denmark Utility Shack: E-mail: [email protected] Tor-Henrik Ekblom, Treasurer: Solvindsgatan 7 A 20, FI-00990 Helsingfors, Finland Bent Nielsen, E-mail: [email protected] Egekrogen 14, DK-3500 Vaerloese, Denmark World News: E-mail: [email protected] T. Jaisakthivel, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Communication, Bank: Danske Bank, MS University, Tirunelveli - 627012, India Holmens Kanal 2-12, DK 1092 Copenhagen K. E-mail:[email protected] BIC: DABADKKK. Account: DK 44 3000 4001 528459. 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Payment in advance! via PayPal only in US$ currency and only for persons, living out- Members paying by cheque or money order must add DKK 100,- side the European Union (EU). or equivalent to cover charges here in Denmark. : A-mail: DSWCI List of Members Free of charge, but only available by e-mail DSWCI Domestic Broadcasting Survey, 13th edition, April 2011 DKK 35,00/EUR 5,00/SEK 45,00/GBP 4,00/$ 7,00/3 IRC -mail) DBS Printed version Sold out DSWCI 50th anniversary badge DKK 5,00/EUR 1,00/$ 1,00/ 1 IRC DSWCI Sticker 8 (ø 90 m/m) in blue and red DKK 5,00/EUR 1,00/$ 1,00/ 1 IRC English, French or Spanish reporting forms, pr. 15 sheets: DKK 15,00/EUR 2,00/$ 3,00/ 2 IRC 2 DSWCI Short Wave News January 2012 Editorial Greve, January 8th 2012 Welcome to new member: Dear friends, members and E3743 Ferdy De Martin, Chemin du Rosy 13b, readers all over the World! CH-2013 Colombier,Switzerland Welcome again to another new Fee received with thanks from: SWN. 33 E146 186 E210 372 559 621 E677 853 E872 E1011 E1145 E1206 1327 E1331 2239 E2245 2346 E2370 E2716 3039 I wish all our members and E3183 E3347 E3350 3365 E3411 3451 E3481 E3568 E3612 readers a happy New Year E3671 E3686 3689 E3701 E3714 E3715 3727 and 3729. with many good DX catches in the year to come. Due to renew (if you please): Thank you very much to all members, who sent us Christmas 230 480 E567 640 E670 855 894 1042 1365 E1499 1911 1941 and/or New Year greetings. It was very much appreciated, and 2227 2281 2409 E2617 E2666 E2933 3014 E3090 3129 shows that you still are thinking on us. E3206 E3263 E3456 E3483 3532 E3548 E3631 E3637 3650 3651 3653 E3677 3678 E3691 E3702 3704 E3730 E3731 E3732 and E3733. As you can see on the Shortwave Loggings pages, there are still many Shortwave Radio stations to hear, both International as well as domestic ones. You just have to go after it. I myself Dates for your diary discovered this, when I participated our recent held Interna- March 1st 3rd: The 25th Annual Winter SWL Festival spon- tional DX Con sored by NASWA will be held in Pennsylvania, with the loca- you did. tion in recent years being the Doubletree Guest Suites in Ply- mouth. Further information www.swlfest.com In this issue you can get all details about our AGM and the June 1st 3rd 2012: DSWCI Annual General Meeting at Frie- EDXC Conference to be held at Hotel Landgut Ochsenkopf in drichsse, Germany. Further information can be found at page Germany on page 23 this issue. At present already now about 23 or at www.dswci.org, click Annual General Meeting 2012 16 DSWCI members intend to attend. We should also very much like to see you at this occasion where you will have a big Results of AWR DX Contest chance to meet many other well known DX-ers and SWLs. So In June 2011 Adventist World R organized a Wavescan DX why not think it over seriously and give one of the arrangers a Con th Anniver- mail saying that you also will attend. sary (Cf. DX-Window no. 427). List of winners: Further in this issue, you will besides the nine pages Short Awards of Merit Wave loggings, also find five pages of QSL Corner, showing Günter Jacob, Passau, Germany - DSWCI-0071 that there are still many radio stations who answer our recep- Nobuya Kato, Fujisawa, Japan DSWCI-3640 tion reports which I find very encouraging for our hobby. Sebastian Arndt, Remstadt, Germany Sziklai Jozsef, Baja, Hungary The New Year is also time for new radio handbooks. You can Claës-W. Englund, Danderyd, Sweden DSWCI-0621 find our annual survey of the WRTVH 2012 and the 2012 Jose Jacob, Hyderabad, India Shortwave Frequency Guide made as usual by our chairman. Continental Winners This survey gives you good hints which book suits you best, if Southern Asia P. Girish Chadaga, Bangalore, India not both books? East Asia Hideo Suzuki, Kiyosu, Japan Other areas of Asia Tony Ashar, Depok, Indonesia Our Utility editor, Torre Ekblom, had difficulties to fulfill a whole Europe Hans V. Lollike, Hedehusene, Denmark page with news and loggings from the Utility scene. It could be South America Jorge Luis Medina, Punto Fijo, Venezuela your good intensions for the New Year to listen and submit South Pacific Bruce White, Karoonda, SA, Australia Torre with some Utility loggings. I am sure that he will appre- North America Edward Insinger, Summit, NJ, USA ciate this. World Winner On the other hand, I can tell you that all sections are included William Patalon, Fallston, MD, USA DSWCI-3718. in this first 2012 edition. It is just great that we can make a bul- (Peterson via Englund, Dec 12) letin containing some many pages mostly entirely with our Our congratulations to all and especially to the members of the DSWCI! (Ed) this will continue also in the New Year. From Rhein-Main-Radio-Club, Frankfurt, Germany and ADDX we got to know that they present the 7th edition of the unique QSL-Calendar 2012. The full color art print calendar (DIN A4) offers real treasures from our historical QSL archives, covering QSL cards from the 1930's to present. The calendar is in Eng- lish and costs 15 Euro including shipment worldwide. This year there is a QSL-card inside from 1935 - a real treasure. Until next month, I wish you all hoping to hear from you on or before the below mentioned deadline - Kaj Next Deadline: SWN No. 2/12 February 9th SWN No. 3/12 March 22nd Please note we prefer, that you send us your contributions directly to the various editors DSWCI Short Wave News January 2012 3 Compiled and edited by Klaus-Dieter Scholz, e-mail: [email protected] or: www.dswci-sw-logs.dxer.info/yourlogs.