Bulletin of the DANISH SHORT WAVE CLUB INTERNATIONAL for short wave listeners and DXers No 7 September/October 2009 Volume 52 Dr. Ufuk Gecim, Turkey and Tibor Szilagyi at the reception desk in Grand Canal Hotel Most of the participants at the EDXC Conference 2009 In Dublin, Ireland. 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] Sakthi Jaisakthivel, Bank: Danske Bank, 59,Annai Sathya Nagar, Arumbakkam, Chennai-600106,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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IRC’s will also be accepted by the HQ. DSWCI Short Wave News – September-October 2009 Editorial Member’s News Greve, September 27th, 2009 Welcome to the following former and new members: E0974 David Kenny, 10 Hemdean Hill, Caversham. Dear friends, members and Reading RG4 7SB, UK readers all over the World, E3660 Mark Davies, 11 High Str.,Malltraeth, Anglesey LL62 5AS, Wales,UK It is about time for another “big” issue E3708 Ken'ichiro Kohno, Flats Den'en-chofu, Room No.201, of SWN. I think that you can find Den'en-chofu 3 chome 13-13, Oota-ku, Tokyo 145- something of interest (as usual!). 0071,Japan First of all, a very successful EDXC Conference was held in Fee received – with thanks – from: Dublin from August 28th to August 30th with no less than 48 71 166 E817 843 894 1014 E1311 E1663 E1853 E2299 2400 2409 participants including yours truly and our chairman from Den- 2411 2474 E2670 E2704 E2707 E2847 E2933 E3044 E3464 3520 mark. Many interesting lectures were held during the session E3627 E3659 3667 3697 from various representatives from radio stations. A full report in this issue, written by Anker, can be found on page 26-28 con- Due to renew (if you please): taining lots of pictures. A special programme from the confer- 17 E183 372 547 559 594 E677 858 1162 1308 1327 E1465 E1483 ence was made by Dr. Ufuk Gecim of Voice of Turkey. It is 1677 E2010 E2245 2617 2716 E2897 E3057 3203 3337 3338 3393 possible that it still can be heard on podcast on E3588 E3609 3610 3621 E3628 E3644 E3645 E3647 3648 E3665 http://www.trtdeutsch.com/trtinternational/de/news.aspx?dil=de E3668 3684 3698 E3699 3700 E3701. After the conference we visited our long time member Patrick Cody and his wife Mary in the South western part of Ireland. A The correct bank account number to be used is: very interesting visit where we among other things saw Pa- Danske Bank, 2-12 Holmens Kanal, tricks wonderful garden and his collection of old rare radio re- DK 1092 Copenhagen K, Denmark ceivers. Bank: DK 44 3000 4001 528459 BIC: DABADKKK As I have written several times before here in my editorial, I can but just recommend you to participate this annual event, Dates for your diary where many old friends can be seen as well as to make new September 28th to October 4th 2009: Rhein-Main-Radio-Club friendships and that is not that bad! DX-Camp no. 44 in Langenselbold near Frankfurt. More details from Chairman Harald Gabler, e-mail: From November 23rd to December our annual contest “The [email protected] Super Grand tour with Cancer and Capricorn” will take place. November 14th 2009: Radio St. Helena Day 2009 at 2000-0100 This time is the 21st contest arranged by our Czech member, on 11.092,5 on USB Jaroslav Bohac during all the years. A big thank you very st November 23rd to December 20th 2009: 21 International DX much to Jaroslav for arranging this contest every year. Jaro- Contest, “The Super Grand Tour with Cancer & Capricorn. Full de- slav and myself hope that there will be many participants for tails in this issue of SWN on page this contest, as it is the very last time Jarolav will arrange the June 4th to June 6th 2010:: DSWCI DX-Camp and Annual Gen- contest due to lack of interest. Due to space limits in this SWN, eral Meeting at Vejers Beach. More details will follow. the first four contest sheets are on page 22-25 and the rest of the total of 10 pages will follow in the next SWN. Pictures from Radio New Zealand Radio house We are still searching for a new clandestine editor, cf. SWN Can be found on the below link according to Kurt Pedersen. no. 6 FrontPage and SWN no. 5 page 3. It is an interesting, 3.527537,172.633199&sspn=0.011435,0.01914&ie=UTF8&ll=- but time requiring job to follow all the frequent changes. Anker 41.277742,174.777203&spn=0.005926,0.00957&z=14&layer=c&cbl no more has time to do that job besides being editor of the l=-41.284938,174.773969&panoid=Fk9BoBO- DBS, the Tropical Bands Monitor, the DX-Window and being CvJqDYbR6I0BpQ&cbp=12,149.85831707301656,,0,- Chairman of the DSWCI. If anybody is willing to take over edit- 1.9843104057744934&sourc ing the Clandestine List, maybe entirely on the DSWCI web- http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=the+terra site, please contact Anker Petersen.