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Today's Topics:
1. Wed morn Dx (ka4...@peoplepc.com)
2. Absolute Radio begins tests for digital live music station
(Jaisakthivel)
3. Spy at the BBC (Jaisakthivel)
4. Radio show back after rape furore (Jaisakthivel)
5. Re: Wed morn Dx: 4735.42 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Special logs @12/8 (Zacharias Liangas )
7. Lolgs in LItohoron (Zacharias Liangas )
8. DX Listening Digest 9-061; World of Radio 1474 (Glenn Hauser)
9. Radio hams remember Rajiv Gandhi (Jaisakthivel)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:10:11 -0000
From: <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: "worlddx" <lebedevs...@rambler.ru>, "Robert Wilkner"
<r...@earthlink.net>, "Marie Lamb" <mal...@cumbredx.org>, "Logs
DSWCI
Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI" <l...@directbox.com>,
<gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>, "Chuck B" <ka4...@peoplepc.com>,
"Anker Petersen" <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, <wghau...@yahoo.com>,
"CUMBREDX" <cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com>, <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Wed morn Dx
Message-ID: <000501ca20bd$9f4f90e0$fac8a...@hp98588948284>
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reply-type=original
Peru, 4735.42, Radio Maranon, 1103-1115, Noted music until 1107, then
a male and female comment in Spanish language live. Signal was fair at
this time. (Chuck Bolland, August 19, 2009)
Watkins Johnson HF1000
26.37N 081.05W
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:56:54 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
To: dxld <d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Absolute Radio begins tests for digital live music
station
Message-ID: <127237.63365...@web95401.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Absolute Radio begins tests for digital live music station
Absolute Radio is to launch a new live-music digital radio station with the
working name of Absolute CTRL.
The station has begun test transmissions on DAB in London. Absolute CTRL will
play a "selection of live recordings of rock and pop music aimed at a broad
adult audience interested in live music".
Absolute, owned by the Times of India Group, already runs two digital-only
stations, Absolute Radio Classic Rock and Absolute Radio Xtreme.
But while Classic Rock had 191,000 listeners in the first half of this year,
Xtreme had an average weekly reach of just 58,000, down more than 50% on the
first half of 2008.
Absolute Radio's main national music station has also suffered a big drop in
listeners since its rebranding from Virgin Radio last year and now has a weekly
audience of 1.69 million listeners, the majority of them via digital.
A spokeswoman for Absolute Radio said CTRL was an internal working title of the
new station. It will be tested internally over the next few weeks before a
pilot version is made available to a limited number of listeners.
The station's test recordings are currently sharing the same DAB slot as the
children's radio station Fun Kids. The children's station airs between 6am and
7pm, with Absolute CTRL broadcasting between 7pm and 6am.
Absolute CTRL's broadcast licence was approved by the media regulator, Ofcom,
earlier this month.
Absolute Radio's brand director, Chris Lawson, said it was the first of a
number of new products the station wanted to unveil before its first
anniversary in September.
"The digital team have been busy building a new radio platform and we are
almost ready to share it with you," he wrote on the station's One Golden Square
blog.
"Some of you may know it as Project Wallaby, Project Control, or 'Potentially
the most exciting and innovative radio innovation ever'. OK, that's my name for
it, not that I'm biased.
"We think it's one of a kind so it's going to be really exciting once we go
through the traditional teething problems. It's only version one and we are
looking at adding more features to it along the way."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/18/absolute-radio-digital-live-music-station-ctrl
__________________
Jaisakthivel,Chennai, Indis
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:01:29 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
To: dxld <d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Spy at the BBC
Message-ID: <628251.97720...@web95413.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Spy Burgess's spell at the BBC
New light has been shed on the early career of the notorious spy Guy Burgess,
with the publication of 24 previously unreleased documents from the BBC Archive.
Burgess worked for the BBC as a radio producer in two spells between 1936 and
1944 before joining the Foreign Office.
In one memo, he explained why he tried to break open his office door with a
fire extinguisher, insisting that he had not been drunk.
In another, he described how Winston Churchill, then an opponent of the
government, complained he was "always muzzled by the BBC".
The documents have been published on the BBC Archive website, in a section
titled Burgess at the BBC: The Early Career of a Notorious Spy.
Expenses claims
Guy Burgess joined the BBC after Cambridge University, where he'd been
recruited as a spy. He was helped by a reference from the renowned historian
Sir George Trevelyan, who said: "He is a first-rate man. He has passed through
the communist measles that so many of our clever young men go through and is
well out of it."
In 1938 as a radio producer on The Week in Westminster, Burgess wrote a letter
to his friend and fellow spy Anthony Blunt (whom he'd recruited at Cambridge),
advising him what to do in case his radio talk was too short - "sit facing the
clock and gag a bit at the end".
As part of his job, Burgess wined and dined MPs. In the current climate, his
BBC expenses might face particular scrutiny.
He said a lunch with Megan Lloyd George - the daughter of the former Prime
Minister David Lloyd George - had been sanctioned in advance "to discuss a very
difficult coal debate at only time available". It cost 17 shillings.
Other entertainment expenses were frowned upon by his superiors.
One memo says: "The entertainment to Captain Harrison at 6s. 6d is heavy for
what amounted to 'a drink at 6.45'. MPs are expensive to entertain and
doubtless Burgess likes the Corporation to give as full measure as the Press.
"It requires a very strong character to reduce this expenditure but the attempt
should certainly be made."
'Flexible' hours
When his travel expenditure was questioned - a first-class return train fare to
Cambridge, costing 18 shillings - he replied: "I normally travel first class
and see no reason why I should alter my practice when on BBC business,
particularly when I'm in my best clothes."
This reasoning was disputed by the BBC in another memo.
In a 1943 memo, his supervisor complained about Burgess's taxi fares, saying:
"(a) the Corporation is making every effort to cut down any avoidable
expenditure and (b) the nation is being asked to save fuel.."
In the same memo, he wrote of Burgess: "His office hours are very flexible - he
is rarely here before 10.45am since he reads his papers and Hansards at home
and spends most of the rest of the day out of the office making contacts."
Burgess left the BBC in 1944 at the request of the Foreign Office, which said
he was needed for war work in its news department.
The BBC reluctantly conceded, saying he was a very good producer and would be a
serious loss, although it said, "he has his failings".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8206413.stm
_________________________
Jaisakthivel, Chennai, India
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:03:18 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
To: dxld <d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio show back after rape furore
Message-ID: <293708.84575...@web95405.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Radio show back after rape furore
An Australian radio show on which a teenager revealed she had been raped has
returned to the airwaves.
DJs Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O'Neil resumed their breakfast show with an
apology, saying the segment had been a "disaster from start to finish".
It featured a 14-year-old strapped to a lie detector and quizzed about her
sexual history by her mother. She said she had been raped as a 12-year-old.
Some sections of the show will now be pre-recorded, broadcaster 2Day FM said.
The programme will also be subject to a seven second delay, allowing producers
to cut away from any offensive or inappropriate material.
'Distressed'
The DJs had been off the air since 3 August, shortly after the original segment
aired.
The teenage girl was strapped to a polygraph machine as her mother - who had
volunteered to be on air - quizzed her, despite her daughter's claims that she
had already been told about an assault two years earlier.
Sandilands was accused of further insensitivity when, after the revelation, he
asked: "Right, and is that the only sexual experience you've had?"
Co-host O'Neil put an end to any further discussions when she realised the
conversation had crossed a line.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd led criticism of the show, saying: "This
is a young girl and I am, as I think most Australians are, really distressed at
the way in which the young person has been treated."
As the show resumed on Tuesday morning, Sandilands said it was "pretty much
obvious to everyone" that the episode had been "a complete disaster".
He stressed that the radio station had had no idea the teenager would make the
disclosure before she went on air, adding: "We do sincerely apologise to the
family once again and to any listeners we offended."
"I think everyone on the show has learned from this mistake and we're sincerely
sorry and we've put everything in place now that we're confident it won't
happen again," said O'Neil.
Police dropped an investigation into the girl's rape claims after she told them
she did not want the matter pursued.
Australia's media regulator has launched an investigation into whether the
radio show had breached broadcasting guidelines.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8208227.stm
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:48:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: worlddx <lebedevs...@rambler.ru>, Robert Wilkner
<r...@earthlink.net>, Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI
<l...@directbox.com>, ka4...@peoplepc.com, Anker Petersen
<anker.peter...@mail.dk>, CUMBREDX <cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com>,
hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Wed morn Dx: 4735.42
Message-ID: <737784.56631...@web51109.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
I guess you meant 4835.42.
BTW, there is not only a ~ tilde on the n, but an accent on the o in Maranon.
EVERYONE leaves the latter off, even WRTH and native SS writing in Spanish, but
it is absolutely required as the name is stressed on the last syllable.
73, Glenn Hauser
--- On Wed, 8/19/09, ka4...@peoplepc.com <ka4...@peoplepc.com> wrote:
> Peru, 4735.42, Radio Maranon,
> 1103-1115,? Noted music until 1107, then a male and
> female comment in? Spanish language live.? Signal
> was fair at
> this time.? (Chuck Bolland, August 19, 2009)
>
>
> Watkins Johnson? HF1000
> 26.37N? 081.05W
------------------------------
Message: 6
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:20:21 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] Special logs @12/8
Message-ID: <4a8c6c95.29276.1c99...@greekdx.otenet.gr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/227
Special logs
Made with Degen 1102 over a metal garden fence 250 m far from electricity
grid on 12/8, near to our country house in LItohoron on 12/8 :
7190 SLBC !!!! 0935 with Hindi songs //11905 Poor
7200 Omdurman 0945 ID fair
9690 Nigeria 0937 talks in Hausa Fair
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06600224598981072865
http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics)
http://zlgr.stumbleupon.com (my social 'bookmarks' )
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://www.youtube.com/zach0gr some videos
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload
http://www.geocities.com/zliangas
http://www.myspace.com/310100806
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854
http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1
........
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:20:21 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] Lolgs in LItohoron
Message-ID: <4a8c6c95.22755.1c99...@greekdx.otenet.gr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/226
Hello , I am here back temporarily from my country house in Litohoron after
3.5 weeks , just for one day.
Below are some logs made on several days of our `vacations' using the
previous system with Degen 1102 or Tecsun PL550 and wired to a wire
mesh window .
For this time several logs are shown per day , with double logs included as
per each day :
7/8/9
9495 Abhaz Radio 0758 easy listening music , YL with welcoming , then
news. Many mention on abhazia . distorted audio
9560 Ethiopia 0804 with trad songs 35243
9690 Nigeria 0806 OM with talks in Arabic 35433
17820 Australia /CVC 0810 with Indon pop songs 35544
17845 Farda 0811 with ID then songs 35543
17580 CNR? 0812 with lessons of English language (economics )25433
//17605
15240 Voiri with prg in Swahili (from this ID ) 45544
15160 ??? 0917 in Korean 35243
15380 CNR 920 cc talks 25333
11885 XJPBS 0923 talk s 25443
12080 CNR 0926 with adverst 25443
8/8/9
7200 Omdurman 0605 talks in Arabic 25443
11560 family radio 1420 with IS/ID in English 342x2
11550 R Sweden 1429R S in Russian 343x3
9525 VoIns 1619 news in INS 234x3
7295 Traxx FM 1625 with eng talks . Marginal signal
9/8/9
15250 BSKSA Riyadh /Saudi Arabia 1120 with prg in Eng 32433
15450 ?? in bamar on 1143 with seemingly relig .R Veritas per Eibi
15255 WHRI @1210 with DX program , ref to RAI in a spur signal 3x523
7200 Omdurman 1718 prayer 43443
10/8/9
9690 Nigeria 0857 with traditional songs , ID& IS by OM in hausa 35433
11905 SLBC 0904 old tamnil songs , marginal
11870 ?? In viet on 1012 ,34443
9670 CVC 1230+ Indonesian prg , songs talks
9620 ? 1246 traditional Hindi songs. Played a whole side AIR per Eibi
9615 AWR relig type talks in INS 1257 ,453x4
9950 RF Chosun talks by OM in Korean /classical music background 253x3
11640 R Wilderness 1318 talks by OM over music , another (female) talker
with north Korean accent 44434
11870 R Veritas 1330 in Hindi 55444
9625 1250+1339 talks in Bamar 33xx3
9870 AIR 1342 with old Bollywood sogs , and prg in Russian 24433
15050 AIR 1351 Bollywood songs 23332
15330 Farda 1354 po and rock songs 454x4
6255 CVC //6270 with hindi songs @1355 44444 (@)
5015 AIR?? 1805 with rock & roll song 35553 (@)
(@) using DE 1102 outdoors
12/8
17505 CRI 0636 discussions , biznews 0639 34554
9560 REthiopia 07265 HOA songs , talk in Amharic 35344
7285 Mali 0751 OM with talks in French 251x2
7335 Tunis RTT 0755 arabic songs , ID 0800 , adverts 35423
13590 CVC?? 0830 pop songs ,0845 sports program and news all in
English. on 0900 Signal . 35423 , with deep fades that zeroed in the signal
(Eibi: CVC from Zambia xters !)
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06600224598981072865
http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics)
http://zlgr.stumbleupon.com (my social 'bookmarks' )
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://www.youtube.com/zach0gr some videos
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload
http://www.geocities.com/zliangas
http://www.myspace.com/310100806
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854
http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1
........
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
------------------------------
Message: 8
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:29:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 9-061; World of Radio 1474
Message-ID: <941953.82369...@web51103.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
DX Listening Digest 9-061 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9061.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1474 / AFGHANISTAN / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA / ASIA non / AUSTRALIA CVC /
AUSTRALIA VL8A/RA / AUSTRIA / BANGLADESH / BHUTAN / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CANADA
CBCNQ/RCI/BBCWS / CANADA CKGM / CHILE / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CONGO / CONGO
DR / COSTA RICA DRM / CROATIA / CUBA / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC +non DRM+ / EAST
TURKISTAN / ECUADOR +non / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ETHIOPIA +non / FAROE
ISLANDS / FRANCE / GEORGIA / GERMANY +non A09 / GUIANA FRENCH DRM / HAWAII /
HONDURAS / INDIA / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CJOY/WOR / INTERNATIONAL
VACUUM BBCWS/XM / INTERNATIONAL WATERS Hurricanes / IRAN / ISRAEL / ITALY /
JAPAN +non / JORDAN / KOREA SOUTH / KUWAIT / LIBYA / MALAYSIA/SARAWAK / MALI /
MEXICO / NAURU ham / NEW ZEALAND / NIGER / NIGERIA / OKLAHOMA Enid mixes / PERU
/ PHILIPPINES / ROMANIA / RUSSIA / SAUDI ARABIA / SERBIA non / SOUTH CAROLINA
non / SRI LANKA / SUDAN / SWAZILAND / TAIWAN +non / THAILAND / TIBET / TURKEY
non / UK +non BBCWS+ / UK CTRL/DAB /
USA +non VOA/HCJB/DRM / USA WWCR/WYFR / USA WWRB / USA WRNO / USA WTJC / USA
Hal Turner / USA WINB/Alamo / USA WRMI / USA WEWN / USA WDCD+ / USA KFWB+ / USA
KFUO / USA WVGB / USA Harry Shearer / USA PBS / UZBEKISTAN non / VENEZUELA /
ZAMBIA / ZIMBABWE +non / UNIDENTIFIED 5745-5870 6530-6590 6790-7000 /
UNIDENTIFIED 5894 / UNIDENTIFIED 9400 / UNIDENTIFIED 9870 / UNIDENTIFIED 11890
/ PUBLICATIONS / LANGUAGE LESSONS / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / DIGITAL
BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2009 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1474, August 20-26, 2009
Thu 0530 WRMI 9955
Thu 1900 WBCQ 7415
Fri 0000 WBCQ 5110-CUSB Area 51
Fri 0100 WRMI 9955
Fri 1130 WRMI 9955
Fri 1430 WRMI 9955
Fri 1900 WBCQ 7415
Fri 2028 WWCR1 15825 [or 15820 or 15830]
Sat 0800 WRMI 9955
Sat 0800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9510 [except first Sat]
Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160
Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070
Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1515 WRMI 9955
Mon 0500 WRMI 9955
Mon 2200 WBCQ 7415
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Tue 1530 WRMI 9955
Tue 1900 WBCQ 7415
Wed 0500 WRMI 9955 [or new 1475 starting here?]
Wed 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 1900 WBCQ 7415
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE:
http://podcast.worldofradio.org or
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Regards, Glenn Hauser
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:43:42 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>
To: dxld <d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio hams remember Rajiv Gandhi
Message-ID: <286815.69610...@web95410.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Radio hams remember Rajiv Gandhi
On the birth anniversary of the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi,
many recall his contribution to the development of ham radio as a hobby
in the country. Radio hams recall Rajiv Gandhi (VU2RG) simply as Rajiv
and the work he did to promote the hobby.
According to information provided by the National Institute of
Amateur Radio (NIAR), Hyderabad, he found good potential in amateur
radio operators (radio hams) to carry forward his vision to ?open up
communications to the people through amateur wireless stations set up
as a national network in over six lakh villages.?
According to Arya Ghosh, a life member of NIAR and a radio ham for
16 years, Rajiv Gandhi, with the help of founder and Chairman of NIAR
S. Suri and others, organised an exhibition, ?Communication
Past-Present- Future,? at Teen Murthy Bhavan in New Delhi from November
14 to 19, 1981 and invited the Press, senior scientists and
bureaucrats.
His mother and late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi visited it and made
several contacts over amateur radio, particularly to several Ham
stations set up in cyclone-prone areas of Andhra Pradesh to show how it
would help in disaster mitigation.
The plan of action to promote amateur radio nation-wide was prepared by Rajiv
Gandhi.
It was made known to the public at a meeting organised by Mr. Suri
in Hyderabad during Rajiv Gandhi?s first visit to Andhra Pradesh as
AICC general secretary and MP in February, 1982.
In front of a gathering of 5 lakh people, he declared that amateur
radio must be developed fast in national interest and to see scientific
temper was developed among youth and that of taking the country into
21st Century with communication and information technology open to
public participation through Ham.
Mr. Ghosh who lives here recalls that Rajiv Gandhi?s love and
affection for ham radio and radio hams was so much that even on the
very last day of his life, he made his last call on ham radio from the
city of Visakhapatnam on board a flight.
http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/20/stories/2009082056070600.htm__________________Jaisakthivel,
Chennai, India
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