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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Bob Zanotti HB9ASQ Looks at The State of SWL and International Broadcasting
As The FLARC 2022 Kawfee Tawk Speaker Series
Continues SATURDAY, November 19, 2022, Via Zoom
The impact of shortwave and “post-Cold War broadcasting” has been high
profile lately with the war in Ukraine, domestic insurrection in Iran
and Myanmar and proposed cutbacks to the BBC World Service. This month
we turn to a North Jersey native who has made his home and career
broadcasting from Europe and with a ham license as well.
Our special SATURDAY edition of Kawfee Tawk on November 19th focuses on
a number of subject areas and we are fortunate to have one of the most
knowledgeable speakers on the topic.
Bob Zanotti HB9ASQ is our presenter. Our planned topics include the
current status of shortwave broadcasting with a look on the political
situation in Ukraine and Iran; cutbacks at the BBC; the utilization of
medium wave and FM broadcasting spectrum in Europe vs. North America
including DAB broadcasting as well as personal reminiscences.
The program is on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH AT 1000 EDT and is available
via Zoom here:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86192556599?pwd=L3BUOWE2TWpaM0hoRDkxOWlIbkRNZz09
Meeting ID: 861 9255 6599
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Bob was born in Paterson, NJ in December 1945 and grew up in Hawthorne
and Franklin Lakes. He attended Hawthorne High School, but graduated
from Ramapo in 1964
He studied Communication Arts and Broadcast Journalism at the New York
Institute of Technology in Manhattan and at Loyola College/Concordia
University in Montreal. He also worked in collegiate radio in New York
and commercial talk radio in Montreal.
He spent two years as a freelance broadcaster with the English Service
of Radio Sweden in Stockholm, where he also presented their SWL program,
“Sweden Calling Dxers”.
Bob joined the English Service of Swiss Radio International in 1970 and
was with SRI till early retirement in 2002, two years before SRI closed.
Main activities were as a reporter, presenter, and feature producer. As
a sideline, Bob was teamed up with Bob Thomann HB9GX (SK) to become “The
Two Bobs”, a very popular mailbag shows devoted to the technical side of
SWLing and ham radio.
During his career, he was seconded to several Swiss and United Nations
specialized agencies, and reported on several their field projects,
especially in Africa, Asia and Central America.
He is the co-founder and co-owner of Italy's most successful commercial
shortwave broadcast station, The Italian Radio Relay Service-IRRS, back
in the 1980's and 90's. The station is still in operation, although no
longer transmitting from Milan. Bob is no longer connected with it.
In 2004, he started an Internet website called
www.switzerlandinsound.com which is the only source of English-language
radio reporting about Switzerland in the classic style. It is entirely
audio-based. There is also a section devoted to The Two Bobs, featuring
surviving material from the old show, as well as new.
Licensed as a Novice as WV2UPQ in 1961. He then became a Technician and
later General with the call WA2UPQ. That license is no longer active.
Bob was licensed as HB9ASQ in 1971 and has been active ever since. Bob's
special interest is audio processing and rag-chewing.
Come with your questions and interest as this topic is one that many
have asked for.
So, save the date – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022, at 1000 AM EDT -- for
this important and always timely discussion. For more information,
please visit the club's website at www.FairLawnARC.org or call
201-791-3841.
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For more information, please visit the club's website at
http://www.FairLawnARC.org or call 201-791-3841.
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