Bulgaria: DX program August 6, 2010

In the program: The foundation of European DX Council and 
Broadcast Bands Tips 


At the moment there are around 40 DX-Listeners Clubs in 17 European countries. Some of the clubs are members of the European DX Council, also known as EDXC. Each year an annual meeting of representative DXers from some of the clubs is held in one of the European countries – not all, due to various reasons, like financial and others. This year the annual meeting will be held in Turkey thanks to the support of radio Voice of Turkey. The forum will take place from September 30th to October 3rd in the capital Ankara. 
In the early 1960s, in order to stimulate a close contact between listeners and their clubs in Europe, the DX-Listeners Club in Norway sent out an invitation to establish a common DX Club for the whole of Europe. A preliminary committee consisting of DXers from Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands (then called Holland), Norway and Sweden, was established at the 1966 DX Parliament at Skoevde, Sweden. On June 4th, 1967 in a meeting held in Copenhagen, Denmark with representatives from Denmark, Germany, Holland, Norway and Sweden was officially decided the foundation of the European DX Council as an organization for DX-Listeners Clubs in Europe. The first rules of EDXC included the following: the members should discuss matters of common interest and make the results public in the form of recommendations. The aims of the Council should be: 
1. To promote cooperation and goodwill between European listeners and their Clubs; 
2. To achieve common objectives in the field of radio listening; 
3. To stay in close contact with other DX – organizations throughout the world; 
4. To improve contacts between listeners and radio stations. 
The members of the EDXC were European countries and their respective DX organizations chose representatives to the Council, one from each country. Various Working Committees had to be established, consisting of representatives of the Council with other DX-experts as consultative members. The Working Committees which have been established were: 
1. Reception Report Committee: state common demands to listeners reception reports as given by radio stations, and approves the report forms produced by the DX-Clubs; 
2. Landlist Committee: defines DX countries and thereby makes a common list ; 
3. Contest Comittee: make standard rules for the DX Contests; 
4. Information Committee : diffuses the knowledge about the DXing hobby to other persons, radio stations, companies, etc 
Now with decline of radio listening and the number of radio listeners just a few DX clubs are members of the European DX Council. The two DX clubs in Bulgaria that existed in the past were closed a few years ago. By the way for those who are interested in this year's EDXC Meeting and details, please write to the Secretary General of EDXC, Mr. Tibor Szilagvi at tiszi2035@yahoo.com . 

Here are some broadcast tips based on radio listening made at the end of July: 

INDIA: Local radio stations from the All India Radio Net were heard on July 27th with a common identification signal at 00.15 hours, followed by an anthem and identification in Hindi and English. The frequencies were 4800 KHz from the site Hyderabad, 4920 KHz from Chennai and 5010 KHz from Trivantram. 
PORTUGAL: Radio Portugal International was noted on weekends only, from 19.00 to 20.00 hours on unannounced frequency of 9820 KHz. 
UKRAINE: Once again in the last weeks a new schedule of Radio Ukraine International English language broadcasts: from 00.00, from 19.00 and from 22.00 hours on 7440 KHz, and from 07.00 hours on 11620 KHz 
CZECH REPUBLIC: Azattyq Radio with a programme in Russian language was heard on July 26th from 01.35 hours on the additional frequency 9760 KHz. The studio of this radio is based in Radio Liberty in Prague and the broadcast is beamed to Kazakhstan. 
IRAN: Two radio stations with different programmes were observed to broadcasting to Iran and both named Voice of Iranian Kurdistan on July 27th, at 03.00 hours – one on 3927 KHz and another one on 4881 KHz. 
MONACO: Monaco Radio with a weather report in French and English language was noted at a new broadcast time – 15.00 hours on 8728 KHz in USB mode. 
MOROCCO: Radio Medi One was heard on 9575 KHz with a strong level of signal but with poor sound on 171 KHz as a parallel frequency at 01.45 hours. 
CAUCASUS: Abkhaz Radio from Sukhumi was heard on 18th and 19th of July at 04.55 hours after the close down of Radio Exterior de Espana and on July 26th from 08.00 hours with news in Russian language – all on 9535 KHz. 

Compiled by: Rumen Pankov 
E-mail address: rumen_pankov@abv.bg

Source: BNR Radio Bulgaria: DX program August 6, 2010 http://bit.ly/aVSRxT

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