On an offshore radio focused newsletter BBC producer Tony Street asked if anyone had recordings of World Radio Club as there were none in the BBC World Service archives. I knew I had three on cassette and have found two of them. These have now been recorded as mp3's and uploaded to my 4Shared account for downloading or streaming.
One is when I was a studio guest, it was broadcast on Wednesday 22 February 1978 at 0815 1330 and 2315 and on Friday 24 February 1978 at 2100. I talk about the forthcoming World Administrative Radio Conference which included on its agenda a proposal to expand the shortwave broadcasting bands. Mike Ashdown of Racal then talks about a satellite communications unit that fits into a land rover. The second is from earlier the same month, or late January, and featured well known UK DXer Gordon Darling talking about medium wave DX'ing. The interview was recorded at a Reading meeting on 21 January which World Radio Club presenter Peter Barsby attended. The other feature was on digital tape recording. The recording I have been unable to find featured UK DX'er Gordon Pilling talking about his recent visit to Southern Africa, also interviewed at the Reading meeting. Each edition had a propagation report from Henry Hatch, DX news by telephone from Noel Green and from BBC Monitoring and David Ansell, these were read in the studio. With the BBC World Service reducing its shortwave transmissions it's fascinating to look back and hear how shortwave propagation and frequency usage was so important for them at that time. Tony is hoping to put together a programme about the way the World Service has changed relative to new technology, and whether shortwave international radio still has a use in the world, for broadcast sometime next year. The programmes can be streamed or downloaded at: http://www.4shared.com/dir/TvUipvat/BBC_World_Radio_Club.html Mike _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
