So very sad. Have been out of SW DX-ing since 1970 but still have my QSL collection that includes a card from the Overseas Service as well as a number of the smaller Regional outlets - Perth, Brisbane etc. Never did hear Alice Springs.
I read the sad News in a magazine "Funktelegramm" february 2017 issue. I was listeneing to the overseas Service of Radio Australia since 1970 when Tuning my portable Radio (Nordmende Globetrotter) and suddenly found that "different" English". Of course I wrote a receptoon Report and got a QSL Card plus some inforamtion about "downunder". I regurlarily became a litener to Radio Australia from the Olkympics in Munich on (1972) --- Shane Gould --- was member of the Radio Australia listener´s Club, often heard Keith Glovers´s Mailbox on Sunday morning, was able to travel to AUstralia in 1974 as part of the undergraduate working visit (worked as a Student in AWA North Ryde NSW), met Keith Glover ath tABC´s Studios in Melbourne Victoria--- met Shane on my third travel to Australia in 1982... Too sad that it is all gone now-- ok I can listen to Raido Australia via Internet, but is that really fun? My last "direct" Connection in listening to RA was on Dec 31, 2016 via WEBSDR (University nny: Radio New Zealand still has a shortwave Service which can be even heard here in Europe... So why is Austalia not using the "old fashsioned way" of communicaiton?
So very sad. Have been out of SW DX-ing since 1970 but still have my QSL collection that includes a card from the Overseas Service as well as a number of the smaller Regional outlets - Perth, Brisbane etc. Never did hear Alice Springs.
ReplyDeleteI read the sad News in a magazine "Funktelegramm" february 2017 issue. I was listeneing to the overseas Service of Radio Australia since 1970 when Tuning my portable Radio (Nordmende Globetrotter) and suddenly found that "different" English". Of course I wrote a receptoon Report and got a QSL Card plus some inforamtion about "downunder". I regurlarily became a litener to Radio Australia from the Olkympics in Munich on (1972) --- Shane Gould --- was member of the Radio Australia listener´s Club, often heard Keith Glovers´s Mailbox on Sunday morning, was able to travel to AUstralia in 1974 as part of the undergraduate working visit (worked as a Student in AWA North Ryde NSW), met Keith Glover ath tABC´s Studios in Melbourne Victoria--- met Shane on my third travel to Australia in 1982...
ReplyDeleteToo sad that it is all gone now-- ok I can listen to Raido Australia via Internet, but is that really fun?
My last "direct" Connection in listening to RA was on Dec 31, 2016 via WEBSDR (University nny: Radio New Zealand still has a shortwave Service which can be even heard here in Europe...
So why is Austalia not using the "old fashsioned way" of communicaiton?