[HCDX]: Glenn Hauser's SW/DX Report 98-01, Jan 5

["Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Note to eds.: I'm in a rush, so for now am just forwarding this 
important item from Finbarr O'Driscoll, Ireland, reporting to RIB:


>West Coast Radio Ireland presenters Michael Commins and Gerard Delaney
>deflated the festive balloons for listeners to their New Year's Eve 
live
>show to NAm (0100 - 0200 UT Jan 01 1998, 5905 kHz). In a show that was
>otherwise filled with good material, laughter and lively music, during 
a
>live phone conversation with a lady-listener in the USA, they announced
>that transmissions to NAm were likely to cease at the end of January. 
The
>sense of disappointment in the voice of the listener at the other end 
of
>the phone was palpable despite the gyrations of the SW signal through 
the
>ionosphere.
>
>However, Commins & Delaney did throw one lifeline, the same one that 
they
>had to use previously, before the demise of WCRI's African service, 
namely
>correspondence pressure from listeners. They sought the co-operation of
>their NAm listeners in Canada, USA, and Caribbean. They urged folk to 
>write to the Irish Minister For Communications, with whom they are 
meeting 
>in the next two weeks in a last ditch effort to secure some State 
funding
>for the good work that they do.
>
>They gave several versions of a postal address, by which listeners 
could
>storm heaven. The simplest one is:
>
>Ms Sile De Valera,           ("Sile" = "Sheila")
>Minister For Communications,
>Dublin,
>Ireland.
>
>Personally I have a bad feeling about the whole thing, despite Michael
>Commins' & Gerard Delaney's unremitting good humour right out to the 
>end of the show. I hope that I am wrong in my pessimism. I WANT to 
>be wrong.
>
>No mention was made of the Saturday Eu service, 1500 UT, 6175 kHz.
>
>
>Finbarr O'Driscoll...........(Ireland)


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