[HCDX] A NEW CLUB! *SHORTWAVE AUSTRALIA*

["Bob Padula" <bobpadula@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Radio Monitoring Friend,

This is your personal invitation to join Australia's newest and most
progressive shortwave-listening Club, "SHORTWAVE AUSTRALIA" ("SW-AUS").

Membership of "SW-AUS" is totally free, and Internet/E-mail delivery is used
for exchanging unmoderated news and information, via the TOPICA.COM Network.

Print-based radio monitoring hobby Clubs are facing massive reductions in
membership; this is due not only to the negligible entry of young people to
the hobby, but also to the impact of the Internet as an alternative,
relatively inexpensive form of real-time, immediate, information exchange
medium.

The old days are now history, where "editors" slaved to prepare their
monthly hard-copy "columns"; other people consumed enormous amounts of
energy and money in producing hard-copy newsletters, with information
several weeks, or even months, out of date by the time that members received
it. That is not good enough in the 21st century!

In the present millenium, monitoring hobbyists demand, and require access to
*immediate information*; they also need to make the results of their own
monitoring work quickly available to others - neither goal can really be
satisfied by reliance on hard-copy products, or via expensive memberships of
"print-only" Clubs.

So, in an attempt to integrate the 21st Century needs of the Australian
SWLing/DXing community, an "all Australian" Club, <<SHORTWAVE AUSTRALIA>>,
has been created, being a blend of on-line information and hard-copy
support.

-->> The most important feature of SW-AUS is that membership is totally
free!

FEATURES:

- Membership limited to persons resident in Australia or ite Territories
- there are NO membership fees
- there are NO struggles for power or domination
- there are NO financial reports
- there are NO renewal notices
- there are NO Constitutions
- there are NO Management Committees, Boards, Executives, or Councils
- there are NO Presidents, Treasurers, Secretaries, Public Officers,
  Administrators, Committee-persons, or any other entourage of palace
  courtiers
- there are NO Elections
- there are NO Meetings
- there is NO obligation to contribute
- there is NO distinction as to whether members are "DXers", "program
  listeners", "QSL hunters", "technical monitors" or any other category!
- coverage is SHORTWAVE only - no utility, no medium-wave, no long-wave, no
  amateur radio, no harmonics

MEMBERS RECEIVE:

* news, information, discussions, articles, antenna information, publication
reviews, DX program schedules, receiver news, essays, QSL notes, reception
notes ("loggings") and schedules, AS POSTED BY OTHER MEMBERS, relevant to
shortwave reception here in Australia

* special news from SW-AUS Headquarters, including TIMELY items drawn from
the ELECTRONIC DX PRESS

* a full-coloured on-line Membership Certificate, which may be printed and
framed

* access to hard-copy reference publications at special discount prices,
including the "Australasian Shortwave Guide", the "Australasian Shortwave
Digest", the "World Radio TV Handbook", "Passport to Worldband Radio",
"Klingenfuss Publications", and the "CQ-Propagation Handbook"

* access to a variety of hard-copy support materials, including Spectrum
Occupancy Charts, International Schedule Packages, Reception Reporting Log
Charts, World Map of ITU Zones, List of Radio Countries, Reception Report
Guide

MEMBERSHIP:

- The Club functions as a FRIENDLY COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE, with the
  continued support of its members - whilst there is no obligation to
  contribute, postings are vital!
- Membership is open to anyone resident in Australia or its Territories
- Members are invited to introduce themselves with a brief introductory
  message
- Intending members are required to provide their real name, postal address,
  and a valid E-mail address
- Members are obliged to exercise courtesy and consideration when posting
  messages to SW-AUS - members who do otherwise, or who post
  irrelevant/defamatory or abusive material, will be warned, and may be
  suspended or removed from the Club
- Membership is offered in response to invitations from the Manager, from
  direct applications received from any interested person, or via
  recommendations from any other member
- Postings must be in plain text format: HTML is not permitted
- Attachments are not permitted with postings
- The E-mail addresses of members are accessible only by the Manager, and
  members are obliged to advise any change of E-mail address to the Manager
- Bouncing E-mail addresses will be immediately removed
- Members may choose whether to receive messages via direct E-mail, or
  retrieve them via the Club's special Web
- Members using the Web retrieval option must register with and obtain a
  password from TOPICA.COM (free)
- Only members may post or receive messages from SW-AUS
- Messages are posted to sw-aus@xxxxxxxxxx
- All messages are archived, for access ONLY by members at
  http://www.topica.com/lists/sw-aus
- It is not possible to "subscribe" to SW-AUS: the club is NOT a "list",
  even though it uses TOPICA.COM for message delivery
- SW-AUS uses electronic mailings - hard-copy mailings of messages are not
  available
- A Club Web Site is under construction

GENERAL INFORMATION:

- Persons enquiring about membership are given a special introductory
  membership of three months, with all privileges provided, and may post and
  receive messages immediately
- Members are required to confirm their membership every three months by
  E-mail
- Members may withdraw from the Club at any time by notifying the Manager by
  E-mail
- Information from members will also be used in the "Broadcast Monitor"
  column of Australia's newest commercial magazine for radio enthusiasts,
  "RADIOMAG"!!!

*** Anyone wishing to join SW-AUS is invited to send a brief E-mail,
  advising their name, postal address, and valid E-mail address to:
  bobpadula@xxxxxxxxxxx Alternatively, please send this information via the
  "Reply" facility in your E-mail software

We hope that you will find your membership with SHORTWAVE AUSTRALIA to your
liking!

With best regards


Bob Padula
SW-AUS Convenor
Melbourne
bobpadula@xxxxxxxxxxx

* Please visit the Electronic DX Press Home Page:
http://members.tripod.com/~bpadula/edxp.html






















































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