BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

B-08 season 7370 kHz 2130-2230 UT Voice of Vietnam ueber Woofferton 300 kW
105deg, war 11840 kHz Skelton in A-08 season. Vietnamesisches Programm der
VoVTN Hanoi fuer Europa.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 11)
Norman Tomalin's 1998 book Daventry Calling the World has now been made
available on the BBCeng.info site as a pdf download:
(Mike Barraclough-UK, dxld Nov 6)
A new Merlin transmission has been added, UT Sun and Mon 0500-0600 on
6010, 500 kW at 285 degrees, i.e. toward Caribbean, tough luck for R. Mil
and LV de tu Conciencia. Could it be R. Republica? Rampisham has little
other demand for that azimuth.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld Nov 7)
USA VOA's Henry Loomis Passes.
Henry Loomis, Who Led Voice of America, Is Dead at 89
By WILLIAM GRIMES Henry Loomis, who extended the reach and defended the
independence of the Voice of America as its director in the late 1950s and
early 1960s before resigning in a clash with President Lyndon B. Johnson,
died on Nov. 2 in Jacksonville, Fla., where he lived. He was 89.
The cause was complications of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Pick's
diseases, said his wife, Jacqueline.
Mr. Loomis was also president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
in the 1970s.
A physicist by training, Mr. Loomis became director of the Voice of
America in 1958, under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Determined to
expand its operations, he increased the Voice of America's broadcasting
power and set up transmitters in previously unserved countries like
Liberia and the Philippines.
Convinced that English was becoming the pre-eminent international
language, he began broadcasting programs for less-than-fluent foreign
listeners in Special English, a simplified language that relied on a core
vocabulary of 1,500 words. Scripts were read at a deliberate pace of nine
lines a minute.
Mr. Loomis was still in the post in 1965 when the Voice of America came
under increasing pressure from the White House not to report awkward
foreign-policy news, notably the growing military involvement of the
United States in Southeast Asia. Mr. Loomis resigned, and in an accusatory
farewell speech said, "The Voice of America is not the voice of the
administration."
Henry Loomis was born in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. His father, Alfred, amassed a
vast fortune financing public utilities. After the Wall Street crash of
1929, which left him untouched, Alfred Loomis indulged his fascination
with science by setting up a physics laboratory in an old mansion in
Tuxedo Park. Henry worked with his father on brain-wave research while
still a teenager, and later took part in the laboratory's pioneering
research on radar.
Mr. Loomis left Harvard in his senior year to join the Navy, which
assigned him to the staff of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet
in Pearl Harbor. He created radar training schools and accompanied
airplane pilots and ships' officers to demonstrate how to use the new
technology, which was initially regarded with some suspicion.