BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

the years.
Afterwards we went to the office of Mr. Hasan Harman, broadcast Directing
Manager, who welcomed us and he then told us briefly about the
organization and the radio. There are 4.000 employees in the headquarters,
and 3.000 employees in the different regions throughout the country, so
quite a big organization. We were also told, that two new languages will
be added in the near future for their foreign services, being Japanese and
Mongolian[!]. Then we presented ourselves each other, and we were given a
package with many different items from the radio.
Afterwards we walked through many long corridors to the international
department, where we first saw some of the many different language
offices. The Voice of Turkey is currently broadcasting in 32 different
languages. After the meeting we went to the big IT section, where we saw
the production of the various language sections was made for the internet.
In this department no more than 140 men and woman were employed to make
and up-date news every day for home page of each language. After the visit
to the IT department, some of the EDXC participants were interviewed by
the radio in different studios, to be broadcast later on in English,
German, Italian, Russian and French.
Then we had a splendid typical Turkish lunch at the radio station together
with the leading personnel, in the canteen of the radio, before we went to
the Emirler transmission site situated about 50 km. outside Ankara. There
we were greeted by the director of transmission, who was a very nice lady,
and we had a thorough insight of this rather old, but still well working,
transmitter as well as all the antennas. There was one big rotable
antenna, 28 (as far as I remember) different curtain antennas and some
other different antennas. The reason why we didn't visit the Cakirlar
transmitter was, that this site was under re-construction. During our
whole stay at the radio station and at the transmitter site, we were
photographed nearly all the time by a photographer from the radio. [...]
Saturday October 2nd
The conference itself began Saturday morning at 0930 in a big conference
room at the hotel, where also some representatives from TRT were present.
The secretary General, Tibor Szilagyi opening the conference with this
speech:
"Dear DX Friends and Conference Participants!
12 months have gone since the closure of the EDXC Confernce in Dublin /
Ireland. [...] As you probably know, the EDXC has today 12 members, 4
observer members and 4 individual members. Two individual members are from
Sweden: the well known Swedish DXers Claes-W. Englund and Bengt Dalhammar,
furthermore Torre Ekblom from Finland and Luca Tius from Italy. [...]
During the preparation work for this Conference I had the pleasure to
enjoy the help of the following organizations and DX-Clubs:
1. First of all I had a lot of correspondence with Dr. Ufuk Gecim, Head of
the German section of the Voice of Turkey, die Stimme der Tuerkei. At this
point I wish to express my gratitude for her kind help. As you could
experience yesterday, our visit at the Radio was organized very smoothly
and we had an extra-ordinary warm hearty reception at the Radio. Thank You
Dr. Ufuk Gecim for all the good work you have done for us!
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