BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

Regarding climactic conditions in Kuala Lumpur, temperatures in the
Fahrenheit scale typically were 92-94 daily and 73-76 in the evenings. To
me, it felt like Punta Cana, but no pool or ocean nearby. However, it was
generally tolerable, and being located directly in the "Golden Triangle"
of KL offered much dining and shopping activities, with a myriad of varied
type restaurants, offering all imaginable types of fare-as well as a
milieu of merchants, offering everything from knockoff Rolex watches to
"reflexology" sessions (i.e. massages).
The meeting opened promptly at 9:30 Monday morning, and the opening
included welcoming remarks by several members of the Board, including
Horst Scholz of Deutsche Welle; Oldrich Cip, Chairman of HFCC and
representative of Czech Radio; Geoff Spells of VT Communications; and
Bassil Zoubi of Arab States Broadcasting Union. Upon completion of the
opening remarks, the coordination activities began, and ran through Friday
morning.
The conference room was a spacious, well-equipped area with plenty of room
for all members, including room to suitably place extra chairs across each
table for visiting representatives to sit and discuss collision
correction.
The wireless network worked well, including external Internet access;
although (as expected) peak times of activity slowed down overall speed.
However, the system was usable the entire time. The print server never was
operable to several representatives, but anything needing to be printed
could be at the four workstations located at the back of the conference
room.
A meeting was held Tuesday afternoon for the G8 representatives and
Steering Board regarding the Russian contingent(s) and its requirements
entries. GFC, as one group, and TRW and RAM as another group, previously
separately entered requirements. If I understand correctly, one group was
VOR and the other two combined for all "retail" sales to out of country
leased transmitter time. GFC told the G8/HFCC group that they were now
responsible for all Russian shortwave coordination activities[!!], and
requested the HFCC to announce as such, and to remove all entries not
posted by GFC. The HFCC, preferring to not become politically involved,
declined[!!] to do so at the current time. Thus, there are 173 duplicate
entries in the database.
To quote the HFCC:
Wording of the Russian Delegation for the HFCC Conference Minutes:
"The delegation of the Russian Federation gave explanations regarding 173
radio broadcasting requirements which were submitted on 01.02.2010 on
behalf of the General Radio Frequency Centre (GFC) of Russia within the
process of the HFCC Conference.
"The above mentioned radio broadcasting requirements fully duplicate the
requirements submitted by the Radio-Agency-M Ltd. (RAM) and TV Radio Wave
(TRW) organizations with the used technical facilities to broadcast radio
programs from the territory of the Russian Federation . Only the name of
the Frequency Management Organization (FMO) was changed in the above
requirements.
"Coordination of new 173 radio broadcasting requirements was carried out
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