Von: BueschelW@web.de im Auftrag von Wolfgang Bueschel ...

completely different, than in the rest of Ankara, with very old houses and
narrow streets. It was a big contract to the rest of the city, but quite
interesting to have a look of this part of Ankara.
Then we drove back to hotel to continue the conference, with the subject
"The future of EDXC". Tibor started to say that he went to the Swedish DX
Federation Annual General meeting earlier this year to make some PR for
the EDXC, and to ask if there was a Swedish club that could organize an
EDXC conference, but no club was interested. Tibor would then contact
World Wide DX Club in Bad Homburg, if they could arrange the a EDXC
meeting in the future. It was agreed by Tibor and Risto, that if the
meeting should be held in Germany, it should not be such technical as it
was in 2003 in Koenigstein. The future meetings should be mixtures of
lectures, debates and cultural sightseeing's, as it has been the case for
the last many years now.
Then Risto again raised the four possibilities for the meeting next year,
being, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Sweden and Washington DC as told. He then
raised the advantages and disadvantages for each country:
Vilnius in Lithuania was the preferred place, because Risto had some good
contacts over there, and this was maybe the last chance we had to see the
Sitkunai transmitter site, before it eventually will be closed down later
in 2011. [!]
Bulgaria had also its advantages; our club has some good contacts with our
two Bulgarian members employed at Radio Bulgaria. [...] Sweden was out of
the picture as written above, and Washington D.C. was no good either
because of the long distance to the EDXC, despite that we are all very
sure that Radio Free Asia and A.J. will make a very pleasant stay for us
over there.
A working group by Tibor, Risto and Arto was then arranged, in order to
work for the possibilities as Vilnius for the meeting next year. There
were some discussions of the date for the next meeting, but the solution
was June 11-13 which is during the Whitsun.
Tibor then told about the lack of attendance in this year's conference
compared with last year in Dublin, where there were 48 participants. [...]
Tibor was also sorry for the lack of response from the member clubs. It
was decided that we should have more activity on our WEB page with the
latest news, which should be really news, and not just "old stories" that
already was published within the DX Community. [...]
After a fruitful meeting, we had about an hour before all participants and
two representatives from TRT went to the traditional, but very tasteful
Banquet Dinner at the hotel. At the end of the banquet Tibor officially
shortly closed this year's conference. [...] George Brown thanked TRT for
their hospitality and so did I, saying that if TRT would continue with
that speed of increasing languages in their foreign services, in a few
years time they will be bigger and having more languages than Radio Japan
and BBC.
Thank you very much to the Voice of Turkey's great hospitality during our
stay in Ankara. I will surely remember those days in Ankara with great
joy.
(Bredahl Jorgensen-DEN, dswci DXW Oct 6)
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