BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Wolfram still co-hosts the monthly DX show on DW [English section, 4th
Sunday of the month, wb.]. Which reminds me, this week should be the time
to download it before it goes away, almost 42 minutes into the long
Mailbag file on demand for 1 Jan really 31 Dec. Not exactly a full-time
job. I think they mentioned another website where the DX meetings are
archived indefinitely. "Freedle" above probably spelt Friedl.
(Glenn, ibid. via dxld)
Manfred Boehm worked after the close-down of RBI first for Radioropa which
started broadcasting just when RBI died, on Oct 3, 1990y. This station
might be known also in the "AM scene" for its transmissions on longwave
Burg 261 kHz (until 2000y) and 5975/5980 (1993-1995y, via Litomysl-CZE).
When Radioropa declined, Manfred got the opportunity to work for DW's
German service, where he can be heard frequently now.
That's all I can say about former RBI staff, except from a remark that it
can be told easily what happened to them: They were simply fired. It was
apparently not uncommon for foreign staff members to appear under
pseudonym, so it could indeed be possible that some of them are heard
under other names elsewhere now.
(Kai Ludwig-D, ibid.)
Hello Folks, as a member of RBI's DX club and a listener for the Arabic
section of RBI in late 80s, I used to enjoy very much the DX programs of
RBI. I was taught ABC of DXing by listening to them. I ended up with lots
of special QSL cards, books and mags in Arabic talking about Heaven on
Earth !! DDR. I always remember an announcer who used to speak Arabic with
a German accent ;) his name was Joachim Schneider (Pardon my spelling). I
used to send all my letters to RBI's Arabic section with his name.
Listening to DW's Arabic section a few years back I could hear a guy
almost with the same voice but with a different name!!! the Idea of
sending DW a letter to double check the issue crossed my mind, but never
did it. So I wonder, what really happened to my friend, Joachim Schneider?
(Tarek Zeidan, Cairo-EGY, ibid. via dxld)
If it was indeed the same person it would still be the question which name
was a pseudonym, "Joachim Schneider" (the spelling is correct) or the one
used on DW? I will ask around if somebody knows something about him. No
chance with Google; way too much hits also when adding suitable keywords.
Also to mention here: Hannelore Steer of RBI's Africa service (I heard
about Swahili as language in particular). In early 1990 she became editor-
in-chief of RBI, and today she is director of radio at Rundfunk Berlin-
Brandenburg.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Jan 4)
R. Berlin International announcers, Joachim Schneider.
Well, I could find out a little bit: He was a factory worker at the
Berlin-based cable manufacturer KWO until some political initiative (a
typical GDR phenomenon), presumably by the youth organization FDJ, let him
begin studies at Leipzig; Arabic and probably also journalism. Afterwards
an initiative by SED (the GDR's communist party) brought him to RBI. At
least that's what he told his colleagues there.
Shortly before the demise of RBI he married an editor of the Italian
service and assumed her surname, whatever name this was (the "informer"
can't remember anymore). It seems that he is travelling through the Middle
East at present, known as an expert for this region, whatever this may say
about his current job.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Jan 5)
Kai, Most interesting. Even though it was a challenge listening to RBI
(because of poor reception or boring propaganda) I never forgot the