BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

(Patrick Martin-OR-USA, hcdx Sept 28)
Richard Wood was probably best known as a linguist who shared his
knowledge of how to identify languages with DX'ers. His original home was
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, but as a traveling university professor of
languages, he taught above the Arctic Circle in Norway, in the Royal
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and, I think, several other overseas locations,
at the University of Indiana, at a state university in New Hampshire, at a
small private university on Long Island, and at Southeast Missouri State
University, in Cape Girardeau, Mo., to name a few as he traveled the
world, locating for a year or two at the sites he chose.
He was intensely active on shortwave, AM, FM, and TV DX, and attended many
radio club conventions in the '60s, '70s and '80s.
When he was at SEMo, less than 100 miles from where I lived for 30 years
in Mt. Vernon, Ill., he and I exchanged visits, and he was one of very few
DX'ers my wife remembers with positive thoughts. My most successful FM DX
was done on a Heathkit tuner (I forget the model number) that I had
purchased from Richard.
Richard was not afraid to express his opinions about DX issues, and I
understood that some DX'ers were uncomfortable about that, but I had
nothing but good vibes from my relationship with him. Of the second wave
of DX'ers who became adults after World War II, Richard Wood was one of
the true giants.
(John Callarman-USA, DXplorer Sept 28)
I remember Richard E. Wood REW very well, who wouldn't if one calls
himself a dxer of any worthwhile calibre. When I started as a serious
dxer, an unknown third world reporter to Sweden Calling DXerts NASWA ASWLC
and a few more..maybe late 1968 or so I wrote a letter to Richard and he
replied..something exciting and great for me. We exchanged many letters
over the years. I never even saw a picture of him. The memories of him are
very affectionate indeed and of great respect as I love languages like
most of us do. He contributed much to the hobby as stated by so many of
you. I tried to contact him in recent years but couldn't. I wanted so much
to get his book Short Wave Voices of the World., which I hope will surface
somewhere some day.
We pass through this way but once and it is our duty and pride to remember
people such as Richard who have contributed so much to our own enrichment
of the hobby. For those of us involved in linguistics as a profession, he
showed a different perspective through radio and through the many Short
Wave Voices we have heard.
Though we say May he Rest in Peace..we know his memory and works will not
just rest but be active as long as we are active in the area that we love
so much to which he contributed much.
(Victor Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, DXplorer Sept 29)
I met Richard in the summer of 1961 when he came hitch-hiking all the way
>from the UK to northern Scandinavia. He was studying Russian at Trinity
College, in Cambridge, and DXing on a Marconi CR100 surplus receiver. Very
keen on NA MW DX, Richard at that time believed that instances of peak NA
reception on MW coincided with areas of high atmospheric pressure across
the Atlantic. He produced a bundle of weather maps from The Times show
make his point. Among his QSLs there was one I particularly remember. In a
letter from a station in the Brazilian Nordeste Richard was addressed with
the term "A Sua Majestade", Your Majesty. And in languages he excelled.
Proficient in Russian and German, he shortly afterwards surprised me by
sending me letters in Swedish. His numerous contributions to the hobby
have meant a lot for the DXing community.
(Henrik Klemetz-SWE, DXplorer Sept 29)