WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

In addition to in-home digital television Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun
newspaper says that transmitting antennas will also supply digital
broadcasting direct to cell phones and other types of portable receivers.
The personal mobile video market is expected to become one of the hottest
in the history of broadcast entertainment over the next decade. Especially
in Japan.
(Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, via Amateur Radio NewslineT Report, April 7,
via John Norfolk, dxld Apr 9)
The former leader of a Japanese doomsday cult has been judged mentally fit
to continue his appeal of a death sentence for masterminding a deadly
nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway. Shoko Asahara who founded and led the
Aum Shinrikyo cult was sentenced to death by hanging in 2004 after being
found guilty of being responsible for the sarin gas attack, which killed
12 people and made thousands of others sick in 1995.
On March 20, 1995, five cult members pierced bags of sarin, a nerve gas
developed by the Nazis, on separate trains as they converged in central
Tokyo's national government district. The cult claimed it was a pre-
emptive strike against police planning raids on the group. Asahara was
convicted of killing 27 people in total, including former members of the
cult, an anti-cult lawyer and his family. A number of other former cult
members have received death sentences for participating in the attack.
(ODXA Listening In via dxld; WDXC Contact April)
I heard Radio Aum Shinrikyo a number of times via Russian transmitters on
shortwave. I wrote to them myself and received a 4-page outline of their
beliefs; at least I suppose thatûs what it was supposed to be. It seemed
like a bunch of random concepts taken from other religions. They also
claimed tens of thousands of adherents worldwide. I often wondered since I
bothered to write to them if they counted me in that number. There was an
excellent 3 part series a few years back that looked at Aum, Koresh and
Jim Jones, the similarities were haunting.
(Fred Waterer, Programming Matters, ibid; WDXC Contact April)
JAPAN [and non] R. JPN DX Corner will be aired in the new program
titled World Interactive from April as the Hello from Tokyo program was
terminated. New program will be hosted by Ms. Kay Fujimoto and Mr. Ryan
Drees who have been newscasters of R Japan.
First DX Corner in the new program will be aired on 3rd weekend, starting
15th of April, covering report from Winter SWL Festival held at
Kulpsville, Pennsylvania, USA. The second program will be aired on the 5th
weekend, starting 29th of April, covering the interview with Mr. Jerry
Berg of USA, who wrote a book titled "On the Short Waves, 1923-1943". He
is also a Chairman of CPRV, the Committee to Preserve Radio Verification.
Starting from May, DX corner will be aired every 2nd and 4th weekend of
the month. The air time of World Interactive program is the same as Hello
from Tokyo. Time and freqs are: (Time in UTC), ( ) after frequency is the
relay site.
Beaming to Europe/Africa Asia/Pacific Americas
Saturday
0510-0600 5975(UK), 7230(UK) 15195, 17810, 21755 6110(Canada)
1010-1100 17585(UAE), 17720(UAE) 9695, 11730, 21755 6120(Canada)
1710-1800 11970, 15355(GAB) 9535
Sunday
0010-0100 6145(Canada)
0310-0400 21610
1110-1200 9695, 11730 6120(Canada)
1510-1600 6190, 7200, 11730 9505