WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

AWR Samara.
Another interesting opportunity for an AWR QSL card from another relay
location has just become available. For those who can hear it, Adventist
World Radio is now on the air from Samara in Russia, beamed towards the
Indian sub-continent on 5865 kHz. This is a 250 kW unit, the timing is
1500 - 1600 UTC, and the langs are Punjabi & Hindi. This new relay sce
began on December 23 last year.
For those who can remember, AWR was on the air from Samara for a period of
4 years, extending from 1992 - 1996. On Sep 10, 1994 AWR broadcast a
special annt from Samara only, as part of the annual contest in the Nordic
DX Championships for that year.
At the time of the current AWR relay from Samara, the freq 5865kHz is a
clear channel and Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, states that the signal in India is
particularly strong. In Indianapolis, all that is heard at 1500 UTC, due
to the daylight factor, is a very low het in the SSB mode, which may or
may not be from Samara.
(Adrian Peterson-USA, DX Editor, Adventist World Radio, Jan 19)
Boo Hoo. I've been listening online to the BBC Radio 2 Documentary called
Rhythm of the Reich (2 episodes so far).
While mostly about the German Propaganda Swing band, it mentions in
passing other aspects of the Propaganda war of the time.
The program referenced both Lord Haw Haw of German propaganda fame, and
(Lord?) Boo Hoo his Soviet counterpart from the 1939-40 period (Phoney
War, Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact).
I've never heard of this latter character. Has anyone else? He apparently
broadcast in English to the United Kingdom in the same vein as Haw Haw.
(Fred Waterer-CAN, dxld Jan 12)
I note there are no replies - yet - to the mail from Fred regarding Boo-
Hoo. Just to clarify, my dictionary definition of boo-hoo is to weep or
pretend to weep noisily. So make of that what you may!
The first mention I heard of this character was in a song on a CD that
accompanied a copy of the book Hitler's Airwaves. It is performed by the
Western Brothers. They were a well known duo from the 30's onwards and
heard regularly on the BBC with comic songs. This is what Fred heard
during the first BBC R2 programme Rhythm of the Reich. On the CD the song
is entitled Lord Haw Haw of Zeesen. At the beginning of the song they say
that it is inspired by one Jonah Barrington of the Daily Express
(newspaper) about two announcers of foreign stations broadcasting in
English. Jonah Barrington is a well known name from that same era.
My parents often spoke about broadcasts by Lord Haw Haw but to the best of
my recollection they didn't mention Uncle Boo Hoo of Moscow. Obviously he
was a man and I guess that some research would need to be done to discover
who he actually was and what he was saying - or boo-hooing about!
(Noel R. Green-UK, dxld Jan 13)
SAINT HELENA Radio St. Helena situation I just received the following
from Robert Kipp in Germany concerning resurrecting Radio St. Helena SW
broadcasts. I do hope one day that this will come to pass. Maybe all that
would be needed is a donation of a decent HF tx!"
Radio St. Helena : An Update.
Back in September we requested email support for the famous RSH
international, multi-media, interactive SW broadcasts. Many many thanks to
one and all who sent their opinions. World DX Club [sic] (USA) (Rich
D'Angelo), Jerry Berg (USA), several individuals in USA, DSWCI (Anker