Perseus SDR Receiver blog

The Perseus receiver from Italy’s Microtelecom is designer Nico Palermo’s contribution to the rapidly changing world of SDR, Software-Defined Radio. The experiences in using Perseus can be read in Guy Atkins’ blog ‘Five Below’, here.

Post-conference tour of EDXC Conference 2008

Hello friends,

Finally we have been able to get enough base information to make the decision upon this tour:

First of all, the voting held a few weeks ago resulted that the majority is interested in visiting the Baltic states.

We have then investigated the possibility of having a group flight to Vilnius or from Vilnius, but it has turned out that it is not possible with a reasonable price. Therefore, this tour will be organised totally as a bus tour, but those who don’t want to go by bus from Vilnius back to Helsinki (about 650 kms) can then book a flight of their own from Vilnius to anywhere they want (this is of course not included in the tour price).

Preliminary plan:

Sun 7th of September
Leaving Vaasa in the afternoon, either by train or by bus. A ferry to Tallinn in the evening. Overnight in a hotel in Tallinn.
Mon 8th of September
A look at the old Tallinn in the morning. Leaving for Riga around noon. Arrival in Riga around 17 hours. A walk tour in Riga. Overnight in Riga.
Tue 9th of September
A little bit of time still in Riga. Leaving for Vilnius around 11 hours. Arrival in Vilnius around 16 hours. Time in Vilnius will include some radio activities (visit to a radio station, visit to the TV tower), but details are not available yet. Overnight in Vilnius.
Wed 10th of September
The bus to Tallinn will be leaving around noon. Arrival in Helsinki will be either late in Wednesday or early Thursday (in this case overnight in a ferry).

This tour will be offered on a price of 390 euros. This will include transportation, three nights in good hotels (double room including breakfast, extra for those wanting to have a single room) and dinners on
Monday and Tuesday. The price for those taking a flight from Vilnius will be 350 euros.

We would be very pleased, if all who are interested in joining this tour, would contact us as soon as possible. Please write to risto.vahakainu at helsinki.fi.

Please notice that this tour is not fixed and guaranteed yet, so please contact me before booking any flights or other services.

Best Regards

Risto Vahakainu
on behalf of the FDXA

Lajos Horvath Passed Away Today In Hungary

Dear Radio Friends !

Here is a message from The Hungarian Radio today, April 7, 2008.

After a very long and serious sickness Lajos Horvath passed away today in Hungary. He was 75 years of age . He was working over 50 years at The Hungarian Radio. He was a very well known speaker, with the best speaker voice in Hungary . His field of activities were both as speaker but also training, educating others. The Hungarian Radio is arranging everything in connection with the coming up funeral .

Tibor Szilagyi

EDXC Conference 2008

Hello,

A message for those interested in joining the European DX Conference this year.

The conference will be held 5-7 September in Vaasa, Finland organised by the Finnish DX Association as the 50th Anniversary meeting of the club.

The conference web pages are at www.netikka.net/edxc2008.  There will be packages including accomodation at the hotel as well as without accomodation (for those willing to use other options). However, all accomodation reservation to the conference Hotel Silveria shall be made through the FDXA, as the room reservation has been centralized to us.

The pages include a description of an optional post-conference tour and those interested can vote upon what tour they specially would like to join. However, this voting will be closing soon, so please send your vote as soon as possible.

On behalf of the organisation committee,
Risto Vahakainu
FDXA

R.I.P Paco Martinez

On December 9th died Francisco Martinez y Martinez (Paco Martinez), known Spanish DXer and chairman of AER (Asociación Española de Radioescucha)

Linked to the world of DXing in Spanish language for more than thirty years, Paco Martinez was one of the founders of GECE (Grupo de Escucha del Centro de Española) in 1977, an entity in which it played a variety of positions until its merger in 1991 with ADXA and AREA to form the Spanish Association of Radiolisterner (AER, Asociación Española de Radioescucha), club successor to the previous and currently was AER’s chairman.

Person equipped with a great energy and ability to work selflessly worked in a multitude of tasks associated with the spread of diexismo in Spain and Europe, while some health problems he had to leave during the past few years the “frontline” of the AER to concentrate their efforts on providing new statutes for the European DX Council (EDXC).

Rest in peace our friend Paco Martinez.

Pedro Sedano, Madrid, Spain
GENERAL COORDINATOR for AER