Annual General Meeting and DX-Camp 2003 16th - 18th May at Vejers Strand

21 persons took part in another successful DSWCI DX-Camp and Annual General meeting at Vejers Beach on May 16-18. The members came from: Finland: Torre Ekblom. Sweden: Tibor Szilagyi. Denmark:  Kaj Bredahl Jørgensen, Bent Nielsen, Anker Petersen, Torben Dahl, Vagn Nielsen and Jens Søndergaard. Germany: Bernhard Hein, Hella & Karl Helt, Robert Kipp, Andy Schmid, Jürgen Waga and Simon-Peter Liehr and Italy: Nader Javaheri. The guests were: Luigi Cobisi (EDXC Secretary General), Italy; Germany: Eckhardt Röscher, Helga Neuner and Gertrud Schmid and Denmark: Karin Nielsen who was in charge of the Danish Buffet. Everyone arrived during Friday and put up their antennas in the 5 meters tall sanddunes around the venue Vardeborg, a scout camp. DX-ing started right away and continued throughout day and night until Sunday morning with various individuals DX-ing or sleeping at different times.  We felt more noisy ionospheric conditions than a year ago. However, the Solar flux was rather low around 102, the geomagnetic activity was low (A-index around 9) and no solar flares were observed. Thus at least 15 Andean stations could be heard. On mediumwave some good stations around the Caribbean Sea were heard including the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Look in the Tips in this SWN for the loggings. Torre Ekblom heard a lot of NDB-stations, incl. 14 new ones to him, such as oil platforms in the North Sea. Saturday morning those not DX-ing had two nice touristic tours to the fascinating terrain north of Vejers and to Oksbøl village where a carnival-like spring parade took place. The famous Amber Museum was also visited.

 

Pictures from the AGM and DX Camp

Click here to see 18 pictures taken by Anker Petersen, Kaj Bredahl Jørgensen and Tibor Szilagyi at the AGM and DX Camp 2003.

 

Lectures

Three interesting talks by these participants followed the AGM: Luigi Cobisi first gave the latest news about broadcasting from Italy on shortwave and mediumwave. The Caltanisetta SW transmitter on Sicily closed down the week before the AGM. RAI on 846 MW has returned on the air with reduced power of 75 kW. In the future there will only be one RAI programme on MW. The Vatican R has no Danes who can read the Danish newscasts! In replacement for the DX-Partyline from HCJB Ecuador the Voice of the Mediterranean has accepted to broadcast the monthly report from the EDXC from June 2003.  Then Luigi Cobisi mentioned the coming EDXC Conference in Königstein near Frankfurt mid-August and a possible special meeting on Malta late October. Finally he invited European DX-leaders to consider, if the present EDXC needs a renewal. The basic statutes are more than 30 years old and especially during the past few years the Internet and other technological factors have changed the whole situation for DX-ers in Europe. It seems to be more individuals that nowadays are driving the hobby rather than DX-Clubs which spend most of their effort on internal matters like publication various DX-publications in their native language. Torre Ekblom then talked about Utility DX-ing and reminded the audience that already in 1975 our former member Hans Jürgen Karius edited a ”DSWCI Guide to Utility DX.” It is still valuable. Torre particularly described his main interest at present: Non Directional Beacons and mentioned various useful Lists. He has also edited a list of no less than 4000 addresses of NDB stations! They are good verifiers and a few nice QSL-letters were demonstrated. Anker Petersen followed on with a demonstration of sound recordings he had made during recent DX-peditions to Aruba, Mexico, Guatemala, and São Tomé e Príncipe. It is planned later on to have articles in SWN about these tours, but of course  the recordings cannot be presented in the printed bulletin.

 

Full report from the AGM and DX Camp in the member section

You can read the full report from the AGM in SWN May/June (in the member section).

 

Next AGM and DX Camp

The popular Vardeborg at Vejers was booked on May 21 for our next DX Camp and AGM on 04-06 June, 2004, so please reserve this weekend for YOUR participation already now !

 

AGM and DX Camp 2002

Here you can still read the report about last year's AGM and DX Camp