Mail Roundup 15.07.2023

A roundup of the messages we got at our office in the last two weeks

Vlad Palcu, 15.07.2023, 14:00

Hello
guys!

Despite
the summer holidays being in full swing, we continue to receive a lot of
messages at our office.

Most
importantly, we were overwhelmed by the large number of contributions for our
new online section – Listeners of RRI, which we will be posting continuously
starting this month on a weekly basis. As each of you has been informed in our
messages, we will notify listeners whose profiles we will be posting shortly
before the content is posted online.

Thanks
again to everyone who took the time to fill in our forms, and we invite
everyone else who hasn’t had the opportunity to do so to send their information
to our station if they want their profile to be shared across our community of
listeners.

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Our
listener Sanil Deep (India) was featured in the LIMCA World Records twice in
the ham radio category. We’ve shared below an article about this published by New Indian Express News, as well as a
couple of photos sent by our listener. Congrats are in order, Sanil! You are an inspiration to all of us and we are
very proud to have you in our community of listeners.

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Also
last week, Michael Andersson (Sweden) sent us a number of reports. Michael is
also monitoring a number of Radio Romania stations, including our Music,
Culture and News and Current Affairs channels. This time, the reports were sent
for Radio Cluj-Napoca, Radio Romania Music and Radio Romania Culture. We’ve
added below the three screenshots Michael took while using SD Runo.

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This
week we got a message from a first-time listener – Phạm Việt Anh (Vietnam).
Pham is actually new to shortwave listening (he started in 2019) and was able
to pick up our station. Here is what he wrote:

I
used to have always dreamed of catching a shortwave station from Europe because
many have left the shortwave band. And in 2022, when playing with a Kiwisdr
website located in Europe( a website that supports real-time shortwave
reception), I found out that Radio Romania International was still live on
shortwave. After that, I looked for your website and looked up your radio
frequency schedule. At first, I could not listen to your program directly at
home because the frequency I tuned to is not beamed to my location, and the
signal was very weak. After many attempts, I finally managed to receive your
signal the previous month, which made me very happy ????. I love your
program very much. It keeps me informed of current affairs, what is unique
about Romanian history and culture, what are picturesque places of interest to
visit, and especially, I am very keen on the music of your country, the songs
presented in your program are really beautiful!

Thanks,
Pham, for your words of appreciation, they mean a lot to our team. Looking
forward to hearing more from you soon!

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We
got really hot weather in Romania this week, with several overlapping alerts
against extreme heat and heat waves. This Thursday, for instance, temperatures
exceeded 40 degrees Celsius in Bucharest (with real-feel temperatures going
much higher, of course). Some of our listeners too have been monitoring the
weather across the globe. Mei Lin (China) said temperatures are really high in
his local area as well and sent us this message:

The World Meteorological
Organization announced that according to preliminary data, the world has just
experienced the hottest week on record. In addition, the past June was also the
hottest June on record in the world. The sea surface temperature reached a new
high and the Antarctic sea ice range was at a record low.According
to a recent report released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service Center of
the European Union, which is closely cooperated by the World Meteorological
Organization, the temperature in June 2023 was a little more than 0.5°C higher
than the average temperature from 1991 to 2020, breaking the previous record in
June 2019.The high temperature lasts until July, which is usually the
hottest month of the year. According to preliminary data, the average
temperature of the global surface above two meters reached the highest point on
record on July 3, which was 16.88℃, breaking the daily record
of 16.80℃ in August 2016. After that,
the temperature broke this record again on July 4, reaching 17.03℃.The global temperature has
hit a new high and sounded the alarm! I hope everyone will take care of
themselves. Don’t go out unless necessary, to avoid the scorching sun!

Thanks for the update, Mei! We will extend your words of
caution to all our other listeners!

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Also
this week Hans Verner Lollike (Denmark) wrote in from the Island of Askoe,
where he and his wife, Inge-Lise, are spending 3 relaxing weeks. He also
enclosed this beautiful photo, with the village church in the background.

Thanks
for making our day brighter, Hans! Enjoy the relaxing holiday!

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To
end, let us also thank everyone else who took the time to greet us and send us
letters / messages: Francis Lawlor (Ireland), Tapan Basak (Pakistan), Art
Wormald (Canada), Malik Allah Bachaya (Pakistan), Tomasz Kotas (Poland), Madhab
Chandra Sagour (India), Richard Lemke (Canada), Siddhartha Bhattacharjee
(India), Alan Gale (England), Kraig Krist (USA), Najim Uddin (India), Jayanta
Chakrabarty (India), Saleem Akhtar Chadhar (Pakistan), Šimon Kulich, Šimon
Kulich (Slovakia), Igor Belevich (Belarus), Sakae Onozawa (Japan), Sudhir
Pandey (India), Norbert Faynot (France), Ratan Kumar Paul (India), Marc Soens
(Belgium), Muhammad Aqeel Bashir (Pakistan), Siddhartha Bhattacharjee (India),
Nasir Aziz (Pakistan), Teruhiko Kachi (Japan), Andreas Gregor (Canada), Misayo
Tanaka (Japan) and Andrey Novgorodsky (Ukraine).

That’s
all for now! Stay tuned!

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