Mail Roundup – September 29, 2023

A roundup of messages we've received in the last two weeks

Vlad Palcu, 29.09.2023, 12:47

Hi, everyone!

Our new programme schedule for 2023-2024 is available. There are a few
novelties this year, as many of you have already been informed via email. Feel
free to check it out at the link below:

https://www.rri.ro/en_gb/rri_programme_schedule_2023_2024-2690332

In the meantime,
as many of you continue to inquire about QSLs, you should know that we are
making efforts to send digital QSLs for 2023 to everyone who’s sent accurate
reception reports. I know it’s a great inconvenience to many of you, as you
were quite looking forward for confirmation of your reception, but we assure
you we are doing everything in our power to make sure we send out QSLs in one
form or another by the end of the year.

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We start our
roundup of the main messages of the last two weeks with a letter sent by our
long-time listener and friend Richard Lemke (Canada). Here is what he writes on
the sidelines of his regular reception report:

Fall around the
corner with the seasonal temperature adjustment evenings are darker and longer,
Fall is here Canadian Geese flyby more common and threat off snow in higher
summit peaks in the mountains we Edmonton had 291 hours of smokey time recorded
from wildfire smoke, Zoom meeting was held and from Montreal, Quebec the CIDX
shortwave club now entering 61 years we had fun with the zoom meeting lots off
barbecue smoke to laugh at.

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You will all be
happy to know a new Listeners’ Association has been recently set up in
Bangladesh – the Association of Radio Listeners’ Club Bangladesh (ARLCB). We
got all the details in a message sent by the president of ARLCB, Sahadot
Hossain.

My warm regards
and cordial love you all from a part in Bangladesh. Now I like to inform you
about an association of listener’s organiger, which is formed in Bangladesh.

Association of
Radio Listeners’ Club Bangladesh (ARLCB) is made up of representatives of Radio
Audience Club of Bangladesh.

An organization
named ‘Association of Radio Listeners Club Bangladesh’ (ARLCB) has made its
debut in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, last Friday in a joyful atmosphere.
According to the press release of the association, the main objective of this
association is to bring together the audience clubs and listeners existing in
different districts of the country under one platform, increase the audience
through domestic and international radio campaigns and participate in various
social activities.

The first phase
started at City Mahal Convention Center in Mirpur, Dhaka at 11:20 am on Friday
under the chairmanship of Dxer Md. Sahadot Hossain, After the recitation of the
Holy Quran by a small audience Sohel Murad Snigdha, In this program 40 people
from all over the country introduced themselves.

After that, the
objectives, activities and implementation plan of the association were
presented by Md. Sahadot Hossain, Assistant Professor of Geography and
Environment Department of Kishoreganj Gurdayal Govt. College, Engr. Md. Monzurul
Alam Ripon of Dhaka, Md Shohel Rana Redoy of Dhaka Cantonment, Md. Chan Miah of
Sylhet and Sazzad Hossain Riju of Jhenaidah.

Then the opinion
of the audience organizers was taken regarding the name ‘Association of Radio
Listeners Club Bangladesh’ (ARLCB). Based on the opinion of all the listeners
present and the majority of the registered absent listeners, the name of the
organization was decided as ‘Association of Radio Listeners Club Bangladesh
(ARLCB)’. Aminul Islam Rana of Gaibandha, Anwar Parvez of Bogra, Saidur Rahman
Safin of Shariatpur, M. Jamal Ahmed Suborno of Faridpur and Mujibul Haque of
Jessore expressed their detailed opinion regarding the naming of the
organization and the formation of the organization.

In the next
phase, on behalf of the convening committee, Md. Monzurul Alam Ripon announced
Md. Sahadot Hossain, monitor of Radio Tehran Bangla Division, as the president
of the executive committee of the newly formed Association of Radio
Listeners Club Bangladesh (ARLCB). Then the newly appointed President
proposed the names of the other members of the Executive Council with the
consent of all the audience present and one by one they were elected as
executive members.

Other executive
members elected are: Vice President – Engr. Md. Monzurul Alam Ripon (Dhaka),
Secretary Md Shohel Rana Redoy (Dhaka), Assistant Secretary Sazzad Hossain Riju
(Jhenaidah), Organizing Secretary Md. Hussain Musa (Narsingdi), Assistant
Organizing Secretary Md. Chan Miah (Sylhet), Women Affairs Secretary Roshan Ara
Labani (Kushtia), Co-Women Affairs Secretary Mitu Faria (Narsingdi), Finance
Secretary Md. Nazmul Islam (Chuadanga), Co-Finance Secretary ATM Ataur Rahman
Ranju (Rangpur), Publicity Secretary Md. Anwar Parvez (Bogra), Co-Publicity
Secretary M. Jamal Ahmed Suborno, Program Affairs Secretary Muhammad Zahurul
Islam (Jamalpur) and Associate Program Affairs Secretary Aminul Islam Rana
(Gaibandha).

Besides, an
advisory council consisting of 3 members has been formed. The members of the
committee are: Chuadanga’s famous Dxer, editor of Pravah Online.com newspaper
Mohammad Abdullah, Ashiq Iqbal Tokon (Rajshahi) , a great Dxer in Bangladesh
and an welknown listener Md Shahjalal Hazari from Narsingdi.

Others present
at the event were Saidur Rahman Safin (Shariatpur), Saidul Islam (Lalmonirhat),
Minhaj Uddin (Mymensingh), Masudur Rahman Sohag (Chuadanga), Sirajul Islam
(Barguna), M. A Jinnah (Dhaka), Asad Hussain (Sylhet), Mohaiminur Rahman
(Jhenaidah), Osman Gani (Dhaka), Abu Sayeed (Rajshahi), Roshan Murad Mugdho and
Sohel Murad Snigdh (Dhaka), Tahmidul Alam Orin (Nator), Toasin Hasan
(Narayanganj), Md. Obaeidul Hussain Al-Sami (Jashore), Rashed Ahmed (Dhaka),
Muslima Akhtar (Dhaka), Alo Ahmed (Dhaka), Afrida Mehjahin Zereen and Arifa
Alam Dolon (Natore), ST Taijul Islam (Narsingdi), Khandkar Erfan Ali Biplab
(Dhaka) ), M. Alam (Dhaka), Adar Ahmed Sukh (Dhaka) and others.

Registered but
absent founder members are: Dr. Saleh Matin, Sharifa Akhtar Panna, Abu Taher,
Bidhan Chandra Tikadar, Md. Babul Hossain, Md. Osman Gani, M. Shamsul Islam,
Salahuddin Dollar, MA Barik, A. K. M Nuruzzbaman, Md. Aynul Haque, Syed Asiful
Islam, Jahangir Alam, Sharif Mia, Arif Mahmud Parash, M. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,
Md. Ajharul Islam Tamim, Aynul Haque Hriday, Md. Atiqul Islam, Md. Azinur Rahman,
Md. Shaheen Ali, Sagar Mia, Md. Sujan Islam, Md. Masud Rana Khan, Md.
Mokhleshur Rahman, Kazi Ruhul Amin, Rajiv Kumar Roy, Selim Raj, Asadullah, Mia
Mohammad Siddique, Md. Shahabul Islam Shaon, Mahmud Ayan Uddin Sarkar, Md.
Anwar Sadat Chowdhury, M A Jinnah, Abdul Kalam etc. club representatives were
considered as founder members through virtual conference.

This committee
has been announced for the year 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 but it is mentioned in
the notification that the committee may be changed and expanded for special
needs.

The whole
program was moderated by Md Shohel Rana Redoy, Secretary of Association of
Radio Listeners Club Bangladesh (ARLCB).

We are very
happy to know about the newly created entity, Sahadot. We hope to hear many
reports and messages from your listeners and associated friends. You are most
welcome in our community!

You can find
below a few pictures of the said event, which Sahadot enclosed in his message.

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Also in
September, we got a nice message from Muhamad Haidir Hasim (Malaysia), who
shared with us the following message:

I am Mohamad
Haidir Hasim from Malaysia and i am new in shortwave listening hobby.

I joined this
hobby around March this year because that time I am looking for new hobby to
overcome my depression because my workplace will shut down this end of year and
i need to find new job after that.

While looking
for new job, i decided to find one hobby that i think good for me until one day
i learn about shortwave listening from Youtube and a friend.

I really
attracted with this hobby because we can hear someone talking from far distance
from our home and it feels like we near each other.

Before joining
this hobby, I study more about it by joining many Facebook group that focus
about shortwave listening, I watch video and read about this hobby.

And in March, I
purchased my first radio from my country online shopping platform and it
arrived around one week.

At first time i
get my radio, I only catch only NHK,CRI and Asia based station. I don’t expect
to catch any European station since I live at Penang, a busy city.

On 24 March
2023, I listened to Radio Romania International for first time with that radio
and the broadcast i hear was Romanian language broadcast in 17790kHz.

That time i was
at my village or hometown in Selangor to spend my holiday to celebrate Ramadan
or first day of fasting month and i bring my radio to test it.

I really excited and feel enjoyed to hear a
station from Europe and i feel that Malaysia and Romania near to each other.

I really happy
to hear you more and when I at Selangor, I always trying and catch Radio
Romania International.

My hometown is
great place for shortwave listening and that’s why i plan to spend time at
hometown when my factory shutdown this end of year.

Radio Romania
International is one my favourite station because it share many things from
news and history.

I learn anything
about Romania especially its modern history such as Romanian Revolution in 1989
from internet.

That’s all from
me and please forgive my English. Have a nice day!

Thanks for
opening up, Muhamad. We’re happy you took up SW listening and we hope you
continue to pursue this passion for as long as possible. Here is also a
snapshot Muhamad enclosed in his email.

***

From Seattle,
USA, Gary Paulson sent us a number of reports in in the last fortnight, at one
time adding:

Thank you for
such a lovely Broadcast! I especially love the traditional gypsy music that you
sometimes play! I am so grateful that you share so much of yourselves to us
neighbors in the West and the South and beyond! Where one can receive it! This
doesn’t just mean a lot to a few! There are so many more, shy folks, who just
listen who will reach out to you eventually! I have faith!! ❤

Thanks for your
support and encouragement, Gary! Just a note on your comment: the music we play
is folk music, which at times includes some fiddlers’ tunes, specific to Roma
communities across Romania.

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Our friend
Bidhan Chandra Sanyal (India), who always makes sure we are up-to-date to
events and celebrations worldwide, this time reminded us of World Peace Day,
celebrated on September 21. Here is what he wrote:

‘There is no
comfort anywhere in the world today, there has been no peace for a long time’ -
Poet Jibanananda Das wrote in his poem that there is no peace in the world.
Indeed, there has never been complete peace on earth. It is not possible for
anyone to say for sure that it will come. The idea of ​​complete peace is like
a ‘wrong wish’. What is the concept of perfection then wrong! Looking at the
world, establishing peace seems like an unreasonable hope. The world is a
complex system. There are differences in caste, culture, topography. There are
differences between people. This difference in the country, the society, the
influence of power and the creation and maintenance of the peace is now
nowhere. Only a society of robots can achieve complete peace.

Despite that,
political parties and various social organizations are working to establish
peace in the world. At the global level, the United Nations is working to
establish peace and equality in the country. Out of this small alliances have
been formed to establish regional peace. Today is International Day of Peace or
World Peace Day. The day is being celebrated in various events all over the
world. This year’s theme is ‘Action for Peace: Our Hope is Global Goals’. This
day is being celebrated since 1981. Every year the day begins with the ringing
of the ‘Peace Bell’ at the UN headquarters in New York. This bell reminds ‘war
results in human death. Besides, the words ‘Long live stable global peace’ are
engraved in English on the road around the bell.

This day reminds
us that this world is our home, to live here we have to live in peace,
friendship, maintaining goodwill with everyone. And in a world where there is
no peace, you cannot live there. As a result, it is very important to maintain
peace in the world if you want to live well. So this day is observed. Those who
have done or are doing various things to maintain peace in the world are
remembered on this day. No problem can be solved by quarrel, trouble, mayhem,
war etc. As the two world wars have shown, the sheer number and extent of loss
of life, property damage, and work do nothing. So this day reminds us how much
peace is needed in the world.

To mark the day,
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a global commitment to
actively maintain peace in the interests of all humanity, de-escalating
tensions and resolving conflicts in the world. He also called for proactive
measures to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals,
noting the presence of mistrust, division and prejudice in contemporary
society. He said that peace is not a passive state but the result of will and
action. He therefore highlighted the importance of taking action to tackle the
ongoing environmental crisis around the world, protect natural resources and
protect human rights and dignity.

Since 1945, the
five permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, the
United Kingdom, and the United States) have pledged to resolve mutual and
international conflicts without war or escalation. Nevertheless, the countries
have since entered numerous military conflicts. After World War I, this idea
became popular and resulted in the birth of the United Nations. It was a global
organization, which was established to maintain peace, unity, harmony and
friendship among the different countries and peoples of the world. Failing to
achieve its stated goals, the United Nations was established as its successor
after World War II. The United Nations is the world’s first international
organization that has so far succeeded in literally maintaining world peace.

However, it
cannot be completely said that world peace has been achieved. Because a
peaceful situation and relationship without conflict between every nation and
country is called world peace. But after World War II, if there was no major
global war, the participation of superpower states in some regional wars
disrupted world peace temporarily or for a long time. For example, Vietnam War,
Arab-Israeli War, Soviet-Afghan War are notable. Currently, the war between
Russia and Ukraine has thrown the whole world off balance.

Indeed it has,
Bidhan. Yet while peace on earth will never be possible, what matters is what
we do as individuals and societies to spread the message of peace and help
solve conflicts wherever we see them. Thanks for sending this beautiful
message!

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Tim Brockett
(USA) sent his regular reception report this month, adding: Tonight’s show was
both fascinating and entertaining. Thank you for a wonderful show.

Thanks, Tim,
we’re happy you enjoyed our broadcasts and hope to hear more from you soon.

***

From India,
Jayanta Chakrabarty, we got a fully-detailed reception report (as always),
accompanied by this comment, among others:

Here’s some
comments on programmes which I enjoyed listening. In Science & Technology
the discussion on Solar Power Europe was educative. I learned that Romania as
an important partner is actively pursuing the use of solar energy as a
mainstream power source to run the requirements of the country’s households,
industry and business.

We’re happy you
enjoyed the new segment Science & Technology, which we will be including on
and off in our Sunday Show programme.

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Dear in the
English edition of Radio Romania International, I am your non-listener fan of
the website, my name is Stefan Stanev 48 years old, from the city of Plovdiv,
not for 24 years. I am looking for you a little late to congratulate you on the
opening of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Bridge of Braila, Pod Braila-Tulcea,
Vadeni 817200 in the Romania, near to vellage Jijila. You don’t advertise it
enough and the sale of new LCD TVs wasn’t the show, maybe when it’s sloppy you
have to explain who it’s going to connect? The lag in Romania in the
construction of high-speed roads and motorways is responsible. This is not
about rearmament of neighbors from Ukraine but about more beautiful and
aesthetically created and subsequently implemented projects. The parameters of
the new bridge, there was a ferry connection, are: Length 1974.30 m, Sail
height 38-39 m, pylons 182 m. I’m not from Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina,
I’m not from Turkey either, classmates were looking in Pakistan. This is how I
wish you a nice day at the English editorial office of Radio Romania
International!

Thanks, Stefan.
It was very nice to read your message. We hope the plans to build a new bridge
over the Danube River between Giurgiu and Ruse will materialize in the near
future and help ease border traffic.

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Bharat Shetty
(India) sent us a detailed reception report, also enclosing a caption of the
DRM software he’s using.

***

And that’s a
wrap for today’s round. In the end, we would like to extend our gratitude to
all other listeners who took the time to write, including Gary Paulson (USA), Hannan
Xiong (China), Richard Lemke (Canada), Tomasz Kotas (Poland), Muhammad Aqeel
Bashir (Pakistan), Teruhiko Kachi (Japan), Atsuhiko Takezawa (Japan), Harald
Süss (Austria), Vishal Rane (India), Jon Collins (United Kingdom), Jeffrey
Padell (USA), Fred Waterer (Canada), Jayanta Chakrabarty (India), Erlend
Sommerfelt Ervik (Norway), Victor Gutierrez (Panama), Andrea Kirkdoffer (Germany),
André Pagaime (Portugal), Debashis Gope (India), Andrey Novgorodsky (Ukraine),
Bala Murali (India), J.L. Badak Putih (Indonesia), Siddhartha Bhattacharjee (India), Wang Zidong
(China), Larry Nelson (USA), Art Wormald (Canada), Chris Malboeuf (Canada), Ian
Morrison (China), S. Biswas (India), Malik Allah Bachaya (Pakistan), Noor
Al-Noor (Bangladesh), Norihiko Ide (Japan), Kraig Krist (USA), Mark Combs
(USA), Debakamal Hazarika (India), Juergen Wagner (Germany), Francis Lawlor
(Ireland), Tim Brockett (USA), John Zachary Alvarez (The Philippines), Anand
Mohan Bain (India), Hidemitsu Miyake (Japan), Igor Belevich (Belarus), Rob den
Boer (Netherlands), Sal Domino (USA), Ruud Vos (Netherlands), Jaouad Saber
(Morocco), Rajdeep Das (India), Marco Hommel (Germany), Stefan Stanev
(Bulgaria), Mikio Kohara (Japan), Per Martinsson (Sweden), Mouad Belgrid
(Morocco).

73!