Afrikaans Amateur Radio Dictionary

The South African Radio League (SARL) has received excellent feedback from interested radio amateurs following a call to compile an Afrikaans amateur radio dictionary.

The initial team consists of eight amateur radio members, Etienne Naude, ZS6EFN; Jan Pieper, PE1PMO; Pine Pienaar, ZS6GST; Cobus Rabe, ZS1DJR; Louis de Wet, ZS6SK; Ryan Gibson, ZS6GGR; Johan du Bryn, ZS6JHB, and Fritz Sutherland, ZS6SF.

After agreeing the working structure and guidelines to make the project a success, the final working document will be sent to the team members during the coming week for their input and finalisation after which the project will start in all earnest.

The workgroup will be divided into three groups to allow for bigger and wider participation from amateurs and other interested parties.

Group A, a 4-member committee, will be responsible for the project overall. Group B will consist of the wider radio amateur community with input to the word lists and external parties such as linguists. Group C is responsible for all the editing work together with the committee who will be responsible for the layout and structure of the dictionary.

Marconi Recording Released

The Essex Record Office have released a recording of a speech made by Guglielmo Marconi in 1935

Second part of a speech made by Guglielmo Marconi on the occasion of the unveiling of the 'Fisk Memorial' at Wahroonga, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 14 December 1935 (the disc is incorrectly labelled). The 'Fisk Memorial' commemorates the first direct wireless message sent from the U.K. to Australia, in 1918.

In the speech, Marconi forecasts the impact that wireless communication will have on ship navigation, but also the world economy generally. Would he be surprised by how accurate he was in his prediction that 'no country can make much headway' without such technology?

Listen - https://soundcloud.com/essex-record-office/speech-by-marconi

French AM Station to Close

From 1st January 2016, AM radio station France Bleu Elsass will cease broadcasting on the Medium Wave AM band

Director of France Bleu Alsace, Emmanuel Delattre, said the station will move their AM transmissions to the Internet and via Apps for mobile devices.

France Bleu Elsass closure could be the start of upto 10 French MW/LW stations / frequencies that will cease by the end of 2016.

AM Radio – Dead In Europe? - https://www.asiconferences.com/am-radio-dead-in-europ