BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

militant than Radio Free Europe. He revealed that his station broadcast
warnings to Romanian government officials in an attempt to intimidate
them, and that it called on the Romanian people to resist the regime. He
added that, that, on one occasion, Romanian diplomats in Athens tried to
kidnap him and that, on another occasion, an attempt was made to kill
them. He claimed that the Bucharest government regarded Radio Future
Romania as its main enemy.
(Roger Tidy-UK, dxld Oct 25)
From that close, it could have been on MW only, escaping notice of the SW
DX world. (gh, dxld)
Here are the English archives of Pro Memoria for the history buffs out
there:
The program is carried by RRI Russian, as well. So I guess there should be
its German, French and Spanish versions, too.
(Sergei S.-RUS, dxld Oct 25)
Didn't get a chance to listen to this and the audio archive is of the 30
minute broadcast and I couldn't find the feature.
The script is online: Exiled Militants and Anticommunism on Radio Waves
25/10/2010
In their newsletter they said that:
"Monday is the day when we take a look back in the history of Romanians,
in "Pro Memoria." This week you are invited to listen to a feature on
radio as the only form of fighting against communism available to the
Romanian diaspora. Radio Free Europe is the best known example in this
respect, but there have been other stations, which, on American support,
fuelled the Romanians' anti-communist sentiment. One of these was Radio
Thessaloniki, whose key figure was journalist Mugur Valahu."
In the article they say that in 1954 with support from the Americans he
founded "Radio Future Romania - Voice of the National Resistance" in
Thessalonica, Greece and that he headed the station until 1960.
But on what transmitters did it broadcast and was it on medium wave,
shortwave or both?
My 1958 Handbook has medium wave and shortwave transmitters in Salonika
carrying VOA, including Rumanian broadcasts, which were also carried from
the MV Courier. But from the article these broadcasts were clearly
separate from the VOA ones.
(Mike Barraclough-UK, dxld Oct 27)
Morning programs of R Romania Intl always have features from previous day,
so "Pro Memoria" is on Monday evenings and Tuesday mornings.
I attached in this e-mail "Pro Memoria" 6-minute feature [AAC, 48 kbps
(2.1 MB)], or you can DOWNLOAD the entire broadcast directly from WRN ftp
site. 'Pro Memoria" segment runs from fourteenth till twentieth minute
into broadcast.
file:///Z|/DOKUMENTATION-BULLETINS/WWDXD-BCDX/2010/bcdx988.txt[11.06.2012 10:40:28]