German solar expert Wolfram Hess, DL1RXA SK
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2007/wolfram_hess.htm DARC --- Many of you - especially those of you who remember the former GDR-station Radio Berlin International (RBI), will connect one name with RBI: The name of Wolfram Hess, DL1RXA (ex Y31NO).He was well known within and beyond the borders of the former German Democratic Republic for the only totally unpolitical program on RBI - the DX-program! Some of you may even know his late DX-Programme in English on the External Service of the re-united Germany Deutsche Welle.It is with great personal sadness that I have today received the message of Wolfram's death.Wolfram was nationally and internationally known for his many studies and results in solar physics and being an outstanding expert in Sun and Ionosphere Weather Reports and forecasts. Often he beat the Boulder, Colorado Institute's solar weather predictions with even greater accuracy.Since the late 50s, one could hear Wolfram's voice on air - on Amateur Radio (ex Y31NO) as well as on broadcasting. Wolfram spoke the English interval signal of the former GDR External Station Radio Berlin International (RBI). On RBI Wolfram produced the only entirely unpolitical programm which continued as 'DX Aktuell' in the re-united German Radio World until Dec 31st, 1993.Thanks to this virtuous and totally fascinating radio program and his tremendous personal motivation, I managed to get my first Amateur Radio Call Sign in June 1993 - the suffix RBI was, without any doubt, an honor and a joy for me to get! Still today, I hold this suffix with pride and respect for Wolfram's deeds. This is also a personal obituary: A very last 55, 73 and 76 as well as a final ?dididit dadidah? to you, Wolfram!Wolfram Heߠdied on February 9th, 2007 at the age of 67 as the result of a stroke. 73s, Dennis DL7RBI DARC International Affairs Committee(via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) OBIT> Wolfram spoke the English interval signal of the former> GDR External Station Radio Berlin International (RBI).And much more English narration, in the GDR days even leading to jokes about an omnipresence of PR films with his voice on the Leipzig trade fair ("auf der Leipziger Messe h?man ?l nur Hesse"). He had continued this work until now. > On RBI Wolfram produced the only entirely unpolitical> programm which continued as 'DX Aktuell' in the re-united> German Radio World until Dec 31st, 1993.Here I have to disagree. Such programs are not unpolitical, especially in cases were they are supposed to be unpolitical since in those cases many topics will be taboo. I still remember how in 1994 somebody had send in an item about CRI running a competition about Tibet: It made it on air only with a "but beware, this is propaganda" comment.And DX Aktuell continued, as I already mentioned, after the merger of Deutschlandsender Kultur and RIAS to the new Deutschlandradio Berlin until September 1994, with the very last programme being edition #191 on Sep 30. Not even the slot for DX Aktuell did change for these further nine months (Fridays 10-11 PM on 177 kHz, towards the end even expanded by another quarter hour, devoted to satellite broadcasting news that were updated for the repeat on Monday morning).Btw, DX Aktuell was disputed by parts of the German DX / shortwave listeners / whatever-you-may-call-it scene. This dispute is still documented at http://www.asamnet.de/~bienerhj/0177.htmlIn my perception there were lots of unrestricted applause and various statements that the programme is entirely scrap, but almost nothing in between, as far as the shortwave scene is concerned. Towards the end also other people appeared in the followship, and I think it would have been interesting to see the outcome, especially with so much airtime available (75 minutes!). But we will never know, because "such a programme has no place on a cultural station, it is obsolete for all times", as a certain gentleman put it when acting as the station's bloodhound on this matter.If somebody wishes to send condolences: You could mail them to me (or just post them here) for being forwarded to Wolfram's relatives (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Feb 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) OBIT. Source:
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TIME TO SAY GOODBYE --- SILENT KEY - WOLFRAM HESS, DL1RXA and DK0DXWolfram suffered an apoplectic stroke and died on February 9th, 2007; just before the very last broadcast of Ham radio and SWL hobby program "World DX Meeting" on Deutsche Welle's English service mailbox program on February 25/26, 2007.Started his occupational career as hobby program presenter on former GDR external service "Radio Berlin International". After the collapse of the eastern block he was well known as presenter of "DX Aktuell" hobby program on Deutschland Radio Berlin broadcaster [former RIAS Berlin]. And was too, well known as "Sunspot Cycle and HF broadcast condition prediction 'Pope'" in the ham radio scene in Germany and and beyond. Listen to some DWL World DX Meeting programmes in .mp3 or .ra format: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,9542,00.htmlclick to: Current Solar and Ionospheric Weather Reportand you will see a photo picture of Wolfram. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang B?, dx_india via DXLD)[quoting previous DXLD about playing ``Time to Say Goodbye``] Viz.:Wolfram, DL1RXA, ist am 9. Februar an der Folge eines Schlaganfalls verstorben, das wurde erst jetzt bekannt. OM Wolfram hat sich als Autor von hervorragenden Funkwettervorhersagen und intelligent-amuesanten Veroeffentlichungen ueber die Grundlagen des Funkwetters einen Namen gemacht. Auf besonders einmalige Weise hat er taeglich auch den Sonnen- und Ionosphaerenwetterbericht fuer den DARC e.V. erarbeitet und die Funkamateure in Deutschland aktuell informiert.(via Harald Kuhl, A-DX Feb 14 via Wolfgang B?, dx_india via DXLD)On a phone conversation we had just three weeks ago Wolfram said in regard to the World DX Meeting that "this will be the last DX I ever made in my life". There has to be a connection.His domestic broadcasting activities are presumably not so widely known outside Germany, so here's a summary:The run of the DX Aktuell show started one day in autumn 1990 when Wolfram found Alfred Eichhorn, the editor-in-chief of Radio Aktuell (the former Radio DDR 1) in a tape editing room. They talked about possible new programmes, Wolfram brought up the idea of a DX show, and so the first edition of DX Aktuell went out via the mediumwave frequencies of Radio Aktuell only a few days later. In spring 1991 all these mediumwave transmitters (including the 1000 kW on 783) were shut down and DX Aktuell moved to 177. By the end of 1991 The Facility (i.e. what used to be GDR radio) ceased to exist but the Deutschlandsender Kultur network continued on some kind of temporary status ("on behalf of ARD and ZDF"), and so DX Aktuell continued as well, but only after some dramatic confusion about the 177 transmitter (it was supposed to go dark altogether but finally 177 stayed on air via the K?s Wusterhausen 100 kW aux until finally the Zehlendorf transmitter had been reactivated with reduced power). It was basically the amount of listeners` mail that kept the programme alive for the following years. DX Aktuell also continued beyond yearend 1993, when Deutschlandsender Kultur merged with RIAS Berlin to the new Deutschlandradio Berlin, but finally came to an end in September 1994 together with a number of other former DS and RIAS programmes. This time listeners` mail was no longer of interest for the "decision makers", a meanwhile well-known phenomenon.For some time there was also a separate "DX-Report" on RIAS Berlin (855, 6005, FM Groߥr Waldstein 89.3 only), founded after complaints from listeners about poor reception of 177 in some areas of Germany. It was a separate show only because RIAS refused to simply relay the Deutschlandsender Kultur programme, simply because this was stuff from the former enemy's station.Here are pictures of a DX Aktuell production at Deutschlandradio Berlin, posted on this site because it so happened that the former RIAS 2 live studio had been used for this purpose:http://www.radiotreff.de/rias2/rias2_sehen_funkhaus_innen.htmA recording of the last DX Aktuell program from the Nalepastraߥ radiohouse, on Dec 31 1993 at 10 PM, just two hours before Deutschlandradio Kultur closed down altogether:http://www.radioeins.de/meta/sendungen/apparat/050820_A1.ramA reproduction of a special QSL card, showing the DX Aktuell authors behind the console of studio K1 (where these programmes were produced from 1990 til 1993) can be seen athttp://www.asamnet.de/~bienerhj/0177.htmlAlso spoken by Wolfram Heߺ The opener of what was then a DX show, launched by DT64 when they were forced off FM ...http://www.radioeins.de/meta/sendungen/apparat/070210_A1.ramI have to add that DX Aktuell was especially valuable for bringing people in touch with each other. On the sad occasion of the very last edition I met somebody I would have otherwise never met due to perceived or real barriers, and this turned out to be decisive for me. I have also to add that during the last months, even just the last weeks, there were first signs of a trend that this programme could become much more than a "mere" DX show, a trend that had no chance to develop further here (in fact such a development happened with the above mentioned DT64 programme, the result received an award just yesterday).Here is the DARC obituary, with a recording of Wolfram's last ham radio read-out just 12 days ago:http://www.darc.de/user-cgi/user.pl?Aktion=langtext&Key=878(Kai Ludwig, Feb 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) OBIT
இந்த தொகுப்பு இப்போது சென்னைப் புத்தகக்காட்சியில் காலச்சுவடு, பாரதி புத்தகாலயம், புன்னகை, சிலிக்குயில், ஞானபாநு, வம்சி புக்ஸ், சாஃப்ட்வியூ போன்ற ஸ்டால்களில் கிடைக்கிறது. தமிழ்நாடு மட்டுமல்லாமல் இலங்கை, அமெரிக்கா, கனடா, பிரான்ஸ், சுவிஸ், ஆஸ்திரேலியா, சிங்கப்பூர், மலேசியா, வளைகுடா நாடுகள் ஆகிய இடங்களில் இருந்து 40 எழுத்தாளர்களின் இதில் எழுதியிருக்கிறார்கள். அரசியல், சமூகம், பண்பாடு, புலம்பெயர் வாழ்க்கை, பொருளாதாரம், கலை, இலக்கியம், ஊடகம் என விரிந்த பரப்பில், 2006 ஆம் ஆண்டின் முக்கிய நிகழ்வுகளையும் போக்குகளையும் ஆழமாகவும், விரிவாகவும் அலசும் / பிரதிபலிக்கும் கட்டுரைகளும் நேர்காணல்களும் இதில் இடம் பெற்றுருக்கின்றன.இந்த ஆண்டுத்தொகுப்பில் இடம் பெற்றுள்ளவை: சிறப்புக்கட்டுரைகள்01. அ. மார்க்ஸ்வெற்றிபெற்றவர்களும் தோல்வியடைந்தவர்களும் 02. வ.கீதாதமிழ்ச்சூழலில் அறிவியக்கம் 03. பா.ரா.சுப்பிரமணியன்சொற்களஞ்சியத்திற்குப் பயன்படுத்த வேண்டிய ஆதாரம்நேர்காணல்04. பாமாமனிதநேயம் செத்துக் கொண்டிருக்கிறது 05. சுப.வீரபாண்டியன்திராவிடத்தை எதிர்க்கும் தமிழ் தேசியம் ஆபத்தானது 06. ரவிக்குமார்தலித் அரசியல்: போராட்ட அரசியலிலிருந்து ஆக்கபூர்வ அரசியலுக்கு07. காஞ்சனா தாமோதரன்நம்மை வளர்த்த சமூகங்களுக்குத்திரும்பிச் செய்ய வேண்டும் தமிழ்கூறும் நல்லுலகு08. கி.பி.அரவிந்தன் (பிரான்ஸ்)எட்டுத்திக்கும் மதயானைகள்09. ஜமாலன் (வளைகுடா நாடுகள்)பணம் தேடிச்செல்லும் பாய்மரங்கள்10. லெ. முருகபூபதி (அவுஸ்திரேலியா)தமிழ் அவுஸ்திரேலியர்கள் இன்று11. மணி மு.மணிவண்ணன் (அமெரிக்கா)தமிழ் அமெரிக்கர்கள் வாழ்வில் திருப்புமுனை? 12. றஞ்சி (சுவிஸ்)பெயர்ந்த புலத்திலும் பெண்கள் 13. ஜெயந்தி சங்கர் (சிங்கப்பூர்)சிக்கல் இல்லாமல் தொடரும் வாழ்க்கை14. ரெ.கார்த்திகேசு (மலேசியா)தோட்டம் விட்டு15. வ.ந.கிரிதரன் (கனடா)மெதுவான முன்னேற்றம்16. துரைமடன் (ஈழம்)அரசியல் திசைப்போக்கும் அடையாள எழுச்சியும்அரசியல் - சமூகம்17. புனித பாண்டியன்தமிழர் மலத்தை தமிழர் அள்ளும் அரசியல் 18. ஞாநிதமிழக அரசியல்: யாருக்கு ஏற்றம்? யாருக்கு இறக்கம்? 19. ச.தமிழ்ச்செல்வன்எதிர்மறைச் சமூகம் 20. ப.சு. அஜிதாபெண்கள் குறித்த சட்டங்களும், தீர்ப்புகளும் 21. பாரதிபாலன்தரமான கல்வியைத் தேடி 22. செ.ச.செந்தில்நாதன்உலகமயமாதல் எனக்கு, உலகபயமாதல் உனக்கு… 23. சுசி திருஞானம்தலைமை தாங்கட்டும் தமிழகம் இலக்கியம்24. ஸ்ரீநேசன்கவித்துவத்தின் எல்லை 25. ஜீ.முருகன்வரிகளும் வார்த்தைகளும்… 26. எம்.கோபாலகிருஷ்ணன்நாவல் என்னும் பெருவழிப்பாதை 27. பாவண்ணன்தொடரும் பயணத்தின் இடையில் 28. அரவிந்தன்சலனங்களும் சவால்களும் 29. அழகிய பெரியவன்தலித் உரைநடை 30. அ.சதீஷ்காலம் கண்ணாடி முன் நிர்வாணமாய் நிற்கிறது 31. ஆ.தனஞ்செயன்தனித்துவமான கல்விப்புலச்சிறப்புடன் 32. லதா ராமகிருஷ்ணன்கவிதைசார் போக்குகள்
