ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 10

May 2002
Articles, newsreports and Items of interest : e2k_news@hotmail.com

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Of interest to the short wave listener

The Voice of America ended their long - running programme for enthusiasts of short wave, satellite, internet etc, "Communications World" in late February. This had been hosted for the past five years or so by Kim Andrew Elliot and for many years before that by Gene Rich. It was an excellent, informative programme and I always made a point of listening to it. It was aired at several different times on Saturdays and Sundays, my own personal favourite spot being the 0700 UTC transmission on Saturdays which was sent in single sideband mode from the VoA transmitter in Greenville, North Carolina, 6,873 kHz in winter, 10,869 kHz in summer. It was the only decent programme for short wave fans left after Radio Netherlands ended their Media Network Show a few years ago. [Tnx PoSW]

"Swinging Radio England" back on 6276kHz over the Easter holiday; is run by some of the same personalities which were involved with Radio Free London which used to be on 5,805 KHz at weekends. S.R.E. had not been on for sometime; I think they had been raided by the authorities earlier in the year. Their programmes are all pre - recorded on tape so the same material comes around every few hours. Nice to hear them back again. [Tnx P]

Noted again over the weekend of 20/04 but with lower signal strength than usually enjoyed before its previous shut down. [PLondon]. Unfortunately SRE was taken off once again [1545z 21/04] due to what appears to be a raid by persons not necessarily connected with the official body who do these things.

[Tnx TR]

BBC Series called 'Spooks' well advised.

Viktor Abramkin and Nick Day, both ex-intelligence officers in the KGB and MI5 have worked together as advisors to the BBC for their new series 'Spooks'. Spooks is rumoured to be a realistic portrayal of how MI5 operates due to the advice by the above mentioned. 'Spooks' is said to be coming on our screens in May. [PLondon].

'E' Pckg rcvd, pse cont to send. Mni tnx --'P'
'LP' Thanks for logs -- 'P'
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