Re: [IRCA] AM DXing featured in the media all across China!

[Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mika,

That is great news. Hopefully it will help in obtaining more direct QSLs.

73,

Patrick

Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager

> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:41:17 +0200
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> Subject: [IRCA] AM DXing featured in the media all across China!
> 
> The Chinese official state news agency Xinhua has published several 
> reports on AM DXing:
> - article in Chinese on Xinhua: 
> http://news.xinhuanet.com/2013-11/19/c_118207586.htm
> - article in English: 
> http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2013-11/18/c_132898318.htm
> - video in Chinese on CNC TV: 
> http://news.cncnews.cn/2013-11-18/124029576.html
> - video in English: 
> http://en.cncnews.cn/news/v_show/37075_Hunting_radio_near_Arctic.shtml
> 
> A couple of Chinese websites and newspapers have earlier written about 
> DXing based on my reception reports, but this is on a totally different 
> scale. The Xinhua reports have in turn been published by numerous media 
> outlets all around China. I've seen these articles on about 20 websites, 
> for instance in the Communist Party's main paper, the People's Daily, at 
> http://world.people.com.cn/BIG5/n/2013/1119/c157278-23592700.html, so 
> DXing has definitely received unparalleled attention in China during the 
> past 10 days!
> 
> Hopefully all this contributes to the promotion of DXing in China, both 
> as a hobby and also as a way to monitor alternative news sources - which 
> is still needed in China. As many Chinese broadcasters - despite this 
> new PR - don't know anything about our hobby, it might be a good idea to 
> include one of the Chinese links along with your reception report, if 
> you're interested in getting verifications from Chinese stations.
> 
> The reports were made by a Xinhua news group driving 1,200 km from the 
> Finnish capital Helsinki all the way to Lapland just for the purpose of 
> reporting on DXing - and reindeer. You can read more about it in the 
> DXpedition report from Aihkiniemi at 
> http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/aih29rep.dx, where I've just added a 
> few more audio clips.
> 
> 73
> Mika
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