Re: [Swprograms] DX Listening Digest 4-069; WOR Extra 46

[jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

I respectfully disagree.  I thought the format was a refreshing departure from routine.  Seeing as logs in a monthly magazine prepared several weeks (or even months) prior to publication are of limited (primarily archival) value anyway, I found Mr. Oddy's format interesting in that it was organized by metre band, station, then listener.  A regular devotee to a station could scan the prose and find out, for example, that so-and-so in Surrey was hearing Radio Australia between this time and that time on this frequency. It seemed more personal, rather than a mechanistic computerized listing--more sort of like DXLD in fact.  :-)  It was a more leisurely approach, less efficient and a bit eccentric to be sure, but refreshing to me all the same.  I'll miss it--and him.

John Figliozzi

----- Original Message -----
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, April 16, 2004 10:35 am
Subject: [Swprograms] DX Listening Digest 4-069; WOR Extra 46

LONG, MEDIUM & SHORT --- The untimely death of Brian Oddy has resulted 
in one silver lining: the unreadable format of logs in Britain`s SW 
Magazine has died with him. Unique among SW publications, the old 
format was in paragraph style, going from 11 meters on down. The new 
editor, Martin Peters, has changed to Tables, i.e. frequency order 
(already in use for LW, MW, Local Radio, and Tropical bands). There is 
still ``no room`` for any program details whatsoever, but the Short 
Wave Table, now in ascending frequency order, can be a handy 
reference, altho inevitably 2-3 months old in this slick magazine. In 
the April issue it takes up two pages of very fine print, in six 
columns.

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