Re: [Swprograms] Fifty Years Of Human Spaceflight – BBC World Service examines The Yuri Gagarin Legacy

[Joe Buch <josephbuch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On that date in 1961, I was living in Denison, Texas, birthplace of President Eisenhower, (back in the days when presidents had real birth certificates 8^) listening to Radio Moscow on my Collins R-388 receiver.  They played a recording of Yuri Gagarin speaking from space describing what he could see out the window.  He said he saw plowed fields and railroad tracks among other things.  Shortly thereafter a press release by some US "experts" announced that the descriptions proved that the flight was a fake because human visual acuity was insufficient to see such things from space.

I had a reel-to-reel tape recording of the Radio Moscow broadcast that got lost someplace between New Jersey and New Mexico on a moving van around 1978.  Luckily I had made a cassette copy of that tape.  It got lost someplace after 1995 but not before I made another dub and passed it to my SWL buddy, Chuck Rippel, who gave it to his daughter's school teacher.  That may be the only remaining copy in the USA if she hasn't lost it.  I hope the BBC has found another copy to use in their special broadcast.  It is truly goose-bumpy stuff.

Joe Buch

--- On Fri, 4/8/11, Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Swprograms] Fifty Years Of Human Spaceflight – BBC World Service examines The Yuri Gagarin Legacy
> To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Internet radio discussion" <internetradio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, April 8, 2011, 6:02 PM
> Coming up on Monday, April 11th.
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/04_april/07/worlds.shtml
> 
> It appears the West Africa shortwave service will only
> include half of
> the program, if the online schedule is to be trusted,
> beginning at
> 1932 UTC after Focus On Africa.  Shortwave frequencies
> at that hour
> targeting West Africa include 11810, 15400, and 17795 kHz.
> 
> Listeners in the USA via Sirius and PRI-fed stations should
> try the
> following times UT:  Tuesdays 1006, Saturdays 1900.
> 
> Discovery is also offered via podcast, and an extensive
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> to 2009.
> 
> Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA
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