Nordic DX Championship 1999
The results of NorDX '99
1. Gert Nilsson, Sweden (UKVK)
2. Björn Fransson, Sweden (MKVK)
3. John Ekwall, Sweden (NDL)
4. Ronny Forslund, Sweden (DRAK)
5. Lars Bäckström, Sweden (SDXK)
Jan Edh, Sweden (DRAK)
7. Göran Bäckstrand, Sweden (NDL)
8. Göthe Ringström, Sweden (NDL)
9. Ove Fransson, Sweden (MKVK)
10. Pentti Lintujärvi, Finland (SDXL)
Full details have been mailed to all the participants.
We congratulate Gert Nilsson for winning NorDX '99 and his price, a Sony ICF-SW7600G - sponsored by Sony Nordic in Denmark - will be sent to him asap. It is the third year in a row that Gert Nilsson have won the NorDX contest, which makes it even more remarkable
NorDX '99 took place October 15th-17th
1999 and was joined by DX'ers from Finland, Norway, Sweden
and Denmark. As well as a few from outside the Nordic countries
who also took part in the listening -
but outside the competition.
NorDX '99 was arranged by Dansk DX Lytter
Klub (Danish DX Listeners Club) which is the largest DX club for Danish DX'ers
and short wave listeners.
A total of 21 radio stations on short wave from all corners of
the world were on the list of stations to be chased by the
participants during the contest weekend.
The idea of the competition was to hear as many of the stations
as possible - and to log as many
programme details as possible according to the rules of the
competition.
The highligtht of the contest was supposed to be a special
broadcast from Sisimiut Tusaataat in Greenland
who agreed to take part several months ago.
We were told several times by the station that they had a go
ahead from the Greenlandic authorities and that they had access
to a 5 kW short wave transmitter. However just a couple of days
before the contest the station pulled out.
A special broadcast from Radio Pasifik in Fiji was not agreed
upon when the programme for the contest was made, but we had
discussions with people at the station and they didnt leave out
the possibility.
However the idea was finally turned down.
So the organizers are very dissapointed with the result of our
efforts which have been going on since January. We can mention
that we have been trying to arrange special broadcasts from a.o.
Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Tristan de Cunha, Macao, Bermuda, a FM
station in Spain, Diego Garcia, VoA in Belize, Christmas Islands,
Brunei, US Virgin Islands, Radio Bahá'i in Ecuador, Oman (we
suggested putting out their FM service on short wave - which they
are doing now), Libya, Baarle-Hertog and finally a Spanish MW
station on 1314 kHz (the Norwegian authorities had agreed to
switch off 1314 kHz for half an hour) but everything was turned
down. Actually we never received a reply to most of our letters.
Each station was approached several times.
So it would be true to say that we are very disappointed.
However we hope that the participants after all had some good
hours of listening during the weekend, and we were pleased with
the very special programme that one of the stations aired during
the contest for the participants.
Bjarke Vestesen and Stig Hartvig Nielsen