VOA To Shortwave America: Please Help Us Save The Spanish Service To Latin America!

An earlier article here broke the news of bureaucrats at the BBG committing perjury in front of the U.S. Congress.

Shortwave America has been directly in touch with a couple of people from VOA who have stepped forward with all they have to help save the VOA from being butchered for massive profit by scoundrels at the BBG. These sources have politely asked Shortwave America to help out in this movement. Their request is now being fulfilled by way of this piece asking YOU, the general public, whose tax dollars fund the VOA; whose tax dollars will have been wasted after decades of upstanding service by VOA if VOA gets knocked off of shortwave broadcast frequencies.

Would you please consider reading and signing this petition to help save the VOA Spanish service to Latin America? Perhaps no language is better recognized or as widely used as Spanish. What do you get in return for signing? You will add your voice to the Voice of America, our country's international voice to the world. You will have done something to help your tax dollars from being wasted, something to help people receive educational, informative, top - rate programming who would otherwise not have it due to draconian censorship.

Thanks for your time, and for helping save VOA one voice at a time!

Radio News From Across The World

ARRL tells us that James McLaughlin - WA2EWE/T6AF killed in the line of duty

Quick quote from the ARRL article:

"McLaughlin -- a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel -- was a contractor serving as a flight instructor for Afghan pilots. Licensed since 1972, McLaughlin was a career US military officer. Bob Magnani, K6QXY, told the ARRL that McLaughlin was just in the US a week ago, visiting his family: "His son Adam, KD6POE, works for me. He told me that his dad had been in Afghanistan and Iraq many times over the past few years, most currently serving as a flight instructor.”

Shortwave Central reports on updated Radio Damascus schedule

Shortwave Central says Radio Fly Wants To Hear From Shortwave Listeners

Shortwave Central Pirate Radio Report

Finally, THE long awaited DX Code Of Conduct goes from proposal to reality! There is an update and a FREE PDF E-Book available for CW operators. Maybe IF we get lucky, our fellow amateurs across the world will not have to listen to the mess on the phone bands for long, because someone sooner or later is going to come up with a Phone Band Code Of Conduct for DX operations.

G3XBM gives us news about a 111KM Optical QSO (Conversation) using LED's and Fresnel Lenses between G8AGN and G0EWN. Both stations were portable ops.

N8ZYA has several successful QRP DX contacts on 20 Meters.

Radio World Online gives the world a tour of the VOA facility in Greenville, North Carolina
Written by James E. O'Neal.

Newest logs from DXLD (April 20th) via W4UVH

Last, but not least...The final space shuttle mission known to man, STS-134, will take place this coming Friday at 3:47PM Eastern U.S. time. Here is information from MT-Utility World
Shortwave America strongly suggests getting in touch early with the fine group at HF-Monitors, and SpaceCoastComms on Yahoo Groups to get past frequency information and what frequencies are currently active, or expected to be active. The main man to contact is Allan Stern.