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Welcome to program 434 of Shortwave Radiogram.

I'm Tony Pavick in Hope, British Columbia, Canada in
for the vacationing Kim Andrew Elliott.

Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSK modes as noted

  1:32 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:35 MFSK64: The flags of Canada with fun facts and trivia
27:45 MFSK32: Closing announcements


 

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Shortwave Radiogram now changes to MFSK64 ...




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This is Shortwave Radiogram in MFSK64


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The Flags of Canada....


Canada/ Canada/ ᑲᓇᑕ




Image: Canada
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Established: 1 July 1867
Création : 1er juillet 1867
ᓴᖅᑭᑕᐅᔪᖅ: ᔪᓚᐃ 1, 1867
Population: 41 million
Population : 41 millions
ᐃᓄᒋᐊᖕᓂᖏᑦ: 41 ᒥᓕᐊᓐ
Capital: Ottawa, Ontario
Capitale : Ottawa, Ontario
ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᖃᕐᕕᒃ: ᐋᑐᕚ, ᐋᓐᑎᐅᕆᐅ
Motto: A mari usque ad mare "From Sea to Sea"
Devise : D’une mer à l’autre
ᒨᑐ: ᑕᕆᐅᕐᒥᑦ
Trivia: The board game Trivial Pursuit was invented in Canada.
Anecdote : Le jeu « Trivial Pursuit » a été inventé au Canada.
ᓱᓕᔪᖅ: ᑲᑎᒪᔩᑦ ᐱᙳᐊᒐᖓᑦ "Trivial Pursuit" ᓴᖅᑭᑕᐅᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ.


 

Newfoundland and Labrador


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Date of Confederation: 31 March 1949 (was an nation on its own prior to that)
Population: 550,000
Capital: St John's
Motto: Quaerite prime regnum Dei "Seek ye first the kingdom of God"
Trivia: Prior to 1949 the call signs of radio station in Newfoundland began with
the letter V. Three radio stations with V calls still exist, VOCM, VOAR, and VOWR


 

Nova Scotia


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Date of Confederation: 1 July 1867
Population: 182,000
Capital: Halifax
Motto: Munit Hæc et Altera Vincit "One defends and the other conquers"
Trivia: There are more speakers of Gaelic in Nova Scotia than there are in Scotland.
Tha barrachd luchd-labhairt na Gàidhlig ann an Alba Nuadh na tha ann an Alba


 

Prince Edward Island



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Date of Confederation: 1 July 1873
Population: 1 million
Capital: Charlottetown
Motto: Parva sub ingenti "The small protected by the great"
Trivia: Even though Prince Edward Island is known as the birthplace of the Canadian
confederation in 1867, the province resisted becoming a part of Canada until 1873.



 

New Brunswick


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Date of Confederation: 1 July 1873
Population: 869,000
Capital: Fredericton
Motto: Spem reduxit "Hope restored"
Trivia: Radio Canada International's transmitters were located in Sackville, New Brunswick
 

Quebec/ Québec


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Date of Confederation: 1 July 1873
Date de la Confédération : 1 juillet 1873
Population: 9 million
Population : 9 millions
Capital: Quebec City
Capitale : Ville de Québec
Motto: Je me souviens "I remember"
Devise : Je me souviens
Trivia: Quebec’s most famous food is poutine. This dish of French fried potatoes covered in
cheese curds and smothered in gravy is one of the most popular foods in Canada
Anecdote : Le plat le plus célèbre du Québec est la poutine. Ce plat de pommes de terre
frites recouvertes de le fromage en grains et nappé de sauce est l'un des aliments les
plus populaires au Canada

 

Ontario



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Date of Confederation: 1 July 1873
Population: 1,500,000
Capital: Toronto
Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet "Loyal she began, loyal she remains"
Trivia: It can take about four days to drive east to west across the province, as
many days as it takes to go from its western border to BC.


 

Manitoba


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Date of Confederation: 15 July 1870
Population: 16 million
Capital: Winnipeg
Motto: Gloriosus et Liber "Glorious and free"
Trivia: The town of Gimli, on the west shores of Lake Winnipeg, is the largest
Icelandic community outside of Iceland. The community hosts an Icelandic Festival
known as Islendingadagurinn every summer.
Bærinn Gimli, við vesturströnd Winnipegvatns, er stærsta íslenska samfélag utan Íslands.
Samfélagið stendur fyrir Íslandshátíð sem kallast Islendingadagurinn á hverju sumri.

 

Saskatchewan



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Date of Confederation: 1 September 1905
Population: 1,260,000
Capital: Regina
Motto: Multis e Gentibus Vires "From Many Peoples, Strength"
Trivia: Saskatchewan has 3 purple sand beaches: Hunter Bay, Candle Lake, and Prince Albert
National Park.

 

Alberta



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Date of Confederation: 1 September 1905
Population: 5 million
Capital: Calgary
Motto: Fortis et liber "Strong and free"
Trivia: The town of Vulcan, Alberta is known as the "Official Star Trek Capital of Canada"
It features a statue of the original series' USS Enterprise, and other Star Trek themed attractions.

 

British Columbia


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Date of Confederation: 20 July 1871
Population: 5,600,000
Capital: Victoria
Motto: Splendor sine occasu 'Splendour Without Diminishment'
Trivia: British Columbia’s provincial mammal is the Spirit Bear, known as the Kermode Bear
(Ursus americanus kermodei), a rare black bear with white fur.

 

Yukon


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Date of Confederation: 13 June 1898
Population: 48,000
Capital: Whitehorse
Motto: Larger than life
Trivia: There are more moose in the Yukon, over 70,000, than there are people.

 

Northwest Territories



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Date of Confederation: 15 July 1870
Population: 45,000
Capital: Yellowknife
Motto: Spectacular Northwest Territories
Trivia: Automobile licence plates in the Northwest Territories are shaped like a polar bear.


 

Nunavut/ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ


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Date of Confederation: 1 April 1999
ᐅᓪᓗᖓ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᑦ: ᐄᐳᕈ 1, 1999
Population: 41,000
ᐃᓄᒋᐊᖕᓂᖏᑦ: 41,000
Capital: Iqaluit
ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᖃᕐᕕᒃ: ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ
Motto: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᓴᙱᓂᕗᑦ (Nunavut Sannginivut) "Our land, our strength"
ᒨᑐ: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᓴᙱᓂᕗᑦ
Trivia: There are no roads to Nunavut from the rest of Canada. The only way to travel to Nunavut
is by boat or plane.
ᓱᓕᔪᖅ: ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒧᑦ ᑎᑭᑦᑐᓐᓇᖅᑐᑎᑦ ᐅᒥᐊᒃᑯᑦ ᑎᖕᒥᓲᒃᑯᓪᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᑭᓯᐊᓂ.

 

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Terry Kath of Chicago was born on January 31, 1946.
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Speaker 1 [upbeat music]

This is Peter John with the DX Headlines.

Just like in the UK in DX Headlines two weeks ago, broadcasts of the successful station at the Dutch coast came to an end after a dramatic event.

Radio Veronica and seeing a new competitor in recently arrived Radio North Sea International, offered owners Meister and Bolier a substantial sum to cease broadcasting and certainly not to broadcast any Dutch language programs.

On September twenty-four, nineteen seventy, at eleven hundred AM, RNI bid listeners farewell by playing its final song, The Beatles' The Long and Winding Road. However, roughly half a year later, on February 14, 1971, RNI returned with test broadcasts on two twenty meters, thirteen sixty-seven kilohertz medium wave. After the captain that the Veronica bosses had placed on the ship was lured off and the sum of money received was returned to Veronica in cash. On Saturday, May 15, 1971, an incendiary bomb exploded on board of the Mebo II, the ship RNI broadcasted from. The oil pipeline in the engine room, as originally intended, was not hit, but Mebo II's water pipes. The stern of the ship caught fire. DJ Alan West was presenting a live English program at the time. There was English language programming in the evenings, was startled by the explosion while playing Blue Mink's Melting Pot and went to investigate. West just saw a small motorboat with an outboard motor sailing away. He ran back to the studio and, clearly panicking, called for help over the broadcasting transmitter, live from the studio. He repeated this call several times in English. Later, the Dutch captain made another call. Help arrived from fire boats, which quickly extinguished the fire. The station went off the air. There were no injuries. The damage to the Mebo II was limited. The upper part of the galley and the aft deck were largely burned down. The station was back on the air the next day. Although initial stories appeared in the press that Dutch Secret Service BVD was behind the attack, Meister and Bolier were said to have ties to the GDR regime or even Libya, and they were allegedly using the shortwave transmitter to send coded secret messages. It soon became clear that Radio Veronica was to blame. Three divers were subsequently arrested, to whom Veronica had paid one hundred thousand guilders, around forty-five three eighty euros, to get the ship into port so they could seize the ship, because RNI, according to them, had violated the mutual agreement. But the attack had the exact opposite effect of Veronica's intentions. It earned Radio North Sea considerable sympathy from listeners, and the station gained enormous popularity. However, the action also prompted Dutch government to finally tackle the offshore radio stations with legislation. Bill Verweij, one of the Verweij brothers, owners of Radio Veronica, and Veronica shareholder Norbert Jurgens, like three divers, were sentenced to prison terms.

Parts of this text came from Wikipedia.

This was Peter John for the DX Headlines on the Mighty KBC.

Speaker 2 [upbeat music]

Another town, another place, another girl, another face, another truck, another race…