From news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!nuug!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!paladin.american.edu!auvm!NIOZ.NL!nieuw Tue Jul 12 00:20:40 EET DST 1994 Article: 33084 of rec.radio.shortwave Path: news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!nuug!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!paladin.american.edu!auvm!NIOZ.NL!nieuw Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave X-Envelope-to: swl-l@CUVMB.BITNET Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: Date: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 11:24:00 +0100 Reply-To: Jan Nieuwenhuis Sender: Short Wave Listener's List From: Jan Nieuwenhuis Subject: Results: BDXC Opinion Poll Questionnaire Lines: 160 ====================================================================== | This info for Radio-LISTENING amateurs is presented to you by the: | | | | BENELUX DX-CLUB, A. van Ostadelaan 106, NL-7944 XT Meppel, Holland | | | | RESULTS: BDXC OPINION POLL QUESTIONNAIRE - compiled by: | | Jan Nieuwenhuis, Vloedlyn 12, NL-1791 HH Den Burg (Texel), Holland | | | | Echomail (FIDO) : 'Shortwave Listeners' | | Netmail (FIDO) : 2:500/202 | | Mail (FIDO) : 'Scoop' BBS, Hilversum : 035-245395 | | E-mail 1 : nieuw@nioz.nl | | E-mail 2 : jan.nieuwenhuis@f202.n500.z2.fidonet.org | | | ====================================================================== | PART 1 of 1 Date: 8th July 1994 | ====================================================================== Before I give you the results, here is my personal 'data': Name: Jan ('John' in English) Nieuwenhuis Age: 35 Male/female: Male Country: The Netherlands (Texel island) Occupation: Electronics/Computer Engineer for the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Radio amateur since: Early 1973 Shortwave interest: Broadcasting & Utility (mainly FAX) Hobbies: Editor "DX-Hotline" (BDXC-bulletin) Computers & programming, Meteorology Radio equipment: Drake R-7 receiver, Yaesu FRG-7700, Murphy B-40, Koyo KTR-1770 Other equipment: Computer 486DX2 (66MHz) & HP-Deskjet 510 printer Utility software: JVFAX 6.0; including 64 grey value interface Miscellaneous info: WRTH collaborator since 1985 Oke, so far for the personal details, here are the results: GENERAL ======= Received questionnaires: 97 COUNTRY STATISTICS ================== Total number of countries: 19 Country Number of questionnaires returned ------- --------------------------------- Australia 1 Austria 1 Bahrain 1 Belgium 4 Brazil 2 Canada 4 Denmark 1 Ecuador 1 Finland 2 France 3 Germany 8 Italy 1 Norway 1 Poland 1 Russia 2 Sweden 2 The Netherlands 10 United Kingdom 7 U.S.A. 45 (the great winner, hi) Number of countries by region: Asia region: - Australia region: 1 EUROPE region: 13 Middle East region: 1 Central America region: - North America region: 3 South America region: 2 PERSONAL STATISTICS =================== Average age: 38 Number of persons per 'age group': Age group Number of persons --------- ----------------- 0 - 9 - 10 - 19 1 (15 years old; from Belgium) 20 - 29 19 30 - 39 33 40 - 49 29 50 - 59 7 60 - 69 1 70 - 79 2 (both 70 years old; from The Netherlands) 80 - 89 90 - 99 5 persons where afraid to fill in their age, hi. Number of males: 94 Number of females: 3 (all three from the U.S.A.) (Yes it's a mans world in the radio listening community, hi) Occupation: Most of the mentioned occupations (about 50%) where technical (computer & software engineers, electronic engineers, technicians etc.) but also other professions were mentioned like: administrator, astrophysicist, attorney, driver, journalist, librarian, physicist, police officer, professor, radio announcer, radiologist, shopkeeper, student, TV reporter, teacher etc. etc. One filled in 'unemployed' (hope you get a job very soon OM) and 4 persons did not fill in their occupation. The two 'oldies', hi, filled in 'pensioner'. Main shortwave interest: Mostly broadcasting (about 75%). Some other interests were: Amateur Radio, Utility, DX-ing, News Listening, Tropical Bands DX, Latin American Stations, Program Listening etc. NETWORK DATA ============ 2 persons filled in CompuServe; 16 persons filled in FIDO-net. Most info however is retreived via INTERNET with connections to the BITNET listserver SWL-L (Shortwave Listeners List) and the USENET newsgroup 'rec.radio.shortwave'. Download data: At HOME only: 41 At HOME & SCHOOL: 5 At SCHOOL only: 3 At HOME & WORK: 14 At WORK only: 32 At SCHOOL & WORK: 2 SUGGESTIONS & REMARKS ===================== I have noted all the remarks and suggestions you have made and I will look into it wether I can implement them in my publications. One thing will NOT be implemented as suggested by a few of you: There will be NO list of English/French/German/Spanish transmissions to AMERICA. The reason is that I (and Cees van Oudheusden) do not want to spend more time with compiling these bulletins, because we do it FREE-OF-CHARGE and it takes allready a LOT OF TIME to compile the bulletins. The listings to America are also not made, because the BDXC is a EUROPEAN based club. So all off you out there in the U.S., why do not yourself compile such a list. The U.S.A. is such a big country and we are so small, hi! Furthermore, most people said that the information presented was correct but sometimes a little out-of-date. Well, I will try to keep as up-to-date as possible, but sometimes data filled in on one day is old the next day. I also do NOT check all data by listening to my radio, because that would give me a daytime job. I will leave that up to all users of my bulletins. Oke, it's nice to hear that everybody likes to receive this kind of information and when time permits I will continue to distribute these bulletins via the worlds computer networks. ====================================================================== | Info available via BITNET, COMPUSERVE, FIDONET, INTERNET, USENET | ====================================================================== | = 73's from TEXEL Island [53.034 N, 04.478 E], The Netherlands = | ======================================================================