DX Programme celebrates 51 years on the air!

Radio Bulgaria's DX Programme was born on November 17, 1957.

Launched by Dimiter Petrov, LZ1AF, as a monthly feature, it was dedicated entirely to Amateur Radio, both in Bulgaria and worldwide. Due to the interest it generated, it became a weekly programme in June 1961.

Broadcast Tips by Rumen Pankov were introduced in May 1972 until November 1974 when he was succeeded by Pavel Yordanov. Since the latter’s death in June 1999, Rumen Pankov has taken over again.

As a matter of fact, Radio Bulgaria’s DX Programme has been not only the longest running programme in the history of Bulgarian broadcasting under the same name, on the same days, at the same times and with one and the same DX Editor, but in world terms too - notably second only to the late Alistair Cook’s 58-year running 'Letter from America' on the BBC.

To mark the 50^th anniversary of their DX Program, DX Editor Dimiter Petrov operated throughout 2007 with the Jubilee call sign LZ50DX making 3,000 contacts with 142 countries on all HF bands almost exclusively on CW. All contacts were confirmed with the Jubilee LZ50DX QSL card

Congratulations to Dimiter, LZ1AF, on a truly remarkable achievement!

Richard G4TUT

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