SWITZERLAND RADIO TRAVEL BY MONFERINI & PAVANELLO

We said "good luck" to Florence and we moved by taxi to our second visit of the day : Radio RaBe the Berner Kulturradio community station of Bern. http://www.rabe.ch Address: Randweg 21, CH-3013 Bern http://map.search.ch/bern/randweg-21 this street is very little and next to the railroad .....so each train going on ....is shacking & mooving the entire building !!! Frequenz 95.60 MHz. Tel :+41 31 330 99 90 Fax: +41 31 330 99 92 Email: rabe@rabe.ch (but it is surely better to contact them utilizing their contact web page). We had an official invitation written with email by Miss Nadia the speaker of the Italian Program... but at our arrival she was not in the radio.... so Miss Jelena attended to us. jelena@rabe.ch shown to us the studio a bit psichedelic but this is normal in all FREIES radio stations !We also got the box with the differents stickers printed for each program .....so you may imagine how many differents !!!! all multicolors and for us a great moment to control to pick up all the differents models Roberto bought a T-shirt for 20 Swiss Francs and this made happy Miss Jelena (she is the program producer for woman Frauen im Radio) The station has a special license to transmit and this status help the station to survive, also subscription for member support is a good way to help the radio: 60 Sw.Fr. normal member, 120 Sw.Fr. supporter member (this entitle to have discounts in shops).Radio RaBe is a real Freie radio station and it is doing a very important service. The station has many differents language for the foreign workers living in the area, the sunday they have an Italian program at 1100-1300 hours (so also this time no possible to be present ar their program....).A real good visit showing in Switzerland the community radio are an important service !Next to be seen Radio Capital at present located in the center of the city WEB http://www.espace.ch/page_41.html or www.capitalfm.ch Frequenzen 97.70 MHz und 98.40 MHz We had an appointment with Nik Eugster Head of Programming of Capital FM at around 1200 hours, so we arrived to the address : Zeughausgasse 14.... in fact this was the old address of Radio Extra Bern (old owner of 97.70 & 98.40 frequencies before the arrival of British money in the Espace Organisation owner of Tele Bern and Espace FM .....We entered into the building of 5 floors in Zeughausgasse 14... cause outdoor a standing Radio Capital logo upper the shop of shoes at same street number .....even the old drinn at the door at 3rd floor.... but surprise surprise ....an old Swiss Acid woman (Manager for an Evangelic Swiss Organisation....Good Bless her "kulo") opened and told us almost crying "...to go out soon of the building !!!!!!!" !!!!!Well the mistery finally was cleaned thanks to another nice young girl (more quiet and less acid) who explained Radio Capital is no more in that building ...but one year ago moved to .....the building on the other side of the same block of buildings !! more exactly in Naageligasse 3,CH-3001 Bern.Tel.: +41 31 327 11 11 As correctly put in the http://www.bakom.admin.ch/themen/radio_tv So just 100 meters round trip and in the corner street we found a 3 floors big building with a "FLAG" on the enter door... (Andy Schmid is now alerted) Nik arrived soon at the reception at first floor. Nik showed to us the studios and offices which are in 3 floors, so even if an elevator is working, the personnel is going up and down in a real frenetic way....so the station will move in next spring 2008 to a new building located outside Bern, in a periferic area, they are bulding it right now,and at the same place will be the Tele Bern and it will be one floor to solutionate the present situation. Guess this is a very interesting information. We given some stickers of Radio Capital Italy and Nik offered many Radio Capital Bern stickers and also 2 XL T-shirts. So he called the taxi and we waited its arrival 20 minutes in the street in the shadow with a quite freeze alpen wind ! hi!Last to be seen the DRS Elephant station National, we arrived to the famous building of DRS in Giacometti strasse 1 (tram troiller number 5 is most near public service) but with 30 Sw.Fr. we arrived more quickly by Taxi.... a photo to the main enter still outdoor a plate with SWISS RADIO INTERNATIONAL....a souvenir of the past ....ohhh boys can you believe in 1981 I has been in this building for EDXC congress .... 26 years ago.... the building is the same outside I can't say inside...cause not allowed to enter .... well the kind man receptionist called Benedict ... understood our requests of gadgets of DRS and the 6 radio stations of the group .... but the only suggestion was to try at the Studio DRS Bern in city center : Schweizer Radio DRS Schwarztorstrasse 21 , CH-3007 Bern. Tel: +41 31 388 91 11 Fax: +41 31 388 95 20. So we took another Taxi and we arrived in the quite nearer area to the Central HBF .... Tram troiller 13 & 14 are going to this street from HBF...in case you want to visit this DRS studio.... 2 ladies at the reception with kindness told us to look at the bacheca and to bring the materials .... so we found MANY colorful stickers !!! (but only one model) and some very good DRS postcards !!! finally !!!!! I keep many ...may be too many ... one of the 2 ladies asked politely: "Sir but do you need so many ???" so I explained we were going to Lugano for an International meeting and we needed some DRS gadgets .... so the lady said ...ohh I see you are Italian ... allora è meglio se parliamo Italiano .... yes the lady was Italian ...speaking ...hi!!!! Naturally I given many stickers of Italian Radio station.... but unfortunatly at present DRS has no more stickers in printing.... the gadgets are printed in Zurich by the advertising section and they are distributed in the whole Switzerland at the DRS studios.... WEB : http://www.drs1.ch http://www.drs2.ch http://www.drs3.ch We also got the information about the opening of «DRS 4 News» & «World Radio Switzerland» from 5 november 2007 !!! on Cable in the whole country....and from 2008 also on FM Band. So may be this explain my log in FM ??? on 97.40 MHz of the BBC English service ???? already testing in Bern area ???Well finally a bit "satisfeat" to have been able to have got some gadgets from DRS Radio we went back to the Hotel Ador.Roberto had a short time for computer at the free PC at Hotel (remember you must stand up to utilize it) and I had an expresso coffee with cup of Gran Marnier !At 1530 we went by feet !!! to the HBF in fact it is located really just 300 meters from Hotel ..... quite good Hotel position. Our Express train to Luzern started in time at 1500 hours ... we changed train in Luzern to get the CIS going southern to Italy ..... quite full of people going to Milano to .... spend a night of "FOLLIE" in fact we had the company till Lugano of 2 .... VIADOS Brasileiros ....going to Milano .... you can't believe the "discussions" and the phone calls they got from their "friends" ...... my god !!!!!! Milano is really becoming another Sodoma & Gomorra ???? ....hi!!!!!! In Lugano we changed train to keep the local train S1 .... all in perfect time as usually ...great Swiss Rails ....so at 1926 we stopped at Lugano Paradiso...which is in fact the first stop after Lugano city HBF.... We walked for 500 meters luckly in .... favorable down streets and we arrived at Hotel Dischma, Vicolo Geretta 6, CH-6900 Lugano Paradiso....... http://www.hotel-dischma.ch http://www.hotel-dischma.ch/images/mappa-paradiso.jpg We got room at second floor... a large room with 4 bads !!!!At the arrival I soon met a PLAYDX member from Germany Uwe Sennewald ..... after almost 25 years of correspondences we had our first meeting ! Good start of EDXC 2007 for me......well but this phantastic friday 2 november still had a very important happening to be lived.... the get together with DSWCI board celebrating the 40 years of EDXC..... with a dinner open to the DSWCI members...details will follow in the next message !Guten nacht !Dario & Roberto