ARLA/CLUSTER: Oldrich Cip, fundador da HFCC morreu a 27 de Julho

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

 HFCC announces the passing of its founder Oldrich Cip

*Oldrich Cip*, founder and Vice Chairman of the *High Frequency
Coordination Conference*, known as the HFCC, passed away on 27 July
following a sudden illness.

Oldrich was involved in radio since he was a child -- first as an amateur
radio hobbyist and later as a staff member of Czechoslovak and then Czech
Radio in the international broadcasting departments.

A college graduate in the field of Humanities, he spent most of his working
life as a frequency manager and schedule planner. For a number of years he
hosted a DX program on Radio Prague under the pen name Peter Skala.

After the end of the Cold War, he believed that broadcasters from both
sides of the conflict should come together and develop a new system of
planning and coordination for shortwave broadcasting. This led to the
establishment of the HFCC in 1991. Oldrich was Chairman of the HFCC until
2015. Since then, he was a Vice Chairman of the group.

Oldrich lived in Prague, although he frequently spent time in his country
house, where he enjoyed woodworking, guitar and country music, vintage
graphics, photography and time with his family.
His son Vladislav said he spent his last day there: “He enjoyed a quiet
evening in the country house, with our families, all four grandchildren
around, no symptoms of anything bad coming. All of a sudden, he suffered
probably a heart attack or stroke. An ambulance arrived immediately but he
died a few hours later.�

Oldrich was married with two adult sons, Oldrich Jr. and Vladislav.
Vladislav is the HFCC Secretary who manages the day-to-day operations of
the organization.

>From 1953 until 1997 Oldrich was an employee of Czechoslovak and later
Czech Radio in Prague. He worked as a technical consultant for Czech Radio
from 1998 to 2010. He specialized in planning schedules and frequencies,
international coordination and distribution of shortwave radio programs for
foreign countries.

Beginning in 1959 and for more than 25 years, Oldrich produced a weekly
English-language program “Radio Prague Calling All Radio Hobbyists,� using
the nom de plume Peter Skala. In the program, he answered questions from
shortwave listeners in many countries and covered a variety of scientific
and other topics from the radio industry.

During the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Oldrich used his
technical expertise to aid the “free Czechoslovak Radio,� putting himself
in danger in an effort to provide factual news and information about the
events taking place. Thanks to the large number of smaller facilities of
Czechoslovak Radio scattered all over Prague and complicated infrastructure
that connected them, they were able to continue broadcasting for quite some
time.

In the period of reforms around the year 1968, he established secret
contacts with his colleagues from Western radio stations.
He re-established the contacts after the fall of communism and started an
initiative to eliminate interference on shortwave. He became the Chairman
of the HFCC, which has continued to meet twice each year in different parts
of the world for shortwave stations to coordinate their frequency schedules
for the coming broadcast season, thus eliminating interference before each
season begins. The principles of international coordination were
incorporated into the ITU’s International Radio Regulations during the 1997
World Radio Conference.

Oldrich was also an adviser to the Government of the Czechoslovak Republic
in the preparation of the first Radio and Television Broadcasting Act after
1990, as well as a member of several EBU and ITU radiocommunication working
groups. At the HFCC, he spearheaded the International Radio for Disaster
Relief project whereby shortwave stations have allocated specific
frequencies in each band for the transmission of emergency information in
the event of natural disasters around the world.

Jeff White, Oldrich’s successor as HFCC Chairman, said: “The shortwave
broadcasting and listening communities have lost one of our most important
proponents. The contributions of Oldrich over the years are simply
unequalled. He was a humble man, but people in this industry realized the
importance of his work. And he has left us a lasting legacy -- an
organization which has largely eliminated interference on the shortwave
bands, and it has enabled stations to use less power to reach their target
areas with a good signal. For that, he will always be remembered.�For more
information, contact Jeff White, HFCC Chairman, at jeff  wrmi.net.

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*•* Our thanks to *Mike Terry* for the above information
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