R.I.P.

On 3 March 2013 passed away Bulgarian DXer Mr. Ognyan Chengeliev on the age of 65. He was very active in the DX field from the end of 60s, mainly in Sweden Calling DXers Program and as a member of several DX Clubs such as Danish SWCI where his # was 826.

From January 1975 till June 1979 he was a political prisoner charged for exchanging letters by snail mail with“ espionage DX clubs (acc to prosecution)” such as DSWCI, Arctic Radio Club etc. After June 1979 he was pressured by the communist Committee for State Security (Bulgarian equivalent  of soviet KGB) to stop DXing, but he ontinued to listen regularly to broadcasts in English and Russian until his last days.

A few years ago he completely lost his eyesight and died in poverty. He was living with his 99-year old mother in Sofia. May he rest in peace.

In one of the edition of SWN monthly of DSWCI in 1990 there is a photograph of him together with Gabriel Ivan Barrera and Rumen Pankov.

Written by Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria after his funeral in Sofia on 5 March 2013.