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Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
Listening at my DXing site outside of
the city, with a CommRadio CR-1a and a Wellbrook ALA-1530LN loop
15140 CUBA Radio Havana Cuba at 1900 signing on in Spanish, into
scheduled English. - Very poor, July 15
11885 VIETNAM Voice of Vietnam at 1902 in English, woman with news. -
Fair, July 15
11880 MADAGASCAR Adventist World Radio at 1944 in Arabic, preacher to 1947,
music bridge, preacher again until 1956, off at 1957. - Fair, July 15
15580 BOTSWANA Voice of America at 2002 in English with ID and news. -
Fair, July 15
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3310 BOLIVIA. Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 2350 to 0010. Quechua comments, no music ,weak signal. 10/11 July. (Wilkner - Fl)
Tn recent time, news personnel have commented about what they see as a current epidemic of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions around the world. These earthshaking events have occurred on all continents, and even out in Hawaii with a strange double event; both volcanoes on the Big Island, Kilauea and Maunaloa, were erupting simultaneously.
The islands of American Samoa out in the Pacific; they have not been exempt either, and they also have undergone a long series of earthquakes. In November last year (2022), the official government agencies in Pago Pago announced that they were registering earthquakes at more than 2000 daily. Fortunately, most of those earthquakes have been at a lower level of intensity, though some in December (2022) were significant, including at least one at 6.7 on the Richter Scale.
American Samoa is a small group of small islands in the exotic South Pacific with a total land area of only 76.8 square miles, a little more than the area of Washington DC. There are five main islands, and two coral atolls, with a population of 45,000, most of whom are bilingual in both Samoan and English. Language historians inform us that there are 38 different Polynesian languages in the South Pacific and that most of them are interchangeably understood.
American Samoa lies east of the international dateline, and New Zealand Samoa lies west of the International Dateline. Some local tribal customs reach both Samoas, sometimes even over-riding local government regulations.
The first Polynesian settlers came to Samoa around 600 BC, and the first European visitor was the Dutch explorer Commodore Jacob Roggeveen, who was actually (unsuccessfully) searching for Terra Australis (Australia). The first missionary to American Samoa was John Williams from the London Missionary Society in England. In 1879, government officials from the United States, England and Germany established an American, English & German tripartite government in Samoa.
Ten years later in March 1889, an Imperial German naval force entered a village in Samoa, and in doing so, destroyed some American property. Three American warships then entered Apia Harbor (New Zealand Samoa) and prepared to engage the three German warships at anchor there. Before any shots were fired, a typhoon wrecked both American and German ships, and as a result, a compulsory armistice was called because of the lack of warships.
Ten years later (1899), the two Samoas were separated into German (Western) Samoa and American (Eastern) Samoa. During World War 2, American military personnel outnumbered the local citizens by two to one. Then on September 28, 2009, a massive earthquake was measured at 8.1, and it triggered a tsunami wave 20 feet high that flooded one mile inland.
We look now at the wireless/radio scene on American Samoa, and we go way back to the very beginning, way back more than a hundred years to the year 1912. It was at that stage, just a dozen years after experimental wireless became a practical form of distant communication, that the American navy began active plans for the development of a small network of wireless stations in their Samoa.
Five years later (1917), work on a network of four wireless stations on four different islands in American Samoa was completed. The network headquarters station NPU was established in the naval headquarters at Pago Pago on Tutuila Island with two transmitters (5 kW and 30 kW). The subsidiary stations for the three other islands were each at a lower power level.
Ofu Island with a population of less than 200 people is linked by a narrow isthmus with Olosega Island, also with a population of less than 200. In earlier times, people would walk between the two islands at low tide, though a highway bridge now connects the two (almost) islands. The original callsign for the navy wireless station on Ofu Island was NPU2, though this was subsequently changed to NGX.
Tau Island with a population under 1,000 is the easternmost island in the Samoas, and it is considered to be the birth place of the Polynesian peoples in the Pacific. Tau was also the site where the American anthropologist, 23 year old Margaret Mead, conducted her dissertation research about teenage girls in Samoa in the 1920s, after which she published her book entitled Coming of Age in Samoa. The original callsign for the navy wireless station on Tau Island was probably NPU3, though this was subsequently changed to NCM.
Manua Islands is the collective name for the cluster of three islands (Tau, Ofu and Olosega) that lie 70 miles east of the main island Tutuila. There was an additional half kilowatt wireless station installed on one of the Manua Islands that served as a relay station between the three subsidiary islands and NPU on the main Tutuila Island.
During the South Pacific search for the missing American aviator Amelia Earhart in 1937, the main navy communication station on Tutuila Island in American Samoa, NPU, was in frequent communication with other stations in the Pacific, and also with several navy ships from different countries. More than a hundred different radio communication stations in the Pacific, mobile on ships and fixed on land, served jointly with cooperative messages.
Austin Saturday Night
Austin Saturday Night’s an occasional program featuring performers
at Austin’s clubs, breweries, and coffee shops. Artists from Austin’s
Spaceflight Records on the show include Die Spitz, Primo the Alien, Sailor
Poon, and S L Houser. Then Buffalo Hunt, DOSSEY, and Popecoke. Finally, you’ll hear Calliope
Musicals.
There’s a special QSL for correct reception reports.
The Traveling Wilburys
The Traveling Wilburys was a
British-American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George
Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty, formed in
May 1988. This show features the group’s music from before Roy Orbison died in
December 1988.
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Terry N5RTC
Austin, Texas USA
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Following the test transmission on June 9th, I have decided to book two repeats of Radio Carpathia for the shows in July and August, one on Friday, 28 July 2023, and the other on Saturday, 02 Sept 2023, both at
Troop formations show big plans to mark the anniversary of the end of the Korean War and possibly showcase more nuclear weapons
