Monday, December 14, 2009

QSL Report Central

Amateur Radio
Falkland Islands, VP8KF, 21 MHz SSB, CQ Zone: 13 Locator GD 18bh. Full data color scenery card. Received in 28 days for $2.00 US. QSL address: John Wright G3VPW, 2 Barnfield, Charney Bassett, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 0HA England (Larry Van Horn).


Belgium
The following clandestine stations were verified from the Transmitter Documentation Project. Loggings were obtained in the U.S. and Bao Loc, Lam Dong, Vietnam. TDP has its headquarters in Rikevorsel, Belgium, and leases airtime over world band transmitters. Reports were verified by seven full data blue TDP cards, without transmitter site notation.
QSL address: TDP, P.O. Box 1, B-2310, Rijkevorsel, Belgium.
Denge Mezopatamya, Grigoriopol, Moldova 12,115 kHz in seven years.
Voice of Oromiyaa 12,115 kHz in seven years.
Voice of Liberty Eritrea, Samara, Russia 15,675 kHz in 52 months.
Que Huong Radio, Vladivostok, Russia 15,680 kHz in 52 months.
Radio Free Vietnam via KWHR 11,855 kHz in 52 months.
Radio Voice of ENUF, Samara, Russia, 12,120 kHz in four years.
Radio Free South Cameroon 11,840 kHz in 42 months.
(Wendal Craighead, Kansas)

Bhutan
Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 6035 kHz. Full data card signed by Ngawang Dorji-BBS Transmission Head. Received in 65 days for email report to bbs@com.bt ; received from ngawangdorji23@gmail.com (Roberto Pavanello, Italy/playdx) Postal address: Department of Information and Broadcasting, Ministry of Communications, P.O. Box 101, Thimphu, Bhutan. Streaming audio www.bbs.com.bt

Clandestine
Nippon Kaze (Korean BCB) via T8WH Palau. Electronic reply received for my email report and Mp3 recording to info@rachi.go.jp Response stated “thanks for your interest.” The station does not QSL, but recommended “please check our website for additional information about abductions.” Did not note the transmitter site despite my request. Verified with full data card commemorating Twenty Years of Shortwave Ministry to the World . Received in six months via WHRI-KWHR. QSL address: P.O. Box 12, South Bend, IN 46624 USA (or) LeSEA Broadcasting , 61300 Ironwood Road, South Bend, IN 46614 USA. ^ Streaming audio www.whr.org/ (Edward Kusalik, Canada)

Germany
Radio Free Asia, 7470 kHz. Full data, Year of the Ox card with site notation. Received in 18 days for an email report to qsl@rfa.org . Ox cards received in 16 days from email reports for Iranawila, Sri Lanka 9385; 18 days for Dushanbe, Tajikistan. (Kusalik).

India/Goa
All India Radio-Panaji 9705 kHz. Full data color scenery card of Fatehpur Sikri ruins, signed with illegible signature. Received in five years and 23 days, 45 days from last English followup report with SAE (not used) and souvenir postcards. Followup was posted online at: spectrum-manager@air.org.in and also mailed to postal address, verified from; Directorate General-All India Radio, Akashvani Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi 110001, India. Very pleased to verify AIR-Panaji, which counts as Goa in the NASWA Country List, after a five year wait. :) (Gayle Van Horn)
(Gayle Van Horn, QSL Report-Monitoring Times)