Friday, April 23, 2010

Shortwave Blog "Bytes"

Amateur radio Island DXpeditions
Helmut, DL7VOX will be active as DL7VOX/p from Usedom Island (EU-129, GIA O-13) and lighthouse (Admiralty C2867.1, ARLHS FED-359, WLOTA LH-1640) between 22 April and 11 May 2010. He will operate mainly CW on the HF bands, using 100 watts and wire antennas. QSL via DL7VOX, direct or bureau. [425 DX News]

Jens DK8MIL, Thomas DK9BTX, Mathias DJ9MD and Jan DK7JAN will be active 23-26th April 2010 as DF0TM from the island of Amrum (IOTA EU-042, GIA N-018, WLOTA LH-2464). QRV on the HF bands, CW and SSB. QSL via the DARC bureau. If you need a direct reply send a SAE and the equivalent of 1.70 EUR, which is the price for a standard world-wide letter in Germany, or two IRCs (preferred) to: Jens Saße, Mühlenfeldstr. 8, D-28832 Achim, Germany. [rsgbiota.org]

Mirek, VK6DXI plans to be active from Tioman Island (AS-046, WLOTA LH-3536) on 24-26 April 2010, using the callsign 9M8DX/2. Holiday style operation using mostly CW on 30, 17 and 12 metres. QSL via SP5UAF, direct or bureau. [VK6DXI]

Kuro, AL5A will be active from the Himawari Hotel, island of Saipan (USi NI002S, WLOTA LH-1333, WW Loc. QK25CE), Northern Mariana Islands (IOTA OC-086) as AL5A/WH0 from 24-26 April 2010. He will focus his activity to European stations. QRV 80-10 metres, using 100 watts on CW and SSB. QSL via JA7JEC, direct or bureau. [NG3K]

Nicolas, F5TGR will be active from the island of Martinique (IOTA NA-107, DIFO FM-001, WLOTA LH-1041) as FM/F5TGR between 25 April and 6 May 2010. QRV 40-10 metres, CW and SSB, during spare time vacation style. QSL via the bureau preferred, or direct (Nicolas Quennet 63, Rue Carnot 95240 - Cormeilles en Parisis - France) if needed. [NG3K]

Amateur radio castle DXpedition
Latvia
Arnis YL3GBC and Uldis YL2IU will be active on 1 May from Daugauvgrivas Cietoksns, WCA: YL-00015. This is QRP pedition (10 watts) and work from 9:00 to 12:00 UTC on CW: 7030 and SSB: 7090. Be plans work as Home Call/P. QSL via direct or E-QSL. 73 & 11!

Karel OK1TIR will be active on 24 April from Castle of Zaluzany, WCA: OK-01022, CCA: ST-244. Be plans work only on 20 meters, antenna dipole as HC/P. QSL via bureau or direct! (ICPO/Andrew RN1CW/rn1cw@rambler.ru )

Australian Internet Radio
The Australian Internet Radio Magazine website has been renamed to "Australian Internet Radio", to more accurately reflect changes to its structure and purpose. Australian Internet Radio is now a Radio Station, with content delivered over the Internet via MP3 audio files, produced and hosted by myself.

The site has undergone major changes to layout and appearance, with several new features and services added. Principal content is the Australian DX Report (weekly) and Sounds on Shortwave (monthly), both of about 15 minutes duration, with musical interludes. The station is located at: http://adxr.podbean.com/

Australian DX Report
Episode No. 200 has now been released, with the results of propagation research in Melbourne on most bands. There are also other features, news and information about shortwave broadcasting, propagation, a solar activity report, monitoring notes, and extracts from schedules of the new A10 season.

The Sounds of Shortwave: Episode No. Two has been released, with Sounds of over 20 SW stations monitored from a field site in the hills near Melbourne. Each Sound is described, with station name, frequency, language and time monitored.

Hoe to Listen: You may download, listen to, save the episodes as MP3 files on your laptop, desktop, set up a podcast, or receive, save on your mobile phone or other portable internet-enabled digital device.

You may also subscribe via the site's RSS/Atom feed through free News Aggregation services - full details are at the site. You may choose to subscribe via the free Feedblitz service, where you willreceive Emailed links to the site whenever new episodes have been released,usually within a few minutes. You may connect to the Station as a f and gain free access to many interesting features. Full details are at the site. The station welcomes your feedback - this can be easily done at the site.

Australian DX Report (without music) is also available on-air, over WWCR Nashville, 0200-0215 on Sundays, on 4840, and on Mondays 1145-1200 on 15825, and via WWCR's streaming audio (live) at http://wwcr.com . (Bob Padula, Australia)

Nauen, Germany transmitter station antenna
Photo at: www.flickr.com/photos/30201906@N05/
(Francesco, Italy/playdx)

CBC audio clip
Radio Nord Quebec. 9625 kHz 2330 - 0000 in English. Announcer talks, to identification. Poor signal. The audioclip is available here:
http://blog.libero.it/radioascolto/8723830.html
(Francesco, Italy/playdx)

Earth Beat broadcast via All India Radio
9425, AIR-Bengaluru, National Channel, 1435-1500, April 21. The Wednesday edition of “Vividha” in English. Segment with: “This is Earth Beat. The show about the environment and our impact on it. Produced by Radio Netherlands Worldwide, in partnership with All India Radio.” Show about the future of hard copies of books and developments with digital books. Believe this is heard every two weeks. Signal fair. Nice to see such a partnership between stations to bring listeners a better variety of programming!(Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA)

Pirate logs
Captain Morgan, 6925AM, 0059, SIO 422. Signal strong, but strangely distorted, blues
music,Twilight Zone theme. Staion ID at 1:07, more blues (Fansome, PA/FRW 740)

MAC Shortwave, 6850.6AM, 0053-0133.+ Woman or young boy with station ID, followed by an instrumental piece with woodwind and percussion. Song of A Pirate's Life for Me, into ID announcing "You are listening to the Ultraman show." Boy telling some jokes and airing Beatles' tunes. Good signal. (Sedlacek, NE/FRW 740)

Outhouse Radio, 6925AM, 0109-0117.+ Poor-fair signal. Outhouse Radio was doing a
test with a homebrew transmitter. Played classic rock tunes by Brooker T and the MGs (Green Onions), Led Zepellin, and Eagles (Hotel California) (Greg Majewski CTFRW 740)

South American DXing
Bolivia, 6134.79, Radio Santa Cruz, 2304-2320 Noted RSC on a clear frequency for a change, with probably news in Spanish. At 2307, live comments continue by two males.(Chuck Bolland, FL)

6155.34, Radio Fides, 0943-0955, Not much to report on this except that there's a fair display of a signal on the frequency, but no audio heard. There's a possiblity that they haven't started operations yet? Rechecked until 1010, but never heard any audio. (Chuck Bolland, FL)

Brazil
4699.95, Radio San Miguel, 1010-1020, Another very threshold signal. Noted a male in Spanish comments. Very, very weak signal here. No other details. (Chuck Bolland,FL)