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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Shortwave Central QSLs

Station: - Channel Africa (via Sentech)
Date: - 22-01-2009
Frequency: - 17770 kHz (Telefunken)
Time: - 1500-1555 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Verification Letter verified by Kathy Otto, Broadcast Planning, Sentech. We are happy to verify these details. The transmitter is a 500 kW ABB, located at the Meyerton Transmitting Station, geographical coordinates 26S35 28E08.

Station: - NHK World Radio Japan
Date: - 16-01-2009
Frequency: - 21560 kHz (FRA)
Time: - 1400-1430 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - “Waiting for Spring” (Hokkaido).

Station: - Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Date: - 18-01-2009
Frequency: - 12080 kHz (Tinang 1, Philippines)
Time: - 1500-1530 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Card Eight – Dutch delivery bicycle.

Station: - TRT Voice of Turkey
Date: - 19-02-2009
Frequency: - 11735 kHz (EMR)
Time: - 1330-1425 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Cyclists in Karabuk.

Station: - China Radio International
Date: - 07-03-2009
Frequency: - 15625 kHz
Time: - 0830-0855 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Beijing 2008 – One World One Dream - National Aquatics Centre.

Station: - Deutsche Welle
Date: - 18-01-2009
Frequency: - 17710 kHz (Trincomalee)
Time: - 0900-1000 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - 100 Jahre Nauen.

Station: - Radio Sweden
Date: - 27-02-2009
Frequency: - 9400 kHz
Time: - 1400 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - TERACOM, Controlroom of Hoerby shortwave station.

Station: - Bible Voice
Date: - 19-02-2009
Frequency: - 7485 kHz (Tashkent, India 7)
Time: - 1415-1430UTC
Language: - Nepali
Description: - Bible Voice Broadcasting. Reaching Nations… one person
at a time.

Station: - Family Radio
Date: - 19-02-2009
Frequency: - 13700 kHz (Wertachal)
Time: - 1400-1430 UTC
Language: - Hindi
Description: - 1973 THREE DECADES OF FAITHFUL SERVICE 2003

Station: - Radio Slovakia International
Date: - 13-01-2009
Frequency: - 15460 kHz
Time: - 0700-0730 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Roman-Catholic Church of Holy Ghost in Zehra.

Station: - Voice of Vietnam
Date: - 28-01-2009
Frequency: - 9550 kHz
Time: - 1600-0630 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - TNVN Verification Card.

Station: - HCJB Global Australia
Date :- 05-03-2009
Frequency:- 15400 kHz (Transmitting from Kununurra in the northwest of
Australia)
Time: - 1315-1330 UTC
Language:- English
Description: - Men at Work building a new home.

Station: - HCJB Global Australia
Date :- 01-02-2009
Frequency:- 11750 kHz (Transmitting from Kununurra in the northwest of
Australia)
Time: - 0815-0845 UTC
Language:- English
Description: - These metal statures were donated to the aboriginal
people by large mining company.

Station: - NHK World Radio Japan
Date: - 07-03-2009
Frequency: - 15215 kHz (Germany)
Time: - 1345-1430 UTC
Language: - Hindi
Description: - “Ice Hockey in Gum Boots” (Kushiro-cho, Hokkaido).

Station: - NHK World Radio Japan
Date: - 19-01-2009
Frequency: - 11815 kHz (Yamata)
Time: - 0900-0930 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - “Waiting for Spring” (Hokkaido).

Station: - Radio Canada International
Date: - 17-03-2009
Frequency: - 6165 kHz (via Emirler relay, Turkey)
Time: - 0100 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Maple Leaf Mailbag Special QSL verified by Bill Westenhaver. 60 Years of Radio Worldwide! Radio Canada International is proud to offer its loyal listeners a series of exclusive QSL cards to mark its 60th anniversary. For 60 years, RCI has been bringing you rich, diverse radio that today include over 300 hours of pogramming each week. Tune in weekly to Ian Johns and his Maple Leaf Mailbag team on shortwave, satellite or http://www.rcinet.ca/

Station: - Radio Free Asia
Date: - 17-03-2009
Frequency: - 13605 kHz (IBB Tinian)
Time: - 0100-0200 UTC
Language: - Uyghur
Description: - This card commemorates 2009 as the Year of the Ox which began with the Chinese New Year on Monday, January 26, 2009. This QSL is issued for all confirmed reception reports from February- April 2009.

Station: - Voice of Russia
Date: - 05-03-2009
Frequency: - 7280 kHz
Time: - 1500 UTC
Language: - Hindi
Description: - The Voice of Russia, 29 October 1929 - 29 October 2009.

Station: - Voice of America
Date: - 06-01-2009
Frequency: - 11550 kHz
Time: - 1600 UTC
Language: - Bengali
Description: - Voice of America. Powerful transmitters and curtain antennas towering hundreds of feet high beam VOA shortwave radio programs to listeners around the world from U. S. Government international broadcasting stations.

Station: - KBS World Radio
Date: - 07-03-2008
Frequency: - 7275 kHz
Time: - 1800-1900 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Suncheon Bay - Registered of one of five coastal wetlands protected by the Ramsar Convention in 2006, Suncheon Bay is famous for having the largest reed fields in Korea and for being a natural habitat for more than 200 kinds of rare birds and 184 species of halophytes.

Station: - Radio Taiwan International
Date: - 27-01-2009
Frequency: - 9785 kHz
Time: - 1600 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Trgl. philippinensis. Taiwan – the Orchid Kingdom – has a history of orchid cultivation going back a hundred years and is the world’s largest orchid exporter. Trichoglottis philippinensis is one of the most common flowers in the medium altitude mountain regions of Taiwan between 700 and 2500 meters above sea level. Enjoying humid and cool conditions, this orchid is not large but is exquisitely formed.

Station: - Radio Taiwan International
Date: - 17-01-2009
Frequency: - 9785 kHz
Time: - 1600 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Steere’s Liocichla. Steere’s Liocichla belongs to the Timaliidae family. It frequents coniferous and deciduous forests on the slopes of hills and mountains of 900 to 2,500 meters. Steere’s Liocichla has a short, squat body and a yellow spot at the corner of its mouth. People who are unfamiliar with the bird often mistake it for a mountain rat, due to its active personality and love for meandering in ad out of forests.

Station: - Adventist World Radio
Date: - 07-03-2009
Frequency: - 12120 kHz (100 kW, Agat - Guam)
Time: - 1100-1200 UTC
Language: - Chinese
Description: - Special Edition QSL. AWRS QSL # 3, 1995. From May 1 through July 31, 1995, AWR will test broadcast to North Africa from Gibraltar on a Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation 2 kw medium wave transmitter on 1485 kHz. Programs in English, French and Arabic will air between 1800 and 2200 hours UTC. AWR is pleased to commemorate this event with this QSL card, depicting a pencil drawing of Gibraltar by Daniela Lombini of Italy.

Station: - Adventist World Radio
Date: - 16-02-2009
Frequency: - 11675 kHz (125 kW, Wertachtal – Germany)
Time: - 1500-1530 UTC
Language: - Nepali
Description: - QSL STAMPS. AWR QSL # 1, Nov 2000. 1. the EKKO stamps were first issued by “The EKKO Company” of Chicago in 1924to verify the reception of radio stations. The EKKO stamp on this QSL card verified the reception of station WEMC, located at the Seventh - day Adventist College (now known as Andrews University) in Berrien Springs, Michigan. 2. The series of QSL stamps showing Ekala was issued by AWR-Asia in Poona, India in conjunction with the 1977 DX Contest. Ekala is the SLBC transmitter site in Sri Lanka that carried AWR programming. 3. The QSL stamp showing Guam verifies the reception of AWR Asia KSDA at Agat on the island of Guam. This series of QSL stamps was issued in 1996.
(Mukesh Kumar,The Cosmos Club)