Shortwave Central Poll Results - October 18, 2009

From our latest Shortwave Cental Blog poll. And the question was:

What is your favorite topic from Shortwave Central ?

Station News 39 (38%)

Broadcast Schedules 51 (50%)

Blog Logs 8 (7%)

QSLing Tips & Information 37 (36%)

Clandestine/Pirate 24 (23%)

Amateur Radio 14 (13%)

Hot Spot DXing 17 (16%)

Shortwave Blog "Bytes" 10 (9%)

Shortwave Media Programming 18 (17%)

I Like the Mix 22 (21%)

101 responses

Thank to all who took our toll. Standby for another poll shortly for the world's leading shortwave hobby internet site.

JSWC 2009 QSL- Year of the Ox

JSWC QSL 2009
"This is the Year of the Ox, in the twelve signs of the Japanese zodiac. So our QSL for 2009 is as shown in the cover of our January issue bulletin. We send this beautiful verification cards to all correct reports to the Asian DX news in HCJB DX Partyline (every 4th Saturday) and our segments of AWR's Wavescan (the first Sunday of the month).

Send your reports to JSWC c/o T. Ohake, 5-31-6 Tamanawa, Kamakura 247- 0071, Japan. Please enclose 1 IRC. (No more US one dollar bill, which does not cover an airmail stamp.)"
(Toshimichi Ohtake-JPN, JSWC)

I've posted a picture of the QSL design at the DXplorer Yahoo group website at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DXplorer/ (Jerry Berg-USA, DXplorer Dec 29/Top News-BC-DX 893)

Antarctica on 14.243 MHz to January 5, 2009

KC4, Antarctica - Dr. Helmuth Spieler W6KDX will be returning to work on the South Pole Telescope at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (IOTA AN-016, AA K-08, WAP USA-21) active to January 5, 2009. He hopes to re-activate KC4AAA in his spare time on SSB in the vicinity of 14.243 MHz.

Please direct any inquries to KC4AAA2008@gmail.com. QSL via K1IED. To learn about the exciting South Pole Telescope project, visit pole.uchicago.edu/ [K2ARB]
[ICPO Bulletin December 4, 2008/ODXA-Listening In, Jan 2009]