Mount Evelyn DX Report

  THE STATIONS THAT GOT AWAY This article first appeared in the August 2026 issue of my World of Shortwave Listening column for The Spectrum Monitor magazine. Further details on this excellent publication are available at www.thespectrummonitor.com One of the great conveniences of modern portable shortwave receivers is the ability to automatically scan the bands and store active frequencies in memory. Manufacturers call these features by various names: ATS (Auto Tuning Storage), ETM (Easy Tuning Mode), Auto Scan, and similar terms. The appeal is obvious: press a button, let the radio do the work, and return later to a list of stations currently on the air. Yet many shortwave listeners have noticed that stations clearly audible during manual tuning sometimes fail to appear in the radio’s automatically generated memory list. This raises an interesting question: can shortwave fading cause ATS or ETM to miss stations? The evidence suggests that the answer is yes. How ATS Works Manufact...

DX QUICK TIPS - August 20, 2026 Plus the SINPO Debate Continues I just realised it's been two months since my last DX Quick Tips blog post. Instead, I have been busy posting other things recently! So, let's remedy that right now. Here's what I have been listening to and monitoring over the past two months. 3250   KOREA, NORTH. KCBS - Pyongyang. 1420 Korean classical orchestral and opera selections. Fair signal, Jul 27. 👉 3310   BOLIVIA. R. Mosoj Chaski - Cochabamba. 1030 long talks in Spanish, possibly preaching.  Occasional brief spasms of Andean music. Fair to poor signal, Aug 8. 👉  3945   VANUATU. R. Vanuatu - Emten Lagoon . 0920 Program anncts in Bislama, then island music selections. 0931 Time check for 9:30 pm, then into the “Christian Radio” program. Despite today’s 6.1 earthquake off the coast of the island nation, the signal is strong, and it sounds like normal programming. However, 5020 SIBS-Honiara is currently off air. Aug 16. 4775   PERU. R....

  Radio Madagascar QSL, arriving in August, 1972. (Details below) OPENING THE LOGBOOK - AUGUST 1972 Each month, I open the old records to see what I (and others) heard decades ago. It has been fun looking back at old issues of the Australian DX News (ADXN - the newsletter of the Australian Radio DX Club), bringing back lots of memories. Here are some memories from August 1972—54 years ago!  All frequencies in kHz; all times are UTC (or GMT, as we used to say in those days!). The Price of the World Radio TV Handbook in 1973 An order form for the 1973 edition of the WRTH was included with the ADXN. The price was A$8.00....and that was for January airmail delivery! Too expensive? Well, you could order the book for A$5.00 via surface mail and receive it in April.  So, how does that compare with today's prices? I put three large language models (LLMs) to work to calculate what the same book in 1973 would cost in today's money. They gave me three different but similar answers, ...