Mount Evelyn DX Report

STATION NEWS AND THE LOG BOOK ...AND A SPECIAL VISITOR October 21, 2017 A VISIT WITH VICTOR GOONETILLEKE The legendary South Asian DXer, shortwave listener, amateur radio operator (4S7VK) and all-round-good-guy, Victor Goonetilleke has been here in Melbourne over the past two months visiting his daughter and her lovely young family. I have known Victor since the early 70s when we were both strapping young lads, and we corresponded occasionally either directly or through the pages of the Australian DX News. Many years later, I had several contacts with him on the 20m amateur band, which I was most excited about! And then about three years ago, I got to meet Victor face-to-face on his first visit to Melbourne. On that occasion, we spent the morning visiting the Reach Beyond Australia (formerly HCJB Aust.) studios, lunch and later back to my radio shack. Well, Victor has been back in town and we caught up again at his daughter's home this week. We yacked away, lik...

USING A MIXING CONSOLE IN THE RADIO SHACK As a result of numerous responses to another video I posted on my YouTube channel a few weeks ago, I have now prepared a video that gives you a detailed look at using the Behringer Xenyx Q802 USB mixing console. The unit is wired up to four receivers, then sent off to a pair of powered speakers. I cover how the mixer is connected to the radios and the speakers, explain the various controls available to the shortwave radio listener and amateur radio operator, the advantages of using this system in the radio shack, and offer a few tips when buying a mixing console such as this Behringer unit. If you have a few receivers kicking around in your radio shack, this is one way to hook them all together and send their audio into your favourite monitoring speakers. Thanks for taking the time to watch this little video. As always, comments and feedback are most welcome. 73 and good DX to you all, Rob Wagner VK3BVW Follow ...

MORNING DX AT HARRIMANS POINT Here's a quick report on an hour of DXing at Harrimans Point in central Victoria. This location is part of the Waranga Basin and Waranga Dam. I was on my way back home after a photographic trip and saw an opportunity to string out an antenna and sit by this large and peaceful body of water. No power lines around for kilometres. An electrically very quiet location. The radio in use is the Tecsun PL-680. I was listening between 2240 and 2345 UTC (between 9:40 and 10:45 am AEDT), so the 49 and 41 meter bands were closing fast (The signals were literally vanishing as I was listening!!). But there was still some life left in the 31 mb before that band would also fold up for the morning. Here's a video of a few 31mb signals heard towards the end of the listening session. And below the video is a summary of all stations heard that morning, including the fast fading 6 and 7 mHz signals. PLUS, there are some notes on the previous day's ...