Mount Evelyn DX Report

Bird's eye view of Gangtok City from Ganeshtok - Courtesy of Subhrajyoti07 (Creative Commons  Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International ) DX QUICK TIPS May 25, 2019 Despite alarmist predictions of propagation disturbances from solar activity posted in various Facebook forums recently, reception conditions have been most pleasing at Mount Evelyn this past week! I am delighted with these loggings below: 👍 3219.9   D.P.R.KOREA. PBS Pyongyang Pansong - Hamhung. A range of instrumental and vocal musical selections at 1815, weak signal. Runs // 3320 where it was much stronger and bang on frequency! May 21. 👍👍 3310   BOLIVIA. R. Mosoj Chaski - Cochabamba. Long Spanish talks from 1100 to f/out 1117, mainly female speaker. A weak signal in amongst the neighbour’s TVI hash, May 19. 👍 3325   INDONESIA. VoI - Palangkaraya. German service at 1815 with softly spoken female announcer and occasional musical interludes. Fair to poor signal, May 21. 👍 3910 ...

TESTING A NEW DX LOCATION I am looking for a quiet location to hear weak signals on the shortwave broadcast band. I have with me the trusty (and rather beaten up) old Tecsun PL-680 portable receiver and a reel of wire.  I head off to the Killara railway station site on the old Warburton railway line, which closed in 1965. It's a rural location but is it a good place to do some serious DXing? Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend everyone! Rob Wagner VK3BVW   Subscribe!! Follow @robvk3bvw QRZ callsign lookup: Search Callsign lookups provided by qrz.com © Rob Wagner, Mount Evelyn DX Report, and contributors 2012-2019

THE KENWOOD R5000 GOES BUSH Some regular readers of this MEDXR blog will remember when I picked up a Kenwood R5000 cheaply at a local Hamfest about three years back. It was in pretty bad shape so I had to do a bit of a clean-up job on it ( See YouTube videos ). Along the way, I also installed the plug/socket accessories for 12v operation with the intent of 1) reducing the build-up of heat from the inbuilt power transformer, and 2) taking it out on DX field trips.  Well, yesterday (May 1) I finally got around to trying the R5000 outdoors. It was the perfect day, too. A warm sunny 22˚C autumn afternoon. I visited the Eagle Nest picnic ground, which is only about 10 minutes from my home and part of the Dandenong Ranges National Park. Armed with lunch, water, an old generation MacBook Air, a 12v SLA battery, a reel of antenna wire and other bits-and-pieces, it was an easy drive to this electrically very quiet location. May in Australia is the last month of autumn. In our af...