Mount Evelyn DX Report

WOMBATS LISTENING TO  THE TECSUN PL-680 This past weekend, I was away on a country photography shoot with my local camera club. After that ended on Sunday, I took a few extra days away to continue shooting my own landscape photography projects in beautiful Central Victoria. Before leaving home, I threw in the Tecsun PL-680 receiver and 45 meters (approx 148 feet) of antenna wire. So, on Monday I found myself deep in the middle of the Wombat State Forest, about three hours drive from Mount Evelyn. Although we have long-passed mid-winter and the shortest day, signals during our afternoons on the 60, 49 and 41-meter bands appeared to be holding up rather well. I suspect the continuing low sunspot numbers are helping with propagation here for these lower frequencies. As we move into August, in southeastern Australia we can expect these daytime signals to weaken further and eventually disappear until their return early May 2020. Here's a list of some of the frequencies observe...

Some serious corrosion of the transmitter mast (Click on the images for a larger view) A VISIT TO THE RADIO COOK ISLANDS  MEDIUMWAVE TRANSMITTER SITE by Chris Rogers (Guest Contributor) Although not a shortwave topic, I am sure many readers will be interested in this Radio Cook Islands report concerning their mediumwave transmitter. - Rob There has been a lot of news lately on the internet about the impending closure of Radio Cook Islands medium wave service on 630 kHz, which will be replaced by an FM service on the main Island on the frequency of 101 MHz. Whilst on a DXpedition earlier this month in Rarotonga, my long time DXing partner and friend Dave Headland decided to visit the mediumwave transmitter site located at Matavera about 5 kilometres from the main town of Avarua on the Island of Rarotonga. After a phone call to Bluesky Telecommunications who look after the technical side of the Government run Radio Cook Islands a technician met us at ...