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RADIO NEDERLAND ON 25 MHZ Recording from 1972 Here is another recording from my archive. In the days when the sunspot cycle was near its highs, the 11-metre shortwave broadcast band was active with many signals. The reception was usually strong and monitoring these signals at the top part of the shortwave frequency spectrum was a joy! I have written an article entitled "Whatever Happened to the 11-Meter Band" , about this shortwave broadcast band that officially still exists but which is no longer used by international broadcasters. It reflects on the popularity of this band in its heyday. The article is in this recent blog post. One such station to make use of the 11-metre shortwave band was Radio Nederland. This recording comes from their broadcast on October 29, 1972. The station signs on at 1100 UTC on 25620 kHz in the Dutch language. Coincidentally, in 1972, Radio Nederland also celebrated 25 years of operations in their overseas shortwave service. The re...

The Etón E1 receiver, as used by Ron Howard RON HOWARD'S DX QUICK TIPS April 20, 2020 My thanks to Ron Howard (CA, USA) for these hot tips that have just come through a few hours ago, all heard on April 19 from Asilomar State Beach, California. Ron used the Etón E1 receiver and a 30m long wire antenna. ⭐⭐ BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, April 19, from 1042 till blocked by start up at *1145 of PBS Yunnan (FM99); started well below threshold level audio and worked its way up to above threshold, but still unreadable; only able to make out a few words in English; usual formal with some pop songs in English; running later than usual. Has been a while since I last heard Bhutan. BOUGAINVILLE [non-log]. 3325, NBC Bougainville again silent on April 19, from 0824+. Later at 1022, heard the carrier of Voice of Indonesia, but today with no audio at all; for VOI audio I checked 4749.95 kHz at 1151 and noted VOI mixing with CNR1, both in Chinese. NBC Madang's (3260) long-standing absen...

DX QUICK TIPS April 18, 2020 Radio Vanuatu's new transmitter and antenna system appear to be giving the broadcaster some trouble on the shortwave bands! The station's registered 3945 kHz is producing harmonics on 7890, 11835 and even up as high as 15780 kHz, according to some reports! The engineers need to get onto this problem ASAP! Plus I have identified a few more new frequencies from the A20 changeover several weeks ago (see the recent  A20 - 100+ NEW FREQUENCIES MONITORED blog post). 7245   U.A.E. TWR - Dhabbaya. Amharic service to EAf at 0330 to 0345, fair signal, listed as only Mon/Tues in this language, Apr 14. 7254.94    NIGERIA. VoN - Abuja. African instrumentals at 0555, s/on and ID in Hausa at 0600 to WAf, fair signal, Apr 12. ⭐ 7890   VANUATU. R. Vanuatu - Emten Lagoon . 2nd harmonic of 3945 Khz loud and clear at 1120 UTC with island pops. Even stronger than the fundamental freq!!  Others have also noted 11835 and 15780 ...

RETRO RECEIVER REVIEW #15 Click on each photo for an enlarged view STROMBERG CARLSON AWP-8 by Craig Seager VK2HBT In what was a classic example of one-upmanship, several major manufacturers in the 1950s and 60s offered large “portatop” receivers in a type of suitcase arrangement, usually latchable at the front and covered in either leatherette or vinyl, and at the premium end, sometimes actual leather.   Zenith Corporation in the United States was probably the pioneer of the format, and models such as its Transoceanic 7G605 “Clipper” actually appeared as early as World War Two, with a fold-down front and sporting a woven aeroplane motif on the speaker cloth.  Post-war, the iconic U.S. manufacturer followed up with the 8G005Y, and in 1949 the G500.  The H500 “Super Trans Oceanic” came along in 1951 with a new look, but the brand didn’t have the styling to itself for much longer. Rival Hallicrafters launched its Trans World model in the mid-1950s, qui...

RADIO AUSTRALIA EVENT ANTENNA OVERVIEW Thanks to Lee VK3GK for this short video of the antennas used for the recent Radio Australia event using the call sign VI3RA. Take what will possibly be a final look at the feeders, switching boxes and antennas before they are pulled down and junked! Also here is the final transmission of the event weekend with, of course, the famous Radio Australia music box interval signal. More photos can be found at the web site of the Shepparton and District Amateur Radio Club: http://www.sadarc.org 73, Rob Wagner VK3BVW CLICK HERE for VK3BVW Live Stream (Clublog)   Subscribe!! Follow @robvk3bvw QRZ callsign lookup: Search Callsign lookups provided by qrz.com © Rob Wagner, Mount Evelyn DX Report, and contributors 2012-2020

A20 TRANSMISSION SEASON 100+ NEW FREQUENCIES MONITORED The new A20 transmission season began last weekend. I have been very busy scanning the international shortwave bands, checking out what has changed since the start of this new season. And, as expected, there has been much movement across the spectrum by most of the major players. Below is a list of some early observations made during the past few days. Where possible, for each item I have tried to identify the former frequency used in the B19 season. But this can be quite hard at times because schedules can be complex, or drastically changed by the broadcaster, making it difficult to arrive at direct comparisons. There are well over 100 frequency changes observed below, so if you are missing your favourite station, then it maybe listed below! Additionally, in my travels across the bands, I observed several interesting signals that were not on new frequencies. These include 5995 kHz Radio Mali, 11780 kHz Radio Na...