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SHORTWAVE AUSTRALIA A Station Tour Video of Transmitters and Antennas Dave Stuart VK3ASE, the owner of the low-powered Shortwave Australia radio station, has just posted a YouTube video that is a fascinating look at what can be done with recycled equipment and smart technical ingenuity! The station is running 100w AM on 4835 and 2310 kHz in the local evenings (approximately 0800-1400 UTC) Programming consists of just about anything you can imagine. The audio quality is excellent, too!  Enjoy this video as Dave takes us on a tour around the shipping container and the bush farm that is the home of Shortwave Australia! Check out the Shortwave Australia Facebook page HERE . 73 and good DX to you all, Rob Wagner VK3BVW Follow @robvk3bvw CLICK HERE for VK3BVW Live Stream (Clublog) QRZ callsign lookup: Search Callsign lookups provided by qrz.com © Rob Wagner, Mount Evelyn DX Report, and contributors 2012-2023

RETRO RECEIVER REVIEW #19 ZENITH TRANSOCEANIC B600 by CRAIG SEAGER VK2HBT For this Retro Review instalment, we skip across the Pacific and look at a receiver that isn’t all that commonly found in Australia, but has certainly enjoyed ubiquity, longevity and a worldwide reputation. The Zenith Transoceanic series of portable receivers stands as iconic in radio communications history, and is perhaps the most well-known product line of Zenith Radio, incorporated in 1923, and rising out of the ashes of Chicago Radio Labs, which had been around since the end of the Great War. Quite apart from the Transoceanic series, Zenith made a huge range of domestic receivers, ranging from handheld transistors through to giant consoles.  This ornate piece of furniture from 1927 probably cost the same as a house, and its appealing aesthetics gained it the distinction of being the only radio-related furniture allowed to be displayed in the writer’s living areas over the span of a 30-year...

  DX QUICK TIPS January 11, 2023 Elevated solar flux numbers have seen some great reception conditions on frequencies above 13 MHz during the past week. As I  write this, the SFI is 202, with smoothed sunspot numbers hovering around 201, the A Index = 6 and the K Index = 2.  Shortwave broadcast stations have been received here in southeastern Australia with very solid signals on the 19, 16 and 13-meter bands. And on the amateur bands, there have been fabulous openings on the 17, 15, 12 and 10-meter bands. I even had a great run of transequatorial DX up on 6 meters (50 MHz) one afternoon with 8 Japanese and Korean QSOs......on the 100m long horizontal loop, no less! ⭐⭐ 2310   AUSTRALIA. Shortwave Australia - Bendigo, VIC. 1150 English to whoever happens to be listening!! This station runs on this 120mb outlet in parallel to the more regularly heard 4835 kHz. Programming was an old British radio pop show, complete with all the old canned anncts and adverts. Every 10 m...

Belgrade PTT (former) YUGOSLAVIA 1973 Recording The 20th-century history of the region formerly known as Yugoslavia is both rich and complex. Back in 2009, my wife and I travelled through some of the republics that once formed Yugoslavia. Today, each country is a fascinating journey through history, culture and politics against a backdrop of ethnic tensions and wars. If you get the chance to visit Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia and Northern Macedonia, I am sure you will love it. Such beautiful countries, rich cultures and lovely people. This recording of the Belgrade (Beograd) Postal, Telegraph and Telephone communications service was one of the hardest to salvage from my original reel-to-reel tape media. I spent around three hours on this 15-second voice mirror! Cleaning up involved the removal of multiple heterodynes at different frequencies while trying to avoid altering or damaging the intelligibility of the content. The upper sideband (USB...

Scheveningen Radio Netherlands 1972 Recording A very well-known coastal radio station in Europe was Scheveningen Radio in the Netherlands. This station had a long and distinguished history until its closure at the beginning of 1999.  Its presence was heard in many parts of the world across mediumwave, shortwave and VHF using CW, radiotelephony, and SITOR (telex), using its callsign PCH. Here is my recording of Scheveningen Radio from 1972: Scheveningen Radio Video A short YouTube video, mostly in Dutch, is worth checking out because you get a chance to see the station in action, the equipment that was used, the various roles that the station played and watch people doing their stuff!    View it at  https://youtu.be/KaEiwKeQexw You can learn more about this coastal radio station through the following links: https://trafficlist.altervista.org/scheveningen-radio-pch/ http://www.coastalradio.org.uk/worldcoastal/scheveningenradio/pch.htm Other Utility stations in this s...

PTT Station Voice Mirror Paris, France 1972 Recording The French telecommunications voice mirror (looped tape announcement) was well known and regularly heard, even "Downunder" in Australia. Interestingly, at the time of this recording (Nov, 1972), Solar Cycle #20 had begun its slow decline. The cycle lasted 11.4 years, beginning in October 1964 and ending in March 1976. Comparison with other cycles shows that geomagnetic activity during the declining phase of cycle 20 (1973–1975) was unusually high. [1] For example, just three months before this recording was made, an extremely active region, McMath 11976, produced a historic series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in August 1972. One CME travelled to Earth in a record low of 14.6 hours and produced a strong geomagnetic storm that caused widespread electrical and communications grid disturbances and the accidental detonation of numerous U.S. Navy magnetic sea mines in North Vietnam. [2] This strong solar act...

Lyngby Radio Denmark 1972 Recording Lyngby Radio (call sign OXZ) is a Danish coast radio station, operating on MF and VHF. Lyngby Radio stopped HF service on 1 October 2009. Prior to its closure, Lyngby Radio HF was one of four Danish coast radio stations, the others being Skagen Radio, Blåvand Radio and Rønne Radio. All these stations are now remote-controlled from Lyngby Radio. (Wikipedia) This is my 1972 recording of Lyngby Radio, heard in the Danish language: Other Utility stations in this series of blog posts: Gander Radio, Newfoundland, Canada Rügen Radio - German Democratic Republic Tel Aviv, Israel PTT New York Radio VOLMET Brazzaville, République Populaire du Congo Shannon Aeradio Lyngby Radio, Denmark Paris PTT Station, France Scheveningen Radio, The Netherlands Belgrade PTT, (former) Yugoslavia 73 and good DX to you all, Rob Wagner VK3BVW Follow @robvk3bvw CLICK HERE for VK3BVW Live Stream (Clublog) QRZ callsign lookup: Search Callsign loo...