Mount Evelyn DX Report

  Reach Beyond transmitter building and curtain array. Reach Beyond Australia B24 Broadcast Schedule October 27, 2024 to March 29, 2025 The new B24 transmission season for RBA began on Sunday, October 27. The station is always interested in reception reports and is an excellent QSLer! Send reports to radio@reachbeyond.org.au Click the Download button to download the complete schedule  as a PDF in language format or region and time format. My thanks to Margaret Penfold (Listener Correspondent) at Reach Beyond Australia for this advance information. 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

  RADIO JAPAN (NHK WORLD) B24 TRANSMISSION SCHEDULE The new B24 transmission season begins on Sunday, October 27. It is excellent to see NHK releasing their new schedule early before the season starts.  On the NHK World - Radio Japan website, the latest transmission schedule is notoriously hard to find amongst all the other "stuff"!! It's a well-hidden link! You can download a PDF of the entire schedule by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button below.  And here's the complete schedule below: 73.  I wish you good DXing during B24! 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

  AN INTERNATIONAL VISITOR TO THE RADIO SHACK Recently, my wife and I were delighted to receive a visit from long-time Japanese DXer Hiroo Nakagawa 7M3MJO and his wife, Kaoru-san. They are from Yokohama and were touring through Melbourne and Sydney for a few days.   We had a lovely time over afternoon tea. Of course, our five-year-old twin granddaughters also provided plenty of entertainment, including displaying their skills at reciting their numbers in Japanese and playing games with Kaoru-san!  Hiroo-san visited the Mount Evelyn radio shack, where we talked about receivers, plus shortwave and mediumwave reception in Australia. I also showed Hiroo-san my current antenna setup, and we looked through a few of my old verification letters from 1970s Latin American shortwave broadcasters. Starting out in shortwave DXing, Hiroo-san now spends much of his time DXing mediumwave bands and FM-DX. He has a fine collection of older receivers, including Icom, Yaesu, Sony, Panasonic,...

  RADIO EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA'S NEW TRANSMITTERS Radio New Zealand Pacific is not the only station refreshing its high-powered sender. On June 24, the Radiotelevisión Española board of directors approved the purchase and installation of the first of five new transmitters planned for the Noblejas site of Radio Exterior de España (REE).  A June press release indicated that the current stock is subject to frequent breakdowns and has passed its useful lifespan. The press release did not indicate the output power or manufacturer of the new transmitters, although we would expect them to be DRM-capable.  In 1971, 350 kW transmitters were brought online at Noblejas. However, due to a severe funding shortage, REE’s shortwave service was suddenly halted on October 15, 2014. The closure only lasted two months before officially reopening on December 18 with Spanish-only broadcasts aimed at Spanish fishermen and merchant sailors. It now appears that the station’s administrators have chan...