Mount Evelyn DX Report

 AKASHVANI LOOKING FOR RECEPTION REPORTS From our friend in New Delhi, India, Alokesh Gupta, comes this advice with the opportunity to receive "real" QSL cards for reception reports. Here's Alokesh's note: Akashvani (All India Radio) is looking for reception reports for the following transmissions. All reception reports will be verified by paper QSL cards. UTC Language kHz (Tx site) Target Area 0100-0130 Sindhi 9860 (B) Pakistan 0100-0230 Tibetan 11710 (D) Tibet 0300-0430 Baluchi 11805 (D) Pakistan 0430-0600 Dari 11805 (D) Afghanistan 0430-0600 Pashtu 15185 (B) Afghanistan 0900-1030 Nepali 11865 (D), 15410 (B) Nepal 1030-1200 Chinese 15410 (B) China ...

  NEW! VOACAP ONLINE TOOLS FOR SWL For many years now, I have been using the  VOACAP propagation tools for both my amateur radio and shortwave listening activities. These fabulous resources help me understand the signal paths from transmitter sites anywhere in the world to my home QTH.   They also allow forward predictions of likely propagation given frequencies, antenna types, time of year, time of day, sunspot numbers, short- and long-path conditions, local noise levels, and many other qualifiers.  These tools have recently undergone an upgrade to their user interface, starting with the amateur radio propagation charts. Now, the tools designed explicitly for shortwave listeners are available for you to enjoy. I have had access to the new SWL features for a while and have watched them being refined over recent months. Now, these tools are available to all listeners. But, rather than me banging on about the features of VOACAP, below is the official announcement from ...

Radio Nepal   OPENING THE LOGBOOK - NOVEMBER 1971 In October, we launched a new series on our MEDXR blog, which received strong positive reactions from our regular readers. Each month, I open up the old records to see what I (and others) heard during that month. It has been fun looking back at old issues of the Australian DX News (the newsletter of the Australian Radio DX Club), bringing back lots of memories. Here are some memories from  November 1971—54 years ago!  All frequencies in kHz; all times are UTC (or GMT, as we used to say in those days!). The Logbook As we all know, seasonal changes are required for the transmission schedules of international broadcasters. So, a new transmission period began on November 7, 1971, and ended on March 4, 1972. Many of us were logging and reporting new frequencies during November. Although we were on the back end of Sunspot Cycle 20, reception conditions continued to hold out on 13 mb, where 29 frequencies were reported during Nov...

  QSLS FROM THE MAILBOX Over the last few months, there has been a steady stream of "real" paper QSLs (not the eQSL stuff). All of them are through contacts in the ham bands. While broadcasters in many of these countries have left the shortwave bands, amateur radio operators are keeping these far-off countries on the air. The cards come from exotic places and remote islands, are brightly coloured and are great additions to my collection.  Here are a few to share with you, focusing on Africa. Click each card to view an enlarged version. AFRICAN QSLs ETHIOPIA ALGERIA BOTSWANA TANZANIA ALGERIA UGANDA NAMIBIA LIBERIA MOZAMBIQUE A lovely folding card First photo is the outside front and back, then the two inside pages. Let me know if you would like to see some more recent QSLs that I've received from other parts of the world. We might feature the Pacific Islands next time. 73 and good DX to you, my friend! Rob Wagner VK3BVW Current local time in Mount Evelyn, Austr...