Mount Evelyn DX Report

  Radio Madagascar QSL, arriving in August, 1972. (Details below) OPENING THE LOGBOOK - AUGUST 1972 Each month, I open the old records to see what I (and others) heard decades ago. It has been fun looking back at old issues of the Australian DX News (ADXN - the newsletter of the Australian Radio DX Club), bringing back lots of memories. Here are some memories from August 1972—54 years ago!  All frequencies in kHz; all times are UTC (or GMT, as we used to say in those days!). The Price of the World Radio TV Handbook in 1973 An order form for the 1973 edition of the WRTH was included with the ADXN. The price was A$8.00....and that was for January airmail delivery! Too expensive? Well, you could order the book for A$5.00 via surface mail and receive it in April.  So, how does that compare with today's prices? I put three large language models (LLMs) to work to calculate what the same book in 1973 would cost in today's money. They gave me three different but similar answers, ...

BRAZIL VIA ANTARCTICA Chasing Rádio Saturno Rádio Saturno is an unlicensed independent broadcaster based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. We do not know the exact location, and station details are sparse! Operating on both FM and shortwave, it provides a continuous music service and has developed an extensive online presence, including internet streaming and social media. I have been chasing this station for some time now. Finally, the “propagation gods” looked favourably upon me last night. Here are the notes from my logbook: 6149.96   BRAZIL. R. Saturno - Belo Horizonte, MG. 1005 Pop music and occasional anncts. Easily checked and confirmed via the KiwiSDR in Goiania, Brazil. Pleased to finally hear this after much trying. I first noted a fair-to-weak signal 35 min after sunrise in Belo Horizonte. It faded by 1020. I was expecting the reception to occur earlier in the evening, not this late. Jul 22. I knew our New Zealand colleagues could regularly hear this station, but I hadn't had a...

  OPENING THE LOGBOOK - JULY 1972 Each month, I open the old records to see what I (and others) heard decades ago. It has been fun looking back at old issues of the Australian DX News (ADXN - the newsletter of the Australian Radio DX Club), bringing back lots of memories. Here are some memories from July 1972—54 years ago!  All frequencies in kHz; all times are UTC (or GMT, as we used to say in those days!). Winter DX at its Best! - The Latin American Survey The August 1972 issue of the Australian DX News was a big one, with every section chock-full of great DX news from throughout July! A special inclusion was the Latin American Survey, which was conducted in June and July and subsequently published in the August ADXN. It is fascinating to note the range of broadcasters, many now long-forgotten, that were heard by Australian DXers located in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia!  The survey covered the 90, 60, and 49...