Re: [DX] Koksin maadoitus
Jos sä vedit sen hangen päälle niin se käytännössä ilmassa eikä mikään LWOG..
Ja antennin korkeus maasta ei kuulema ole se mikä silmä näkee vaan todellinen
korkeus riippuu täysin maaperän koostumuksesta- niin expertit väittää. Ja
varmasti pitää paikkansakin.
Itse en ole päässyt kokeilemaan BOG tai LWOG antennejä. Piti aina mennä tien
yli tai jotain.. Ja Siuntiossa mennään ylös alas melkein koko matkalta- ei sovi
sinnekään
Ens kesänä meillä IPAn kanssa on tarkoitus tehdä koksi-BOG ja experimenteerata
sen ympäriltä. Joten ohjelmaa riittää Jopa liikaakin..
73'
RS
- Original Message -
From: Ilpo J Leppänen i...@iki.fi
To: Suomalaisten DX-lista dx@hard-core-dx.com
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [DX] Koksin maadoitus
Minulla näin pääasiassa pelkän tekniikan harrastajana ei ole samankaltaista
kokemusta käytännöstä kuin monilla muilla, mutta mieleen on kuitenkin
jäänyt mm. seuraavanlainen vertailu jostain yli kymmenen vuoden takaa.
Vedin kyntöpellolle usean sadan metrin matkalle jotakuinkin 2m korkeuteen
keppien varaan 1,5 mm langan ja loppuosan n. 400 metristä samaan korkeuteen
metsään.
Sitten lumen tultua vedin samaan suuntaan hangelle 2 parisen
puhelinkaapelin kaikki parit rx-päästä yhdessä ja toimi antennina tasan
yhtä hyvin. Tuon jälkeen en ole viitsinyt antennilankaa pellolla mihinkään
nostaa koska pääsee vähemmällä kun se kumminkin on kerättävä kesäksi pois.
73,s IJL
Moro kaikki!
Mielenkiintoisia juttuja, mutta varmasti kaikki vaikuttaa kaikkeen eli
antennista saatava sinkku riippuu (erittäin) paljon
kokonaisolosuhteista. Mun Aasialanka (lwog) on nyt pääosin pellolla
veden alla - ei pusikossa - ja toimii. Ja lw on tarkistettu: pusikossa
edelleen (toimii huonommin...) ;-)
Käännepistettä ja valoisampia aikoja (keskitalven anomaalisuus vähenee)
odotellessa;
73 TK
Roland Sandberg 12/16/11 7:50 AM
Nää tekniikkajutut ovat sen verran mielenkiintoisia että ne ovat
saaneet niskalenkin minuun- kuuntelut ovat jääneet melkein tyysin
taka-alalle...
Mielenkiintoista on lukea esim. että joku kaveri testaa jotain tietyllä
tavalla. Sit kun avaa jonkun toisen tekemä juttu samasta aiheesta niin
siellä sanotaan ei sitä testiä voida tehdä tolla tavalla. Jutut ovat
täynnä vastakkainasettelua.. ja yhdessä jutussa väitettiin antenni
pitää sijoittaa vapaaseen tilaan pois puista ja pusikoista- toinen
väittää puut ja pusikot eivät vaikuta huomattavasti antennin
toimintaan. No- ainakin mä laitan antennin pusikkoon kun ei ole muita
paikkoja laittaa. En mä ainakaan rupea siivoamaan naapurin metsää... voi
tulla huomauttamista.
Mut kuten luki yhdessä jutussa-näin todettiin lopussa The name of
the game is experimentation
73' RS
Original Message -
From: Sven-Erik Hjelt
To: Suomalaisten DX-lista
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: [DX] Koksin maadoitus
Alkavat nämä tekniikka-miettelöt olla jo sen verran pitkiä, että niistä
saisi varmaan useammankin jutun lehteen - sattui olemaan lähes viikon
mittainen verkko- ja sähköpostin toimintahäiriö ja oli hiukan työlästä
perata läpi nämä tekniset tarinat pois muun postin joukosta. Silti
rauhallista joulunodotusta kaikille kuuntelijoille ja
tekniikka-faneille toivoo
SEH
14. joulukuuta 2011 8.05 Martti Karimies kirjoitti:
Tervehdys kaikille,
kokeilin miten RG8/U koksi menee tällaiseen pieneen alumiiniputkeen
kooltaan
10*10 mm*1, sen voi helposti syöttää toisesta päästä sisään ja se
liikkuu
putken sisällä kevyesti. Eiköhän tästä synny Faradayn häkki jonka
sitten voi
maadoittaa, mutta ilmeisesti vain yhdestä pisteestä, tai sitten se
maadoittuu itsekseen pistemäisesti joka on se huonompi vaihtoehto.
Väliaineeksi riittänee tuo koksin pintamateriaali, vai riittääkö?
Putki
maksaa alvillisena n. 1,1 euroa/jm, eli kyllä tälle ratkaisulle
tulee hintaa
yli 2 euroa/jm. Mutta on koksi kyllä sitten paremmassa suojassakin.
Rakennuspuolella tunnetaan ilmiö nimeltä kosketuskorroosio joka
epäyhtenäisessä materiaalissa, kuten kevytsoraharkko aiheuttaa
voimakasta
pistemäistä sähkökemiallista korroosiota, terässillat ja laivan
rungot
korroosiosuojataan yleensä yhdestä pisteestä sinkkiharkkojen avulla,
joten
olisi hyvä (myös maadoittaa?) epäjalomman metallin avulla (sinkki)
korroosionsuojata tällainen putki vain yhdestä pisteestä.
Ensi viikonloppuna on tarkoitus ensimmäistä kertaa elämässä rakentaa
QTH
työpaikalle ja siellä tällaista suojausta voin jatkossa käyttää
osalla
matkaa RFI:ä vähentämässä.
MKA
-Alkuperäinen viesti-
Lähettäjä: dx-boun...@hard-core-dx.com
[mailto:dx-boun...@hard-core-dx.com]
Puolesta Roland Sandberg
Lähetetty: 13. joulukuuta 2011 21:22
Vastaanottaja: Suomalaisten DX-lista
Aihe: Re: [DX] Koksin maadoitus
Joo, kyl se metalliputki ajaa asiansa- ei tullut mieleen kun pärjää
ilman ja
kukkaro rupeaa
Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 108, Issue 19
Send Hard-Core-DX mailing list submissions to hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to hard-core-dx-requ...@hard-core-dx.com You can reach the person managing the list at hard-core-dx-ow...@hard-core-dx.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Hard-Core-DX digest... ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2011 is out. Order yours from http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. Re: Logs of previous week (Jari Savolainen) 2. Glenn Hauser logs December 18, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 3. Dec 17-18 Logs (Brian Alexander) 4. Re: Glenn Hauser logs December 18, 2011 correxion (Glenn Hauser) 5. More logs in Lanzarote (Manuel M?ndez) 6. log (Jorge Freitas (Yahoo)) 7. Re: [dxld] WRTH (Wolfgang Bueschel) 8. Christmas News and Competition (Radio Heritage Mail) 9. Update http://www.eibispace.de/ (maurits van driessche) 10. log (Jorge Freitas (Yahoo)) 11. Radio Australia - 17,750 kHz (Thomas Witherspoon) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:54:08 +0200 From: Jari Savolainen jari.savolai...@pp8.inet.fi To: Zacharias Liangas gree...@otenet.gr Cc: HCDX hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Subject: Re: [HCDX] Logs of previous week Message-ID: C60D68C70B754C7188A8472A8D34D778@js1 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original I guess the 12365U station is VMC, Charleville, Australia with maritime weather info. Jari Savolainen Kuusankoski Finland - Original Message - From: Zacharias Liangas gree...@otenet.gr Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 12:21 PM Subject: [HCDX] Logs of previous week 12365U seems to be with news with mentions of Victoria, 7AM etc signal S7 . Seems to be from Eire or UK -- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:52:27 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser wghau...@yahoo.com To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 18, 2011 Message-ID: 1324227147.99055.yahoomailclas...@web114009.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** ALBANIA. 7420, Dec 18 at 0235, no signal from R. Tirana (nor alt. 7425), yet with lots of other European signals making it on 7 MHz, so must really be off the air; why? Haven`t checked the 00-01 Albanian broadcast lately, whether still on 7425 mixing with China or on clear 7420 as I have recommended repeatedly, but no word received of any change. Inertia is a powerful force (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. 6090, Dec 18 at 0603, shux, PMS is back on after several nights missing while 11775 remained on at day. AFAIK, no one reported Uruguay or Chile in the meantime, if they were ever even on the air, let alone Liberia listed as inactive in last year`s WRTH. At least we heard Ethiopia, Nigeria and Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6150, Dec 18 at 6150, RHC is still on with heavy I instead of closing at 1300. I wondered if it was delaying moving to 9540 where on Sundays only, WHRI blox it until 1400; could not hear any RHC underneath WHRI, but 6150 did not stay on the full hour. Also looked for 13690 which appeared a few weeks ago on a Sunday morning before 1400, since they could hardly use 13750, occupied by jamming and VOA, but no 13690 this week. 13750 was on after 1400 instead of 9850, as well as on 13670 and 13780, including `En Contacto` at 1435. There would be no need for such complexity and uncertainty if Arnie chose frequencies which are clear 7 days a week, but that would require co?rdination in HFCC or at least astute monitoring (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Dec 18 at 0621, IGIM is still not on the air. If they had a consistent sign-on time, there would be no need to log notes of this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 17530 and 15460, Dec 18 at 1340, the RRI German hour is still marred by strange ringing artifacts on the sidebands of each, but inescapable by center-tuning either, as earlier noted on Dec 15, and some weeks before that. Something wrong with their program feed in this service, presumably also
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 19, 2011
** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 19: none found 7-19 MHz around 1430. Ron Howard observes that ``FD is emphasizing their jamming of SOH during their local morning. Dec 18 scanned at 0030 from 19000 down to 8000, finishing at 0048. All // [on 11 frequencies]`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 11785, Dec 19 at 1425, Firedrake-like music but soon joined by operatic vocals, so not FD. CRI Chinese to Europe is scheduled 14-1457, 500 kW, 308 degrees from site Aoki now calls ``Kashi-Saibagh 2022 TKS`` a.k.a. Kashgar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 15360, Dec 19 at 1430, good with RFI ID and sounders amid Persian, fair signal // 17850. This 1430-1500 broadcast is to replace 15360 by 21580 on Feb 26, a nonsensical date when RFI plans many more upward spring shifts for one month before the A-12 schedules kick in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6400, Dec 19 at 0630, P`yongyang BS is audible with sad music, ute QRM. 0650, YL in Korean sounds distraught about something or other. 6435, MND, from South to North, Dec 19 at 0631 with YL in Korean, 0632 into choral music closing, // weaker 6550. 6518 6600, V. of the People, from South to North, at 0633 Dec 19, lite jamming on 6518, no jamming audible on 6600. Harold Frodge, MI, noted that VOK transmissions were missing earlier on Dec 17 and 18; that should have been a clue that something significant had happened! However, VOK was back when I checked: 9335, Dec 19 at 1414, French about Kim Jung Il [hereafter KJI], what else? Dead or alive. Poor signal but could still hear mixture with NK-style jamming noise bleeding into the broadcast. At this moment WBCQ was missing from 9330-CUSB, tho it was there a few minutes earlier. At 1441, it was back, impeding weakish signal from Kujang. // 11710 not propagating. At 1500 could make out VOK IS and English IDs on 9335, but too weak vs WBCQ and still no 11710 making it. Here`s one convenient source of latest VOK info and scheduling, clips: http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/10/29/voice-of-korea-b11-schedule/ And as pointed out by Mark Fahey, NSW: http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/12/19/kim-jong-ils-death-monitoring-north-korean-tv-and-radio/#comments Tnx to Martyn Williams in Tokyo. By lucky coincidence, KJI garnered the top spot in this week`s issue of Parade magazine, Dec 18, printed far in advance, but who was the Second Worst Dictator in the World? Isaias Afewerkio. Who? Where? Eritrea. He`s certainly managed to maintain a lower profile abroad. Now must be temporarily #1 pending KJU making his mark. See http://www.parade.com/dictators (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Dec 19 at 0637, IGIM is on with Arabic talk, singing, not chanting or Qur`an; weaker than Vatican Hungarian massbit on 7250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVAKIA [non]. 9955, Dec 19 at 1444, Spanish in strange accent, soon talking about Slovakia, and `Encrucijadas musicales`, Xmas tunes. So RSI relay, best I have heard WRMI in some time; only lite residual pulse jamming. 1459 apparently switches to RMI fill music, as hit by fast SAH, 1500 RFA opening Tibetan with English announcement, much stronger signal despite much greater distance and wrong direxion, 297 degrees from Tinian. The 1430-1500 period lucks into a gap after KTWR is on 9955 until 1430, before RFA at 1500. Then WRMI goes off for its 8-hour siesta weekdays until resuming at 2300. But WRMI continues to register 24 hours on 9955, including the 15-17 UT segment as 317 degrees, altho that antenna has been down for almost two years; everything is really on the 160 antenna. New WRMI program grid dated Dec 13 shows RSI as follows: Spanish: 1430-1500 Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri [gospel huxter on Tue]; 1030-1100 Mon-Sat; daily 0330-0400. English: Tue-Sat 0130-0200. See USA for more about WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 15385, Dec 19 at 1430, REE is already managing to modulate the Monday-only Sephardic service at 1425-1455, as usual too close for comfort to Habana 15380 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. 6875, Dec 19 at 0634 check, yep, RTI via WYFR still in German instead of Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 12035, Dec 19 at 1422, TRT closing English and into IS, poor with flutter. Interspersed Turkish IDs and still on past 1424. Insufficient, so I didn`t miss anything earlier from 1330. Previous winters this was often listenable but now barely makes it here beyond intended target Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WRMI has a new program grid up dated Dec 13, via http://www.wrmi.net/pb/wp_d12a1732/wp_d12a1732.html If you think that`s convoluted, you should see the axual URL for the program grid at http://spreadsheets.google.com! New M-F at 1200-1300 is `Tempranito y de Mañana`, Early in the Morning. What`s that about? Exile show, ergo must be jammed?
Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 19, 2011
RFA Firedrake, except when different broadcaster mentioned. Jamming on Dec 19, here in Europe, at 16-17 UT slot 6020 S=9+5dB, stronger 6145RTI S=9+15dB. S=7-8 poor on 7285RFA_Uyghur, 7365RTI 7415 7445-multisound jammer, 7470RFA_Uyghur kHz. -- and much stronger both 7530 and 7560VoA_Tibetan kHz, S=9+25dB. at 18-19 UT slot 6025 7355-viaTaipei-TWN 7415 7445 9355 9455 11790 11945-via-TJK 13670 9905-S=9+20dB (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 19) KOREAS 7590 Bubble jammer ahead of Korean North Korea Reform Radio from Tashkent-Uzbekistan, S=8-9 at 1638 UT. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 19) - Original Message - From: Glenn Hauser Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 5:59 PM Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 19, 2011 CHINA. Firedrake Dec 19: none found 7-19 MHz around 1430. Ron Howard observes that FD is emphasizing their jamming of SOH during their local morning. Dec 18 scanned at 0030 from 19000 down to 8000, finishing at 0048. All // [on 11 frequencies]. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Radio Remains the BBG Champ
http://zlgr.multiply.com/photos/album/28/my_radio_shack_ Radio Remains the BBG Champ by Paul McLane on 12.19.2011 http://www.radioworld.com/article/radio-remains-the-bbg-champ/154928 Radio suffers its share of jabs as dated technology. But radio´s critics might reflect on data from the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The BBG recently said that its aggregate weekly audience via radio (including shortwave, FM and AM) is 106 million people, while its TV audience is 97 million and its Internet audience is 10 million. I find it notable enough that radio remains the medium with the largest reach among BBG´s efforts, given the commonly heard sentiment (and not only in government-funded circles) that radio in general is yesterday´s technology. But I was interested too in any trend lines, so I asked for more data. Spokeswoman Letitia King gave me numbers for 2009 and 2010. I´ve listed them side by side and calculated growth compared to last year. (Individual numbers won´t equal the totals because some people use more than one platform.) Uncle Sam´s radio and TV outlets regained some mojo in 2011 after slipping the prior year, while Internet continued to grow. We´re talking here about Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio and TV Marti', Radio Free Asia, Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa. Overall, those BBG broadcasters reached an estimated 187 million people every week in 2011, up 22 million, for 13% growth (though 2010´s total of 165 million was down a bit from 2009). We can´t extrapolate too much from any one organization´s broad data. Necessarily, these are only estimates and subject to survey error. Also, such trends are affected by policy and resource choices as much as consumer tastes. And while Internet consumption might be only a tenth of radio consumption right now, I suspect that proportion will change significantly in future years. Nevertheless, these totals and percentages suggest to me that radio´s role as part of Uncle Sam´s face to the international community is understated and underappreciated. We see a similar theme in ongoing media coverage of the U.S. commercial radio industry, which so often is criticized and dismissed, yet continues to post total listening statistics (241 million weekly listeners) that other media envy. Radio - the media´s best-kept secret! If you´re interested in far greater detail from Uncle Sam about activities of his broadcast entities and grantees, read the BBG´s Fiscal Year 2011 Performance and Accountability Report in PDF form at tinyurl.com/rwbbg2.Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] NVIS Short Wave technology in Afghanistan
http://zlgr.multiply.com/photos/album/28/my_radio_shack_ NVIS Short Wave technology in Afghanistan http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2011/nvis_short_wave_technology_in_afghanist an.htm ISAF report that a Virginia National Guardsman has found a new use for Near Vertical Incidence Skywave (NVIS) short wave radio in Afghanistan. The song video killed the radio star was the first video played on MTV in 1981 and launched a music revolution. Soldiers of the Virginia Army National Guard´s 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team are deploying technology in a revolutionary way in Afghanistan using a short wave radio transmitter that can reach almost every radio in Zabul province. This is the first time a province-wide transmitter has been used in Afghanistan. The transmitter allows the Zabul provincial and district government to send messages to rural Afghan homes. No other unit in the International Security Assistance Force has ever done this at any level, said Master Sgt. Joel E. Fix of Fort Belvoir, Va. speaking of the novel application of the technology. We have the ability to target the signal toward specific districts or the whole province. Radio and word of mouth are the primary means of spreading news and information in rural Afghanistan. Listening to the radio - thousands of which were distributed by NATO-ISAF - is a cultural norm for Afghans, many of whom follow both the BBC and Voice of America. Fix, a 14-year veteran of the Guard on his third overseas deployment, came up with the transmitter solution in response to a problem raised in discussions with Afghan officials: How could the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan communicate to their people in remote areas? It was a particularly timely dilemma. As GIRoA expanded its influence into every district, GIRoA´s continued legitimacy rested on the ability to reliably reach and involve ordinary Afghans in their parliamentary democracy. Specifically, the district governors of Mizan and Day Chopan in Zabul province each wanted to invite the elders of their districts to grand shuras in September 2011. Day Chopan has the highest elevations of Zabul province with deep valleys unreceptive to radio signals. The 116th Stonewall Brigade, in partnership with Romanian troops and Soldiers of the Alaska-based 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, all members of Combined Team Zabul, came together to brainstorm a solution. Traditional options raised by CTZ such as leaflet drops, broadcasting radio transmissions from aircraft and even flying aircraft with loudspeakers attached were all denied. The government was looking for ways to communicate with people on a greater scale, but there were gaps in the coverage. Short wave radio is the solution we came up with, said Fix. Short wave radio is known in the U.S. as ham radio which allows two way communications. The Zabul transmitter is one way. Most radios used by Afghans are receive-only. I was soliciting for bids for a transmitter and was referred to Don Butler to assist with the project, said Maj. William R. O´Neal a Smithfield, Va. native with the 116th. Butler, an Air Force veteran from the `60´s, is a ham radio enthusiast from Gun Barrel City, Texas who provided design help for the transmitter. Butler´s call sign is N4UJW. Ham radio is two way communications over short wave. Our transmitter is one way, said Fix. With this configuration, no matter where they are, there´s no reason the Afghan´s can´t get a signal. The frequency is close to but not the same as the one for the BBC. That makes it easy to find and remember, he added. The transmitter owes its success to a technique called NVIS - Near Vertical Incidence Skywave - which involves bouncing radio signals off the ionosphere - a layer of the atmosphere. Two NVIS antennas are placed horizontal to the ground unlike a traditional vertical transmitter. The second part of the NVIS antenna is called a ground wire and helps to boost the signal by forcing it to go straight up instead of outward and limited by the curve of the earth. In a traditional short wave broadcast, you get your antennas up as high as you can go, said Fix. It bounces off the F2 layer of the ionosphere but gives you limited coverage with `skip points´. Using NVIS and our reflector wire, the signal goes up at a very steep angle and straight back down which can penetrate deeper into mountain valleys. When we were looking at this system, it was a no brainer, he added. The transmitter is operated and maintained by coalition forces including the U.S. and Romanian soldiers and broadcasts content from the local government. At first glance it doesn´t seem very impressive: two antennas, the ever-useful 550 cord, and some wire that feeds into a box with one port and an on/off switch. Our goal is to transfer the transmitter to the provincial government as part of the transition, said O´Neal.
[HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
CYPRUS BBCWS Relay 12095 2232 GMT English 333 Dec 18 YL with comments on Yemen and its furure. MacKenzie-CA.. JAPAN Radio Japan NHK 11910 2238 GMT Japanese 333 Dec 18 OM with comments. YL with comments 2239 GMT Mackenzie-CA.. JAPAN Radio Japan NHK 11665 2254 GMT Japanese 444 Dec 18 OM with comments. Mackenzie-CA.. PHILIPPINES VOA Relay 11925 2235 GMT Chinese 333 Dec 18 YL with comments. Another YL being heard in the background with comments plus an OM in Chinese. MacKenzie-CA.. TAIWAN Radio Taiwan Intl RTI 11710 2253 GMT Chinese 333 Dec 18 Two OMs with comments plus a YL at times. MacKenzie-CA.. UNITED STATES, Tennesee WWCR #2 12160 2230 GMT English 333 Dec 18 OM with on going comments. MacKenzie-CA.. UNITED STATES, Florida Radio Taiwan Intl Relay - RTI 17885 2240 GMT Chinese 444 Dec 18 YL and OM with comments. MacKenzie-CA.. UNITED STATES, Maine World Harvest Radio - WHRI 11765 2248 GMT English 333 Dec 18 OM yelling to his audience about God. MacKenzie-CA.. Merry Christmas to All Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA Huntington Beach, California, United States of America Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650 World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Log Report for Al Muick
QTH:Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: Wellbrook ALA1530P active loop, oriented N-S 560 CANADA, CFOS, Owen Sound, Ontario, heard at 1101 UTC with short local news, into some international news, full station ID, and anti-drink-driving PSA and the morning show with Fred and Bob. SINPO 43533 with co-channel QRM. The station is a reduced-power nighttime operation with 7.5kW/1kW. If the Canadian DOC rules track with the FCC regulations, then this would have been before local sunrise and operating at 1kW. 9705 CHINA (*TENT*), Voice of Pujiang, Shanghai, heard at 1347 UTC on 19 December with presumed Mandarin talks by female announcer with short telephone recordings of a male speaker. Mention of Pujiang at 1348 then into another announcement by a male, also mentioning Pujiang, then more from the female announcer, interspersed with a fast-paced music bed and telephonic announcements by the male. At 1354 there was a bit of music and then there appeared to be an English lesson, with the English read by a man and translated by a woman. At 1358 CRI suddenly came on 9700 with an Chinese lesson and the VoA swamped 9705 and Pujiang was lost. SINPO 35522 until decimated at 1358. Can anyone confirm that Pujiang does any kind of English lessons? The IDs seemed to fit, but the English lessons threw me off. This is the only station scheduled here during this time frame. 11714.8 USA, KJES New Mexico, heard at 1445 UTC on 19 December with scripture read by female with children answering. SINPO 45533. 15260 CANADA, Polskie Radio via Sackville in Polish heard at 2218 UTC on 19 December with news and commentary. Only SINPO 45433 and a very unstable fading condition. 73 Al Muick Whitehall PA USA ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
ALBANIA Radio Tirana 7425 0447 GMT Albanian 333 Dec 19 YL with comments and some music.. OM with comments. Two OMs with comments 0450 GMT. MacKenzie-Ca.. BOTSWANA VOA Relay 9985 0412 GMT English 33 Dec 19 OM with comments on elections in Africa. especialy in Nigeria. OM with VOA ID 0414 GMT MacKenzie-CA.. COSTA RICA Radio Exterior Espana -REE Relay 9765 0433 GMT Spanish 333 Dec 19 Two OMs with comments. //9675[444]via Costa Rica, 9535[333]via Spain. MacKenzie-CA.. CUBA China Radio Intl Relay CRI 9790 0427 GMT Cantonese 444 Dec 19 YL with comments. YL singing 0429 GMT. Mackenzie-CA.. FRENCH GUIANA Voice of Russia Relay 7335 0506 GMT Spanish 333 Dec 19 OM with comments. MacKenzie-CA.. RUSSIA Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA Huntington Beach, California, United States of America Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650 World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
ALBANIA Radio Tirana 7425 0447 GMT Albanian 333 Dec 19 YL with comments and Music. OM with comments 0449 GMT Two OMs with comments in English 0450 GMT. Mackenzie-CA.. BOTSWANA VOA Relay 9985 0412 GMT English 333 Dec 19 OM with comments on elections in Africa, especially in Nigeria, OM with VOA ID 0414 GMT. MacKenzie-CA COSTA RICA Radio Exterior Espana - REE Relay 9765 0433 GMT Spanish 333 Dec 19 Two OMs with comments.. //9675[444], 9535[333]via Spain. MacKenzie-CA.. CUBA China Radio Intl Relay 9790 0427 GMT Cantonese YL with comments. YL singing 0429 GMT. MacKenzie-CA.. FRENCH GUIANA Voice of Russia Relay 7335 0506 GMT Spanish 333 Dec 19 OM with comments. MacKenzie-CA.. RUSSIA Voice of Russia-VOR 9840 0415 GMT English 444 Dec 19 YL with comments on the cost of gasoline prices going upwards. Ukraine is upset over the higher costs for gas. MacKenzie-CA.. SOUTH AFRICA Channel Africa 7390 0453 French 333 Dec 19 Two OMs with comments. MacKenzie-CA.. VATICAN STATE Vatican Radio 7360 0455 GMT French 333 Dec 19 YL with comments, Music 0457 GMT OMs with comments 0458 GMT. YL with comments in English 0500 GMT. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL WORLDWIDE. Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA Huntington Beach, California, United States of America Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650 World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS ---[Start Commercial]- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
