[HCDX] Connecting with strangers over ham radio cleared my family’s static - The Boston Globe

2021-05-22 Thread Steve Kamp
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/22/opinion/connecting-with-strangers-over-ham-radio-tuned-my-husband-back-into-our-little-family/ _ 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/ __

Re: [HCDX] [ODXA] TV tuner for PC?

2017-12-06 Thread steve . kamp
And the VHF low band old channels 2 thru 6 in usa has largely been given over to wireless services. The few digital stations assigned are low power ones. Low band analog still exists to a limited degree in Canada and is still used in Cuba and Latin America outside now all digital Mexico. To make

[HCDX] BBC To Shut Down Additional Medium Wave Transmitters

2017-08-21 Thread steve . kamp
http://www.radiomagonline.com/around-the-world/0020/bbc-to-shut-down-additional-medium-wave-transmitters/39162 Sent from XFINITY Connect Mobile App _ 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/ __

[HCDX] Financial Times travel story on Ascension Island

2017-08-20 Thread steve . kamp
August 19 2017 Financial Times Weekend Life and Arts section page 6 "The Loneliest Island" One half sentence obliquely mentioning the BBC relay on air since 1967 "the BBC still broadcasts to Africa from here" Steve Kamp Sacramento CA steve.k...@comcast.net Sent from XF

[HCDX] “Observe” August's Eclipse with Your AM Radio - Sky & Telescope

2017-08-18 Thread steve . kamp
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/2017-total-solar-eclipse/how-to-hear-the-solar-eclipse/ Sent from XFINITY Connect Mobile App _ 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/ __

Re: [HCDX] Kiribati

2016-12-04 Thread Steve Kamp
Per Wikipedia, Kiribati, UTC plus 14, most advanced time on Earth Sent from XFINITY Connect Mobile App -Original Message- From: walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com To: Hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com,a...@nrcdxas.org,i...@hard-core-dx.com Cc: Sent: 2016-12-04 10:19:21 AM Subject: [HCDX] Kiriba

Re: [HCDX] Please Cancel

2006-07-28 Thread Steve Kamp
I completely agree. Steve Kamp, Sacramento CA, ex-SoFla (1981-87) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Wilkner Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com; dswci anker

[HCDX] E1 XM SW DX

2005-09-03 Thread Steve Kamp
_ 0500 GMT Sept 4, 4930, Botswana - VOA relay with "VOA Jazz America". Good at 0500, but fading by 0515, presumably due to local sunrise. S7 on the E1 with whip, S9 on the adjacent Drake R8 with ASOR amplified window antenna. (Steve Kamp, Sacramento CA). [EMAIL

Re: [HCDX] Logging

2005-05-03 Thread Steve Kamp
>From Steve Kamp: The other RFO Tahiti frequencies were 11825 and 6135, the latter QSLed by me with 4 kw in 1968 from Texas. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guy Atkins Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 7:32 PM To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.

[HCDX] Laos 6130

2004-03-15 Thread Steve Kamp
6130 LAOS Lao National Radio, fair 1137-1215 fade with Laotian dramas, 7 pips 1200, followed by ID and 5-minutes newscast. Drama 1205 past 1215 (Steve Kamp, Sacramento CA USA; Drake R8 and AOR WL-500 window antenna) Steve Kamp, 22 Petrilli Circle, Sacramento, CA 95822 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED

[HCDX] RE: Laos 6130

2004-03-15 Thread Steve Kamp
Date on Laos 6130 is 13 March 2004. -Original Message- From: Steve Kamp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Laos 6130 6130 LAOS Lao National Radio, fair 1137-1215 fade with Laotian

[HCDX] Hard-Core-DX Digest/NRC IDXD -- MW QSL from HLAZ-1566 in 19 days

2003-11-01 Thread Steve Kamp
KOREA (SOUTH) -- HLAZ-1566, full data English QSL Card (with photo of Cheju HLAZ-1566 xmtr site on front) and Japanese brochure in 19 days airmail for Eng report to Seoul address and US$2. Steve Kamp 22 Petrilli Circle Sacramento CA 95822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From

[HCDX] RE: Hard-Core-DX Digest -- Fort Bragg, CA MW reception of JOAK-594 and HLAZ-1566

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Kamp
E-B-C...kilohertz..." ID followed by piano music. Carrier cut 1343:15. New MW country for me (Kamp Oct 13 2003) Steve Kamp DXing from the Best Westwern Vista Manor Inn in Fort Bragg CA (on the Pacific Ocean 150 miles NW of San Francisco) using the Grundig Satellit 800/internal ferrite rod anten

[HCDX] RE: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 9, Issue 6

2003-09-03 Thread Steve Kamp
Gary Crites: don't know the answer to your high angle/low angle question, but I can tell you that: (1) generally, radio waves propagate better over water to a very few miles inland. In the mid 1980s, a West Coast Florida station, WHBO-1040 from Pinellas Park, used Gulf Coast "water wave" propaga

[HCDX] RE: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 8, Issue 49 -- Item 5

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Kamp
Depending on space, either the Grundig Satellit 800, Grundig YB400, or Sony ICF SW07 -- all will function well with supplied whip or tennis racket antennas. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 3:3

[HCDX] RE: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 6,Issue 47 =-- Item 6 re pennants

2003-07-03 Thread Steve Kamp
I have at least 20 from the 1960s-1980s, mostly from Latin American stations. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 10:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 6, Issue 47 Send Har

[HCDX] RE: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 3, Issue 12 -- Jordan 11960 QSL -- useregistered mail

2003-03-07 Thread Steve Kamp
>From Steve Kamp, Sacramento, CA -- I used registered mail for the 1995 report to Jordan 11960, and contionue to recommend it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTEC

[HCDX] RE: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 3, Issue 11 -- Jordan 11960 QSL

2003-03-06 Thread Steve Kamp
>From Steven Kamp, Sacramento, CA -- I heard Jordan 11960 from Los Angeles in 1995 and verified it using one English report and $1. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[HCDX] RE: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 2, Issue 44

2003-02-27 Thread Steve Kamp
Re Message 4 -- sounds like it may have been Kiribati 846, sked 0530-0930 GMT. Many SoPac stations program country and western music. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 8:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTE

[HCDX] RE: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1130

2003-01-05 Thread Steve Kamp
1070 unID is definitely not KNX, which is a CBS all-news station ("Newsradio 10-70; KNX News Time..."). [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sacramento CA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PR