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"This is Radio Santa Helena". Song by Eric Clapton, 34333.
(Arnaldo Slaen-ARG, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 5)
11092.5U, R. St. Helena, 1830-0101* Nov 4, special R. St. Helena Day
Revival 2006 bdcst. Threshold level at 1830 t/in with beam to Japan,
building gradually to usable signal. Switched to Japan beam at 2000, then
Europe 2200, and finally North America 2330. Various anncrs/past station
managers, playing music, sending greetings, acknowledging emails,
precorded anmt from Governor of St. Helena, messages from other island
officials, canned ID with reception report info, nice interview with Anker
P. Some disruption when they switched to NA beam at 2330 but later blamed
it on rain. I managed to exchange a few emails with Derek, ZD7CTO, who
noted at closedown that they had received around 330 emails. All in all, a
nice radio day.
(John Herkimer-NY-USA, DXplorer Nov 5)
I heard the stn briefly here at 1810 when reception was fair and at 2230
when reception was good. However I would like to endorse the point Glenn
Hauser in dxld:
"Now that they are all set up at considerable trouble and expense, what's
the point of doing only one bc a year? They might as well run 11092.5
every weekend, or even every evening, even if it's only duplicating local
RSH progrming. They might be more amenable to this if an external QSL
manager would take that workload off."
To hear this stn I have to be at home on a specified evening, put to one
side any domestic circumstances and tape any domestic radio and television
I might want to listen to. The bc is in USB, it's on an out of band freq
and it's beamed at me using a Yagi. Is this bc DX'ing or is it a variation
of ham radio DXpeditions except that I can't transmit but can get my
report acknowledged immediately by the other side by using email? Indeed
their website says that the project "resembles a high power amateur radio
stn". If the propagation collapses tough, wait another year. I would like
to hear domestic RSH progrming not greetings to well known DXers and
publicity for DX clubs. And what's the attraction of listening to music in
USB?
What I enjoy in the DXing part of my listening is largely hearing domestic
stns with local progrming not specifically beamed at me. There were some
examples, if I remember correctly, some years ago of Dxers helping local
community SW radio stns with their equipment thus giving local listeners a
much needed sce and giving Dxers a challenging DX target. In my opinion
this would be more worthwhile than this yearly St. Helena bc.
(Mike Barraclough-UK, dxld Nov 5)
SAUDI ARABIA BSKSA Jeddah logged on odd v11854.97 kHz, scheduled at
0600-1700 UT in Ar.
BUZZY ARS transmitter:
21495 ARS BSKSA Riyadh AR 0900-1200, Oct 31, followed by 21505 kHz at
1200-1500 UT only. Then 21460 kHz at 1300-1600 UT, 11715 kHz 1700-2300 UT.
and also Spurious without Buzz:
ARS 21600/21640 producing spurs at 21680 kHz at 1330 UT, stronger Ar from
21600 heard. At 1200-1400 UT also 21560 spur, stronger px from 21640
heard.
(wb, visiting Algarve cliff coast, Portugal, wwdxc BC-DX Oct 29-Nov 4)
SOUTH AFRICA 9930 at 1745 UT on Oct 29/30, AFS TWR Meyerton. Vernac to
ETH/ERI EaAF song, 35443.
4880 at 1812 UT on Oct 31, R SW Africa(tent) via Meyerton-AFS. En talks on
people of ZWE. 34433.