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lists. We're happy to utilize this resource to the maximum, so now we can
obtain accurate TX site names & accurate co- ordinates.
Bob I have found some sites listed in some of the references you provided
up to 60 km away from where indicated.
Google Earth is also a great resource for those folk interested in
transmission antennas & seeing where they heard a txion from. For DXers
interested in visiting tx sites for pictures & tours, our efforts to
locate these sites accurately & record them can help DXers locate these
sites for when they wish to visit them.
RE TDP. Ludo produces a great resource. I am not sure if it is still being
updated; I hope so. TDP list focuses on TXers at known sites. It doesn't
primarily focus on actually tx sites themselves. Secondly we are the only
list that records SW TX sites down to the second in terms of co-ordinate
accuracy. This makes it easier to FIND/LOCATE these tx sites, which for
small domestic broadcasters can be very difficult indeed.
Our list also differs in that we have both an extinct site list & a
current site list. These lists appear to different people. The extinct
lists may have appeal to radio folk with historical interests in radio.
Our lists also record data of when sites where commissioned &
decommissioned for SW broadcasting. This is of interest to different folk.
There are folk with interests in logging & QSLing SW sites & our list
provides details for DXers to record there own personal data & use the
lists are a target or hit list for logging or QSLing purposes.
Apart from general SWLing & DXers, many DXers have a lot of associated &
particular interests in SW. For example:
Some professional DXers wish to QSL every freq that a SW broadcaster has
ever broadcasted on. Some folk also wish to log new countries. Some folk
which to collect different QSL cards. Some wish to QSL every broadcaster
from a specific TX site. Some folk take interest in SW radio electronics.
Some folk in SW propagation. Some folk in SW EMC/RFI issues. Some folk in
SW QSL cards, pennant & stickers. Some folk with interests also in antenna
design testing, construction, collecting TX site pictures.
Some folk only interested in logging new sites or countries. Some folk
interested in antique SW radios. Some folk also with interests & radio
modifications and repairs. We all have different interests in radio.
Personally my radio interests as a hobbyist &
electronics/telecommunications technician (by trade) is a large one, with
interests in: SWL, SW DXing, SW Logging & QSLing, FM DX, Computers for
radio hobby, Radio Electronics; which include - radio modifications,
projects, EMC- RFI, FM (Aust/NZ Pacific)/SW sticker collecting, SW & FM
(Australasia) Transmitter site pictures & of course SW TXer site data
records recording.
Why all the effort? I have a philosophy if life, Bob. If a job is worth
doing, then it is worth doing well. Also some people just take in this
world, others give, others do both. With my work & the work of others in
this project, I think we are all benefiting & I believe the global SW
community will be the better for it. With our site & our database files we
are offering a niche product & service that does have appeal to a
particular sector or the global shortwave community. If the above
organisations/websites that you mentioned could offer a quality
product/service of the type that we are providing, then there wouldn't
have been a need for me to establish what I have.
I hope I have answered your question, Bob, as long winded as it has become
and that those frowns on your forehead have now disappeared :-)