tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84939896713623843782024-03-20T15:35:50.687-07:00Indian DX Club InternationalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493989671362384378.post-9043620943732931312022-07-04T00:49:00.003-07:002022-07-04T00:53:25.393-07:00ASIAN DX REVIEW ~ Volume 40 - No. 573 - July 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFq08PX6R_7jw1RCvGrw2VIzqB52pjpMtIsLEdmFCrrbvFqfmUJmWUG5JL4vffivrmMThAK_nrZ7EEbyzJ5TXV3WNY1Jfvdv5SPXcj2T4iEp-Dd6yqfla5kqN-5Mv-GDQ7B4CfryosXON5oqYw6MlFVwfQc5er4_h-vMRvrQBXqiR3J91s6BD-kWRC/s3054/A%20Ju;y%202022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3054" data-original-width="2400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFq08PX6R_7jw1RCvGrw2VIzqB52pjpMtIsLEdmFCrrbvFqfmUJmWUG5JL4vffivrmMThAK_nrZ7EEbyzJ5TXV3WNY1Jfvdv5SPXcj2T4iEp-Dd6yqfla5kqN-5Mv-GDQ7B4CfryosXON5oqYw6MlFVwfQc5er4_h-vMRvrQBXqiR3J91s6BD-kWRC/w502-h640/A%20Ju;y%202022.jpg" width="502" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="299" data-original-width="1536" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2t_b6LNwl1Er6cJiX81uqjGMJuY5l4R7E6CN5MMDBayG2oOm-JamWlBuLxHpIXmID4QgP4XQJPvLkr-xVoCxGYj21UFrrov213wJPrchQKiepe_cZe2DOMYsQkVI23vbONcupMtVuNzA/w640-h124/Header+%252896%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b> </b>For the six of us from Calcutta ( Tripti Ranjan Basu, Babul
Gupta, Supratik Sanatani, Sudipto Ghosh, Asish Kundu and Prodyut
Banerjee ) the new year really started with a bang. A time most people (meaning
non-DXers) are usually busy wishing each other or licking stamps to send out
their greeting card, we were planning out the final</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgND6sylkAmq9j6A3mTTsCrT8D2Y7GyfEKD7KNyTVHNXf9dttCtAh_5gR1TqWGyhv5gzCnmqhTnrbNVh5kNO6az9bYEndz6r_K19-0g45Yz-hYjIGjRCct4cu0D_2DgaBcObWwUlNuji4/s396/A.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="396" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgND6sylkAmq9j6A3mTTsCrT8D2Y7GyfEKD7KNyTVHNXf9dttCtAh_5gR1TqWGyhv5gzCnmqhTnrbNVh5kNO6az9bYEndz6r_K19-0g45Yz-hYjIGjRCct4cu0D_2DgaBcObWwUlNuji4/w400-h265/A.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>details </span><span>of our coming DX Camp.</span><span>The </span><span>site we
choose this time was CHANDIPUR, a newly developed beach resort in the State of
Orissa. The zero hour drew in on the 6</span><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> of January and we set
out loaded with wires, receivers, tons of excitement and of course ouerselves.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">LOCATION</span></u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">: Chandipur is about 20 km to the east of
Balasore, the latter a small town in the North East corner of the State. Apart
from Tourism, the town of Chandipur is also a port for inshore trawlers. Even
as we approached Chandipur, the warm, sea-smelling air greeted us-a true
feeling of being in the tropies. The beach is one of the best I have seen so
far, a wide strech of sand gently sloping into the sea and lined with a belt of
knee-deep water !!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirlNhmqo3n8PeWzI4gmSWC1uC2kJ3o-erIKbfxcf8sRhPJpNMwEHdZpUi_C1e6M9MTj1vqHoSbkyLSbMthp8oEADHNp98SpAVnIqUfa2giOZD_LHVWfvk02qws1DEIxhVlQXFjb_u3-Nw/s396/B.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="396" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirlNhmqo3n8PeWzI4gmSWC1uC2kJ3o-erIKbfxcf8sRhPJpNMwEHdZpUi_C1e6M9MTj1vqHoSbkyLSbMthp8oEADHNp98SpAVnIqUfa2giOZD_LHVWfvk02qws1DEIxhVlQXFjb_u3-Nw/w400-h265/B.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We put up at the OTDC
Hotel, whose manager Mr.B.G.Mohanty was very helpful in arranging our ideal QTH
and understanding our funny requirements. Our room overlooked the Casaurina
trees extending into the sea with excellent antenna space and natural support
in the direction from North East thru South East.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">ANTENNA:</span></u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> For the first day we used a length of 200
metres in the direction of Papua-New Guinea and a small length of 60 metres
approx North-South. On the second day we rua out 400 metres length in the
direction of Central Japan and for final night we ran out 600 metres (joining
our earlier antennas) in the direction of North Philippines and Taiwan. The
last antenna was grounded at the far end via a 500 carbon resistor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Yo9lwOx4Mp-un3_T-Eu-n5og0PcUjPgAmdAK4LLLNxIvGCXqMaoIc9LGJRcUIonOVeS1aprf2_M8USVA0L9Mk8VQfAZiSE11bztgBdJ7s0qcJKZEtEUN8Gfoxqn0IZc9rf4iS_qF18s/s396/C.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="396" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Yo9lwOx4Mp-un3_T-Eu-n5og0PcUjPgAmdAK4LLLNxIvGCXqMaoIc9LGJRcUIonOVeS1aprf2_M8USVA0L9Mk8VQfAZiSE11bztgBdJ7s0qcJKZEtEUN8Gfoxqn0IZc9rf4iS_qF18s/w400-h265/C.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Erection of these
antennas was a real achievement for all of us and involved lots of acrobatics.
I personally thank OM Babul Gupta for his ingenious “Rigging-made easy” ideas
and active participation. For supports we used the Casurina trees providing
excellent height and direction. We used G.I. wires to keep the wires pulled up
and applied PVC piping insulation at contact points.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">BUDGET: </span></u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The whole camp of 6 days worked on a shoe-string
budget and still had nothing lacking anywhere. In fact, for all of us it was a
pleasant holiday as well. OM Alok Kundu was our financial manager and armed
with a small calculator he would monitor each day’s expenses even in
paises ! Thank “Big Man”. For each of us the whole 6 days cost only R. 300/-
including transport, lodging, food, chicken roasts, fish delicacies, countless
cups of tea…. for more details drop a line to OM Alok Kundu !! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbKXuc5EGb_YvRECidZWuPzKB0z1Z4BOeMrAaKYEEQzdEn11KrpgLYYpT-YQmgkXI05kwyPG560OV2kVO_WpsNzXq-Z87jvzI8oOttGO8qJmjheOLdg8K4m2jGrYfV8_wnsCfSEoONVQI/s396/D.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="396" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbKXuc5EGb_YvRECidZWuPzKB0z1Z4BOeMrAaKYEEQzdEn11KrpgLYYpT-YQmgkXI05kwyPG560OV2kVO_WpsNzXq-Z87jvzI8oOttGO8qJmjheOLdg8K4m2jGrYfV8_wnsCfSEoONVQI/w400-h265/D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">HARVEST</span></u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">: Our DX catches were quite fantastic
for us. Indeed, using not so sophisticated RXs we had achieved quite an amazing
lot. This meet was also a great experience in the field of using longwires and
their “air-an-shoot” principle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">ACKNOWLEDMENT: </span></u><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">We are very greatful to the Orissa State Tourism and especially Mr.
Mohanty for his generous help. We also thank the skipper of the Trawler “B.T.”
for kindly allowing us to use his boat’s compass. Our thanks also go
out to the people of Chandipur for not being inquisitive of our activities and
lastly to all the Tourism minded people for not choosing Chandipur as their
abode during this week.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> 73s de </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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Review [ADXR] monthly newsletter from Indian DX Club International is back
again. After a long gap, we are pleased to release the digital edition of the
much popular newsletter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">When ADXR
last rolled out of the press in 1990, DXing was different. There was no
internet. We had to eagerly wait for the DX program like DX Jukebox (later
renamed Media Network) from Radio Nederland and other DX program to copy down
the tips for DX hunting. Once in a week we would get the sunspot numbers. DX
magazine like our ADXR reached people by post. Digital Frequency Readout
receivers were already there but they were beyond the reach of the average
listener. There were no mobile phones, no mobile phone towers. During sunspot
lows the medium waves were full of Japanese regionals on lucky days. The
tropical bands were all full of Indonesians in the evening, Africans appeared
late evening and night and then the Latins in the early Indian morning. The
reception reports were still sent by mail and often with IRCs to facilitate a
qsl card. QSL card arrived by post, often with pennant and other goodies like
exciting stamps. DXers met in persons over small group gathering, through the
land line and through the bulletins. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Then there
was a hiatus of thirty years during which period DXers did go on listening,
QSLing, face to face meeting, DXpeds and communicating through land phones .The
couple of exciting DXpeditions along Bay of Bengal did keep us enthused about
DXing. Then came the internet. It developed slowly but steadily and changed the
very face of DXing. DXing was gently turned upside down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Where does
ADXR digital fit in? It now comes with our own flavor of DX reporting, our
small contribution to keep the spirit of DXing alive and to give you a feel of
the man between the radios and the signals. We are here to give a life to those
frequency lists and schedules and encourage others to speak. Our aim is to keep
DX alive and speaking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Indian DX
Club International (IDXCI) is an informal association of DXers mainly from
India. Head Quartered in Kolkata, India, the Club brings out the “Asian DX
Review” DX bulletin which is presently an online publication and is distributed
free. It has also been active in organizing DXpeditions and promoting the hobby
of radio DXing in general.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Direct
download link<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">https://idxci.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ADXR-Volume-38-No-552-October-2020.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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enthusiasts are can send in their logging, feedback, reports, etc to </span><a href="mailto:idxc.international@gmail.com"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">idxc.international@gmail.com</span></a><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> by 25<sup>th</sup> of every month.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Club International, GPO Box 646, Kolkata 700001, India.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="">T<span style="font-family: arial;">he
super cyclone of October 1999 brought down the antenna 120 m mast of Kolkata A
657 Khz which radiated 2x 100 kw. In the words of an engineer manning the
transmitter " we got a phone call that AIR Kolkata A was not audible. When
we looked out, the main antenna mast simply was not there !! "The huge
mast built of thick gauge metal can still be seen lying in the premises.
Portions have been sawed off to make way to the newly installed 120 m mast.
This incident caused disruption of Kolkata A transmissions for few days.
Transmission resumed only when a new mast was put up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""><span style="font-family: arial;">The
new main radiating mast of Kolkata A had a parasitic mast put up few meters
down south. It was to act as a reflector and direct most of the radio signals
to the north which is the populated part of the State. The southern parasitic
mast was to avoid valuable signals getting lost in the Bay of Bengal to the
south which is sparsely populated anyway. However, a controversy cropped up in
2011. During a tropical cyclone in July 2011 few fishermen who had ventured out
to the sea were lost. There was hue and cry in the media that the disaster
could have been avoided if the weather bulletins from AIR Kolkata could be
better heard (<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangladx/message/2668" target="_blank">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangladx/message/2668</a>). The
AIR authorities were under pressure when news reports originating from the
fishing town of Kakdwip said that Bangladesh Betar weather bulletins were
better received over the Bay of Bengal ((<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangladx/message/2686" target="_blank">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangladx/message/2686</a>).
The AIR authorities woke up and an engineer was dispatched in a coast guard
vessel to measure signal strength of AIR transmissions almost 300 km deep down
south in the Bay of Bengal. He found good to strong signals all throughout the
test area. However, the authorities decided to disconnect the parasitic
reflector mast to put the controversy to rest. The parasitic mast still stands
up mournfully though in the antenna field of Chandi some 24 km south of
Kolkata.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVGbPBPAWUAqmi0b1w4NtsS1JoC9kEXa-QYRBMusQTEUbmWjaiTv8SOVWEoXWkxxziaSVmjHgMKqKbjoVWpyRGhEZBTQfu0_KS09VQiIXkpGqjYGWGRIAQu2Szieov2sKQ7OoKr9p86Ps/s389/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="389" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVGbPBPAWUAqmi0b1w4NtsS1JoC9kEXa-QYRBMusQTEUbmWjaiTv8SOVWEoXWkxxziaSVmjHgMKqKbjoVWpyRGhEZBTQfu0_KS09VQiIXkpGqjYGWGRIAQu2Szieov2sKQ7OoKr9p86Ps/w608-h456/1.jpg" width="608" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial;">As
if this was not enough, the 120 m mast of Kolkata B snapped in May 2012. This
was not due to any cyclone or gale. It was presumed that one of the guy ropes
anchoring the mast that snapped and that caused a disbalance. This in turn
caused a cascading effect and finally the main mast snapped. AIR Kolkata B 100
kw transmitting on 1008 kHz was disrupted for almost 20 days while a new mast,
somewhat shorter in height was put up. This new mast has a loading hat on top
and rhombic elements on all sides. Presently this is fed by 10 kw standby brand
new RIZ mobile transmitter which is running at 8 kW because one part of the
panel is not working and the engineers conversant with BEL transmitters would
not risk tinkering with the malfunctioning panel of Riz mobile transmitters
which is in the warranty period. They would rather wait for the authorized
technicians of Riz transmitters to arrive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial;">Pilferage
is another minor irritation which bugs the antenna fields of Chandi. Even
though manned by security guards round the clock,and watch towers in the
periphery the precious copper of antenna and feeder elements are prey to the
thieves. Most often the pilferages would be minor e.g. one coil of some
hundreds of tank circuits in the antenna support wires or few lengths of
concentric feeder lines. However, these would disbalance the fine tuning required
for that extra last mile for the radio signal !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial;">Yet
another element which upsetting the fine tuning is the collapsed old tower
which is awaiting bureaucratic clearance for disposal . A mammoth steel
structure in the antenna fields is bound to add some inductance here or there
and compromise design efficiency. The same applies to the disconnected
parasitic antenna mast in the south which is still there completete with the
ground radials. This is bound to compromise the design efficiency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial;">The
Engineers at the site were however very upbeat. They are proud that their
signals were getting around in spite of all the difficulties and they have
faithful listeners tuning in. One engineer who had just completed a stint at
Orissa talked about a 90 year old faithful listener who would telephone the
station at the slightest fall in transmission quality. However, he would also
sympathise with the ground realtites. Talking about ground realities in India,
I was reminded of the Engineer at AIR Aligarh HPT who talked about Neel Gai's (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgai">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgai</a>)
charging into antenna curtains and disrupting transmission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial;">Report
by Dr Supratik Sanatani after a visit to Amtala and Chandi facilities of AIR
Kolkata along with Babul Gupta, Sudipta Ghosh & Swopan Chakraborty in July
2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Supratik Sanatani, VU3IFB</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It
was an odd combination of fixtures which greeted us as we entered AIR Kolkata
transmitting station at Amtala. There was a table tennis table laid out in
front of the retired Westinghouse transmitter panels. This transmitter was
already decommissioned and we could locate the number plate tucked away at one
corner “ 2.5 kW Westinghouse May 1948 DWG NAA11560 So FEZ65900
Westinghouse NP 2145413”. This building had two wings, the one on the
left housed the 100 kw MW transmitter and the one on the right housed the 50 kW
shortwave transmitter. Soon the Westinghouse transmitter would give way to
equipment for DRM simulcast on existing AIR Kolkata frequencies. The bulk of
the DRM equipment would be voltage stabilizers and power supplies which would
be housed here. In future we would see neither the table tennis table nor
the Westinghouse transmitters!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCK56o5hHLOtu4nvZOfVfy5WRUiCL7aOy8ZoLc456ckB07tLFP727aNvN-sqjjskKjjl_gngFlgXVYd6yHSpXCFZQIYO7gt66WJW_hgy46aNDHlJxZDTSXvDkZVz8KxgIC2iKKpiwhtnY/s405/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="405" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCK56o5hHLOtu4nvZOfVfy5WRUiCL7aOy8ZoLc456ckB07tLFP727aNvN-sqjjskKjjl_gngFlgXVYd6yHSpXCFZQIYO7gt66WJW_hgy46aNDHlJxZDTSXvDkZVz8KxgIC2iKKpiwhtnY/w506-h294/1.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We
arrived while the shortwave transmitter was off the air between morning
and afternoon transmissions. This window allowed the helpful engineer to take
us on a tour of the transmitter facilities. The water cooled valves gave us a
peek into the complexities of handling high power. The power supply area was at
the back of the transmitter room which housed large transformers. I could
locate at the back of the transmitter the serial no 016 for this BEL HMB 144
make transmitter of year 90-91. In the front panel a number of typed sheets
displayed the operating instructions and one paper had the new frequency
schedules written on it in pencil where 4820 kHz had replaced 7210 kHz for the
0230- 0410 UTC broadcast. At 0720 UTC the carrier with pure tone was switched
on. The frequency counter showed 7.2099982 kHz. Fixed on the front panel was a
Sony ICF7600 receiver for monitoring purposes. The change of frequency was
through motorized devises attached to thick copper coils. The output power was
40 kw as displayed by the panel instruments.</span><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
medium wave transmitter was located on the left half of the building. This was
a BEL HMV 140 transmitter serial no 003 but was presently non functioning. Ever
since the 120 m antenna mast connected to this mw transmitter collapsed,
transmission had been going on from a 2x10 kW mobile transmitter made by the
Croatian company RIZ. The mobile transmitter came in two neat containerized
units which were placed at the back of the transmitter building. One container
was the power supply and the other one was the transmitter unit control panels
and even a crammed up quarter for the personnel. The antenna which came with
this unit was commissioned close to the place where the former antenna mast had
collapsed in May. The new mast is smaller in height, has a loading hat on top
and rhombic elements all around. The older antenna mast had a large room
housing the antenna tuning unit at its base. The new antenna had a smaller
antenna tuning enclosure. The new Riz transmitter is DRM capable and
preparations are under way for DRM simulcast. They were waiting for the new
power supply transformers to be installed. Brisk civil construction was already
under way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhNTL6oBzwEJmqfRvaDpSaGZgaNa1kkqjb6s2kGziGamu7IbZZqXpwH-qVQ3Sc-6umc2jLtP3TFnHkB0s0FuMgQ5Q0SUmYm5Ox_cMsHC8qBOW3hIJraKsmxDaV0N40CfMxyVF6S_W0Qo/s405/2+-+ANTENNA_ATU.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="405" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhNTL6oBzwEJmqfRvaDpSaGZgaNa1kkqjb6s2kGziGamu7IbZZqXpwH-qVQ3Sc-6umc2jLtP3TFnHkB0s0FuMgQ5Q0SUmYm5Ox_cMsHC8qBOW3hIJraKsmxDaV0N40CfMxyVF6S_W0Qo/w506-h294/2+-+ANTENNA_ATU.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
antenna field at the back of the transmitter building had the MW mast to the
left and the dipoles for the shortwave transmitter to the right. There were two
dipoles, one for the 41 mb and other for the 60 mb. To us DXers they were of
special interest. The antennas were oriented south southwest. They were
suspended from huge towers, for antenna impedance adjustment, the dipoles
could be lowered or raised.I guess the height of the antenna also determined
its firing angle. No wonder that Kolkata 4820 kHz at 1800 UTC which struggles
under China Lhasa at South Kolkata was loud and clear Goa in west coast of India.
We were at the Amtala site and from there we could see the Chandi site at
distance some 500 m away southwest on the same Baruipur Amtala road. It
is the Chandi site which houses the legendary Kolkata A transmitters .</span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">
</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At
Chandi transmitter site we were greeted by a huge dish antenna for down linking
signals from AIR studios at Eden Gardens Kolkata. The transmitter building had
a FM antenna on top for studio link. Besides these two studio links there was a
E2T2 cable link as well as a telephone link through BSNL cables. The Chandi
site used the satellite link while Amtala site used the E2T2 link. Both of the
sites had very rudimentary studio facilities for playing taped fillers in the
event of all link failure from the studios. They were seldom needed nowadays
while in the past, during the days of telephone link only, it was no unusual
for us to listen to filler music during periods of link failure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzjYkIRPfPqEZ3GxQXsIn18GmOg-fAtCR9PVTrcs7g-tvwyHhoo55bfNrQd9XFdwWppUyQ5GxJXSdA0jfoB4P7F0oZIlJ-eoXkN1uAAvbWiDUN9FWxHO-UiIobszzwwJgjcxVxrAsAxI/s405/3+-antena_01-0256f62438.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="405" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzjYkIRPfPqEZ3GxQXsIn18GmOg-fAtCR9PVTrcs7g-tvwyHhoo55bfNrQd9XFdwWppUyQ5GxJXSdA0jfoB4P7F0oZIlJ-eoXkN1uAAvbWiDUN9FWxHO-UiIobszzwwJgjcxVxrAsAxI/w506-h294/3+-antena_01-0256f62438.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
main building had two parts. The left part housed two 100 kw transmitters
running in tandem for 657 kHz Kolkata A. This is the prime radio channel in the
whole of this region and one of the oldest. Living up to its reputation, the
100 kw transmitters were running close to 120 kw. The right hand part of the
building had the 1323 kHz commercial broadcast transmitter with 20 kW. The
technical persons were divided to both part of the building. Apart from us
there were another set of visitors – trainees from engineering colleges. They
were, however, sulking because they had sit in one part of the building where the
ac was malfunctioning. In contrast we were overjoyed that a helpful engineer
was taking us through a guided tour of the iconic radio station – something
most Bengalis of this part of the world have grown up to be familiar with.</span><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
feeder lines were coaxial fashioned out of a set of copper rods arranged in one
inner ring and another outer ring. The outer ring was grounded and was
therefore the “shield” The inner ring was the active element. The desired feed
line impedance could be obtained by arranging the elements in desired number
and desired distribution. Supported on insulators and poles these coaxial
distribution of elements ran out to the antenna field to the antenna tuning
unit which was housed in an enclosed building at the base of the 120 m antenna
mast. That was far cry from the RG 58 coax and a small box of antenna tuning
unit we DXers are familiar with.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPaG_aovPFq1j3hw-qZnDe0kVCP0inHZHWajrf_x55H_PRlThyphenhypheniGNByCZ7JsPMQF5Mx5NfcrBvQPwqPMijihSeyRq5Te1wKs0AwX_s46BjaaPoNHJt51pua_DdthuajVL73sBzQAm9ZHs/s405/4+-+riz_mobile1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="405" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPaG_aovPFq1j3hw-qZnDe0kVCP0inHZHWajrf_x55H_PRlThyphenhypheniGNByCZ7JsPMQF5Mx5NfcrBvQPwqPMijihSeyRq5Te1wKs0AwX_s46BjaaPoNHJt51pua_DdthuajVL73sBzQAm9ZHs/w633-h368/4+-+riz_mobile1.jpg" width="633" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As
we returned to the main transmitter building to take leave, it was late
afternoon and through the transmitter monitors we could hear the unmistakable
opening tune of the popular women’s programme – “ Mahila Mahal”. I wonder if
the helpful Engineer realized how much this visit meant to us DXers, some
of whom have been tinkering with the radio dials for close to 45 years.
As young boys we woke up to the signature tune from these transmitters, as
hobbyists we saw the tubes , transistors, jammers , DTH and SDR's and now we
are here to see the AIR DRM compatible transmitters coming while so many
broadcasters such as DW and Radio Nederland are closing shop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dr
Supratik Sanatani reports after visiting Amtala and Chandi in July 2012 with
three other IDXCI members Babul Gupta, Sudipta Ghosh and Swopan
Chakraborty </span></em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Photo's
courtesy </span></em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.riz.hr/">www.riz.hr</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Jose Jacob from Hyderabad, India has collected QSL from 132 different stations of All India Radio over a period of 42 years. Radio Stations ranging from Short wave, Medium wave,FM to the latest DRM mode. In the process he has achieved the feat of creating an Indian Record of collecting maximum number of QSL of different stations of a radio broadcasters in India.<br />
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As a teenage Jose started listening to radio and started to write to stations way back in 1973, when in his school days. Few years later in 1976 he first wrote All India Radio, when his reception report was first verified with a QSL. Over next 42 years, he has used various mediums, ranging from inland letters, post cards to emails, for sending reception report. Currently he has over 2500 QSL from 130 different countries, many of which left the airwaves.<br />
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Over the years, with his special interest in All India Radio, he is one key country contributors, from India, of World Radio TV Handbook updating about All India Radio to the directory of global broadcasting.<br />
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Jose Jacob, is also a licensed amateur radio operator with call sign VU2JOS currently serving as Asst. Director at the National Institute of Amateur Radio (NAIR) www.niar.org<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everything about Henry Island Dxped II was bright. All spruced up and shining West Bengal Fisheries Resort by the sea beach was our location. The weather was crisp, the propagation was favorable and the enthusiastic participants were eleven charged up Dxers, a mix of new old and even a non dxer xyl coming from far and wide from Kolkata, Delhi to Agartala.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We traveled in three cars: the two cars with most of the gear and eight Dxers started from Kolkata early morning after gathering at 6 am at my Jodhpur Park residence. Debanjan drove a Baleno with Subhendu Das, Sandipan Basu Mallick & his xyl Upamita. The good old Ambassador was driven by me with Babul Gupta, Pradip Chandra Kundu and Sudipta Ghose as passengers </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with accessories like folding table for outdoor Dxing, tent, grounding </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rod tucked up in the carrier and of course the receivers and reels </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was probably the last time we would be crossing the ferry at River Hatania Doania at Namkhana because the massive girder bridge is almost nearing its completion and we would soon be drive down direct to Bakkhali in three and a half hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first Dxers were at Bakkhali by 1 pm and after finishing the lunch at the West Bengal Government Tourist Lodge settled at Henry Island. This time the personnel at the Fisheries Resort quickly remembered us and were familiar with the "crazy bunch of radio listeners" who string wires all over the resort. The resort had expanded with more bamboo fencing which would serve as our antenna supports and besides there were plenty of bamboo of all</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">shapes and size lying around to help us to support the antenna which ever way we wanted. In two hours we had two beverages of 200 meters strung and a PA0RDT whip antenna put up. A room was promptly converted into a "shack". The second batch of three Dxers arrived a couple of hours later. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Part of the "development" of this resort was addition of LEDs over much of the area and one of our beverages traveled right past a brightly lit children park, in the process picking up much of the radio noise. In the coming days we put up two more beverages away from the light sources, one travelling north south and the other travelling east west. The surprise of this Dxped was the performance of the PA0RDT whip we performed consistently better then all of the beverages!!! A commercial Diamond dipole for two of the higher bands was also put up but with the propagation condition with zero sunspot number, there were only hardly any signals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>BAY PIRATES</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Bay of Bengal Pirates which we have logging since our Mandarmani I Dxped days were very much there, more in numbers, and better in modulation. They were still operating between 1000 kHz and 1400 kHz and the odd ones were bellow 1000 kHz. One particular station at 1235 kHz appeared to have more power and transmitted all night. A couple of them had harmonics around 2000 kHz. Now that we had three Perseus and one Airspy SDR, the entire broadcast band of the Pirates were recorded. We are still baffled about their exact location and the revenue model of the pirates because these transmissions appeared to carry very little commercials. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2wn4TQVHT5U1INi-vZFdwoNfC3879kRNbhCHbiwluvIsN3hLvM83kPw8ridsspCGbAQ1a9ZlfAiEV_lgX__t3ofnNa8CqOGxUjx3MZOqtTMSbzmLz8EhMF216mX-zoG08bNiEG7hJVzM/s1600/array+of+perseus.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="922" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2wn4TQVHT5U1INi-vZFdwoNfC3879kRNbhCHbiwluvIsN3hLvM83kPw8ridsspCGbAQ1a9ZlfAiEV_lgX__t3ofnNa8CqOGxUjx3MZOqtTMSbzmLz8EhMF216mX-zoG08bNiEG7hJVzM/s200/array+of+perseus.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The change in program content was the appearance of the local Bengali "Disco" beat song with heavy bass. The radio theaters called "Yatra" in local parlance and the odd request program were there. A couple of stations broadcast their mobile telephone numbers too!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Babul Gupta, who is really hooked on to Hamsphere set up his station with the call sign: IOHS/AS153 and soon made a number of contacts all over the world in his "virtual" amateur radio. Hamsphere apparently recognizes Henry's Island as an island even though by actual geography it is a piece of land separated from the mainland by a creek with a short connecting road bridge. Nevertheless, there was considerable interest in the Hamsphere community over logging.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzFDhSSkaxfyRFSqzEzu-wIHcLC0-YXoNCP26weKYajyMCfxOujPEz2uLoQrf_WMcPeCl9cHBDAs_koVKmNtRtM-guF_GvsxymQT3iCKiq-ZtaVYALq9ULozcbnXvGjBclblAomxLjV7I/s1600/13+-+Car.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzFDhSSkaxfyRFSqzEzu-wIHcLC0-YXoNCP26weKYajyMCfxOujPEz2uLoQrf_WMcPeCl9cHBDAs_koVKmNtRtM-guF_GvsxymQT3iCKiq-ZtaVYALq9ULozcbnXvGjBclblAomxLjV7I/s200/13+-+Car.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This allowed me an opportunity to try out listening from a beverage far away from any light source. I strung a 250 mts long wire away from the leds and set up my ICOM R75 with battery at one end.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The result in the first hour of listening were brilliant with a number of long wave stations coming in. The best was Polskei Radio at 255 kHz at around 1800 hrs UTC but Algeria was also loud and clear. However, during the second session of Dxing at around 2100 hrs UTC the propagation was so poor that barely need to put up the tent because the car was a convenient "shack" and the poles of the fisheries ground were the supports.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>THE DX CATCHES AND SURPRISES - LOW FREQ AND MEDIUM WAVES</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Philippines DZME 1530 kHz audible through 1300 to 2200 hrs UTC was the surprise because all of our earlier Philippines MW logging were in the short one hour window after they signed on at 2100 hrs UTC. Other Philippines logged around 2100 hrs was 666 kHz DZRH and 594 kHz DZBB. On 12th Feb 2019 PNG NBC Bongenville 3325 kHz coming in with clear audio and little QRM was probably the star of the Dxped and the other PNG NBC was logged on 3260 kHz with poor signals. Later on the same channel we could hear RRI Plangkarya. The sole Latin was Radio Club de Para 4885 kHz Brazil </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which peaked to 333 signal level at 0130 hrs UTC. Solomon Island 5020 kHz with poor signals was noted signing off at 1300 hrs UTC. Japanese MW, which were the star of the first IDXCI Dxpeds at Chandipore in the mid eighties, again reappeared and quite a few of them were logged. The best was American Forces Radio at Okinawa on 648 kHz which was tricky to receive considering the all powerful AIR Kolkata 657 kHz splashing signals from adjacent channel. Other Japanese MW were 549 kHz JOAP and 1413 kHz JOIF. Indonesia Peninsula of Laos, Vietnam and loud and for the first time we could log Luang Prabahang 705 kHz and Khantabouly 585 kHz at around 2300 hrs UTC. Vietnam 675 kHz and 610 kHz with chant or excercise like music during sign on at 2145 hrs UTC. Cambodia Pnom Penh was clear 918 kHz around this time. Around 1500 hrs UTC we could log many of the Nepal MW from Kathmandu 792 kHz, Dhankuta 648 kHz and Pokhra 684 kHz. On the tropical bands, North Koreans stations were all there from Eco of Hope to the other. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>THE SW CATCHES</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With dwindling transmission in the SW the bands, some of the common stations of yesteryears are now becoming </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rarities. Guiniea Conakry in French at 2110 hrs UTC on 9650 kHz logged by Pradip Kundu with his XHDATA and whip only was indeed a surprise. Other SW such as 9930 kHz WHR Korar Palau with religious program in English at 1530 hrs UTC, TWR Swaziland at 1530 hrs UTC on 9585 kHz, VOA Mopang Hill on 15580 kHz at 1545 hrs UTC, BBS Thimphu at 6035 kHz at 1530 hrs UTC kept the SW hopes alive. It was a pleasant surprise to hear V.O.Greece on 9420 kHz at 2100 hrs UTC both with strong signals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sandipan had enthusiastically lined up a bit of coverage in lay press about our meet which coincided with the World Radio Day 13th February 2019. Write ups for the newspapers were finalized, photo shoot before the club banner was completed, audio clipping to be </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mailed to Agartala, Tripura were done in rigged up studio and phone interview with journalists done. The efforts were successful. Two vernacular dailies in Kolkata covered our Dxped. Why are they important for Dxing? Pradip Kundu radio interview to be aired over AIR Agartala FM for World Radio Day and his write up appeared in the most circulated Tripura daily. These articales generate qquite a bit of public interest and many of our now active members were drawn by the artical on Dxing centered around the Chindipore Dxped which appeared in a popular children's magazine in early 90.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hamsphere and Pradip Kundu in his more unassuming DX style of quiet listening sitting cross legged on bed with a portable and whip. For Subhendu Das, a professional commercial radio man it was different experience to see the amateurs and their interests at close hand. The Persueus brigade with C.K.Raman, Sudipta Ghosh and Dibanjan had their own approach to "waterfall" screen Dxing and Alokesh with his Airspy matched them. The PARDT whip brought by Alokesh turned out to be the hardware star. The non Dxers Upamita efficiently handled the exotic fooding of the Dxped. Sandipan who got interest in reading about IDXCI Dxped in the interest was organizing one himself this time and felt good that xyl Upamita was convinced that there were several other motivated Dxers around. Kallol a new comer to the hobby wanted some more SW experience and also would have like more session time in discussing the DX techniques.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One whole day our last Dxped in 2016 was washed off by local QRN. This time we had so many angle to our hobby from hardware to software that DX obstacles had no chance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Supratik Sanatani - VU2IFB, Kolkata, West Bengal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sudipta Ghose - VU2UT, Baranagar, West Bengal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debanjan Chakraborty - VU3DCH, Kolkata, West Bengal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sandipan Basu Mallick - VU3JXD, Kolkata, West Bengal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alokesh Gupta - VU3BSE, Delhi.</span><br />
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brought into reality—the design of lightweight, airport-friendly FSL antennas
that could provide serious gain boosts (and serious hobby excitement) for DXers
on exotic vacations. The FSL antennas had already proven that they were the
ultimate compact performers, but could they also somehow provide a major
breakthrough in travel DXing results? If all of a DXer’s gear needed to fit
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Island in the Cook group, about 2600 miles due south of Hawaii. This South
Pacific location featured dazzling scenery, subtropical weather, good security
and very friendly island residents. It had no MW transmitters anywhere within
164 miles (264 km)-- the closest one was 630-Radio Cook Islands in
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I managed to stumble across a superb sunrise propagation path for South and
Southeast Asian reception, resulting in loggings of 657-<st1:stockticker w:st="on">AIR</st1:stockticker>,
693-Bangladesh, 918-Cambodia and 1431-Mongolia—all at over 6,800 miles (10,950
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completely. Usually around sunset I was doing my best to convince my wife that
the main reason for this trip was to celebrate our anniversary (despite the
somewhat different reality), so most of the sunset time was devoted to beach
walks, Polynesian dinners and the like. That didn’t stop long range stations
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unforgettable hobby thrill for a North American DXer using very basic
equipment—and it obviously proved that this new niche of travel DXing has a lot
of excitement to offer!</span></span></div>
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in a fairly remote part of the Southern Hemisphere, they are actually in the
same time zone as Hawaii, so any jet lag from the west coast is minimal. Air <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:country-region></st1:place>
flies weekly from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city></st1:place>
to <st1:place w:st="on">Rarotonga</st1:place> in a 9 1/2 hour overnight trip,
and the service and food on our flight was excellent. The Cook Islands have a
subtropical climate with seasons opposite from those in the Northern
Hemisphere, so visitors should expect quite a bit more heat and humidity than
at home. The islands are administered by <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:country-region></st1:place> in a “free association”
agreement, and as such the Maori-speaking islanders are very friendly and
welcoming to visitors. <st1:place w:st="on">Rarotonga</st1:place> is the
largest island, and upon arrival at the airport visitors will pass through
immigration and customs, receive complimentary flower leis and bottled water, and
if they are staying on the island (as most do), proceed to their motels.</span></span></div>
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164 miles (264 km) north of Rarotonga, so we needed to board an additional Air
Rarotonga flight of about 1 1/2 hours to the gorgeous island. Aitutaki is
famous for a dazzling turquoise lagoon filled with a variety of beautiful
tropical fish, and features many motels with convenient access to the lagoon.
Because of its unique beauty it has the nickname of “</span><st1:place style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Honeymoon</st1:place><st1:place w:st="on">Island</st1:place></st1:place><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">”
among the many Kiwi tourists. Most of the motels are on the northwest side of
the island right on the lagoon beach, with a straight salt water path to Asia,
the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia. DX reception from North and
South America is also quite good at these beaches, although the best sites
would probably be on the north and eastern sides of the island. During my stay
the security on isolated lagoon beaches seemed to be excellent, probably due to
the fact that most of the motels own these areas as part of their property, and
try to reserve them for tourists. The subtropical climate is ideal for growing
coconuts, bananas, guavas and the like, and fresh fruit is always in abundance.
Of course as a tourist you can expect to pay a premium for restaurant meals,
lagoon cruises and the like, but hobbyists who are primarily motivated to chase
rare DX from sunset to sunrise will have no problem minimizing expenses. One of
the quirks about visiting the </span><st1:place style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;" w:st="on">Cook Islands</st1:place><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> is
that Air New Zealand requires visitors to have a confirmed motel reservation
before they can purchase a ticket—apparently because of some tourists who
thought that setting up tents on the beach would provide the ultimate travel
bargain.</span></span></span></div>
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SSB portable and the 5 inch (13 cm) TSA-friendly FSL antenna carried along for
this trip had been used in previous transoceanic DXpeditions, and both are
designed to fit easily within hand-carry luggage. Because of exceptional ocean-boosted
propagation the modified portable was used alone for the North and South
American reception, along with those for the Pacific islands, <st1:place w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:place>,
<st1:place w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:place> and <st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place>.
The 5” FSL antenna was used only to boost the Asian signals during the sunrise
sessions, although even then the modified portable typically could receive many
of the Asians all by itself. For this trip a 4 foot (1.3m) breakdown PVC base
was also carried along to elevate the FSL antenna right next to the salt water
edge, and this did seem to boost its performance somewhat. In comparison to
John Bryant’s 500 foot Beverage antennas at Easter Island during his 2007 trip
this was a very humble setup indeed, although the long range performance of
these lightweight DX chasers was about to be demonstrated in pretty convincing
fashion. </span></span></span><br />
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out transoceanic DX propagation at an exotic ocean beach site can provide the
hobby thrill of a lifetime-- if a DXer is lucky enough to choose the ideal
time, place and gear to make the chase. All of these fell into place in an
amazing way during the 5 day trip to Aitutaki Island with Ultralight radio
gear, resulting in the reception of MW stations in India, Bangladesh, Mongolia
and Cambodia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ocean-boosted
propagation at sunrise was strong enough to bring in both 693-Bangladesh and
1431-Mongolia at S9 levels almost every morning on my Ultralight gear, and
allow both 657-AIR and 918-Cambodia to break through ANZ QRM on April 12th. No
doubt many more of these exotic stations could have been logged except for
Australian QRM on 576, 594, 872, 883 and 1566, but this only added to the
thrill of the chase. The overall results were exceptional for a DXer using only
a 7.5 inch loopstick Ultralight radio and 5 inch "Frequent Flyer"
FSL-- all designed to fit within hand-carry luggage, and easily pass through
airport security inspections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">657
All India Radio Kolkata, India, 200 kW (8,075 miles/ 12,995 km)
Recorded by accident during a sunrise check of the Korean big guns at
1641 on April 12, reception of this longest-distance station went unnoticed
until file review after return to the States. The female speaker (in the
Bengali language) is the third station in the recording, after the female vocal
music from Pyongyang BS and the Irish-accented male preacher from NZ's Star
network. Her speech peaks around 40 to 50 seconds into the recording. The
isolation of the Star network at the 55 second point was done by the
Ultralight's loopstick, not by the propagation. Thanks to Alokesh Gupta for the
language and station identification <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ix71clk446ad5d5bkzbn3e0q94fe18wu" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ix71clk446ad5d5bkzbn3e0q94fe18wu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">657
Pyongyang BS Pyongyang, N. Korea, 1500 kW Like most east Asian
signals the N.K. big gun sounded pretty anemic in the Cook Islands. Its female
vocal music at 1641 on April 12th shared the frequency with NZ's Star network
(Irish-accented preacher) and AIR's female Bengali speaker <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ix71clk446ad5d5bkzbn3e0q94fe18wu" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ix71clk446ad5d5bkzbn3e0q94fe18wu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bangladesh Betar Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1000 kW (7,960 miles/ 12,810
km) Probably the biggest surprise of the DXpedition, with S9 signal
peaks on 4 out of 5 sunrise sessions. Frequently snarling with the Oz pest 3AW,
it usually managed a few minutes on top of the frequency each morning from
1630-1700 UTC. Exotic South Asian music was the usual format, and was very easy
to distinguish from the talk-oriented format of 3AW (and other Oz co-channels).
This first appearance at 1652 on 4-10 featured a "Bangladesh Betar"
ID by a male speaker at 8 seconds into the recording (thanks to Chuck Hutton
for listening) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/94j756mjptm1fuaij381dw2wbsqkre91" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/94j756mjptm1fuaij381dw2wbsqkre91</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was followed by a lot of exotic music until 3AW claimed the frequency just
before the 1700 TOH <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ltl5f8aeo5w2qm3bf2n02x06xsu9fb9r" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ltl5f8aeo5w2qm3bf2n02x06xsu9fb9r</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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next day (4-11) the exotic station was back with S9 peaks, including this
typical music and female speaker at 1625 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3fu4wo3efoj34dfjm4c6jvg4mzb3nrcv" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3fu4wo3efoj34dfjm4c6jvg4mzb3nrcv</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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exotic music from Bangladesh was in an S9 snarl with 3AW (and another Oz pest)
from 1659 throughout the 1700 TOH on April 11th <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/pa29z92iqim2y6ps40qlv08q84gtxbqv" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/pa29z92iqim2y6ps40qlv08q84gtxbqv</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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JOUB Akita, Japan, 500 kW Oddly enough, this was the only
Japanese signal making it to the island during the entire trip. Mixing with a
goofy-sounding 3LO announcer at 1613 on 4-11, the Japanese female speech
concerns a "doobutsuen" (a "zoo" in Japanese, similar to
what the frequency sounded like with the 3LO announcer) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/57lu1aeb7u77kjwub1v7gr1id66xho7l" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/57lu1aeb7u77kjwub1v7gr1id66xho7l</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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KCBS Pyongyang, N. Korea, 500 kW The N.K. big gun managed a
potent signal for its 3+1 pips across its "TOH" at 1630 on 4-12 but
never could shake off RNZ's Tauranga transmitter <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4x2b670b8p2b2edy9xw19ns1eftnbg1w" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4x2b670b8p2b2edy9xw19ns1eftnbg1w</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CNR6 Quanzhou, China, 300 kW Strong signal with CNR ID (1:08) and
Mandarin speech by male and female announcers. NZ's Star network was apparently
off the air at the time, since it was a real blaster when transmitting <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/kgvitthtofeqvphnve4yoi35q1nxfypn" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/kgvitthtofeqvphnve4yoi35q1nxfypn</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RNK Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 600 kW (6823 miles/ 10,981 km)
Breaking through the Shandong and Oz QRM at an ideal time to dominate the
frequency, its sign off transmission with the National Anthem peaked just
before the 1700 TOH on April 12. Female speech in the Khmer language and exotic
music are featured just before the anthem (thanks to Hiroyuki Okamura and
JariLehtinen for listening, and identifying the National Anthem) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/8ji74eayhau8ttjv25pv6zlmcnt0jyai" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/8ji74eayhau8ttjv25pv6zlmcnt0jyai</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hutton's improved audio file of the same reception (thanks) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/qams92h5ktn7ki93u3qlvbzvyl3y8rru" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/qams92h5ktn7ki93u3qlvbzvyl3y8rru</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shandong RGD Synchros (Multiple) The dominant Asian signal on the
frequency, it rarely allowed Cambodia to sneak through. Here it is with female
Mandarin speech at 1647 on 4-11 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ml1vqzmgl35q9gfzpzlsepvvmz1l1shw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ml1vqzmgl35q9gfzpzlsepvvmz1l1shw</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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5+1 time pips were recorded mixing with another station’s 5+1 time pips at 1700
on 4-12, resulting in bizarre, two-tone time pips at the 1700 TOH on 4-12
(during Cambodia's National Anthem at 1:40, in the MP3 linked below). The sound
effect sounded similar to that of a "cuckoo clock," resulting in some
initial confusion about their sources. Thanks to Nick for his assessment that
these must be Shandong’s pips mixing with those of RNZ National (a regular on
the frequency each evening and morning)—an explanation that makes sense to me
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HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea, 1500 kW The South Korean big gun played
the part on most mornings, including this S9+ Korean female speech at 1631 on
4-12 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/gynxilf8rpe762f0y5wbj85k0krh1dvb" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/gynxilf8rpe762f0y5wbj85k0krh1dvb</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CNR1 Synchros Changchun/ Nanchang, China, 200 kW/ 200 kW The
first of three CNR1 frequencies which usually produced strong signals, this
music // 1377 was received at 1624 on 4-12 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/tybl0tglmfqkec7u2u1udhgncd4sc5d5" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/tybl0tglmfqkec7u2u1udhgncd4sc5d5</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CNR1 Synchros (Various) Overall this was not only the strongest
Chinese frequency on the band, but was the strongest Asian station on the band
as well. Awesome S9+ signals were typical each morning, as with this male
speech and music at 1622 on 4-12 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/5eh6zami9876vajyjjfoaqz764lcmo1a" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/5eh6zami9876vajyjjfoaqz764lcmo1a</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another
potent signal from this Chinese blaster at 1640 on 4-12 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/8jlbyscbxe4i8ed1n4admt01f66gt7jt" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/8jlbyscbxe4i8ed1n4admt01f66gt7jt</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mongolia (Relay Station) Choibalsan, Mongolia, 500 kW This
station was easy to receive on the first attempt, with very little competition
on the frequency. It typically managed an S9 signal after 1630 daily with the
BBC's Korean service, which seemed to be broadcast during the peak sunrise
enhancement time in Aitutaki's ocean-boosted propagation. Here is BBC's Korean
male announcer at an S9 level at 1632 on 4-11, with the BBC interval signal at
47 seconds into the recording <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/bfl4ohbfmhf9fdvfa6mx6jnxapaayk4a" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/bfl4ohbfmhf9fdvfa6mx6jnxapaayk4a</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Mongolian relay program prior to 1630 was also in Korean, with this female
Korean speech at 1627 on 4-11 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/5892chd20zbxs3w7r1q1f2qx39f6l7gm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/5892chd20zbxs3w7r1q1f2qx39f6l7gm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1566
HLAZ Jeju, S. Korea, 250 kW A very poor signal was typical during
this trip, with the Chinese service barely showing up under 3AW and two other
DU English stations (probably 4GM and Norfolk Island). Whenever 3AW was in a
fade it had a chance, since other two co-channels were running very low power.
Here is the latter situation, with the weak Chinese barely audible under the DU
English snarl at 1641 on 4-12 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/hysvrh4f7i8u16f3740ch5azam0iervx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/hysvrh4f7i8u16f3740ch5azam0iervx</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CNR1 Changzhou, China, 600 kW This was another Chinese blaster,
with S9 signals typical every morning. Here it was at 1641 on 4-12 with male
Chinese speech and music // 1377 <span style="color: #20627f;"><a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/unn7d4h3wa9ro7g7wespunkqeaay6f6e" target="_blank">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/unn7d4h3wa9ro7g7wespunkqeaay6f6e</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #20627f;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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ISLAND LOGGINGS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chasing
DX from the center of Polynesia was an ideal chance to track down exotic DU
island stations that rarely, if ever, show up on the west coast of North America.
From my location on the Aitutaki lagoon beach obscure stations like 630-Cook
Islands and 990-Fiji Gold were pounding in at S9 levels every evening, while
other exotic island stations were the strongest ones on the MW band. Phenomenal
ocean beach propagation was routine-- except that the North American pest
stations (that TP-DXers love to hate) never managed even a whimper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Close-in
DU propagation was so favorable that only the 7.5 inch loopstick CC Skywave SSB
Ultralight was necessary to track down most of these exotic stations at S9
levels, and make all the MP3 recordings linked below. The vacation was also an
ideal chance to investigate and record what is possibly the most obscure MW-DX
station still transmitting in the Pacific-- 630-Radio Cook Islands, with an
underperforming 2.5 kW transmitter in Rarotonga. Overall the entire experience
was a real thrill for a west coast DXer who rarely hears these stations, let
alone at such powerful levels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2AP Apia, Samoa, 5 kW Located only 866 miles (1,394 km) from my
DXing site, this was always an S9 powerhouse every evening. Samoan island music
was common, along with male and female Samoan speech. The station does have
some issues with the transmitted signal cutting out, an intermittent microphone
and (occasionally) the announcer allowing 30 seconds of dead time after a song,
as in the third MP3 below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Male
Samoan speech, background music and advertisement at 0718 on 4-9 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/vfsisz3n9gx6869eejbh116y3dwnrn20" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/vfsisz3n9gx6869eejbh116y3dwnrn20</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Samoan
news (with mentions of Samoa at the 1 second and 9 second points) at 0702 on
4-9 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3y9puecegkb6ikgppv9s8coxgq23ifam" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3y9puecegkb6ikgppv9s8coxgq23ifam</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Beautiful
Samoan island music at 0716 on 4-9, followed by 28 seconds of dead time. When
programming resumes with an advertisement the transmitter (or microphone) cuts
out twice within 30 seconds, with the microphone apparently having an
intermittent low output issue <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/akv3p4ds5rnz0kcta1k4rixnht5c3hqf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/akv3p4ds5rnz0kcta1k4rixnht5c3hqf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Radio Fiji One Suva, Fiji, 5 kW Both this native language station
and its English-oriented sister station on 990 were solid powerhouses each
evening, as well as during sunrise enhancement sessions. S9 signals were the
norm, and a wide variety of local island music was the usual format.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Typical
Fiji island music on the station's overnight program at 1605 on 4-9 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/iui5tnz71kfie3mtznaiey0taowcf0b3" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/iui5tnz71kfie3mtznaiey0taowcf0b3</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Island
music and the usual ID, "Radio Fiji One, Na Domoiviti" at the 24
second point of this recording at 1622 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/iui5tnz71kfie3mtznaiey0taowcf0b3" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/iui5tnz71kfie3mtznaiey0taowcf0b3</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Apparent
storm coverage of Tropical Cyclone Keni at 0718 on 4-9; the cyclone caused
extensive damage on Fiji <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/hj0vi3yc9zut8pll2vs8kgtyc6cu6i81" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/hj0vi3yc9zut8pll2vs8kgtyc6cu6i81</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">621
Radio Tuvalu Funafuti, Tuvalu, 5 kW Usually very strong but
occasionally pestered by 3RN QRM, this exotic island station typically hit an
S9 level about an hour after local sunset. A lot of island music is played by
the usual female announcer, featured in this recording in her native language
at 0720 on 4-12 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ht4fhwj9htzcrtmuby6930664yc9uj56" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ht4fhwj9htzcrtmuby6930664yc9uj56</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Radio Cook Islands Rarotonga, Cook islands, 2.5 kW Located 164
miles (264 km) south of my DXing site, it was pretty obvious why this obscure
station is so tough for distant DXers to track down. After sunset it had
multiple strong co-channels on the frequency (RNZ and ABC), and even just after
its sign on at 1556 the 5+1 pips from RNZ were clearly audible at 1600. The
station has multiple issues, with a disastrous live microphone, audio amplitude
varying widely between different programs, noticeable audio hum on the signal,
etc. It signs on at 1556 and signs off at 0958, unless there is a weather
emergency in the area (as there was with tropical cyclone Keni on April 9), in
which case it switches to an RNZ satellite feed overnight until sign on at 1556
(thanks to Bryan Clark for ID of the station). The station is obviously a low
budget operation, with no special sign on or sign off message, automated time
mentions, and (typically) strings of recorded island music with no live
announcer. The only live announcers I heard during the week were during a
Sunday morning recorded church service on April 8, and just after sign on (with
the dreadful microphone) on April 12th.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here
is the full sign on routine at 1556 UTC on April 12, with the horns, apparent
national anthem, English ID, drums, and finally the live female announcer with
the dreadful microphone (cutting off almost all the high frequencies, resulting
in legendary poor audio). The weakness of the signal at 1600 allows the 5+1
time pips from RNZ to be clearly heard at the 4:30 point in the recording
<a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/xqonh9iz57w22ebzxwz42krugu3rvykx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/xqonh9iz57w22ebzxwz42krugu3rvykx</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
recording of a church service at 1724 on April 8 was the only one I made on
Rarotonga, the site of the transmitter. It features a live male announcer at
1:10 into the recording with an English "It's 7:25, that's your time with
your National Voice" ID. At 1:44 into the recording one of the station's
major issues is on full display-- the sudden amplitude increase of the
transmitted audio <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/rfe2u3m3px4xmossujtxilzw8vlk3jtg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/rfe2u3m3px4xmossujtxilzw8vlk3jtg</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">During
most hours of the day the station runs a fully automated operation, with
strings of recorded island music interspersed with recorded male-voiced station
ID's and female-voiced time checks, as at 0706 on 4-9 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/oegfjznhbgw0evy9xuzqbu428xd31l4y" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/oegfjznhbgw0evy9xuzqbu428xd31l4y</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
is no special sign off message at 0958 (2358 local time), when the power is
cut. There is a recorded station ID and time check at 0957, though, as in this
recording at 0956 on April 9th. The weakness of the station around local
midnight can be heard, with a strong co-channel pestering the signal before the
unceremonious switch to the RNZ satellite feed at 0959, This was due to the
tropical cyclone Keni weather emergency in the South Pacific area on April 9th;
on normal days the transmitter power is simply cut off at 0958 (2358 local
time), with no warning or fanfare <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/bqwt5lm0ezhdyqayqkfjj8j8fbirysar" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/bqwt5lm0ezhdyqayqkfjj8j8fbirysar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">846
Radio Kiribati Christmas Island, Kiribati, 10 kW Not quite as
strong on Aitutaki as it was in Kona, Hawaii last December, this station was
one of the first to fade in at sunset, but was pestered by ANZ co-channels
later in the evening. It has apparently corrected the transmitter cutout issues
noticed last December, and features an open carrier overnight after sign off
around 1006. The time delay with its 1440 parallel wasn't checked during this
trip (mainly because both of these Kiribati stations had trouble holding their
frequencies), but in December it was very unpredictable. Since the 846
transmitter apparently doesn't sign on until it gets the programming from 1440
in Tarawa (significantly to the west), 846-Kiribati was silent during my
sunrise DXing sessions in the Cooks from 1600-1700, although the semi-local
630-RCI (at approximately the same longitude) signs on at 1556.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
best time to receive the station was around local sunset, before the ANZ
co-channels showed up. Here it was at 0650 on 4-9, playing some American
country music (a format which seems very common on the playlist) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/e965m3zcy13t3auije44zn344x5q8fw9" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/e965m3zcy13t3auije44zn344x5q8fw9</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Later
on in the evening it was pestered by multiple ANZ co-channels, as demonstrated
when the loopstick bearing is shifted at the 16 second point in this recording
at 0834 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/f6kd11wrj2lunrcjzlss1nnnr9i8v39m" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/f6kd11wrj2lunrcjzlss1nnnr9i8v39m</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">900
Radio Fiji Two (Fiji Gold) Suva, Fiji, 10 kW The English-language
sister station to the native language 558-RF1, this interesting station plays
classic pop hits, and is a favorite with expats and NZ listeners alike. Very
tough to receive on the west coast because of its "domestic"
frequency and the 5 kW Hawaii co-channel KIKI, its signal had no trouble
pounding in to the Cooks at an S9 level each evening, although the 1 kW Kiwi
co-channel TAB Trackside did attempt to make it somewhat of a horse race at
times. Because of Tropical Cyclone Keni there was extensive weather coverage on
the station during my visit, which is reflected in all of the MP3's linked
below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oldies
music and tropical cyclone weather update at 0712 on 4-10, after the storm had
just passed trough the center of Fijian waters <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/b5may3rbr5kuuwbus18lr4hala57x1vb" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/b5may3rbr5kuuwbus18lr4hala57x1vb</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oldies
music, local advertisements and Fiji news at 0700 on 4-12, including the
President's warning against corruption in repair construction contracts after
the tropical cyclone <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/rs70dcbhco94arepnnv6othl3b5z27hw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/rs70dcbhco94arepnnv6othl3b5z27hw</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Long
version of the first MP3, as co-channel TAB Trackside (1 kW in Nelson, NZ)
tries to make it a horse race with Fiji Gold at 0710 on 4-10, but folds in the clutch
to Melissa Etheridge <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/devsen4lrp2pul0m92m0r638yb6yj79i" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/devsen4lrp2pul0m92m0r638yb6yj79i</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1017
A3Z (Tonga B.C.) Nuku'alofa, Tonga, 10 kW Much stronger in
the Cooks than in Hawaii, this station was only 1,014 miles (1,632 km) from my
DXing site on Aitutaki. Coverage of Tropical Cyclone Keni dominated the
programming, which featured both English and native language updates on the
storm. Despite the station's S9 strength it was easily nulled out with the
Ultralight's loopstick, bringing in the 2.5 kW Radio Sport co-channel in
Christchurch (as demonstrated at 1:23 into the first video linked below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
a Tropical cyclone update in English and Tongan languages at 0712 on 4-9, Radio
Tonga is nulled out by the Ultralight's loopstick at various points, bringing
in the Kiwi co-channel Radio Sport (2.5 kW) at an equal S9 level around the 4
minute point <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/h4hbmh1ro3xydm0h6g4tlfkwxfqp3mjd" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/h4hbmh1ro3xydm0h6g4tlfkwxfqp3mjd</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tongan
island music at S9 level at 1607 on 4-11, but with Yankee-accented Radio Sport
(relaying Fox Sports Network) and another DU English co-channel (2KY?) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3771cas3q9mdqvsn8phy2c96esghlchi" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3771cas3q9mdqvsn8phy2c96esghlchi</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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V7AB (Radio Marshalls) Majuro, Marshall Islands, 25 kW Not
nearly as strong as in Hawaii, this was another island station easily nulled
out with the Ultralight's loopstick to bring in an S9 Kiwi co-channel (Newstalk
ZB). It was strongest prior to sunset in NZ, but couldn't hold the frequency
after that unless the Kiwi station was nulled out (as demonstrated in the MP3
linked below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Radio
Marshalls and Newstalk ZB fight it out at 0724 on 4-9, with the island station
holding the frequency as long as the loopstick favors it (and getting plastered
otherwise) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/32p2a8stc0ci9m1f7cyrmxfkkpa9rhk8" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/32p2a8stc0ci9m1f7cyrmxfkkpa9rhk8</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Radio
Marshalls plays some beautiful music, which made for enjoyable listening as
long as Newstalk ZB was nulled out (as at 0746 on 4-10) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3f589i8odtcu98ky45agyz4gqex29qzg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3f589i8odtcu98ky45agyz4gqex29qzg</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #20627f;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Religious format station (with a mention of “with your pastor” is at the
25 second point) featuring island-accented English female speech having a
motivational theme at 0707 on 4-12. Although no ID was recorded, the
programming details all seemed to point to Eagle Christian Radio in the
Marshall Islands, but Mika Makelainen talked with one of the station personnel
who said that the station hasn’t been broadcasting recently. As such, the
reception remains the ultimate mystery, since the details don’t seem to fit any
other possibility <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/7pof6qol9hnub400ncq3ele32dlf4vy4">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/7pof6qol9hnub400ncq3ele32dlf4vy4</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Radio Kiribati Bairiki, Tarawa, 10 kW Reasonably strong on most
nights in the Cooks, although occasionally (and amazingly) troubled by the
flea-powered (200w) Kiwi co-channel Te Reo O Tauranga Moana. Having a
variable-delay parallel arrangement with its 846 kHz sister station on
Christmas Island, all of the programming originates from this station. The
music format features a lot of Kiribati island tunes, along with a surprising
amount of American country music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kiribati with the usual female and male announcers at typical strength at 0708
on 4-9 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/bwsm9wdte9qap0anqw3wt8rgtsg9d9j0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/bwsm9wdte9qap0anqw3wt8rgtsg9d9j0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the distinctive ways to identify the station is the 4-bong time signal on
the half hour, as at the 13 second point in this recording at 0730 on 4-10
(with the male announcer) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0jdxn3mm3v1da9a659nvyvd47ek7qryo" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0jdxn3mm3v1da9a659nvyvd47ek7qryo</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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usual female announcer has a strong signal until around 51 seconds into this
recording at 0805 on 4-11, when the 200w Kiwi co-channel Te Reo O Tauranga
Moana provides some serious competition in Maori (thanks to Theo for language
identification) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/f9m9z6aqpacsolti5l3eevgsq72dnabo" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/f9m9z6aqpacsolti5l3eevgsq72dnabo</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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AMERICAN and SOUTH AMERICAN LOGGINGS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
closest point on the USA mainland is 4,550 miles (7,323 km) away from Aitutaki
island, and there was a straight ocean path to North America from my DXing spot
on the lagoon beach, resulting in several strong transoceanic signals across
the Pacific. The closest point in South America (Chile) was about 5,550 miles
(8,930 km) away, although there was a 480’ (150m hill) between my lagoon spot
and that direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because
of various tourist activities scheduled by my wife around sunset and a
lingering mindset that North American signals weren't exactly top priority DX
to chase, no deliberate effort was made to go after these stations while in the
Cook Islands. Despite this 7 USA mainland stations and one South American
(1000-Radio Record in Sao Paulo, Brazil) crashed the Kiwi sunset skip DXing
sessions about 2 hours after sunset, wiping out the adjacent 9 kHz-split
frequencies that I was trying to receive. The most distant of the USA stations
was 1170-KFAQ in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at 5,642 miles (9,080 km). All were received
on the 7.5" loopstick CC Skywave Ultralight alone, which provided good
reception of these stations because the reciprocal bearing of New Zealand was
ideally directed at North America on the 7.5" loopstick-- so that the DX
from both directions was received at optimal strength concurrently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">No
doubt many more of these North and South American stations could have been
received if a deliberate effort had been made to go after them, especially
around sunset if the 5 inch "Frequent Flyer" FSL antenna had been set
up to provide a gain boost (as it was for long range Asian DX, at sunrise).
Strangely enough, none of the usual TP-DXing pests in Vancouver, Seattle,
Portland or San Francisco made this North American DX list (although to be honest,
I really didn't miss them at all!).</span></div>
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KEAR San Francisco, California (5 kW at 4,610 miles/ 7,419 km)
"Family Radio for the West Coast," Christian religious format
received at fair level at 0835 UTC on 4-12 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/jq81e11f3tq5o4slbe6ytsv477ffwg36" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/jq81e11f3tq5o4slbe6ytsv477ffwg36</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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KFI Los Angeles, California (50 kW at 4,570 miles/ 7,355 km)
Strong (S9) level with commercial ads at 0633 UTC on 4-12 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/vxrj7014eqhrbok88pw8a3e1y32qerka" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/vxrj7014eqhrbok88pw8a3e1y32qerka</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #20627f;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1000 Radio Record Sao Paulo, Brazil, 200 kW Thought at first to be a foreign-language DU
on 999, this Portuguese recording at 0751 on 4-10 was a mystery at first. After
asking for online help I was fortunate to have Ivan Dias of Sorocaba, SP,
Brazil identify the station, and the “Manha Record” program. At 7,072 miles
(13,382 km), this was the fourth most distant reception of the trip <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/wiuc8rlk3q1ylt6580kh2m016c8jblsg">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/wiuc8rlk3q1ylt6580kh2m016c8jblsg</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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KNX Los Angeles, California (50 kW at 4.570 miles/ 7,355 km)
Powerful (S7) level with "1070 Newsradio" ID at 3 seconds,
followed by national news at 0730 UTC on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/81cy1nzyzr4dokk489sdgh34is3lp4ww" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/81cy1nzyzr4dokk489sdgh34is3lp4ww</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1160
KSL Salt Lake City, Utah (50 kw at 5,144 miles/ 8,278 km)
Powerful (S7) level with weather and station ID at 33 seconds, followed by
public service ads at 0901 UTC on 4-12 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4ymewhcz6x28hikjtcd77y99e85ji2u4" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4ymewhcz6x28hikjtcd77y99e85ji2u4</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1170
KFAQ Tulsa, Oklahoma (50 kW at 5,642 miles/ 9,080 km)
Strong signal over apparent DU English co-channel with
"Coast-to-Coast" ID at 44 seconds; thanks to Richard Allen for confirming
the broadcast of the program on the station at 0845 UTC on 4-12 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/u5gtxk6l5qggu2xuf2q09thdnj44sfo8" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/u5gtxk6l5qggu2xuf2q09thdnj44sfo8</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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KMRB San Gabriel, California (9.8 kW at 4,577 miles/ 7,366 km)
Cantonese Chinese format at S7 level with commercial ads at 0830 UTC on
4-12 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/au8ru485mfr57cvspeo0qp4zjvq5pekg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/au8ru485mfr57cvspeo0qp4zjvq5pekg</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1640
KDIA Vallejo, California (10 kW at 4,633 miles/ 7,456 km)
"1640-KDIA" ID at 6 seconds with Christian religious format at S5
level at 0807 UTC on 4-10 <span style="color: #20627f;"><a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/k3a631palnk7ntv4xsgrjnv8bciio611" target="_blank">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/k3a631palnk7ntv4xsgrjnv8bciio611</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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STATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
with North American DX, these stations were not exactly high priority DX in the
Cook Islands, and no special effort was made to go after them. After two Kona,
Hawaii DXpeditions in 2017, there was a lingering memory of too many Hawaiian
MW stations running too much power in too few small, congested communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">590
KSSK Honolulu, Oahu (7.5 kW at 2,781 miles/ 4,476 km)
"Variety, 92.3, KSSK" ID at 2 seconds, followed by pop music at 0701
UTC on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/1j20fcstcfhnoon4cq46kctber04ztzt" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/1j20fcstcfhnoon4cq46kctber04ztzt</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1420
KKEA Honolulu, Oahu (5 kW at 2,781 miles/ 4,476 km) ESPN
sports format at strong level at 0715 UTC on 4-11 <span style="color: #20627f;"><a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/dz0s8yxdf9l7cttwuaeewanqlwm5c71q" target="_blank">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/dz0s8yxdf9l7cttwuaeewanqlwm5c71q</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #20627f;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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ZEALAND and AUSTRALIAN LOGGINGS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
reported previously, the salt water-enhanced propagation from Aitutaki island
to New Zealand was outstanding every evening after local sunset, resulting in
over 100 Kiwi MW-DX recordings made during the trip. Australian signals ruled
at sunrise, however, as a collection of Oz talk-format pest stations on 567,
594, 693, 918 and 1566 did their best to make it a challenge to track down
exotic South and Southeast Asian DX on their frequencies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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All of the following stations were received with the hand-held 7.5"
loopstick C.Crane SSB Ultralight radio alone, which was more than sensitive
enough to track down scores of Kiwi and Oz stations every evening on the lagoon
beach next to our motel. The master plan during the trip was to check all the
MW frequencies in the evening after sunset, splitting up the frequencies to
cover in pre-planned DXing sessions every evening. That worked fairly well
until my wife discovered some special Polynesian dinner offers on the last two
days, causing some of the higher frequencies to be foregone in favor of South
Pacific luaus and Cook Maori dancing entertainment. As I watched the Maori fire
dancing, it seemed like my master plan to cover the entire MW band was going up
in smoke. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">531
2PM Kempsey, Australia, 5 kW Dominant during most sunrise
sessions, but pretty wimpy in the evening. Here it was with call-in talk on the
SRN network (// 639) at 1627 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/dt3qb3g23xzqjnn6crsztf7x5xajmiby" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/dt3qb3g23xzqjnn6crsztf7x5xajmiby</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">531
4KZ Innisfail, Australia, 10 kW Occasionally dominant around
sunrise, but usually under 2PM. This recording at 1559 on 4-10 has mentions of
Innisfail at 20 and 23 seconds, a 4KZ promo, and "4KZ National News"
at 1:21 in the MP3 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/bo65gzy106b6p3mf0gju4xhq14pgizig" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/bo65gzy106b6p3mf0gju4xhq14pgizig</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">531
More FM Alexandra, NZ, 2 kW Despite its rare reputation on the
west coast the low-powered station had no trouble making itself heard each
evening in the Cooks. Here it is with typical modern rock music at 0714 on 4-9,
with a choppy, sandwiched "More FM" Yankee-accented female ID (also
typical) at the 6 second point <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/dapiipgz0y3fcgkwqyg163zlr6l46h56" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/dapiipgz0y3fcgkwqyg163zlr6l46h56</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">531
PI Auckland, NZ, 5 kW Usually in a snarl with Kiwi co-channel
More FM each evening, this Samoan language broadcaster was sometimes dominant
in the sunrise sessions, such as at 1633 on 4-10 (over 2PM's call-in talk)
<a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/v7vd48wj50wh850xzqwdde60nguomfmi" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/v7vd48wj50wh850xzqwdde60nguomfmi</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rhema Taranaki/ Christchurch, NZ, 2/ 1 kW) Usually covered by
Samoa's 2AP in the evening, it had a clear shot during the sunrise sessions
before the Samoan sign on, such as at 1603 on 4-9 (with Rhema ID at 40 seconds)
<a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/niou2j8yrtih0ntgyu59a0bwdyyisnfo" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/niou2j8yrtih0ntgyu59a0bwdyyisnfo</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">549
TAB Trackside Radio Hawkes Bay, NZ, 1 kW For some reason this low
powered horse racing station ruled the frequency each evening, although there
were higher powered NZ and Oz co-channels. This recording at 0733 on 4-10
features an entire horse race at a strong level, along with a musical break
<a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/udp96gpbxvdu26wrvbgy2ri224pps64h" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/udp96gpbxvdu26wrvbgy2ri224pps64h</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Radio Sport Invercargill, NZ, 5 kW Barely audible (under a
thunderous Radio Fiji One) with Yankee-accented Fox Sports News relay at 1624
on 4-10, this station always had a very rough time with the Fiji co-channel
<a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/pue1kl4p7uvohelwt5hdr45jbjp0aau3" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/pue1kl4p7uvohelwt5hdr45jbjp0aau3</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RNZ National Wellington, NZ, 50 kW With a relatively wimpy west
coast signal after its old tower was demolished, this station sounded far more
energetic in the Cooks. Here was parliamentary news at 0717 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/y4uy1yjnfvg5kboq7e1celolmrkysd33" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/y4uy1yjnfvg5kboq7e1celolmrkysd33</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">576
2RN Sydney, Australia, 50 kW A real blaster every morning around
sunrise, it usually wiped out any chance of hearing something exotic on the
frequency, such as at 1619 on 4-13 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/bkwh5w1vg3xufbe63f3yefbaav7afvlg" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/bkwh5w1vg3xufbe63f3yefbaav7afvlg</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">576
Star Hamilton, NZ, 2.5 kW If 2RN didn't wipe out the frequency
during the sunrise sessions then the "Dwarf Star" usually would. Here
it was in a relatively equal mix with the Oz big gun at 1618 on 4-13 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/x1od4xf71d9nxpgzpz21h7sqvevretiw" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/x1od4xf71d9nxpgzpz21h7sqvevretiw</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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7RN Hobart, Australia, 10 kW Usually in a mix with a presumed
2WEB in the evening, the station was easy to ID with its 576 parallel, such as
at 1607 on 4-9 with female and male speech in an RN network program <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/43n8cxjbesp75bk6t63tedovm3pkfo7h" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/43n8cxjbesp75bk6t63tedovm3pkfo7h</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">585
Radio NgatiPorou Ruatoria, NZ, 2 kW A Kiwi Maori station with
legendary weakness, on the west coast it has only been heard at Rockwork 4
(where it has now been MIA for 3 years). In the Cooks it was barely audible,
such as at 1610 on 4-9 (with the 603-Waatea parallel playing "In the Misty
Moonlight" for the first 3 seconds, followed by the same music way under
7RN from the rare station, and finally the 603-Waatea parallel again at the 35
second point). The parallel check was only successful on one out of four
attempts, with the wimpy signal usually MIA <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ayxdvibx0u0hpecasdx9xuqd4pu6bwod" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ayxdvibx0u0hpecasdx9xuqd4pu6bwod</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">585
UnID-Oz This station received at 0738 on 4-9 was not // 576, and was
also not // 603, so most likely it was David Sharp's "Outback Radio,"
2WEB in Bourke. It was usually in a running battle with 7RN each evening in the
Cooks <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/8768a9n9y3wf1ibz51yi1lqj2pkhla04" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/8768a9n9y3wf1ibz51yi1lqj2pkhla04</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">594
3WV Horsham, Australia, 50 kW This was another huge blaster during
sunrise sessions, wiping out any chance at Southeast Asia. In tandem with the
Star network, the Oz big gun plastered anything weak, such as at 1629 on 4-13
<a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/89kmglgoez1eh25ljbvtf0u625t4lm93" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/89kmglgoez1eh25ljbvtf0u625t4lm93</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">594
Star Timaru/ Wanganui, NZ, 5/ 2 kW The Christian hymn network
dominated in the evenings, but lost out to the Oz big gun at sunrise. This
weather report was received at 1622 on 4-13 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/z54n53zsf262e5d10jmcdegqz2yatzhr" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/z54n53zsf262e5d10jmcdegqz2yatzhr</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">603 RadioWaatea Auckland,
NZ, 5 kW The strongest of the Maori language stations in the Cooks, it
provided a convenient parallel signal to check for the wimpy 585 Maori station.
This was its typical (S9) strength at 0737 on 4-9, with Maori language
conversation <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/s2hrnllo4jy6khbwlcegqpeym0gbhq0e" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/s2hrnllo4jy6khbwlcegqpeym0gbhq0e</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">603
UnID-Oz One of the Australian ABC stations was mixing with Radio Waatea
at 0752 on 4-10, but a parallel check wasn't made at the time because Radio
Waatea was being used for a parallel check with 585 at that moment <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/xwj9crbo6bhtyn6nx7tiuhp9hd2xdb1l" target="_blank">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/xwj9crbo6bhtyn6nx7tiuhp9hd2xdb1l</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">630
4QN Townsville, Australia, 50 kW Oz big gun was easy to hear in
the null of Radio Cook Islands' open carrier at 1500 on 4-12 with trumpet
fanfare and ABC news at the TOH; it was also easy copy in RCI's null (with RNZ)
every evening <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ceiaw26agqd4h15jv0j0xipexd7oryy6" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ceiaw26agqd4h15jv0j0xipexd7oryy6</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">630
RNZ Hawkes Bay, NZ, 10 kW 5+1 time pips and female announcer
mixing with 4QN in the null of Radio Cook Islands' open carrier at 1500 on
4-12; this station was the dominant co-channel of RCI in the evening <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ceiaw26agqd4h15jv0j0xipexd7oryy6" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ceiaw26agqd4h15jv0j0xipexd7oryy6</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">639
2HC Coff'sHarbour, Australia, 5 kW Local ads (mentioning the
suburb "Umarra" at 1:08) and "100.5 FM, 639 AM" ID at 1:18
<a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/cgv1vb0g8twz4vl6j8660hdjj53d1mmx" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/cgv1vb0g8twz4vl6j8660hdjj53d1mmx</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">657
Star Wellington/ Tauranga, NZ, 50/ 10 kW A real powerhouse with
its Christian programming each evening, its signal tapered off somewhat around
sunrise, allowing Pyongyang and AIR (Kolkata) to sneak through on 4-12. This
signal (at 1651 on 4-12) starts off with the Asians nulled for a few seconds
(after AIR had hit its peak), with Star's Irish-accented preacher hitting an S9
level briefly <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3o4kd9pkall7oyrzzhy0n2hnx3o8ypfx" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3o4kd9pkall7oyrzzhy0n2hnx3o8ypfx</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">675
RNZ Christchurch, NZ, 10 kW Another evening powerhouse with a
traffic report during the rush hour at 0630 on 4-12 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/o7fldq2j27j3xdpfmwn7yienzn11kq9l" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/o7fldq2j27j3xdpfmwn7yienzn11kq9l</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">693
3AW Melbourne, Australia, 5 kW This was the major pest for
Bangladesh reception (and much more troublesome than Radio Sport). This
recording of the "Australia Overnight" program at 1703 on 4-10 was
during a mix with news from Bangladesh, and features multiple promotions
(initially) for the 3AW smart phone and the 3AW app (I don't think I'll apply
for these!) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/39r5556vdg04sasruqfqgqkyyr8wkm7v" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/39r5556vdg04sasruqfqgqkyyr8wkm7v</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">693
Radio Sport Dunedin, NZ, 5 kW Usually dominant around 1600 daily,
only to lose out to 3AW and Bangladesh as 1700 approached. This Yankee-accented
program (Fox Sports News relay) was at 1608 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/e921kcqxno63geffbqi3t6hq97l31vey" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/e921kcqxno63geffbqi3t6hq97l31vey</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">702
2BL Sydney, Australia, 50 kW The Oz big gun had a rough time
going up against Kiwi Magic in the Cooks. Here it was at almost equal strength
(with male-female conversation under Magic's "See You Later,
Alligator") at 0740 on 4-9 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/j4xkzd773528d4ekr3ibjw184j5hev0i" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/j4xkzd773528d4ekr3ibjw184j5hev0i</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">702
Magic Auckland, NZ, 10 kW Magic's flagship station ruled the
frequency each evening, with awesome signals around the Kiwi sunset, such as at
0730 on 4-10 with this very creative oldies song medley ID <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/n0bnhm6yay3w0nwbfj7mez8foxuo7tvb" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/n0bnhm6yay3w0nwbfj7mez8foxuo7tvb</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">729
Radio Sport Whangarei, NZ, 3 kW Dominant over a real crowd at
1648 on 4-13 with Yankee-accented Fox Sports News relay <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ykyl4b029h1xynq0vea1w8ttz0nk7peh" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ykyl4b029h1xynq0vea1w8ttz0nk7peh</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">738
2NR Grafton, Australia, 50 kW Dominant over Magic (a pretty rare
occurrence in the evening) at 0745 on 4-9 with male speech <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/synliotkd983zc7ch57rcx84xwswuwas" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/synliotkd983zc7ch57rcx84xwswuwas</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">738
Magic Christchurch, NZ, 5 kW The usual sunset skip leader on the
frequency, with strong music // 702 over 2NR at 0731 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/vp58j5scujemjzn59ua6tebzk7c56awl" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/vp58j5scujemjzn59ua6tebzk7c56awl</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">756
RNZ Auckland, NZ, 10 kW This was one of the strongest RNZ signals
each evening, although for some reason it never was recorded. Usually at equal
strength with its 567 and 675 parallels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">765
Radio Kahungunu Hawkes Bay, NZ, 2.5 kW This Maori-language
overachiever was competitive with its 603 parallel on most evenings, but like
756-RNZ accidentally went unrecorded (most likely due to an unscheduled
Polynesian dinner).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">774
3LO Melbourne, Australia, 50 kW The Oz big gun was a potent
presence during most sunrise sessions, such as at 1611 on 4-9 (booming in over
NZ's Radio Sport) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/krxsxdkps64zbmlnm0m0wuoeivqmp4yd" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/krxsxdkps64zbmlnm0m0wuoeivqmp4yd</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">774
Radio Sport New Plymouth, NZ, 5 kW Yankee-accented Fox Sports
news relay almost at equal strength with 3LO at 1612 on 4-9, but usually way
under the Oz big gun around sunrise <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/5xqrmwv1n3866u2rotzxq9oa3wa4o8lz" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/5xqrmwv1n3866u2rotzxq9oa3wa4o8lz</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">792
4RN Brisbane, Australia, 25 kW Not very impressive for the power
level on most mornings, usually in a lackluster mix with NZ's Yankee-accented
Radio Sport (such as at 1614 on 4-9, playing music // 576) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/eg72jxaf03tdxu4l70vbg52231ixckn5" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/eg72jxaf03tdxu4l70vbg52231ixckn5</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">792
Radio Sport Hamilton, NZ, 5 kW Dominant over a weak 4RN with Fox
Sports News relay at 1615 on 4-9 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/6pdsb8j64gdmb7882rwh1jhy8eixkco2" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/6pdsb8j64gdmb7882rwh1jhy8eixkco2</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">810
2BA Bega, Australia, 10 kW Female speech // 774 (along with RNZ
and a possible KGO) at 0850 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/1opl0zzodp01jhbfu2sv2o0fzqyttqhd" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/1opl0zzodp01jhbfu2sv2o0fzqyttqhd</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">810
RNZ Dunedin, NZ, 10 kW Male speech // 819 in a three station mix
at 0850 on 4-10; co-channels were 2BA and a possible KGO <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/1opl0zzodp01jhbfu2sv2o0fzqyttqhd" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/1opl0zzodp01jhbfu2sv2o0fzqyttqhd</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">819
RNZ Tauranga, NZ, 10 kW Strong signal all alone with male
conversation // 810 at 0848 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/qa751yhhwxlosyi1po1zgqdrbzd7e047" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/qa751yhhwxlosyi1po1zgqdrbzd7e047</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">828
TAB Trackside Radio Palmerston North, NZ, 2 kW You can almost
smell the horses as the low power TAB Trackside leaves the Aussie 3GI way down
in the dust at 0835 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/t73cumjyelggta9dgk94nyu23lv3wzol" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/t73cumjyelggta9dgk94nyu23lv3wzol</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">828
3GI Sale, Australia, 10 kW Female and male speech // 774 way
under NZ's TAB Trackside at 0835 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/t73cumjyelggta9dgk94nyu23lv3wzol" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/t73cumjyelggta9dgk94nyu23lv3wzol</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">837
RNZ Whangarei/ Kaitaia, NZ, 2.5/ 2 kW Male speech // 819 in
a mix with 4RK at 0840 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/nx22gapusqquzotjoo873l7itbmf9hkv" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/nx22gapusqquzotjoo873l7itbmf9hkv</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">837
4RK Rockhampton, Australia, 10 kW Female speech // 774 in a mix
with RNZ at 0840 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/nx22gapusqquzotjoo873l7itbmf9hkv" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/nx22gapusqquzotjoo873l7itbmf9hkv</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">846
Newstalk ZB Masterton, NZ, 2 kW The usual co-channel in the null
of Radio Kiribati (on Christmas Island), it was at a fairly strong level with
female and male speech // 1035 at 0833 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4lxwj5239ug4rsdwzju2k7136zv7h67f" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4lxwj5239ug4rsdwzju2k7136zv7h67f</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">855
Rhema Hamilton, NZ, 2 kW "Focus on the Family" promo
and commercial ads at 0830 on 4-10, followed by the "Focus" program
in Yankee-accented English <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/s0xxgxqg94043ycr861gijkaotgjltw3" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/s0xxgxqg94043ycr861gijkaotgjltw3</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">864
Newstalk ZB Invercargill, NZ, 10 kW Modest signal with female
speech // 1035 over a weak co-channel at 0827 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/1385lejm7f82qu2wc61bfxn1dsbabzwj" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/1385lejm7f82qu2wc61bfxn1dsbabzwj</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">873
UnID-DU Three DU English stations mixing at 0826 on 4-10, all receiving
a salt water enhancement boost to the point where they succeed in creating mass
confusion. Probably a mix of Newstalk ZB, TAB Trackside and an Oz station
<a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/aw9dn1m2bw39sbwflb4dagenutr95ksi" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/aw9dn1m2bw39sbwflb4dagenutr95ksi</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">882
Star Auckland, NZ, 10 kW S9 signal all alone and // 909 with
female speech at 0825 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/n2y76kxspboqnm5bcs2otv3xc3q8i45p" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/n2y76kxspboqnm5bcs2otv3xc3q8i45p</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">891
4TAB Townsville, Australia, 5 kW Pounding in at a winning level
at 0821 on 4-10, featuring a bizarre "When You're After Your Mate" ad
at 28 seconds, complete with a gambling addiction hotline number. Meanwhile
891-Wellington was left in the dust, barely showing up at the end of the race
<a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/2t7mn5m32326z3drhyta6dtwnx4y3t5z" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/2t7mn5m32326z3drhyta6dtwnx4y3t5z</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">891
Magic Wellington, NZ, 5 kW The anemic music station was under
4TAB (as usual) in this recording at 0822 on 4-10, the Kiwi oldies station was
losing the horse race with 4TAB every evening <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/24833qhi3ta0rp284700h85d6tgtm9sr" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/24833qhi3ta0rp284700h85d6tgtm9sr</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">900
Coast Whangarei, NZ, 2.5 kW Oldies format dominating over Star
for most of this recording at 0819 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/nj1ytafh2dj2fervb0itouzrppdefrx8" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/nj1ytafh2dj2fervb0itouzrppdefrx8</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">900
Star Dunedin, NZ, 10 kW Dominating over Coast at the end of this
recording at 0820 on 4-10 with female speech // 909 (includes a brief 909
segment) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/nj1ytafh2dj2fervb0itouzrppdefrx8" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/nj1ytafh2dj2fervb0itouzrppdefrx8</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">909
Star Hawkes Bay, NZ, 5 kW Awesome S9 signal with female Kiwi
speech at 0818 on 4-10; this was the preferred Star frequency for parallel
checks every evening <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/nrs8b2xto0tkzxrdx8icqtae9qo13335" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/nrs8b2xto0tkzxrdx8icqtae9qo13335</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Christian format station was also a powerful presence every sunrise session,
such as at 1618 on 4-11 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/cgde7y1n3p9w2ll1xdl6tjge5fd4jooi" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/cgde7y1n3p9w2ll1xdl6tjge5fd4jooi</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">918
RNZ Timaru/ New Plymouth, NZ, 2.5/ 2 kW Fair level with male
speech // 567 at 0812 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/78f0cf7mjhy66cjb5uryhtw0n2hzsym0" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/78f0cf7mjhy66cjb5uryhtw0n2hzsym0</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">918
UniD-Australian "Midnight, with Merv Starr" program intro at
1702 on 4-12 (30 seconds into the following recording). Strangely, the two
eastern Oz station websites indicate that both should be music-oriented <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/dlhcf700ou82hf7unqwlbn026m7bci52" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/dlhcf700ou82hf7unqwlbn026m7bci52</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Note:
The 918 kHz frequency was one of the more interesting in this group. It
received a lot of attention because of Cambodia on the frequency, which finally
broke through with its National Anthem on April 12th. One single MP3 contained
the Cambodian anthem, Shandong in China, bizarre "Cuckoo Clock" time
pips at the 1700 UTC and a mix of two DU English stations after that-- one of
which was the "Midnight, with Merv Starr" program on an Oz talk
station, which remains unidentified. The other DU English signal on the
frequency was the RNZ duo from Timaru and New Plymouth, which routinely showed
up in the evening sessions. After hearing Nick's opinion about the "Cuckoo
Clock" time pips at 1700 UTC (at 1:41 in Chuck's reworked MP3, posted at
<a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/qams92h5ktn7ki93u3qlvbzvyl3y8rru" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00a0cd;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/qams92h5ktn7ki93u3qlvbzvyl3y8rru</span></a>
) I agree with Nick that they are most likely the Shandong 5+1 time pips
alternating with the 5+1 time pips from RNZ, and not echoes from the Shandong
multi-transmitter system, as originally thought. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">927
4CC Gladstone, Australia, 5 kW Presumed the one with a rock
format dominating over Newstalk ZB at the earlier part of this recording at
0807 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/8zjzilbrxolzk4azgz1xqoblx8neu7pd" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/8zjzilbrxolzk4azgz1xqoblx8neu7pd</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">927
Newstalk ZB Palmerston N., NZ, 2 kW Male speech // 1035
dominating over a presumed 4CC at the end of this recording at 0808 on 4-10
<a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/8zjzilbrxolzk4azgz1xqoblx8neu7pd" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/8zjzilbrxolzk4azgz1xqoblx8neu7pd</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">936
Chinese Voice Auckland, NZ, 1 kW One of the major surprises of
the DXpedition, with awesome signals every evening. This TOH recording at 0800
on 4-10 features a Chinese ID, station promos and website information <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/jp8cmpqmmxbjm6bruj601g5y0i4j66f5" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/jp8cmpqmmxbjm6bruj601g5y0i4j66f5</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">936
UnID-Australian Mixing with Chinese Voice at 0731 on 4-9 with DU
English, most likely 4PB in Brisbane <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0o7oo6i4nd6wunsncdsxs516r3wkyiji" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0o7oo6i4nd6wunsncdsxs516r3wkyiji</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">945
Newstalk ZB Gisborne, NZ, 2 kW Good signal // 1035 with sports
news at 0758 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/7dl3volkdjwq4u9wa8eygb166a115lah" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/7dl3volkdjwq4u9wa8eygb166a115lah</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">954
UnID-DU A single station all alone with news at 0756 on 4-10, but just
not enough content to identify <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/crippbcbus3gw6g27yc767f4nqf3md7m" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/crippbcbus3gw6g27yc767f4nqf3md7m</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">963
Star Christchurch, NZ, 10 kW Strong signal // 909 with ID at the
10 second point, followed by Christian music <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ltk43q3f8gkj60zwyvbwlfe27zk0ercb" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ltk43q3f8gkj60zwyvbwlfe27zk0ercb</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">972
UnID For some reason this frequency was overlooked in the evening, but
an apparent DU English co-channel was mixing with HLCA's Korean at 1632 on 4-12
with a talk format-- most likely Rhema, in Wellington <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/rsjxq9ara77rrvdeg4f1dnn5fh9jgs1b" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/rsjxq9ara77rrvdeg4f1dnn5fh9jgs1b</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">981
RNZ Kaikohe, NZ, 2 kW Female-voiced news // 567 at good level at
0723 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0lx9tfev0eq7qe9vj054mu60kw1oxthq" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0lx9tfev0eq7qe9vj054mu60kw1oxthq</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">990
TAB Trackside Nelson, NZ, 1 kW In a fairly good horse race with
Fiji Gold at the start of this recording at 0712 on 4-10, only to fold to
Melissa Etheridge in the clutch <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/devsen4lrp2pul0m92m0r638yb6yj79i" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/devsen4lrp2pul0m92m0r638yb6yj79i</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1008
4TAB Brisbane, Australia, 10 kW Dominating over Newstalk ZB with
live horse racing at 0752 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/oqks7pabb5rjj96eb04c49n5iseb16xv" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/oqks7pabb5rjj96eb04c49n5iseb16xv</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1008
Newstalk ZB Tauranga, NZ, 10 kW Dominating over 4TAB with
male-voiced news // 1035 at 0753 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/c1qk2124yuu2hhf0cwaqjjg3ev3w6q31" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/c1qk2124yuu2hhf0cwaqjjg3ev3w6q31</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1017
Radio Sport Christchurch, NZ, 2.5 kW The major co-channel of A3Z
in Tonga, it could usually be isolated simply by nulling out Tonga. This was
the case at 0723 on 4-10, with sports-related news from the Kiwi station in the
null of S9 Tonga <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4yaczeqnvcdqyv6pyuog7707lrh2uifx" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4yaczeqnvcdqyv6pyuog7707lrh2uifx</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1026
Newstalk ZB Kaitaia, NZ, 2 kW Pretty good signal from the 2 kW
station with male conversation // 1035 at 0738 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/6tjlvks46ygt3q8zo92768d2vcrtra1y" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/6tjlvks46ygt3q8zo92768d2vcrtra1y</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1035
Newstalk ZB Wellington, NZ, 20 kW Usually very strong on the
frequency each evening, but a little off at 0737 on 4-10 with male conversation
about gender-changed athletes <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/zbrxgjg5cyvi1xow8nedzv9aoie2x7cq" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/zbrxgjg5cyvi1xow8nedzv9aoie2x7cq</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1044
Newstalk ZB Dunedin, NZ, 10 kW Male conversation // 1035 about
gender-changed athletes at 0739 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0arbh5wji31myv9vn46r29d07qjgbi8a" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0arbh5wji31myv9vn46r29d07qjgbi8a</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1053
Newstalk ZB New Plymouth, NZ, 2 kW Great signal for the power
level with (once again) male conversation // 1035 about gender-changed athletes
at 0740 on 4-10. Newstalk ZB has this part of the band almost monopolized
<a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/15b7t03n2w5y03tfoqoyk0u2xrms6pzz" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/15b7t03n2w5y03tfoqoyk0u2xrms6pzz</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1062
Radio Sport Wanganui, NZ, 1 kW Sports play-by-play with good
signal for the power level at 0742 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/9h4ib0fg3in4xnnfqw6ue00zqi3o6lbk" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/9h4ib0fg3in4xnnfqw6ue00zqi3o6lbk</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1071
TAB Trackside Ashburton, NZ, 1 kW Believed to be the
Kiwi-accented station at the end of the recording at 1700 on 4-13 under the
dominant UnID Australian (thanks to Bryan Clark for accent assistance) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4zu1wp0eykwxyy3598w45dtpjirs5nif" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4zu1wp0eykwxyy3598w45dtpjirs5nif</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1071
UnID Australian Mention of "Melbourne" at the 18 second point,
but no definite ID clues at 1700 on 4-13 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4zu1wp0eykwxyy3598w45dtpjirs5nif" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4zu1wp0eykwxyy3598w45dtpjirs5nif</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1080
Newstalk ZB Auckland, NZ, 10 kW Powerful signal at 0745 on 4-10
with sports-related news over very weak co-channel (KWAI in Hawaii?) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/f8lqy6xhvv56fdsyauyebt1t28wlxcsp" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/f8lqy6xhvv56fdsyauyebt1t28wlxcsp</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1089
Radio Sport Palmerston N., NZ, 2.5 kW Sports play-by-play // 1062
at 0746 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/chasv9jgq78avz0gsgsl2760p3b0l707" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/chasv9jgq78avz0gsgsl2760p3b0l707</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1098
Newstalk ZB Christchurch, NZ, 5 kW The usual co-channel of V7AB
in the Marshall Islands, it could usually be isolated by nulling V7AB, as in
this strong recording // 1035 (with the gender-changed athlete discussion) at
0749 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/cidqz29yfbvsfqe3xn2e3v5e11tppudt" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/cidqz29yfbvsfqe3xn2e3v5e11tppudt</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1107
Radio Live Tauranga, NZ, 1 kW Talk-format station all alone at
0750 on 4-10 with good signal for the power level <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ixt6fum9c0eejx979eps4i1h7pwmzg4k" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ixt6fum9c0eejx979eps4i1h7pwmzg4k</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1116
UnID-DU A mix of a strong UnID music station (RNZ?) and a probable 4BC from
Brisbane at 0752 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/a5pe6fmk17tnr90zlh4irjx2jf36xld9" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/a5pe6fmk17tnr90zlh4irjx2jf36xld9</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1125
Radio Sport Hawkes Bay, NZ, 1 kW Great signal for the low power with
local ads and promo for shared sports program on sister network Newstalk ZB at
0753 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/wp65skhg3czwx2sk1i1yzu8k4j5wzllb" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/wp65skhg3czwx2sk1i1yzu8k4j5wzllb</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1143
RNZ Hamilton, NZ, 2.5 kW Great signal with music and speech //
567 at 0754 on 4-10 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/b2f1mcjbzek1s2147rm2scj1m25nbqeo" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/b2f1mcjbzek1s2147rm2scj1m25nbqeo</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1152
Newstalk ZB Timaru, NZ, 2 kW Good signal all alone with male
conversation // 1035 at 0756 on 4-10 regarding (once again) gender-changed
athletes <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/hpf4368fgakui2ivax59ms8pfpnpibww" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/hpf4368fgakui2ivax59ms8pfpnpibww</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1161
Radio TeUpoko o teIka, Wellington, NZ, 5 kW Good signal // 603 with
Maori language speech at 0750 on 4-10; a parallel segment on 603 is included at
the end of the recording. On some evenings this station would be wiped out by
1160-KSL in Salt Lake City <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/glyd7t60c5ihz1v9hrydblkslkd36524" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/glyd7t60c5ihz1v9hrydblkslkd36524</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1377
Radio Sport Levin/ Kapiti, NZ, 2 kW Local ads and a promo for
Commonwealth Games sport coverage at 0803 on 4-11 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/n10gl1ok4wg4feo69ve999dknb982wde" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/n10gl1ok4wg4feo69ve999dknb982wde</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1386
Radio Tarana Auckland, NZ, 10 kW The Kiwi big gun pounded in with
female-voiced local ads in English and male Hindi speech at 0806 on 4-11 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/9a3myg4nwzptp2jckmdnlpo2datmpdax" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/9a3myg4nwzptp2jckmdnlpo2datmpdax</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1395
Newstalk ZB, Oamaru, NZ, 2 kW Good level with female-voiced news
and male-voiced ID at 1:10, with promo of Commonwealth Games sport coverage at
0810 on 4-11 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/tiesp5tmnigghdog2spx1zxxfxbese86" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/tiesp5tmnigghdog2spx1zxxfxbese86</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1404
Rhema Invercargill, NZ, 5 kW Another good signal with Christian
music and local ads at 0813 on 4-11 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/qoxlo02gy396wp5weocmnrmdx3ev2kfi" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/qoxlo02gy396wp5weocmnrmdx3ev2kfi</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1413
Newstalk ZB Tokoroa, NZ, 2 kW Male-voiced news // 1035 at 0819 on
4-11 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/td3jhm3ad49uaoiuagzea4zk7r8xbtry" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/td3jhm3ad49uaoiuagzea4zk7r8xbtry</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1440
Radio Te Reo O Tauranga Moana, Tauranga, NZ, 200 w In one of the more
bizarre moments of the entire trip, the 200 watt Maori station hijacks the
frequency from Radio Kiribati at the 50 second point in the following recording
(at 0807 on 4-11) <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/2jpcqtll1odzjbrxak8u00brzpqr2uba" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/2jpcqtll1odzjbrxak8u00brzpqr2uba</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1449
RNZ Palmerston N., NZ, 2.5 kW Strong signal with female-voiced
news // 567 at 0837 on 4-11 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/40nmrktl0qgcawrx2iwjwdcziqop7pez" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/40nmrktl0qgcawrx2iwjwdcziqop7pez</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1458
RNZ Westport, NZ, 400 w Amazing signal (for 400 watts) with
female-voiced news // 1449 at 0841 on 4-11 <a href="https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/9ewn2baonkqjcirnux6toly2m06ccr0q" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #20627f;">https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/9ewn2baonkqjcirnux6toly2m06ccr0q</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Trackside TAB Auckland, NZ, 5 kW Horse payout report followed by
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Radio Sport Timaru, NZ, 2.5 kW Commonwealth Games soccer coverage
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Star Hamilton, NZ, 2.5 kW Christian vocal music under Radio
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3NE Wangaratta, Australia, 5 kW This was the major pest blocking
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ID at 1:40 (and Rick Springfield's music prior to that) are at typical strength
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100w Norfolk Island and 200w 4GM. This was the wacky result (in a mix with
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Hope you all are well. I am calling to say hello to you all from Osaka. We arrived in Japan eleven days ago and flew to Okinawa for a week, where we had a lovely time by the sea. Churaumi aquarium was too beautiful for words.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Today my dream of visiting Mainichi Broadcasting System finally came
true. As you may remember, I have a QSL and verification letter from this
station from the early nineties and was very happy at the time I received it in
Raniganj. After arriving back in Osaka from Okinawa I thought of listening to
MBS JOOR on 1179 kHz from my hotel room and there it was, loud and clear. I
then thought of making a recording and visiting the station. When I called the
station this morning, I managed to get through to someone who spoke English. But
being a non-technical person, he advised me that the studio was off limits to
visitors and that I could only go to the station's shop to buy souvenirs. We
decided to make a visit anyway and it turned out to be very fruitful. I was
thrilled when I finally found the MBS building</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">in Chayamachi, which is a nice
area of Osaka. While my XYL and myself were looking around the shop, a
gentleman came over and introduced himself in very good English. It turned out
he was Mr Okamoto, ex-head of audience relations, now working in a different
department of MBS. When I told him why I was visiting MBS, he became very
excited. I then played my recording of MBS to him, done on my Tivdio portable
and he confirmed it was their station. To our utter delight, he soon came back with not one, but two QSL cards for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Their transmitter is not located in Chayamachi but is actually near Osaka Kansai Airport. Here are some quick picture from today. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hope you will like them. Both the gentlemen in the picture work for MBS radio. (MBS TV studio is also in the same building). Their mascot is called Lion-chan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A small group of ten Dxers gathered in a Kolkata Maidan tent on the eve of World Radio Day 2018. They were very upbeat while world wide radio enthusiasts have to cope up with bad news for the hobby. In the last few years stations after stations had closed down and so had iconic radio clubs like Danish Short Wave Club and periodicals like Monitoring Times. Broadcasting mega corporations like VOA and DW have reduced their presence in the airwaves to a faint whisper compared to their former roar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why are the Kolkata Dxers upbeat in 2018? The AIR Kolkata which was the first transmitter of the AIR network beginning from 1926 as erstwhile Indian Broadcasting Corporation had gone nearly silent few years ago with woes from aging value transmitters. Then there was the assault of the tropical storm "Aila" which had brought down one of its MW antenna towers. The situation is entirely different today. There are brand new solid state DRM capable MW transmitters in place which are blaring out Kolkata A 657 kHz and Kolkata B 1008 kHz signals levels which dare to compete with the FM stations. Rightfully the two iconic stations have been rechristened "Gitanjali" for Kolkata A and "Sanchaita" for Kolkata B both named after famous works of the noble prize winning prolific author poet composer and painter </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Rabindra Nath Tagore. In the outskirts of the city AIR Maitri 594 1000 kw which is a external service Bengali broadcast to neighbouring Bangladesh proudly blares its signals across the wave. AIR Maitri was made possible by the personal enthusiasm of the former Chairman of Prasar Bharati, the holding corporation of All India Radio and Doordarshan TV, Mr Jawhar Sircar who hails from the city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this meeting there were veteran Dxers such as Babul Gupta and Sudipta Ghose who have had their first QSL in the late sixties to the early seventies, sitting side by side with Abhijit Dutta who started MW listening in Siliguri. When he moved to Kolkata Abhijit came across Kallol Nath who started Dxing only a couple of years ago. Kallol introduced Abhijit to the joy of shortwave listening and that is why he was there at the meet. Kallol in this meet narrated how his Tecsun PL 660 was bugged by technical glitches and had to be serviced twice in the warranty period by shipping it all the way to the vendor at Singapore. With his receiver Kallol, from his high rise apartment in the heart of Kolkata has to still climb to its roof for better reception. That is when the veterans lamented the rise of man made radio frequency interference (RFI) from the array of household and community sources which bug the SWL/Dxer today. The present sunspot low is also a big obstacle before the new entrants to the hobby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the conventional radio stations are dwindling, the profile of SWL and MW Dxer is also changing. Debanjan Chakraborti is a case in point. Starting from a conventional Dxer he is now an avid radio collector and digital mode experimenter. He is also a licenced radio amateur (VU3DCH). His collection sports the iconic radio sets such as the Yaseu FRG 7 which was the apple of the Dxers eye in the early eighties. A visit to Debanjan's shack is like a trip to the museum of Dxing from early eighties. Now, a licenced radio amateur Debanjan is presently toying with the idea of adding a hybrid transceiver to his collection. This would be a radio set sporting both tubes and transistors.</span><br />
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Ghose for exchanging radio and DX notes since 70s. Later, he also joined the
IDXCI. At that time we had many radio friends in Bangladesh like Akbar Haidar
Kiran, Baten Chowdhury, Nesar Uddin Chowdhury as well as Abdullah whom we
fondly remember. A team of DXers also visited Bangladesh for exchanging
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The first few days of January 2017 saw an impromptu reunion of
erstwhile Asian DX Review HQ Staff . These were the enthusiastic lot who would
get together every week and bring out the DX bulletin of IDXCI called the Asian
DX Review (ADXR) in the 1980s . Dr Swapon Chowdhury was passing through Kolkata
on a brief stopover and he was the catalyst for this meet. We met at a South
Kolkata Guest House in the evening of 4<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>January 2017. Present were Sudipto
Ghose (SG) ,Babul Gupta (BG) ,Tripti Ranjan Basu (TRB) and yours truly. Also
present was someone who came in much later into Dxing but is our young blood
today – Debanjan Chakraborty. In the early 1980 when digital frequency readout
radios were just appearing, Dr Chowdhury had a Panasonic portable and he was the
soul behind one of the first DXpeditions to Digha in those days. One of my
earliest experiences in Dxing with the digital frequency readout receiver was
at Dr Chowdhury's Hostel room at SSKM Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Then there was long void as Dr Chowdhury migrated to Australia and
ADXR stopped rolling out by the late eighties. However, in this DX reunion it
was refreshing to find that this DX veteran Dr Swapon Chowdhury was still very
much in touch with the bands. As Dr Chowdhury talked about his Cuba visit of
2015 he sounded most enthusiastic about having heard AFRTS Guantamo Bay. Soon
the conversation went into DX history – how AFRTS Diego Garcia stopped its SW
operations in 2015 to how thrilled we were to receive AFRTS Diego Garcia in MW
in one of the Chandipore Dxpeditions of the mid 1980s. Then on to the hardware
– how is Dr Chowdhury finding signals from his Sydney apartment with his AOR to
how is Debanjan fishing rare long wave signals in his electrically noisy
neighborhood with the help of the
Russian PARDT whip antenna. Babul Gupta who has been an extremely active Dxer</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFH_9O3XZ-UutpbS14EiY9ibY9MHqNZS-oRAXXLxy1hjEcY5J4r7i4gDciqNFZshVotC52uyE2Sy2ocdxxcms0JT1NS-SV3YnMS8srRBSmqf3478l_TJ4rpUJHPkYK5TxKphcNROAuiYM/s1600/002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">in recent times stirred up our DX envy as he talked about his Latin American
QSLs of 2014-16 including the QSL of resurrected Ecos Del Torbes via WRMI Radio Miami International !!! Then the discussion went on to the colourful Bengal pirates in the MW
operating in the Sagar Island area south of Kolkata especially in this time of
the year when pilgrims flock to Ganga Sagar Mela. The pcbs of PARDT whip for
homebrew also changed hands in this meet and the source was our technical genie
Sudipto Ghosh . Tripti Ranjan Basu who was the moving spirit and soul behind
ADXR all throughout the eighties acknowledged that Dr Chowdhury had impressed
every one by his familiarity with the bands while he had been less active in
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Dr Chowdhury had come armed with three publications – the
venerable WRTH and the two volumes of Utility DX frequencies of Klingenfluss.
This was symbolic of the present state of Dxing as the hobbyists have to toy
with Utility Dxing to keep up their interest. We all lamented the planned
closure of Australian Regional’s on the shortwave. Now that most of us had also
acquired an amateur radio license even though retaining strong loyalty to
Broadcast Band DX , the talks definitely went over to amateur radio homebrew
gears and BITX and Babul Gupta active forays into Hamsphere 4 !!</span></div>
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of closing down of shortwave radio stations . the die hard broadcast band Dxers
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What
a way to celebrate 35</span><sup style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> year of founding of IDXCI! Nine Dxers from
all over India coming from places varying from Tripura to Delhi and from Hyderabad to Kolkata and with Dxing seniority
varying from first QSL of late sixty to first QSL of late nineties, all travelled to Henry' Island for a Dxped. The
place was the northern most sea beach of Bay of Bengal about 120 km south of
Kolkata and the location was a clearing in the Sundari forest where the
Government of West Bengal had set up a fishery. The clear area of water bodies,
proximity to the sea and bamboo poles sprinkled here and there was a
magnificent setting to a Dxped. Driving in two cars including an Ambassador
loaded with receivers, gears for beverages and supports we arrived in the evening of 22</span><sup style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Jan 2016. The ride was no less exciting because while waiting for the river
crossing by ferry of river Hatania Doania Alokesh noticed a shop selling VHF antenna and later we located a shop
selling marine transceiver sets from ICOM to ALINCO at a remote roadside bazar
close to our DX location !! Once at the
location we immediately set up two beverages the entire exercise led by Babul
Gupta who had fashioned portable supports. The 180 m running south east had a
terminating resistor at the end. The other one was running east west and had a
sort of L at the end to follow the available land. The next day we set up yet
another beverage which of course remained partly submerged in water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What
was the “wow”? What started as a warm up after getting Zanzibar loud and clear
on 11735 kHz at 1600 hrs UTC and Maldives moderate on 1449 kHz soon went into
an ecstasy with loads of long waves coming in varying from Antena Satelor
Romania 153 kHz, Morocco R.Medi 171 kHz to Algiers on 252 kHz and Radio Polskei
225 kHz all coming in with clear noise free signals. Late into the night at
2100 hrs host of Philippines on the MW appeared, some clear and strong such as
DZME 1531 kHz with their early morning chatter were soon overtaken by the Thai
MW such as Chiang Mai 1476 kHz. The tropical bands which have very few stations
left had some surprises in store for us. Radio Bougenville PNG on 3325 kHz at
2215 UTC was heard on 22</span><sup style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> with
moderate to loud signals on a clear channels. However, it was elusive
only for a day. Next day on this channel there was RRI Palangkarya signing on at 2200 UTC. Of
the remaining Indonesians we could log RRI Makassar 4750 kHz and RRI Wamena 4870
kHz. All of the north Koreans including
the Voice of People 3480 kHz and 3912 kHz were also there through all of the days of our </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">listening
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2325 kHz Tennant Creek, 4835 kHz Alice Springs and 5025 kHz Katherine. It is
debatable whether to call Radio Tarma Peru on 4775 kHz at 2300 hrs listed to be
running 1 KW as the topping in the cake of the Latins first located by C.K.
Raman but there were other Cuban 60 m banders from Radio Havana 5040 kHz to Radio Rebelde 5025 kHz which appeared
fleetingly at 2300 hrs UTC. The higher frequency South Americans were
represented by Argentina on 15345 kHz, Radio Nacional da Amazonia Brazil 11780 kHz
which was not as strong as in Kolkata and R. Inconfidencia 15190 kHz. The American Missionaries World Harvest
Radio, WWCR ,WEWN and Radio Miami International were also there. Jose and
Alokesh were probably the first to hear Bangaldesh Betar Dhaka B on 819 kHz in
its first test transmission on 23</span><sup style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">rd</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Jan 2016. Jose also tuned in to
AWR program via AIR Port Blair on 4760 kHz and in the morning we could also log
AIR Leh on 4760 kHz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What
about the biggest “wow”? The beach was
linked to the fishery by a short walk through dense forest and was therefore
open only during day time. In this relatively lonely beach we carried a folding
table, a Drake R8, automobile battery and material for a beverage and set up a
100m long beverage on the morning of 23</span><sup style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">rd</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> January. Our aim was to
hunt for the Bengal Pirates on the MW. We had noticed them in earlier Dxpeds at
Mandarmani and also during our scouting trip to this place in early December.
Our plan this time was a comprehensive survey. What did we come across? There
were at least 20 Bengal pirates on the MW which operated between 1000 kHz to
1700 kHz and the spurious went up as far as the 4 Mhz region. Sudipta Ghose
coordinated the Perseus capture of the entire band of Bengal Pirates. What more
– some of these pirates were even identifying themselves and giving out mobile
telephone numbers!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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surprises too – FM stations varying from AIR Baripada in neighbouring Orissa to
Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal were logged. During day time while we chatted DX
Bangldesh FM would blare in the background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Pradip
Kundu true to his form of working wonders with lean equipments, managed to log
the Brazilian time signal station on 10 Mhz using his Tecsun PL 660 portable
receiver with telescopic antenna ( yes , not connected to a beverage ! ) while
others were struggling with their
Perseus, Drakes, Skanti and Kenwood. In time signal stations we also managed to
log BPM on 2.5 Mhz and Italian time signal station on 10 Mhz.</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span><br />
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about the disappointments? On the last night the huts next to ours were
occupied and this being the peak season, the resort was full. This caused the
noise level to jump up significantly and the long wave stations were a thing of
the past just after a day. While stringing a beverage in the east south east
direction part of it had to cross the waterbody but snapped. It was retrieved
repaired and restrung but we had to accept part of it being submerged in water.
Our vigorous hunt for the Japanese mw led by Debanjan yielded nothing except
for a lone MW NHK. The Japanese MW which were so common during our DX peds in
the mid eighties were simply not there. There was eerie echo of this in a
monitored conversation between two Bangladeshi fishing vessels who were lamenting
over “No fish: no catch “! </span><br />
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the way back we stopped by a roadside tea shop and had <i>muri </i>and <i>ghoogni</i>
for breakfast while we relished the DX experience of the last few days and also
enjoyed DX snippets and the accounts from our efficient account manager Tripti
Ranjan Basu who handled most of IDXCI administration in yesteryears. As we
were<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>going through a collection of QSL
carried by PCK there<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was the last<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“ wow” -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>an<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AIR QSL which in one card had
two QSLs of AIR Srinagar and AIR Aizwal scribbled in !! Yes two QSLs we had
noticed them in one QSL card!! Such DX catches, DX tete-e-tete, DX “wow” and
fellowship was the spirit of the IDXCI 35<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Dxped to
Henry's Island near Bakkhali in West Bengal India. </span><br />
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January 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sudipta Ghose VU2UT, Baranagar, West Bengal.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Babul Gupta VU3ZBG, Barasat, West Bengal.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Pradip Chandra Kundu, Agartala, Tripura</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>C. K. Raman VU3DJQ, Delhi.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Alokesh Gupta VU3BSE, Delhi.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Jose Jacob VU2JOS, Hyderabad, Telangana.</b></span><br />
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was email alert and a FB post from Alokesh Gupta which triggered a flurry of activity amongst the Kolkata Dxers – AIR Kolkata A was to inaugurate a brand
new DRM transmitter on 8<sup>th</sup> September. The last few months had seen
only sad news for the Dxer trickling in – from closure of Radio Serbia on SW to
the blowing up to dismantle the MW antenna mast of "RIAS Berlin". Here was at
last a silver lining for the world wide DX community – a brand new MW radio
transmitter with DRM capability !!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Alokesh
had circulated a blog entry of this event and later All India Radio news
bulletins prominently featured this event in their news bulletins. The
transmitter was to be inaugurated by Shri Jawhar Sircar CEO of the Prasar
Bharati Corporation, the umbrella outfit to which All India Radio and
Doordarshan India (TV) belongs. The venue was the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ICCR auditorium at the
heart of Kolkata. The actual transmitter site was, however, some 26 km away
from Kolkata at Chandi near Amtalla in 24 Pgs (South). The morning news from All
India Radio Kolkata informed that the transmitter will at present carry analogue</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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simulcast would start later on.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Inside
the ICCR auditorium at few minutes before 2 pm there was a flurry of activities
with the technicians preparing for a live transmission of the inaugural
broadcast. They were visibly jittery because the telephone line leased for the
occasion from BSNL was not up to their liking. That was the only link to the
transmitters. Ms Swapna Mondal, Additional Director General Programming of All
India Radio Kolkata was supervising the finer details of the live programme. In
the audience apart for AIR staff and a sprinkle of press reporters, there were
three other Dxers – Babul Gupta, Sudipta Ghose and I. The signature tune was
put on few minutes before 2 pm and sharp at two the announcer started with the
customary </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">opening announcement. She announced 657 kHz but did not mention
the 594 kHz from Chunchura which was also carrying the same broadcast. For us
here in the audience, it was a thrilling moment to listen to one of the faces
of the AIR transmission whereas we have grown up only listening to faceless AIR
announcements. As the announcer announced the beginning of the special
broadcast and the customary Indian Classical Music Shenai recital (recorded)
was put on, Jawhar Sircar CEO Prasar Bharati and Animesh Chakrabarti AIR
Engineer-in-Chief who were both chairing the event trooped out of the
auditorium to light the inaugural lamp which for some unclear reason was held
outside the auditorium. On their return they were seated on the dais and then
the customary speeches by two of them followed alongwith Tagore Songs by a
choir from a local University.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What for the non Dxer would be just another routine inauguration, for us Dxers it was an opportunity to present at a historic live broadcast from a brand new MW digital DRM capable transmitter from " Kolkata A " the iconic household radio station most of the people of West Bengal still revere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ~ Supratik Sanatani (VU3IFB)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Recording of an Historic event:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnN07LmQez8&feature=youtu.be</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>All India Radio Kolkata A on medium wave DRM broadcast on 666 kHz at around 0830 hrs UTC with excellent audio quality using new Avion AV-DR-1401 Indian made DRM receiver. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Go to this link: <a href="https://youtu.be/mO0BwhdT06k" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/mO0BwhdT06k</a></b></span><br />
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Courtsey:- <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Debanjan Chakraborty</b></span><br />
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The timing of our visit could not have come at more depressing times for a DXer. Radio stations all over the world were closing down and Voice of Russia - the erstwhile Radio Moscow - a mega power house of the Cold War days had just closed down its radio transmissions. South Asian DXers were still reeling from the shock of closing down of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DW from trincomalee sometimes ago. Our visit was significant against this gloomy backdrop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqK3VLc4h9T6x_clcmkXPKPBUEnTMIyNyPItWuKvG2lRI54TjNcUWJ-M48yYrEXYSu9i17dY5i1BPRb6amRcRt8vvEknzhXXDl4SYXMqCHzKX5ICrv0WjUJmJwi7u5aycT6z_Br7w7BxA/s1600/01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqK3VLc4h9T6x_clcmkXPKPBUEnTMIyNyPItWuKvG2lRI54TjNcUWJ-M48yYrEXYSu9i17dY5i1BPRb6amRcRt8vvEknzhXXDl4SYXMqCHzKX5ICrv0WjUJmJwi7u5aycT6z_Br7w7BxA/s1600/01.jpg" height="266" width="400" /></a>Here was, however, a silver lining for the radio aficionado. AIR Chinsurah had just commissioned a brand new solid state super power MW DRM capable transmitter in 2013. The 3 x 400 kw DRM capable facility was still undergoing tests while the privileged five DXers of the IDXCI got a chance to visit the facility. The visiting team of DXers was mix of young and old. There were DXers in this team with first QSL of 1967 to the youngest whose first QSL was in the late nineties. All of us had seen receivers from the RCA AR 88 of the world war days to modern SDRs including the SDR dongle!! But never had we visited a solid state MW super power transmitter. A super power transmitter in our mind still had the picture of a workshop</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaFWtVTqoQYmZ2P7-wm-OiE0SFFry2TiFVlKgeY7-ie7BIM4T97CgFv5jaYhTgmKaUQPJEFZJAhBeAGer3-b0Wbgr-XaAc8mhjwzmukHWB9QWgSpEV00h9kN4YvSm9M-FA1cGZwm2jVeU/s1600/02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaFWtVTqoQYmZ2P7-wm-OiE0SFFry2TiFVlKgeY7-ie7BIM4T97CgFv5jaYhTgmKaUQPJEFZJAhBeAGer3-b0Wbgr-XaAc8mhjwzmukHWB9QWgSpEV00h9kN4YvSm9M-FA1cGZwm2jVeU/s1600/02.jpg" height="216" width="400" /></a>floor - cables, pipes, dust and grease all over (see our article on AIR Kolkata at Amtala and Chandi). This was definitely different!! As we entered the Transmitting facility 40 km away from the heart of Kolkata in a summer afternoon, there were flowering "nayantaras" greeting us. This was not something you would expect in an All India Radio station. This facility was first built in the mid nineteen sixties with Russian transmitters and antenna. It was later upgraded to a 1000 kw MW facility which beamed AIR external services to neighbouring countries and the south east Asia on 1134 or 594 kHz. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> In 2013 a brand new Thomson
s7hp 3x 400 kw facility replaced the old Russian transmitters. However, the old
Russian antenna and the feeders were retained. Retained would be an
understatement because the antenna and feeders were so thoroughly overhauled
that they looked perfectly matched with their smart young French counterpart –
the transmitters from Thomson. The high antenna tower in front of the
Transmitter building still had an Yagi put up on its top . It was from the days
when the link from Akashvani Bhawan at Eden Gardens Kolkata was via the FM
link. This link began to falter many years ago when high rise buildings began
to appear in the line of sight and often made the link unreliable. Today there
were satellite links via a huge TVRO dish besides the T2D2 cable link . The old
transmitter building from outside had remained the same with repairs and bright
new coat of paint. As we climbed up the stairs the sign board “ “Super Power
Transmitter, Chinsurah" greeted us.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We soon entered into a sparklessly clean
white tiled large hall with few monitors on a table in the centre of the hall
with chairs around. On one side of the hall were the transmitter panels some of
them looking like innocuous almirah doors. At the center of the hall were flat
monitors and key boards. The monitors were the control panel for this mighty
radio horse. We next entered the transmitter area through the entrance in
between the panels. No tubes or thick copper tubes running around. The power
section of the transmitter were banks of FETS all neatly stacked. Rather than
the tubes blowing up as with the tube transmitters, the solid state
transmitters have to face blown up FETS. The corresponding FET panel s will
then have to be replaced. The engineers seemed a little concerned over the
limited inventory of FET spares. To open the enclosure of the FETS there were
interlocking mechanisms. The key for the enclosure will<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> be available only when
the power supply has been switched off. The output RF signals were fed into a
an unit which has been locally assembled. It switches the signals to the one of
the four large antennae and also switches between the frequencies. . We were
quiet impressed by the switching system and looked around. It was a far cry
from a Dxer switching into one of the many antenna through jumbled wires at the
back of his receivers !!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> We were next taken on car
ride through the antenna fields to the antenna. There were two omnidirectional
antenna on one side of the vast antenna field . There were the directional
antenna on the other side of the field which threw signals to the east and
north east asia. At the moment only the omnidirectional antenna was being used.
The feeder lines were impressive. There were very robust coaxial lines
supported on concrete cement rings on cement posts placed regularly. They were
all overhauled thoroughly. Each post had mechanisms for matching the feeder
lines and this could be operated by remote control . For us Dxers strolling in
the antenna fileds amids feeder line support post was like taking an evening
walk in a exotic hill station !!!As we stood at the base of the antenna mast we
were struck by the majesty of the antenna masts standing tall !!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Back at the transmitter
building we next visited the power supply area. This was on one end of the
elegant transmitter hall. There were very large backup power supplies for the
transmitters. They were all controlled by the computer. One of the major
transmitter breakdown was once due to the failure of the computer controlling
these power supplies. The genset at the first floor of the building was modest
and was designed to supply the entire facility in the event of a breakdown of
power supply. Ever since the tubes transmitters gave place to the solid state
transmitters the power requirement had dramatically come down. There was a
saving of several lakhs of rupees each month on account of this power savings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> As it was nearing <span class="aqj">5 pm</span> local times, the engineers set about charging two of the
three transmitters for the evening transmission. It was all done trough few
mouse clicks. We sat starry eyes as one of the transmitters refused to start
and all that was showing were few red blocks flashing in the screen. The
transmitters were carrying program for the AIR Kolkata A which is the main
radio channel in this region. The old</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> channel 657 was also there but had been
faltering for some times now. This channel was</span><br />
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about DRM ? That will be in the next phase. We Dxers understood because not
many us had been fully equipped with robust DRM Receivers. However, these brand
new solid state super power babies are a very welcome addition to the dying
family of AM radio transmitters.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493989671362384378.post-79221154513841035872014-07-23T08:07:00.002-07:002014-07-23T08:16:18.563-07:00PRADIP KUNDU - A Dxer putting technology to shame !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>By Dr.Supratik Sanatani, Kolkata, 21 March 2010</b><br />
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I met Pradip Kundu for the first time as we were gathered at Babul Gupta’s shack for a weekend get-together & to see his brand new ICOM R75. The ICOM was connected to a dipole and a long wire and was placed next to the PC which is an indispensable DX tool today. That was an irony because there was Pradip Kundu, the DXer from Tripura (North East India) who had logged some amazing QSLs using just a two band Bush receiver and later a Philips portable set. He was visiting Kolkata with his collection of QSLs. The collection was amazing by any standards, if not for the Indian DXer alone. There were a host of<br />
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Most of Pradip Kundu’s prize DX catches were from the days when his village Kumaria Kucha did not have electricity. He had strung a modest piece of GI wire which he would shift every now and then to get different directivity. A DXer since 1978 and owner of such a glittering collection of QSL is yet to try out a digital frequency read out set today in 2010!! What is the secret of his success ? His village which is 35 km away from Agartala was first electrified in 1997. That allowed Pradip to DX in noise free environment. Work has brought him now to Agartala where he is not active at the moment. That explains why his QSL collections mostly date between 1980 and 1994.<br />
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Most of Pradip Kundu’s prize DX catches were from the days when his village Kumaria Kucha did not have electricity. He had strung a modest piece of GI wire which he would shift every now and then to get different directivity. A DXer since 1978 and owner of such a glittering collection of QSL is yet to try out a digital frequency read out set today in 2010!! What is the secret of his success ? His village which is 35 km away from Agartala was first electrified in 1997. That allowed Pradip to DX in noise free environment. Work has brought him now to Agartala where he is not active at the moment. That explains why his QSL collections mostly date between 1980 and 1994.<br />
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Why does Pradip have such a large collection of Time signal stations including rare Korean stations besides WWV, WWVH and VNG ? In early eighties time signal station ATA from New Delhi sent out signals at 15 minutes interval. Since Pradip did not have accurate frequency readouts, he would keep his two band set logged to the New Delhi time signal station and listen in between their 15 minutes interval announcements !<br />
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Some of Pradip’s rare catches have a simple story behind it. Once he was tuning in to the early morning “Mahalaya” special broadcast from AIR Agartala which is aired a few days before Durga Puja. Bang on this frequency was Yugoslavia loud and clear before it disappeared after a 15 minutes ! His DX success story has the underlying message of diligence which for a DXer counts more than anything else. Then ,of course, come the vagaries of the ionosphere.<br />
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For a DXer whose only means of communication to the outside world was by post, Pradip Kundu did edit the loggings of Asian DX Review (ADXR) for two years. He is grateful to the loggings from ADXR which inspired him into DXing. He has played his role in propagating<br />
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DXing too. In 1996 the well known Tripura daily “Dainik Sambad” ran a full page feature article on DXing which was compiled by him. AIR Agartala broadcast a many part program on DXing by him . Pradip recollects the amazement of Soumen basu , the program executive at AIR when he first looked at Pradip Kundu’s QSLs.<br />
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Amazing collection of QSL cards of Pradip Kundu, Tripura using his 2 band analog receiver. Thanks to Babul Gupta, Kolkata for scanning & uploading the images ...<br />
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http://picasaweb.google.com/babulgupta/QSLFromPradipKundu?feat=email<br />
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of the technical issues. As Babul Gupta was showing off his e QSLS ranging
from TWR Benin on mw to Cross Radio in the tropical band, Pratap Shankar
Mazumdar regretted that he had misplaced his Iceland qsl. It would have been
such an interesting viewing today. For me it was a surprise to be reminded that
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simply forgotten that he had picked up an old WRTH from my Medical College
Hostel for Rs 125. But we had never met earlier and this afternoon we were
meeting for the first time. Those of us who had participated in the Chandipore
DX peditions of 1984-85 had reasons to feel proud. In the meet were at least
four young DXers who were introduced and motivated into DXing by the article on
DXing published in the Bengali periodical ” Anandamela”. </span></span><br />
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article which was published later in a book form around 1995 had dramatically
portrayed the Chandipore DXpeditions and captured the imagination of the
youngsters. As for the afternoon listening session, the attempt at DRM
reception of AIR Vibidh Bharati 6100 kHz was a failure and so was New Zealand on
9655 kHz. However, Mongolia
on 12085 at 1040 UTC with SIO 232 was the saving grace. Toying with various
possible DX locations for the forthcoming DXpeditions also elicited excited
response.Sanjay Sutradhar narrated his visit to Radio Nepal .I repeated the
story of my visit to Voice of Tamil Elam recording studio and Offices in
Chennai in 1985. Swopan Chakroborty was candid about his initial difficulty in
getting into Radio Bangladesh Dhaka and how he finally managed it.</span><br />
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Jyoti Charavarty’s vivid description of his visit to Bhutan Broadcasting
Service studio was the best. He found his way into the BBS studio and
transmittersite during his honymoon trip to Thimpu in 1995 where he not only
got a QSL card impromptu, but had an overwhelming reception by the engineering
staff. Sudipto Ghose was mild about his visit to the erstwhile Radio NYAB in
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so many former IDXCI members around there was a clamor for a rerun of the
bulletin. However, in view of the digital age which we are in ,it was decided
to plan for a different type of bulletin which will cover different issues.
Debanjan who had been to the Talsari DXped was eager to join the next but was
wary of the January timing because of his work schedule.</span></span></span><br />
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who still has not put up an external antenna was strongly advised about a long
wire with matching transformers home brewed. Babul Gupta praised the hombrew
9:1 transformers done by Partha Sarathi Goswami for him which has dramtically
cut down the noise. Babul Gupta deserves special thanks for reving up the old
Kolkata DX group!</span></span><br />
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Sanatani<br />
Kolkata<br />
4th September 2011 </span> </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mr Thinley
Dorji, the Trasmission Head of BBS Bhutan</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> was in Kolkata
lately</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">. He intimated that they are running
the DRM capable 100 kW Thomcast transmitter of 2007. This transmitter is
unstable and is causing mismatch. The old 50 kw Harris transmitter is still
there but since it runs on tubes, the availability of tubes have become
difficult and expensive. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">They are
using an omni directional dipole. This new antenna system was fabricated by
engineers of BBS Thimphu in 2007. The engineers are quite happy with this new
antenna system. Cochannel interference from Chinese and at times from AIR is a
problem. However, there is always a struggle with the antenna. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The studios
are located away from the transmitter site and uses the Fiberoptic link, STL
link and the satellite link. With the links of Bhutan Telecom, BBS can connect
to all the districts in Bhutan.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bhutan</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> has a very robust FM broadcasting network.
There are more than 30 FM stations . Each station has an antenna which is
connected to two transmitters by multiplexing. The FM frequencies have fixed
pairing 88.1 Mhz and 90 Mhz, 92 Mhz and 93 Mhz, 96 Mhz and 98 Mhz, like that. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mr Thinley
Dorji has grown with his orgasnization - the BBS. Today he heads the
transmission department and is a motivated and dedicated person. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Germany
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from Finland and Japan also send
reception reports. </span></div>
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<![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mr Thinley
Dorji was interviewd at Kolkata by Dr. Supratik Sanatani and Babul Gupta. Sudipta
Ghose, took the photos.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Full details with more photos will appear in:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">www.idxci.in </span>
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<b><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Mandarmoni DX
pedition IV</span></b></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">We were again drawn
towards Mandarmani. This sea beach resort 180 km away from Kolkata has a long
stretch of beach some 6 km and the sea side resorts still run on gensets
because there is no running electricity. Memories of our past DXpeds such as
Diego Garcia 4219 kHz blaring in our ears was enough to motivate Alokesh Gupta
the chief motivator of this DXped to make a journey all the way from New Delhi
some 1600 km away. Along with Alokesh was also C.K.Raman (VU3DJQ) from Delhi
who has an uncanny knack of zeroing on the part of the radio dial where an
exotic station is sure to be found. From nearby Kolkata there were three of us
Babul Gupta, Sudipta Ghose and I. We missed three veteran DXers Jyoti P
Chakrabarty, Jose Jacob and Tripti Ranjan Basu. Jyoti was hoping till the last
day that he could overcome his unwell health and catch up for the last part of
the DXped but that would not be. Jose was called back for work at the last
moment by his office. Commitments back home held back Tripti Ranjan Basu. </span><br />
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all DXped there were obstacles on the way. The notorious North Indian fog
delayed by five hours the Rajdhani express in which Alokesh and Raman were
travelling and it was a pity that we could not travel together from Kolkata. A
charm of DXped is the DX tete e tete, you may also call it the proverbial
"Bengali Adda ", while travelling to the site. The advance party SUV
with the Kolkata DXers carried the antenna stringing material and most of the
receivers. Alokesh and DJQ could not even make it for the last train link to
Digha from Howrah and had to catch a taxi all the way to Mandarmani.</span></span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Idea of Beverage
Masts</span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">On the way we came
across a big store selling iron building materials by the roadside and Babul
Gupta decided to stop to look for antenna support. What we sourced turned out
to be great for DXped beverages. We picked cut pieces of building rods made of
iron some 30 mm in dia and approximately 60 cm long. These were latter hammered
on to the soft seaside soil to form foundation for the PVC pipes which were
just positioned as sleeves over the buried iron rods. We were already carrying
PVC pipes from Kolkata complete with clamp on top to secure the antenna wire.
In past we had to dig to bury the PVC pipe in the ground but the foundation was
never strong. The iron rods made the take easier. We reached Mandarmoni by 3 pm
just after the high tide had receded and cleared the beach roads .The first
thing we did on arriving at Mandarmoni was to set up the beverage support with
iron rods and PVS pipes and then string a 260 m ( North east ) antenna from
multi strand copper wire sourced from the army disposal stores. We set up yet
another antenna some 150 m over causurina trees by the sea side in the south
east direction.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">We had fashioned a
decent antenna splitter this time out of a chip sourced by Jyoti P Chakrabarti
and fashioned by Babul Gupta and Sudipto Ghosh. It could support eight receiver
from one antenna. This splitter was put into use and cut out the use of alligator
clips to tap signal from the beverage to various receivers. It functioned
reasonably well. We connected the beverage to 9:1 transformer and fed in
through RG58 coax. We had elaborate testing of various homebrew baluns and
finally settled on one brewed by DJQ. But as we see later these were not enough
to cut out the noise.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Once we fired up the
shack the South Asians started pouring in. All the Burmese station in the MW
led by 594 kHz were coming in with 576, 729 and 639 kHz in tow . AIR Port Blair
on 4760 kHz was throwing in moderate to strong signals. We could log all the
AIR MW in the direction of East West starting from AIR Dibrugarh at one end to
AIR Jodhpur at the other end. The Afro opening was fair with TWR Manzini , </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">SW Radio Africa coming
in. Later the Australian regional’s on 2135 and 4835 kHz were coming through.
Early morning CK Raman caught a few Brazilians an the star of our last meet
Radio Tarma , Peru on 4765 kHz early in the morning.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Bengal Pirates, Long Wave Beacons and greetings on the amateur net</span></b></span></span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">In the morning the
Bengal Pirates from Bay of Bengal came in loud and clear with their "
Jatra " style programming. By now we have got used these transmissions as
regular fixtures. Alokesh stumbled on the long wave Beacons and there were
quite a few. In early morning as we were tuning into local amateur band net on
7145 kHz LSB, we heard VU2DPI greeting our DXped all the success.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">We had genset running
in our resort only upto midnight. After that we had to rely on batteries to
power the sets. The IComs and the Drakes were running very well on the battery.
For the software support the laptops were there to last for some time. Mobile
computing came in for the first time in this meet and I was reading off my AOKI
list solely from my android phone. We were carrying three batteries but thought
that the batteries would last us for the whole of four days without charging.
That did not happen and on the fourth night we were struggling with power
supply.</span><br />
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<b><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Almost lost the
battle against noise.</span></b></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Like the proverbial
blizzard wiping out an entire expedition team after the first night we started
losing it out to radio noise of the man made RFI type. This perplexed us
because here we were far from any electrical activity so where will the noise
be coming from ? On the first night there was thick fog from late night and by
early morning droplets of water had precipitated all along our antenna. We
wonder whether these droplets were the cause because the noise definitely
increased as the night progressed and was at its peak early in the morning. On
day two we thought that the multi stranded copper wire of our longest beverage
was pulling in more noise because of its multiple joints. We replaced the whole
of it with single stranded copper wire. We also installed the 9:1` balun but
the second night we still had to battle noise. On the third day we set up yet
another beverage directed north south and terminated it with ground via
resistors. But that too did not break the noise problem. We were still bugged
by noise as the night progressed and as the fog increased.</span></div>
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<b><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;">The breakthrough in
our battle !!!</span></b></div>
<span face="" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">On
the last day of our dxped we were desperate to try out something different.
That is because we were simply frustrated with electrical noise. Our multi
stranded beverage ( North South ) was not performing well. Babul Gupta was
always pushing for something different than the standard beverage antenna for
DXpeds. So we pulled it down and converted it into a huge loop by taking it
round the big water body around which our resort was built. These were
connected to two ends of RG 58 coax and fed into the receivers. That was the
breakthrough. The first sign of our success appeared when on preliminary
testing we found Myanmar on MW on 594 kHz in the peak of afternoon. It was
blaring with strong signals at a time when even the local AIR station such
Kolkata A and Cuttack normally have difficulty in transmitting upto this place.
The noise in the bands had just disappeared and did not appear even till late
in the evening. The other beverages out there were however were still picking
up noise. As the night progressed, we started tasting our success. In the 25 mb
there were a host of Brazilians and Argentinians. The Caribbean Beacon on 11775
kHz at 2113 UTC was sweet taste of success. Papua New Guniea Wantok Light radio
on 7235 kHz came in briefly at 2110 UTC. On 4750 Khz RRI Makassar was coming in
moderate to strong signals at 2130 UTC. It was all through the great loop.</span><br />
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different antenna rather than the traditional beverage. The simple reason is
that man made RFI is becoming so overwhelming, we need to have most of our
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<![endif]--></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><b>____________________________________________________________________________________________</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>AIR KOLKATA ANTENNA TALES</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt;">Dr.Supratik Sanatani, VU3IFB</span></strong><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">The
super cyclone of October 1999 brought down the antenna 120 m mast of Kolkata A
657 Khz which radiated 2x 100 kw. In the words of an engineer manning the
transmitter " we got a phone call that AIR Kolkata A was not audible. When
we looked out, the main antenna mast simply was not there !! "The huge
mast built of thick gauge metal can still be seen lying in the premises.
Portions have been sawed off to make way to the newly installed 120 m mast.
This incident caused disruption of Kolkata A transmissions for few days.
Transmission resumed only when a new mast was put up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">The
new main radiating mast of Kolkata A had a parasitic mast put up few meters
down south. It was to act as a reflector and direct most of the radio signals
to the north which is the populated part of the State. The southern parasitic
mast was to avoid valuable signals getting lost in the Bay of Bengal to the
south which is sparsely populated anyway. However, a controversy cropped up in
2011. During a tropical cyclone in July 2011 few fishermen who had ventured out
to the sea were lost. There was hue and cry in the media that the disaster
could have been avoided if the weather bulletins from AIR Kolkata could be
better heard (</span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangladx/message/2668" target="_blank"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangladx/message/2668</span></a><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">). The AIR authorities were under
pressure when news reports originating from the fishing town of Kakdwip said
that Bangladesh Betar weather bulletins were better received over the Bay of
Bengal ((</span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangladx/message/2686" target="_blank"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangladx/message/2686</span></a><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">). The AIR authorities woke up and an
engineer was dispatched in a coast guard vessel to measure signal strength of
AIR transmissions almost 300 km deep down south in the Bay of Bengal. He found
good to strong signals all throughout the test area. However, the authorities
decided to disconnect the parasitic reflector mast to put the controversy to
rest. The parasitic mast still stands up mournfully though in the antenna field
of Chandi some 24 km south of Kolkata.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfDyN98rOKOEKVcTesLuvtCkAosKJkjPU3yK5pNjfF-f0a9ZsYieH8hkojkzyViBDj5cwN0wS12kKbN2j6PBGTlTKp0zR1hAvyox79UNt3yGCvMgATpiDlMGmJY7jqv34dmEbyGQHDe-Q/s389/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="389" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfDyN98rOKOEKVcTesLuvtCkAosKJkjPU3yK5pNjfF-f0a9ZsYieH8hkojkzyViBDj5cwN0wS12kKbN2j6PBGTlTKp0zR1hAvyox79UNt3yGCvMgATpiDlMGmJY7jqv34dmEbyGQHDe-Q/w606-h456/1.jpg" width="606" /></a></div><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As
if this was not enough, the 120 m mast of Kolkata B snapped in May 2012. This
was not due to any cyclone or gale. It was presumed that one of the guy ropes
anchoring the mast that snapped and that caused a disbalance. This in turn
caused a cascading effect and finally the main mast snapped. AIR Kolkata B 100
kw transmitting on 1008 kHz was disrupted for almost 20 days while a new mast,
somewhat shorter in height was put up. This new mast has a loading hat on top
and rhombic elements on all sides. Presently this is fed by 10 kw standby brand
new RIZ mobile transmitter which is running at 8 kW because one part of the
panel is not working and the engineers conversant with BEL transmitters would
not risk tinkering with the malfunctioning panel of Riz mobile transmitters
which is in the warranty period. They would rather wait for the authorized
technicians of Riz transmitters to arrive.</span><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Pilferage
is another minor irritation which bugs the antenna fields of Chandi. Even
though manned by security guards round the clock,and watch towers in the
periphery the precious copper of antenna and feeder elements are prey to the
thieves. Most often the pilferages would be minor e.g. one coil of some
hundreds of tank circuits in the antenna support wires or few lengths of
concentric feeder lines. However, these would disbalance the fine tuning
required for that extra last mile for the radio signal !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Yet
another element which upsetting the fine tuning is the collapsed old tower
which is awaiting bureaucratic clearance for disposal . A mammoth steel
structure in the antenna fields is bound to add some inductance here or there
and compromise design efficiency. The same applies to the disconnected
parasitic antenna mast in the south which is still there completete with the
ground radials. This is bound to compromise the design efficiency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">The
Engineers at the site were however very upbeat. They are proud that their
signals were getting around in spite of all the difficulties and they have
faithful listeners tuning in. One engineer who had just completed a stint at
Orissa talked about a 90 year old faithful listener who would telephone the
station at the slightest fall in transmission quality. However, he would also
sympathise with the ground realtites. Talking about ground realities in India,
I was reminded of the Engineer at AIR Aligarh HPT who talked about Neel Gai's (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgai"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgai</span></a><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">) charging into antenna curtains and
disrupting transmission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Report
by Dr Supratik Sanatani after a visit to Amtala and Chandi facilities of AIR
Kolkata along with Babul Gupta, Sudipta Ghosh & Swopan Chakraborty in July
2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">_________________________________________________</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div>
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