My Shortwave Logs and Trip Reports: July 2007

Sunday 29 July 2007

Frequencies 29-July-2007

Freq   From    To    SINPO  Country     Station
(kHz) (UTC)   (UTC)
12010  0155    0159  45444  Russia       VOR. (Russian but with spanish?, with sign of 0159)
11387  0200    0205  45444  Australia    VOLMET - Sydney
11580  0206    0215  25442  Pakistan     R. Pakistan
11590  0217    0227  35433  Israel       KOL Israel
11675  0227    0230  35433  Sweden       R. Sweden
11735  0231    0235  34444  India        AIR (All India Radio)?
11790  0236    0300  45444  ?            CVC - Voice of Asia (Planet 30 music Count Down) - Signed off 0300
11870  0302    0305  34443  ?            VOA (Targeting Iran ??)
11875  0305    0308  23432  Cuba         Radio Habana Cuba
9880   0310    0321  45544  Russia       VOR (Eng) - SE Asia
9860   0321    0322  24422  Russia       VOR (Eng) - N America
9690   0328    0331  45443  China        CRI (Eng) - (Muffled / over Modulating)
9665   0331    0333  34443  Russia       VOR (Eng) - N America
9635   0334    0337  45544  ?            Radio Exterior Espana
9515   0338    0340  44434  Russia       VOR (Eng) - N America
9445   0340    0344  25432  Czech Rep.   R. Prague
9420   0344    0349  35433  Greece       VOG
9400   0349    0350  25432  Bulgaria     Radio Bulgaria

Thursday 26 July 2007

Frequencies 26-July-2007

Freq   From    To    SINPO  Country     Station
(kHz) (UTC)   (UTC)
5935   0805    0807  45454  USA         WWCR.
5950   0808    0810  45545  USA         Family Radio.
5985   0810    0812  43543  USA         Family Radio.
5995   0812    0814  55445  Australia.  R. Australia
6070   0815    0817  43243  Chile       CVC-LA VOZ - Spanish
6095   0817    0826  55545  New Zealand RNZI
6150   0827    0832  45444  USA         Dr Gene Scott
6160   0834    0841  23342  ?           2 x Different English Signals. Canada ??
6185   0841    0846  23322  China       ??
6604   0849    0855  24432  US          VOLMET - New York
6655   0856    0905  34443  Japan       Aviation N. Pacific - Tokyo
5574   0910    0913  34444  US          Aviation C. E. Pacific - San Fransico

Sunday 15 July 2007

Frequencies 15-July-2007

Freq   From    To    SINPO  Country  Station
(kHz) (UTC)   (UTC)
9570   0855    0858  45545  Korea      KBS World Radio.
9605   0906    0910  25333  UK         BBC (via Japan)
9740   0910    0912  44344  UK         BBC (via Singapore)
9855   0913    0914  34434  Germany    DW
9930   0914    0915  45544  USA        WHRH
11565  0915    0916  45554  USA        WHRH
11620  0916    0918  34433  China      CRI - English
11650  0919    0922  45444  N. Mariana Is    KFBS (via Saipan Island) (Russian)
11890  0925    0927  55545  Japan      R. Japan (NHK)
11920  0927    0930  55545  Japan      R. Japan (NHK)
11955  0930    0931  31122  Australia  CVC - Darwin.
15770  0932    0935  45544  India      AIR
15605  0935    0937  45544  Germany    DW - (German, Talking about Harry Potter)
15295  0940    0942  45544  Malaysia   V. Malaysia.
15210  0942    0945  55545  China      CRI - English
7190   0947    0948  24433  China      CRI
7505   0951    0953  34433  US         KTBN
6400   0955    1005  34422  Korea      PBS Pyongyang
6195   1006    1008  44433  UK         BBC
6095   1008    1011  55545  New Zealand  RNZI
6040   1011    1015  34333  Netherlands  R. Netherlands
5910   1015          45433  UK         Bible Voice. (via Petropavlosk Russia).

Sunday 1 July 2007

Frequencies 31-June-2007

Freq   From    To    SINPO  Country  Station
(kHz) (UTC)   (UTC)
9990   2201    2210  34433  Egypt       R. Cairo. (Slightly muffled)
9925   2212    2220  34433  Croatia     V. Croatia (Eng 2215-2230) STID 2215
9570   2230    2235  34333  USA         VOA. (Special Eng)
9415   2236    2242  45444  USA         VOA.
11725  2243    2245  35444  USA         VOA.
11830  2245    2246  44444  Rome.       Vatican Radio. (Sign off Tune)
15145  2250    2252  45544  USA         VOA.
15185  2252    2253  35423  USA         VOA.
15525  2254    2256  45534  Australia   HCJB Australia.
15720  2256    2257  45434  New Zealand RNZI.

Description of my Radio Gear / Collection

ICOM R75 with DSP

This is a great radio, build in speaker lets it down, but piped through to my sound centre or headphones and sounds great for working those faint signals. Read some Reviews

Kenwood R1000

Another great radio, the sound from this radio is beautiful and warm, and can listen to weaker stations / ones suffering from fade very easy with out getting a headache. Read some Reviews

Yaesu FRG-7

A great little worker, but only for those stations that are in the clear from interfering side channels. Read some Reviews

Sangean ATS 505

It works, and is perfect for those camping trips were I am unable to hump my other radios. Read some Reviews

Degen DE1103

Wow, Wow, Wow !!! This little radio blows the Sangean ATS-505 out of the water, and I have even now not listened with the ICOM R75 or Kenwood R1000 since receiving and comparing the DE1103 against them. Yes the ICOM R75 is slightly more sensitive, however with the long wire antenna that came with the radio and the extremely low noise of the radios circuitry I was able to hear every single station that the ICOM received but just a maybe a S-Level lower. However the DE1103 handled fade and had a by far a better tone to listen to faint / fading stations.

I would highly recommend this radio to anyone, especially with the Sony AN-LP1 Active Loop Antenna, the radio is bless pulling in many stations at bed time with minimal fade which doesn't annoy the wife anymore :)

Read some Reviews.

Sony XR-5100 In Car Cassette / AM/FM/SW Radio

This radio is installed in my Pajero 4x4, and wherever I go I always have a shortwave. The only downside is that it is currently connected to the Pajeros electric antenna, its short and does ok for the strong SW stations while the car is not running. However to getting more out of this very capable radio, I attach some light weight stranded cable and run it out in any direction I can or want. I have a 5 meter version for quick hook-up while having a coffee or toilet break and a 40 meter version for longer stop overs / DXing on cold Canberra nights. With the extra length of cables attached to the car antenna (longer one needs to support on the 4x4 snorkel (raised air intake) to prevent the weight of the cable snapping the antenna of :(.

Sony CDX-GT260 / GT360 In Car CD / AM/FM/SW Radio

I originally had the Sony XR-5100 SW/AM/FM Car Radio. It worked great as long as I had the car engine stopped. A length of wire added to the car antenna was used to allow the radio to reach it full potential. A couple of CONS was that it was Tape Deck cd a CD Player and there was no AUX input.

Well the wifes radio finally died in her Suzuki ~2 months back, so we went to the local auto shop (Supercheap) and too my surprise there was the Sony CDX-GT260 SW/AM/FM radio. I thought Bugger me, looked at the price and had to look twice as it was priced AUD$136. It was a CD Player and it also had AUX input jack on the front. Turned to the wife and said, "DARLS" here a nice little radio for yer :) Well the price was perfect and I still did not beleive it till I got to the till and it rang up as AUD$136. JACKPOT!!

Installed it in her car and done a few tests with and without the ext. antenna wire and it WORKED fine. Ran in side and said the wife "I WANT ONE" she busted out laughing and we headed of to get one.

But to our shock it was the last one hence the sell out price. We finally tracked down once at another store but it was the GT360 can't remember now, and was $199, but the bloke at the store knew the other bloke and bingo said if I wanted it now he could give it to be for AUD $149. SOLD!!! Raced over and picked it up and installed it in to the Pajero. The only difference between the two models appears to be EQUALIZER modes I thinks apart from that they are identical :)

So from me and my Wifey, we can both say they and the (XR-5100) are great SW/AM and FM car radios. But remember to always keep a bit of hookup wire to get its full potential when stopped at the side of the road / camping.

SW1: 2940 - 7735 kHz

SW2: 9500 - 18135 kHz

Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race - 2006

I love tuning in to the the yacht race each year starting on Boxing Day to catch the action. 2006 was a bit quiet nothing too dramatic as it all happened on the first night two maxi's retired with mast damage and the one bit of radio traffic that I wish I had captured onto tape / mp3 was the "Ray White Koomooloo" sinking incident. Now I'm slightly paraphrasing here but here goes.

JBW is the relay yacht and it as busy dealing with co-ordinating with the Police Launcher to get a injure crewman of one of the maxi's (MAXIMUS I think).

Then the yacht Koomooloo comes on frequency and asks how long would the Police Launcher take to get to them (most have missed the initial radio traffic from Koomooloo reporting initial troubles). Anyways JBW asks Koomooloo to standby for a sec and come back with info that the the Police Launcher would take about 2 hours or so.

This is what I remember and was freaky / funny. After the radio operator of Koomooloo received the info he must have went and discussed with the captain and comes back on frequency and calm as anything says "JBW, JBW, Koomooloo, hmmmm 2 hours is insufficient......... We are taking on water and will probably only last at most 1 more hour. We would like to declare MAYDAY, MAYDAY any vessel in vicinity of LAT / LONG".

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/a,DfIBuVj0mDNRDReOA9xJ9acOzxqpS6
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/p1dMBbRZSli,2q2Iw59sqzwHeWGPXWED
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/SNTggbhSS.9oFo.ozsX2RbmVyZs1EGo5
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/6OMu8RkRAdYmvZuR2DTLlxRjxOX7Kml1
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/hvQ3.TF0Ojhuuy.6dRHp55.VBYK3cgTY
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/99m6prQ0q6ciT80OBfKsyAUyBKjIDFx4

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Sunday 29 July 2007

Frequencies 29-July-2007

Thursday 26 July 2007

Frequencies 26-July-2007

Sunday 15 July 2007

Frequencies 15-July-2007

Sunday 1 July 2007

Frequencies 31-June-2007

Brisbane QTH 2007

Charlotte Pass August 2007

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Condamine Gorge - XMAS / NEW YEARS 2006

Cold Night - Mum, Dad and Robbie at Lake St Clair on our Tassie Trip 2007

New Years Eve 2005 - My Wife Tanya and I

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