BBC Test Transmission (via Trincomalee)

BBC in a medium-wave test transmission  from the SLBC facility in Trincomalee was logged on 20 March 2019. Brief BBC interval, time pips and BBC News Hour was monitored from 14.00 till 14.30 UTC. Transmission ended abruptly without announcement, followed by AWR Tamil broadcast at 14.30 UTC. Reception on 1548 kHz rated a SINPO of 54544 -- strong signal and clear audio content with slight fading approximately every 10-12 minutes. Even then, signal remained audible. Powerful signal later at night!!! HERE is BBC (Trincomalee).

Reception report was emailed to SLBC and Victor Goonetilleke  on the following day. QSL card arrived on 18 June 2019. While the card is smudged and dog-eared at the bottom, I know for a fact it was not when it left the veri-signer. Despite the blemish, this is one of the beauty marks of a QSL card; one sees the card for what it is and how it travelled across the globe to reach one's destination. Thank you for obtaining this verification from SLBC for me, Victor!

Voice of Turkey

Voice of Turkey via Emirler was logged on 3 May 2019. Turkish programming with Sports Talk was monitored from 16.25 till 17.00 UTC. Reception on 9.460 kHz  was SINPO 24322 - poor signal strength, occasionally clear audio content, despite fading and atmospheric noise.

Reception report was emailed the following day. QSL card along with frequency/time/target schedule arrived in the mail on 18 June 2019.


RX: Tecsun S-2000  ANT: 1/4 wave  QTH: Subang Jaya, West Malaysia

China National Radio 1 (via Yushu)

China National Radio 1 / PBS via Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Quinghai Province, China was logged on 5 March 2019. Chinese programming, mostly talk format, mixing under Radio Taiwan International was monitored from 14.10 till 14.30 UTC. Reception on the short-wave frequency of 6.075 kHz was SINPO 12431 -- weak signal strength, with strong co-frequency QRM from Radio Taiwan International, yet still audible underneath RTI. HERE is CNR (Yushu) station ID mixing under RTI. 

Reception report was mailed to CNR a few days later. I submitted the report using a Goggle English to Mandarin translation, thinking this would secure a QSL. Subsequent to this, I have been told by a fellow DXer that an English language report is sufficient as well. That said, this much prized QSL card from CNR arrived in the mail on 13 June 2018.  

Address (on the envelope):

China Radio International

P.O. Box 4501

Beijing 100866

China

RX: Tecsun S-2000 ANT: 1/4 wave QTH: Central West Malaysia

Logbook for 7 June 2019

TIME FOR A LITTLE DXING. Here I can be seen scanning the 19 meter shortwave band with a Tecsun S-2000 linked to a dipole antenna, outside a modest terrace house in Malaysia,  on the afternoon of 7 June 2019. Mostly stations in northern Asia and Pacific were logged after 10.35 UTC. 73.

Voice of America Calendar 2019 for June

Voice of America Calendar 2019 for June.

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QSL Calendar for June 2019

QSL Calendar for June 2019

Radio Taiwan International for June 2019

Radio Taiwan International Calendar for June 2019