bpnjensen wrote:

Well, Voice of Russia did it to me this time...

**GUIANA FRENCH, PRIDNESTROVIE, RUSSIA, Voice of Russia, 9735 AND 9665
AND 15425 kHz, 17 March 2010, 0200z-0300z. Signed "partial" data card
"St. Clement's Church at the Corner;" - For reception report by email
May 18, 2010, in 14 days. I say "partial" data card because - This is
one of those situations where, by describing my receipt of their
station on one frequency from one place in the *actual report*
(Pridnestrovie) but comparing it to signals from two other sites at
the same time (French Guiana and Russia) in the *cover letter,* they
decided to verify *all three* in the same QSL card, without
identifying any one of them at all anywhere in the text.

AAAHHH! So what do I do? All three freqs are identified on the card,
and I am sure I was able to hear all three at the same time (I know I
did not fudge anything) - can I rightfully say that this card covers
all three?

Here's what In intend to do, just to satisfy myself - in the
compartment with this card, I am going to add a note card with the A10
schedule passages that Identify these three locations as transmitter
sites. I don't care what anyone else thinks :-)

Did you specifically ask them to verify the transmitter sites? I've never had
a problem getting the site put on the card, and have had them in the past do 5
or so freq's and sites on one card.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

On Jun 1, 4:25*pm, dxAce wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
Well, Voice of Russia did it to me this time...

**GUIANA FRENCH, PRIDNESTROVIE, RUSSIA, Voice of Russia, 9735 AND 9665
AND 15425 kHz, 17 March 2010, 0200z-0300z. *Signed "partial" data card
"St. Clement's Church at the Corner;" - For reception report by email
May 18, 2010, in 14 days. I say "partial" data card because - This is
one of those situations where, by describing my receipt of their
station on one frequency from one place in the *actual report*
(Pridnestrovie) but comparing it to signals from two other sites at
the same time (French Guiana and Russia) in the *cover letter,* they
decided to verify *all three* in the same QSL card, without
identifying any one of them at all anywhere in the text.

AAAHHH! *So what do I do? *All three freqs are identified on the card,
and I am sure I was able to hear all three at the same time (I know I
did not fudge anything) - can I rightfully say that this card covers
all three?

Here's what In intend to do, just to satisfy myself - in the
compartment with this card, I am going to add a note card with the A10
schedule passages that Identify these three locations as transmitter
sites. *I don't care what anyone else thinks :-)

Did you specifically ask them to verify the transmitter sites? I've never had
a problem getting the site put on the card, and have had them in the past do 5
or so freq's and sites on one card.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Well, I had asked in the past, and they always included the TX site
(not every station does this). This time I skipped that step,
assuming (perhaps too much) that they would place the TX sites on the
cards - much to my chagrin :-( I won't make that mistake again.

Anyway, the HFCC / Aoki schedules bear out the scheduled transmissions
and their respective sites, except for the mistake they made 3 nights
running where they switched Fr. Guiana to English. For my own
reference, I am placing that information with the card, and one of
these days I will get each of the two relay sites individually (I
already have a P-K card). I know what I heard - so what else matters,
right? :-)

Bruce

On 6/1/2010 2:40 PM, wrote:
QSL received from Jamestown, St. Helena Island for amateur contact on
3/15/10 on 21.240 at 1320UTC.

This is earlier than June of 2010, but seeing as there was a previous
thread about Korea and this thread about QSLs, let me take a little
poetic license and combine the two...

Got a QSL from Ed, P5/4L4FN on amateur RTTY. (P5=North Korea, 4L4FN his
Russian home call). He normally lives in Georgia (the Russian one, not
the US one) but was living in Pyongyang for some kind of U.N. food
program, and in a moment of weakness, the North Koreans let him do ham
radio for almost a year -- before they had a change of heart and threw
him off the air.

The bad news was, he was operating at 50 baud (66 wpm), the European
'standard', not the 45.45 baud (60 wpm) much more commonly used RTTY speed.

The good news was that this threw a lot of US hams off the scent...they
could not print him. Fortunately, I realized what Ed was doing and was
able to change the speed of my TNC in time to bag him.

So, it's one of my two most treasured QSLs -- the other being for a
packet radio contact with the MIR space station.

On Jun 1, 5:17*pm, Joe from Kokomo wrote:
On 6/1/2010 2:40 PM, wrote:

QSL received from Jamestown, St. Helena Island for amateur contact on
3/15/10 on 21.240 at 1320UTC.

This is earlier than June of 2010, but seeing as there was a previous
thread about Korea and this thread about QSLs, let me take a little
poetic license and combine the two...

Got a QSL from Ed, P5/4L4FN on amateur RTTY. (P5=North Korea, 4L4FN his
Russian home call). He normally lives in Georgia (the Russian one, not
the US one) but was living in Pyongyang for some kind of U.N. food
program, and in a moment of weakness, the North Koreans let him do ham
radio for almost a year -- before they had a change of heart and threw
him off the air.

The bad news was, he was operating at 50 baud (66 wpm), the European
'standard', not the 45.45 baud (60 wpm) much more commonly used RTTY speed.

The good news was that this threw a lot of US hams off the scent...they
could not print him. Fortunately, I realized what Ed was doing and was
able to change the speed of my TNC in time to bag him. *

So, it's one of my two most treasured QSLs -- the other being for a
packet radio contact with the MIR space station.

That's pretty neat - it must suck to live in NK, though.

bpnjensen wrote:


Here's where I go for quickie looks -

http://www.eham.net/DX/propagation

The SFI is still too low, the A Index still too high - when those
change, the bands will improve I suppose...

http://www.hamqsl.com/solar.html

On Jun 2, 7:24*am, dave wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:

Here's where I go for quickie looks -

http://www.eham.net/DX/propagation

The SFI is still too low, the A Index still too high - when those
change, the bands will improve I suppose...

http://www.hamqsl.com/solar.html

Thanks - I like the MF map there; a good deal of the page is a little
complex to calculate easily in my head, though ;-)

wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:19:43 -0700, wrote:

wrote:
QSL received from Jamestown, St. Helena Island for amateur contact on
3/15/10 on 21.240 at 1320UTC.

Jim

What power?

100 watts. Conditions were great for about a week back in March. I
worked a bunch of stations on 15 meters just running barefoot. The
only time I had to use more was working some of the far east stations
on 20 meters. Hong Kong, Indonesia. Thailand, etc.

Sunspot number went up for a few days. Then we got hit with a
geomagnetic storm. Was talking to a guy in Missouri and one in Indiana
on 40m earlier today and both guys just faded out. The only guy that
stayed strong was a truck driver in North Carolina.

The truck driver is a cool guy. He is taking a job for a couple years
in Japan and he already has his Japanese license so he can transmit
from there. I will be listening for him and hopefully can make a
contact.

Jim

FB & badass! The sun is wigging. I'm working 2/3's of the world with
=/ 40 Watts PSK31. I'll need sunspots for India and SW Asia.

On Jun 1, 4:53*pm, bpnjensen wrote:
On Jun 1, 4:25*pm, dxAce wrote:





bpnjensen wrote:
Well, Voice of Russia did it to me this time...

**GUIANA FRENCH, PRIDNESTROVIE, RUSSIA, Voice of Russia, 9735 AND 9665
AND 15425 kHz, 17 March 2010, 0200z-0300z. *Signed "partial" data card
"St. Clement's Church at the Corner;" - For reception report by email
May 18, 2010, in 14 days. I say "partial" data card because - This is
one of those situations where, by describing my receipt of their
station on one frequency from one place in the *actual report*
(Pridnestrovie) but comparing it to signals from two other sites at
the same time (French Guiana and Russia) in the *cover letter,* they
decided to verify *all three* in the same QSL card, without
identifying any one of them at all anywhere in the text.

AAAHHH! *So what do I do? *All three freqs are identified on the card,
and I am sure I was able to hear all three at the same time (I know I
did not fudge anything) - can I rightfully say that this card covers
all three?

Here's what In intend to do, just to satisfy myself - in the
compartment with this card, I am going to add a note card with the A10
schedule passages that Identify these three locations as transmitter
sites. *I don't care what anyone else thinks :-)

Did you specifically ask them to verify the transmitter sites? I've never had
a problem getting the site put on the card, and have had them in the past do 5
or so freq's and sites on one card.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Well, I had asked in the past, and they always included the TX site
(not every station does this). *This time I skipped that step,
assuming (perhaps too much) that they would place the TX sites on the
cards - much to my chagrin :-( * I won't make that mistake again.

Anyway, the HFCC / Aoki schedules bear out the scheduled transmissions
and their respective sites, except for the mistake they made 3 nights
running where they switched Fr. Guiana to English. *For my own
reference, I am placing that information with the card, and one of
these days I will get each of the two relay sites individually (I
already have a P-K card). *I know what I heard - so what else matters,
right? :-)

Bruce- Hide quoted text -

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As a followup to this - I contacted NASWA to see how they'd suggest
handling this issue if it were for certification - Gary N. of NASWA
kindly offered to certify the card for all three countries if I
provided a scan of the card and a weblink for the HFCC/Eibi/Aoki
schedules that show that the freqs listed are unique for VoR at those
TX sites. This I will do later today.

Bruce Jensen

FOR ANYONE who actually gives a damn about radio right now...

RUSSIA, Voice of Russia, 13775 kHz via P-K, May 2, 2010 at 0532z.
*Signed full data card "House of Music" from its current architectural
series celebrating 80 years of SWBC - For reception report by mail, in
31 days. VoR is definitely interested in getting RRs and sending QSLs
- not too hard to QSL a quarter of the world's landmass if you just
concentrate on Russia!

Bruce Jensen
California, USA

On Jun 1, 7:21*pm, bpnjensen wrote:

Here's what In intend to do, just to satisfy myself - in the
compartment with this card, I am going to add a note card with the A10
schedule passages that Identify these three locations as transmitter
sites. *I don't care what anyone else thinks :-)

Ha! Do it, no one will say you're a bad guy. ;-)