QSL's received June 2010
 

On Jun 2, 9:55*pm, bpnjensen wrote:
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

Bruce as long as it is 'you' that gives a damn about
Radio and Shortwave Listening that is all that should
truly matter to 'you'.

Let not the actions of others define the 'you' that is "you".

BpnJ - Keep Your Love for Radio and Spirit of
Shortwave Listening A-Live in Your Heart and Mind.

blessed be the radio listener for he listens with
his ears and hears with his heart - amen ~ RHF

QSL's received June 2010
 

On Jun 2, 7:57*am, bpnjensen wrote:
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

Well, I submitted the aforementioned information, and Gary at NASWA
said it was acceptable, that the QSL is good for three countries.
Yay!

Bruce Jensen

QSL's received June 2010
 

On Jun 3, 12:31*am, RHF wrote:
On Jun 2, 9:55*pm, bpnjensen wrote:

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

Bruce as long as it is 'you' that gives a damn about
Radio and Shortwave Listening that is all that should
truly matter to 'you'.

Let not the actions of others define the 'you' that is "you".

BpnJ - Keep Your Love for Radio and Spirit of
Shortwave Listening A-Live in Your Heart and Mind.

blessed be the radio listener for he listens with
his ears and hears with his heart - amen ~ RHF
*.

Thanks, I appreciate the sentiment, but that's not the point.

QSL's received June 2010
 

On Jun 2, 10:35*pm, Gregg wrote:
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. ;-)

Sneaky, maybe...naw, even NASWA says it's OK now. If they be cool, I
be cool.

QSL's received June 2010
 

**RWANDA, Deutsche Welle, Relay via Kigali, 7,240 kHz, 22 May, 2010,
0400z-0436z. Unsigned full data card "Keep tuning in" photo of
1950's / '60's household MW/SW radios - by airmail, for reception
report by airmail, 15 days. Nice, fast service. Wish VOA was this
speedy!

Bruce Jensen
California, USA

QSL's received June 2010
 

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:40:22 -0400, wrote:


Jim

QSL received 6/7/2010 from Fanling, Hong Kong for amateur contact
4/19/2010 on 14276 kHz @ 1237 UTC.

Jim

QSL's received June 2010
 

On Jun 7, 12:39*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:40:22 -0400, wrote:

Jim

QSL received 6/7/2010 from Fanling, Hong Kong for amateur contact
4/19/2010 on 14276 kHz @ 1237 UTC.

Jim

Good show! About how many do you collect a month, Jim? Do you try to
exchange QSLs for each contact?

Bruce

QSL's received June 2010
 

**ALBANIA, Radio Tirana, 7425 kHz, April 17, 2010 during my local
evening (have to check time). Partial data card (date and freq.
only), unsigned but with a handwritten ending "English Section." Very
thin paper stock, picturing an abstract pen drawing of a young woman
in traditional garb. with station logo and words "Albania" and "Radio
Tirana." In airmail envelope with complimentary postcard of the
ancient Butrint Amphitheatre with a handwritten signed note, "Thank
you for writing to us, Best Wishes, Radiso Tirorys (sp)." Received
in 51 days. This was a very tough station to hear and understand,
very weak signal here in WNAm, so I am pretty pleased with this one.

Bruce Jensen
California, USA

QSL's received June 2010
 

On Jun 7, 3:26*pm, bpnjensen wrote:
**ALBANIA, Radio Tirana, 7425 kHz, April 17, 2010 during my local
evening (have to check time). *Partial data card (date and freq.
only), unsigned but with a handwritten ending "English Section." *Very
thin paper stock, picturing an abstract pen drawing of a young woman
in traditional garb. with station logo and words "Albania" and "Radio
Tirana." *In airmail envelope with complimentary postcard of the
ancient Butrint Amphitheatre with a handwritten signed note, "Thank
you for writing to us, Best Wishes, Radiso Tirorys (sp)." * Received
in 51 days. *This was a very tough station to hear and understand,
very weak signal here in WNAm, so I am pretty pleased with this one.

Bruce Jensen
California, USA

P.S. - It occurs to me that "Radiso Tirorys" might actually be "Radio
Tirana" but it's a tough call - pretty wild penmanship ;-)

QSL's received June 2010
 

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 15:17:58 -0700 (PDT), bpnjensen
wrote:

On Jun 7, 12:39*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:40:22 -0400, wrote:

Jim

QSL received 6/7/2010 from Fanling, Hong Kong for amateur contact
4/19/2010 on 14276 kHz @ 1237 UTC.

Jim

Good show! About how many do you collect a month, Jim? Do you try to
exchange QSLs for each contact?

Bruce

Depends on propagation and what I send for. In March we had some good
propagation so I sent out a bunch of QSL's to the far east. Recently I
sent for a couple local things like the Indy Speedway QSL's. I might
send a card to the new stations I worked in Iceland and Kazakhstan but
then I already have QSL's from those countries.

If someone asks for a QSL, I will send one. I don't exchange with
everyone I talk to. The postage cost is too high. The card I sent to
Hong Kong came back with a $3 stamp and I only sent $2 and self
addressed envelope to cover the return. Now that is a $3 Hong Kong,
China stamp so I don't know what its actually worth but you see where
it can get expensive for all involved.

I just talked to a guy in Cuba with 100 watts while I was sitting here
and he contacted a few stations in Europe so conditons are not bad on
20m. Still waiting to hear Arnie Coro on the air.

Jim