The Special Olympic Games QSL from CRI

This is one of the series for the special Olympic Games QSLs from CRI. Do anyone know how many different patterns they had prepared for their listeners?

New AIR QSL

This QSL card from AIR, All India Radio, is so much exotic. I cannot tell exactly what the silhouette of the building is - but this particular photo reminds me of something religious in Asia. Maybe a lot of people are gathering to the temple for a night praying? Who knows?

Radio Romania International QSL

Radio Romania International now offers a series of beautiful flower QSLs to their listeners.

Russia says they stopped their gas supplies to Ukraine as they still had a lot of unpaid bills and also had stolen a part of Russian gas to Europe for their pocket. On the other hands, Ukraine continues to make completely opposite insists.

These two countries are so funny from my eyes as what they keep on insisting is just like kids. Wish the Radio Ukraine International studio is not too cold to send out dairy broadcasts :-)

New Vatican Radio QSLs

They are also the one having a wide variety of QSL cards. These are what we just received a few days ago :-)

DLF 1422kHz

Do anyone know many different designs of QSLs DLF have for their listeners? I have collected four different ones in the past a year - so the answer should be bigger than or is equal to four.

JONF (MRT) Miyazaki Hoso

I love a series of their colorful QSL cards! :-) The above is the latest one just recently received.

Special Anniversary QSL from R.New Zealnd Int.

This is a special QSL card from Radio New Zealand International for their 60-year anniversary in 2008.

JOKF - RNC Nshi-nihon Hoso

This one is also the new design (of the QSL card) from JOKF (RNC - Nishi-nohon Hoso).

JOHF - BSS Radio (San'in Hoso)

They have just changed a whole design of their QSL card to the new one like above.

NHK Radio 2 - Niigata Relay Station QSL

I have just completed scanning several QSLs recently joined in as a part of my huge collections. Will show you some of them here :-)

The cool newcomer just joined in my shack!

Yeah! The new PERSEUS SDR receiver has just arrived! :-) I am so interested in seeing how this cool newcomer will change the way of my future DXing.

JOCF - Minami-nihon Hoso (MBC)

I am posting this note from the balcony of my house as the weather here in Saitama is just excellent. Feel so good on being outside in the morning of weekend :-) Just forget all the tough works on the weekdays, yeah.

It has unexpectedly taken so long for me to obtain this QSL card from JOCF - the Minami-nihon Hoso. They are located in the southern island called Kyusyu - and are more than 1,000 km away from here in Saitama. With some heavy interference with other stations on 1107kHz - they cannot easily be observed in our area. Don't you think this QSL card is cool?

The Radio St. Helena Day

I had a successful monitoring of Radio St. Helena this morning. Nothing was first heard on 11092.5kHz (USB) when I tuned in this frequency at 20:00 UTC - but from the past experience, I knew the reception condition would be getting better as the time goes by. My guess was just right and the whole situation changed all of the sudden at 21:15 UTC. Here in Saitama, Japan, the best condition had observed for approx. 45 minutes, from 21:15 through 22:00 UTC. I would say SINPO at the best point was 45343. According to the website of the station, their transmission was beamed to Japan from 20:00 through 21:00. Just like the past years, the result was that the later transmission was received much better (in compare with the earlier one beamed to Japan) even if Japan was out of their target. I wish the transmission to Japan would be set up for an hour from 21:30 UTC in the future if they ever make this special transmission in this time of the season. Considering the fact that the current sunrise here in Japan is at 6:17 JST (21:17 UTC), the broadcast starting at 20:00 UTC is a little too early. I plan to make the suggestion of this to the station in my reception report.

Radio controlled watch

Radio controlled watch - yeah, cool! This is absolutely what you need for your radio monitoring. Why don't you get one for yourself?

FM Kashima - a low-power community FM station

So much things were going on with my family & myself - and I was unable to update this blog at all for a while. Sorry folks...

I have just finished scanning a lot of recent QSLs for this blog. Will let you see one by one.

This one is from FM Kashima, a low-power community FM station of Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan. I had a chance to listen to their program while I was staying at the beach of Oarai in Ibaraki last month.

B08 schedules

Most major international shortwave radio stations have turned into the B08 schedule from last Sunday, the 26th. Due to the seasonal condition changes of the propagation, they have usually shifted their frequencies to the lower bands like 60, 49, and 31mb. The higher bands like 25mb or above have been much more quiet than before - and on the contrary, the lower ones are now so crowded with a lot of stations. This has resulted in creating severe interferences here and there. In Japan, Chinese stations are the biggest headache for DXing. They are of course allowed to use the shortwave frequencies for their regular broadcast -- but not for the meaningless jamming against other stations.

I am planning to make a weekend radio monitoring in this coming weekend. Here in Japan, next Monday - the 3rd of November, will be the national holiday, and it will be the 3-day consecutive holidays. Look forward to spending the weekend in my shack. Hope the human jamming of my 3-year old daughter also gets quiet :-)

Busy days :-(

It has been a looooooooooong week so far with a lot of tough works. There are so much headaches. One more day left for the weekend - but you know, I am quite sure that it will be another busy day tomorrow :-(

Just be a little more patient, and I will be running into the weekend for more shortwave listening :-) The A08 schedule will be over shortly, and most of the major international stations will be turning to the new B08 one in a few days. Look forward to seeing how the whole bands are changing next week.

9525kHz - Voice of Indonesia

It is 11:45 UTC (=20:45 JST) now. The Japanese program of the Voice of Indonesia is currently being observed on their usual frequency, 9525kHz. The reception condition is excellent here in Japan - SINPO44433. There are some slight fading on this frequency - but the signal itself is strong enough to cover this, and there is no major interference. Just like a local radio station :-)

Weekend shortwave monitoring

It is so much fun to play with my fellow radios. The recent newcomer, the FRG-7700 of YAESU, has been playing an important role for my shortwave monitoring since this joined in my shack last week :-) I especially love the mild sound of this old receiver. The above photo was taken when listening to the Radio Djibouti on 4780kHz.