The Shionomisaki lighthouse radio station

I am also an enthusiastic collector of verification cards and letters from radio station around the world. I am not familiar with how the shortwave listening had expanded in Japan as one of the great hobbies and became a huge boom back in the 70’s. However, I am quite sure that a lot of young people at that time were fascinated with colorful and exotic QSL cards from various countries. I started my QSL collecting activities back in 1982 and my collection has reached so far to over 2,000 from nearly 200 countries. It is no longer easy for me to develop a completely new (means newly verified) country but my interest and motivation to this wonderful hobby has never die. You know how many radio stations, including MW, FM, SW, and even LW bands, are existing in today’s world, and even I have ever heard only a small percentage of the whole number. This hobby is unlimited. I even have no particular goal in my QSL collecting activities. I just do what I feel like to do, and this could be a part of reason why I have been enjoying this hobby for nearly thirty years without any major interval. Just feel free to do anything I want - this is my attitude and policy.

This year, I am once again trying to collect QSL card or letters from ALL the Japan’s ‘lighthouse radios’. The first one to introduce here is the Shionomisaki station in Wakayama. They are on the air every day at 15 minutes of every hour for approx. one minute. The frequency is 1670.5kHz, and the power is only 50 watts just like other lighthouse radio stations of Japan.