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.