1998 VOA QSL

NEW Catches (MP3s) From my DX440 and G5RV

I have a real simple SWL setup– DX-440 and Sangean 909 portable radios and a G5RV wire antenna. It took me almost 10 years but I earned the NASWA award for confirming over 100 different shortwave broadcast countries. Not bad for an EL Cheapo shack!

Note: I’m taking a break from the hobby to work on my Poetry but I hope to be back this year in time for summer DX season LOL.

MP3s

These files haven’t been processed at all–the tape recorder goes right into my sound card & I convert the file. So they only sound as good as they did coming into my antenna.

Voice of The Resistance of the Black Cockerel (VORGAN) 6220 kHz, Christmas 1997. (Angola).
Spanish Numbers Station October 2002.
Radio Sawa 11670 kHz (via Kavala), 0542 UTC, 17 October 2002.
Radio Free Afghanistan 15380 kHz, 17 October 2002. They appear to give out a PO Box contact address in Kabul.
CKZN 6160 kHz, 0826 UTC, 20 October 2002 –300 Watts!
Radio Maya de Barillas, Guatemala RRRRRRRRadio Maya: 3325 kHz @ 0919 UTC, 10 November 2002
Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision du Mali – ORTM ID 5 Jan 2003 at 0830 UTC, 11960 kHz.
Radio Verdad Guatemala ID 5 Jan 2003, 4052 kHz at 0325 UTC.
Voice of Oromo Liberation at 1708 UTC on 15670 kHz on 12 Jan 2003. (via Germany)
Radio Liberia 6100 kHz at 0708 UTC on 20 Jan 2003.
North Korea Radio Pyongyang Feb 16, 2003 11335 kHz 2302 UTC
Radio Kuwait 15110 kHz 1524 UTC March 20, 2003 –Kuwait under attack .
Radio Free Iraq Radio Free Iraq 9695 0401 UTC March 22, 2003
Shadow Radio 6950 LSB kHz 0311 UTC March 30, 2003 cool pirate station.
Mexico Candela FM 6105 kHz 0802 UTC April 12, 2003
Radiodif do Amazonas 4805 kHz 0915 UTC April 12, 2003
UNID 4931 kHz 0925 UTC May, 10 2003
The Conet Project – Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations At the Internet Archive the entire 4 CD set is available as free MP3 downloads.

Logs

My 2003 DX logs Looking forward to getting back into the hobby.

Radios

Buy A Sangean ATS-909 Receiver.

Clubs and Discussion Groups

NASWA. North American Shortwave Association- a wonderful radio hobby club. You should really join today!
Cumbre. Cumbre DX–has an email newsletter and weekly radio show.
ACE. The Association of Clandestine (Radio) Enthusiasts.
rec.radio.shortwave. Usenet group (via the WWW @ Google).
The Grapevine. Online SW and pirate radio discussion/loggings.

Online Resources for the DXer and QSLer

Radio Intel. Lots of news, receiver reviews etc.
DXing.com. DXing site.
IBB / VOA. Excellent VOA /IBB page. Lots of great stuff.
Clandestine Radio Intel Web. Excellent resource.
Spy Numbers. Chris Smolinski’s WWW site. (These broadcasts freak out my husband!)
Glenn Hauser’s DX Listening Digest Includes a sked to listen to his radio show.
The Interval Signals Archive. Interval signals, signature tunes, and identification announcements from international, domestic, and clandestine radio stations around the world.
DX Stamp Service. Large selection of foreign mint stamps–very fast service too.
Jack’s Radio Fundamentals. Provides a solid foundation in UTC, sunspots, grey-line DXing, etc.
Current Solar Forecast. from the Space Environment Center.
Greenwich Observatory. Home of GMT/UTC/Zulu…
Library of Congress Country Studies. Online “area handbooks” reference material.
National Anthems. In MIDI format.
Space Weather. From NOAA.
World Sunlight Map. Online real time view of the Earth, showing the day and night regions at this moment.
Worldtime. Another day/night view of the Earth, online.
Sunrise/Sunset Computations. Data online from the Naval Observatory.
Translations. Free online translation.
WFB. CIA World Factbook (online).