New audio from Northern Territory

Over the past week I have decided to go back and revisit a lot of my good dx from the Gove Peninusla in the Northern Territory of Australia. One of the frustrating things has been I spent a lot of money sending out reports from this trip and so many stations never replied. So I am attempting to make email contact with a lot of the stations, put url links to box file tapes with better content.

DXing was done on the point near Yirrkala

So now here are some new recordings and a lot of them improved or lengthened. This time with better detail.

1. 1270 KNDI Honolulu Hawaii - 10kw Distance 8046km .  0905 UTC on 25 June 2006.
2. 1500 KUMU Honolulu Hawaii - (Now KHKA) 10kw Distance is 8045km.  This was heard at 0905 UTC on 25 June 2006. The Hawaiian stations were at 63 degrees.
3. 567 khz KGUM Agana, Guam 10kw. Distance 2977km received on 25 August 2006 at 17 degrees.
4. 612 khz KUAM in Agana Guam. 10kw  Distance 2977 km.  Heard 1144 UTC on 25 June 2006.
5. 810 khz Radio Republik Indonesia Maurake. Amazingly this is a groundwave daytime signal. The distance is 572 km at 44degrees. It was heard at about 11am local time in the Northern Territory. The station at this time is networking Jakarta // 765
6. 1584 T8AA Palau - Power is 5 kw and distance here was 2185km. This recording is rare in the fact the Palau mostly plays back to back music. You have to be lucky to get talk. Here I was lucky enough to get an ID and Time check about 13 seconds in. You will hear that the station has terrible modulation
7. 1098 V7AB Marshall Islands. 25kw and distance 4384km. Very hard to get clear ID from this but if you listen after the music you will hear a clear but weak V7AB then some announcements for transmissions. Almost sounded like a dx show. This was mixing with 4LG Longreach.
8. 1449 V6AH Kolonia - Pohnpei - Micronesia. 10kw and 3186km at 49 degrees. Difficult to get an ID out of this. Not in this recording. Island music the female announcer introducing a talk about recent Tsunami and about terrorism in Indonesia and The Philippines. This station often takes Radio Australia and VOA feeds.
9. 1440 JOWF Sapporo Japan. 50kw - 6169km. Japanese announcer. Mixing here with Philippines, probably DWDH. One of the easier to hear Japanese.
10. 1053 JOAR Nagoya Japan. 50kw 5252km. One of my best Japanese recordings. Morning reception at 1858. Jap stations were generally at their best close to sunrise.

I will update this post with many more recordings. Keep checking back.

A new mode DGPS

The last few days I have been playing around with DGPS dx. DGPS is Differential GPS. These are beacons which are fixed points. DGPS dx is mainly done at the bottom of the longwave band between 283.5 and 325 khz. You can use software such as DSCdecoder or Multipsk to see where signals are coming from.

Looking at this picture you can see the Station ID or Ref ID (762). With lists from the DGNavlist site on Yahoo you can see where a station is coming from. You can also see a Transmitter ID which is unique to the station. This station here is Dune Heligoland operating on 298.5 khz.

The Perseus here is set for RTTY on 298.5 khz and the filter is about 260 hz. It can be 200 or so

Using the DSCdecoder software is pretty straight forward. With the Perseus, I use RTTY and then ensure that in the Perseus software settings the RTTY tone is 1360 hz. I then go to the DGPS button on DSCdecoder and make sure that tone is set to 1360 hz. I also click the invert button. If you are using a standard receiver you can use CW and set the DGPS software tone tp 600hz. This is usually the standard CW tone in receivers.

Here are some of my logs from 24/25 February 2012.

CLE/Session Report for Dave Onley Listening Location: Den Haag, JO22db
(52°03'35"N 004°17'08"E)
Receiver(s): Perseus SDR Antenna(s): ALA 1530 Software: DSCdecoder
Report Sorted by Frequency
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YYYY-MM-DD UTC kHz TxerID RefID Location km
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2012-02-24 22:50 314.5 #495 (765 Bad Abach, Germany 648
2012-02-25 00:09 313.5 #496 (766 Mauken, Germany 586
2012-02-24 22:46 312.5 #425 (425 Hoek van Holland, Holland 16
2012-02-25 00:34 312 #420 (640 Oostende, Belgium 131
2012-02-25 01:35 310 #944 (342 Cape Norman, Newfoundland & Labrador,
Canada 4014
2012-02-24 22:42 309.5 #449 (689 Nash Point Lt, Wales (UK) 544
2012-02-25 01:12 308 #491 (761 Gross Mohrdorf, Germany 629
2012-02-25 02:02 307.5 #440 (680 St Catherines Point Lt, England (UK) 420
2012-02-24 22:36 306 #441 (681 Lizard Lt., England (UK) 703
2012-02-24 22:35 304.5 #535 (535 Klaipeda Rear Lt., Lithuania 1172
2012-02-25 00:02 303.5 #493 (763 Zeven, Germany 361
2012-02-24 22:34 302.5 #490 (760 Koblenz, Germany 297
2012-02-24 22:32 302 #426 (426 Gilze Rijen, Holland 66
2012-02-24 22:29 301 #482 (743 Rozewie, Poland 978
2012-02-25 00:20 299.5 #448 (688 North Foreland, England (UK) 209
2012-02-25 01:20 299 #330 (460 Gatteville, France 469
2012-02-25 01:00 298.5 #492 (762 Dune Helgoland, Germany 337
2012-02-25 00:05 298 #468 (734 Nynäshavn, Sweden 1148
2012-02-25 00:37 297.5 #442 (682 Point Lynas Lt., Wales (UK) 597
2012-02-25 00:33 297 #446 (686 Girdle Ness, Scotland (UK) 696
2012-02-25 00:54 295.5 #444 (684 Butt Of Lewis, Scotland (UK) 979
2012-02-25 00:52 295 #XXX (850 Obristvi, Czech Republic
2012-02-24 22:24 294 #428 (428 Vlieland Lt, Holland 148
2012-02-24 23:06 293.5 #494 (764 Iffezheim, Germany 450
2012-02-24 23:49 292 #460 (720 Holmsjö, Sweden 882
2012-02-24 23:46 291.5 #445 (685 Sumburgh Head, Shetland Islands (UK) 932
2012-02-24 22:22 291 #439 (691 Wormleighton, England (UK) 387
2012-02-24 22:17 290.5 #447 (687 Flamborough Head Lt., England (UK) 372
2012-02-24 23:31 290 #452 (705 Blavandshuk Lt, Denmark 463
2012-02-24 22:16 289.5 #451 (700 Hammarodde Lt. Bornholm, Denmark 779
2012-02-24 23:42 289 #462 (724 Jarnas, Sweden 1555
2012-02-24 22:00 287 #406 (606 Klamila, Finland 1696
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Output Generated by WWSU 6.3.7 (Alex Wiecek VE3GOP, 2007)
Total number of beacons during this CLE/Session - 32
Total number of new beacons during this CLE/Session - 32

Walsoorden DXpedition January 2012

Guido, Leen, Dave (holding John Plimmer) and Marc

Friday Jamuary 20 2012 saw us head down to Walsoorden again for yet another DXpedition. A few months earlier we had a very productive and successful trip to Kasterlee and this trip was going to have to be pretty special to get near that one.

But how do you measure a successful Dxpedition? The amount of stations that you hear? The quality of stations or hearing just a few new stations? For me its hearing the new ones and I'm always happy to go home with just 4 or 5 new loggings.

This trip provided me with a few new loggings. I found 1539 khz Djibouti. It was very difficult to ID because at first the shortwave // was not the same. Guido sat on the channel for quite some time and later in the evening the station started taking the Shortwave parallel. Luckily Djibouti had come back onto its shortwave outlook of 4780 khz, otherwise we probably would not have been able to ID it.

Grenada was another nice catch on 1400 khz with Harbour Light of the Windwards. It was carrying religious programs and was quite nice. The other nice catch was Radio Santa Fe from Colombia on 1070 khz. So a nice handful of catches to go home with.

The Friday evening appears to have been the most productive listening and its funny to say that I'm not quite sure how this DXpedition has turned out. "Yet"

Such is the life of Perseus dxing. You tend to go to bed earlier and just let the radio run recording the entire spectrum from 200 - 1800 khz. So not only do you get your MW band but also Longwave, the NDB beacons and Navtex.. So many juicy things to look at when you get home.

North American beverage at 290 degrees

Marc Vissers setup

This entire winter the Asian's have been very ordinary. A few years back the Japanese were audible and even VOA Philippines was nice on 1170. This year we have had 1566 AIR Nagpur and WYFR on 1557. Guido had some nice logs of Pakistan and the 1206 Indian on a previous trip but not much more. I was aiming for some Asians on 518 khz with navtex but its been dead. The furtherest reception of navtex to the east has been Bahrain / Israel. There was not even a sniff from Oman.

At Kasterlee the dx to North America was mainly from Canada and in particular Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto. Already I can see conditions not being as good as they were at Kasterlee. Saturday in fact was a bit of a disaster with the CME taking place. The band was almost wiped out across the T/A however signals to the south remained okay. I'm still analyzing all the data and maybe something will pop up. Noise levels were certainly worse on the Saturday.

Guido, Dave and Leen in background

100 kph wind gusts and these were down

Dave's African beverage along road - Heard Dijbouti 1539 - Very Windy. We had 70 - 100 kph gusts at times.

Asian beverage at 60 degrees (Asia)

K9AY antenna

Nth American beverage

Kasterlee DXpedition 2011

Once a year the fine young men of DX Antwerp in Belgium get together at Kasterlee for a radio DXpedition. Late November is an ideal time of the year in Europe to hear long distance dx. The days are getting shorter and the nights longer. This was my first visit to Kasterlee. I had heard many stories about this location. It is in a forest and somewhat inland from the Belgian coast. I have never been too fond of inland dx sites but on this occasion I was in for a big surprise.

After a bit of a stuff up we finally moved into our chalet type accommodation later than what we had hoped for. A group of young whipper snappers had been there for several days and were reluctant to leave. But we had a belly full of chips and krokets from the local snack shop. Paul Baes opened up a nice bottle of hard liqueur and basically that was the start of a bloody good weekend of dxing.

We finally hit the dials around 1600 UTC I suppose. Maybe a bit earlier and the first thing that struck me was the absence of Asian signals on Mediumwave. Nearly every DX trip I have been on in Europe you have been able to hear 1566 AIR Nagpur or 1557 WYFR from Taiwan. They can be monsters and are I suppose the marker stations for Asian dx. In fact the tropical bands were also degraded. But things can be deceiving a bit. The North American stations were quite reasonable and by what Guido Schotman's says it was one of the better Nth American Dxpeditions from Kasterlee. Saturday night however was far better than Friday. When we got home we discovered that there had been some solar disturbance and some paths were certainly poorer than others. But that can often make for interesting dx.

Bandscan Kasterlee

David Onley
Date: 25.11.2011-27.11.2011
Coordinates: 04e56/51n14
Perseus SDR - Icom R75 Beverage 300 degrees (Nth America) - K9AY 30 degrees (Asia)

• 570.00 CUB Radio Reloj Santa Clara/CTOM1 vc 25 7731
• 580.00 CAN CFRA Ottawa ON 10 5708
• 590.00 CAN VOCM Saint John's NL 20 4089
• 600.00 CAN CBNA CBC Radio 1 Saint Anthony NL 10 4086
• 610.00 CUB Radio Rebelde Bueycito/Entronque gr 10 7696
• 610.00 USA WIOD Miami FL 5 7468
• 620.00 CAN CKCM Grand Falls NL 10 4205
• 640.00 CAN CFMJ Richmond Hill/Beamsville ON 50 6079
• 640.00 CAN CBN CBC Radio 1 Saint John's NL 10 4090
• 640.00 CUB Radio Progreso Guanabacoa/CTOM1 ch 50 7839
• 650.00 CAN CKGA Gander NL 5 4141
• 660.00 USA WFAN New York/High Island NY 50 5887
• 670.00 CUB Radio Rebelde Arroyo Arenas/CTOM1 ch 50 7857
• 680.00 CAN CFTR 680 News Toronto/Grimsby ON 50 6087
• 700.00 USA WLW Cincinnati/Tower Drive OH 50 6667
• 710.00 CAN CKVO Clarenville NL 10 4136
• 730.00 CAN CKAC Radio Circulation Montreal/Pointe-Calumet QC 50 5578
• 740.00 CAN CFZM Toronto/Meadowvale ON 50 6074
• 750.00 CAN CBGY CBC Radio 1 Bonavista Bay NL 10 4097
• 760.00 USA WJR Detroit MI 50 6386
• 770.00 USA WABC New York/Lodi [NJ] NY 50 5903
• 780.00 USA WBBM Chicago IL 50 6690
• 790.00 USA WAXY The Ticket South Miami FL 5 7509
• 800.00 CAN VOWR Saint John's NL 2.5 4086
• 820.00 USA WBAP Fort Worth TX 50 8002
• 820.00 KNA Radio Paradise Charlestown (Nevis) nvs 50 6976
• 840.00 USA WHAS Louisville KY 50 6820
• 850.00 USA WEEI Boston/Starr Ridge MA 50 5624
• 860.00 CAN CJBC SRC Première Chaine Toronto/Meadowvale ON 50 6074
• 870.00 USA WWL New Orleans LA 50 7798
• 890.00 USA WAMG La Nueva Mega Dedham MA 6 5637
• 920.00 CAN CKNX Wingham ON 1 6149
• 930.00 USA WBEN Newsradio 930 Buffalo/Grand Island NY 5 6064
• 930.00 CAN CFBC Saint John NB 50 5096
• 950.00 CAN CKNB Campbellton NB 10 4957
• 960.00 USA WEAV The Zone Plattsburgh NY 5 5608
• 970.00 USA WZAN Portland/Sunset Park ME 5 5474
• 1 000.00 USA WMVP Chicago IL 50 6701
• 1 010.00 USA WINS New York/Lyndhurst [NJ] NY 50 5911
• 1 010.00 CAN CFRB Newstalk 1010 Toronto/Oakville ON 50 6068
• 1 020.00 USA KDKA Pittsburgh/Allison Park (KDKA Drive) PA 50 6302
• 1 030.00 USA WBZ Boston/Nantasket Beach MA 50 5599
• 1 050.00 USA WEPN ESPN New York/East Rutherford [NJ] NY 50 5910
• 1 050.00 CAN CHUM TSN Radio 1050 Toronto/Oakville ON 50 6068
• 1 060.00 MEX XEEP-AM Radio Educación Mexico D.F/Ejercito de Oriente dif 20 9267
• 1 100.00 USA WTAM Cleveland OH 50 6353
• 1 120.00 USA KMOX Saint Louis MO 50 7068
• 1 130.00 USA WBBR Bloomberg 1130 New York/Carlstadt [NJ] NY 50 5906
• 1 130.00 USA KWKH Shreveport LA 50 7794
• 1 140.00 CAN CBI CBC Radio 1 Sydney NS 10 4661
• 1 140.00 USA WRMQ Orlando FL 5 7331
• 1 200.00 CAN CFGO The Team 1200 Ottawa ON 50 5709
• 1 250.00 USA WDDZ Radio Disney Pittsburgh PA 5 6315
• 1 250.00 CAN CJYE Joy 1250 Oakville ON 10 6079
• 1 270.00 CAN CJCB Sydney NS 10 4654
• 1 290.00 CAN CFRW TSN Radio 1290 Winnipeg MB 10 6597
• 1 290.00 VEN YVLF Radio Puerto Cabello Puerto Cabello cbb 10 7915
• 1 310.00 CAN CIWW 1310 News Ottawa ON 50 5707
• 1 310.00 USA WIBA Madison WI 5 6695
• 1 320.00 CAN CJMR Oakville ON 20 6079
• 1 330.00 USA WRCA Waltham MA 25 5619
• 1 370.00 USA WDEA Ellsworth ME 5 5298
•  1 380.00 CAN CKPC Brantford ON 25 6142
• 1 390.00 USA WEGP Presque Isle ME 25 5132
• 1 400.00 CAN CBG CBC Radio 1 Gander NL 4 4140
• 1 430.00 USA WENE The Team Endicott NY 5 5944
• 1 430.00 CAN CHKT Fairchild Radio Toronto Island ON 50 6044
• 1 470.00 USA WLAM r:WLVP 8-70 News Lewiston ME 5 5439
• 1 500.00 USA WFED Federal News R. Washington DC 50 6229
• 1 510.00 USA WWZN Boston (Waverley) MA 50 5613
• 1 520.00 USA WWKB AM1520 Buffalo NY 50 6072
• 1 540.00 USA KXEL Waterloo (N) IA 50 6926
• 1 550.00 ALG Saharawi Arab Dem.Rep.Nat. Radio Rabouni (Tindouf) 37 50 2853
• 1 560.00 USA WQEW Radio Disney New York/Queens NY 50 5905
• 1 570.00 MEX XERF-AM La Poderosa Ciudad Acuña coa 100 8516
• 1 570.00 CAN CJLV Radio Laval 1570 Laval QC 10 5568
• 1 580.00 CAN CKDO Oshawa ON 10 5988
• 1 600.00 USA WUNR Brookline MA 20 5619
• 1 660.00 USA WCNZ The Avenue Marco Island FL 10 7556
• 1 670.00 CAN CJEU Radio Oxygène Gatineau QC 1 5685  
• 1 680.00 USA WTTM El Pasaporte Lindenwold NJ 10 6035
• 1 690.00 USA WMLB Avondale Estates GA 10 7103
• 1 700.00 USA KVNS Classic Hits 1700AM Brownsville (Villa Nueva) TX 8.8 8598
• 1 700.00 USA WEUP Huntsville AL 10 7173

Conditions to Nth America were certainly better on the Saturday night into the Sunday early hours. Early on up to 0000 hours conditions were quite nice with many Canadian’s being particularly well received. From around 0100 things started to get noisy and there was just so much splash around. However signals were still there and I managed to find some interesting things. They maybe fodder to some but for The Aussie there were so many new things.

I was pleased with the reception of 1130 KWKH in Shreveport LA. Its interesting that this is yet another station I have heard from Australia. But I have the feeling it is far more difficult here with the dominant WBBR in New York here. Others I have enjoyed so far are 640 CFMJ Richmond Hill (Toronto) as this battles it out with CBN St Johns. There is another music station underneath which is almost impossible to know what it is. The Cuban Radio Progresso made a brief visit. Quite nice at times. I find 640 khz to be one of those really interesting frequencies. So much candy in the lolly shop..

Propagation conditions from 0000 during the night were certainly interesting. There had been some radiation storming and paths were certainly affected. Signals were fading up and down more than usual and it gave a nice mix of things. Like KWKH popping up for a few moments.

If you dx in the woods today you are in for a big surprise

Here is some Some audio I'm adding as I go along through my Perseus recordings. Oh what a job!

1. 610 WIOD Miami Florida  "WIOD is now on the FM dial 100.3" Not bad at all.
2. 700-WLW-Cincinatti Ohio Nice ID with time check and weather
3. 950-CKNB-CampbelltonNB Great ID. Music station and one of the strongest over the weekend.
4. Unid Sports on 640 This is an unidentified sports station which is underneath CBN St Johns at around 2358 on Saturday 26 November 2011 at Kasterlee. You will hear the the two stations merge after about 15 seconds, CBN disappears and then towards the end of the recording Radio Progresso fades up with music.
5. 970-WZAN-Maine I found a better ID. Heard here at 0200 UTC.
6. 1010 CFRB Toronto - Great ID. Strong and you can't get much better than this.
7. 1020 KDKA Pittsburgh PA A bit week but clear ID and CBS news.
8. 1050 CHUM Toronto which now ID's as TSN. The station it is mixing with is WEPN New York whjch also has sport talk.
9. 1100 WTAM Cleverland Ohio Another scratchy tough one. But its here.
10. 1120 KMOX St Louis MO Tough ID but its here. Past the female you will hear a male announcer. "KMOX news top and bottom of the hour". Might find a better ID as I go through the Perseus recordings.
11. 1130 WBBR New York. Dominant here with Bloomberg. Lots of sports.
12. 1130 KWKH Shreveport LA - Nice ID on fade up over WBBR
13. 1200 CFGO Ottawa. Sports station that loves its football.
14. 1250 CYJE Oakville Ontario. If you stay on a channel long enough sometimes you get lucky and it was in this case. Heard playing gospel songs and then finally an ID. Calls itself 1250 JOY
15. 570 CMBD Radio Reloj - Santa Clara Cuba. Terrible splash on this channel and then it popped out of the blue at 0030 UTC with an ID and mentions of Havana Cuba
16. 1390 WEGP Presque Ialand MA Coast to Coast radio. Talk of the county.
17. 1580 CKDO Oshawa ON. A bit noisy but between songs clear CKDO ID.
18. 580 CFRA Ottawa ON. Very noisy channel with splash. Got an ID just after 0200 with weather.
19. 590 VOCM St Johns NB. Not exactly dx as this the marker station here in Europe.
20. 650 UNID 0200 - This is probably WSM with its country and western. Gander is heard as well on this channel // 590 but with regional ads. This clip you hear some sort of music show ID after 20 seconds. WSM is 50kw so its probably a good presumption given the format.
21. 680 CFTR Toronto ON. Now this clip sums up what we are up against dxing in Europe. Next door on 675 is Radio Maria from Holland. Have a listen how ID's can get destroyed. I was lucky to get this as News 680 with a mention of Toronto.
22. 640 CMBC Radio Progresso Cuba. Now this was another one of those stations that just popped out of the splash. Not a great signal but a clear ID heard. I think this is often heard better than this.
23. 730 CKAC Montreal. A bit messy on the hour but ID in French.
24. 740 CFZM Toronto ON. Very tough channel with splash because of nearby 747 in Holland. It took a bit to find an audible ID. This is messy but if you listen hard you will hear the ID. Easy mentions of Toronto. 740 Heart and Soul as well. This mixes with CHCM Marystown which is // 590 VOCM.
25. 760 WJR Detroit MI. Short and sweet. The only thing you can hear. The ID.
26. 770 WABC New York. Here giving phone numbers for talk show.
27. 780 WBBM Chicago IL. Another digging in the mud ID. This is in two parts with the first mentioning Chicago and WBBM. The second part WBBM news time 7.23

Dave Onley's setup at Kasterlee

When conditions were not so great I tried my hand at a bit of NDB dxing and was surprised at the haul of dx I got. Probably well over 200 beacons for the weekend. Some nice Transatlantic dx and some really interesting local signals gfrom Ireland, England, Scotland etc. I have to look at other time slots to see what else turned up. But it certainly sparked a bit of interest for me.

Bandscan Kasterlee

David Onley

Datum: 25.11.2011-27.11.2011

Koordinaten: 04e56/51n14

Perseus SDR - Icom R75 Beverage 300 degrees (Nth America) - K9AY 30 degrees (Asia)

NDB DX

kHz ITU PROGRAM LOCATION REG kW km O

280.00 CAN QX Gander NL 1 4143

290.00 BEL ONL Liege / Bierset lie 0.015 74

293.00 BEL OB Brussels National brc 41

299.50 NOR KN Svolvaer / Helle / Skrova 1951

305.70 ISL DA Dalatangi 0.1 1883

306.50 F AV Avord 18 505

319.00 NOR VAR Stavanger / Sola / Varhaug 0.025 824

320.00 F VE Valence / Chabeuil 26 0.015 710

322.00 G LCY London / City EN-GTL 342

323.00 G SBL Sherburn-in-Elmet EN-NYK 502

325.00 D DP Diepholz nds 0.025 284

329.00 G JW Jersey JER 558

331.00 G GST Gloucester EN-GLO 0.05 500

332.00 F LL Lille / Lesquin 59 144

332.00 HOL NV Amsterdam / Schiphol nho 0.015 101

336.00 G AQ Aberdeen SC-ABC 810

337.00 G EX Exeter EN-DVN 579

337.00 FRO MY Myggenaes vgo 1426

338.00 G FNY Robin Hood / Doncaster / Finningley EN-SYK 476

338.00 F GU Brest / Guipavas 29 0.025 729

339.00 G BIA Bournemouth EN-DOR 0.04 480

339.00 NOR LS Forde / Bringeland / Langeneset 1130

340.00 G HAW Hawarden WA-FLI 580

340.00 G LSH Lashenden / Headcorn EN-KNT 0.04 301

342.50 G NWI Norwich EN-NFK 0.005 297

343.00 XOE HBC Halfdan B / Maersk 476

345.00 G LUT London/Luton EN-HTS 364

345.00 NOR BN Kristiansand / Kjevik / Birkeland 813

350.00 CAN DF Deer Lake NL 1 4310

356.00 CAN AY Saint Anthony NL 0.025 4117

360.00 NOR ASK Bergen / Flesland / Askoey 0.05 1023

360.00 S OS Göteborg / Save 855

378.00 IRL KLY Killiney for Dublin 786

385.00 G WL Barrow-in-Furness/Walney Island EN-CUM 642

386.00 I LIN Milano / Linate mi 729

386.00 G BZ Brize Norton EN-OXF 0.05 458

386.00 XOE FM Shell / Fulmar A Platform 611

386.50 BEL SLV Spa / La Sauvenière lie 0.015 107

387.00 F ING St. Inglevert 62 0.025 230

387.00 IRL CML Clonmel 0.05 861

388.50 G CDF Cardiff WA-CDF 578

389.00 NOR MR Skien / Geiteryggen / Myra 938

390.00 I AVI Aviano pn 0.035 807

390.00 F DR Dinard / Pleurtuit-St Malo 35 587

390.50 F ITR Istres / Le Tube 13 859

391.00 F BV Beauvais / Tille 80 0.02 284

391.50 G EAS Southampton / Eastleigh EN-HPS 443

392.00 F AS Angers / Avrille 49 578

392.00 ISL KF Keflavík sn 2142

392.50 I TOP Torino / Poirino to 734

393.00 G EMW East Midlands EN-DRB 0.015 472

394.00 G DND Dundee SC-PEK 783

395.00 IRL FOY Foynes for Shannon 0.05 981

395.00 HOL OA Amsterdam / Schiphol / Assendelft nho 0.015 138

396.00 CAN JC Rigolet NL 0.5 4138

397.00 G LZD Lydd EN-KNT 0.012 280

397.00 IRL OP Dublin dub 0.015 789

397.00 HOL EHN Eindhoven/EHEH nbr 0.015 40

398.00 F MT St Nazaire / Montoir 44 0.05 666

399.00 G NGY New Galloway for Prestwick SC-DGA 0.08 750

399.50 BEL ONO Oostende wvl 0.025 138

400.00 F AG Agen / La Garenne 47 850

400.50 I COD Codogno lo 750

401.00 I BPL Bari / Palese ba 1434

401.00 F LA Laval / Entrammes 53 545

401.50 D BET Rheine / Bentlage nrw 202

402.00 BEL OP Brussels National brc 86

404.50 HOL RR Rotterdam Locator zho 0.015 87

406.00 G BHX Birmingham EN-WMD 0.025 481

406.50 D BOT Bottrop nrw 0.025 150

410.00 F ETN Etain / Rouvres 55 0.01 230

414.00 G BRI Bristol / Filton EN-BRI 532

417.00 D LI Düsseldorf nrw 0.025 135

418.00 F MK Calais / Dunkerque 62 209

421.00 G BUR Burnham EN-BER 394

423.00 G CWL Cranwell EN-LIN 0.005 418

426.00 XOE HWQ Hewett A Platform 292

430.00 HNG BUG Bugac 1188

431.00 G SAY Stornoway SC-WIL 1058

433.50 G HEN Henton EN-BKS 0.025 401

435.00 SRB BR Brdjani 1414

436.00 HNG SME Sarmellek / Balaton 1029

440.00 I PIA San Giorgio Piacentino pc 796

444.00 POL NRD Inowroclaw

468.00 D FTZ Fritzlar hes 0.025 303

468.00 SRB VTN Kraljevo/Vitanovac rsk 0.05 1450

470.00 SRB UZ Uzice/Ponikve zlb 1385

477.00 SVK RP Malacky - Kuchyna 924

484.00 D HOF Hof bay 0.025 493

485.00 SRB IA In ija srm 0.06 1310

488.00 POL NPR Tomaszow-Mazowiecki / Porter 1052

488.00 D ILM Illesheim bay 432

489.00 D SIL Siegen / Siegerland nrw 0.025 231

495.00 SRB PA Pancevo jbn 0.05 1358

514.50 CZE LA Namest Nad Oslavou 834

518.00 CAN Rivière-au-Renard Coastguard R. Sept-Îles QC 4802

Walsoorden 2011

Its been several weeks since the Walsoorden Dxpedition and I must say that it has taken me some time to get around to going through my recordings. I'm going to be doing this for several more weeks. The Kasterlee dx weekend is fast looming so I really need to get a move on.

This years Autumn (October) DXpedition was one of the better ones. I arrived down at Walsoorden on the Thursday night and the lads arrived about 9am the following morning. Looking at the overall picture of the trip, the Friday night produced the best dx. Guido Shotman's and Marc Visser's have already discovered a few Asian gems such as Radio Pakistan on 1341 and AIR Bhawanipatna on 1206 khz. In all my years of DXing Pakistan has eluded me, although I did have tentative loggings from Australia. However AIR Bhawanipatna on 1206 khz I have heard twice before from The Coorong in South Australia in the late 90's.

The North Americans appeared to be nice with a lot of Canadian stations heard. I do have a list of stations that I am working on with recordings. KXEL in Waterloo on 1540 was quite surprising in strength for the whole weekend and was even heard several hours past sunrise.

So now its back to the Wav files to see what I have heard.

QSL's

A few newish QSL's that I have just scanned.

518 khz NMA Boston USA

518 khz NMG New Orleans USA

518 khz VCG Riviere-au-Renard. Canada

518 khz EJK Valentia Ireland

1368 khz MANX Radio

891 - Radio 538 Hulsberg The Netherlands