The Voice of Turkey QSL English reception report

Dated: February 19th,2006
hour: 13.32 utc
Frequency: 11735 khz
Site: EMR

Adventist world radio QSL

We are happy to verify your reception of our station

date:

time 1530 utc

language:Hindi

heard here via Philippines

Radio Prague QSL Card

One of a few Cards I have from stations and this may some day be a collectors item if the station goes away,hopefully more listeners will send there reception reports and give these stations, the idea someone is listening on the airwaves rather than internet.

details on the card:

dear radio friend,thank you for your communication reporting reception of our transmission on

26th April 1998

frequency 17485 khz

good listening and 73's

Family Radio 6230 khz

02/24/2010 Family Radio on 6230 khz at 23:30 to 23:59 ut with announcements in non-english signals 44445 signed off

02/24/2010 6230 khz at 0001 utc non english station sounded russian or german

Family Radio 9720 khz

Family Radio on 9720 khz on 02/23/10 11:57 utc had english sign out and resigned with different language non-english not sure of 2nd language 44444

Palau WHR reception and others

2/23/2010 World Harvest Radio from Palau on 9925 khz at 09:00 utc it started with news and comments on there programs 45555

Voice of America QSL CARDS

VOA QSL CARD RECEIVED

MY RECENT COLLECTION OF QSL CARD FOR

VOA PHILIPPINES

The VOA Germany QSL Card details:

date:2-july-2008
time:15:30 utc
frequency: 9345 khz
Relay:Tinang,Philippines

Info QSL Address:

Voice of America
Washington,DC 20237 USA




date:January 10,2009
Time:(utc)1558
Frequency:5955 khz
Relay:Philippines(tinang)

On the back is the following info: Powerful transmitters and curtain array antennas towering hundreds of feet high beam VOA shortwave radio programs to listeners around the world from U.S. Government international broadcasti ng stations.

Rough guess is the station is pushing the standard 100,000 watts and the antennas are over 200 ft.

I will also post my other collections from VOA Germany and Thailand

KTWR Transmitter going online

Here station engineer Mike, of KTWR brings the transmitter of a Harris on line check out his waiting for the finals to come into play. Shortly after this he travels a few feet to a both to push a few buttons and brings the station on the airwaves. These are those 100,000 watts you hear on the other side of the world.

RFA Saipan

One the other side of Saipan and about 10 miles from FEBC site lies a beauty of antennas and on several occassions I was able to see these great antennas of Radio Free Asia, there transmitters became confidential and even more so since 9/11. I wanted to view these from the inside but never got past the gates. I was able to do a short conversation with the workers but still never got past the front door. If you think your dipoles at home are a problem stretching out check out this next photo of a close up of the antennas. The towers at many sites are more than 200 ft tall.

The antenna towers here are similar to the abandoned Japanese antenna tower that was shown to me on Palau in my quest to view World Harvest Radio's T8WH station.

FEBC Saipan

One of my first visits to a shortwave site was on the island of Saipan, only a few times visit to the island and really enjoyed my visit to the place. One day I drove on the island to view a antenna that made me more than curious and as many would who love this hobby like me I was determined to get closer to this site. And was I ever in for a site.

I drove down a dirt road in a rented vehicle and came across the Transmit site of FEBC. The engineer turned out to be a Ham as well and he gave me a guided tour of the all the transmitters and even a rare treat of actually standing in the middle of the antennas. These are the Continental transmitters that send those signals half way around the world to us shortwave and even some who just listen to the religious broadcasts,probably pushing 100,000 watts. One of my many visits to Saipan and my dedication to our great hobby.

Philippines

I am currently back in Manila and had some problems with my antennas, the antennas were damaged by a tropical storm,or better known as a typhoon. It tore my dipoles to unusuable. The antennas were a G5RV short version by radiowavz,about 66ft and a 20m dbz by radio wavz. The 20m is repairable but for the moment sits in a bag to worked on in the future. I replaced these by a 40m DBZ and a 30m end fed and also a 6m dbz. I am also rearranging the Ham Shack and tried to get my Satellit800 Grundig repaired here in the Philippines but no luck.