Palau Part 2

After arriving on this island I rode a Taxi to locate my planned shortwave station T8WH of World Harvest Radio. The taxi driver named Paul took me on other side where the station was suppose to be located but never materialized.

Last night I visited with a local Ham named George, who we talked to about radio licenses and getting together for Coffee and just chat. I later returned to show the papers and found out the office moved to another location.

As I was leaving a guy came and chatted with me and found out George was my friend, he mentioned that the Station is here and not far from where we went but in a different location. So my plans is to return and locate this station.

Palau Island

I am on my way to a island between the Philippines and Guam about an hour by airplane to Manila. The island is called Palau and is the Home of a relay station called World Harvest Radio. My plan is to view it in Person if possible and see what the insides look like as well. I plan to take photos as well and if I can post it here. Its been one f my passion over the past 12 years to view as many of these as I can and to see fr myself what makes em tick. Being able to see the insides of KTWR,AWR on Guam and FEBC,RFA on Saipan. I love this Hobby and wish my job wouldn't at times interfere with it. The wold would be alot more fun.

The past 3 months has been spent trying to add my Ham radio log to a program called Hamlogger and I started with the 1999 to 2002 books which tured out to be much more than I knew. I have over 2000 in the logs and its given me around 109 countries worked and 79 confirmed. Hope to get my first DXCC. If you don't know what the words DXCC mean check out www.arrl.org and type DXCC in the search box or google it. Can come up with a listing of over 300 countries that participate in this.

In the world of radio we say 73 and that means good luck to the person you chatted with. So to my friends in shortwave and Ham radio.

73 and Merry Christmas.

SHORTWAVE HAM PSK31 QSL

I RECENTLY OBTAINED SOME QSL'S FROM SHORTWAVE LISTENERS WHO DO UTE LISTENING

F-16494 FRANCE HEARD ME ON PSK31 WITH QSO FROM RA9SA

BW2-5001 TAIPEI,TAIWAN HEARD ME WITH 2 QSO'S WITH BV2B TAIWAN AND VR2C HONG KONG

73 AND HAPPY HUNTING ON THE DX BANDS

QSL RECEIVED IN PAST FEW WEEKS

Received the following contact cards for the past few years operating from the Philippines as DU1.

BPSK31 MODE
YB1MBA BOGOR INDONESIA
JM3IWE UJI CITY JAPAN
JA1AKR CHIBA JAPAN
JA8EOT SAPPORO JAPAN
JA8JC SAPPORO JAPAN
JA3KM OSAKA, JAPAN
BD4TH WUXI CHINA
ZL3ACU CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND
DL2KXA KEHNERT GERMANY
UA0CAA RUSSIA
UA0CDC RUSSIA
RA0JF RUSSIA
DL6YDX GERMANY
UA0IT RUSSIA
IK8HVT ITALY
JA1ODE JAPAN

SSB ON 20 METERS ,15 METERS AND 6 METERS

JR1EMM 6M
BV4VE 15M
BV2WL 15M
BV2YA 20M
VK3TZ 20M
UR3IFD 20M

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busy month

Been a busy month for me been helping to lay a ship up and put it in moth balls here in Hawaii, been trying to catch some shortwave but the schedule has kept me busy, did listen in to china radio international at around 1600 local time but was somewhat weak on the 9000 khz bands wasnt able to log it s I was on foot to the bus stopped and was using a grundig mini 300 shortwave.

Been hoping on getting some listening done at sea but the weather been kinda wet and rainny. I havent been able to string up an antenna like my last ship. The captain let me do that since it was a small ship. Did go up to Cetti Point and with the telescopic whip listened to Voice of Russia and Voice of Vietnam. Tried to pull out wwvh in hawaii but the bands were very bad at the time and only heard the tones on 10000 khz, not much voice. All other bands like 2500,5000, and 15000 were totally dead. I changed the battery's to the sangean and was trying top change the time but wwvh became un readable.

73's from the sea and enroute to Hawaii. Am 1 hour on the clocks already