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This is Radio Bulgaria's weekly DX Program for radio amateurs and short wave listeners which is included in our one-hour broadcasts starting as follows: Friday at 21.00 UTC on 5900 and 7400 kHz beamed to West Europe, at 23.00 UTC and Saturday at 02.00 UTC on 9700 and 11700 kHz to North America, as well as in the half-hour broadcast at 06.30 UTC on 9600 and 11600 kHz to West Europe.
In this issue by DX Editor Dimiter Petrov, LZ1AF, with Broadcast Tips by Rumen Pankov:
European Commissioner Thanks Hams
Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Respond, former Vice President of the World Bank, who is a Bulgarian, has released the following statement:
"On February 27, at 03:34 local time an earthquake rating a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter Scale devastated the Chilean region of Maule. In the minutes that followed the quake, the communication system simply collapsed. Only 15 minutes after the disaster, an amateur radio operator (or "ham") called Alejandro Jara (or as it is known in the amateur radio universe Charlie Echo 3 Juliet Whisky Foxtrot) broadcast the first information from the ground. Very soon, other hams joined Alejandro providing information about locating missing persons, condition of roads and support for the emergency administration.
I visited Chile few days after the main earthquake and experienced an aftershock of 7.2. The GSM network was completely out of order almost immediately and it was impossible to make telephone calls for several hours after the quake. It is in critical situations like this when the voluntary work of amateur radio operators becomes priceless.
Yesterday I had the opportunity of meeting some European "hams" in an exhibition they organized in the hall of the European Parliament. Their passion for the air waves is admirable. "Hams" often build their own equipment and spend endless hours talking to fellow radio operators from every corner of the world (actually also from outer space, since they can even connect with the International Space Station, as I could see in the exhibition).
Some think of them as an unusual bunch of people with no real impact on our daily lives but, when it comes to crisis, they often become heroes. The amateur radio service provides flexible networks that are independent of vulnerable infrastructures like telephone cables or GSM antennae, and transmit in frequencies that are not easily overloaded. Radio operators are aware of their potential in case of crisis and have established well coordinated structures for emergency response that provided vital services during the Tsunami in 2004, the hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005, or more recently, during the earthquakes of L'Aquila, Haiti and Chile.
The expressions "Humanitarian Aid" and "Crisis Response" often suggest large organizations delivering aid and heavy loads in helicopters or trailers. But, very often, it is about the job of anonymous people that continue to broadcast information and hope from damaged equipment and fallen antennae, as they like to say, "when everything else fails".
DXpedition to 3C9B, Bioko Island and 3C0C, Annobon Island
The 3C0C Annobon Island team has released updated information on the forthcoming DXpedition: "If no setback or causes beyond our control, the DXpedition to Equatorial Guinea will start off in mid-May. Before traveling to Annobon, 3C0, we will be operating from Bioko Island using the call sign 3C9B. The operation will take place over three days and SSB, CW and RTTY modes will be used on all bands.
The exact dates will be announced shortly. In Bioko we will collect all our needed supplies to live on Annobon Island and operate as sC0C for 14 days."
Canadian Hams Make Use of New Privileges
At the first of the year, Canadian amateurs received privileges on 2200 meters (135.7 – 137.8 kHz0. Just a few months later, Scott Tilley, VE7TIL, of Robert Creek, British Columbia, and John Gibbs, VE7BDQ, of Delta, British Columbia, completed the first official Canadian two-way 2200 meter QSO on April 24. Using CW, the Canadian amateurs reported strong signals during daylight QSO on 137.1 kHz Roberts Creek and Delta are about 41 miles (66 km) apart. Gibbs used a homebrew tube transverter at 100 watts output into a short top-loaded backyard wire vertical antenna, while Tilley was running 400 watts from a homebrew FET transmitter into a 60 foot top-loaded wire antenna. "As well as heralding the arrival of a new 'top band,' the QSO demonstrates that even amateurs located in typically small city-sized lots can enjoy the challenges that 2000 meters has to offer," Tilley said.
Broadcast Tips
Russia. The transmitter in Yakutsk was heard on 7200 kHz in Sofia at 19.20 hours while that in Murmansk
was received after 17.15 hours on 5930 kHz. Radio Murmansk broadcasts on this frequency programs of its own as follows: Monday through Friday from 03.10 to 04 hours, from 06.10 to 07 hours, from 08.10 to 09.10 hours and from 14.10 to 15 hours; on Saturday from 06.10 to 07 hours.
Cuba. Radio Havana was reported at 11.30 hours on 15120 kHz, at 00 hours on 6000 and 6060 kHz in Spanish, and at 00.15 hours on 5040 kHz in French. Radio Marti is received in Sofia also at 23.45 hours on 6030 kHz, announcing that it radiates on the same frequency from 18 to 13 hours, on 7365 kHz from 00 to 04 hours, on 7405 kHz from 03 to 07 hours. Radio Republica also broadcasts for Cuba from 02 to 04 hours on 9490 and 9780 kHz.
Pakistan. Radio Pakistan World Service is received in Sofia with news in English at 11 hours on 15100 and 17720 kHz as well as at 18 hours on 11585 kHz, also announcing the frequency of 7350 kHz.
Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Radio in English can be heard from 00.55 to 03.30 hours daily and till 04.30 hours on Sundays, is now using 15120 kHz replacing 15745 kHz. The other frequencies used are 6005 and 9770 kHz remain unchanged.
Republic of Korea / South Korea. KBS World Radio is received in Sofia with a weak signal at 16 hours on 9515 kHz and with a strong signal via a transmitter in Europe at 21 hours on 3955 kHz. The station broadcasts in English the following one-hour emissions: at 02 hours on 9580 kHz; at 08 hours on 9570 kHz; at 12 hours on 9650 kHz; at 13 hours on 9570 and 9770 kHz and at 18 hours on 7275 kHz.
With this we have come to the end of our weekly DX Program. Your opinions and suggestions will be appreciated and all reception reports confirmed with the QSL of Radio Bulgaria. Please address your letters to English Section, Radio Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria or by e-mail to english@bnr.bg. An online reception report form is available at www.bnr.bg, click on English and navigate.
So, 73 and DX!
In this issue by DX Editor Dimiter Petrov, LZ1AF, with Broadcast Tips by Rumen Pankov:
European Commissioner Thanks Hams
Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Respond, former Vice President of the World Bank, who is a Bulgarian, has released the following statement:
"On February 27, at 03:34 local time an earthquake rating a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter Scale devastated the Chilean region of Maule. In the minutes that followed the quake, the communication system simply collapsed. Only 15 minutes after the disaster, an amateur radio operator (or "ham") called Alejandro Jara (or as it is known in the amateur radio universe Charlie Echo 3 Juliet Whisky Foxtrot) broadcast the first information from the ground. Very soon, other hams joined Alejandro providing information about locating missing persons, condition of roads and support for the emergency administration.
I visited Chile few days after the main earthquake and experienced an aftershock of 7.2. The GSM network was completely out of order almost immediately and it was impossible to make telephone calls for several hours after the quake. It is in critical situations like this when the voluntary work of amateur radio operators becomes priceless.
Yesterday I had the opportunity of meeting some European "hams" in an exhibition they organized in the hall of the European Parliament. Their passion for the air waves is admirable. "Hams" often build their own equipment and spend endless hours talking to fellow radio operators from every corner of the world (actually also from outer space, since they can even connect with the International Space Station, as I could see in the exhibition).
Some think of them as an unusual bunch of people with no real impact on our daily lives but, when it comes to crisis, they often become heroes. The amateur radio service provides flexible networks that are independent of vulnerable infrastructures like telephone cables or GSM antennae, and transmit in frequencies that are not easily overloaded. Radio operators are aware of their potential in case of crisis and have established well coordinated structures for emergency response that provided vital services during the Tsunami in 2004, the hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005, or more recently, during the earthquakes of L'Aquila, Haiti and Chile.
The expressions "Humanitarian Aid" and "Crisis Response" often suggest large organizations delivering aid and heavy loads in helicopters or trailers. But, very often, it is about the job of anonymous people that continue to broadcast information and hope from damaged equipment and fallen antennae, as they like to say, "when everything else fails".
DXpedition to 3C9B, Bioko Island and 3C0C, Annobon Island
The 3C0C Annobon Island team has released updated information on the forthcoming DXpedition: "If no setback or causes beyond our control, the DXpedition to Equatorial Guinea will start off in mid-May. Before traveling to Annobon, 3C0, we will be operating from Bioko Island using the call sign 3C9B. The operation will take place over three days and SSB, CW and RTTY modes will be used on all bands.
The exact dates will be announced shortly. In Bioko we will collect all our needed supplies to live on Annobon Island and operate as sC0C for 14 days."
Canadian Hams Make Use of New Privileges
At the first of the year, Canadian amateurs received privileges on 2200 meters (135.7 – 137.8 kHz0. Just a few months later, Scott Tilley, VE7TIL, of Robert Creek, British Columbia, and John Gibbs, VE7BDQ, of Delta, British Columbia, completed the first official Canadian two-way 2200 meter QSO on April 24. Using CW, the Canadian amateurs reported strong signals during daylight QSO on 137.1 kHz Roberts Creek and Delta are about 41 miles (66 km) apart. Gibbs used a homebrew tube transverter at 100 watts output into a short top-loaded backyard wire vertical antenna, while Tilley was running 400 watts from a homebrew FET transmitter into a 60 foot top-loaded wire antenna. "As well as heralding the arrival of a new 'top band,' the QSO demonstrates that even amateurs located in typically small city-sized lots can enjoy the challenges that 2000 meters has to offer," Tilley said.
Broadcast Tips
Russia. The transmitter in Yakutsk was heard on 7200 kHz in Sofia at 19.20 hours while that in Murmansk
was received after 17.15 hours on 5930 kHz. Radio Murmansk broadcasts on this frequency programs of its own as follows: Monday through Friday from 03.10 to 04 hours, from 06.10 to 07 hours, from 08.10 to 09.10 hours and from 14.10 to 15 hours; on Saturday from 06.10 to 07 hours.
Cuba. Radio Havana was reported at 11.30 hours on 15120 kHz, at 00 hours on 6000 and 6060 kHz in Spanish, and at 00.15 hours on 5040 kHz in French. Radio Marti is received in Sofia also at 23.45 hours on 6030 kHz, announcing that it radiates on the same frequency from 18 to 13 hours, on 7365 kHz from 00 to 04 hours, on 7405 kHz from 03 to 07 hours. Radio Republica also broadcasts for Cuba from 02 to 04 hours on 9490 and 9780 kHz.
Pakistan. Radio Pakistan World Service is received in Sofia with news in English at 11 hours on 15100 and 17720 kHz as well as at 18 hours on 11585 kHz, also announcing the frequency of 7350 kHz.
Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Radio in English can be heard from 00.55 to 03.30 hours daily and till 04.30 hours on Sundays, is now using 15120 kHz replacing 15745 kHz. The other frequencies used are 6005 and 9770 kHz remain unchanged.
Republic of Korea / South Korea. KBS World Radio is received in Sofia with a weak signal at 16 hours on 9515 kHz and with a strong signal via a transmitter in Europe at 21 hours on 3955 kHz. The station broadcasts in English the following one-hour emissions: at 02 hours on 9580 kHz; at 08 hours on 9570 kHz; at 12 hours on 9650 kHz; at 13 hours on 9570 and 9770 kHz and at 18 hours on 7275 kHz.
With this we have come to the end of our weekly DX Program. Your opinions and suggestions will be appreciated and all reception reports confirmed with the QSL of Radio Bulgaria. Please address your letters to English Section, Radio Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria or by e-mail to english@bnr.bg. An online reception report form is available at www.bnr.bg, click on English and navigate.
So, 73 and DX!
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