Logs from Newfoundland, April 29 - May 3

[newfoundland dxer]

Hi everyone:

The weekend started slow, but Saturday and Sunday were a lot of fun.

April 29
1655 2355 Radio Barones, talk and music, weak but mostly readable, 24442

April 30
1655 0000 Radio Monte Carlo, talk and music, 23441
1642 0025 Radio Arabier, talk, 13441

May 1
6925u 0200 Spider Radio (tent), "With or Without You" 24341
3931 2100 Bluestar Radio, CCR, ID 34342
6870 2345 Playback International, JJ and Miss Oybo live 44443

May 2
6925u 0009 Yellow Rhino Radio "Ruby Tuesday", thanking "Channel Z and others for laying the trap. This is the Marco the Fake'o broadcast". 44443
6280 0657-0730 Radio Merlin (tent) Occassional traces of music. 14331
6380 0730 UNID, very weak talk and music 14331
6325 2105 Sonnet Radio, Reggae song, ID, website, 33442
6205 2115 Radio Scotland International, The Fixx "Deeper and Deeper", repeated IDs 34342
6880 2126 Radio Fox 48, ID, thanks for greetings 14431
6309 2152 Sonnet Radio, (moved from 6325), phone number, IDs, (had to use LSB to seperate from Grensstad) 32441
3900 2211 Spaceman Radio, "I'm a Man" 34432
6310 2230 Grensstad Radio Supertramp, IDs 24331
3900 2242 Radio Sallandse Boer, report to Spaceman, 24341
3930 2247 Antonio Radio (tent), very weak music, 14331
6260 2300 Radio Altrex, talk and music, ID 24341
3915 2350 Piepzender via Continental, talk in Dutch, (was watching studiocam too) 33442

May 3
6937,5 0020 Channel Z , "Rock 'n' Roll Hoochie Koo" 1.1 watt AM test 14341
1655 0045 Radio Relmus, talk and music, 14331
1655 0052 Radio Willskracht, barely audible talk 14331
1665 0102 Radio Viking, barely audible music 24441
6950,8 0109 MACshortwave, ID, Beatles "Good Morning" 34442
6210 0130 Radio Relmus, (also tested 6310 and 6205), music and talk 14331
6925 0210 Spider Radio (tent), Rod Stewart "Baby Jane"
6308 2109 UNID, barely readable music and talk 14331 (still on at 2220 recheck)
6650u 2126 UNID, very old blues 34443 (still on at 2233 recheck)
6325 2200 Sonnet Radio, DJ John, ID, website. 33442
6309 2219 Sonnet Radio, music, website, 23441
3900 2234 Radio Baken16, talk and music, thanks for greetings 24341 (up to 33442 at 2330)
6270 2243 Radio Altrex (tent), music, very weak 14341
3905 2245 Radio Nooderlicht, music and QSO, ID , 33442
3905u 2252 Radio Pacman, QSO 33442
3896 2300 Radio Sallendse Boer (tent), talk and music under very loud ham QRM 32441

May 4
6850.7 0036 MACshortwave, ID, email, into "Ultraman" show, "Hounddog" 44443
6925u 0210 Spider Radio, pop music, 24441

Thanks to Relmus and others in Iann's chat for help with some IDs (particularly mediumwave), and thanks to all the operators for the programs and the many nice greetings.

Terry

[newfoundland dxer]

I feel that I should add this note after encountering several skeptical operators who have questioned my receptions.

I can understand that operators may have reason to be suspicious of false reports, and I know that I seem to have come "out of nowhere" in the last few months.

I do, however, have years of shortwave listening experience. From the mid 70's to early 80's, I spent my free time attached by the head to a Yaesu FRG-7, logging 182 shortwave countries and QSLing all but a handful. (Anyone who still has NASWA's old FRENDX bulletins can find my logs and QSL reports.) As experienced DXers know, chasing those "last few countries" requires a lot of time, which I did not have after getting married, so I left the hobby.

After discovering alfa lima over Christmas, I decided to start listening again. I knew I would need a better receiver to hear pirates, so I bought a Japan Radio Co. NRD-525 on eBay. (JRCs do not seem to be popular in Europe, but they are used by many top American listeners.)

My antenna consists of a 75m long wire. It starts at a tree 30m from my house, and runs back into undeveloped woodland. It is connected to my receiver by good quality coaxial cable, with the shield grounded to a 2 m copper rod at the base of the antenna, to a second 2 m copper rod by the house and to the receiver ground.

My main advantage, however, is my location. I am only 50km from the eastern tip of North America, so I am thousands of kilometres closer to Europe than most North American listeners.

As for my loggings, I am now keeping an audio file of every logging, which I would be happy to share with anyone who has questions.

Like anyone, of course, I may make mistakes, and perphaps I have. If so, they were mistakes, with no intention to deceive.

Pephaps this is not an appropriate place to post these comments, but it is very important to me that operators do not think that I am "faking" logs.

Cheers to everyone.

Terry

[Foton]

After the post above I should add that I am one of the witness on the Iann's Chat and many times noticed properly and immediately recognized details by Terry during many live shows on shortwave. For me no doubts - Terry is one of the best, very good located, and very nice DXer.
And I am slightly jealous about such quiet QTH and long antennas...

Greetings to Terry and ALI readers

[newfoundland dxer]

Thank you for the very kind words Foton. I still, however, consider myself to be an inexperienced rookie pirate listener compared to you and most of the regulars in chat.

Unfortunately, I have just discovered that one of my logs from this weekend is one of the mistakes that I mentioned above.

May 3, 3905u at 2252 was not Pacman. I did hear Nooderlicht with music and a clear ID, followed by a QSO exactly as described in Iann's chat. I could even hear the same music as I heard from Nooderlicht in the background of one of the stations. (I did not hear an ID, however, so this should have been listed as tentative even in the initial logging.)

After submitting audio files to Pacman, he has informed me that he cannot hear his signal on the files (just Nooderlicht). Therefore, please disregard this log.

[Jan II]

Interesting reading about your DX-background. I see myself in most of this text... I was also chasing those few unheard SW-countries those years. I haven´t counted how many countries I heard, but it could be about that 182...
Also here the family-life stopped me a little but I never stopped listening completely, and about two years ago I found this AL... And I had to buy a new radio... NRD 525...

In Finland 99,9 % of the toplisteners had NRD´s before these SDR-receivers came on the market. Now 99,9 % of the toplisteners have those radios, but they haven´t sold their NRDs. I guess they keep them as back up in case of a computer crash... I guess I am this 0,1 % that still use the old NRD, and I have no plans to change this situation.
I know at least John at Orion Radio has a NRD, so they exist...

Great log also! Keep them comming if you find time to write them! Good that you also include the American stations. Exotic reading for us here and they could help in identifying some unids!



Jan

[Andy Richards]

Hi Terry,

Welcome to ALI!

Just keep at it.The sceptics will fade away once they realise that you
are a geniuine DXer.

We are a nice bunch of people on ALI,it's just that we have had a few
charlatans and lunatics on here before,so some may be sceptical.

As long as your logs are honest and genuine,even if there are some mistakes(We all make them!!)You'll have no problem here.

Please keep posting.

Andy Richards.

[newfoundland dxer]

Thank you for the comments Jan and Andy.

I certainly plan to continue posting my logs as long as they are useful and interesting to others.

Pirate listening is the most fun I have ever had with a radio, and nobody's skepticism is going to change that. I would actaully like to convince all remaining skeptical operators, one report and mp3 at a time .

Cheers,

Terry

[Altrex]

Hi Terry,

Tnx for your log, I know its 100% ok.
We do have good contact on the chat of Iann, and
its always fun there..

73's Radio Altrex

[Glowbug]

Pirate listening is the most fun I have ever had with a radio, and nobody's skepticism is going to change that.

Three cheers for that!

Glad you're sticking around... we need each coast here represented, eh?

[newfoundland dxer]

Thank you everyone for the kind comments.

One final note: None of my comments reffered to any operator, no matter how skeptical initially, who was willing to give me a fair chance. Nor do they refer to any operator who has reported to me that I have made a mistake. I consider it my job to prove a reception. My comments refer only to isolated incidents of more "general" skepticism.

I would also like to say that the vast, vast majority of people that I have met since entering this hobby have been extremely nice, extremely helpful and very tolerant of my inexperience. I consider many to be new friends.

TGIF .

73's Terry

P.S. Nice DJ Altrex