Mail from Canada
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 21:56 pm
Hello readers on this forum, today a e-mail came in from Jean Burnell from Canada. Maybe also nice for the other stations he wrote about in his letter. Look also for the webpage he put in his mail, it's a nice one to read!!
Greetings Johan B.B.
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Hello!
I thought I should drop you a line to let you know that your transmission
on the morning of November 6th did make it to North America. Conditions
were not the best so I wondered if you had received any feed-back at all.
I was listening to Radio Black Bird from a remote site in southeast
Newfoundland,
Canada, with a 300-metre antenna aimed at northern Europe, and a Drake R8A
communications receiver. I was very pleased to hear you: this is the first time
I have picked up Radio Black Bird!
This was part of the annual "Newfoundland DXpedition," which is a well-known
event for MW DXers. (You can see reports of a number of these evens on the Web
at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/ then scroll down to "Canada:
Newfoundland") Sorry that I did not contact you sooner. I have been extremely
busy
since returning home from Newfoundland, and I did not replay the cassette tape
with
Radio Black Bird until yesterday evening.
I picked you up on 6325.50 kHz at 0840 UTC on 6 November. You were talking a
lot about a big event for accordion and harmonica music, and you played a lot
of this type of polka music. Although conditions were generally poor, your
signal strength was generally adequate, but there was some teletype station
interfering much if the time. I gave Radio Black Bird SINPO 23332. (I also
heard Magic AM, BRI, Cupid Radio, Laser Hot Hits, Orion Radio, Radio
Underground, and Jolly Roger Radio.)
I recorded two brief periods, and I am attaching these as mp3 sound files, for
you to hear for yourself. (I have used filters to remove much of the annoying
interference.) The first clip is the identification at 0844 UTC, and the
second is at 0908 UTC.
With best wishes,
Jean Burnell
3 Turnmill Drive
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3M 4H2
Greetings Johan B.B.
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Hello!
I thought I should drop you a line to let you know that your transmission
on the morning of November 6th did make it to North America. Conditions
were not the best so I wondered if you had received any feed-back at all.
I was listening to Radio Black Bird from a remote site in southeast
Newfoundland,
Canada, with a 300-metre antenna aimed at northern Europe, and a Drake R8A
communications receiver. I was very pleased to hear you: this is the first time
I have picked up Radio Black Bird!
This was part of the annual "Newfoundland DXpedition," which is a well-known
event for MW DXers. (You can see reports of a number of these evens on the Web
at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/ then scroll down to "Canada:
Newfoundland") Sorry that I did not contact you sooner. I have been extremely
busy
since returning home from Newfoundland, and I did not replay the cassette tape
with
Radio Black Bird until yesterday evening.
I picked you up on 6325.50 kHz at 0840 UTC on 6 November. You were talking a
lot about a big event for accordion and harmonica music, and you played a lot
of this type of polka music. Although conditions were generally poor, your
signal strength was generally adequate, but there was some teletype station
interfering much if the time. I gave Radio Black Bird SINPO 23332. (I also
heard Magic AM, BRI, Cupid Radio, Laser Hot Hits, Orion Radio, Radio
Underground, and Jolly Roger Radio.)
I recorded two brief periods, and I am attaching these as mp3 sound files, for
you to hear for yourself. (I have used filters to remove much of the annoying
interference.) The first clip is the identification at 0844 UTC, and the
second is at 0908 UTC.
With best wishes,
Jean Burnell
3 Turnmill Drive
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3M 4H2
