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Five new ARRL Section Managers have been declared elected to begin their first terms of office on July 1. Section Manager (SM) election ballots were counted in the Indiana and Northern Florida Sections on May 22 at ARRL Headquarters. Other candidates faced no opposition during the spring election cycle.
In Indiana, James “Jimmy” Merry, KC9RPX, of Ellettsville, was declared elected in a very clos…
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Czech Radio’s main headquarters in Vinohradská street in the centre of Prague, photo: Lenka Žižková
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia (LW4DAF), who shares the following news items from Radio Prague regarding the 95th anniversary of Czech Radio’s first broadcasts:
Listening Sessions at a Prague Cinema: Czech Radio’s First Broadcasts Recalled, 95 Years Later
A historic moment occurred at 20:15 on Saturday May 18, 1923 when the first ever broadcast by Czechoslovak Radio was made from a tent at a military air base in Prague’s Kbely district.
After the United Kingdom, Czechoslovakia was the second country in Europe to launch regular radio broadcasting.
Zuzana Foglarová is communications manager at today’s Czech Radio. Speaking at a new exhibition of radio technology at the station, she describes the scene in May 1923.
“Above all it was very simple. There was one tent, which had been borrowed from the scouts. On the floor in the tent was a piano and stool. There was also a table for the presenter, technicians and so on. There was only one microphone, and the story goes that if somebody was playing the piano and somebody else was singing, the latter had to sit under the piano so the microphone could pick up all the sounds.”
Many of the first listeners 95 years ago were waiting to hear the signal come through at a cinema just off Prague’s Wenceslas Square.[…]
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Click here to read the full article at Radio Prague.
The spectacular Rudgers?v Palace built in the Neo-Classicist style is home to Czech Radio’s Ostrava studios, photo: Daniel Martínek, Czech Radio (Source: Radio Praha)
Past and Present: A Gallery of Czech´s Radio Buildings
Czech Radio is celebrating its 95th anniversary this year. The Czech national radio broadcaster has come a long way since its pioneering days. Today it is the biggest radio broadcaster in the country with 9 channels, manned not only by its Prague staff but 14 regional branches providing news and reports from around the country. The station’s buildings are also an important part of its history. On the occasion of Czech Radio’s 95th anniversary we have prepared a photo gallery of its buildings, some of them valuable architectural landmarks.
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Yuriy, N2TTA will be active from US Virgin Islands, in CQ WW WPX CW Contest, 26 – 27 May 2018, as NP2P.
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ZP9MCE will be active from Paraguay in CQ WW WPX CW Contest, 26 – 27 May 2018.
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Oleg, RL5D will be active from Guernsey Island, IOTA EU – 114, in CQ WW WPX CW Contest, 26 – 27 May 2018, as GU3HFN.
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Champ, E21EIC will be active from Thailand, in CQ WW WPX CW Contest, 26 – 27 May 2018, as E2A.
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Olli, OH0XX (HP1WW) is currently active from Suriname as PZ5XX. QRV on HF bands, CW until May 29th. QSL via OH0XX – LoTW / OQRS.
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Olli, OH0XX will be active as PZ5XX from Suriname, until 29 May 2018.
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Sunspots reappeared this week, after none on April 28 through May 3. Average daily sunspot numbers increased from 3.6 (last week) to 14.6 (May 3-9).
So far in 2018 56-percent of days were spotless. For all of 2017 the rate was about half or 28-percent, for the whole year, a total of 104 days. These numbers are according to spaceweather.com.
Seemingly counter-intuitively considering the slight ris…
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“Kits and Kit Building” is the topic of the current (April 26) episode of the “ARRL The Doctor is In” podcast. Listen…and learn!
Sponsored by DX Engineering, “ARRL The Doctor is In” is an informative discussion of all things technical. Listen on your computer, tablet, or smartphone — whenever and wherever you like!
Every 2 weeks, your host, QST Editor-in-Chief Steve Ford, WB8IMY, and the Docto…
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20 Radio Amateurs from Morocco will be active as 5C5AF, from Mogador Island, IOTA AF – 065, 17 – 22 April 2018.
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Peter Wilson, for sharing the following guest post and DXpedition report:
by Peter Wilson
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
I have spent the last two months in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean.
I travelled light and didn’t bring my radio/SDR collection with me.
A portable I saw in a local department store caught ny eye, and I ended up buying one from a local electronics retailer which had it on special at €55. It is a Sony ICF-M780SL which as turned out, is something rather special. It is a four band (LW, MW, SW,FM) DSP receiver, with an AM IF (LW, MW,SW) of 45 kHz and an FM IF of 128 kHz.
There’s too much hash in my apartment block to use it at home, but as I am a couple of streets away from the Ocean I intended to use it there.
Problem is there almost as much RF hash at the oceanside as at home. Also the Atlantic breakers crash loudly on the shore, and the wind can howl quite loudly. I did have some limited success and have included a couple of clips.
I discovered a better DX location at a small Plaza a short distance inland from the Ocean. There is an early morning peak for MW TA leading up to about 07:30 UTC (= local time)
The radio is used barefoot in each clip. There is some camera hash.
Here are the highlights:
1500 WFED booming with ID 5736 km
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790 WAXY with ESPN Radio ID 6369 km
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1540 KXEL 6935 km
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1530 WCKY 6373 km
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770 WABC 5459 km
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1520 WWKB
ESPN Radio with sports talk. 5841 km
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1350 TWR Armenia 5377 km
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1521 Duba Saudi Arabia 5004 km
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1458 Lyca Radio, Brookmans Park UK 2914 km
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The Sony ICF-M780SL is a great MW/LW/FM performer. SW propagation has been mediocre and suffers from the RF hash QRN, so difficult to test.
Amazing, Peter! It’s hard for me to believe the reception you had of WFED (Federal News Radio). I listen to that station every time I go through the DC/Baltimore area and I think your reception is just as good. A TA crossing of almost 5,000 km with armchair copy! Quite an accomplishment!
Thank you for sharing your Gran Canaria DX with us. I’m pretty impressed with the Sony ICF-M780SL as well.
Post Readers: make sure you check out Peter’s YouTube channel by clicking here.
Click here to search Amazon.co.uk and click here to search eBay for the Sony ICF-M780SL.
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