Radio Vanuatu can now at Friday, December 19, 2025 be heard after 1830 UT on 5040 kHz in the former “tropical band” with Christmas music. The transmission location is Empten Lagoon, 15,970 km away.
AziLoop Antenne, 45°, WinRadio G33 SDR.
A special DX award for 200 confirmed EDXC countries. Thank you to the UADX and Victor Goonetilleke for this wonderful certificate.
Guenter Fred Mandel, DL4ZAO, has written a mini-whip compendium that is well worth reading. Anyone operating this small and inexpensive antenna should definitely take a look at it. https://dl4zao.de/papers-en/index.html
Now my award for winning the Top 10 DX of the Year 2024 Contest has arrived. Many thanks to Biliczky István and the Top DX Radioclub for this great shortwave radio contest, which I highly recommend every BC-DXer to participate in December 2025.
http://www.topdx-radioclub.com/top10dx.html
An RF-Systems Magnetic Longwire Balun that has not been available for a long time has found its way to me. In future, this will be used as a universal HF antenna with a 78 metre long wire.
December is Top10DX Contest Month again. I would like to invite all DXers to take part. To participate, you have to find 10 stations from the shortwave band, receive them verifiably, enter them in the contest log and then send them to the organizer Biliczky István from TopDX Radioclub at the end of December – if possible with audio files.
All details on the contest page:
www.topdx-radioclub.com/top10dx.html
Worked on the station again yesterday. The 50 Euro original PA0RDT MiniWhip antenna is mounted on a 2 meter iron rod and grounded at the base. To the right is the starting point of my beverage antenna and the underground cabling to the station. The MiniWhip works excellently, the relatively low rod was deliberately chosen because of the strong storms at my station. However, the signals are perfect due to the free environment.
As in previous years, I photographed a small photo report on the HAM RADIO trade fair in Friedrichshafen, Germany that took place just this weekend. Enjoy the tour.
https://ratzer.at/galerien/ham-radio-2023
Radio Vanuatu from the Pacific can be heard today at the morning start of broadcasting at 18.30 UT on my 150 metre Asia Beverage antenna on 3.945 kHz in Salzburg. A rare pleasure.
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