Sunday, September 10, 2017

My DX Archive: Summer 1992

WELCOME to the second visit to My DX Archive - Read the first post here. Following the February 1992 logs in that previous post, this post looks at logs from July, August and September 1992, including some QSL verifications from those early years. Enjoy.
[Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz), MegaHertz (MHz) and/or metrebands (m). Logs transcribed from the original notes.]

  • 11 July [1992]: 1905 - 1921 UTC: 49m / 6 MHz : Radio Australia - Melbourne "News headlines, followed by 'Sports Roundup', Aussie rules football, Tasmanian football, rugby results, New South Wales league results, Barcelona Olympics - Yugoslavian athletes, Basketball - Republic of China, general sports news from China.
  • 12 July: 1230 - 1330 UTC: 5955 kHz / 49m band: Radio Netherlands (International) "Happy Station" Music from Acker Bilk, Tom Meyer (host) and Pete Myers (co-host) talk of Pete's broken leg. Terry Cooper of Scunthorpe wrote to Pete. Celebrity birthdays. Tom Meyer is leaving "Happy Station".
  • 12 July: 1900 UTC: 5 MHz - 6 MHz / 49m band: Radio Czechoslovakia "(Broadcasting in Spanish)"
  • 12 July: 1923 UTC: 6 MHz / 49m band: Voice of America "Newsline"
  • 12 July: 1937 UTC: 6 MHz / 49m band: Polish Radio - Warsaw "Music request programme".
  • 12 July: 2000 UTC: 6 MHz / 49m band: BBC World Service - London


August 1992
  • 5 August: 1925 UTC: 6 MHz: BBC World Service "Multitrack 2 featuring Genesis: Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford"
  • 5 August: 20 UTC: 9 MHz: Radio Exterior de España "Madrid 28080 Spain"
  • 5 August: 21 UTC: 15665 kHz: Christian Science Monitor "WCSN, Scotts Corners, Maine, USA"
  • 5 August: 2151 UTC: 19m band: KOL Israel Radio, Jerusalem "Israel, The Vatican, Jews & Catholics"
  • 5 August: 2207 UTC: 12 MHz: Radio Sofia, Bulgaria "News & Aspects in co-operation re: Business course"

Radio Sofia QSL, 1992
September 1992
  • 15 September: 1842 UTC: 5 MHz / 49m band: Radio Moscow "Africa As We See It (Soccer results!) Radio Moscow News at 8pm [19 UTC]."
  • 15 September: 1905 UTC: 6045 kHz: BBC World Service "Outlook. News; A Captain of the Canadian Army discusses his new book"
  • 15 September: 2029 UTC: 9920 kHz: Radio Beijing "Current Affairs".
  • 15 September: 21 UTC: 15000 kHz: Voice of America "World Report"
  • 15 September: 2130 UTC: 15610 kHz: WCSN (Christian Science Monitor)
  • 15 September: 2134 UTC: 17-18 MHz: Radio Havana Cuba "DXers Unlimited".
Radio Havana Cuba QSL, September 1992
That concludes the logs from the Summer of 1992. Until the next time, good DX!

📻

No comments: