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[HCDX] QSL Report from Al Muick
Meager pickings, so it was time to send them in:
RUSSIA Tartarstan Wave, 15195 via Samara, f/d "Building of Kazan
Administration" card in only 370 days for English airmail report and US
$1 sent to WRTH QSL Manager. V/s Ildus Ibatullin. Heard at Kandahar
Airfield, Afghanistan
USA WJHR, Milton Florida, 15550, no data pieces of paper, a couple of
which had logos on them, in 9 days for English report via first-class
mail and 2 x first class stamps. Also send a color photo printout of
the transmitter room, and a short blurb asking for financial support,
signed by G.S. Mock. I can't say if this is supposed to be a QSL or
that they maybe have no idea what one is. There was one on nice card
stock, which was quite large, but it was just a frequency and time
advertisement. Not even a real signature on anything! They didn't
forget to include the bible tracts though!
I have to say, I'm not overly impressed by WJHR above. In fact, I have
half a mind to write back to them and explain exactly what a QSL is
(although my reception reports do exactly that) and perhaps send along a
prepared card. Or, on the other hand, I could just crack open a cold
Ottakringer lager from Vienna and laugh at the situation. I'm leaning
towards the latter.
I have been fortunate to be able to play around these last few days with
a universal modulation decoder from Hoka Electronics, called the Code
300-32, version 3.08. This thing will decrypt just about every digital
signal you may run into on the radio, FSK and PSK, including most NATO
and military ones. One can get additional modules for CODAN and PACTOR
III. This product is similar to the W-CODE offered by Wavecom. Either
of these programs are way out of my pocketbook range, and are designed
for the SIGINT professional, although Hoka does make a somewhat SWL
version. Time to start hinting to your significant other that you would
like this for Xmas. Good luck with that!
73
Al Muick
Whitehall, PA USA
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