Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Re: QSL Report for Al Muick, Week ending 29 October 2011

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Al,

Not boring at all! Please include the back-stories to your QSL reports, especially follow-ups a few years later when we may not remember the details even if you reported them at the time.

Glenn

--- On Sat, 10/29/11, Albert Muick <radioresearch_field_operations@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    Glenn,

    

    I usually don't include reception details in a QSL report. 
    Admittedly, I'm not an "old hand" like yourself, but I would usually
    put them into a log report, and the log is from May 2nd 2010.

    

    Radio Polynesie was logged for about sixteen minutes beginning
    around 1510 UTC on that date, which would have been around 1940
    Kandahar time (right about dusk/sunset time for that time of year in
    the sandbox).  Tahiti is GMT -10, which would have put this in at
    around 0510 their time.  The receiver used was the Winradio G303e
    with a 100m longwire.

    

    Many of my loggings were obtained by trying the randomwire as a (n
    extremely) short beverage with a terminating resistance on the end. 
    Id did not have the total beam directionality of a beverage, but it
    did focus the reception path a little bit.  As the antenna sloped
    down from the top of a 60' self-supporting tower for our WiMAX
    equipment, I was able to rotate it pretty much 360 degrees by
    arranging for one of our tower crew to be up there if necessary to
    move the insulator from one corner of the tower to another for the
    evening.  Since we had a large open area around our operation, I was
    able to swing the antenna wherever I wanted it for the evening.  Not
    an optimum setup by a long run, but it did work in many instances,
    which I am now beginning to get the QSLs for.  I also use the
    Palstar MW550P preselector which is quite nice to have for peaking
    and notching.

    

    I note in my logs (DXtreme Reception Log) that there was severe QRM
    from a Chinese station co-channel as well as Hyderabad (tent.),
    giving the overall reception poor quality with the standard deep
    fades.  My notes indicate that at 1519, there was a Radio Polynesie
    station identification where the name was definitely caught, but
    only caught the FM frequency, and did not hear the mediumwave
    mentioned.

    

    When Haji wasn't lobbing rockets at us, Afghanistan provided some
    great DX.  You couldn't pay me enough to go back there again,
    however.  33 months was enough.  I got injured, saw people die, and
    went to a lot of ramp ceremonies.  In between all of that, I got in
    a lot of good DX and ran an ISP.  Incidentally, that's my 5th war
    zone:  Grenada and Panama with the US Army, Sudan and Haiti
    (pre-quake) with the UN Dept. of Peacekeeping Operations and now the
    'Stan.  If I get a chance at Somalia, I'll go for an even six, but
    then that's it.

    

    Hope I answered your questions and haven't bored you too greatly. 
    :D

    

    73

    

    Al Muick

    

    On 10/29/2011 11:04 PM, Glenn Hauser wrote:
    
       
      
      
        
          
          
            Al,

              

              Yes, indeed, mine has been in my gallery:

              http://www.w4uvh.net/tahiti.jpg

              

              QSL reports are interesting but ``there`s something
              missing``, i.e. details of the original reception,
              especially time? How did you manage to get Tahiti in
              Afghanistan, with all the higher-power Asian stations on
              738??

              

              We think of Tahiti being way, way, distant, but it`s
              axually much closer to PA (about 10 megameters) than to
              Kandahar (10 kilomiles). It`s about the same distance in
              the other direxion from Tahiti to western/northern Europe
              as it is to Afghanistan.

              

              73, Glenn Hauser

              

              --- On Sat, 10/29/11, Albert Muick <radioresearch_field_operations@xxxxxxxxx>
              wrote:

              

              > TAHITI (FRENCH POLYNESIA),  Radio Polynesie, Papeete,

              > 738, date/freq English letter in 535 days for French
              report

              > and US $5.00 sent via airmail, and follow-up report
              in

              > French with 3 IRCs via registered mail with return

              > receipt.  QSL received 45 days after follow-up

              > report.  This station was heard on Kandahar Airfield

              > Afghanistan, and is another APO mail disappearance

              > victim.  V/s. Christophe Marquand, Directeur de

              > l'Antenna Radio.  Mr. Marquand also returned my IRCs

              > and sent his business card and a very nice station
              ballpoint

              > pen!

              > 

              > Anyone else remember the old "Nudie Cutie" card that
              Radio

              > Tahiti used to send out back in the 70's when they
              were on

              > shortwave?  My AFN Europe QSL from the early 80's was
              a

              > very drab drawn microphone card.  They've come a long

              > way.

              > 

              > 73

              > 

              > Al Muick

              > Whitehall PA  USA


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