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Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Re: QSL Report for Al Muick, Week ending 29 October 2011
Hi Glenn and Al!
Nice reading. Pity Al is only visiting (or for that matter pitching his
shack) in war zones only!
Kind regards,
Sudipta Ghose
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> **
>
>
> 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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