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

[Albert Muick <radioresearch_field_operations@xxxxxxxxx>]

Servus, Wolfie!

Thanks for all of this.  Beautiful pictures from Google. :-)  I guess I 
should rephrase to say that I do not know what is to become of the VLF 
towers/equipment.

I think Switzerland will always have some involvement in broadcasts, 
etc., from a sheer neutrality standpoint, although, IMHO, that can now 
be debated since the US government has forced their hand on the banking 
secrecy laws.  :-(

73
Albert

On 11/5/2011 6:23 PM, Wolfgang Bueschel wrote:
> Sorry, forget text partly
>
> Next to the two longwave masts, some antenna installation is visible 
> around
> the TX house. To count
>
> 3x  4-mast horizontal rhombic antennas, most probably in direction of
>     005/185degr to We&CeAF, 105/285degr to NE/ME/Atlantic,
>     140/320degr to EaAF/GB-IRL/ISL.
>
> 11x  revolving horizontal log-periodics.
> 3x  easy dipol masts.
> 7x  vertical cage aerials, non-dir.
> 1x  Communication mast.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <>
> To: "Albert Muick" <radioresearch_field_operations@xxxxxxxxx>; "DXLD"
> <dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 11:17 PM
> Subject: [dxld] Re: [HCDX] QSL Report for Al Muick, Week ending
>
> > Prangins Switzerland site contains a lot of Swiss UTE broadcasting
> > facilities too {probably tx site for Berne Maritime Radio too?}, since
> > 1945
> > when United Nations founded, and did broadcast refugee transmissions 
> > from
> > UNO Geneve after WW II, as well as UN Radio news in Russian in the
> > 50ties {latter see old WRTH's under UN Radio/Switzerland}.
> >
> > Next to the two longwave masts, some antenna installation is visible
> > around the TX house. To count
> >
> > G.C.  46 24 24.60 N  06 15 04.20 E
> >
> > <http://maps.google.com/maps?q=46+24+24.60+N+06+15+04.20+E&hl=de&ll=46.406824,6.251135&spn=0.005164,0.013894&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.240201,113.818359&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=17> 
> >
> >
> > LW masts
> > <http://v5.cache2.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1427241.jpg?redirect_counter=1> 
> >
> >
> > <http://v2.cache1.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/55060748.jpg?ir=1&redirect_counter=1> 
> >
> >
> > <http://v6.cache2.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/55060978.jpg?redirect_counter=1> 
> >
> >
> > log-periodic antennas
> > http://v5.cache1.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1427326.jpg?redirect_counter=1 
> >
> > (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 5)
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert Muick" Sent: Saturday, 
> > November 05, 2011 7:07 PM
> > Subject: [HCDX] QSL Report for Al Muick, Week ending
> >
> > > SWITZERLAND,  HBG Prangins, 75 kHz, Heard on a recent business trip to
> > > Zurich, Switzerland.  Date/frequency antenna masts card in 12 days for
> > > German report and 1 IRC via airmail.  V/s Christian Schlunegger.
> > >
> > > For those who are not yet aware, HBG will be shut down at the end of
> > > December 31 2011, and it is expected that DCF77 will pick up the slack
> > > for
> > > time and frequency purposes.  I received a full data sheet from HBG in
> > > German concerning the shutdown.  Reading between the lines, it would
> > > appear that the operating costs are just too expensive and the range is
> > > not as great as DCF77.   If you have the opportunity to hear this 
> > > station
> > > before it's time is up, you should get their QSL.  It is a very nice
> > > design, and soon another Grande Dame behemoth of VLF will leave us
> > > forever.  There is no indication what will become of the transmission
> > > site.
> > > 73 Al Muick
> > > Whitehall PA USA
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