tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33808398302874208772024-03-03T16:25:53.294-08:00VE7SL - Steve - Amateur Radio BlogHomebrewing and Operating Adventures From 2200m To NanowavesSteve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.comBlogger622125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-86903435885755389262024-02-15T10:37:00.000-08:002024-02-15T10:37:02.223-08:00Building Alfred P. Morgan's "A More Selective Crystal Receiver"<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkDbn4YNZ2WCmbYPeXFkvFBcd1oVgXAcO02uTS6uNoasRthXO95SsMlGaU3-9kMoHZz9lhK1ZZqV0mgUgTYV-YEQDJ3ccw627Pz-6rkN-ZGR-vRZmHlPcpBqbMJrpKTTJnCgJFVspG-ugLnWd4I9ulBr7gDyLvSecGvEZnROrBZW5pWyzicQqGXrjq_hf/s859/morgan1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="859" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkDbn4YNZ2WCmbYPeXFkvFBcd1oVgXAcO02uTS6uNoasRthXO95SsMlGaU3-9kMoHZz9lhK1ZZqV0mgUgTYV-YEQDJ3ccw627Pz-6rkN-ZGR-vRZmHlPcpBqbMJrpKTTJnCgJFVspG-ugLnWd4I9ulBr7gDyLvSecGvEZnROrBZW5pWyzicQqGXrjq_hf/w400-h308/morgan1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="plain_line" style="margin: 0px;">As I’ve been seeing a lot of new membership requests on my Facebook Crystal Radio DX group indicating that they wish to build a crystal receiver, I’ve been examining some simple inexpensive circuits that should work well for local reception and possibly even to hear some skywave DX signals.</div><div class="plain_line" style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div class="plain_line" style="margin: 0px;">Since I’ve always wanted to build Alfred P. Morgan’s ‘A More Selective Crystal Receiver’ from his second ‘Boy’s Book of Radio’ ever since first seeing it at around age 10, I chose this as a start.</div><div class="plain_line" style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div class="plain_line" style="margin: 0px;">How did it Morgan’s design work? Could it hear all of my 15 locals and separate them? Was it a DX machine?</div><div class="plain_line" style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div class="plain_line" style="margin: 0px;">I invite you to read about the whole process on my web page, just published today:</div><div class="plain_line" style="margin: 0px;"> </div><p><span style="margin: 0px;">
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This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your <b>medium frequency receiving capabilities</b>. Can you meet the challenge?</p><p></p><div class="WordSection1">'<b>CLE</b>'s are '<b>C</b>o-ordinated <b>L</b>istening <b>E</b>vents, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time on one small slice of the NDB spectrum.</div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1">With the number of targets slowly being decommissioned, the hunting grounds have been slightly widened ... this month the frequency range is for the NDBs whose published frequencies are between <b><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;">335.0 - 349.9 kH</span>z</b>. </div><div class="WordSection1"><br /></div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When tuning for NDBs, put your receiver </span><b>in the CW mode</b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> and listen for the NDB's CW identifier, repeated every few seconds. Listen for U.S. NDB identifiers approximately 1 kHz higher or lower than the published transmitted frequency since these beacons are modulated with a </span><b>1020</b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Hz tone approximately.</span></div><div class="WordSection1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For example, '<b>AA</b>' near Fargo, ND, transmitted on <b>365</b> kHz and its upper sideband CW identifier was tuned at <b>366.025</b> kHz while its lower sideband CW ident could be tuned at <b>363.946</b> kHz. Its USB tone was actually <b>1025</b> Hz while its LSB tone was <b>1054</b> Hz.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often, one sideband will be much stronger than the other so if you don't hear the first one, try listening on the other sideband.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canadian NDBs normally have an USB tone only, usually very close to <b>400</b> Hz. They also have a long dash (keydown) following the CW identifier.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All NDBs heard in North America will be listed in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals">RNA database</a></b> (updated daily) while those heard in Europe may be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/reu/signals">REU database</a></b>. Beacons heard outside of these regions will be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rww/signals">RWW database</a></b>.</span><br /></p></div></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><p>From CLE organizers comes the following info:</p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Hello all</span></i></b></span></p><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Here are the full details for this weekend's co-ordinated listening event.<br />It is open to everyone including CLE new-comers:<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Days: Friday 27 Oct. - Monday 30 Oct.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i> Times: Start and end at midday, LOCAL time at the receiver.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i> NB: Most of us are changing our clocks by one hour this weekend.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i> However UTC time (as shown in our logs) continues unaffected. <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i> Range: 335.0 - 349.9 kHz<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wherever you are, please join us and log the NDBs that you can positively<br />identify that are listed in this busy frequency range (it includes 335.0 kHz<br />but not 350 kHz), plus any UNIDs that you come across there.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Short and long logs are welcome (in-between ones are good too!)<br /><br /> Send your CLE log to the List, preferably as a plain text email<br /> (not in an attachment) with ‘CLE297 FINAL’ in its subject line.<br /><br /> Please show on EVERY LINE of your log:<br /> # The date (e.g. '2023-10-27' or just the day no. '27') and UTC<br /> (the day changes at 00:00 UTC).<br /> # kHz (</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The beacon's nominal published frequency) <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i> If you don’t know it, please visit <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com">https://rxx.classaxe.com</a> <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> where you will find all the details.<br /> # The Call Ident.<br /><br />Show those main items FIRST on each line, before other optional </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">details such as Location, Distance, etc. If you send any interim logs </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">during the event, please also send your 'FINAL', complete, log.</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Always make your log interesting to everyone by giving details of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">your listening location (the 6-character Locator) and brief details </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">of the receiver</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, aerial(s), etc., that you were using.</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />We will send the usual 'Any More Logs?' email at about 19:00 UTC <br />on Tuesday so that you can check that your log has been found OK.<br />Do make sure that your log has arrived on the List at the very latest<br />by 08:00 UTC on Wednesday 1 November. We will then hope to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">complete making the combined results within a day or two.</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i>You can find full information about current and past CLEs from the</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i>CLE page <a href="https://www.ndblist.info/cle.htm">https://www.ndblist.info/cle.htm</a>.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You can also find your relevant seeklists made from REU/RNA/RWW </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">by visiting </span><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/cle" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://rxx.classaxe.com/cle</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><br />Good listening<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Brian and Joachim<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> (CLE Coordinators)</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(Reminder: You could use any ONE remote receiver for your loggings, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">stating its location and owner - with the</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ir permission if required. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A remote listener may NOT also use another receiver, whether local </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">or remote, to obtain further loggings for the same CLE)</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></i></b></o:p><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">_._,_._,_</span></i></b></span></p></div><div style="clear: both;" width="1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">CLE's provide several purposes. They:</span></div><div style="clear: both;" width="1"><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• determine, worldwide, which beacons are actually in service and on-the-air so the newly-re-vamped <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals"><b>Rxx online database</b></a> can be kept up-to-date</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• determine, worldwide, which beacons are out-of-service or have gone silent since the last CLE covering this range</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will indicate the state of propagation conditions at the various participant locations</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will give you an indication of how well your LF/MF receiving system is working</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• give participants a fun yet challenging activity to keep their listening skills honed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Final details can be found at the <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>NDB List website</b></span></a>, and worldwide results, for every participant, will be posted there a few days after the event.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://groups.io/g/ndblist"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The NDB List Group</b></span></a> is a great place to learn more about the 'Art of NDB DXing' or to meet other DXers in your region. There is a lot of good information available there and new members are always very welcome. As well, you can fol</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">low the results of other CLE participants from night to night as propagation is always an active topic of discussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need not be an NDB List member to participate in the CLEs and all reports, no matter how small, are of much value to the organizers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Remember - 'First-time' logs are always VERY welcome!</b></i></span></span></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reports may be sent to the NDB List Group or e-mailed to CLE co-ordinator, Brian Keyte (G3SIA), whose address appears above. If you are a member of the group, all final results will also be e-mailed and posted there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please ... give the CLE a try ... then let us know what NDB's can be heard from your location! Your report can then be added to the worldwide database to help keep it up-to-date.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">Have fun and good hunting!</span></b></span></div></div><div style="clear: both;" width="1"><br /></div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-59273804114812158422023-08-17T09:57:00.002-07:002023-08-18T11:34:24.101-07:00Magic Band Summer Season<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_lYoxzNO7WszCLuDe6JOxxXaGIvFwZqN1N_fTU8HPAgYPUwF9-u4QQ3F_0c-nwMCQLAbNQCV-WErCCIdS_o4FII8oeitiD9ixFuMYjj4GDsErJ84lyf7DCiN0EOvWWjQmovJ1w94u_JYlqSsWQU-5LH6kOv4mj98IC76TxaqQB4gVzJm066EK0q6cEWL-/s274/stamp.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="200" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_lYoxzNO7WszCLuDe6JOxxXaGIvFwZqN1N_fTU8HPAgYPUwF9-u4QQ3F_0c-nwMCQLAbNQCV-WErCCIdS_o4FII8oeitiD9ixFuMYjj4GDsErJ84lyf7DCiN0EOvWWjQmovJ1w94u_JYlqSsWQU-5LH6kOv4mj98IC76TxaqQB4gVzJm066EK0q6cEWL-/s1600/stamp.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZvSfx91R0KCxDf39uyl2AVow1d61OtjjOjNmTS8mDZcfDDx8sYVdeLVbDx_fRCXDiNd80Eag7Gi4PW8t3hXF_3Uh6Rws04V2SA8pI1llURcHVPE-UtnkzKHDuQLMUKuMUKZU2z_h-pp29Rv5GhtC1__4CLIR5_CFhu4xS3IlN25FGZmqyJkkTku7R5rMc/s1280/IMG_3396.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></a></div><p>This summer’s Sporadic-E season has pretty much wound-down once again. As E seasons go, this one ranked right up there with the worst of them but this comes with some provisos.</p><p>Over the past several years, my only interest has focused on Europe and Asia, looking for any DXCC entities that I have not yet worked and I tend to ignore most domestic openings unless the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_usable_frequency" target="_blank"><b>MUF</b></a> appears to be climbing into the range of 2m.</p>
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<div class="plain_line"><br /></div><div class="plain_line">Unlike last year when we had several good days to Europe over a two-week period, this year’s fireworks were pretty much confined to <b>June 12</b>, when the somewhat unstable polar-path to Europe jumped from country to country for several hours. In spite of making 62 contacts to Europe, only one new country was worked when 9H1TX in Malta replied to one of my CQs! Other than him, there were no other signals being heard at the time but after our QSO, his fellow countryman, 9H1LO, also appeared ... so it was exciting to find two rare 9H1s in the 6m log! For about 4 minutes, the only two signals in my FT8 waterfall were both CQers from Malta! Note the power and antenna being used by 9H1LO ... it doesn't take much when the magic appears, albeit momentarily.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">Last year produced 8 new DXCC entities and in most cases, like this year, signals were strong enough for CW but almost all DX prefers the few db advantage offered by the FT8 mode. Exchanges can be made MUCH more quickly on CW than the snail-pace of FT8. The addition of 9H1 brings my 6m DXCC confirmed total to 109.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">If the high F2 MUF does indeed manage to manifest itself, we should expect to see early morning openings to the New England / NY regions with blowtorch signal levels before seeing the path crawl down the eastern seaboard then possibly into the Caribbean and South America. Later in the afternoon, expect signals from Japan and the far East for several hours up until sunset, once again at bone-crushing signal levels. There are few things in ham radio more exciting than experiencing 6m F2 and hearing the level of signal strengths that can be reached when operating near the edge of the MUF.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">If not this fall then hopefully in 2024 for sure … but as of now, it’s anyone’s guess as to if or when the rare winter magic will appear once again!</div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-59937284176211446702023-07-26T09:50:00.000-07:002023-07-26T09:50:22.229-07:00Hunting For NDBs in CLE294<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWZKj7WsumPcnzjQDsHp_Dq--5xH-qvM8H-zJ2xtXZLOtUusEsDHGbtmnCCROY7vYbxaup3VJ8NN8LtaTR_TzZuwemdqUcJQdSDMK9m3OmZR0mRXZ961wAqzIcfXCpZLbl-4vouhF6xP8Q69E0OOmSUX2pm_zqyV1TbUxQFy3xOHoACSgXx586M2Qd2y8B/s2000/YZSAnt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWZKj7WsumPcnzjQDsHp_Dq--5xH-qvM8H-zJ2xtXZLOtUusEsDHGbtmnCCROY7vYbxaup3VJ8NN8LtaTR_TzZuwemdqUcJQdSDMK9m3OmZR0mRXZ961wAqzIcfXCpZLbl-4vouhF6xP8Q69E0OOmSUX2pm_zqyV1TbUxQFy3xOHoACSgXx586M2Qd2y8B/w400-h300/YZSAnt.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>YZS-362 Coral Harbor, NU (<a href="http://ve3gop.com">ve3gop.com</a>)</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p>Another month has zoomed by and it's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your <b>medium frequency receiving capabilities</b>. Can you meet the challenge?</p><p></p><div class="WordSection1">'<b>CLE</b>'s are '<b>C</b>o-ordinated <b>L</b>istening <b>E</b>vents, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time on one small slice of the NDB spectrum.</div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1">With the number of targets slowly being decommissioned, the hunting grounds have been slightly widened ... this month the frequency range is for the NDBs whose published frequencies are between <b><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;">350.0 - 369.9 kH</span>z</b>. </div><div class="WordSection1"><br /></div><div class="WordSection1">A good target for all NA listeners is powerhouse <b>YZS</b> on <b>362 </b>kHz, located at <b>Coral Harbor, Nunavut</b>. Listen for its upper sideband CW identifier on <b>362.402</b> kHz.</div><div class="WordSection1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When tuning for NDBs, put your receiver <b>in the CW mode</b> and listen for the NDB's CW identifier, repeated every few seconds. Listen for U.S. NDB identifiers approximately 1 kHz higher or lower than the published transmitted frequency since these beacons are modulated with a <b>1020</b> Hz tone approximately.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For example, '<b>AA</b>' near Fargo, ND, transmitted on <b>365</b> kHz and its upper sideband CW identifier was tuned at <b>366.025</b> kHz while its lower sideband CW ident could be tuned at <b>363.946</b> kHz. Its USB tone was actually <b>1025</b> Hz while its LSB tone was <b>1054</b> Hz.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often, one sideband will be much stronger than the other so if you don't hear the first one, try listening on the other sideband.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canadian NDBs normally have an USB tone only, usually very close to <b>400</b> Hz. They also have a long dash (keydown) following the CW identifier.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All NDBs heard in North America will be listed in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals">RNA database</a></b> (updated daily) while those heard in Europe may be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/reu/signals">REU database</a></b>. Beacons heard outside of these regions will be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rww/signals">RWW database</a></b>.</span><br /></p></div></div><p>From CLE organizers comes the following info:</p><p><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i>Hello all,</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i>Our 294th Co-ordinated Listening Event is almost here.</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>First time CLE logs too? Yes, please! <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Short logs are always as welcome as long ones.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="text-indent: 35.4pt;">Days: </span><span style="text-indent: 35.4pt;">Friday 28 July - Monday 31 July</span></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b><i>Times: Start and End at midday, your LOCAL time</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="text-indent: 35.4pt;">Range: </span><span style="text-indent: 35.4pt;">350.0 - 369.9 kHz</span><span style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"> </span></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i>Please log all the NDBs you can identify that are listed in this range (it includes 350 kHz but not 370) plus any UNIDs that you come across there.</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Send your final CLE log to </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:ndblist@groups.io">ndblist@groups.io</a></span><span lang="EN-US">, preferably as a plain text email, not in an attachment and - important - with 'CLE294' and 'FINAL' in its title.</span></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Please show the following main items FIRST on EVERY line of your log:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b><i># The Date (e.g. 2023-07-28) or just the day (e.g. 28)</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b><i># The Time in UTC (the day changes at 00:00 UTC).</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b><i># kHz - the beacon's nominal published frequency, if you know it.</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b><i># The Call Ident.</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Optional details, such as Location and Distance, go LATER in the same line.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Please make your log useful to everyone by including your listening location, its 6-character Maidenhead Locator if you know it, and brief details of the receiver and aerial(s).<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>We will send the usual 'Any More Logs?' email at about 19:00 UTC on Tuesday so you can check that your log has been found OK.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">To be included in the combined results, do make sure that your log has arrived on the List </span><span lang="EN-US">by 08:00 UTC on Wednesday 2 August at the very latest.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span>We hope to make all the combined results within a day or so.</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">You can find full information </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">about current and past CLEs from the </span><span lang="EN-US">CLE page https://www.ndblist.info/cle.htm.</span></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>You can also find your relevant seeklists made from REU/RNA/RWW by visiting https://rxx.classaxe.com/cle.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i>Good listening</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i>Brian & Joachim</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b><i>(CLE coordinators)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i>(Reminder: If you wish you can use a remote receiver for your loggings, stating its location and owner - with their permission if required.</i></span></b></p><div><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>A remote listener may NOT also use another receiver, whether local or remote, to obtain further loggings for the same CLE)</i></b></span></p></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">CLE's provide several purposes. They:</span></p><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• determine, worldwide, which beacons are actually in service and on-the-air so the newly-re-vamped <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals"><b>Rxx online database</b></a> can be kept up-to-date</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• determine, worldwide, which beacons are out-of-service or have gone silent since the last CLE covering this range</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will indicate the state of propagation conditions at the various participant locations</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will give you an indication of how well your LF/MF receiving system is working</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• give participants a fun yet challenging activity to keep their listening skills honed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Final details can be found at the <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>NDB List website</b></span></a>, and worldwide results, for every participant, will be posted there a few days after the event.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://groups.io/g/ndblist"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The NDB List Group</b></span></a> is a great place to learn more about the 'Art of NDB DXing' or to meet other DXers in your region. There is a lot of good information available there and new members are always very welcome. As well, you can fol</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">low the results of other CLE participants from night to night as propagation is always an active topic of discussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need not be an NDB List member to participate in the CLEs and all reports, no matter how small, are of much value to the organizers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Remember - 'First-time' logs are always VERY welcome!</b></i></span></span></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reports may be sent to the NDB List Group or e-mailed to CLE co-ordinator, Brian Keyte (G3SIA), whose address appears above. If you are a member of the group, all final results will also be e-mailed and posted there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please ... give the CLE a try ... then let us know what NDB's can be heard from your location! Your report can then be added to the worldwide database to help keep it up-to-date.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">Have fun and good hunting!</span></b></span></div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-51881836728368882582023-07-06T18:00:00.005-07:002023-07-07T07:27:36.132-07:00Conjectural Chats<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK8nxDMgwUlpbZ3R-kPzqdo4Vwoy4n40xLBaosk_vgiqCeLefnYYWWn1KJq-biDd3y6Cgi0nCuYNYiJ4YWiGQ4zRoB2g7w1N8__xVD6UIfxguKDcBZ0Cf4bemCJVa7adecwwCchRKeOpY-Wp06jafncr2-YCST-FHg573LU1ZzoP2x-nyiYIqroskyDsCc/s614/qst.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="614" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK8nxDMgwUlpbZ3R-kPzqdo4Vwoy4n40xLBaosk_vgiqCeLefnYYWWn1KJq-biDd3y6Cgi0nCuYNYiJ4YWiGQ4zRoB2g7w1N8__xVD6UIfxguKDcBZ0Cf4bemCJVa7adecwwCchRKeOpY-Wp06jafncr2-YCST-FHg573LU1ZzoP2x-nyiYIqroskyDsCc/w400-h214/qst.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Courtesy: <a href="http://arrl.org">arrl.org</a></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>A recent e-mail in the AWA Group from Eddy, VE3CUI, elicited some intriguing comments which you may find of interest. Highlights from the exchanges have been selected for brevity:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ/3</u>: </b></p><p>I'm here at the summer cottage, gamely calling "CQ" with my trusty old Vibroplex Vibrokeyer on what sound like dead bands on 15- and 20-meters...yet, when I check the on-line DX Beacon, my quota of entries at 100 is exhausted from across the continent, and beyond, from monitoring stations that have clearly copied me.</p><p>All of a sudden, 15-meters just explodes with CW contestors in the middle of Wednesday afternoon with morse machines all honking out endless "CQ CWT" at some 30+ WPM. I snag some very easy quickie exchanges from "VE7" and "W6" from the west coast --- and then just as suddenly, the contest is over and I'm right back to "CQ...CQ...CQ" in silence again, all in vain.</p><p>How very ironic that self-professed "...devotees" of the CW art and craft --- "CW Tops-Ops" --- can all devote attention to the object of their affection for but one single hour, and in the middle of the week...! Shouldn't they otherwise be gainfully fully employed earning a living, like all of the other non-retirees...?! Otherwise, why "...kiss and run" so, if they really and truly love the mode...?!</p><p>I just do not get it, I'm afraid...</p><p></p><center>**************</center><p></p><p><b><u>Robert KG4KGL:</u></b></p><p>Well, as for the middle of the week timing, more people work from home now. I guess they stepped away from their work computer and spent an hours snagging some QSOs. </p><div><div>I work 12 hours, two days for one week and five days the following week, then rinse, lather, and repeat. So on my off days, I am on all the bands looking for QSOs and I hear the silence you speak of, all while registering on various beacons. </div></div><div><br /></div><div><center>**************</center></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><u>Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ/3</u>: </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>I guess that I especially noted the AWOL ops on the CW sub-bands about 3 years ago, or so...about the time that FT8 became all the rage, I s'pose.</div><div><br /></div><div>But there's a decided absence on the phone bands, too. </div><div><br /></div><div>I can appreciate demographics having a hand in our diminished numbers, but this is all akin to outright extinction...! So many times I feel just like "...the last man standing"... </div></div><div><br /></div><div><center>**************</center></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Steve VE7SL:</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>I think most of these CW guys you hear during sprints and weekend contests are guys that love contesting more than love CW….making CW music with their laptops, copying and entering the exchange info and then on to the next guy … kind of like a long action-filled video game. In fact I suspect that many of these modern CW sprinters and weekend CW flash-crowd participants were probably weened on video games as there’s a lot in common with those things and watching a scrolling vibrant waterfall of signals, especially if the rest of their week is spent on FT8. I agree with Eddy that the emergence of FT8 coincided perfectly with the sudden demise of CW (and phone) activity that now seems the new normal. It’s boring as hell but seems to mesh nicely with the present generation of no-code hams and those living in condos and apartments with no room for antennas and a ton of noise to contend with.</div><div><br /></div><div> <center>**************</center></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ/3</u>: </b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Can you recall --- nostalgically, of course --- reading those QST features on the crucial need of Q-multipliers & crystal lattice filters in our receivers to "...help combat the crowded congestion on our Ham bands"...?!</div><div><br /></div><div>I sure do. It all seems so very quaint & innocent from the standpoint of to-day, doesn't it...? "The Lost World".</div></div><div><br /></div><div> <center>**************</center></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Steve VE7SL:</u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><div>Indeed things have changed Eddy and seemingly very quickly. When I was first licenced and up until just a few years ago, a CQ on 7030 at ANY time of the day or night would guarantee an immediate response. Now you can CQ until the cows come home with nary a peep.</div><div> </div><div><b>Something has also changed with the ionosphere as well over the past decade and I’m not sure why</b>. Are we just seeing the long term effects of a terribly poor solar cycle (24) in spite of the newest one struggling to gain serious momentum? We’ve maybe just been spoiled by a series of above average strength cycles our whole lives up until Cycle 24 but something has changed. Both 40 and 80 go completely silent now on most winter nights, shortly after sunset. What happened to the awakening of the band at sunset? I’ve seen only enough of those the past two winters to count on one hand. It’s all very odd. Thankfully we experienced those bands at their very best, years ago. Hopefully the new cycle will pump them back up again, if that’s the problem. I dare not mention global-warming but it seems to have widespread consequences in the upper atmosphere so one has to wonder … the ionosphere as well?</div><div> </div><div> <center>**************</center></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ/3</u>: </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div>Wow, that's how long I've been AWOL myself from 40- & 80-meters at home --- I had absolutely no idea that both bands were now dead at & after sunset like that...not so much as even a clue. And I'm old enough here to recall getting peeved-off about all of the foreign BC stations that routinely crowded-out SSB QSO's on 40 as it grew dark here.</div><div><br /></div><div>Like you & so very many others, I too expected the bands in general to "...shape-up back to normal" with the new sunspot cycle --- & I've been waiting now for so very many years that even I've actually forgotten their number...! It just never seems to happen. Is it that oft-cited "Maunder Effect" that we all heard so much about a coupla years ago that's responsible...? And as for global warming's influence, who knows...? We're all still wrapping our heads around how it might affect the climate on the planet, never-mind what might be happening hundreds of miles above its surface. All bets are off in that regard, I think...! But again, who knows, right...?</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, I have the ICOM 751A & groundplane verticals at the ready here at the cottage, & we spend a lotta time here in the summer, too --- so do listen for me in the CW sub-bands, on 40- straight to 10-meters, & all of the WARC bands in between. You can't miss me --- I'll be the guy calling "CQ", with zero takers in response...! </div></div><div><br /></div><div><div> <center>**************</center></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><b>Jim AJ8S:</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Here's an article about changes to the upper atmosphere which might or might not have an impact on ionospheric propagation:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-upper-atmosphere-is-cooling-prompting-new-climate-concerns/"><b>https://www.wired.com/story/the-upper-atmosphere-is-cooling-prompting-new-climate-concerns/</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I too have noticed a distinct decline in CQ ops except for the contests.</div><div><br /></div><div><center>**************</center></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Steve VE7SL:</b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>That’s a great and somewhat troubling read Jim. Thanks for the link. Although the ionosphere was not singled out, the regions containing it all seem to be getting thinner which might certainly affect propagation behaviours as we’ve come to expect over the past few decades … which seems to be exactly what is happening, at least on the lower bands. In actuality, the amateur radio community might be one of the first to notice any long term changes not particularly explainable by solar activity.</div><div><br /></div><div><center>**************</center></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ/3</u>: </b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>A most interesting read, indeed. Does it partially explain, somehow, the state of Ham radio conditions to-day...? Could be...I just dunno. But does anyone else "...get it", for that matter...?</div><div><br /></div><div>I liken the situation of to-day to that proverbial Monarch butterfly that just alighted onto the bough of that maple tree in your yard: to the insect, that tree has always been there, unquestionably, throughout its lifespan. Which is true --- for its lifespan.</div><div><br /></div><div>But the reality of it is, that convenient resting spot is in reality a dynamic one, & not a static one. It wasn't there maybe 15 years ago, & it might not be there after the next 30, or so. But the butterfly cares not a whit --- that tree was always, and is always, there. Its limited lifespan will not afford it any other conclusion (assuming that insects can even actually derive any...!). Ditto our human lifespans. Maybe the current environmental trends are all otherwise "...normal" somehow & fit into some sorta pattern that goes well beyond our limited number of years of observation...? </div><div><br /></div><div>Again, I dunno --- what I DO know after some 10 years of very serious CW DX pursuit on160-meters, is this: up until about the 2010 winter DX "season" on Top Band, there was always a path, more open than not, to Europe well into the month of March, & beyond. But in the 2010-2011 season, the band essentially slammed shut for regular DX contacts across the Atlantic in February...in the 2011-2012 season it closed its doors in January...& in the 2012-2013 season (when an ice storm here rendered me QRT) the band simply folded for regular trans-Atlantic DX in December...!</div><div><br /></div><div>How it has been at any time during the past 9 years, I have no idea. But I definitely witnessed & experienced a creeping steady trend there.</div><div><br /></div><div>And now I'm witnessing a variation of this same "AWOL"-type stuff on all of the other bands, that started some 3 years ago, & which hows no sign of abating.</div><div><br /></div><div>What an awful uninspiring time for any newbie to take-up an interest in SWL'ing, or Hamming. There is nothing whatsoever to aspire to --- literally...!</div><div><br /></div></div><div><center>**************</center></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Steve VE7SL:</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>You haven’t missed much Eddy and like you, the last ‘great’ topband conditions here were the winter of ‘09-‘10. This coincided with the longest and deepest quiet-period from the Sun in as long as they have been keeping records. From the west coast, EU on topband has always been a rare short-lived treat but that winter had me questioning everything I thought I knew about the band. There were several weeks of nightly openings from here to Europe that would often start before my local sunset but the strangest thing was that during this extended period of transpolar activity there were no signals from the USA at all! It was nothing but EU CW from 1840 down to 1800, wall-to-wall and night after night. Signals were of the level often heard on 20m and if I had been tuning around blindfolded I would have guessed that I was listening to 20! I recall calling one exceptionally loud UA1 while running only 10W out and he came right back.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sadly the following winter saw none of that propagation repeated as Cycle 24 had started to come to life. Even the bottom of Cycle 24 had nothing similar although there were a few good nights where I managed Cyprus, Mauritania and South Africa all on topband. It’s been terrible ever since as have been condx for our beloved ‘29 BK for the past several years, so much to the point where I had decided last year to forgo the work involved in setting-up the ‘29 station and give it a pass. However at the last minute, Lou convinced me to give it another shot. It turned out to be my worst BK ever (!) and what really proves it is that not only did I not work Lou (a first) but I didn’t even hear him, also a first!</div><div><br /></div><div><i>[Lou is VE3AWA and the 'BK' is the annual AWA 1929 Style QSO Party]</i></div><div> </div><div>I don’t know what’s going on with the bands either Eddy but as you say, in our own short lifetime of observation’s perhaps what we are seeing is more like the norm and we were just lucky enough to see several decades of abnormal (great) conditions! It’s all part of the magic of radio in the long run.</div><div> </div><div>BTW, our chat here inspired me to spark-up on 20 CW this afternoon and my first CQ was answered by a 5W mobile down near San Francisco. After him and just to test my theory, I went to 7030 at 2PM and called CQ on 7030 and just about fell off my chair when my first CQ got a Washington state reply! I guess everyone just needs to get on the air and <b>make some CW music rather than sending e-mail </b>:-))</div></div><div><br /></div><div><center>**************</center></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Don VE3LYX: </b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Lots of cw activity. NRR group is one very active group. Every monday night. over 2500 members. Straight Key club is another ... <b>U can talk about it or get on the air</b> . Make a sked with a friend BUT IF YOU DO honour Your commitment. I operate cw sometime every week usually on 40m. </div></div><div><br /></div><div><center>**************</center></div></div><div><br /></div><div>I think the last comment can go a long way to making the bands busier but with so many distractions that we have in today's world compared with a few decades ago, it's often difficult to squeeze-in some air time ... even when retired!</div><div><br /></div><div>I found the article regarding the physical changes noted in the upper atmosphere of great interest. My speculation regarding the ionosphere and global-warming may not be so far-fetched after all.</div><div><br /></div><div>Another propagation oddity that is new (<i>along the lines of my "something has changed" comment</i>) is the annual summer sporadic-e season on 6m. I have been very active every summer on this band since the early 70's but something peculiar began happening in the summer of 2001. In the middle of the ARRL VHF Contest, the band suddenly opened to Europe! This had NEVER happened before from the west coast and a number of 'firsts' were made that morning.</div><div><br /></div><div>Since then, 50MHz has opened to Europe at least once per summer with these 'over-the-pole' openings becoming somewhat 'normal'. What changed? Some summers will see polar openings for several days in a row, often lasting for several hours as the propagation bounces from one European region to another every minute or (often) less.</div><div><br /></div><div>For some years now, it has been speculated that this over-the-pole summer propagation is somehow correlated with the formation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctilucent_cloud" target="_blank"><b>Noctilucent Clouds</b></a>. Interestingly, these clouds follow the same yearly time slot as sporadic-e, almost to the day, with their seasons beginning and ending at the same time each summer! Do the NLCs form the reflective medium needed for 6m propagation between EU and NA or does the same phenomenon that causes polar-e also cause the NLCs? The NLCs usually form in the high Arctic regions, directly associated with our over-the-pole 6m paths.</div><div><br /></div><div>This summer however, the polar path has been largely non-existent, with just one good polar opening (June 12) so far. Interestingly, a recent <a href="https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=07&year=2023" target="_blank"><b>newspot in the Spaceweather website</b></a> pointed out the fact that, this summer, the NLCs have been largely missing in action (!) adding further evidence to their possible link with the polar-e openings. There is still much to be learned about the <b>magic band</b> and its special propagation!</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9mO0PdlvpHUdYSZ2ymqhQt-I9rG9QDKcH_umENXifVt8TwISyV-sVZu_-lJPwUuc_R4Zvbrh6Ebr0jYpgDViC8wQ_sM6TEH6aJTG1wCFAeHQCCgh2CVq4U5-07sqASHG_D-iuFFw1zgvF18BMqAONkiMlXi9Gl2-TsZh8QXKmnGamguyytpvaHsdgcPe/s707/NLC.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="707" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9mO0PdlvpHUdYSZ2ymqhQt-I9rG9QDKcH_umENXifVt8TwISyV-sVZu_-lJPwUuc_R4Zvbrh6Ebr0jYpgDViC8wQ_sM6TEH6aJTG1wCFAeHQCCgh2CVq4U5-07sqASHG_D-iuFFw1zgvF18BMqAONkiMlXi9Gl2-TsZh8QXKmnGamguyytpvaHsdgcPe/w400-h251/NLC.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Courtesy: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/">https://en.wikipedia.org/</a></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-9596484694605194822023-05-26T09:18:00.000-07:002023-05-26T09:18:48.825-07:00CLE 292 Seek List<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAzGonSRZtrXqahDF3MAwUnOm5r_eLv6BfQqRggrYJ6esJebaPmaGlae2YTD56OcIrv7aH9F7oD6JGnf-t_CvkU8ueEEfmaV57RCBafcHR3rGJgLYkgNv-mOYiPLjHhyZbmQiY0ad8USW_fzm5vbNJxSWF3gkjnulyiqIJsQ8SeZPGRmjOKHuvW5ifkA/s400/ap3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="400" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAzGonSRZtrXqahDF3MAwUnOm5r_eLv6BfQqRggrYJ6esJebaPmaGlae2YTD56OcIrv7aH9F7oD6JGnf-t_CvkU8ueEEfmaV57RCBafcHR3rGJgLYkgNv-mOYiPLjHhyZbmQiY0ad8USW_fzm5vbNJxSWF3gkjnulyiqIJsQ8SeZPGRmjOKHuvW5ifkA/w400-h188/ap3.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>List candidate AP-378 Mayne Island, BC...Can you hear it?</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is the remaining information needed for this weekend's CLE 292. Please give it a try, especially if you have not entered before. MF conditions have been very good this week.</span></p><p><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Hello all</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Our 292<sup>nd</sup> CLE starts at 12:00 UTC this Friday (probably ‘today’ as you read this) and it ends at 12:00 UTC on Monday.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Big thanks to those of us who each chose 1, 2 or 3 ‘special’ NDBs for us all to try and log during the event. Several of you also gave interesting reasons why they are special – something for the Coordinators’ Comments afterwards!</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p>As expected, we have ‘netted’ a final total of about 75 NDBs in all.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">That’s not a lot, so, for THIS CLE ONLY, everyone is invited, wherever they are, to make ONE OR TWO SEPARATE LOGS – one log made in the ‘normal’ way (e.g. listening from home) PLUS, if you wish, a separate log made vIa any kind of remote receiver (WebSDR, KIWI, etc.).</span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p>(The full Final Details for the Event are repeated below)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p>Here is your seeklist. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">The Radio Countries are in Alphabetical sequence, with the European ones flagged in yellow: </span></b><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 464px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>RADIO <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b> NDB<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"></td></tr><tr style="height: 12.0pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>COUNTRY<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b> ID<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>kHz<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Chosen by<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ALG(?)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ESR<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>290<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Jorge G<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ALS AK<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>PEE<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>305<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Noel W<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>AUT<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>RTT<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>303<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Andrea D<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>BEL<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ONO <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>399.5<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Roelof B<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>BRU<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>BR<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>318<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Ken A<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>CAN BC<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>AP<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>378<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Steve M<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>DEU<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>BRU <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>427<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Hartmut W<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>DEU<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>FR<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>297<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Hartmut W<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>DEU<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>HC<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>330<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Hartmut W<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>DEU<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>LYE<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>394<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Joachim R<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>DEU<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>NOR<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>372<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Joachim R<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>DEU<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>WSN<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>378<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Joachim R<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>BBA<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>401<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Noel W<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>BPL<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>318<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Alan G<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>BZ<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>386<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Brian K<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>CAM <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>332.5<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>John M<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>CUL<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>370<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Peter G<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>CWL <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>423<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Noel W<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>EME<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>353.5<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Peter G<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>EMW<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>393<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Andrew P<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>EPM<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>316<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Brian K<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>EX <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>337<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Paul N<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>LBA<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>402.5<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Alan G<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>LCY<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>322<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>John M<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>LPL<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>349.5<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Alan G<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>SBL<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>323<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Peter G<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>SND <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>362.5<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>John M<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>STM<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>321<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Brian K<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>TNL <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>327<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Andrew P<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>WL<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>385<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Paul N<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ENG<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>WTN<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>337<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Dave R<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ESP<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>SA<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>416<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Jorge G<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>FRA<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>TLN<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>322<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Giorgio C<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>FRO<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>MY<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>337<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Roelof B<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>HOL<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>NW<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>373<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Roelof B<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>HRV<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>RI<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>289<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Andrea D<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>HWA HI<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>HN<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>242<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Mike T<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>HWA HI<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>POA<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>332<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Mike T<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>ITA<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>VIC<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>417<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Andrea D<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>MDW<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>MDY<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>400<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Mike T<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>MN USA<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>AA <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>365<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Steve M<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>POR<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>STR<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>371<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Jorge G<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>SAR<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>CAL<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>316<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Giorgio C<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>SAR<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>DEC<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>331<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Giorgio C<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>SCT<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>BRR<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>316<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>David A<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>SCT<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; 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padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>355<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>David A<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>SCT<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>SAY<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>431<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; 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padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>AW<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>383<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Steven O<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>USA WA<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>BVS<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>240<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Steven O<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>USA WA<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>MW<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>408<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Steve M<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>USA WY<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>GYZ<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>280<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Tony C<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="background: yellow; height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>XOE<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>EKO<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>375<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></p></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Dave R<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 14.4pt;"><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="83"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 55.8pt;" valign="bottom" width="74"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="51"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="157"></td><td nowrap="" style="height: 14.4pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 74.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="99"></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">There might be some discussion on the List about good remote receivers to choose.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">(If you have kept the Results from previous CLEs, you might be able to see where users have made good results with their chosen remotes.)</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Here are the Final Details again, sent before we had the finished seeklist:</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Hello all,<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">This coming weekend's Coordinated Listening Event is a very special one!</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">For the first time, the NDBs that we shall be listening for have all been selected by NDB List members during this last week.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Nearly all the replies had the suggested maximum of three NDB choices, mostly fairly local ones that have a special significance for that listener.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">There will be about 75 different NDBs in all for everyone to listen for (not just those who chose them!) </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">YES – that sounds difficult for many of us, with most of the chosen NDBs in Western Europe and Western USA/Canada.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">BUT recognising that, Joachim and I have been busy in the last few days finding a way to increase the number of available NDBs for each of us to listen for.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">So, for THIS CLE ONLY, we can invite listeners, wherever they are, to make one OR TWO SEPARATE LOGS – one log made in the ‘normal’ way (e.g. listening from home) PLUS, if you wish, a separate log made via any kind of remote receiver (WebSDR, KIWI, etc.).</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">e.g. North American listeners could make a log as usual, PLUS a second listening via the <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Enschede WebSDR</span> (University of Twente) in Holland.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">(That supports hundreds of simultaneous listeners and is good on the NDB frequencies).</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p>As always, first-time CLE logs will also be very welcome, however modest.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p>Days: Friday 26<sup>th</sup> May to Monday 29<sup>th</sup> May</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Times: Start and end at midday local time at the receiver.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Targets: The Nominated NDBs ONLY The seeklist is to follow. <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> (the NDB nominations finish today at 16:00 UTC*)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> (QRG: ALL NDB frequencies, 190 – 1740 kHz) <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Send your final one CLE log, or 2 <u>separate logs</u>, to NDB List, preferably as plain text emails, not in an attachment, with CLE292 and FINAL at the start of their title.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Please show on EVERY LINE of your log(s):<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"> </span># The full Date (or Day no.) e.g. '2023-05-26' (or just '26') and UTC (the day changes at 00:00 UTC)</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # kHz (the beacon's nominal published frequency)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # The Call Ident.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Other optional details - Location, Distance, etc. - go LATER in the same line (or in footnotes). </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Please make your log useful to old and new members alike by ALWAYS including the receiver’s location, its 6-character Locator if you know it, and brief details of the receiver and aerial(s).</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">We will send an 'Any More Logs?' email at about 20:00 UTC on Tuesday evening so you can check that your log(s) have been found OK.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">To be included in the combined results, all logs must arrive on NDB List by 09:00 UTC on Wednesday 31<sup>st</sup> May at the very latest.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">We hope to complete making the Combined Results within a few days.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Good listening</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Brian and Joachim<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">ndbcle'at'ndblist.info</span></i></b></p>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-4555345191452555132023-05-16T17:58:00.000-07:002023-05-16T17:58:22.831-07:00CLE 292 Needs Your Input<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV7QnjEZVfDjtvRA7s6Y-mKeqkb66zdS_TZPqgClP7BJ4_MohRcJchFzRHY8bk5eX_o5JDwjNkgGiUHNwWlv0BSPaPTDFvHkJ7rjnCHt1vye71bv-PMYd2XWuwRguNCOj6rqGTV8nF9ejENMv64l5kruTQj1NN3kPEfSYclgy-6O8xS0LslOG2vQCbwQ/s317/136tee2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="317" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV7QnjEZVfDjtvRA7s6Y-mKeqkb66zdS_TZPqgClP7BJ4_MohRcJchFzRHY8bk5eX_o5JDwjNkgGiUHNwWlv0BSPaPTDFvHkJ7rjnCHt1vye71bv-PMYd2XWuwRguNCOj6rqGTV8nF9ejENMv64l5kruTQj1NN3kPEfSYclgy-6O8xS0LslOG2vQCbwQ/w400-h254/136tee2.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><b>In preparation for something never done before in a CLE, the organziers are asking for your input. See their quest below. I will post the usual 'Hunting For NDBs..." blog outlining all of the rules in a few days but in the meantime, please see if you can help and hopefully participate in the monthly activity.</b></p><p><br /></p><p> <b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Dear Beacon Listener</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Joachim and I (Brian) are asking for your help!<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">We would like to know which active NDB is your NEAREST and which two others are also of special interest to you. <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Maybe you have visited the site of one or more NDBs or you have other special reasons to remember them.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Everyone is invited to send us their own three ‘votes’, so we hope to have a large number of special NDBs to listen for during the coming coordinated listening event (CLE). <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Your choices, with everyone else’s, will decide all of the NDBs in the Seeklist for the event. <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">This is our FIRST ‘YOU-CHOOSE’ CLE (and it will probably be our last!).<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">You do NOT have to listen yourself in our 292<sup>nd</sup> CLE (26-29 May) though everyone will be very welcome to send a log if they want to - but you will probably be interested in the results, showing who logged your own chosen NDBs and from where.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Please send your choices during the next 7 days to <a href="mailto:ndbcle@ndblist.info">ndbcle@ndblist.info</a> (that email address sends only to us, your Listening Event Coordinators Joachim and Brian)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Please help us by using the following format for your votes:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> NDB1: (your nearest?) Ident: ABC 345 kHz Location1 </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Ideally, your 3 choices should be NDBs in your own Radio Country, <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> NDB2: Ident: DEF 543 kHz Location2 </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">or in ones that share a land border with it.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> NDB3: Ident: GH 432 kHz Location3 </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">(e.g. If listening from Oregon, try to choose from OR, WA, ID, NV and CA)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">You can find our list of all the Radio Countries at:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Chosen by (your name): eg Brian Keyte</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> <a href="https://www.ndblist.info/index_htm_files/countrylist.pdf">https://www.ndblist.info/index_htm_files/countrylist.pdf</a><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Your Radio Country: eg ENG <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> I can be identified: *YES / NO </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Joachim or I will send an acknowledgment for your ‘votes </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">(see below) to your sending email address.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> (If someone has already nominated one of your NDBs </span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">- unlikely? - we’ll invite you to choose an alternative)</span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></i><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">*The CLE results will NOT show who nominated any of the NDBs.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> However, in the Coordinators’ Comments afterwards we’ll probably mention some of the interesting reasons why NDBs were chosen.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Please choose NO above if you would NOT want to be identified there.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">For those who also want to listen during the Event, we’ll send the CLE292 EARLY ADVICE to NDB List in a few days. That will be followed, after the ‘voting’, by our FINAL DETAILS, including the seeklists showing all of the chosen NDBs.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">If there is anything you need more advice about, or if you have any other comments, please feel free to email the two of us at <a href="mailto:ndbcle@ndblist.info">ndbcle@ndblist.info</a></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">73<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Joachim and Brian</span></i></b></p>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-6649253039697259162023-04-20T09:33:00.001-07:002023-04-20T13:11:12.782-07:00Hunting For NDBs In CLE291<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgop0X4yIALjxfNhRibmr3jKZ9463DjI-DcOuRRLux94Evj4NShonHyrRW5R_1KHw4fidtPpyC5WN1Kw85Y0TPzjnIGXrr06YmXWRKoPFZHbq2lUZqeOC62QRCGDav6lRaM4fh3bwmx855LZ-Iqenro8t1rb9kc0aFVW2p_l3PXwUmlMzcqIt3ZJfFjcA/s600/SJAnt.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgop0X4yIALjxfNhRibmr3jKZ9463DjI-DcOuRRLux94Evj4NShonHyrRW5R_1KHw4fidtPpyC5WN1Kw85Y0TPzjnIGXrr06YmXWRKoPFZHbq2lUZqeOC62QRCGDav6lRaM4fh3bwmx855LZ-Iqenro8t1rb9kc0aFVW2p_l3PXwUmlMzcqIt3ZJfFjcA/w300-h400/SJAnt.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>ZSJ-258 Sandy Lake, ON</b> (<a href="http://ve3gop.com">ve3gop.com</a>)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>This coming weekend brings CLE 291. This is a challenge for all NDB hunters, both new and old and the ultimate test of your <b>medium frequency receiving capabilities</b>. Can you meet the challenge?</p><p></p><div class="WordSection1">'<b>CLE</b>'s are '<b>C</b>o-ordinated <b>L</b>istening <b>E</b>vents, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time on one small slice of the NDB spectrum.</div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1">With the number of targets slowly being decommissioned, the hunting grounds have been widened...this month the frequency range is for the NDBs whose published frequencies are between <b>240.0-259.9 kHz </b><b>and 420.0 - 439.9 kHz.</b></div><div class="WordSection1"><br /></div><div class="WordSection1">A good target for all NA listeners is powerhouse <b>ZSJ</b> on <b>258 </b>kHz, located at Sandy Lake, Ontario. Listen for its upper sideband CW identifier on <b>258.406</b> kHz.</div><div class="WordSection1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When tuning for NDBs, put your receiver <b>in the CW mode</b> and listen for the NDB's CW identifier, repeated every few seconds. Listen for U.S. NDB identifiers approximately 1 kHz higher or lower than the published transmitted frequency since these beacons are modulated with a <b>1020</b> Hz tone approximately.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For example, '<b>AA</b>' near Fargo, ND, transmitted on <b>365</b> kHz and its upper sideband CW identifier was tuned at <b>366.025</b> kHz while its lower sideband CW ident could be tuned at <b>363.946</b> kHz. Its USB tone was actually <b>1025</b> Hz while its LSB tone was <b>1054</b> Hz.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often, one sideband will be much stronger than the other so if you don't hear the first one, try listening on the other sideband.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canadian NDBs normally have an USB tone only, usually very close to <b>400</b> Hz. They also have a long dash (keydown) following the CW identifier.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All NDBs heard in North America will be listed in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals">RNA database</a></b> (updated daily) while those heard in Europe may be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/reu/signals">REU database</a></b>. Beacons heard outside of these regions will be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rww/signals">RWW database</a></b>.</span><br /></p></div></div><p>From CLE organizers comes the following info:</p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB">This coming weekend we have another chance to enjoy a </span>Coordinated Listening Event. </span></i></b><b style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i>All CLE logs will be very welcome, short or long.</i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Days: Friday, 21<sup>st</sup> April – Monday, 24<sup>th</sup> April<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Times: Start and end at midday, local time at the receiver<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Searching for: NDBs in the ranges<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB">240.0 - 259.9 kHz</span><span lang="EN-GB"> and 420.0 - 439.9 kHz<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB">BOTH </span><span lang="EN-GB">frequency </span><span lang="EN-GB">ranges are for ALL listeners</span><span lang="EN-GB">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>REU and RNA show that the number of NDBs, each <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>of them heard by at least 10 or more listeners in the <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>last 12 months, was:<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 70.8pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><i>240-259.9 kHz 420-439.9 kHz<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>REU 30 116<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>RNA 54 54<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB">Please log the NDBs you can identify that are listed in the ranges, </span>plus any UNIDs that you come across there.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB">You can find details, lists and maps of the beacons in those ranges, </span>if you go to <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/cle">https://rxx.classaxe.com/cle</a>.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Send your final CLE log to ndblist'at'groups.io with “CLE291” and <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>“FINAL” in the email Subject.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Please show on EVERY LINE of your log:<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> # The full Date (or Day no.) e.g. ‘2023-04-21’ (or just ‘21’)<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> and UTC (the day changes at 00:00 UTC)<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> # kHz (the beacon's nominal published frequency if you know it)<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> # The Call Ident.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB">Other optional details - Location, Distance, etc. - go LATER in the </span>same line (or in footnotes). Please make your log useful to old and new members alike by ALWAYS including your own location (and 6-character Locator if you know it) and brief details of the equipment and aerial(s) that you were using. </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB">We will send an 'Any More Logs?' email at about 20:00 UTC on </span>Tuesday evening so you can check that your log has been found OK.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB">To be included in the combined results your log must have arrived </span>by 09:00 UTC on Wednesday 26<sup>th</sup> April at the very latest.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>We hope to complete making the Combined Results within a day or two.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span>Good listening</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Joachim and Brian<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>(CLE coordinators)<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">If you would like to try some remote listening - you could use any one remote receiver for your loggings, stating its location (and with the owner’s permission if required).</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-GB">A remote listener may NOT also use another receiver, whether </span>local or remote, to make more loggings for the same CLE.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: inherit;">CLE's provide several purposes. They:</span></p><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• determine, worldwide, which beacons are actually in service and on-the-air so the newly-re-vamped <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals"><b>Rxx online database</b></a> can be kept up-to-date</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• determine, worldwide, which beacons are out-of-service or have gone silent since the last CLE covering this range</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will indicate the state of propagation conditions at the various participant locations</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will give you an indication of how well your LF/MF receiving system is working</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• give participants a fun yet challenging activity to keep their listening skills honed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Final details can be found at the <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>NDB List website</b></span></a>, and worldwide results, for every participant, will be posted there a few days after the event.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://groups.io/g/ndblist"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The NDB List Group</b></span></a> is a great place to learn more about the 'Art of NDB DXing' or to meet other DXers in your region. There is a lot of good information available there and new members are always very welcome. As well, you can fol</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">low the results of other CLE participants from night to night as propagation is always an active topic of discussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need not be an NDB List member to participate in the CLEs and all reports, no matter how small, are of much value to the organizers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Remember - 'First-time' logs are always VERY welcome!</b></i></span></span></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reports may be sent to the NDB List Group or e-mailed to CLE co-ordinator, Brian Keyte (G3SIA), whose address appears above. If you are a member of the group, all final results will also be e-mailed and posted there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please ... give the CLE a try ... then let us know what NDB's can be heard from your location! Your report can then be added to the worldwide database to help keep it up-to-date.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">Have fun and good hunting!</span></b></span></div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-39339995617938833392023-02-22T10:05:00.003-08:002023-02-22T10:05:58.315-08:00Hunting For NDBs In CLE289<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNTl3nluQAIOiDmBkveiUazm_vP8xlJppztg5SlD_IQ29BkRgx6puJaIb4yX3Ys4b-n84xZJJwIlslf1EYRIKYY7HwlOBDM30CvDbT1ImJyQqBndq6lL91CcfLI7zMIVECpu7VKiOxTj__l60JfaT0lwJ0NPNVIgXZUgflKfQsxxjb6IjC2iJApxyZA/s1600/ANT_Distance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNTl3nluQAIOiDmBkveiUazm_vP8xlJppztg5SlD_IQ29BkRgx6puJaIb4yX3Ys4b-n84xZJJwIlslf1EYRIKYY7HwlOBDM30CvDbT1ImJyQqBndq6lL91CcfLI7zMIVECpu7VKiOxTj__l60JfaT0lwJ0NPNVIgXZUgflKfQsxxjb6IjC2iJApxyZA/w400-h300/ANT_Distance.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>YYH-290 Taloyoak, NU - </b><i>courtesy<b> <a href="http://ve3gop.com">ve3gop.com</a></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Another month has zoomed by and it's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your <b>medium frequency receiving capabilities</b>. Can you meet the challenge?</p><p></p><div class="WordSection1">'<b>CLE</b>'s are '<b>C</b>o-ordinated <b>L</b>istening <b>E</b>vents, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time on one small slice of the NDB spectrum.</div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1">With the number of targets slowly being decommissioned, the hunting grounds have been widened...this month the frequency range is for the NDBs whose published frequencies are between <b><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px;">270.0 - 319.9 kH</span>z</b>. </div><div class="WordSection1">A good target for all NA listeners is powerhouse <b>YYH</b> on <b>290 </b>kHz, located at Taloyoak, Nunavut. Listen for its upper sideband CW identifier on <b>290.406</b> kHz.</div><div class="WordSection1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When tuning for NDBs, put your receiver <b>in the CW mode</b> and listen for the NDB's CW identifier, repeated every few seconds. Listen for U.S. NDB identifiers approximately 1 kHz higher or lower than the published transmitted frequency since these beacons are modulated with a <b>1020</b> Hz tone approximately.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For example, '<b>AA</b>' near Fargo, ND, transmitted on <b>365</b> kHz and its upper sideband CW identifier was tuned at <b>366.025</b> kHz while its lower sideband CW ident could be tuned at <b>363.946</b> kHz. Its USB tone was actually <b>1025</b> Hz while its LSB tone was <b>1054</b> Hz.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often, one sideband will be much stronger than the other so if you don't hear the first one, try listening on the other sideband.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canadian NDBs normally have an USB tone only, usually very close to <b>400</b> Hz. They also have a long dash (keydown) following the CW identifier.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All NDBs heard in North America will be listed in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals">RNA database</a></b> (updated daily) while those heard in Europe may be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/reu/signals">REU database</a></b>. Beacons heard outside of these regions will be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rww/signals">RWW database</a></b>.</span><br /></p></div></div><p>From CLE organizers comes the following info:</p><p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Hello all</span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b><i>Our 289<sup>th</sup> co-ordinated listening event is this coming weekend.<br />It spans a 50 kHz frequency range - about three times wider than usual. <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b><i>Rxx suggests that there are plenty of NDBs to hear and they are not <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b><i>changed much since CLE274, the last time we used these frequencies.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b><i> Days: Friday 24 February – Monday 27 February<br /> Times: Start and end at midday, your LOCAL time<br /> Range: 270.0 - 319.9 kHz (NDB signals only)<br /><br />Any first-time CLE logs will be extra welcome, as always.<br /><br />Please log all the NDBs that you can identify and any UNIDs that you <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b><i>may come across there.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b><i>Please don’t report the DGPS signals in part of this frequency range.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b><i>Send your final log to the List (not in an attachment, please)<br />with 'CLE289’ and ‘FINAL' in its title (important).<br /><br />Show on each line:<br /><br /> # The Date (e.g. '2023-02-24', etc., or just '24' )<br /> # The Time in UTC (the day changes at 00:00 UTC).<br /> # kHz - the nominal published frequency, if known.<br /> # The Call Ident.<br /><br />Please show those main items FIRST. Other optional details such as<br />Location and Distance go LATER in the same line.<br /><br />As always, of course, tell us your own location and give brief details of<br />the equipment that you were using during the Event.<br /><br />We will send the usual 'Any More Logs?' email at about 19:00 UTC on <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b><i>Tuesday so you can check that your log has been found OK.<br /><br />Do make sure that your log has arrived on the List by 08:00 UTC on<br />Wednesday 1<sup>st</sup> March at the very latest.<br /><br />We hope to complete making the combined results within a day or two.<br /><br />You can find full details about current and past CLEs from the CLE<br />page <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/cle">https://rxx.classaxe.com/cle</a> It includes access to the CLE289<br />seeklists for your part of the World, prepared from all the previous<br />loggings in Rxx.<br /><br />Good listening - enjoy the CLE.<br /> Brian and Joachim<br /> (CLE coordinators)<br /><br /><br />(If you would like to listen remotely you could use any one remote<br />receiver for your loggings, stating its location and owner and with their<br />permission if required. A remote listener may NOT also use another <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">receiver, local or remote, to make further loggings for the same CLE)</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">CLE's provide several purposes. They:</span></p><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• determine, worldwide, which beacons are actually in service and on-the-air so the newly-re-vamped <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals"><b>Rxx online database</b></a> can be kept up-to-date</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• determine, worldwide, which beacons are out-of-service or have gone silent since the last CLE covering this range</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will indicate the state of propagation conditions at the various participant locations</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will give you an indication of how well your LF/MF receiving system is working</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• give participants a fun yet challenging activity to keep their listening skills honed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Final details can be found at the <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>NDB List website</b></span></a>, and worldwide results, for every participant, will be posted there a few days after the event.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://groups.io/g/ndblist"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The NDB List Group</b></span></a> is a great place to learn more about the 'Art of NDB DXing' or to meet other DXers in your region. There is a lot of good information available there and new members are always very welcome. As well, you can fol</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">low the results of other CLE participants from night to night as propagation is always an active topic of discussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need not be an NDB List member to participate in the CLEs and all reports, no matter how small, are of much value to the organizers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Remember - 'First-time' logs are always VERY welcome!</b></i></span></span></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reports may be sent to the NDB List Group or e-mailed to CLE co-ordinator, Brian Keyte (G3SIA), whose address appears above. If you are a member of the group, all final results will also be e-mailed and posted there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please ... give the CLE a try ... then let us know what NDB's can be heard from your location! Your report can then be added to the worldwide database to help keep it up-to-date.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">Have fun and good hunting!</span></b></span></div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-71560609408935376702023-01-25T12:00:00.000-08:002023-01-25T12:00:06.869-08:00Hunting For NDBs In CLE288<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXrbuaF_ZdF3Hspl8yJBCnE-pJ6nJspAoNF8dsNj-YsBSYYE1Z2Nvm1Lpzm_ovn1eAtoOEl2eWr9OOEe5bpStDXE8QUjlxVj1qtFex6PrBWG2HYkJKy-ay0EBzpwTJYoMOGXS7JD2MxLrEuqljd7Ucb8LgtMjkFO4Vpl0XLWLxNJMQ6Zl2XQadptINlw/s800/YNE_Antenna.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="800" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXrbuaF_ZdF3Hspl8yJBCnE-pJ6nJspAoNF8dsNj-YsBSYYE1Z2Nvm1Lpzm_ovn1eAtoOEl2eWr9OOEe5bpStDXE8QUjlxVj1qtFex6PrBWG2HYkJKy-ay0EBzpwTJYoMOGXS7JD2MxLrEuqljd7Ucb8LgtMjkFO4Vpl0XLWLxNJMQ6Zl2XQadptINlw/w400-h265/YNE_Antenna.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>YNE - 207 Norway House, MB (tnx <a href="http://ve3gop.com">ve3gop.com</a>)</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>Yes! It's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your <b>medium frequency receiving capabilities</b>. Can you meet the challenge?</p><p></p><div class="WordSection1">'<b>CLE</b>'s are '<b>C</b>o-ordinated <b>L</b>istening <b>E</b>vents, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time on one small slice of the NDB spectrum.</div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1">It's a two-parter this time:</div><div class="WordSection1"><br /></div><div class="WordSection1">The first part is hunting for the NDBs whose published frequencies are between 190 - 239.9 kHz. With NDBs closing down at a rapid rate, this wider range will offer listeners more targets.</div><div class="WordSection1"><br /></div><div class="WordSection1">The second part is hunting for the NDBs whose carrier frequencies are 'half-way'. </div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">E.g. 282.5 RT (AUI), 284.5 MH (TUA), 312.5 KML (SYR), 328.5 EGT (NIR), 400.5 COD (ITA).</p></div><div class="WordSection1">A good target for all NA listeners is powerhouse <b>YNE</b> on 207 kHz in Norway House, Manitoba. Listen for its upper sideband CW identifier on <b>207.405</b> kHz.</div><div class="WordSection1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When tuning for NDBs, put your receiver <b>in the CW mode</b> and listen for the NDB's CW identifier, repeated every few seconds. Listen for U.S. NDB identifiers approximately 1 kHz higher or lower than the published transmitted frequency since these beacons are modulated with a <b>1020</b> Hz tone approximately.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For example, '<b>AA</b>' near Fargo, ND, transmitted on <b>365</b> kHz and its upper sideband CW identifier was tuned at <b>366.025</b> kHz while its lower sideband CW ident could be tuned at <b>363.946</b> kHz. Its USB tone was actually <b>1025</b> Hz while its LSB tone was <b>1054</b> Hz.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often, one sideband will be much stronger than the other so if you don't hear the first one, try listening on the other sideband.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canadian NDBs normally have an USB tone only, usually very close to <b>400</b> Hz. They also have a long dash (keydown) following the CW identifier.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All NDBs heard in North America will be listed in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals">RNA database</a></b> (updated daily) while those heard in Europe may be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/reu/signals">REU database</a></b>. Beacons heard outside of these regions will be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rww/signals">RWW database</a></b>.</span><br /></p></div></div><p><b>From CLE organizers comes the following info:</b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Hello all,</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Do try not to miss our 288<sup>th</sup> co-ordinated listening event - it starts this Friday at midday. This could be an ideal CLE to try out for the first time, but everyone is welcome, as always, of course!</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Days: Fri. 27th - Mon. 30th January, Midday-Midday, your local time<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> NDBs on frequencies from 190 - 239.9 kHz<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> <u>PLUS</u>: normal NDBs with carriers on 'half-way' frequencies ( nnn.5 kHz )<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> from 190.5 - 999.5 kHz<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">So for all of us it is a CLE in two parts - the first part is hunting for the NDBs whose published frequencies are lower than 240 kHz.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">The second part is hunting for the NDBs whose carrier frequencies are 'half-way'. <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">E.g. 282.5 RT (AUI), 284.5 MH (TUA), 312.5 KML (SYR), 328 EGT (NIR), 400.5 COD (ITA).<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">The seek list below includes the ones that are more likely to be logged.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">(Europe listeners will hear few or none from part 1, while the<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">listeners away from Europe will hear few or none from part 2)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Please send your final CLE log to the List, if possible as a plain text email and not in an attachment, showing 'CLE288' and 'FINAL' in its title.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">(Loggings from both parts can be shown in the same list)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Please include on EVERY line of your log:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # The date (or just the day 'dd') and UTC (days change at 00:00 UTC).<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # kHz - the beacon's nominal frequency.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # The Call Ident.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">It is important to show those main items FIRST - any other optional details such as Location, Distance, etc., go LATER in the same line.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Don't forget to give your OWN location (your 6-character Locator if you know it please) and details of your receiver and aerial(s), etc. Others will be interested to know, especially new members - and old ones with failing memories like mine!<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Listening around the 'half-way' frequencies means we might also catch some interesting non-CLE beacons – you can tell us about those too, but in a separate list. <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Joachim and I will be processing the incoming logs as usual - please look out for our 'Any More Logs?' email at about 19:00 UTC on Tuesday evening, with a list to let you check that your own log has been found OK.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Do make sure that your log has arrived on the NDB List at the very latest by 08:00 UTC on Wednesday.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Good listening<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Brian and Joachim<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> (CLE Coordinators)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">If you wish you could use any one remote receiver for your loggings,<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">stating the location and owner - and with their permission if required.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">A remote listener may NOT also use another receiver, local or remote,<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">to make further loggings for the same CLE.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">For your full seek list in the 190-240 kHz range just go to Rxx (<a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/cle">https://rxx.classaxe.com/cle</a>) for your part of the World.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Below is the seek list which includes the ‘nnn.5’ NDBs that are more likely to be heard.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibw0PkjqiGzDZ3ivN6AAgYcXXLzar2tuNJ2xMR-Z5b_QCD9TQci3pqj9QiExjqbl5CSj5_jq74bwNI2-xQZTCpO363L_aQnrcuJ0gvPnVe7pgVedbd-BcohYdPK7vbWx9zfFRi7yl2kKUBRjcwgysKxcW5eEx29xq8cpgXqqAHyYMCR1s3PX3YUY_VAg/s640/half.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="591" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibw0PkjqiGzDZ3ivN6AAgYcXXLzar2tuNJ2xMR-Z5b_QCD9TQci3pqj9QiExjqbl5CSj5_jq74bwNI2-xQZTCpO363L_aQnrcuJ0gvPnVe7pgVedbd-BcohYdPK7vbWx9zfFRi7yl2kKUBRjcwgysKxcW5eEx29xq8cpgXqqAHyYMCR1s3PX3YUY_VAg/w370-h400/half.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><b><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg8bbU5ulOfbfVQX3lr_Rz0AcW7Zy0o2xDWQ45msaTNN3uw8xBKJAURg7kUoJp1UzYP1r4dApxCj1W3s_QKuZBN2yqfOIQsJf7YGIcm-2CrozacAlutc4a7IZwK_bHd-d-C6-GHzMfyEXtlBBErZfd78PbVOI0M3lEy1wUSOYXSAp9ulL4MFzoTj5BUQ/s640/halfkc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="587" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg8bbU5ulOfbfVQX3lr_Rz0AcW7Zy0o2xDWQ45msaTNN3uw8xBKJAURg7kUoJp1UzYP1r4dApxCj1W3s_QKuZBN2yqfOIQsJf7YGIcm-2CrozacAlutc4a7IZwK_bHd-d-C6-GHzMfyEXtlBBErZfd78PbVOI0M3lEy1wUSOYXSAp9ulL4MFzoTj5BUQ/w368-h400/halfkc.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></i></b><p></p><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">CLE's provide several purposes. They:</span></div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• determine, worldwide, which beacons are actually in service and on-the-air so the newly-re-vamped <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals"><b>Rxx online database</b></a> can be kept up-to-date</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• determine, worldwide, which beacons are out-of-service or have gone silent since the last CLE covering this range</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will indicate the state of propagation conditions at the various participant locations</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will give you an indication of how well your LF/MF receiving system is working</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• give participants a fun yet challenging activity to keep their listening skills honed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Final details can be found at the <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>NDB List website</b></span></a>, and worldwide results, for every participant, will be posted there a few days after the event.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://groups.io/g/ndblist"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The NDB List Group</b></span></a> is a great place to learn more about the 'Art of NDB DXing' or to meet other DXers in your region. There is a lot of good information available there and new members are always very welcome. As well, you can fol</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">low the results of other CLE participants from night to night as propagation is always an active topic of discussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need not be an NDB List member to participate in the CLEs and all reports, no matter how small, are of much value to the organizers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Remember - 'First-time' logs are always VERY welcome!</b></i></span></span></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reports may be sent to the NDB List Group or e-mailed to CLE co-ordinator, Brian Keyte (G3SIA), whose address appears above. If you are a member of the group, all final results will also be e-mailed and posted there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please ... give the CLE a try ... then let us know what NDB's can be heard from your location! Your report can then be added to the worldwide database to help keep it up-to-date.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">Have fun and good hunting!</span></b></span></div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-18315167190834258962023-01-11T15:05:00.001-08:002023-01-11T15:05:34.447-08:00Topband's Poor Winter Performance<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwJ4RYTosPUSmLYL-nfPcH3i8AiDzc8kWIO98UH5tTBCewXDK6TeSuh0UbUj6wgR7fr5GSScyLFVCpv2N4r59L2quecJq1lnSZBm8okVob6oL3qrH_hrBLcII70yLftcqn5BUytYhc6eSKZIJ00WNM0I4LG8v5mkEnsFutq25BwZQqnYnZlKFclGlk5A/s500/latest_hmi_igram.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwJ4RYTosPUSmLYL-nfPcH3i8AiDzc8kWIO98UH5tTBCewXDK6TeSuh0UbUj6wgR7fr5GSScyLFVCpv2N4r59L2quecJq1lnSZBm8okVob6oL3qrH_hrBLcII70yLftcqn5BUytYhc6eSKZIJ00WNM0I4LG8v5mkEnsFutq25BwZQqnYnZlKFclGlk5A/s320/latest_hmi_igram.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>A recent discussion on the <a href="http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband"><b>Topband mailing list</b></a> regarding the exceptionally poor propagation this fall and winter, especially on the polar path, brought forth some interesting opinions as to the reason. The rapid growth of solar Cycle 25 and its seemingly continuous flaring was the prime culprit ... but what was the exact mechanism? </div><div><br /></div><div>One of the best and clearest explanations was posted by Frank, <a href="https://www.qrz.com/db/W3LPL"><b>W3LPL</b></a>, who, with <b>317 countries</b> confirmed on 160, knows a thing or two about propagation on topband! His comments are particularly relevant for stations in the northern regions of the US as well as for all regions in Canada. </div><div><br /></div><div> <b>"<donovanf starpower.net=""><topband contesting.com=""><i>There's some confusion about the effects of increasing solar activity on 160 meter DX propagation.</i></topband></donovanf></b></div><div><donovanf starpower.net=""><topband contesting.com=""><b><br /></b></topband></donovanf></div><div><b><i>160 meter DX propagation is often badly affected by nighttime propagation
degradations, especially as Solar Cycle 25 becomes much more active
from now through solar maximum in about 2024-2025 and as it slowly declines to current ionization levels through about 2027-2028.</i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b><i>Solar flares have no known impact on 160 meter DX propagation.
Solar flares produce electromagnetic radiation that travels from sun to Earth at the speed of light - in about 8 minutes. Solar flare electromagnetic radiation (mostly X-rays) affects only the sunlit
side of the earth and ionosphere. There are no known physical processes
that extend solar flare effects into the night time ionosphere. </i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b><i>While solar flares have no relevance to 160 meter DX propagation, solar
flares often occur coincident with (but are not caused by) coronal mass
ejections that can cause severe post-midnight absorption in the D region
on propagation paths that cross the auroral oval (e.g., North America to
northern Europe and Asia). <span style="color: red;">CMEs cause the auroral oval to dip to much
lower latitudes causing post-midnight increased D region absorption on
propagation paths crossing lower latitudes.</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b><i>Unrelated to CMEs, coronal hole high speed stream effects also cause
increased D region absorption in the post-midnight auroral oval and
occur very frequently compared to geo-effective CMEs (thankfully most
CMEs never strike the Earth or its magnetosphere, they usually miss
our tiny planet). </i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b><i>But what about 160 meter absorption usually present much earlier in the
night, from sunset through midnight and later? </i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>The E region usually retains enough ionization to degrade 160 meter
night time propagation especially during the more active years of the
solar cycle. The ionized night time E region causes increased absorption
at the bottom of the E region (just above the D region) and blankets
propagation that would otherwise pass through the E region to the
F region. Blanketing causes many shorter hops that suffer increased
loss from multiple lossy passes through the ionized E region. </i></span></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b><i> 73
Frank
W3LPL"</i></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>I found Frank's comments regarding the auroral zone (highlighted in RED) particularly interesting as it confirms behaviors I have noted for several decades while operating from SW British Columbia ... particularly when it comes to the MF NDB band (200 - 530kHz). Time and time again while propagation on these frequencies has been severely degraded, stations just a few hundred miles (often less) to my south or south-east enjoy almost normal propagation. I've long-suspected that the AU zone has temporarily slipped this far south while my not too far away neighbours have escaped its unwelcome reach.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have ALWAYS associated these poor conditions with signal absorption by a heavily-ionized D layer that has not dissipated after darkness but it seems a second factor may also be in play, that being from the E-layer as explained by Frank (highlighted in BLUE). </div><div><br /></div><div>Although CMEs and flares can cause a lot of disruption, the big culprit for the past few years has been an almost continual barrage of <a href="https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/coronal-hole-high-speed-streams-ch-hss#:~:text=Coronal%20holes%20appear%20as%20dark,of%20open%2C%20unipolar%20magnetic%20fields."><b>high speed coronal hole streams</b></a> that have regularly killed nightime propagation on 80 and 40m as well.</div><div><br /></div><div>With Solar Cycle 25 really starting to ramp up (three X-flares in the past two days!) it's very likely we will see poor propagation on topband as well as on the lower HF bands for the next few years. Some relief may be in store during the downslope ride as there is generally less flare and streaming activity during this period than on the ride up.</div><div><br /></div><div>None of this eliminates periods of quiet geomagnetic conditions <u>at any time</u>, producing worthwhile propagation, particularly on the non-polar paths ... so don't turn off your radios! </div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-90970194120714879662022-11-15T11:07:00.000-08:002022-11-15T11:07:49.521-08:00Ever Heard Of Heathkit's SS-8000 Digital Transceiver? .... Me Neither!<p><br /></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEht891LDbKHnc3UunVNdT7KuCLQe26jVSYPlNG2bwdERY3DiskTsY8leZ6udHrqXU2qh1Dw1QH_L3gm5R063UswlwGLVXYwdIjWfZvJMo97juzQcLyiaYEC_48BfFOS0dVMH_oIoRNq_wApjacZ6OSK5ecvidNWMwt5WQs93T60s3rsaNBjfGnNPOgaFA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="583" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEht891LDbKHnc3UunVNdT7KuCLQe26jVSYPlNG2bwdERY3DiskTsY8leZ6udHrqXU2qh1Dw1QH_L3gm5R063UswlwGLVXYwdIjWfZvJMo97juzQcLyiaYEC_48BfFOS0dVMH_oIoRNq_wApjacZ6OSK5ecvidNWMwt5WQs93T60s3rsaNBjfGnNPOgaFA=w400-h226" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>courtesy <a href="https://www.qrz.com/db/N8RS">N8RS</a></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />The Heathkit SS-8000 was a unique synthesized HF transceiver (160-10m) originally designed as a kit in 1978. The reason that very few hams have heard of it is that it was never released … and only three were ever prototyped!</p>
<div class="plain_line">Robert Sumption, N8RS, is an ex-Heathkit engineer who worked on the project back in the late 70s. He recalls that after evaluating the project, it was deemed too complicated to be offered as a kit, since once built, most builders would not have the test equipment needed to align it properly. Consequently all three units were dissembled and sent to a local scrapyard!</div>
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<div class="plain_line">Fast forward to 2015 when Bob came across all of the boxes of ‘scrap’ that someone had rescued from the scrapyard back in the day and the entire pile was now selling on eBay.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">Would the SS-8000 live to meet it’s intended destiny? Bob describes this very challenging project in his six 5-minute videos.</div>
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<div class="plain_line"><u><b>Part 1</b></u>:</div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div>
<div class="plain_line"><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1uWgiToLEsE"><b>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1uWgiToLEsE</b></a></div>
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<div class="plain_line"><u><b>Part 2</b></u>:</div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div>
<div class="plain_line"><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-bjbVBgWXBU"><b>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-bjbVBgWXBU</b></a></div>
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<div class="plain_line"><u><b>Part 3</b></u>:</div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div>
<div class="plain_line"><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzhj7zAJ4Zo"><b>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzhj7zAJ4Zo</b></a></div>
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<div class="plain_line"><u><b>Part 4</b></u>:</div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div>
<div class="plain_line"><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r_grn4WIHCI&t=3s"><b>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r_grn4WIHCI&t=3s</b></a></div>
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<div class="plain_line"><u><b>Part 5</b></u>:</div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div>
<div class="plain_line"><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4NXpRIJHlZw"><b>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4NXpRIJHlZw</b></a></div>
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<div class="plain_line"><u><b>Part 6</b></u>:</div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div>
<div class="plain_line"><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rI423emQz4&t=56s"><b>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rI423emQz4&t=56s</b></a></div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div><div class="plain_line">I hope you find the videos as interesting as I did. It seems that Bob has some terrific skills and a <u>lot of patience!</u></div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-8089137312413687212022-10-26T15:33:00.000-07:002022-10-26T15:33:48.885-07:00Hunting For NDBs in CLE285<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyB9bqcZ9nSaL8y8fKbhQ7I6dEFU49CLf8S3xZDhvAjEJk14kYNcrx_wardH0LXcGe2gUGlzGPNKKRbfmFzpweYxoT69zA-iY1OpjFuGM2gVYNN0Cl4sMx22z34yMNPVp6-wFHSEziKqX1abS2_atiYAhtyKrwkAxbpSazEGTdKIKv0_tDTN5So7fjTQ/s750/YPO_AntennaBase.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="750" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyB9bqcZ9nSaL8y8fKbhQ7I6dEFU49CLf8S3xZDhvAjEJk14kYNcrx_wardH0LXcGe2gUGlzGPNKKRbfmFzpweYxoT69zA-iY1OpjFuGM2gVYNN0Cl4sMx22z34yMNPVp6-wFHSEziKqX1abS2_atiYAhtyKrwkAxbpSazEGTdKIKv0_tDTN5So7fjTQ/s320/YPO_AntennaBase.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>YPO-401 Peawanuck, ON tnx: <a href="http://ve3gop.com">ve3gop.com</a><br /><br /></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table>It's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your <b>medium frequency receiving capabilities</b>. Can you meet the challenge?</p><div class="WordSection1">'<b>CLE</b>'s are '<b>C</b>o-ordinated <b>L</b>istening <b>E</b>vents, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time on one small slice of the NDB spectrum.</div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1">It's back to a normal activity with a frequency span of<b> 400.0 - 419</b><b>.9</b> kHz.</div><div class="WordSection1"><br /></div><div class="WordSection1">A good target for all NA listeners is <b>YPO</b> on <b>401</b> kHz in Ontario. Listen for its upper sideband CW identifier on <b>401.392</b> kHz.</div><div class="WordSection1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When tuning for NDBs, put your receiver <b>in the CW mode</b> and listen for the NDB's CW identifier, repeated every few seconds. Listen for U.S. NDB identifiers approximately 1 kHz higher or lower than the published transmitted frequency since these beacons are modulated with a <b>1020</b> Hz tone approximately.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For example, '<b>AA</b>' near Fargo, ND, transmitted on <b>365</b> kHz and its upper sideband CW identifier was tuned at <b>366.025</b> kHz while its lower sideband CW ident could be tuned at <b>363.946</b> kHz. Its USB tone was actually <b>1025</b> Hz while its LSB tone was <b>1054</b> Hz.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often, one sideband will be much stronger than the other so if you don't hear the first one, try listening on the other sideband.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canadian NDBs normally have an USB tone only, usually very close to <b>400</b> Hz. They also have a long dash (keydown) following the CW identifier.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All NDBs heard in North America will be listed in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals">RNA database</a></b> (updated daily) while those heard in Europe may be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/reu/signals">REU database</a></b>. Beacons heard outside of these regions will be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rww/signals">RWW database</a></b>.</span><br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">From CLE organizers comes the following CLE info:</span></i></b></p></div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Our 285th Coordinated Listening Event starts on Friday.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">This frequency range is not packed with signals for any of us, but if conditions are OK there could be some nice surprises.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Do join in, whether you have days to spare, or only an hour or so over the weekend. <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Days: Friday 28 October - Monday 31 October 2022<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Times: Start and end at midday your LOCAL time<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> PLEASE NOTE that most of us will be changing our house clocks<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> during the weekend, but UTC time continues without changes. <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Range: 400 - 419.9 kHz<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Please log all the NDBs that you can identify with nominal (listed) frequencies in the range - it includes 400 kHz, but not 420 kHz - plus any UNIDs that you come across there.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Send your final log to the List (no attachments please) with ‘CLE285’ and 'FINAL' in its title.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Show on each line:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # The Date (e.g. '2022-10-28', etc., or just '28' )<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # The Time in UTC (the day changes at 00:00 UTC).<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # kHz - the nominal published frequency, if known.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # The Call Ident.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Please show those main items FIRST. Other optional details such as Location and Distance go LATER in the same line.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">As always, of course, tell us your own location and brief details of the equipment that you were using during the Event.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">We will send the usual 'Any More Logs?' email at about 20:00 UTC on Tuesday so that you can check that your log has been found OK.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Do make sure that your log has arrived on the List by 09:00 UTC on Wednesday 2 November at the very latest.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">We hope to complete making the combined results within a day or two.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">You can find full details about the coming CLE from the RWW Website, including the CLE285 seeklists for your part of the World – just select CLE from the main menu.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Details about current and past CLEs are available from Alan’s NDB List Website, <a href="http://www.ndblist.info">http://www.ndblist.info</a> <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Good listening <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Brian and Joachim<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">-------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">From: Brian Keyte G3SIA ndbcle'at'ndblist.info <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Location: Surrey, SE England (CLE coordinator)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">-------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> (If you would like to listen remotely you could use any <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> one remote receiver for your loggings, stating its location<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> and owner and with their permission if required. <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> A remote listener may NOT also use another receiver, <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> local or remote, to make further loggings for the same CLE)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText">A remote listener may NOT also use another receiver, whether local or remote, to obtain further loggings for the same CLE)</p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These listening events serve several purposes. They</span></p></div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• determine, worldwide, which beacons are actually in service and on-the-air so the newly-re-vamped <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals"><b>Rxx online database</b></a> can be kept up-to-date</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• determine, worldwide, which beacons are out-of-service or have gone silent since the last CLE covering this range</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will indicate the state of propagation conditions at the various participant locations</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will give you an indication of how well your LF/MF receiving system is working</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• give participants a fun yet challenging activity to keep their listening skills honed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Final details can be found at the <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>NDB List website</b></span></a>, and worldwide results, for every participant, will be posted there a few days after the event.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://groups.io/g/ndblist"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The NDB List Group</b></span></a> is a great place to learn more about the 'Art of NDB DXing' or to meet other DXers in your region. There is a lot of good information available there and new members are always very welcome. As well, you can fol</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">low the results of other CLE participants from night to night as propagation is always an active topic of discussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need not be an NDB List member to participate in the CLEs and all reports, no matter how small, are of much value to the organizers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Remember - 'First-time' logs are always VERY welcome!</b></i></span></span></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reports may be sent to the NDB List Group or e-mailed to CLE co-ordinator, Brian Keyte (G3SIA), whose address appears above. If you are a member of the group, all final results will also be e-mailed and posted there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please ... give the CLE a try ... then let us know what NDB's can be heard from your location! Your report can then be added to the worldwide database to help keep it up-to-date.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">Have fun and good hunting!</span></b></span></div><p> </p>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-34421758747727949752022-10-15T10:53:00.003-07:002022-10-17T17:12:14.020-07:00Recent Crystal Radio DX Group 'Listening Event' <p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKgf1NHFFFU40IsSSgu4z2pHqt895LdFiEGwp63WGB4JOH1paafM9DWDZ51jmN8FHtiFp9U8HfSUfBgYvBLl1WtdtibbtPf4p_9q9WoYvDdcoHGgiNdLk_alCBGXwVZm68jbESmLkB7aWAbgx7JdVDZvwZuKVYGL9NkRTTNDqOYGzO90ERWJJ8tCzWuw/s960/al%20klase.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="960" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKgf1NHFFFU40IsSSgu4z2pHqt895LdFiEGwp63WGB4JOH1paafM9DWDZ51jmN8FHtiFp9U8HfSUfBgYvBLl1WtdtibbtPf4p_9q9WoYvDdcoHGgiNdLk_alCBGXwVZm68jbESmLkB7aWAbgx7JdVDZvwZuKVYGL9NkRTTNDqOYGzO90ERWJJ8tCzWuw/w400-h223/al%20klase.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/xtal/xtal.htm">Crystal Shortwave Receiver</a> of Al Klase (N3FRQ) </i></b></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/crystalradiodxcontestgroup"><b>The Facebook Crystal Radio DX Group’s</b></a> fall listening event was held two weekends ago over a two-night listening period. Unlike last year’s event, this was not a contest but rather a leisurely opportunity for members to take some time to see what they could hear with their setups. Also unlike last year, this one introduced and encouraged members to see what they might hear on <b>shortwave</b>! Since circuits losses are measurably much higher as you climb above the broadcast band, audio amplification (AF) was permitted to encourage members to give it a try as this was a whole new region to explore for most of us.</p><div class="plain_line">The addition of shortwave inspired much discussion as well as construction, the main objectives of founding the group.</div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div><div class="plain_line">Shortwave crystal radio was all new to me as well and I struggled for several days, right up to the event’s starting time, to even be able to detect a signal. I had chosen to follow a similar path as described in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1vK3QcyBBw&t=917s"><b>WU2D’s excellent video</b></a>, using simple link coupling into the detector tank circuit. I reasoned (probably incorrectly) that my end-fed 80m halfwave inverted-V would be close enough to resonating on the 5, 6 and 7 MHz SW bands to provide enough signal into the detector. After playing with this system as well as other antennas for several days, I eventually abandoned the concept and tried a different approach.</div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div><div class="plain_line">I added a loosely coupled tuned antenna input using my 630m inverted-V wire, bypassing its large loading coil and low-impedance matching system. Essentially it was a big vertical long wire tuned against a number of buried ground radials. I also added an LM386 audio stage between the detector and headphones, something I had not tried with the previous system.</div><div class="plain_line"> </div><div class="plain_line">This simple approach immediately produced signals … just in time for the start of the party at sunset!</div><div class="plain_line"> </div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYH5vhDJJaZN9IwhHEemQ-OWaLnUPZOqZYmx8NJ4bjna__bN3t-zGspbIZNzeFlbv51agyC66-YD4ZaOxIQzuV2y6FmDth_ryNajclUfxGdg5QSin7ASqHTtU--PIksgiUNU_ORWimeFZucgPKqICO06GAwKHEhhkrUILWydaFGCusivnNlUmOHMizPw/s640/309704837_3291184727866928_8654363428297949682_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYH5vhDJJaZN9IwhHEemQ-OWaLnUPZOqZYmx8NJ4bjna__bN3t-zGspbIZNzeFlbv51agyC66-YD4ZaOxIQzuV2y6FmDth_ryNajclUfxGdg5QSin7ASqHTtU--PIksgiUNU_ORWimeFZucgPKqICO06GAwKHEhhkrUILWydaFGCusivnNlUmOHMizPw/w400-h300/309704837_3291184727866928_8654363428297949682_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="plain_line"><br /></div><div class="plain_line">Obviously, from just the physical appearance of my own SW tuner, there is a vast amount of room for improvement! As crude as it was, the following signals were all heard and verified on a separate SW spotter radio.</div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div><div class="plain_line"><p><span style="background-color: white; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 600;">Oct 1</span></p><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">0250 10000 WWV Colorado</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">0255 7365 Radio Marti, Greenville, NC - Spanish</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">0305 9850 Radio Romania Int'l, Tiganesti, Romania - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">0310 9790 China Radio Int'l (CRI) Quivican, Cuba - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">0315 7375 Radio Romania Int'l, Tiganesti, Romania - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">0320 7335 Radio Marti, Greenville, NC - Spanish</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">0355 5000 WWV Colorado</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">0400 5935 WWCR, Nashville, TN - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">0408 5085 WTWW, Lebanon, TN - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">0429 4840 WWCR, Nashville, TN - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">0435 6000 Radio Habana Cuba, Quivican, Cuba - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1411 6075 China National Radio 1(CNR), Baoji-Sifangshan, PRC - Chinese</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1416 5980 Radio New Zealand, Rangitaki, NZ - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1420 5965 CRI, Xianyang, PRC - Korean</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1424 6125 CNR1, Beijing, PRC - Chinese</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1426 6175 Voice of China, Beijing - Chinese</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1428 7200 National Unity Radio, Tamsui District, Taiwan - Korean</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1434 7410 CRI, Jinhua, PRC - Japanese</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1436 7395 CRI, Kashi-Saibagh, PRC - Chinese</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1437 7365 Voice of China, Shijiazhuang, PRC - Chinese</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1452 9410 Voice of America, Tinang, Philippines - Korean</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1741 12095 BBC, Kranji, Singapore - Korean</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1745 11870 CRI, Urumqi Hutubi, PRC - Russian</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">2045 15000 WWV, Colorado</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">2312 11780 Radio Nat'l Amazonia, Brasilia, Brazil - Portuguese</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Oct 2</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1212 7245 Radio New Zealand, Rangitaki, NZ - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1214 7310 CNR1, unknown tx site - Chinese</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1220 7325 CRI, Jinhua, PRC - Japanese</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1230 7355 KNLS, Anchor Point, AK - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1240 7490 WWCR, Nashville, TN - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1300 9675 CRI, Shijiazhuang, PRC - Russian</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1307 9350 Voice of America, Tinang, Philippines - Korean</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1311 9435 Voice of Korea, Kujang, N. Korea - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1350 9265 WINB, Red Lion, PA - English</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1740 9580 KNLS, Anchor Point, AK - Russian</span></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">1800 15580 VOA, Selebi-Phikwe, Botsawna - English</span></span></span></div></div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div><div class="plain_line">Reviewing many of the vintage radio magazines from the late 20s and early 30s, there appears to be very little published material from this era. I found this somewhat surprising but then perhaps not ... maybe most radio-buffs were still entranced by the new regenerative circuits popping-up every month and had little appetite for crystal SW receivers.</div><div class="plain_line"> </div><div class="plain_line">It would appear that even today there has not been much investigation or experimentation in building an efficient low-loss crystal receiving system for shortwave … somewhat of a golden opportunity for today’s crop of crystal radio builders!</div><div class="plain_line"><br /></div><div class="plain_line">In view of the above, along with a surprising amount of interest in SW during our recent listening event, I’d like to include SW in all future events going forward and possibly encourage even more new interest in developing efficient circuits. Is it practical to consider non-audio amplification for such circuit’s? Time will tell but already, several members are having measured success with just bare headphones!</div><p>Some of the BCB and SW construction inspired by the recent listening event is shown below. For more information and more sets, please visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/crystalradiodxcontestgroup"><b>the Facebook Group</b></a> and consider taking part in our next event, sometime in December ... maybe you can build the perfect SW tuner!</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZCB5sCd_AHAhpfOmQVDsiBZfD-mM_kMOWDu4KT1UUsJ7y_YHQSs_j8CGAU8yucWQOFVhf2Xkyf820kcYv-jAP0s9OOPl_8P-cjOA_Nx4Xwd7-8BBy9dhJGHA1JY67oiDcteMdi-NFtTcaLT8_Dj8ZQYlLzhVZgC_aYrZi8rqmt1N0eYS2MW5hr_wwQ/s600/309516029_2027645260773854_7613029212370319318_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZCB5sCd_AHAhpfOmQVDsiBZfD-mM_kMOWDu4KT1UUsJ7y_YHQSs_j8CGAU8yucWQOFVhf2Xkyf820kcYv-jAP0s9OOPl_8P-cjOA_Nx4Xwd7-8BBy9dhJGHA1JY67oiDcteMdi-NFtTcaLT8_Dj8ZQYlLzhVZgC_aYrZi8rqmt1N0eYS2MW5hr_wwQ/w400-h300/309516029_2027645260773854_7613029212370319318_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Terry Jean Double-Tuned Loopstick BCB Tuner</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinJ_pPjBPfc-L5JuESkahEsLkTzkx4h1mA4n3_eZrVSGmnEPtJJPSPewnypLeeuC8wZycmw_LfWW6O6VIm_F6KsCrbWC_pdyo2wRYN2pvmBlfAw2mFE4atZAh5z2JkYbPNpYBXPd7cKVWnI4MxFrOwyS6YubL6DjOT7TmnH0wCACx4ITdX-bjLg_B4Gw/s2048/310296433_1947178008947022_2133472509084937166_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinJ_pPjBPfc-L5JuESkahEsLkTzkx4h1mA4n3_eZrVSGmnEPtJJPSPewnypLeeuC8wZycmw_LfWW6O6VIm_F6KsCrbWC_pdyo2wRYN2pvmBlfAw2mFE4atZAh5z2JkYbPNpYBXPd7cKVWnI4MxFrOwyS6YubL6DjOT7TmnH0wCACx4ITdX-bjLg_B4Gw/w300-h400/310296433_1947178008947022_2133472509084937166_n.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>James Kern Double-Tuned BCB Tuner</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikqlxSp05Us2EMqPw3NQTkIWA4nrz4GcPuVTH-BWPJZARVUJs4F5czCD6Ud5r8qP_tsCEc3CoSpkVRaOzIzPciK6kOiU4r4uHv1rm7lkqrQmnm_HVNGe1Zd_YZDDH7No4B8gBNeQxHT-nPbUED6vptdvODFCMtIFrz_C4TuNM3ebZ9hkbSVGUrL9B1bA/s2048/310073729_10224975415326681_4205396055716109071_n%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="2048" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikqlxSp05Us2EMqPw3NQTkIWA4nrz4GcPuVTH-BWPJZARVUJs4F5czCD6Ud5r8qP_tsCEc3CoSpkVRaOzIzPciK6kOiU4r4uHv1rm7lkqrQmnm_HVNGe1Zd_YZDDH7No4B8gBNeQxHT-nPbUED6vptdvODFCMtIFrz_C4TuNM3ebZ9hkbSVGUrL9B1bA/w400-h175/310073729_10224975415326681_4205396055716109071_n%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Ferhat Yavas Shortwave Tuner</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXRs3zd-YWdI8lBI676znY8z6oqP-Lr0LF2R7sdGH2jnbZ8fwF86_lUYKIXvxTcE5SmBpvYpe4j_okZNlcsGvOfz24RbJ-D5-raOgKB7ZT02GT0F-XYhyLzMbKswzuPO2t27rGyYHYh4yi5dW4tzcvdhK95v2rR9TZGrl9wp9gbtGPPjrDQsD91QQBqg/s1152/310308940_638439954354061_3347034469254075613_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="648" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXRs3zd-YWdI8lBI676znY8z6oqP-Lr0LF2R7sdGH2jnbZ8fwF86_lUYKIXvxTcE5SmBpvYpe4j_okZNlcsGvOfz24RbJ-D5-raOgKB7ZT02GT0F-XYhyLzMbKswzuPO2t27rGyYHYh4yi5dW4tzcvdhK95v2rR9TZGrl9wp9gbtGPPjrDQsD91QQBqg/w225-h400/310308940_638439954354061_3347034469254075613_n.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Armando Anazco BCB Tuner</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSCoEmQGaCMMwRxK1ZgVfARcYSY4JzBVyuUF0c1wnXCcb5RfDfnwQ5cwR3b0qdJUke1yeU9mtxFm-iYUSZlVqGGJ2yOIkfODUqVWofQgy5qUck6XSzdVswHDj60epp56GWd8ciUEj60KVYqB2kjTbHKyHp2KDJcKgpeOGXYdPxDjWj9j4uRqx5mgMuQ/s2048/310539889_2108289216046301_3739285957657742917_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSCoEmQGaCMMwRxK1ZgVfARcYSY4JzBVyuUF0c1wnXCcb5RfDfnwQ5cwR3b0qdJUke1yeU9mtxFm-iYUSZlVqGGJ2yOIkfODUqVWofQgy5qUck6XSzdVswHDj60epp56GWd8ciUEj60KVYqB2kjTbHKyHp2KDJcKgpeOGXYdPxDjWj9j4uRqx5mgMuQ/w400-h300/310539889_2108289216046301_3739285957657742917_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Doug Allen (K4LY) Shortwave Tuner</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIielHwprrkFZX7B5numY49hALKj9eziyFN_xy7JY1gXE8oiBkx4tVNzijn_IpqPt_tq-GKKQ2WcypbYqTHYdvvTz7pX25wqSDTIhSds7yKetsZXqXhbzjoSuUlAo7ZpGHJpZfD5kCMByfieGNJN89JePHbvA8qiH4s0L1ko9nHZxeVM-TKnpw72NLLA/s640/309278095_1219676101919641_3204002148341893689_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIielHwprrkFZX7B5numY49hALKj9eziyFN_xy7JY1gXE8oiBkx4tVNzijn_IpqPt_tq-GKKQ2WcypbYqTHYdvvTz7pX25wqSDTIhSds7yKetsZXqXhbzjoSuUlAo7ZpGHJpZfD5kCMByfieGNJN89JePHbvA8qiH4s0L1ko9nHZxeVM-TKnpw72NLLA/w300-h400/309278095_1219676101919641_3204002148341893689_n.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Don Dulmage (VE3LYX) Loop SW Tuner</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivxhjd95zxrrrPF1HX5MMGlwOmDfxMYcrBCeYwvBUASK-5f5jCJ7psWBU6VzYMO9fsxwHBdjufZt-17tSj9hji_gTa6i6S0mHwEZq8O58LJA265XxtOM4rYXRCYp-8aBJbSFPj5r1RpCPySLtQbiKjJthWqrrVhcqaUkbyklg7Sejx1onJiRTUxH11zQ/s552/310627585_2108286962713193_327204588982055406_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="552" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivxhjd95zxrrrPF1HX5MMGlwOmDfxMYcrBCeYwvBUASK-5f5jCJ7psWBU6VzYMO9fsxwHBdjufZt-17tSj9hji_gTa6i6S0mHwEZq8O58LJA265XxtOM4rYXRCYp-8aBJbSFPj5r1RpCPySLtQbiKjJthWqrrVhcqaUkbyklg7Sejx1onJiRTUxH11zQ/w400-h363/310627585_2108286962713193_327204588982055406_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Doug Allen (K4LY) Shortwave Tuner</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-47360197469342203332022-10-04T15:06:00.001-07:002022-10-04T15:06:06.941-07:00The DX Central's Weekly MW Frequency Challenge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkgTDlLgpyPa1RhXuSHLh-tUhlxeDidW06zJhI7dB_bFwURj-t_0nI5HJq7I3YGQUawfb5ACZkzKc6cxurfqTleVyHq_2c4pCzdt3qmbeT6Y1rfBfg1o1bqZJVJTkzYmaJJ8i3Lu7o6TrzuVXqSF9gR3l52JNoRdmsENfzHwWjqJ_oRaqx2DXmqIkoUQ/s400/OldRadioDial.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="400" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkgTDlLgpyPa1RhXuSHLh-tUhlxeDidW06zJhI7dB_bFwURj-t_0nI5HJq7I3YGQUawfb5ACZkzKc6cxurfqTleVyHq_2c4pCzdt3qmbeT6Y1rfBfg1o1bqZJVJTkzYmaJJ8i3Lu7o6TrzuVXqSF9gR3l52JNoRdmsENfzHwWjqJ_oRaqx2DXmqIkoUQ/w400-h288/OldRadioDial.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>If you enjoy DXing the broadcast band, then the weekly<b> ‘DX Central MW Frequency Challenge'</b> may be of interest to you. It’s run and organized by <b>Loyd Van Horn, W4LVH</b>, a dedicated DXer and a big promoter of BCB DXing.</p><p><br />Basically, participants are asked to listen on the chosen frequency (or frequencies) for a one week period (Friday to Friday) and report what they have been able to identify. Results of course will be different throughout the continent but if you are near any other listeners, it’s always fun to compare your final results.</p><p></p><p>The new frequency (or frequencies) are announced <b>Friday evening </b> on Loyd's regular live-feed <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/DXCentral/videos">Youtube channel</a></b> as well as on his Twitter feed <b>@dxcentral</b> <br /></p><p><br />Loggings are reported via a <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9WNoU3iux9gfG4BlTKe27gSD_5oYOSsYU-4GXiK7x2hoOyw/viewform">fill-in form</a></b> which is updated weekly.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>This week's frequencies are 670-702kHz - What do you here there?</b></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-82677089601446463212022-09-19T21:41:00.001-07:002022-12-19T18:52:16.145-08:00Summer Radio Project Completed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVuj2-30_4C9n5qBFNY-39c87ncZizu94bffboMysntTaKzq4Mf0jtJW0oFwTpH4OhNzJNraw3DR03p1ZSvJBNCwHy4BcEELW5qTmZAVSk5qsNvuPQjC5PuPcVc7kT-_kUyDtg_g6DR-wLJkIzx9J0OK22NUGs4vpkatAQvM84DdBRtEAKxEjqgqAz2A/s544/spots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="523" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVuj2-30_4C9n5qBFNY-39c87ncZizu94bffboMysntTaKzq4Mf0jtJW0oFwTpH4OhNzJNraw3DR03p1ZSvJBNCwHy4BcEELW5qTmZAVSk5qsNvuPQjC5PuPcVc7kT-_kUyDtg_g6DR-wLJkIzx9J0OK22NUGs4vpkatAQvM84DdBRtEAKxEjqgqAz2A/s320/spots.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;">My summer radio project, motivated by a magazine article published in 1936, has now been completed and fully described on my main website. Hopefully we can soon exchange Cycle 25 signals with it on the higher bands:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"> <a href=" https://qsl.net/ve7sl/6a6.html"><b> https://qsl.net/ve7sl/6a6.html</b></a></span></div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-79409319555057332532022-08-24T12:12:00.007-07:002022-08-24T12:13:42.525-07:00Hunting For NDBs In CLE283<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNv7NEZlrzjHcw5N5ycjoswDR2-quiqwWsLmi7ADrELV9yKjpp3BDkmqz7nUNoiXOupws37bl3NZ8F1PgOEukDs139T30l-08qEDHO5oe1bqOCnIqcBpGYowueuVqRSe1zm-dSJwqVf0hp7NRPQI_5KrS3GnonNnDXab3OmTg5lJ53TsSyvUQPCbRbsg/s780/kiwi.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="780" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNv7NEZlrzjHcw5N5ycjoswDR2-quiqwWsLmi7ADrELV9yKjpp3BDkmqz7nUNoiXOupws37bl3NZ8F1PgOEukDs139T30l-08qEDHO5oe1bqOCnIqcBpGYowueuVqRSe1zm-dSJwqVf0hp7NRPQI_5KrS3GnonNnDXab3OmTg5lJ53TsSyvUQPCbRbsg/w400-h250/kiwi.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Time marches on and once again, it's CLE time. This is an opportunity for you to discover the <b>KIWI SDR </b><b>online </b><b>network</b> and to put it to use for hunting NDBs ... either close to you or on the other side of the world!</p><div class="WordSection1">'<b>CLE</b>'s are '<b>C</b>o-ordinated <b>L</b>istening <b>E</b>vents, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time on one small slice of the NDB spectrum.</div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When tuning for NDBs, put your receiver </span><b>in the CW mode</b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> and listen for the NDB's CW identifier, repeated every few seconds. Listen for U.S. NDB identifiers approximately 1 kHz higher or lower than the published transmitted frequency since these beacons are modulated with a </span><b>1020</b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Hz tone approximately.</span></div><div class="WordSection1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For example, '<b>AA</b>' near Fargo, ND, transmitted on <b>365</b> kHz and its upper sideband CW identifier was tuned at <b>366.025</b> kHz while its lower sideband CW ident could be tuned at <b>363.946</b> kHz. Its USB tone was actually <b>1025</b> Hz while its LSB tone was <b>1054</b> Hz.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often, one sideband will be much stronger than the other so if you don't hear the first one, try listening on the other sideband.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canadian NDBs normally have an USB tone only, usually very close to <b>400</b> Hz. They also have a long dash (keydown) following the CW identifier.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All NDBs heard in North America will be listed in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals">RNA database</a></b> (updated daily) while those heard in Europe may be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/reu/signals">REU database</a></b>. Beacons heard outside of these regions will be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rww/signals">RWW database</a></b>.</span><br /><br />From CLE organizers comes the following CLE info:</p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hello all <br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here are the final details for our special 283<sup>rd</sup> listening event which</span> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">starts this coming Friday. </span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Joachim and I are grateful for the questions, suggestions and help in the</span> </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">last few days. Thanks also to Martin, who has made some changes that </span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">improve the way RWW handles logs that have been made at remote receivers.</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Days: Friday 26 August - Monday 29 August</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /> Times: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">*</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Midday on Friday to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">*</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Midday on Monday, </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <u>local time</u> at your chosen REMOTE RX<br /> QRG: Normal LF/MF frequencies (190 - 1740 kHz)</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /> NDBs: A MAXIMUM of 100 normal NDBs (not DGPS, Navtex, Amateur, .. )<br /> (That’s not intended to be a target to reach!)<br /><br />Please check that you will be following the help given in the Early</span> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Advice, sent last Saturday, and in the later contributions to the List.</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Send your CLE log to the List, preferably as a plain text email (not in an attachment) with ‘CLE283 FINAL’ in its subject line.</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /> Please show on EVERY LINE of your log:</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /> # The date (e.g. '2022-08-27' or just the day no. '27')</span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and UTC*</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> # kHz (</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The beacon's nominal published frequency) </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> If you don’t know it, please visit </span><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://rxx.classaxe.com</span></a> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">where you will find all the details.</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /> # The Call Ident.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> *UTC is the same everywhere of course - but </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> *Midday <u>local time</u> can always be checked from your</span> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">browser by entering e.g. time timbuktu (try it now!)</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Show those main items FIRST on each line, before other optional</span> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">details such as Location, Distance, etc. If you send any interim logs</span> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">during the event, please also send your 'FINAL', complete one.</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please make your log interesting to everyone by giving details of the listening location and brief details of the receiver there that</span></span></i></b><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">you were using.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><br />We will send the usual 'Any More Logs?' email at about 19:00 UTC on Tuesday so you can check that your log has been found OK.</span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Do make sure that your log has arrived on the List at the very latest by 08:00 UTC on Wednesday 31 August. We will then hope to</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">complete making the combined results within two or three days.</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Good listening</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Brian and Joachim<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> (CLE Coordinators)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span>-------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is additional information to help you in CLE283:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 12pt;">CLE283 – further guidance<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;">Please be aware that, because most of the available Web-SDRs can be shared with a number of other users, there may occasionally be a need to wait your turn to use a particular one.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">If you plan to participate in our upcoming CLE, you c</span><span lang="EN-US">an <span style="color: #1f497d;">use any one remote receiver for your loggings, stating its location (and web-address if possible) and with the owner’s permission if required.</span></span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You <span style="color: #1f497d;">may NOT also use another receiver, to make further loggings for the same CLE.</span></span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Here’s a list of what can be found on the internet and there are definitely many more</span><span lang="EN-US">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Kiwi receiver map</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;"> : </span><a href="http://rx.linkfanel.net/"><b><span lang="EN-US">http://rx.linkfanel.net/</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">The KiWi-receivers are amongst the most popular web-controlled remote-receivers and there are many of them to explore all over the world.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Simply select a receiver from the map and it will start playing.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">The KiWi-software is easy to use. For beacon hunting I found that it is best to switch to CW mode, fully zoom in and set the bandwidth to about 40 Hz by dragging the left and/or right side of the bandwidth indicator until the bandwidth suits your needs.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Type “h” or “?” to see a list of keyboard shortcuts. Also a right-click in the waterfall or frequency scale will bring up a Kiwi-specific menu.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;"> </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">WebSDR receiver List and map </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">: </span><a href="http://www.websdr.org/"><b><span lang="EN-US">http://www.websdr.org/</span></b></a><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">You can select a receiver from the list by clicking on the displayed link. However, you should make sure it supports the desired frequency band by observing the information in column “Frequency Range” because not all receivers do support the NDB-Band.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">However, the wide band web-sdr at the University of Twente does and it is, by far, the most popular receiver using the websdr-software.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">There’s also a search box near the top of the page allowing you to specify the frequency range.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">To access the receivers-map, you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom </span><a href="http://www.utwente.nl"><span lang="DE" style="color: #1f497d; text-decoration-line: none;">of</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;"> the web page.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Clicking on the icon for a particular receiver displays an info-box which shows the available frequency ranges as well as a link to start the receiver.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;"> </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="color: #1f497d;">GlobalTuners</span></b><span lang="DE" style="color: #1f497d;"> : </span><a href="https://www.globaltuners.com/"><b><span lang="EN-US">https://www.globaltuners.com/</span></b></a><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">GlobalTuners provides access to remotely controlled radio receivers all over the world. </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">You can tune the receivers to listen to any desired frequency band. </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Be aware that this webpage requires a login to access any of the available receivers.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Also, for most of the receivers, listening time has been limited by the operators.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;"> </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">SDR-Console :</span></b><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">You can use Simon Brown’s marvelous software SDR-Console to listen to a huge number of remote receivers.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Simply download SDR-Console from </span><a href="https://www.sdr-radio.com/download#Release"><b><span lang="EN-US">https://www.sdr-radio.com/download#Release</span></b></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b> </b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span color="windowtext"> </span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">and install it on your PC.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Once the radio selection screen is displayed upon start of the software, select tab “Server”, click on button “Definitions”, click on “Search” and select “V3 Server”.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Then click on button SDRSpace.com and select a receiver from the list.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;"> </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Perseus SDR :</span></b><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">E<span style="color: #1f497d;">ach Perseus Receiver comes with a server module which allows sharing of this Rx via the internet.</span></span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">You can select those receivers via the Perseus server-map : </span><a href="http://microtelecom.it/map/ServersMap.html"><b><span lang="EN-US">http://microtelecom.it/map/ServersMap.html</span></b></a><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">However, this requires a Perseus SDR and the Perseus Software to be installed on your pc. </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Please be aware, that listening to a Perseus server needs some forwarding of TCP/UDP-Ports in your firewall.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #1f497d; margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span lang="EN-US">Forwarding port 8014 (UDP Protocol) to your computer (if you are behind a router);</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #1f497d; margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span lang="EN-US">“Unblocking” the Perseus software in Windows Firewall (automatically requested by Windows o/s at the first run)</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">Please refer to the manual (Client-Server Perseus Software Reference - EN02.pdf) which comes with the Perseus software for more information.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;"> </span><a href="https://rx-tx.info/"><b><span lang="EN-US">https://rx-tx.info/</span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">This webpage provides a good start if you are searching for a web-receiver.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;">You can search by selecting </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><ol start="3" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #1f497d; margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span lang="EN-US">a preview page</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #1f497d; margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span lang="EN-US">a table showing information of the available bands and location info as well as the type of receiver </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #1f497d; margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span lang="EN-US">a map </span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #1f497d; margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span lang="EN-US">the receiver type (Kiwi-receivers, WebSDR receivers and OpenWebRX receivers)</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f497d;"> OpenWebRx is a clone of the “Kiwi SDR-Software” and allows to put all kinds of SDR receivers on the internet using a small Linux PC like the RaspBerry Pi.</span><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is some additional advice from Martin Francis, the designer of the RWW database:</span></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia;">And remember, if you are using a radio in Australia for example - choose RWW as your system; if your receiver is in Europe REU will be your choice; if it's in the Caribbean, you will choose RNA.</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia;">You can use the filtering capabilities in the RXX system to give you likely targets - so if that remote radio is in New Zealand, you can show signals that have been heard IN New Zealand.</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia;">And if the radio you choose is already in the RXX system, you can go to 'Personalise' and select that actual radio to see distances and bearings to each station in your targets list.</span></i></b></p><p><strong><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia;">NOTES ON LOGGINGS:</span></i></strong></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia;">If you submit logs from a location NOT already listed in RXX, please include as much info as you can to help our admins get your logs uploaded and create a new profile for that location.</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia;">Please include the specific URL (website address) used to access the radio, together with the receiver owner's callsign if they have one, and the town, state / province (if it has one), country, timezone and Grid square.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText">
</p><p><b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia;">Also include the location YOU remotely operated the radio from (YOU are the OPERATOR in this scenario), especially if you haven't submitted a log before.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These listening events serve several purposes. They</span></p></div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• determine, worldwide, which beacons are actually in service and on-the-air so the newly-re-vamped <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals"><b>Rxx online database</b></a> can be kept up-to-date</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• determine, worldwide, which beacons are out-of-service or have gone silent since the last CLE covering this range</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will indicate the state of propagation conditions at the various participant locations</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will give you an indication of how well your LF/MF receiving system is working</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• give participants a fun yet challenging activity to keep their listening skills honed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Final details can be found at the <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>NDB List website</b></span></a>, and worldwide results, for every participant, will be posted there a few days after the event.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://groups.io/g/ndblist"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The NDB List Group</b></span></a> is a great place to learn more about the 'Art of NDB DXing' or to meet other DXers in your region. There is a lot of good information available there and new members are always very welcome. As well, you can fol</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">low the results of other CLE participants from night to night as propagation is always an active topic of discussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need not be an NDB List member to participate in the CLEs and all reports, no matter how small, are of much value to the organizers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Remember - 'First-time' logs are always VERY welcome!</b></i></span></span></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reports may be sent to the NDB List Group or e-mailed to CLE co-ordinator, Brian Keyte (G3SIA), whose address appears above. If you are a member of the group, all final results will also be e-mailed and posted there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please ... give the CLE a try ... then let us know what NDB's can be heard from your location! Your report can then be added to the worldwide database to help keep it up-to-date.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">Have fun and good hunting!</span></b></span></div><p> </p>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-29235961853476076372022-07-20T11:37:00.002-07:002022-07-20T11:37:45.965-07:00Hunting For NDBs in CLE282<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRHVztyhsYQMjtI73RoIwivxhi6ZfxsHbpYvrha4AcBLEuebwN7dkx__6ddZcPcmuU0_emarrcI8atH21n4e6tj7usWmeV7U7AqVWbCQSXSSJ_dXQAGp8y63vTmctc3Epscsu-bZuvJ_rLZr3_5edHJajvNiuFdUXnehvUDNbOcQsQoOPzS5r_3AAUAw/s1202/yld.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="1202" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRHVztyhsYQMjtI73RoIwivxhi6ZfxsHbpYvrha4AcBLEuebwN7dkx__6ddZcPcmuU0_emarrcI8atH21n4e6tj7usWmeV7U7AqVWbCQSXSSJ_dXQAGp8y63vTmctc3Epscsu-bZuvJ_rLZr3_5edHJajvNiuFdUXnehvUDNbOcQsQoOPzS5r_3AAUAw/w400-h265/yld.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>YLD-335 Chapleau, ON (ve3gop.com)</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>It's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your <b>medium frequency receiving capabilities</b>. Can you meet the challenge?</div><div class="WordSection1">'<b>CLE</b>'s are '<b>C</b>o-ordinated <b>L</b>istening <b>E</b>vents, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time on one small slice of the NDB spectrum.</div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1">It's back to a normal activity with a frequency span of<b> 335.0 - 349</b><b>.9</b> kHz.</div><div class="WordSection1"><br /></div><div class="WordSection1">A good target for all NA listeners is <b>YLD</b> on <b>335</b> kHz in Ontario. Listen for its upper sideband CW identifier on <b>335.405</b> kHz. I believe it is slated for decommissioning shortly ... hopefully I'm not too late for this one.</div><div class="WordSection1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When tuning for NDBs, put your receiver <b>in the CW mode</b> and listen for the NDB's CW identifier, repeated every few seconds. Listen for U.S. NDB identifiers approximately 1 kHz higher or lower than the published transmitted frequency since these beacons are modulated with a <b>1020</b> Hz tone approximately.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For example, '<b>AA</b>' near Fargo, ND, transmitted on <b>365</b> kHz and its upper sideband CW identifier was tuned at <b>366.025</b> kHz while its lower sideband CW ident could be tuned at <b>363.946</b> kHz. Its USB tone was actually <b>1025</b> Hz while its LSB tone was <b>1054</b> Hz.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often, one sideband will be much stronger than the other so if you don't hear the first one, try listening on the other sideband.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canadian NDBs normally have an USB tone only, usually very close to <b>400</b> Hz. They also have a long dash (keydown) following the CW identifier.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All NDBs heard in North America will be listed in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals">RNA database</a></b> (updated daily) while those heard in Europe may be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/reu/signals">REU database</a></b>. Beacons heard outside of these regions will be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rww/signals">RWW database</a></b>.</span><br /><br />From CLE organizers comes the following CLE info:</p></div><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hello all<br /><br />Here are the full details for this weekend's co-ordinated listening event.<br />It is open to everyone including CLE new-comers:<br /><br /></span> Days: Friday 22 July - Monday 25 July<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Times: Start and end at midday, your LOCAL time<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Range: 335.0 - 349.9 kHz<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Wherever you are, please join us and log the NDBs that you can positively identify that are listed in this busy frequency range (it includes 335.0 kHz but not 350 kHz) plus any UNIDs that you come across there.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Very short and very long logs are welcome (in-between ones are good too!)<br /><br />Send your CLE log to the List, preferably as a plain text email (not in an attachment) with ‘CLE282 FINAL’ in its subject line.<br /><br /> Please show on EVERY LINE of your log:</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /> # The date (e.g. '2022-07-23' or just the day no. '23') and UTC (the day changes at 00:00 UTC).</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /> # kHz (</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The beacon's nominal published frequency) <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">If you don’t know it, please visit: </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com">https://rxx.classaxe.com</a></span></i></b></span><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> where you will find all the details.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # The Call Ident.<br /><br />Show those main items FIRST on each line, before other optional </span></i></b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">details such as Location, Distance, etc. If you send any interim logs </span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">during the event, please also send your 'FINAL', complete one.</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Always make your log interesting to everyone by giving details of the listening location and brief details of the receiver</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">, aerial(s), etc., </span></span></i></b><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">that you were using.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><br />We will send the usual 'Any More Logs?' email at about 19:00 UTC on Tuesday so that you can check that your log has been found OK.<br />Do make sure that your log has arrived on the List at the very latest by 08:00 UTC on Wednesday 27 July. We will then hope to </span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">complete making the combined results within a day or two.</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />You can check on all CLE-related information from the CLE Page</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /> </span><a href="http://www.ndblist.info/cle.htm"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.ndblist.info/cle.htm</span></a></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It includes a link to seeklists for the Event from the Rxx Database.<br /><br />Good listening<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Brian and Joachim<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> (CLE Coordinators)</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">-------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">From: Brian Keyte G3SIA ndbcle'at'gmail.com<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Location: Surrey, SE England (CLE coordinator)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">-------------------------------------------------------------------</span></i></b><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">(Reminder: If you wish you can use a remote receiver for your loggings, stating its location and owner - with their permission if required.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">A remote listener may NOT also use another receiver, whether local or remote, to obtain further loggings for the same CLE)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These listening events serve several purposes. They</span></p></div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• determine, worldwide, which beacons are actually in service and on-the-air so the newly-re-vamped <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals"><b>Rxx online database</b></a> can be kept up-to-date</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• determine, worldwide, which beacons are out-of-service or have gone silent since the last CLE covering this range</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will indicate the state of propagation conditions at the various participant locations</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will give you an indication of how well your LF/MF receiving system is working</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• give participants a fun yet challenging activity to keep their listening skills honed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Final details can be found at the <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>NDB List website</b></span></a>, and worldwide results, for every participant, will be posted there a few days after the event.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://groups.io/g/ndblist"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The NDB List Group</b></span></a> is a great place to learn more about the 'Art of NDB DXing' or to meet other DXers in your region. There is a lot of good information available there and new members are always very welcome. As well, you can fol</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">low the results of other CLE participants from night to night as propagation is always an active topic of discussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need not be an NDB List member to participate in the CLEs and all reports, no matter how small, are of much value to the organizers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Remember - 'First-time' logs are always VERY welcome!</b></i></span></span></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reports may be sent to the NDB List Group or e-mailed to CLE co-ordinator, Brian Keyte (G3SIA), whose address appears above. If you are a member of the group, all final results will also be e-mailed and posted there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please ... give the CLE a try ... then let us know what NDB's can be heard from your location! Your report can then be added to the worldwide database to help keep it up-to-date.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">Have fun and good hunting!</span></b></span></div><p> </p>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-11829421836347368022022-07-04T22:15:00.001-07:002022-07-04T22:15:30.634-07:00Neophyte Twins - An Update<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxdqwXJL6jhb4o3dUK6xgS3E6KTUi8Cn75GcYsr-sycP7BYhcRWwqWmhXmdVHwnAc_nOV-iTQjOzc9pMCRgHBgq4n6FT0DCovoS0eSpsUJlMmjMJVXTHHaJO99f6Ok8X-IL3WyZnNyV7Oy0dsD8aenHsu-V46SxlIa-IQJCAd6GGi7QZxYZ0vXE-lag/s620/neotx1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="620" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxdqwXJL6jhb4o3dUK6xgS3E6KTUi8Cn75GcYsr-sycP7BYhcRWwqWmhXmdVHwnAc_nOV-iTQjOzc9pMCRgHBgq4n6FT0DCovoS0eSpsUJlMmjMJVXTHHaJO99f6Ok8X-IL3WyZnNyV7Oy0dsD8aenHsu-V46SxlIa-IQJCAd6GGi7QZxYZ0vXE-lag/w400-h313/neotx1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Blog readers may recall my last two construction projects, the <a href="https://qsl.net/ve7sl/neophyte.html"><b>‘Neophyte’ 1-tube regenerative receiver</b></a> and a matching <a href="https://qsl.net/ve7sl/neotx.html"><b>‘Neophyte’ 1-tube crystal-controlled transmitter</b></a>. The receiver turned out to be an exceptionally good performer once some slight tweaks were made to the original design published back in 1968.</p>
<div class="plain_line">It worked so well that I then decided to build a simple 1-tube transmitter to physically match the receiver and put together another circuit from the 60s using a 5763. Once I had the pair working well together, I set myself a goal of <b>Worked All States</b> <b>on 40m CW with the tiny pair</b>. I had a tremendous amount of fun during the cold winter nights and slowly worked my way through the list of states, eventually working and <b>confirming all 50 states</b>.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">Over a period of about 7 months I once again managed to work <b>all 50 states</b>, mainly all on <b>3560kHz</b>, with most of the contacts being made shortly before or shortly after my dinner hour of 1800 local time. There turned out to be a lot of good ears out there and fine bunch of great CW ops, all able to pull my signal through the noise. It was fascinating to hear the difference in propagation from one night to the next while operating at the same time period each night. Most nights produced no new states as they seemed to come in bunches, with <b>December 9, 2021</b> being particularly good, producing <b>IA, ID, MI, ME, PA and AL, </b>while<b> February 21, 2022 </b>brought<b> NH, MS and AK.</b></div>
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<div class="plain_line">After working all 50 states, it took several more weeks to gather <b>all of the prized cards</b>.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">Next winter’s <b>new one-tube project</b>, circa 1936, is now in the mock-up testing phase and should provide some challenging DX fun on 10, 15 and 20m as Solar Cycle 25 breaths new life into the higher bands … stay tuned for an update soon!</div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-65139144068076609412022-06-22T18:54:00.000-07:002022-06-22T18:54:18.354-07:00Hunting For NDBs In CLE281<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4M2XDz_1VxcGCFcqV20jhq3Gn9HQxjhmIGu3trNHY0Pbb2MjqS8-vsYgdCB-23AaQgghRnjy36koxCN4a7Wpgs2Q_2AsiCaQLkgFOrOnBK3JZO7kYqJ3Of2R4IXnqrA9iFHdNfr5IJmZIFvzoiaeqTiWGhy7CQm0JOHGhKJd769gjRguqc9FHNC0Mdg/s800/YIV_Antenna.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="800" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4M2XDz_1VxcGCFcqV20jhq3Gn9HQxjhmIGu3trNHY0Pbb2MjqS8-vsYgdCB-23AaQgghRnjy36koxCN4a7Wpgs2Q_2AsiCaQLkgFOrOnBK3JZO7kYqJ3Of2R4IXnqrA9iFHdNfr5IJmZIFvzoiaeqTiWGhy7CQm0JOHGhKJd769gjRguqc9FHNC0Mdg/w400-h265/YIV_Antenna.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>YIV-300 Island Lake, MB (ve3gop.com)</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p>It's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your <b>medium frequency receiving capabilities</b>. Can you meet the challenge?</p><div class="WordSection1">'<b>CLE</b>'s are '<b>C</b>o-ordinated <b>L</b>istening <b>E</b>vents, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time on one small slice of the NDB spectrum.</div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1">It's a little different this time, with beacon hunters asked to report NDBs heard on any and all <b>of the 10kHz markers only ... ie. 350, 360 ..</b></div><div class="WordSection1"><br /></div><div class="WordSection1">A <b>central target</b> for listeners in North America is <b>YIV - 300 kHz</b> in <b>Island Lake, Manitoba.</b> Listen for <b>YIV's </b>upper sideband on <b>300.401 kHz</b>. <b>YIV's 500 watts</b> is widely heard throughout North America and has been logged in Europe. Can you find it?</div><div class="WordSection1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When tuning for NDBs, put your receiver <b>in the CW mode</b> and listen for the NDB's CW identifier, repeated every few seconds. Listen for U.S. NDB identifiers approximately 1 kHz higher or lower than the published transmitted frequency since these beacons are modulated with a <b>1020</b> Hz tone approximately.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For example, '<b>AA</b>' near Fargo, ND, transmitted on <b>365</b> kHz and its upper sideband CW identifier was tuned at <b>366.025</b> kHz while its lower sideband CW ident could be tuned at <b>363.946</b> kHz. Its USB tone was actually <b>1025</b> Hz while its LSB tone was <b>1054</b> Hz.</span><br /></p><p><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often, one sideband will be much stronger than the other so if you don't hear the first one, try listening on the other sideband.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canadian NDBs normally have an USB tone only, usually very close to <b>400</b> Hz. They also have a long dash (keydown) following the CW identifier.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All NDBs heard in North America will be listed in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals">RNA database</a></b> (updated daily) while those heard in Europe may be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/reu/signals">REU database</a></b>. Beacons heard outside of these regions will be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rww/signals">RWW database</a></b>.</span><br /><br />From CLE organizers comes the following CLE info:</p></div><div class="plain_line"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Hello all,<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Here are all the details for this weekend's co-ordinated listening event.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span lang="EN-GB">This one will be a bit different - w</span><span lang="EN-GB">e shall be trying out a new kind of ‘Special’. </span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"> Days: Friday 24 June - Monday 27 June</span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span lang="EN-GB"> Times: Start and End at midday, your LOCAL time</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"> Target: NDBs with nominal (published) frequencies of:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"> 200, 210, 220, 230, ………. . . , 1630 kHz<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"> i.e. the NDBs on any/all of the 10 kHz markers<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"> but none on other frequencies (including nnn.5)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">We hope this will provide a few more (mid-summer) NDBs than usual for Northern Hemisphere listeners - and for sure a (mid-winter) bonus for Southern Hemisphere listeners who always have relatively few NDBs within range. </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">The usual ‘rules’ for log-making will apply. First-time CLE logs, short or long, will also be very welcome, wherever you are listening from.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Please log the NDBs you can positively identify that are listed on the ‘ ---0.0 kHz’ frequencies, plus any UNIDs heard there too.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Send your CLE log to <a href="mailto:ndblist@groups.io">ndblist@groups.io</a> with CLE281 and FINAL at the start of its title.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Please show on EVERY LINE of your log:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"> # The date and UTC (the day changes at 00:00 UTC).<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"> # kHz - the beacon's nominal published frequency, if you know it.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"> # The Call Ident.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Show those main items FIRST on each line, before any optional details such as the NDB's Location, Distance, Offsets, Cycle time, etc.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">As always, make your log meaningful to everyone by including your listening location and details of the receiver, aerial(s), etc.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">It would be OK to use one remote receiver, with the owner's permission if necessary, provided that ALL your loggings for the CLE are made using it.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Joachim or I will send the usual 'Any More Logs?' email at about 19:00 UTC on Tuesday so that you can check that your log has been found OK.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Do make sure that your log has arrived on the List at the very latest by 08:00 UTC on Wed. 29<sup>th</sup> June.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">We hope to complete making the combined results within a day or two.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">You can find all CLE-related information from our CLE page ( <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/cle.htm">http://www.ndblist.info/cle.htm</a> ).</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Good listening</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;"> Brian & Joachim</span></i></b></span></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These listening events serve several purposes. They</span></p></div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• determine, worldwide, which beacons are actually in service and on-the-air so the newly-re-vamped <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals"><b>Rxx online database</b></a> can be kept up-to-date</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• determine, worldwide, which beacons are out-of-service or have gone silent since the last CLE covering this range</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will indicate the state of propagation conditions at the various participant locations</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will give you an indication of how well your LF/MF receiving system is working</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• give participants a fun yet challenging activity to keep their listening skills honed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Final details can be found at the <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>NDB List website</b></span></a>, and worldwide results, for every participant, will be posted there a few days after the event.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://groups.io/g/ndblist"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The NDB List Group</b></span></a> is a great place to learn more about the 'Art of NDB DXing' or to meet other DXers in your region. There is a lot of good information available there and new members are always very welcome. As well, you can fol</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">low the results of other CLE participants from night to night as propagation is always an active topic of discussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need not be an NDB List member to participate in the CLEs and all reports, no matter how small, are of much value to the organizers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Remember - 'First-time' logs are always VERY welcome!</b></i></span></span></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reports may be sent to the NDB List Group or e-mailed to CLE co-ordinator, Brian Keyte (G3SIA), whose address appears above. If you are a member of the group, all final results will also be e-mailed and posted there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please ... give the CLE a try ... then let us know what NDB's can be heard from your location! Your report can then be added to the worldwide database to help keep it up-to-date.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">Have fun and good hunting!</span></b></span></div><p> </p>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-62939112477358581242022-06-03T22:52:00.000-07:002022-06-03T22:52:06.439-07:00FT8 and the Magic Band<p><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Now that 6m is in full swing once again, many of you will be operating FT8 on 6m for the first time! Things are a little different on 6m compared to operating FT8 on HF and here are a few things for newcomers that might help to keep you out of the naughty corner! (originally published in 2020 but still important today)</b></span></p><p> </p><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP9FDt0x2B73LTtD77Sk9HY7ZjS9AWqy87AgEam3tNCUtSfMODjEPwRddHOVoV77h3nmx3DMY1fjG_VVyyu0cB5EUjNhg2es5TrW90g36rkrDaeAJMwN-BlVdAixZYLqMDMIFlFIwNlZV0/s1600/wiz.gif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP9FDt0x2B73LTtD77Sk9HY7ZjS9AWqy87AgEam3tNCUtSfMODjEPwRddHOVoV77h3nmx3DMY1fjG_VVyyu0cB5EUjNhg2es5TrW90g36rkrDaeAJMwN-BlVdAixZYLqMDMIFlFIwNlZV0/s1600/wiz.gif" /></a><br />
<br />
Today’s blog is directed to those that may be new to 6m or new to using FT8 on
6m. Some of the things discussed will make your experience on the magic band
better for you and better for your neighbors.<br />
<br />
Unlike using FT8 on the HF
bands, 6m presents some different challenges, especially if you operate in a
region where there may be a lot of other locals also using the band at the same
time.<br />
<br />
<br />
Although the weak-signal capability of FT8 has made it possible for
many smaller stations or those with makeshift antennas to take advantage of the
unique propagation 6m has to offer, it also can create problems for other users
of the band when used inappropriately. In regions of dense population, even
small stations can create very high local signal levels, often making it
impossible for their neighbors to hear weak signals. This is not
deliberately-caused QRM but arises when some operators operate 'against the
flow’ and transmit on the opposite ‘sequence’ to everyone else in their local
area.<br />
<br />
On HF, one can transmit or listen on whatever time sequence they
wish. Choosing ‘<b>TX 1st</b>’ or ‘<b>TX 2nd</b>’ is usually determined by who you hear
calling CQ or who you wish to work. On 6m however, in a densely-populated region of
local operators, chosing to transmit whenever you want to is a luxury that can
create big problems for your neighbor who may be trying to hear that weak DX signal
while you are transmitting!<br />
<br />
These problem will not occur if everybody in
the region uses and follows the same transmit-receive periods, so that everyone
is listening or everyone is transmitting at the same time ... one or the other.
Unfortunately, this ‘ideal’ system falls apart easily when one or more of your neighbors is not using the same sequence as everyone else.<br />
<br />
For the past
few years, a protocol that seeks to alleviate this problem has become popular
and well accepted by those familiar with it. Those new to 6m may not know about
it or understand the reasoning behind it.<br />
<br />
Above all, I would urge new users of
the band, or to the FT8 mode, to first listen carefully for a few minutes,
before beginning operation, to determine what the majority of stations in their
local region are using for sequencing. If they are using ‘TX 1st’, then your
choice of ‘TX 2nd’ will likely cause hearing difficulty for many others, as well as for yourself.<br />
<br />
Although there are no strict rules, there is a very successful and
well-practiced protocol, and that is that the ‘easternmost’ station transmits on ‘1st’ while
the ‘western end’ goes 2nd’. This is why you will hear most eastern stations in
the morning hours transmitting ‘2nd’, as they are usually calling or looking for
Europeans to their east, who are transmitting ‘1st’. By the same token, you will
also hear western stations transmitting on '2nd', who are also looking for Europe to their east, transmitting on
‘1st’.<br />
<br />
This sequencing protocol usually reverses later in the day when
signals from Asia become a possibility, and all North Americans then become the
‘easternmost’ stations and will transmit on the ‘1st’ sequence ... unlike in the
morning. I can easily see how newcomers to the band could become confused, when
they hear both sequences being used! The best thing, once again, is to listen
carefully first and then ‘go with the flow’.<br />
<br />
You can read about the UK's Six Metre Group's initiatives regarding these protocols <a href="http://uksmg.org/ft8-code-of-practice.php"><b>HERE</b>.</a><br />
<br />
OK... so you’re not
interested in EU or Asia? Then it shouldn’t matter to you which sequence
that you use and best operating practice would again be to ‘go with the
flow’ in consideration of other users.<br />
<br />
A
few days ago I saw a prime example of exactly what not to do, in too many
respects. I made a posting on the <b><a href="http://www.on4kst.com/chat/start.php">ON4KST 6m chat page</a></b> that VE1SKY in NS (Nova
Scotia) was being decoded here, mainly to alert others in my region that
European signals might be coming next, as hearing the VE1s in BC is often an
indicator that the European path is building.<br />
<br />
In less than a minute, an
S9+ local began calling ‘CQ NS’ on the exact opposite sequence of all others ...
effectively blocking the waterfall and any possible hope of hearing weak EU
signals. I’m sorry, but this is just terrible operating procedure, with almost
zero chance of success, while showing no consideration for nearby users.<br />
<br />
Just like working DX on CW or on phone, the best
way, as it always has been, is to ‘<b>listen, listen and then listen some more</b>’.
You will work FAR more DX by listening and calling at the right time, than you
will by calling CQ.<br />
<br />
I also see some local stations everyday, calling
endless CQs, often for over 60 minutes straight and often with many
replies that go unnoticed. With FT8, one can check ‘work 1st’, go
away, and return later to see who they might have ‘worked’. Perhaps this
is what
these operators are doing, but they should understand that they are also
creating
non-stop QRM for other users ... those that choose to listen carefully
to the band
rather than to endlessly CQ. Once again, this is just poor practice.<br />
<br />
You may
argue that if nobody called CQ, then there would be no contacts made. There is
nothing wrong with a few CQs but CQing for an hour? And don’t worry, there will
always be other stations CQing endlessly for you to hear, even if it’s not a
great way to operate.<br />
<br />
With a little pre-planning for sequencing and
consideration for your neighbors, everyone can and should be able to enjoy 6m
FT8 with very few problems ... and that is my hope for all of us.<br />
<br />
After forty-eight
summers of CW and phone on 6m and two summers on FT8, these are some of my
initial thoughts on how to best operate for <b>maximum success</b> and <b>consideration for other
band-users</b>.<br />
<br />
The latter is part of the basic framework upon which amateur radio was
originally established, when back in 1914, the ARRL described in their
'Code of Conduct' for amateurs ... "<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><b>The
Amateur is Gentlemanly. He never knowingly uses the air for his own
amusement in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others." </b></i></span><br />
<br />
Now, let the magic, and the pleasure, continue!<br />
<br /><br /></p>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-49320352293465139332022-05-25T18:48:00.001-07:002022-05-25T18:48:43.218-07:00Hunting For NDBs in CLE280<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjAZXb5k7Is8zsQbMnOhsXotJMth5kIBlsCi65Bct5txD249OWoA7ZQyxgz0EjCOyFmb6gYvy1W8pJ-qbjkyLL_ZG-IYYLHlBmx-Uv1pjNYUvORYzm-b3eFDJwjec6HhdxcHbjx09GHEbyxk52UIstpLlOg9EqlUt3N1Z6rAsa5KDHfl4BtZpTW7mwg/s317/Tee.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="317" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjAZXb5k7Is8zsQbMnOhsXotJMth5kIBlsCi65Bct5txD249OWoA7ZQyxgz0EjCOyFmb6gYvy1W8pJ-qbjkyLL_ZG-IYYLHlBmx-Uv1pjNYUvORYzm-b3eFDJwjec6HhdxcHbjx09GHEbyxk52UIstpLlOg9EqlUt3N1Z6rAsa5KDHfl4BtZpTW7mwg/s1600/Tee.gif" width="317" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>It's CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your <b>medium frequency receiving capabilities</b>. Can you meet the challenge?</p><div class="WordSection1">'<b>CLE</b>'s are '<b>C</b>o-ordinated <b>L</b>istening <b>E</b>vents, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time on one small slice of the NDB spectrum.</div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1">It's back to an 'almost normal' activity but with a slightly wider frequency span:<b> 350.0 - 369</b><b>.9</b> kHz.</div><div class="WordSection1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When tuning for NDBs, put your receiver <b>in the CW mode</b> and listen for the NDB's CW identifier, repeated every few seconds. Listen for U.S. NDB identifiers approximately 1 kHz higher or lower than the published transmitted frequency since these beacons are modulated with a <b>1020</b> Hz tone approximately.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For example, '<b>AA</b>' near Fargo, ND, transmitted on <b>365</b> kHz and its upper sideband CW identifier was tuned at <b>366.025</b> kHz while its lower sideband CW ident could be tuned at <b>363.946</b> kHz. Its USB tone was actually <b>1025</b> Hz while its LSB tone was <b>1054</b> Hz.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often, one sideband will be much stronger than the other so if you don't hear the first one, try listening on the other sideband.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canadian NDBs normally have an USB tone only, usually very close to <b>400</b> Hz. They also have a long dash (keydown) following the CW identifier.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All NDBs heard in North America will be listed in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals">RNA database</a></b> (updated daily) while those heard in Europe may be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/reu/signals">REU database</a></b>. Beacons heard outside of these regions will be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rww/signals">RWW database</a></b>.</span><br /><br />From CLE organizers comes the following CLE info:</p></div><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Hello all<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Our 280<sup>th</sup> Co-ordinated Listening Event is almost here.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Can new 'listening eventers' join in too? YES, PLEASE! <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Joachim and I are always pleased to help first-time CLE logs through the harvester program.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Days: Friday 27 May - Monday 30 May<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Times: Start and End at midday, your LOCAL time<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Range: 350.0 - 369.9 kHz <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Please log all the NDBs you can identify that are listed in this range (it includes 350 kHz but not 370) plus any UNIDs that you come across there.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">You can find full information to help you, including seeklists made from REU/RNA/RWW, by going to the CLE page <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/cle.htm">http://www.ndblist.info/cle.htm</a> and clicking on <u>CLE Seeklist</u> there.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Please send your 'Final' CLE log to the List, if possible as a plain text email and not in an attachment and - important - with 'CLE280' and 'FINAL'<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">in its title.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Please show the following main items FIRST on EVERY line of your log:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # The full Date (e.g. 2022-05-27) or just the day (e.g. 27)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> and UTC (the day changes at 00:00 UTC).<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # kHz - the beacon's nominal published frequency, if you know it.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> # The Call Ident.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Optional details such as Location and Distance go LATER in the same line.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Please always include details of your own location and brief details of the receiver, aerial(s), software and any other equipment you were using.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Joachim or I will send the usual 'Any More Logs?' email at about 20:00 UTC on Tuesday so you can check that your log has been found OK.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Make sure that your log has arrived at the very latest by 08:00 UTC on Wednesday 1 June. We hope to make all the combined results within a day or so.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Good listening<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;"> Brian<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">-------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">From: Brian Keyte G3SIA ndbcle'at'gmail.com<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">Location: Surrey, SE England (CLE coordinator)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></i></b><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">(Reminder: If you wish you can use a remote receiver for your loggings, stating its location and owner - with their permission if required.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">A remote listener may NOT also use another receiver, whether local or remote, to obtain further loggings for the same CLE)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These listening events serve several purposes. They</span></p></div><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• determine, worldwide, which beacons are actually in service and on-the-air so the newly-re-vamped <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals"><b>Rxx online database</b></a> can be kept up-to-date</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• determine, worldwide, which beacons are out-of-service or have gone silent since the last CLE covering this range</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will indicate the state of propagation conditions at the various participant locations</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will give you an indication of how well your LF/MF receiving system is working</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• give participants a fun yet challenging activity to keep their listening skills honed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Final details can be found at the <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>NDB List website</b></span></a>, and worldwide results, for every participant, will be posted there a few days after the event.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://groups.io/g/ndblist"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The NDB List Group</b></span></a> is a great place to learn more about the 'Art of NDB DXing' or to meet other DXers in your region. There is a lot of good information available there and new members are always very welcome. As well, you can fol</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">low the results of other CLE participants from night to night as propagation is always an active topic of discussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need not be an NDB List member to participate in the CLEs and all reports, no matter how small, are of much value to the organizers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Remember - 'First-time' logs are always VERY welcome!</b></i></span></span></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reports may be sent to the NDB List Group or e-mailed to CLE co-ordinator, Brian Keyte (G3SIA), whose address appears above. If you are a member of the group, all final results will also be e-mailed and posted there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please ... give the CLE a try ... then let us know what NDB's can be heard from your location! Your report can then be added to the worldwide database to help keep it up-to-date.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">Have fun and good hunting!</span></b></span></div><p> </p>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-85550729150733869922022-04-28T17:19:00.001-07:002022-04-28T17:19:24.318-07:00Crystal Radio Listening Event<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNJkrzuDebbSHeUeyhrPRcdQh-zTTOyhHz5T32T8nYiSeVhKYiLzS7c291jFyh8z2EM418SFHYI3Bj2AsVSYKJs0e2l4YdKbEoDbj21E58-Y07fuBZJe40VKdpcbE8HzNcjYrrpW6PXT3S3FsdHsAaE7N8xD-oPNnlaiU5C_BSukA6VLciSAE0rxub-w/s317/136tee2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="317" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNJkrzuDebbSHeUeyhrPRcdQh-zTTOyhHz5T32T8nYiSeVhKYiLzS7c291jFyh8z2EM418SFHYI3Bj2AsVSYKJs0e2l4YdKbEoDbj21E58-Y07fuBZJe40VKdpcbE8HzNcjYrrpW6PXT3S3FsdHsAaE7N8xD-oPNnlaiU5C_BSukA6VLciSAE0rxub-w/w320-h203/136tee2.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Do you have a crystal radio, homebrew or otherwise? If so and you haven't used it for awhile, here's a great opportunity to try it out again!</p><p>Facebook's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/crystalradiodxcontestgroup"><b>Crystal Radio DX Contest Group</b></a> ran a DX contest back in January but participation was fairly limited. After polling the group, it seemed that more members were interested in 'just listening' rather than competing in a contest. With this in mind along with the propagation moving into summer-like conditions, the upcoming <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">non-contest</span></b> <b>Crystal Radio Listening Event</b> two-night activity will take place on <b>May 13 & 14th (Friday & Saturday)</b>. With virtually no rules and no category restrictions, it is hoped that more crystal radio users will be encouraged to enter by listening and reporting to the group what they were able to hear. </p><p>If you are already a group member, please join in the discussion before, during and after the event and don't forget to post your log ... <b>even if you heard just one station!</b> As well, please indicate what you were using with a short description of your receiver and antenna. If you can include a photo, even better! Your participation will hopefully motivate others and generate more interest in crystal radio building and usage. If you are not a member of the group, new members are always welcome!</p><p>The only real 'rule' for this event is that your system must be a traditional 'passive' crystal receiver ... that is, <b>no amplification</b> of the signal can take place. Other than that, your receiver can be as simple or as complex as you like.</p><p>For non-members, your log and description can be sent to my mailbox indicated at the bottom. Please feel free to post a link to this blog to anyone or any group that you feel may have interest in participating. If you have further questions please ask in the comment section below or in the group chat. </p><p>I hope you are able to participate in the May listening event.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGbLkSgY1Im9in5YpTRfgcBYsVoC0HqbIEuVrXgPbJIvuYNwBga-kfzSPL4C-qjyD0bVaIAKVILnS8XCpFvB9zPX5DllNSniDWkzLtkprxn3IwBi275TbwHutIBuzPDzKLsgYrLTMt1h3B7GP-69xVz9THkf601aDXrBCj1Hb8CniVsaKE0QX8lXQwLg/s816/non-test2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="526" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGbLkSgY1Im9in5YpTRfgcBYsVoC0HqbIEuVrXgPbJIvuYNwBga-kfzSPL4C-qjyD0bVaIAKVILnS8XCpFvB9zPX5DllNSniDWkzLtkprxn3IwBi275TbwHutIBuzPDzKLsgYrLTMt1h3B7GP-69xVz9THkf601aDXrBCj1Hb8CniVsaKE0QX8lXQwLg/w412-h640/non-test2.jpg" width="412" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380839830287420877.post-76529992356899632262022-04-20T17:01:00.001-07:002022-04-20T17:01:14.873-07:00Hunting For NDBs In CLE279<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjAZXb5k7Is8zsQbMnOhsXotJMth5kIBlsCi65Bct5txD249OWoA7ZQyxgz0EjCOyFmb6gYvy1W8pJ-qbjkyLL_ZG-IYYLHlBmx-Uv1pjNYUvORYzm-b3eFDJwjec6HhdxcHbjx09GHEbyxk52UIstpLlOg9EqlUt3N1Z6rAsa5KDHfl4BtZpTW7mwg/s317/Tee.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="317" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjAZXb5k7Is8zsQbMnOhsXotJMth5kIBlsCi65Bct5txD249OWoA7ZQyxgz0EjCOyFmb6gYvy1W8pJ-qbjkyLL_ZG-IYYLHlBmx-Uv1pjNYUvORYzm-b3eFDJwjec6HhdxcHbjx09GHEbyxk52UIstpLlOg9EqlUt3N1Z6rAsa5KDHfl4BtZpTW7mwg/s1600/Tee.gif" width="317" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>It's CLE fun time once again.</p><div class="WordSection1">'<b>CLE</b>'s are '<b>C</b>o-ordinated <b>L</b>istening <b>E</b>vents, and NDB DXers around the world focus their listening time on one small slice of the NDB spectrum.</div><div class="WordSection1"> </div><div class="WordSection1">It's back to an 'almost normal' activity but with a slightly wider frequency span:<b> 320.0 - 334.9</b> kHz.<b><br /></b></div><div class="WordSection1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When tuning for NDBs, put your receiver <b>in the CW mode</b> and listen for the NDB's CW identifier, repeated every few seconds. Listen for U.S. NDB identifiers approximately 1 kHz higher or lower than the published transmitted frequency since these beacons are modulated with a <b>1020</b> Hz tone approximately.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For example, '<b>AA</b>' near Fargo, ND, transmitted on <b>365</b> kHz and its upper sideband CW identifier was tuned at <b>366.025</b> kHz while its lower sideband CW ident could be tuned at <b>363.946</b> kHz. Its USB tone was actually <b>1025</b> Hz while its LSB tone was <b>1054</b> Hz.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often, one sideband will be much stronger than the other so if you don't hear the first one, try listening on the other sideband.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canadian NDBs normally have an USB tone only, usually very close to <b>400</b> Hz. They also have a long dash (keydown) following the CW identifier.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All NDBs heard in North America will be listed in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals">RNA database</a></b> (updated daily) while those heard in Europe may be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/reu/signals">REU database</a></b>. Beacons heard outside of these regions will be found in the <b><a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rww/signals">RWW database</a></b>.</span><br /><br />From CLE organizers comes the following CLE info:</p></div><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">Hello all,<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">Here are all the details for this weekend's co-ordinated listening event.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">First time CLE logs too? Yes, please! <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">Short logs are always as welcome as long ones.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> Days: Friday 22 April - Monday 25 April<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> Times: Start and End at midday, your LOCAL time<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> Range: 320.0 - 334.9 kHz<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">Please log the NDBs you can positively identify that are listed in the frequency range, plus any UNIDs heard there too.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">Send your CLE log to <a href="mailto:ndblist@groups.io">ndblist@groups.io</a> with CLE279 and FINAL at the start of its title.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">Please show on EVERY LINE of your log:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> # The date and UTC (the day changes at 00:00 UTC).<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> # kHz - the beacon's nominal published frequency, if you know it.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> # The Call Ident.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">Show those main items FIRST on each line, before any optional details such as the NDB's Location, Distance, Offsets, Cycle time, etc.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">As always, make your log meaningful to everyone by including your listening location and details of the receiver, aerial(s), etc.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">It would be OK to use one remote receiver, with the owner's permission if necessary, provided that ALL your loggings for the CLE are made using it.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">Joachim or I will send the usual 'Any More Logs?' email at about 19:00 UTC on Tuesday so that you can check that your log has been found OK.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">Do make sure that your log has arrived on the List at the very latest by 08:00 UTC on Wed. 27th April.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">We hope to complete making the combined results within a day or two.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">You can find all CLE-related information from our CLE page ( <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/cle.htm">http://www.ndblist.info/cle.htm</a> ), including a link to the seek lists provided for this Event from the Rxx Database.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">Good listening<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"> Brian & Joachim<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">---------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">From: Brian Keyte G3SIA ndbcle'at'ndblist.info<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">Location: Surrey, SE England (CLE co-ordinator)<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</span></i></b></p></div><div class="WordSection1"><br /><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These listening events serve several purposes. They</span><br /></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">• determine, worldwide, which beacons are actually in service and on-the-air so the newly-re-vamped <a href="https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals"><b>Rxx online database</b></a> can be kept up-to-date</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• determine, worldwide, which beacons are out-of-service or have gone silent since the last CLE covering this range</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will indicate the state of propagation conditions at the various participant locations</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• will give you an indication of how well your LF/MF receiving system is working</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />• give participants a fun yet challenging activity to keep their listening skills honed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Final details can be found at the <a href="http://www.ndblist.info/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>NDB List website</b></span></a>, and worldwide results, for every participant, will be posted there a few days after the event.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://groups.io/g/ndblist"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The NDB List Group</b></span></a> is a great place to learn more about the 'Art of NDB DXing' or to meet other DXers in your region. There is a lot of good information available there and new members are always very welcome. As well, you can fol</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">low the results of other CLE participants from night to night as propagation is always an active topic of discussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need not be an NDB List member to participate in the CLEs and all reports, no matter how small, are of much value to the organizers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Remember - 'First-time' logs are always VERY welcome!</b></i></span></span></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reports may be sent to the NDB List Group or e-mailed to CLE co-ordinator, Brian Keyte (G3SIA), whose address appears above. If you are a member of the group, all final results will also be e-mailed and posted there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please ... give the CLE a try ... then let us know what NDB's can be heard from your location! Your report can then be added to the worldwide database to help keep it up-to-date.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">Have fun and good hunting!</span></b></span></div><p> </p>Steve McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06229640265009249231noreply@blogger.com0