Thursday, November 26, 2009

LEM286

It´s time for the annual LURX DX-pedition to Lemmenjoki, which will start tomorrow. First about 1.000 kilometers north by train and then +200 kilometers further by car. Everything seems to be in order for excellent adventure - once again! You can follow the news (and other stuff) from LEM286 at

http://lem286.blogspot.com/

The site will be updated daily. And more often when we get tired ...

Other than that; Wuxi PBS kept their promise - I received nice snail-mail-letter yesterday verifying my reception of their broadcast. Well done!

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Wuxi RGD

Oh yes, I forgot that some days ago I also received nice e-mail reply from Wuxi RGD, Wuxi - 1161 AM. They also promised to send a snail-mail letter, so we´ll see if it comes through.

Radio Vocea Sperantei

Preparations for LEM286 is well on their way. Everything seems ok so far! There will be a blog for LEM286 this year also - I will inform about the webaddress here later on as the launch date comes closer. The pedition will be held between 28th of November and 12th of December.

Only one QSL since last message; Radio Vocea Sperantei - 1602 AM from Romania verified with nice letter, stickers, AWR-pennants etc. This was one station I didn´t know existing before I heard it on LEM264.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Mail from Spain

I sent my LEM264 -reports to Spain only by snail-mail as I was hoping to get replies that way, but then I got frustrated as even after follow-ups some stations still ignored my letters. So, I striked by e-mail and got some QSLs;

RNE-1 Aragón, Zaragoza - 639 AM,
RNE-1 Andalucia, Málaga - 729 AM,
COPE Badajoz - 1269 AM.

Especially that QSL from Zaragoza was truly mind-warming as the director had kindly searched from their archives that very same regional break I heard over a year ago and kindly send it to me as mp3-attachment so that I can listen to it with a bit better audio quality. Besides that it was of course a very nice confirmation to my reception as the program clip that I recorded really was the same they broadcasted :o) !!!

I´m also very pleased of that Málaga -QSL because both of those RNE-1 stations are truly rare and nice catches here in Finland! And of course, I have been sending reports to COPE Badajoz since late 1990´s so it was very nice to get that reception too finally confirmed ...

After that I have now received 13 QSLs to 16 LEM164 -reports to Spain (81,3 %), which is quite ok.

Also received yesterday one really nice QSL from Japan; JOVR SBS, Shizuoka - 1404 AM with nice letter, QSL-cards and stuff. QSLing Japanese has been a bit disappointing this year as I remember them being almost 100% sure QSLers. LEM264 gave me 12 new reports to Japan and so far only 5 of them has QSLed ... where is this world going ...

Monday, November 2, 2009

Great way ...

... to start a new month;

Family R, Lancer´s Gap/ Maseru, Lesotho - 1197 AM.
KCBS Pyongyang - 819 AM with snail-letter,
Voice of Vietnam, My Van - 549 & 675 AM &
Voice of Vietnam, Thoi Long - 711 & 1242 AM.

Busy, busy, busy ...