Merry Christmas ...

I would like to wish all the readers of my blog the most Joyful and Peaceful Christmas time. And of course eventful new DX-year 2010!! It has been a very good DX-year in so many levels that you can´t really hope any better for year 2010 ...

Little update on my latest QSLs;

CBT Grand Falls, NL - 540 AM,
WMCA New York, NY - 570 AM,
KERR Polson, MT - 750 AM,
CJVA Caraquet, NB - 810 AM,
WFDF Farmington Falls, MN - 910 AM,
WNED Buffalo, NY - 970 AM,
WILB Canton, OH - 1060 AM,
WJML Petroskey, MI - 1110 AM,
KBND Bend, OR - 1110 AM,
WGAM Manchester, NH - 1250 AM,
WNBF Binghamton, NY - 1290 AM,
KUIK Hillsboro, OR - 1360 AM,
WBIZ Eau Claire, WI - 1400 AM,
CKOT Tillsonburg, ON - 1510 AM.

New founds from hard discs (not yet QSLed!); KTAR Phoenix, AZ - 620 AM, KBUF Holcomb, KS - 1030 AM, KYSM Mankato, MN - 1230 AM, KRFO Owatonna, MN - 1390 AM, WELY Ely, MN - 1450 AM, KANA Anaconda, MT - 580 AM, KVCK Wolf Point, MT - 1450 AM, KBRX O´Neill, NE - 1350 AM, KDWN Las Vegas, NV - 720 AM, KBRK Brookings, SD - 1430 AM, WFHR Wisconsin Rapids, WI - 1320 AM.

More to come ...

First QSL´s of LEM286 reports;

First e-mails are on their way and already some replies have arrived:

WGR Buffalo, NY - 550 AM
WTWK Plattsburgh, NY - 1070 AM
KRLD Dallas, TX - 1080 AM
WUPE Pittsfield, MA - 1110 AM
KDUZ Hutchinson, MN - 1260 AM
WFIF Milford, CT - 1500 AM

More later ... I hope ...

Back in business ...

Yep, LEM286 is now happily behind us and I have about 7 TB´s of stuff to go through ... in all I have to say that conditions to Asia (Japan and Korea in particular) and Spain, which were one of my main targets this time, were disappointments. However, I can´t complain about the NA-conditions ... not much anyway ... well, maybe the first week was little too challenging ... but we had nice openings to places like Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Minnesota, South Dakota, Eastern "ylämummo" etc ... lots of new catches that I already know and hopefully many more on that 7 TB signal-storage.

Only one QSL came during LEM286; Shaanxi PBS, Xianyang 693 AM replied with Chinese e-mail ...

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!

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.

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 ...

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 ...

New mail ...

Recent QSL´s;

R Svoboda, Kurkino - 1044 AM,
IRIB Radio Mazandaran, Sari 819 AM & Chalus 1215 AM,
Radio 107,5, Stockholm - 107,5 FM.

Mail from the north ...

Mail from the North Korea this time - Pyongyang BS, Sangwon - 855 AM replied with a card, schedules and brochures.

Planning on next LEM-pedition is well on the way. Last weekend I did some testing with renewed ZETA-program which I use to control NRD-535-receivers and installed Perseus- and timer-programs to my new 2,3GHz laptop. Everything worked very well. LEM286 starts on the 28th of November. There are also some very interesting news conserning LEM286-pedition, but I can´t yet tell any specifics until we are sure all things really happen like planned.