Radio St. Helena has announced that their annual Radio St. Helena Day will be held on November 14th, 2009. If you would like to try your shortwave listening skills, this is a fun event indeed. DXers around the world try to tune into the annual broadcast and snag St. Helena’s unique QSL card.
Below is the full press release from Radio St. Helena:
Radio St. Helena Day 2009 will be on Saturday, 14. November 2009.
The “Party On-The-Air” will have the following schedule.
Time in UTC Target Area(s)
20:00 – 21:00 India / Southeast Asia
21:00 – 22:00 Japan / Asia
22:00 – 23:30 Europe
23:30 – 01:00 North America / Central America / Caribbean
The transmission will be on 11092.5 KHz in Upper Side Band, as usual.
Radio St. Helena is very pleased to announce that the newly designed RSD 2009 QSL cards will be sponsored by the highly respected Japan Short Wave Club. This good news has been reported by Mr. T. Ohtake of the JSWC. It can truly be said, that without the very generous help of the JSWC, there would not have been a RSD Revival in 2006.
To get a QSL from Radio St. Helena, you must send a written and verifiable reception report
by AIRMAIL and include sufficient return postage. Email-reports will be not be verified. Recordings will not be returned. In EURO-countries, please send a 5-Euro banknote. Otherwise, please send 3 or more US dollar banknotes to cover the required return postage.
Radio St. Helena
P.O. Box 93
Jamestown , St. Helena
STHL 1ZZ
South Atlantic Ocean
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via AIRMAIL
via United Kingdom & Ascension
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The last two lines of the above address are very important and should be written as shown. Be sure to use sufficient postage on your letter to RSH. Ask at your local post office for the correct AIRMAIL postage for your letter to go all the way to St. Helena.
Emails and telephone calls from DXers everywhere are very welcome during the broadcasts.
A special email address for RSD 2009 will, probably, be announced in October.
Gary Walters and his Team at RSH wish everyone excellent listening conditions, hope that you enjoy the programming, and hope that the sunspots will be kinder to us this year.
With best 73’s,
Robert Kipp
(source: Radio St. Helena)
02 Nov 09: Note that the special email address for this event is:
radio.announcements4669 (at) msn.com
Click here to see St. Helena's remote location in the South Atlantic Ocean. (Map coutesy of Wikipedia)
Though the IC-735 is primarily a ham radio transceiver, it has general coverage and makes for an exceptional shortwave broadcast receiver as well. In fact, I have an IC-735 in my shack and use it primarily for SWLing. This unit was produced by Icom in the 1980’s; many are available now in the used market for around $325-450US. A great value for the money, especially if you also happen to be a ham.
