{"id":11846,"date":"2014-12-23T23:13:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T03:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11846"},"modified":"2014-12-24T09:25:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T13:25:27","slug":"grimeton-vlf-broadcast-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/grimeton-vlf-broadcast-on-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Grimeton VLF broadcast on Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Alexanderlogga_ny-kopiera.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11847\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Alexanderlogga_ny-kopiera.png\" alt=\"Alexanderlogga_ny-kopiera\" width=\"200\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a>In response to our <a title=\"WG2XFQ: Brian Justin\u2019s annual longwave broadcast Dec 24-25\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/wg2xfq-brian-justins-annual-longwave-broadcast-dec-24-25\/\">announcement\u00a0about WG2XFQ<\/a>, <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Kimmo, comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Christmas Eve event by Swedish Friends of Veteran Radio on VLF 17.2 kHz and SW may also be of interest to some. See more information here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdxf.se\/WP\/?p=3205\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sdxf.se\/WP\/?p=3205<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The following is a machine translation of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdxf.se\/WP\/?p=3205\" target=\"_blank\">sdxf.se<\/a> via Google:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There will be a transmission with the Alexanderson 200 kW alternator on VLF 17.2 kHz from Grimeton Radio \/ SAQ on <strong>Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24th, 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The message transmission will take place at <strong>08:00 UTC (09:00 local time).<\/strong> The transmitter will be tuned up starting\u00a0around <strong>07:30 UTC (08:30 local time).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>There will be <strong>activity on amateur radio frequencies<\/strong> with the call <strong>SK6SAQ<\/strong> on <strong>any<\/strong> of the following frequencies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>17.2 kHz CW<\/li>\n<li>3755 kHz SSB<\/li>\n<li>7035 kHz CW<\/li>\n<li>14215 kHz SSB<\/li>\n<li>14035 khz CW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>QSL Reports on <strong>SAQ<\/strong> are kindly received by e-mail to: <a href=\"mailto:info@alexander.n.se\">info@alexander.n.se<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0or by mail to<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexander \u2013 Grimeton Veteranradios Vaenner<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Radiostationen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Grimeton 72<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>S-432 98 GRIMETON, SWEDEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Radio Station will be open to visitors. No entrance fee. Also read our website:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexander.n.se\/\">www.alexander.n.se<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Elad posted the following video of the Elad FDM-DUO receiving the SAQ broadcast on 17.2 kHz:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UeNTCjbsRYk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to our announcement\u00a0about WG2XFQ, SWLing Post reader, Kimmo, comments: The Christmas Eve event by Swedish Friends of Veteran Radio on VLF 17.2 kHz and SW may also be of interest to some. See more information here: http:\/\/www.sdxf.se\/WP\/?p=3205 The following is a machine translation ofsdxf.se via Google: There will be a transmission with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81,3,3485],"tags":[3487,3488,3486],"class_list":["post-11846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-news","category-vlf","tag-grimeton-radio","tag-sweden","tag-vlf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-354","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16141,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/grimeton-vlf-broadcast-on-christmas-eve-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":11846,"position":0},"title":"Grimeton VLF broadcast on Christmas Eve 2015","author":"Thomas","date":"December 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Southgate ARC) It is now 10 years since our first Christmas Eve transmissions started. 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