{"id":59107,"date":"2024-02-27T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59107"},"modified":"2024-02-29T06:39:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T10:39:42","slug":"how-i-figure-out-decide-what-to-log-on-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/how-i-figure-out-decide-what-to-log-on-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Figure Out and Decide What To Log On Shortwave…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Paul Walker, Program Director, KSKO 89.5 McGrath Alaska<\/strong> (not my radio, stock photo)<\/p>\n

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Some have asked, so I thought I’d share. Everyones DX’ing goals and rules are different and that’s what makes the hobby interesting……these are mine. If I logged everything, I’d have multi gigabytes of audio on a weekly basis that I’d never ever finish sorting through. Alaska seems to be a great place for direct long path, off the back or over the pole reception of alot of signals!<\/p>\n

I have a schedule site (Eibispace.de) that gives me the frequency, schedule, broadcaster, transmitter location,\u00a0 language and target area of the signal. I then quickly work out in my mind where I am in relation to that.<\/p>\n

Like something beaming from Oman or the UAE to the Middle East, I may be off center from the main lobe, but it’s a long path trip for that signal. Something from Botswana to Northern\/Western African, I am in near the direct center main lobe of the long path of that, as I recall looking up at one point. Or I could be getting something off the back from Galbeni or Santa Maria de Galleria.<\/p>\n

I quickly work that out in my head and ten figure out if that’s actual DX. Then i quickly evaluate the signal.. quality over quantity. I know what many signals are capable of here at some point or another.. and If I’m getting a noisy, fadey signal where I know anything from alot better is possible to common, I won’t log it or record audio.<\/p>\n

I do regularly log some poor to fair signals because they are rare here and usually low power. (Tarma 4775khz, Brazil 15190khz, et al)<\/p>\n

I also take into account what others have logged and how well. I go after the lesser heard or those not heard as well by others. I live in a very unique location for DX and I want to use my time wisely by learning about what I hear, what I hear and going after whatever my personal definition is of the most worthy signals to log.<\/p>\n

I typically do not log anything of which I am in the target area or spill over area of. Like Radio Romania International, China Radio international.. because thats just easy pickin’s for me…. with a few exceptions<\/p>\n

This is not to say anyone who logs only target area or easy stuff is doing it wrong. We just go after different things and do things differently.<\/p>\n

If I logged everything I heard, I’d have multi gigabytes of audio on a weekly basis that I’d never ever finish sorting through and as Thomas Witherspoon knows, I’m behind with processing my audio all the time as it is!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Paul Walker, Program Director, KSKO 89.5 McGrath Alaska (not my radio, stock photo) Some have asked, so I thought I’d share. Everyones DX’ing goals and rules are different and that’s what makes the hobby interesting……these are mine. If I logged everything, I’d have multi gigabytes of audio on a weekly basis that I’d never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[5935,5],"tags":[4773,9057,9233,4156],"class_list":["post-59107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx","category-swlers","tag-alaska","tag-ksko","tag-mcgrath-alaska","tag-paul-walker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fnl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51340,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/reminder-today-ksko-89-5-mcgrath-alaska-christmas-special-show-on-wrmi-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":59107,"position":0},"title":"REMINDER TODAY: KSKO 89.5 McGrath, Alaska Christmas Special Show On WRMI Shortwave!","author":"Paul Walker","date":"December 24, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Join me, Paul Walker, on WRMI Shortwave for a special LIVE broadcast being relayed from NPR\/community radio station KSKO 89.5 McGrath, Alaska where I work as Program Director It\u2019ll take place Saturday December 25th 0400-0600UTC on 5850kHz to the east coast US and 7730kHz to the west coast US, Canada\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/196352829_10165172929945623_5713048082025380909_n-300x164.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":51193,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/ksko-89-5-mcgrath-alaska-christmas-special-request-show-on-wrmi-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":59107,"position":1},"title":"KSKO 89.5 McGrath, Alaska Christmas Special Request Show On WRMI Shortwave!","author":"Paul Walker","date":"December 14, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Join me, Paul Walker, on WRMI Shortwave for a special broadcast on WRMI Shortwave being relayed from NPR\/community radio station KSKO 89.5 McGrath, Alaska where I work as Program Director It\u2019ll take place Saturday December 25th 0400-0600UTC on 5850kHz to the east coast US and 7730kHz to the west coast\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/196352829_10165172929945623_5713048082025380909_n-300x164.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":49531,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/ksko-89-5-mcgrath-alaska-live-request-show-on-wrmi-shortwave-this-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":59107,"position":2},"title":"KSKO 89.5 McGrath, Alaska LIVE Request Show On WRMI Shortwave THIS WEEK!","author":"Paul Walker","date":"July 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Join me, Paul Walker, on WRMI Shortwave for \u201cThe LIVE Friday Night Request Show Dance Party Thingy\u201d being relayed from NPR\/community radio station KSKO 89.5 McGrath, Alaska. 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