Daily DXER ham radio news 05/09/18

12 min readMay 9, 2018

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Mats, SM6LRR / RM2D will be active from Phan Tiet, Vietnam as XV2D between November 19 to December 1, 2018. Holiday style operation with more serious effort in the CQWW CW contest (Nov 24–25). QSL via LoTW.

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An 8-man Brazilian team will be active from Mel Island SA-047 as PR5M during May 31 to June 3, 2018. QRV with 2 stations, HF bands. QSL via PP5BZ.

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NEWS UPDATE — TC0AX is now up and running from AS-201.. TC0AX is the inaugural DX-World DXpedition. Give us a call ! MARCH 21, 2018 — DX-World team members will undertake their inaugural DXpeditionn to Buyukada Island AS-201, Turkey during May 7–11, 2018. Operating as TC0AX (T-COAX

) they will be active very holiday-style with […]

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Robert Gulley (AK3Q), who notes that Black Cat Systems has developed a simple 22 meter beacon kit. The price is $20 shipped! A few details:

The kit includes the PCB and components, including a custom programmed microcontroller that will continuously transmit the ID / callsign of your choice, up to 8 characters, at about 13 wpm.
Small size — just 2 7/8 by 1 1/2 inches. Easy to build, just a ffew components, all through hole, no surface mount.

When ordering you note your callsign/ID to send and it will be pre-programmed.

Black Cat Systems has all kit details including full instructions on their website.

If you like the idea of building a beacon, you must also check out the beacon Dave (AA7EE) built recentlyâ€“a true work of art!

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Many thanks to SWLing Post reader @medmouad who recently shared a link to the following article by Kenji Rikitake at Medium.com:

Iâ€™m sure Japan is one of those countries which implement the worst online broadcasting policies.
You cannot listen to Japanese internet radio stations from outside the nation, thanks to the geotagging technology for the IPv4 address; most of the major broadcasting stations do not allow access to their streaming feed outside Japan. This is a huge disservice to the expats, but the broadcasters seem not to care about it at all.
Japanâ€™s geotagging policy against streaming broadcast is even worse within the nation; the telecom ministry enforces prefectural border limits for licensing the broadcast stations, though in some rare cases wider limits are allowed. Japan is regionally divided into 47 prefectures. So you cannot listen to Tokyo radio stations for free when you are in Osaka over internet. And vice versa. Recently a consortium of private broadcast stations, radiko.jp, announced a paid service for cross-prefectural listening of JPY300 (about USD3) per month. Isnâ€™t this a ripoff? And itâ€™s still not accessible from outside Japan.
Japan has a weird article in the copyright law too; the copyright owner can claim the right of making the contents being able and ready to be publicly transmitted. This right is applicable to all transmission media including internet and airwaves. So when you buy a CD, you cannot transmit without the permission of the copyright holder, usually the publisher.
[…]I hope someday I can listen to Japanese radio outside Japan oover internet. The day, however, will not come soon.
Continue reading the full article at Medium.com.

If youâ€™re an SWLing Post reader, Iâ€™m willing to bet youâ€™re thinking: â€œYeah…this is one of the downnfalls of radio over the Internet.â€ We never have this issue with shortwave radio broadcasts since theyâ€™re built upon a medium that has, at its very core, no regard for national borders.

Of course, this article focuses on local/regional FM outlets in Japan and the firewalls that keep their online streams neatly contained.

I canâ€™t help but think that there must be workarounds to defeat IPv4 address geotagging within Japan. Perhaps Iâ€™m wrong.

I do know that I can easily listen to local AM/mediumwave broadcasters throughout Japan using one of many web SDRs on the KiwiSDR network. Surely the same could be done for FM using a network of web accessible RTL-SDR dongles–?

Has anyone found a workaround? Mark Fahey, you know Iâ€™m looking a you!

Please comment!

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(Source: Deutsche Welle)

Deutsche Welle marks 65th anniversary

For six-and-a-half decades, Germanyâ€™s international public broadcaster has been providing the world with news and information. Deutsche Welleâ€™s offerings are more diverse and widely used than ever before.
â€œDear listeners in faraway countriesâ€ — with theese words from German President Theodor Heuss, Deutsche Welle (DW) began broadcasting on May 3, 1953. Germanyâ€™s foreign public radio station was charged with providing audiences abroad with a political, economic, and cultural picture of the country.
DW broadcast via shortwave and initially only in German. The first foreign languages were added in 1954. In 1992, DW expanded into television and, shortly thereafter, the internet.
â€œOf course the days of just shortwave were easier,â€ says Deutsche Welle Director General Peter Limbourg. â€œBut thanks to the internet, social media, and our network of partners, we now have the chance to reach significantly more people than we used to. We offer a mix of news, background, and think pieces, presented in a modern fashion and oriented around the interests of our diverse and often very young target audiences.â€
Limbourg has been DWâ€™s director general for the past four and a half years.[…]

Click here to read the full article at Deutsche Welle.

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(Source: Southgate ARC)

Radio Caroline Trip 2018

The Martello Tower group will once again be running a special event station GB5RC from the Radio Caroline ship the MV Ross Revenge over a long weekend 3rd to 5th August.
This weekend we have arranged 6 trips out to visit the ship for a tour of the ship including studios, transmitter room etc. There will be 3 trips on both the Saturday and same on the Sunday and each trip can carry up to 11 visitors.
Each trip is for the whole 11 people and cost is Â£275 so if you fill the boat itâ€™s just Â£25 per person. Sailing times are 1.30pm 4pm and 6.30pm and each trip is around 2.5 hours round trip and will be from Mersey island in Essex.
Bookings will need to be paid in full. Please note we are not taking individual bookings for spaces on trips only bookings of Â£275 per trip. This is on a first come paid bookings only.
To book a trip call Paul G0HWC on 07810 607766

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ARRL has asked the FCC to avoid authorizing developmental technologies in two Amateur Radio bands above 95 GHz that some radio amateurs may not be unaware of. The ARRL commented on May 2 in response to a Notice of Proposed Rule Making and Order (NPRM&O) in ET Docket 18–21, released in February. The so-called â€œSpectrum Horizonsâ€ proceeding seeks to make the bands above 95 GHz â€œmore readily acces…

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May 8 is Amateur Radio Day (DÃa del Radioaficionado) in Puerto Rico. In his proclamation, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo A. RossellÃ³ Nevares cited the Amateur Radio response in Puerto Rico in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Maria last September, which provided emergency communication on behalf of the American Red Cross as part of the federal government response, and efforts to restore electrical …

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ARRL –

Motherâ€™s Day is Sunday, May 13. If youâ€™re looking for the perfect gift, shop at AmazonSmile and choose American Radio Relay League Inc. (ARRL) as your charity of choice. With every purchase you make at AmazonSmile, Amazon will make a contribution to ARRL. This helps the League to extend its reach in public service, advocacy, education, technology, and membership. Make Mom smile, get her somethi…

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