Radio St Helena sw revival

[Analoguesat]

Advance warning for any sw dxers - Radio St Helena will be back on SW on November 4th!

Enthusiasts desperate to hear them again have purchased a complete set of replacement equipment to replace the kit scrapped after the 1999 transmission

RSH will transmit on 11092.5 KHz in Upper Side Band mode
on Saturday, 04. November 2006 at:
1800 - 1930 UTC to New Zealand (via short path)
2000 - 2130 UTC to JAPAN (via short path)
2200 - 2330 UTC to Europe
2330 (Sat.) - 0100 (Sunday) UTC to North America

http://www.sthelena.se/radioproject/

 

[Lancelot]

Didn't even know you had an HF Rx set AS


L.

 

[Analoguesat]

Ive got an old Realistic DX300 in store upstairs, but havent used it for quite a few years now. I might fire it up one more time on November 4th, although I'll have to put a new antenna up first if I want to listen.. - the old long wire fell down in a storm ages ago

 

[Llew]

For old times' sake, I think I'll exhume my old Eddystone 840C valve job, switch the BFO on, and hope the spiders haven't nested in the tuning capacitor 2

Llew

 

[PaulR]

My Trio (Note, NOT Kenwood) TS430 has been in its cardboard box for at least the last 14 years.

I am really ashamed about that. This is my confession.

I'lll go and wear a hair shirt for pennance

 

[Lancelot]

Used to dream of one of those when I first got my licence as they were new at the time.
Nice little radio those


L.

 

[JTA]

why bother - they'd better put a stream onto the internet.

 

[Analoguesat]

Wheres the fun in that??

St Helena ranks top of my hardest to hear countries that were active on sw in the 20 or so years I was really interested in sw radio. (They were only on 2 or 3 hours once a year) - to hear them at all was just pure magic. One year they were incredibly strong - one year a pirate operator did his best to drown them out by transmitting on top of them and all the listeners around the world had to contend with horrible whistling. :mad:

 

[JTA]

well, I've still got some old scratchy records around. But when it comes to it, I prefer the CD versions.
Yes, okay, I've also been an active DX-er in my "young days", hunting for QSL cards. Nowadays I'm collecting tv clips from all the satellites I can get a lock on, so you might say I've evolved :-)
ShortWave really isn't from this time anymore, I'm even surprised that it's still being used nowadays.

 

[Llew]

DRM on SW is in its infancy ATM, but it's on its way...

_www.drm.org/

Llew

 

[spiney]

Ah, eyesight strain continually watching the S meter ........

I've still got a Sony 2001, with BFO, might give it a try .....

 

[Analoguesat]

Its come around again and heres the latest St Helena Day 2008 news for our SWL's

Radio St Helena has set a date for the next Radio St Helena Day (RSHD). RSHD was revived on 4 November 2006, bringing back the special annual worldwide transmission on shortwave. Last year’s transmission was another success and was held later in the year (15 December) to coincide with Radio St Helena’s 40th Anniversary (25th December).

Last year was also the 10th RSHD, therefore it was a very special Double Anniversary. It was enjoyed by numerous presenters, who all gave up their time to present and lend a helping hand to make the evening a memorable one.
The station has posted 247 Special Anniversary QSL cards, designed by Robert Kipp, who initiated the ‘Revival of RSHD’. Reception reports were received from various parts of Europe, Japan, USA and Canada. Documentaries of the special broadcasts have been featured on television programmes in Germany and have appeared on many websites around the world; putting St Helena Island ‘on the map’.

This year, it has been decided to host RSHD in November after feedback from listeners in Japan indicated that December was too late in the year to get a clear signal. Therefore, this year’s Radio St Helena Day is set for Saturday 15 November.

Radio St Helena Day 2008 will be broadcast on 11092.5 kHz in USB on Saturday, 15 November 2008 as follows :

2000-2100 UTC to Japan
2100-2230 UTC to Europe
2230-2330 UTC to North America

Because of the very long “Revival” and “Double-Anniversary” transmissions in 2006 and 2007 and the especially heavy workload at Radio St Helena during the entire second half of 2008, it was decided that RSD 2008 would be reduced to the above schedule. It is hoped that the times have been chosen so that reception in all areas will be acceptable. The QSL procedure is the same as in 2006 and 2007, and the QSL address is :

Radio St Helena, P.O. Box 93, Jamestown, St. Helena, STHL 1ZZ , South Atlantic Ocean

(Source: Laura Lawrence, Radio Station Manager via St Helena Herald & Media Network)