FIFA World Cup Football Final Commentary logs

Running commentary of FIFA World Cup Football Final noted on foll freq's :

AIR SW

4810 Bhopal
4837.3 Gangtok
4910 Jaipur
5050 Aizawal
9425 Bangalore
9470 Aligarh

AIR MW
531, 576, 603, 612, 621, 630, 639, 648, 666, 747, 774, 864, 972 (co-ch qrm VOA Urdu), 981, 990, 1008, 1017(co-ch qrm ), 1026, 1044, 1143, 1206, 1215, 1224, 1287, 1377, 1404, 1476, 1566, 1593.

AIR FM
102.6

Also on :

RNW : 5915, 9895, 11670, 13685 (Dutch)
RFI : 15300 (French)
REE : 12015, 15110 (Spanish)
RRI : 11970

"BCL Life 2010" published in Japan

The annual magazine for serious DXers "BCL Life 2010" (all in Japanese) was published on March 29 by Sansai Books Co. Ltd. They published "Restarting BCL 2008" and "Restarting BCL 2009" respectively in 2008 and 2009, and succeeded in making many middle-ages (40-60 years old), who were once the "radio boys" in 1970's, to resume their DX listening hobby with more sophisticated sense. This is the first Japanese annual magazine for serious DX listeners. "BCL Life 2010" consists of, "Practical Use of PERSEUS receiver", "DX life in the apartment houses", "Making Small Loop Antenna", "Know more about NHK-World Radio Japan", "Little DXpediton with Antenna", "Practical Study of Accessory Equipments for DXing", "DXing in Overseas", "DXing with old Panasonic COUGAR2200 receiver", "Chinese Radio Catalogue", "QSLs & Screenshots of Overseas TV/FM DXing", "Document on St.Helena Day 2009", "DRM reception on shortwave", "DXing with military receivers", "DXing North American MW stations", "Challenging to Overseas TV/FM DXing", "Improving the power of external antenna", In-depth introduction of 13 shortwave stations with Japanese language programs, 8 stations with foreign language programs. A5 160 pages, with a supplement B6 64 pages "BCL Radio Frequency Data Book"(listing 3300 waves on shortwave). All the articles are written by active DX specialists in Japan.

See http://www.sansaibooks.co.jp/cgi-bin/list.cgi?detail=383

Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan

(Via DXLD yg)

New timings for VOA Urdu Service

Effective 1st November Pakistan will go back to normal time ie. UTC+5.00 hrs and VOA URDU SERVICE will use the following schedule:

MW 972 1539 kHz is available at 1400-0200 hrs instead of 1300-0100 hrs.

SW service 0100-0200 UTC (ex 0000-0100) on 9520 (Sri Lanka) 9765 (Thailand) kHz.

SW service 1400-1500 UTC (ex 1300-1400) on 7440 (Thailand) 9390(Germany) kHz.

(Alok Dasgupta, Kolkata via http://dxasia.info/news/ )

4th Himalayan Contest 2009

Date: 31st October 2009 1200 UTC (1730 IST) to 1st November 2009 1200 UTC(1730 IST).

This contest is open for VU QSOs only. Regular/Occasional Net controllers, Organisers of this contest, are not ELIGIBLE FOR ANY PRIZES. They may, however, take part and send their logs to help the participants.

RULES :

- Bands: 1.8 to 28 MHz except WARC and VHF/UHF.

- Modes: CW, SSB, Mixed. - Contest Call: VUs call “CQ Himalaya” in SSB and “CQ HC” in CW.

- Category: Single Operator Single Band CW or SSB or Mixed.

Single Operator Multi Bands CW or SSB or Mixed

- SWLs: Multiband CW or SSB or Mixed - Exchange: VUs give “six digit PIN code” combination to VUs.

- Restriction: A particular VU can be worked only once in any band irrespective of Mode.

- Only VU-VU QSOs. If you work VU2ABC on 7 cw, no need to work him again on any other band or mode.

- Scoring: Every QSO with a unique PIN code is 1 point.

- All VUs located in States like JK,HP,UP,SK,WB,AS,AR count for 5 points each. They have either the foothills or the Himalayan range in their State.

- Bonus: Every CW QSO gives 5 points Bonus.

- SWLs: VU SWLs must report complete 2-way QSOs of contest stations. Every station can be
logged only once.

- A complete QSO between VU and VU gives 5 points on any band.
- Multipliers: Every unique exchange which a VU station gives is a multiplier.

Example: 600042,602002,615003, 695403,560075,571313 etc are different multipliers.

A multiplier is counted only once for all bands taken together.

Final Score: It is the (sum of QSO points from individual band/bands) multiplied by the (sum of multipliers from individual band/bands)

Logs: Mark each log sheet with your call sign and category. Kindly send your logs by POST ONLY, to the
Contest Manager VU2UR Arasu,
MIG-6, 80 Feet Road,
Kengeri Upanagara,
Bangalore 560060,
India,
before the 20th November 2009

Awards to be issued: - For VU stations, top three in every category get certificates. - For VU SWLs, suitable certificates are going to be issued.

Any feed back regarding this contest, may please be sent to: gopal.madhavan @ gmail.com and vu2ur @ rediffmail.com.

vy 73, Namaste de Arasu VU2UR

(Via ARSI Mailing List)

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