Bulletin of the DANISH SHORT WAVE CLUB INTERNATIONAL for short wave listeners and DXers No 9 December 2009 Volume 52 Our German member, no. 3700 Dieter Sommer The equipment is Yaesu FT840, Sangean ATS-909 modifed, a T2FD antenna and a GP horizontal antenna. Dieter writes that he prefers Utility, Pirate and BC DX-ing Dieter has more than 200 countries verified He is 56 years old and have been DX-ing in about 43 years Editorial Staff: ISSN 0106-3731 Danish Short Wave Club International Shortwave Tips: Tavleager 31, DK-2670 Greve, Denmark Klaus-Dieter Scholz, Home page: http://www.dswci.org Postfach 45 02 34, D-99052 Erfurt, Germany Board: Tel.: +49 (0)361 –- 21 68 96 5, Fax: +49(0) 69 - 13 30 63 72 07 8 Chairman and representative to the EDXC: Web::http://www.dswci-sw-logs.dxer.info/yourlogs.htm Anker Petersen, E-mail: [email protected] Udbyvej 11, DK-2740 Skovlunde, Denmark Utility Shack: E-mail: [email protected] Tor-Henrik Ekblom, Treasurer: Solvindsgatan 7 A 20, FI-00990 Helsingfors, Finland Bent Nielsen, E-mail: [email protected] Egekrogen 14, DK-3500 Vaerloese, Denmark World News: E-mail: [email protected] Sakthi Jaisakthivel, Bank: Danske Bank, 59,Annai Sathya Nagar, Arumbakkam, Chennai-600106,India.: Holmens Kanal 2-12, DK 1092 Copenhagen K. 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IRC’s will also be accepted by the HQ. DSWCI Short Wave News – December 2009 Editorial Member’s News Greve, December 19th, 2009 Welcome to the following former and new members: E3583 Graham D. Bell, 9 Riverton Road, Rondebosch, Dear friends, members and 7700 Cape Town, South Africa Republic readers all over the World, 3617 Atsuo Uetake, 1-37-7 Kyojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 131-0046, Japan Welcome to the last issue of our bulletin for 2009. Due to the E3711 Roberto De Cecco, via D'Artegna 85/2, Christmas Holidays you will probably have SWN into your I-33100 Udine, Italy hands just after the New Year. E3712 James W. Evans, P. O .Box 382310, Germantown, TN 38183-2310, USA Despite the late arrival of this SWN into your mail box, let me E3713 Keith M. Wells, 42 Eggesfjord Road, Stenson Fields, here wish you all a Derby DE24 3BH, England MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR Fee received – with thanks – from: with lots of good DX in the year to come. Thank you so much 99 186 370 372 858 E872 894 E1145 E1331 1677 2239 E2452 to all those of you who has sent contributions to the bulletin – E2716 3039 3203 3337 E3347 E3350 E3411 3451 E3483 E3568 small or big – during the year. Please continue to submit your E3575 E3671 E3680 E3686 and E3701 contributions also in the New Year to come. Due to renew (if you please): 33 34 E146 230 484 524 594 E670 836 E845 853 855 1042 E1206 Already now we have got some Christmas greetings from all E1524 1834 1941 2227 2346 E2666 E2897 E3090 3183 E3263 over the World from our members. Thank you very much for 3288 3481 E3612 3615 E3635 3636 E3637 3650 3651 3653 E3673 those, which we do appreciate very much. E3674 3688 3689 E3691 3698 E3699 3700 and 3703. Christmas time is also time for e.g. books. This is also the case for the well-known radio books, WRTH and SW Frequency The correct bank account number to be used is: Guide. I know that some of you already have got WRTH from Danske Bank, 2-12 Holmens Kanal, Amazon bookshop. I myself got the SW Frequency Guide just DK 1092 Copenhagen K, Denmark one day after it was issued from Klingenfuss publications. Bank: DK 44 3000 4001 528459 BIC: DABADKKK The annual Radio St. Helena Day was on November 14th. The conditions in most part of the World were poor or even very Dates for your diary poor. I myself could just hardly hear the station from 2300 to January 2nd to January 10th: A.I.R. Contest 2010 is open f0or all 2330, and so was the situation in most Europe. There have radio listeners. More details on page or contact Bruno Peccolatto been talks after the St. Helena transmission, that may be the at [email protected] St. Helena Day should be moved to sometimes in September June 4th to June 6th 2010:: DSWCI DX-Camp and Annual Gen- or October, in order to get a better reception, comparing with eral Meeting at Vejers Beach. More details will follow. the last two or three years where the reception has been poor. Another reason for the poor reception can also be blamed on the low sunspot numbers, which we have had now for a very Saint Helena long time period. Look also at page 10 re. Radio St. Helena. During R St. Helena Day 2009, RSH randomly selected 12 names from all the emails sent to RSH that evening. Three names were The very last Cancer & Capricorn contest has just ended. It selected for each of the four target areas. Here is the list of names was arranged by our Czech member, Jaroslav Bohac during of the 12 winners. Each will receive a 2010 QSL Calendar from the 21 years, but now it has come to an end, mainly because of Rhein-Main Radio Club of Frankfurt, Germany. The RMRC will con- lack of contestants. I hope that you participated into this con- tact each winner by email as soon as possible. test. A big thank you very much to Jaroslav for arranging this Amongst the 12 winners were these DX-Window contributors: contest for so many years. Finland, Jari Savolainen, India (South), T. R. Rajeesh and Spain, Manuel Méndez. From our member on Sri Lanka, Victor Goonetilleke this good Thank-you to all who participated in Radio St.