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COMlbIENTS --- -- OF THE CUSTONIB S vf-??~rst l ea rned of - t L c m u b from or don Nelson about a g e a r ago bu t I

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have never g o t around t o jo in ing u n t i l now. I found t h e - o l d ~ u f f a l o ad- d r e s s l i s t e d i n P o p u l a r E l e c t r o n i c s . I was very impres sed wi th ~y f i r s t i s s u e of DX NEWS. I p lan t o r e p o r t Eo N r . Callarman's column."

-Hank Sh i r , .Wes t Newton, Massachusetts "This i s my 15th- year with,PRC & I have enjoyed i t very much, having met some v e r y f i n e f e l l ows s i n c e 1/1/52. I have v e r i f i e d 2,666 s t a t i o n s i n 26 c o u n t r i e s . I want t o thank you, Didr , f o r the very f i n e job you have don'e a s Sec re t a ry 2 It must b e q u i t e a chore w i t h your o t h e r bus ines s . I ID pe 1 ~ c t s w/you f o r many more years."

r Johnson; Biiendota, ' I l l i n o i s "Herefs another well-spent $5.00 f o r ano the r f i n e y e a r w i t h t

. Keep up t h e tremendous work! -William Bbns, C inc inna t i , Ohl "Enclosed i s a money o r d e r f o r $5. P lease e-:tend my mmkiersk t h e NR( f o r ano ther year . I enjoyed my E r s t y e a r very much & f e e l i r , i s r;he b e s t BCB c l u b i n t h e World! -Paul Henning,' Niilwaukee,' 1Nisconsin "~nc lcb ' ed i s check f o r $7 f o r renewal W f i r s t c l a s s - t o cover mri 86th y e a r i n ITRC. Sure wish t h e second 25 would b r i n g a s many v e r i e s a s t h e f irst1 But t h e i n c r e a s e i n ~11s gua ran tees it won't haupen.

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.. . . . . -Stan i~liorss - Bradf ord, Mass.

" ' ~ n c l & ed p l e a s e f i n d #5 f o r .my' dues i n t h e NRC f o r t h e next year . I don ' t know what I ' d do wi t h e weekly b u l l e t i n s . " -Kandg Seaver,

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San Diego, C a l i f o r n i a ; l e DX o l u s t a r i n e Band cover ing Ohio &

I l i s s i s s i p p i ~ F v e r t a w bvacs. Enclcs, ed i s a &I eck f o r NRC dues - s t i l l i n t h e t o p ma i l here.'' -Sid Rosenbaum - Wheeling, W. Va. I1 H e r e f s $5 f o r another y e a r ' s membership i n t h e b e s t BCB DX Club this s i d e of t h e North Pole - t h e NRC. Keep up t h e good work!

- J e r r y Bond - bVatertown, New York "Enclosed you w i l l f i n d my check f o r $5 ( O F r a t h e r , my v i i f e f s , I spent a l l my moneyl) P l ease e n r o l l me in t h e Club again. A f t e r a @@&se of 4 y e a r s I have ded ded t o s t a r t BCB DXing once aga in & f i n d it impossible t o g e t a long without DX NEWS. - J e s se R. Bruner - Lexington, Ky. "The Ides o f l a r c h have r o l l e d around once mcre, & i t i s t ime t o renew my subsc r ip t ion . The i n i t i a l $5 i s hard t o p a r t with, but I d o n ' t know of a better investment around - do you? -Robert Bruhns - Huntingon, N.Y. " ~ n c l o s e d i s $5 f o r another yea r , & I hope I won't m i s s any i s s u e s . DX- ing has taken second p l ace t o s tudying fa? a vfhhile,but soon I hope t o be a b l e t o f i n d m o r e t t m e a t h e c K a l s . - R i & a r d C o c h r a n - S w e e t r s C o r n e r ,

Nova S c o t i a "Enclosed p l e a s e f i n d $5 f a - renewal i n t h e NRC. I r e a l l y a p p r e c i a t e t h r way you f e l l ows have t h i s c lub s e t up & I a l s o a p p r e c i a t e a l l t h e i n fo r - mation you provide. You're a good gang; keep up t h e good work!" THENKS, BOYS!* C U i n 14. -James hodick l - Mar ie t t a , Ohio

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Dave Whatmough - 284>r?ain S t ree t West - Hamifto, Ontario_ A 1 1 eight of vzries f o r t h i s seek were received on the sane day, Moday. ~ 1 % - BBMC

WPUV. v/l- WWV WXYZ WRKC WWOW WKID W M . iw. D a i e l IVI. True, CE of WEla wants to P

have a special program for us around June 20 when he hopes to have the new towers i n operation. The present tower is 200' & the new one w i l l be 350' & two miles fur ther S. 6/20 is a IviI\f & only PoHK & VBSM w i l l be on the channel, so 'I h o p they can be on by that date. I w i l l Paw fur ther to rsport on th i s i n a few weeks* time, as I an writirg to him to corfirm the dare & time. DX a s follows: 4118- KSNii-1530 ETing f o r about two hours f ron 1: 00 on. WIIHL-1440 ETing f mm 1 : 50-2:s. WTPR-710 r /c 3 :5w, WYN - 1550 r / c 2:40. 1540 is now clear , CHFI finished Sunday 4/17 ; 7pm. I've been umble to hear enough from anything on the channel f o r a report. WABQ & WNIO a re audible for short periods of about 10-15 seconds, but that ' s about it. Friday morning 4/22 I

t r i ed f o r 151-0 s/ons but KXEL was c lear channel u n t i l a f t e r 6:30. One n w logging, FCW-1560 Fairf ie ld , 0. 6 m s/on. I was about one minute l a t e f o r a g o d log On TELY-1500 s/on n 5:Olam. F i r s t t bn;e heard since c a l l changed from WJEL. Raw Rang, tba NB-525 Beacon is, I think, located soroewhere near Ottawa, as I noticed it strong on car radio v'nw l a s t i n tha t area. 73's & C U i n 14.

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I cal led CBJ-1588Zin. CE says they've been plagnw but w i l l get out TEST on yet! For those u v b need the O.R.T.F. ou t le t on S t . Pierre-1375, an excelleilt tube is ju s t a f t e r t h e i r 5am EST s/on, on a night when WEB-1370 i s off t i l l 5:30, A l l m, of course, but an excellent ver i f ier . Also a most charming l i t t l e count=. I've a magazine a r t i c l e on S t . Pierre in press r igh t new, & i f w a n e wants a copy, 2: ~ l r i t e s me irqiediately, 1'11 see tha t one goes out to him midJune. Ar t ic le includes a few good references to the O.R.T.F. s ta t ion . One thing a b u t travel, to 3isagree viholb tv/Musing re%arks printed a few iseues back, i s tkat DXing is a highlight of any t r i p for me, & my Toho 1008 p r t a b l e goes everywhere. I t logged CJCB way out over the S t r a i t of l'orthmberland, on an A i r Canada f l i g h t (p i lo t ' s permission) threerdles up, & in te res t ing DX from VO1, FP9, & VE3 country. I ibnf t log o r count these on the same log shee t S as my "basen operations, but I f ind them a pas t w o r t h h i l e supp1a:ent to W- land DXizg. I may be in W6 country t h i s SwnIlier, & i f I go, so goes th4 Toho. Pic-

I ture enclosed. (~ece ived , Don, & thmk you very rruch! -FRC) Bndy Kane - 36 Harvard S t r ee t - Malden. Massachusetts - a2148

DX has been speeding up wlincreased use of th- f / c l i s t . 4/10: WWCO-1240 " 5:18an1i WIRL-1290 2 5: 26; WCAT-1390 a 5:3;2ra; WESO-970 .a 12:35pn. Mlu~ 4/11: CHFI-680 ': 12: 5 5 m , notn iw l ike t b i r l u t 0 s i g w l , a r a l y m t c m a WCBI~. IOKY-YLO 5 12:s s /of f ; WOODWO'J f / c @ l:lOarr., C%! IDID. 4/12: WPW-1580 f / c s 1 2 . 2 h ~ w/fine signals, FFTR-1450 f / c @ 12:35; '3 I D ; '2.W-1420 f /c 53 12:44, poor f o r 5kw; WJOY-1230 @ 18:55 RS ; WREL-1450 f /C

1:14; WCVA-1490 f / c e 1:20, C?J ID. I had a t e r r ib l e experience Mhfi 4/18 - I Slept a l l night. Gorclon Nelson said I didnr t miss much, but Shacat bagged KORL, - . - so I 'm fur- - - low;- P e s t la v ie r T119- wrSc:laO-F/c @ 1 i : i L G ; -R%3Go-i443 'TT& I D neard ': ld:46, r /c? WGLB-1550 Wis. TT, ID 3 1:35aa, good catch, r lc? HELP!- Who w a s ET on 1 2 8 4/19 from before t i a f t e r 3% WINO IDS? I have a one-hour report , & I dan't know w h to serd it to! There war% e l e c t r i c gu i t a r & e l e c t r i c organ selections. Aqfbody know- ing - about t h i s , please write. I know Ernie d is l ikes the wrd :who2 so I won't say i t , but tab t b s e for what they're worth: 4119- TT-1590, cut 12*25aso; 1340 @

1:19; 1250' 1:26; 1230 from 1:27 to a f t e r 3m; 1570 m 1:33; 1480 a 1:40; 1490 n 1:43; 1350 ^ 1:52; 8' a w e i r d one: beep..beep..beep, every f ive seconjs, on 1380 12:47-1:07am a t leas t , 4/19. Report out to WHYL-960 f o r ET 4/16. Please help on that 1220 ET. 73.

John T. Hunt - 251 West Bruceton Road - Plttsouran. Pennsylvania - 1 5 Z L I finally finished the KT-340 & warkina from a 70' E/W lonwlre . I a m sorn%. hat dieap- pointea i n t h e internal Q-multiplier, but I can get kjaceGt channels ta local WELA.- I nust be in the minority bmt -I f i n d tb nos t enjoyment i n just being able t o l og t h m so I plan to get no ver ies . I w i l l thank the Specials however whenever I can get thm.. - - Better 1og:;ings to date are (TX i s f o r the ID): 3126- WIOD-610 9 7pm. 312 7- WAIT-620 s 6:40pn. 4/2- WHOF-1060 3 noon. 413- WINK-1240 l2:25am received on a 1590k sput; "ILK-980 1:Olam. 418- VTW-880 3:40pm; WPDX-750 3:55pn; nRFRB-560 4:30, P.&RA-1450 5:25 pm. 4/9- ImA-850 r; 12:33am. 4110- PVSC-990 4:17pm. 4/17- PJROK-1440 12:5Om. Best DX to date i s !!!INK-Florida on 2 5 0 ~ . on big RXor R1.iiAQ Chicago on 50kw. but on a crystal s e t 'with no mpl i f ier .

3 -D-x- -N-E.-C%. Ray ' 7 19 66 Norm Shacat - 200 ~ a i n b r i d w St ree t - Malden, Nlarisaohuse t t@ - a 1 4 8

DX t h i s A ~ i l vacation .is no thin^ l ike i t was Februaiy vacstion. A l o t of unD Ws ~ ~- .- - ~ - wMch I w i l l menti&. l a t e r , By the way, what ever happened to Pfiurry the^.? 170 new veries, bu'crkports o i t . to CJSS WqYL.,(thanks to Randy Kane) WSKI f/up,' @UK &SM & CKCY. Nei-8 ones hea$ include: 4113- .CS.SS-1220 a 2 0 5 : 4116- U& 'WPQW-1330 @ 77%55. 4118- . UIX, . VAVY-1350 ? 12:59m s/& ; WSGO-1440 T T 9 1:30 Cnanks to Ran*, & "fd3K-l440 @ awl. .M1!3 ~418- (.?-E$), . ~ K J K - L ~ ~ . O f /c-H 1-1 :@3 ; V'DIC-1430 1: 25 f /c-TT, W&-1460 ET /ld eniiitig '?"2.32,, QNZ-1456 " :2:45,* n1AB&144!3 RT * 2:45 .& gaw QRS as' Orlando, Pla., not ~ i n t & ~ a r k ' i ' s ~ l i ~ t a d i n Bdio-'FV @perinenter.. WWS-1390 9 3m s/of f , 1'%!%'-970 F 3: 05, & 'here 'is' a' big'one - R 0 ~ - 6 5 0 .Country. #Z6 9 3:20; ItFBE-1530 ? 3 :59. 4118- P:BVP- 1230 .y C&078m WERI-LS.? 9; 1,2:13. 4/20- WJEF-IZZ~O f/.c-m. 5 1: oi & t m - 7 . 0 7;' 1:40. Here arez'so::.8 ~ 9 s ' & a s/of f you. &s can help he rrth. S/of f on.1530 3 ti :44. ;:jBSB.. 4117- TT-.1450. froni'll:2$i~:30 gi&-up,.l!T on.1380 3 12:15, d i a l tones on 960; 950 & 820 a l l a i . 6 ~ ~ 1 : 4 5 . 4118- 1450 P C . s/off.w,/a song sounding l i k e what they played be- -fore ' the $ii?terOl$hP$Cs o n TV. I guess i t was O h Canada, @ 1 2 : s . 4/19- TT-1500 fmm 1 2 : ~ ~ - W 3 0 . 4/2& TT & OC on 920 from mi4night-12:25 w b n 1 gave up. TT-190 @ 12:30, TT-1350 fro;.; i:05-1:16 & OC, & TT on 860 from 1:3&1:38. Getting back to t h e o l d 24- hour cloc2 dis$ute. I t ' w i l l take .paw l i n e s f o r na t o explain i t & l i n e s are running short. .'. Hers a;re 'zcme '%xampleq: 1:32am NRC t ine, would be 01 :32 S w a t tidie, hi! , No- t i c e the oo'ion rr@$& the d i f fe r w c e be tween time &-f,requency. Ran* Kane & I recently visited' G;.!?. ?Blsori &, ~ e o r g e Kelley. I enjoyed i t very much & I would l i k e to thank G.P.N. sgaYii. F1e l istened, to tapes of Randy Seaver's reception of TP. , I enjoyed the China, 'Bul%i&? @ailand tapes, but I rea l ly l i ke the 500FI. AusSie &. the IFRSa3220 sta- tion. me SO l is tened to G P N ~ S f i n e !!'A tapes. We also saw no ted on Y2n.k ?yndalll s great v-,=ies. '$hey are fantast ic! GPN 3smonstrated some SAHn. 73& thanks again, Gordie...' r . 'We v d i l l be v i s i t ing WOlU WILD W E E 1 .& W b X f o r s p e c i d s : & also to see rswrts. ,.

.David E. Pore - Box 173 - CrescentBea~h; South Carolina - 29531 Hello every'body, sorry ' I haven't r epo red i n such a long time. If rn been i n Unole Sank A m y f o r the last 18 a r somontha, w/13 of thefr. being in Korea. I d idnf t do Coo aaoh

- l i s ten ing to speak of ; I regret to say.. I w i s n I could say I ass out of me Amy, but .- I have around 28 . , months t o go, I had to sign up f o r .$our years to get i n the Army Sep.

c k i t y Plgencq,, That was a b i g mistake. Niy next 3aty .statiori' should be an i l l teresting place, 1'11 be .located i n Ethiopia (~smara ) near the coadlt of the Bed Sea. I t should also. prove in t e r e s t i ng fob DX. I hope. so. I'rr going t o ha%.my 180 sent over a f t e r I get there, so. 1'11 probably be repor.ting to t F 0 NNRC from time t o timb. A couple of ve r i e s have ro l lad i n a ince.I 'v& been i n the A m y . Thsy were R. Imparcial-1C88 w/a beautiful pennant, P'RUF-850, &: f i na l ly 3~ Sebastidn, Spain on 638k. I t ve done a lit- t l e l i s ten ing since I've been home, logging WinSnard Islands on 695 &i705k </% around 8Hn. : R. T'bntserrat-885 has good Signal most evehinga, no. report sent yet . S in t bjjiaar- t e n a l s o .:!/nice signals 'mo.st evenings. I l o w 3 & reported WDSL-1520, & WR@i-1540. Ernie; inclosed you1 11 find a roman ,pas tcar3, 1' 11 send you some more :*hen they ge t . , ,

here. I mailed a box frou: Korea but i t hasnt t been received here yet . ' Best of DX to .evsrybody. (And the very be s t to you,, David, & thanks very much! -ERC)

w i l l i a i ~ Brown Cruse - 724 Eds t center Avenue - iv~orresville. N . C. - 28115 H i everybo&y. Tnia 1s f i r s t &usins l n a 10,ng tzme, & I'rz afrilia; tne last f o r s while. I f i r a l l y go t a m a, f o r Christmas,. I t ' s only a Star Roram~W, but i t i s an% RX. To keep up w/SW news',' I j,oined the NNRC. .Now my membeoship has almost,mn o u t i n NRC. Xavingno job, I' f i n 3 it impractical t o keep up membership i n two c lubs . I don't t h i n k I'm leaving for @od;,.I'm taking onlr a , leave of absance, I coulJln' t leave t b XTRC f o r good; To allmembers i n N.C. .& Joe Kureth: I t d l be i n xooresvil le a l l Smn.er I w i l l begin classes at UNC, ~ h a i e l H i l l next Fall', so if y0u'i.e near the-Port Cit:. of ~

Bake Norman thLs Summer o r Carolina t$is Winter; p lease drop by. T o ~ i l l Be=: keep the . tapes w.&ng. To Alan ~er r iman: 1' ve. had no luck a /CPG'. If it i s OK ,ti/yoy,. I f 11 k&Gp trying vntil letterhearls a2 used upi , TO a l l merr,6e.rs:' p lease w r i t s i f you 'can;

.- I 'd l i k e to keep. up w/Nl?C & ail msinbers. . -73 ,& I hope t o be back'aa soon as possibie. Robert Griff in - 104 Briar Road - Nanuet. New york - 1 3 5 4

R i . This i s rry f i r s t ' Musing & i t ' s geat t o be an NRCer . Latest DX: Racent veries: Km-1540 KSL-1160 Crnffi-900 WGY-810 WAEB-790 WCFL-lOOO WSIvl W K B P ~ - ~ ~ O : W L W - ~ O O WiL-870 PfTMJ-620 WPO'OP-1410 W N J R - ~ ~ S CBB-1070 WDE&-1150 h he s ta f f eng. J,W.Jones of !'?)??IZ told :

me hos t o get a saa,ple of DX N@S from which I Became a-reffiber) PJ -9 0 v- -95 C C 920 WXYZ-12'70, ViTLGB-79a. Reports .out to WW-8 0 Danbury Conn. @!~-~~8%eve%akl$-~ WGAR-1223 Cleveland. Tha t ' s a l l forrow. 73s. ( ~ e l ~ o m e tb;NZC k l i l ~ i n g s , ~obsrt!-Ti%

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M?q 7, 1965 -D-x- -N-E-W-s- 4 m n e Pl-bnkett - 124 John S t r ee t - Weston. Ontario

I missed deadline t o l a s t DX X'BVS - heavy income tax load i n Aprll, t i gh t squeeze i n ge t t ing my C.A. lessons -m on time, Stanley Cup pldyoffs, Acaderv Awards Contest, e tc . Several items of i n t e r e s t i n the =ail recently: v/c- WBNC-960, bay0 got o n w about 12 reports f o r TEST ; v / l WSLM-1220, KDDA-1560, plans t o c m e n c e RS about 4/20; '?X%-1230, , - ,

RS i s 5:45am-ll:15pn; also received Record Richiefs "Oldies but Goodiesn c a t a l o ~ , tremendous l is t of old r r records & others from the Wouse of Oldies*, i n Greenwich V i l - lage; f ina l ly , I have s tar ted to receivs "The Plain Truthn from H e r b e ~ t I t . AGstrongls !Good News of the Itorld Tomorrowl~, an impressive magazine & has complete l i s t of world wide broadcast coverage of th i s program. .DX: 413- TRIM-560 on top 1:35m. 414-

Pract ical ly sure SSB sfoff -1550 at midnight was WOKJ; WDEL-1150 good strength ": 12:07; u, /WW~A-l170 of'f again early, log on KSTT-1170 12:Z:-12:30 s/of f (no SSB) o/u KT00 ; CRIK -1490 AN House Party c lear ?, 2:lO; many WID TTs 2:15-2:45 - especially strong one on 1590 o/'"AKR; another report to m n ~ ~ - 9 1 0 f o r l cg 4:2.54:35 on nThe Quie t Hdursl t o dawn. Anyone ever ge t a ver ie on these c a l l s ? I l is tened t o 1490 over half the time 4-5am but no go at all on much needed CKAII-1490 DX. Did they get out at a l l ? (Heard i n NJ & Pa. at l e a s t ZRC) Surprised to f ind WSVL-15d0 s/on 4:55 this MVI, f ive minutes be- fore kKBW ; WJBH-1500 s /on -t:S9 ; f i n a l l y caugnt up t o IU)DA-1500 ET 5-5:l&m; JL&c f o r 500N .& maw Us. Later that &i, I happened to note loca l CHW0-1250 off completely 8:05 u n t i l I l e f t f o r work a t 8:45. KRYT controlled the frequency, p rac t ica l ly the w b l e tim, bat I did manage to add one new ca tch on t h a t frequency, WLEM-1250 @ 8:m. 415- WSYD-1300 was a new one 9 7pm umBR wino P1ERE for a change. 4/6- Strong Tf' on 1590 again a f t e r lam - probably the sane one a a on 414. I very much aoubt i t yet , but strength could indicate n w . s ta t ion i n Kitchener, h t . CBL-740 went off +3 1210, pled. AM f o r a change, but frequency pract ical ly dead. A s usual, CJBC-860 on :,when DBL off . 417- L i t t l e heard WGAN-560 u/NFIL @ 12:32am. 419- I D from WBMC-960 f i r s t heard @ 1:50 ' .

& t hsn logged to 2x09 (s /of f? ) o/CHNS, I believe. I f m informed by Wayne Heinen that TT on 930 around 1:55 w a s needed WWEI - 1 didnt t catch ID, drat . Also TT-970 a f t e r WEBR 2 w s/of f bu t I gave up in favor of sleep, hi . 4110- I arrived home from Buf f a lo at 2:45arn to findC9UW-1050 off again - i n f a c t they have been sfoff "2 lam the p a s t three weeks & r e turning 5am. They alsays announce "Leaves the air temporarily f o r XR ad jus t- '*'

merits." Know CHUM t b y ' 1 1 be back NSP af te r . get t ing t h s i r troubles clearad up. 73. John Paolin - 7 Fa i r f ie ld Avenue - Malden. Massdchusetts - 02148

DX poor because of poor OX. 3/13- CKVL 4 6:30-6:45arn on 85Qk. 3/U- CEO-910 5:3&7p. 31.33- VNJB-lG30 fi 414:lDprn. 3130- WIP-610 0 6:40-0:50pn, strong SS on 8lOk fro= 7-7:30 pn assumed to be WKWI. 414- IMELlEjrO @ 44:15am. 4110- WEIM-1280 - 7 : 5 S w . . 4119- WORC-1310 ' 8-8 :loam, WNLC-1510 lid, 8 ;30-8:45am, WEHW-1490 @ 8 :55-9am, WINF-1230 ^ 9-9:10 am, WDEE-1220 F- 12:50-12:55pn, WAAB-1440 n 1:30-l:36pn, WTAG-580 1:35-1:4m.. Only a few veries back: P'nTKN ?WLO P'ESX P'JDA trXHR TEE1 PNAC WCKY WJR WPTEF. 1 leave you w/this thaught: "If that senmence on P. 14 of the 412 issue of DX NE9VS i s considered to be a r e p r t , by a;iyone, tha t person has a l o t to learn." (Reference - t b s&nt&mce "reportn to WKNT i n afore-inentioned issue?. 73s & don't forget to include ver i f iable infoma- t ion & re turn postape v*/your reports.

Sheldon RemingtOn - 170 Forest H i l l Road - Hm.den, Connecticut - 05518 H i everybody. This i s m y f i r s t Musinp, so 1111 introduce myself. I m 14 8 have been DXing s i n c e 1964. A($ R f i s a Knight Star-~oamer ( t en m i c r o k l t sens i t iv i ty , h i ) con- nected to a 100' inverted L. I recently bought a Ma-hoop & wound 5 0 0 of -ire on it, but no success, a q suggestions? I have a preamp i n the works & I re ed it, hi. I DX most on SMs c": a few Mluls. Recent DX: 3127- WRDVd-1480 $2 2:40; WHSL-1490 (my best low- pwer catc'ri) O 3:lO; WTLB-1310 @ 3:48; \@I-790 @ 4;15; WTRY-580 $. 4:38; WFUIV-790 5:a5; kWT-1.330 @ 5:17 f znallj. ; NEBb-1.500 5 5:;28 ; L4JRZ-970 @ 11:4.5+; WEEI-590 a t midnight. 419- CJSS-1220 @ 9 :48p . 4115- CVNQ-630 @ lO:lOp?n. 4117- WOL-1450 @ 3:38am; WRR-1310

4- U/CKOT; WIFE-1310 @ 4:14; VW~-l340 e. 5am; WIRY-I340 @ 5:29. 4 / Z - WEZE-1260 7:25p. 4 / 2 5 XERF-1570 second Ihxican 9 1:52; WCBG1590 lid, 4:15; WASA-1330 " 4:50i V'CCFn-890 5:02; VWLP-1380 ? 5:28 ; WSYB-1380 9 5 ~ 3 0 ; CRPC-1386 2. 5:35; WPRS-P140 e 6am. ~

Thew! My to ta le are 237 logged i n 9 s t a t e s , four grovinces & sevenc&ntries. I have .< f ive verified, hi: mEET PNER WBZ POW0 PJB. W . b t a re the best bets f o r Delaware (bs- sides QJDXL 8: VDOV) & S.C.? I would appreciate l e t t e r s from anyone. Too much gab, so 73s & Go, Cards! (Pielcome, Remington, from Smith-Corona, h i . Glad t o i%ve you in NRC, Sheldon, R; do wri te i n frequently!, -ERC) REhrEP5ER, ITtS CONVENTIONAL TO ATTEM) ~ONBEMTIONS! MONTW-'66! 1 LABOR MY \Zl%END!

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5 - - - - - - - - D X N E W S Paay 7, 1966 VI John Uooperheide - 15 Rustic Place - Eugene, Orewn

Okly DX - meek of 4/3 - brought Cm.B-14.90 Cambell River, BC on AN progrm. Following , . up on ideas by .RC$ ?iilla+ & Howar& McLean, I purchased a Concored Tdpe corder be-

tapin frequencies. I t r i ed 620 from ::30-5:3Q am EST,' as r ha* a four-hour tape, This on 4716. $CE-620 . w i n a n t but gWFT-620 Wichita F a l l s noted we&ly behind @ 6 m .

,. KWAL, Willace, Ida. s/on-SSB @ 7.:30, Fi.nally REGS-620 uanford, 8am s/on. This w a s ' unk +tivexicmn I ref erred to . i n l a s t DX m S . After s/on they go i n t o SS UVe' a m- cast fr& XEX, Fhxico City, evidently taped. MvI 4/18 was very . , noisy so I :;sited u n t i l 'KOL s/of f 2 3am & s e t tape recorder f o r 3:45 & West to be$. KYNO Bre'sno very lotld, but MOR, 'Colorado: S p r i q s , noted behind weak.ty winice orche i t ra l mx. Several amouice- llgnts heard. KOLY-&300, A~obridge , . SD s/on-sSB noted, but confused on time on tape re- corder. 'Fifteen minutes l a t e r CJNiE Regina s ton w/Oh Canada, eo ,bef initazy not' m:'On GJdis.. . I believe CJlv,B', s/on 2 8qrr1, so: K0LY woulil be '245 slon. 98& taped t o d q , 4/19, nothing, nay, KIMS Eureka s/on 8am vi,BSB. DX a l l gone f o r tbs month as ngr SX-100' just quit..me. . 73s. . .

J. fdanj S M d y - i856 Crest Df ive - Encinitas. c d i f i r n i a - 9 2 W I received the 4/16 DX WTS today 83 I must compliment Richard H. Cooper .4c you-alledi- tore fob,& excell+nt job once again. Third c lass m a i l reaches hare N ! n w 02 Tuesday, about. three days* t r ans i t , real ly exemplary! Anyw~, I read & digested the WIQJT report i n the preceeding issue & a l so read (and prgimably digested them a s well, my storrach hasn't brought back the verdict ye t ) the c W n t s in t h i s week's DX. NmS - very inter- .est ing indssd! Now to the topic: I have .read that IiRC orice had a small booklet w/a t i t l e similar to "How to Send a DX Report" w j a l l the controVemy over poor reports to s ta t ions , perhaps a ' r e s v r e c t i o n of t h i s publication w o u l 9 be of use i n t h i s b a t t l e 1 gains t the massed enenJr, of the. poor r e p r t , IRCA- had t h i s idea - m 'few dozen months ago, but as f a r as I how $thing every carre of it. Mebbe 'this time, like a jo in t

'. club publication? In m$i rapor$.s, I . pride myself on verbatim s t a t i on IDS, & complete- as-possible l i ve spots ror l oca l advertisers, & genaral info on ET-type spoOs & pmmos I surely'hope.1 n6t bragging, but I run about 89 ( v e i y l o w , s n i f f ) to 955 perle-re- ply, & a few s ta t ions t ha t didnt t reply wereno t sen t f/ups. For ejrample, X logged & reported CXVX-1130 &.CJOC-1220 while they were in t h e i r "unpredictable periods", so: new reports w i l l be asnt off .one of these days. KONO-860 is .wether example of the fls6asonal wrif icatiog." The next time, though, a Ppc. w i l l be sent,. as th i s more o r '

l ess assures a reply to a good report. . Only one PPc hold-out t h i s year, KZOL-lSO, 25b.D, Farwell, Tex. SRS catch of $/I7 I .think $no tea are ndt especially h h d y r ight now). Oh ,yes, before I gg back into the p i t s , . one thing bags me quite a b i t . The idea tizatonce a person has joined a club, he sends excellent reports from tb re -on i n NOT SO! lnstead of ShastiSemeht f o r poor reports, a concerCed e f f o r t ' to pr int up a booklet l i k e t h a t one aforementioned would have ( i n my hunble opinion) a ~ m a t e r ef- ,feet. Perkays the,DXer doesn't know HOW to report? No amount of scorn o r ep:lithet?

. w i l l teach &irn the cor rec t way to report to a s ta t ion . Guess 1'11 hop j ,m.mw e7 l e t you c o m n $ on t;zis. piece of organized confusion, and, I'msko't a veteran of .DX, e i t h s r so please ionst p r in t this! Itlost of these points are pre t ty obvious. I just like to show how N t e r l y obvious they a re , hi; . Goo3 DX & such s tuff as i n v o p right now. Cheerio, 73. ' (Felcomey to these pages, 1 clan', & nothing Wrong vrith @int ing soiie sound lo'gic and advice as I see it,, hi -ERC). :

J. Vlarren Routzahn - 206 North Forrest S t r ea t - York. Pennsylv,inia - 174m' April r o l l s amund to jus t about end DX hem so I'll recap the month & thank !nib, J O ~ , CPC isen, Ben Dangerf ie ld , Len & the NRC ,officers & mmbers, i n - general f o r keep- ing the NIiC strong. Better ge t Dick & Joe i n - thefe.1~ jus t too many to name! Verifs t r i ck l e5 i n f r d m WFBS WHOD & KBW. 414- CKAD surprised me by breaking through the 1490 crowd rather well a t times & I hadnt t rea l ly expec ted t h e . PJD-1295 s / o n 4 : 4 h tempting t o repar t , but j u s t not. quite good enough. WHVR-1280 s/on 6:02am. 417-. XARI '1480 f /c & ID to 1:51an, LA ob 1560 @ 2:05;, 4111-. S ta t ion on 1460 I couldn't ID, i f E m . Lady wmuncer, 5 i d n t t sound l i k e a DX TEST. (That's KTXvlts style-,?G) PIWN s/on 4 :3Oass ended the try. 4118- Unk TT on 12g0 oflIRL 2:45-3am; EBT3'-1560 ';TO& on the i r TEST 3-3:30 W P W D w i n g i n a short ie 3:lCw:2.0. R v e of 4/22 found PJD2-1235. spreading the gospel be t te r t b n : u s & l so I got off a report . 4125- KPUB-1480 wuld- n t t b e heard here. ?$laybe they were on SM but I s ldpt through withput hearing the a- larm ( it went o f f , to&! ) ' J u s t , A ~ s & ETars f o r niy e f fo r t s & - W C B U I - & ~ seemed t o be s/& 3 3 . T&tf s it fro& nerr cJam & 1111 say 36.58 (Is@ only nalf A DX~T!),

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Donad K. Kaekw - Hotel El Rancho - Box 235 - Vest Sacramento, California Back again. I 'm one of the wor18s greatest procrastlnators. DX since January has been

limited. Since rmving to West Smranianto CX nave been aucn poorer. More QT(N & closer to a l l locals except KHOY, so Lore slop. Itve bean l i s ten ing som on NUS w/very l i t t l e success. Going back to 1/18, I got KGHO-1560 Wash. ljut t b y d i k f t anewer ye t , a s 0 KPAL-1450 Cal. to 3:11 on f /c-TT . 1 / 2 4 KORL0650 Hawaii on RS 4:38, & i n PIvi, WAC, R. Belize, & mI 830-834-840, also SS unIDs on 780 & ,950 about 8:30pm. 217- KIOA-940 fa . on R S 5 6:24a, Orientals all over lower end. 2/12- WNBC & VABC i n f inal ly . SS on 850 3 5:15am, sou& ed l ike Colonibia. 2114- KRAM-920 Nev. ? 3:Olaro s /of f . CBM-940 ,Que. @ 3:03. 3/14- WSUN-620 Fla. @ 4:17, WIBW-580 h s . @ 4:20. KTRG-990 Hawaii at 4:30. 3118- 5R-560 u/KSFO - 8:30m. 3/21- XGU-760 Hawaii 5 4:05. 413- XEAZ-1270 S /

off 2:EBirm. 4/4--KLYQ-980 Mont. f,k u/CrCNPI TT 3:303:45. KLAV-1230 Nev. RS 4:07 a s adjacent WOY off. 4118- I noted KICY-850 Noma back again #./good signal 3 4:15. F i r s t time I've heard them i n months. Veries back from KSNN-1290 KTOB-1490 KNEZ-960 IN- 1520 KKIS-990 KCm-12890 KICY-850 KHW-1580 KNGL-930 KEOX-1480 KDIA-1310 KBET-1340 & 9CFTV-970. Total, 1,582. Someone asked about KNFt DX. They were on & v3rie back w / va Scot t Donahue, PD. I'veNbeen t ry ing fo r some of those DUs everyo& e lse o u t here is hearing but nothing yet. On 4/18 I had a weak signal on 770 from 4-5am. I S

on at t h i s tiroe7 (Yes, they s/Cn 4an Mas -em) Someone asked a while back about o ld copies of DX NlPiS. Drop me a l i n e & I 'll send a few examples of 1950. I wish I had more to rsport but receivers jus t a ren t t mch. I hope to report sooner i n future. KEiVB-910 Oaklard recently sold & w i l l go to Mid~le-of'-Roaa ii;x 611. I hope i t w i l l give up AN. (Tbnks f o r snapshot, in! -ere)

B m e Reynolds - Route 2 - Warrensburg, Wiesouri - 64093 Hi . f e l l , I an ashamed to recort since nothing new heard, but I f 1 1 fill in vlhvhat w a s in an ear ly April fibtieing that- the Poat Office sent back. I ' E sending the envelope a- long ERC. Do you see anything wrong w the addreas? (Nothing wrong a t all, Bruce - 1 cantt see b y they sent i t b w i ! -mcI Big news i n t b t Musing came from kht 4/4 when I logged my f i r s t Oregon, KWED-1440 from 1:56-2am s/off-SSB, ( ~ o h n H., tPanks a n i l - l i on for the tip!) KNAK-1280 was heard @ 2:58 W / R & a g a i n 9 3:55, & then tine b ig one. An EZ speaker w/Brit ish accent on 1510 w/much fading & very weak. Tnere was a NX commentary type program u n t i l 4:30, then c l piano rnx u n t i l c a r r i e r on 3 4:45. They were get t ing ORfi from HJLQ ( I ~ u e s s it was they) on 1515k. I t alrcost had to be ZNA, b u t 1 mn"c count i t unless they verie. Crossed fingers! I had the v o l w nearly wide open on the GR-54. I ' m glad someone i i a n f t s/on sj5Okw. w/valuns wide o p a l ) H i , - Rick Evans. Since €hex, nothing except KIND-1010 on + / l a 7 p s /o f f . Mi\li 4/18 had "Rice Krispiestl CX. You.iaour, Snap, Cracda, Pop! I got so oored hearing nothing 1 went to sheep & miesed KVOR. Naturally I woke up just about f i v e minutes a f t e r it was over. A f evv veries: v/q- KFEQ & KOAM, v/c- KLChT & WBIR (on 3d card), v/f - m?% & v/l., P W C & KRCB. Totals now stand a.t 655/l67, s t a t e s 42/40, provinces 716, & countriee 71 4. I do$j't t'nink that ' s too bad considering ny PX & the f ac t that t o t a l s were 4;14/52, 36/31, 311 2~ 613 when I j o i n e d the NRC last Fal l . Many new loggings thanks to DX NI!?.?S & NRCers, over 20 on Specials alone. Tirrnks t o all & a t i p of the hat to the EX. I n casr anyone* s interested, KSAC-580 RS is 12:,3&5:15pm weekdays, Thanks t o Stan lvi0rSs for the l e t t e r . The DX,Museum i s a f i n e idea, Wayne P. Say, .wko i s v / s f o r your P:T& verie? I plan to attend ANARC Convention i n K.C. & hope to see some of you there! 114ontreal i s too far to f8nance. Runnin~ out of space, so I must ,say 73s for . th i s time. PS* I now have two-nigh$-a-week NXcast on KCW-FM. NX divided into s i x par t s e': it l a s t s half an hour. I run the board & do two par ts of i t . (congr&s, Bruce! -ere)

Geoff Trower - Leses House - Natal Road - Briqhton 7, S U ~ ~ X , Ewland Made i t a t last! After 13 years of BCB DX California made i t i n the shape of Ki'BK-1530 12-12:15am an 4/L2, i n weakly u/Vl',CKY. 4/12 turned out to be an excel lent day ~ 1 1 4 1 0 FF s t i l l C W ? (0ui!-erc) On top of WPOP between 11:20 & 11:4opn. CKLM-1570 o:l-top of everything ll:50pr. 4124- CJm-1240 f o r f i r s t time @. 12:aam close iown, a lso new. That was.an excellent piece of journalism a few issues ago on Wwlsl Club" etc., quite a few of us must have been included i n that! The verie from KFBK QSL & v / l arrived i n seven d@ys f o r State #36 & keeps npy heardlverif ied percentage lo@ f o r U.S. s t a t e s , a big thank you to a l l concerned. Reception CX are good again, but mostly the same 100 s ta t ions come thrpcgh. Fade out i s generally arounl 12:30an: EST. 73 to a l l . (Thanks fo r the fine photo, Geoff! -ere?) AS THEY ASK IN,ST. JOSEPH dtALMA, 'QYE.,~~CFGTW. " W I N G FOR a N O D TIME?fr MOSTREAL '66!

7 -D-x- - N E W S - - - May 7, 1960, Rick Warr - 743 Dunlopwin Road - E l l i c o t t City, Maryland - 21043

H i everyone, I n my Musing of 2/19/65 my t o t a l number of s ta t ions l o gtd read. as 560. Actually that was indeed a misprint f o r the number should have read as 660. I n any e- vent, I have added 15 new ones since then, as my t o t a l number l o g a d now stands at 875.

^ Rere, then, is DX: 2/?-W- WISM-1480, W i s . 9 1:Bam on BS w / r r & ID. 2/14-~&[- wJhTO- - 1230 Fla. on RS @ l:C4am WINK ending P ID; also RXLF-1370, also on RS, for liontana #&

( s t a t e #43 overa l l ) . This s ta t ion had been long awaited f o r a t t h i s den. I heard a NXcast '3 1:30, followed by MX & then NX headlines n 1:45, them more DL, & f i n a l l y stoff around 1:59, F W signal, best i n f a c t @ 1:45&, but mucn beating at a l l times from WSAI-l.360. 2/21411vi- WJCO-1310 Mrcn. @ 1:37m t e s t , CHYlvl-1490 Ont. fi/ brief I D i n EX on RS q 1:FSam; CKPlv~-1440 Ont. @ 2am i n EE n / s /o f f ; WHSC-1450 SC @ 2:OBam w/W & ID . Then, on 3/24- WLIJ-1580 Tern. m 7pm s/of f. 3/25- WDSL-1520 NC 0 6: 15pn u f l l m ~ a/ Il) ; PV"PK-1310 hTC % 6:37pm w / c/w mx; WESY-1580 M i s s . @ 7:15po s loff . 3/28-MM- mDA-1440 Tex. W/TT rO: brief I D * 1:40em, i n very wel l ; KFJZ-1270 Tex. on RS @ Zam w/NX bg inn ing & poor si-pal; PIJBX-1500 Mich. lin 3 :03am conclucting ET, R'RCH-910 Conn. a 4:Om o n RS w / ID & then m, wry c lear . A note of import nce to some of you trying to log ore o f W locals, VIm-1500 i n Rockville, Md. PIIINX is now tne Washington areal s ~lIutual (13s) af- f ilia t e & co.dequently presents Mutual NX every half hour on the half hdur. FOL-1450 DC has natural ly dropped Mutual s i m e WINX took the networkts NX over. T h i s became effect ive 5/1. That's a l l f o r t h i s tire. B C N U aoon,

Daniel Burstein - 57-10 225 S t ree t - Bayside, New York - 11364 Hello a e i n , everyone. A touch of the f l u has prevented me from get t ing out Pr W i n g several needed par t s f o r my RX, so DX b r e rs almost n i l . I dld tune Ln an unID FF on an eight- t ransis tor radio on about 10BOk/ The time w a s 6:05p 4/22, Tne s ta t ion W a s

pllaying EE C &.erican rr tunes i n l?E & FF. Tm D J w a s d man, speaking in E1F. 'I% cal ibrat ion on t b se t was poor ( l ike i t is on most t rans i s tor jobs), sg the s t a t i on heard could have been CHRS-1090 St. Jean, Que. But accordirg to a back copy of VJ,

CHRS rms lhv.. de$t&be only. Tns s t r o n p r p o s s l b ~ l i t y 1s 4VA-1OBO Hazti, running lkw day & night, accolding to the same guide. The mystary FF was heard a s l a t e as 6:30, so i t could have been Haiti. But, would 4VA play r r ? Hey, Ernie, Vm is i t ? ( ~ V A has NEVER been heard here U P T I C ; only foreign who ~ e t s u/ them is SS YVQJ -ere) T1-8 com- - p m y i n Demark which publiSh6S tha WRTVH sent me a pamphlet pluggig ten necv books which they are now also publishing. Have they stopped the WRTVH infavor of these? If so, I j u s t =i&t order t h e i r "PEsrld Med- V'ave Gulde. V t contains a l l the BCB sta- t ions of t l ~ e world, a /info regarding c a l l l e t t e r s , fr-squencies, pawars, & geographic positions. ?$To 'ont ion i s made i n the pamphlet of times, leading personnel, future plans, addresses, o r any of the features of the WRTVH. H i , Norm Shaeat. I bet you watcbmi the Angels on TV. I f i na l ly picked up the Dodgerst broadcast, but on the AFRTS -9. I heal-d Koufax pi tch the s ix-h i t te r vs/ the Cubs. Vince Scully was a s good as ever. Best BB aflrouncer going. He very nearly came back to NY when Yanks f i r e d Me1 Allen. S d l y w a s o f f e ~ e d a a g e contract by the Yankees, but Dodger owner 1 a l t e r 0 ' s Malley topped i t , so Vlnce stayed on KFI r./the Dodgers. ~vieanwhlle, thz Ydnkaes were minus one announcer, so they nl rea Joe Gurdg303d. iv~y ~ l l n e s s gave me tame t o work on my r s w log. It now contains 263 s ta t ions heard 1n 14 countries, &/e ight countries verified. I have haad only 33 new sta t ions i n $66. That 's i t , & 738.

Ken Butterf i e l d - 624 Arthur S t r ee t - Plyrrouth. blichigan - 48170 L i t t l e DX l a t e ly as I' Ve gone on PIidnipn t-Barn on Sun-Tue-Ted-Thu-Fri nights- ugh. Here are my nesger new ZoggingsL, 4111- CmL-610, 9:0+. 4118- WWOL-1120k 6:56-7p s /of f . WADM-1540, 7:15p s/of f . P!mM\'i-1540, 7;apm. 4119- WFUR-1570 7:30 s tof f . Varies: v / ysnnant: YVOD-'780. v/1- Br0PL P ! w RQSZ-645 KLBX KICS WICU. v/q- WAXY R. iviadrid- 1097 HJBI-340 BE-854 HYDI-1110 KOAM & Murnberg-1602. Totals: 1,317+1,054. Countries s t i l l at 81/66. Boy, has the CX gotten rot ten f o r LA/% DXLG! I can hardly .?ear R. Americas o r BIBS. Many f/ups out to non (oh, I man) r e l k t a n t ( h i ) ver i f ie rs . Arm% these are CE UP PlimNC PrCLO Warn CKAU ~ ' D G M KDSN TFWntF WphT XFABC PrRVM Warsm & Cairo-818,

- KJED R many others. P agree W / R O ~ Millar about reports & return p s t a g e , I noted uany Musings both pro & con i n the 412 DXerl s WKNT report. Some I found amusing from the beginner such as people who used t o f%wp veries but i n s l x months ha has tumed into a professional DXer. I wish I could aquire enlightenment ti-at rapiday . Well, 73 and enad s t a t i c l eve l to all. "-- - - -

3Jom Shacat - 200 Bainbridge S t ree t - lvialden, N~assachusetts - 02148 ERG, your 1510 u d 1s WMEX. T 9 y Hawuan mx, c/w mx, & songs w/only 3. f o l k gul tar solo. 73. (Thanks, Nom.

May 7, 1868 D X N E W S 8 Steve Yeinsteiii - 435 Jayson Avenue - P i t t s b u ~ s a , Pennsglvania - 1 5 2 8

H i , Varies: V/q- Italy-656. v/l- YEWS. DX: W i i 4118- KSIvlM-1530 1:30am ET/I.I a l l AM. IDS every 15 minutes. mNS-1240 r/c-M 1:3@-1:45arr. very clear. UnID s/off-SSB'on 1 8 0 2:07am weak. Loud SS on 1240 2:@m & m o s t of the rrorning, unID. WBliG-1240 2:40m c / w & AN, giving the SS some QRM. KBEW-1560 TEST ra ther easy 3:Wm. WTOD heard very weakly tes t ing ugderneath, 3:17-3:19. I might have had unn KVOR-1300 DX during the ent i re program, but VERE waa too much. I had mx underneath whha t sounded l i k e IDS every f ive minutes, WKSC-1300 4m s/on w/Dixie ruined the f i n a l I D of KVOR, i f I would have gotten i t dur iq a bf ief period of s i lence from Wm. How about a m v gme? An example rrould be, "On 4/18, the 1300k s ta t ions WERE KVORting & KSCing." Not much of an example, but I think you can get the idea. (Pere cavorting & kissing). Send any others l ike the above to me, along w/a name for the game, & 1 1 1 1 send the be t t e r ones along t o Prnie, i f he w i l l p r i n t them. Laybe we can liven up the Summer DX KWSes -

.reg ~ o y d - W ~ O T Radio - ~ouigstown, Ohio .

H i va. Well. not much new. R e ~ o r t s s t i l l out to WIBG-990 WIXY-1260 WBVA-1240. ver- . . ~ * - - ~

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l e s in: WGBI-910 &; UPOP-lrlO (notn v/c) , ZPOP & t a r aaout eight montns. Robert Bnihns, Audio paks are not cut off to induce the d i s to r t ion you hear i n ovemodulation. Sim- ply phased so negative p a s are limited to below 10%. But FCC says n ~ t t i n ~ ~ b o u t pos- i t i v e peaks, so possibly usually run 15 to 3% higFsr. With posi t ive peak ovemodula- t ion & excessive l imi t ing & compressing an e f fec t of dis tor t ion i s given although mot really pressrmt. S t i l l p la t te rs very nicely though!] I don't know who belongs to re- port on P. 14 of 4/5/66 bul le t in but why not refund h is NRC me~bership sayment? What's b p p n e d to BCB DXers? (We all, o r many of us, a t leas t , at one time sent the Sam kind of report, P'es * I doubt. i t 1 1 1 ever happen again! -ere) I have never seen aa vany poor reports as WHOT has received i n about l a s t two months. Usually a b u t 2@ of reporta were bad. Naw about 2% are good. Wayne Heinen: Tal l W29IC that K3VPK says hi! Attention: GOnna t ry to t a l k s t a t ion personnel here into having XR trouble f o r about 15 mimtes some MM. I t might go off the a i r fo r a while. I w i l l not i fy a l l we11 in advance. Wish me luck? Also reports out to llI(0P-1360 KOA-850 & WUBE-1230. Hey, Joay Reynolds fans, Joey s t a r t s work 9pm to midnight on WXYZ-1170 on 4/19!; So - . there! Down w/ c/w mx! Top 40 Forever! (BOO! -ere)

Bob Zwier - 383 West 17 S t ree t - Hollamd. Michigan - 49423 H i a l l . Re l l , we f i n a l l y moved to the address above. I constructed s m kind of lone, wire. It i s mbout 1001 w/a V pointing to the S . I haw noticed th i s maws Southern reception much be t te r . Now down to DX. 4110- WHAT-13eO $ 5:55am, WRBL-1420 8% 6:05, VrJPG-1440 6:15am. 4/11- WOT-1440 @ 3:30 wjsome-kind of t e s t f o r my th i rd Arizona in as many weeks, KSMM-1530 a 4:30 ET/M, CKFIk680 s 4:45 u/unID SS, WPNX-1430 - 4:50 s/on-SSB, !7BAL-lC90 s /on .;. 5am, & WNYR-680 @ 5am. Then at the new location 4/17- BJRZ- 970 6 3:30, WTiTFiX-1330 A 3:45 (surprised I didnrt get th i s one before) WHOK-1320 s/on- SSB s 4am, CFAC-960 fi 4:20, ~'SMB-1350 c 5am i n way o/onSLR w/telephone pro grm, WJRD- 1150 5:10, TSGN-610 s 5:25, I(DPiB-630 @ 5:31, & CHFI-1540 heard ~ / ~ r o m o f o r new f re- %Wncy. V-ries back a re KASM KOOL f o r f irst Ariz., WJAS WJVA, said my report was one of the best tk guy had ever seen, KAMI KOIL CJCH V'PTR PHKY w/souvenir pencil, & P'SIJfi f o r t he i r Special of 3/7. To6als now are 455/164. Not much else f r m here. One thing, I would l i k e to know of any good tape recorders u/b100. Tnanks; t t a t ' s al1,fans ,:, a p e Seinen - 126 Linwood Avenue - Orchard Park. New York - 14127 hi. 73. H i all - SC news - WYSL regular SCs well be out by the time you read this. Go sparing- ly on Wm'U SCs i they are n o w out of pr int . Latest varies: v/ l - CBO-910 WPW-1580 CBW- 990 WPPA-1360-DX \FjNl\lti-Y5O W / Dmper StAcKer, WNAC-b8O WPIT-7bO w/Ch (82 returned xry Stm:? WOPA-a90 ( I l l . graveyard #2) a /CM. v/q- CEO-910 WHYN-560 WPUV-, 580, CBW-990 VfKRC-550 & a f t e r s i x month, R. V;onte Carlo-1466, country #8. No DX to speak of. To answer some questions about B. Mitchel Reed, hers a t KFFB-980. H i to C . Rader i f you're able to read this. I finBDly got aroum to get t ing my Class 3 FCC licsinse- maybe 5: can get a job at VXSL ( f o r pay). I arr. a Teen DJ "for experience only." Blah! Totals are now . ~ ~ .

471/2j8, s t a t e s 43/39, provinces 817, countries 19/8. 73s a l l & have fun. B i l l Caldwell - 15 Ashland Avenue - Springfield. N~assachusetts - 01119

Hello agaiil. PJfi 4/1& 4:45am. PrPNX-1460 Ala. s/on. 5:OO. WW-1460 Va.; 5::s P'LHI- 1370 lirld; 41% ~ ! ~ $ ~ - 1 2 2 0 Me. 6:15 w/CBS, t o 6:3bp stoff .. v / l i n from CHFI-1510. The past couple of days CX t o the N have been r e a l good. 4 / 3 5 GFQF-600 was i n l ike a c l a r channel, demoliehing PICC. Like a l o t o f you, most time available for D2 ';-ill be used f o r 1Fi.I & TV, but I ' l l s t i l l t r y the BCE occasionally, a s I h a d got ten s m e (P.9)

s -0-x- -N_E_W-s- i ~ h y 7, 1966 (W. Caldwell) some p r e t t y good snnrise/sunset logs i n the Summer. WACE-730 'nd 3 3 troubles on 4/29 & > o r a w h i l e was down to lkw. B Y the way,pur family ,my be i n Phi l - adelphia around 5/21 & i f t h e r e are any NRCers arburd there, I ' d appreciate the oppor-

.. tunity of meeting w/orhaving a phone &at w/gou. 73s & s t ra igh t ahead! ..

.~. nave S c h i S t - 44 Green Lane - Green Ridge - Chester, Per.nsylv&ia - 190x4 Ei guys! DX isnl t too goo&, but I w i l l t r y to roud out tne month of April w/one , n w s ta t ion reportea every day. DX: 4117- WXOK-1460 n 5:30am, except iondly c lear , ma- 1 4 0 * 5545m, WCW-1560- * &an s/.on. MM +/18- KSNIM-1530 on ET @. 1:45aan, ICBDi-1560 TEST 9 3:22am, & t ha t ' night, WHE6a1370 - 6:44p. +/a- WCHS-580 n 7em s/on, !iYTI-1570 @ 6:44am, V?BBBF-950 on second try G- 5:31am, & that night, WJWS-1370 f? 7:OZpn. G/27- WPVA-1290 - 7:14pm, VTUX off at 6 : 4 5 ~ . Now the veries start caning i n , hi. A T ones are : WAGE-730 ( three months!) v/q, CKWS-960 v/f, VACO-1460 v / l , TSMD-1563 v / l , WCLVr- 1560 v / f , ?@%I-960 v/q, KXLY-920 (my rpize!) v/q, NbO-1398-TEST v/m, WSId\$-lZo-TEST v/m, 'KDDA-1550 v/l , ' EBBW-1560 CM & v / l .*/a nice le t terhead & WIXY-1260 sent a f u l l e vjl! Totalnow, 3 1 1 i n 42 s tdtes . So, I guess the seaeon s about %re f o r now, but remember, 5% %is i s darn good f o r catches you can't get 3uring the week. I 'd l i k e t o sar a l l the ed i tors .d id a bang-up job this year, only one bu l l e t i n got here on

, Tuesday, a l l tne,.rest 'came on F r i 4 o n . Many thank^ to all.who made the NRC possible t h i s year, & to the excellent job the g003. o l e ed i tors do. I forgot to mention tkat VVCH is now sp la t te r ing 640 t o 840:. A f t e r almost three years of l i s t e n i n g to. WABC w/ hardly any slop from them, now I can hardly hear th&! Nothing re the note of p l ea to WSLT! ., I :nil1 s tpp Eo see .w& Mr. geene didnt t answer, som3time i n Play, so hold onto your hats. Seant k.e, don' t send any f /up8 as tney probably just have the reports i n a box o r soiiijetning. 75s evaryone.

Ken Butterf i e l d - 624 Ar t i~ur S t ree t - Plymouth, lvlichigan - 48170 L i t t l . DX l a t e l y due to working midnight, but here are my meager offerings: 4 / 2 - TJC'IW - 1 S 0 6 : 2 5 p . i?~~N-1370, 6 :31po. Veries: vjpennants: HJ'ER RNE-836. v/ l - KlTfiJ WFUR lvAI%5 & HJU-870 from membe? of the Peace Corps. v/q- WSPZ, Vorocco-'la1 & BBC-1457. Totals: 1,320/1,OS3. countries: 81/66. One feIlow,recently asked how I ge t so MLny new countries, It's easy. I have a f i l e card i n f ron t of me f i l l e d out w / t % most

,- powerful E u r a p p e a n , .SA, SA sta t ions & also t&ir s/ontimes. I pick one & s t i ck */if t i l l 1 get it. This i s an easy way to ge t the 'Europeans. Be I l o t it I cross i t out & f i l l i n a;loth.er. D . Schmilt, I have WSLT-TEST QSLed a f t e r only one report & one f / up.. Signer, Jin. Gilmore. A l s o VXYC signer f o r my 8/12/65 ver ie i s F.C.Everett. Em- i e , I W a s thW&ing through ern o ld copy of DX & saw i n ngr hk$ing a v / q signed by J.S.Rckn@ & y o u l a t e r s a id it was ScMartz. I just happend to see tha Q:S on the wall & gaess what ( h i ) - it sSys Sohantz. I've enclosed i t as proof. (You're r ight , Ken, but I &on't r e c a l l the ihcident -ere) I noted iVbm P g u i r e t s askiny ir.e >OW I get such good forsign verie returns. Easy. 1 ) Perserverance. 2) Good reports. 3) Lots of f /ups (h i ) 4) And I b n d a handfull of used stamps i n each report to all but ths E3C. Boy., does t ha t #4 pay ' o f f , especially w/the Gdrmans & LQjSWs! wall , t:?att 8 a- bout i t so 73 & w l l l see al l in iv!ont,real. Auf Hasts Nuevo Bagannah and a l i t i l e Arava ho Bamiddar cn tb side. 73. ( I hope t h a t t s clean, Ken - h i -ere)

CHANGES I N STATION DATA - F.C.C. (~urchased f ron Cooper Trent, Znc., 1130 19 t h S t ree t , arashington I1C)

Wr STATION CALL CHANGES 1490 4liddleburv. Vermont 1.000/250 U-1 1550 W 0 G 0 New Sn,yrna Beach Bla.VrORT

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hVtr CALLS 1580 PV P I p ~ o l l i e ; v i l l e , T8nn.e~-TSHC t440 W V G ' Cochran, Georgia 1560 K D D A Dunaas, Arkansas (on) (NEXT ISSUE I N TVO WEEKS, DATED EW 21)

FACILITIES 1230 K C B N Reno, Nevada, to 1,000,b 50 U-1, from 250.27-1, same channel.

Tom l h n - 1805 East Elmdale Court - Ant. 6 . - khilwaukee. Wisconsin - 53211

-. Attention BCB DXers. If aw of you are planning to come to the 1966 IRCA Convention

. . at the Schroeder Hotel, 509 W . Wisconsin Ave. here in.Milwatu.ee. Send .an SASE f a r de- t a i l s on room reservations to : Tom Stoltmann, 5018 N . Hollywood Ave., Wnitef i sh Bay, Wis. SjSdL7. You don* t k v e to be a n IRCA member o r any type of r & i O club, So pa66 the info &long. Is FUOCO-1260 from oconto, W i s . on tne a i r yet? I map 5VL cards l o @ so i f you map, jus t semd me your cards. 73. ( I don' t believe POCOt s on y e t -ere) mmtBERR, TED %ZXT ISSUE P'ILL BE ALONG I N 9 '0 WEEKS, DATED NAY 21. DEADLINES WR ALL SECTIONS OTIBR THAN THIS TILL BE MONDAY 5/16; FOR NilTSINGS; TUESDAY, 5/17. ~~FF'ORT!

May 7, l9 66 -D-x- -N-E-*-s- 10 Wlph M. J0n-s - 11 East Cnippewa S t ~ e o t - Buffalo, New Y6rk - 14503

512- I neard a f/c-TT WFTC Kinston, u/CKWS Kingston Ont. wno s/off ? 12:40 EST w / the *Q' t o re turn RS @. 5:27am EDT o r LT. W F T C ended w / f D @ 12:15. 860 TTer (WEVA r / c inmbel Eave no c a l l & ended 12:59. while a n SS continued. 1230 TTer had no voice i 1300 &r very strong, most l ike ly PIE%. 1260 hEtd AN-pest WNDR & &lone till 2:35 came a TT- e r (WIXY mape l a t e r/c7) 1520 bad KOMA RS to 3:Olam stoff to return at 5 : 3 h LT, while WTTO Toledo 0. TTed. PIYSL-1400 l o c a l $ives.me a pain and has a half-dozen im-

ages seven nights a week. v/qs vy: WTIC-1CBO by Do#; CHOE-1470 ( a new t y p ) . 1%-730 a Spidel-Fisher s ta t ion , v/q for my 4/13/64 report, a f t e r I sen t CE a 4/4/66 f / c re- port 1:06-1:2l s/of f , Am air-v/l , 795 inked out, b %5k, by Carribean Bg. Corp., Box 785, Bridgetown, Barbados, B.W .I. by GW (they've also CBC-TV-3). The s t a t i on is gav- enmrent owned & has a NE att tern. v / l , WDA-1560; v / l WIN-1UO-TEST; v / l BrBC9-1490, 200 Waqnglia Drive, Levittown, pa. (phones Levi ttown, Philadefirna & ~ r - n t o n ) , AN-7. CFFI-154@580 writes: CFFI vacated 1540 on 4/17 & IS now AN-7 @0k, new CHIIT-1540 50W w i l l take 011540 sorcetime i n May o r perhaps June. The CE of KSJB, King of the Dabtas, Box 1271, Jmestown, M) 58401, sends a "5,000 red-hot watts, GO&, DA-3, v/q & V $ ~ S he runs s t a t i on by remote control & M I A s s l en t period is 1-6:30am EST. NEJSW direct ional w/three 300' XR towers. KmC opened 137 on 1400k & becmne KSJB-600 UNV. sn (42 & then 5kw. directional i n la& '46. ( I v / leb 1kw.D KSJB-600 on ~113145) . Andy Loomis, CE of XRYK-960 Farmiyton, NM wrote (too l a t e r f o r DX m S ) about a 4/29 t e s t , 3:30-2:45 EST & I got h i s l e t t e r 4/28, but no-go here due to VrX. T h y t e s t quarterly, but uncertain dates. 73. - .. - -.

J e r m Bond - 159 Bowers Avenue - Vratertown, , New York - 13501 H i guys, The CX have taken a turn f o r the worse here l a t e ly as I w a s only able to l o g twoew sta t ions durixg the en t i r e month of April! That i s - r e a l l y bad f o r me & i t $16- makes Apri l my worst month D5wise since 6/64 when I also logged only two new statione. The DX is bound to get be t t e r though f o r the simple reason that it c o u l d n ~ t s t any worse, hi. I j contrast t o April the f i r s t three months of t h s year were very good for DX. Since r y last report the DX hau looked l i k e this: 111- KLTR-1580 Okla. - 6:32p for +36 on 1580, & KFIF-1550 Ariz. 7:32p o/CBR. 113- WPNX-1460 A l a , w/ET ET 1:12am. 115- WBOZ-1550 Tenn. 2:40am on r / c . 119- IG~JNI-~~~O-TEST @ 2 : 2 h & XELZ-1440 @ 2:34. 1111- I noted CJKL-560 on 565 as did m y other people "i. 6;55pm. J: cal led t h m up and the man I spoke wi th saad they were operating on stdndby XR. l / l a - KBIB-1560 Ark. at 1 s o f f l / d L WQB-1020 @ 13:18pn w,R. Sucre ID 8. CJAD-800 Que. @ 11:4sipm. I/*- SSS, I logged ten new s ta t ions including s i x fron; M: sn a 12 mlnute period. Those s i x were WRRZ-880 e 5:17pn, WBBB-SX) @ 5:23, WKBX-BOO @ 5:25, WHO-1080 'la, 5:28 S/off, WKTE -1BO * 5:29 s /off, & TIBZB-1510 rib 5:29 s loff . The other four new s t a t i ons I heard were tnMTN-13Q0 Tenn. lib 5:44, WLtN-l350 SC rn 5:44 s to f f , WW-1570 Ga. @ 5:58 s/of f, & l'%iOO- 1550 A l s . also " 5:Spm. 1123- WIJvID-900 Md, " 5:15pn s fof f , & PDSL-1520 9 5:30pn$s/ off . 1125- VIGIC-1500 Ohio @ 5:16pm. 1/a- WR-1320 W is. a 5:10p, WCICI)-970 ;'Lich. @ 5:16, & WCUB-980 Wis. n 5:22. P/30- KRYS-1360 Tex. a 2:31am about 15 second8 a f t e r WSAI s loff . 213- WBCK-930 Mich. @ 6:50p. 215- WKPR-1420 Mich. on r / c ? 1:40m. Lat- er tha t d q I bowled a 278 game in a league I bowled i n & I received two trophies & patches f o r it. 2/6- WSUN-6dO Fla. 3 3am. 217- WKLV-1410 Va. 5:45pm sfoff. Ivan 2/14 - CMCD-760 - 12:16=, WNGO-1370 TEST rn 1:17, KFJZ-1270 T ~ x . @ 1:39, CMJN-280 ' 1:45am R WGbJY-1220 I'iY .t. 4: 0 5 ~ . 3113- EJHJ-600 m ll:31pn W/R. Libertad ID. Mivl 3114- Cubans completely oovered tha d i a l u n t i l about 2:40am &when I f i n a l l y got them all wri t ten down I found I had heard 26 new ones. I a l s o heard an SS on 1320 which had an ID t h s t soun3.ed l i k e "R. Aha, Le IPbapica1.n Does aqybdy know what s t a t i on that i s ? (Could be XE& (All-~e) -ere) Aropd SSS I heard WAEE-1370 Va. @ 6:28pm s/off . I guess I've reached the l i m i t already so 1'11 have to close. 73 everybdy .

Robert Grsff An - 104 B r i a r Road - Nanuet. New York - 10954 Since I am a new men~ber I should in t rodwe myself. I am 13 yeyears old & i n eighth grade My RX i s a Zenith Transdceanic Iftansistor p r t a a e & a e r i a l is 130t of wire i n a t t i c . Latest QSLs are KSL Utah #1, KXEL Ia. 62, WGN-720, sent booklet t e l l i nq about c lear channels, VGAR-0. Reports to CDW-100 @ 6pn, WHtI-1100. Latest loggin @ m e WIBG-990

5W, WGBB-1240. Also report out to WTRY0980. S tandings are fl s t a t e s QSLed & four -- provinces, 85 QSLs a l togk&W. I forgot to mention QSL from WOAI-1200 Tex.#l. I'n in- terested i n constructing a loop but don't know very much a b u t it . cou l l someone wr i t s & t e l l me how to do i t ? 1 y o t e Thanks. Before I go, two reports out to

11 . . . - - D x- -N-E-~'S- Nay 7, 1966 Daniel T. Shoaf - 5966 Hartland Avenue - Houston, exas as - 77055

Hi! Latest DX as f o l l ~ s: 4113- KTOC-920 Lz. (6: '1:15m, r / c ; WACY-1460 ltliss. ?, 2 : l h l r / o ; WBEJ-1XO'Tenn. f? 2:45am qjc . 4115- WLYB-1250 ^ 12:Bam r / c ; RLNIR-920 Cola.

. . 2:15am 4/15- KLOS-IWO NN @ 1:lpam W/TT; R A B R - ~ ~ ~ O $ex. n 1:10am r / c ; KEYJ-1400

-., ND' @ 1:3Om r /c ; CI(Idi9-1570 Canada m 2am; KIZZ-11SJ Trx. @ 2:14am r lc ; KRRR-1340.liM @ '

2:17em; mBH-1450 Mo. @ 3am s / s /of f . 4/18- KIKS-1310La. 9 2:28am r / c ; \aiHI&-1440 SC @ 3:Olam r / c ; V!SIZ-1380 Eia. 9 2:43m r/c41. KSCB-1270 Gns . @ 1 :3m rr/. ~ s - 1 ~ 0 KWS, B 8:l5p s lof f ; W-1510 4 ~ 1 ~ . Q ~ p f ~ s / o f f . - +la- D S - ~ ~ ~ O A ~ K . @I 1:35am r / c ; WBBD-I370 Ky. 3. 1:40m r / 6 ; @IF-1550 A r l z . @ 9 p s /of f . 4118- XENV-1340 '@ 12:3Cam RS. 4/21: , T G S - ~ ~ O .~uatemala City ? llp NX. (?Jot TGJ7 -ere) 4125- WCOV-1170 A l a . t3 7pm. So &ch ' f o r new ldgqings. A couple 6% questidns: U ~ I D : s t a t i on i n we* o n 15W on 4/26 a s - 9 ~ ~ was,off - c/,wmxm m. F i r s t . l e t t e r in c a l l w a s a W -.who? Also heard .soft rnx on 1500 ? 5:10&. , I t appeired tha t there were' two stBtions on. at tha t tkce, RSTP s t i l l o f f . T>at mprning KSTP was TT .from 1-l :3Oam. W h o i s the st. Louis Cardinals BB network s t a t i on on 1350k, WXCL, Peoria, 111.7 Best f re&ency here is ,1370 ~ / 1 8 lgg-d. A g a i n , I ' l l mention' I s@ap VIPE cards lo@. Anyone nseding KILT o r KNUZ SCs, please write,. Concening'Robert Feulner's comments i n 4/23 DX.lCDS: I don't s e e you Can cons'ider NRC :FZpor$. Fq&s worthless. ' They 'may be on the imp.ersonal s ide, hodver , most CF,s don't havs a great amount -of time to flhuntl, through an elongated reception re- port; t o f i nd "verifiable. itsman & signal strength, readabil i ty, e tc . The N X Report Form of fe rs plenty of roam f o r verifable items &..also. provides space f o r s i gd, read- ab i l i t y , interference w&c.h are ea s i ly referred t o & can be spotted p i c k l y i f the CE wants to get. tba basic s t a t i s t i c s 'without having to "run through" a whole1 'per~nalq l e t t e r to f ind, f o r i n s t ame , AIF\:OSPHEE?IC NOISE o r a w o th& individual d e t a i l t&'t he might be interested i n . I thinL most CEs would. prefer a snort, precise raport ins teaa of a l i n g +page l e t t e r f u l l of too many t r i v i a l items. Also, to comment oz your statement o f not sendilg a f /up. To ae, a f /up is another completely S i f fe rsn t report sent to a s ta t ion that has not answeredig,our f i r s t r e w r t . So as a r e su l t , I have

- never sent in a "carbon c.opyn flup. I may be wrong on the def in i t ion of a f /up, but tb ' t ts ju s t ny fee l ing toward i t . Enough said, 73 & good DX to a l l . (our general ref- .- erence "f/upll is meant a second Eeniing o f the same r e p r t , Dan -arc)

Gren Senko - 111 Forest Avenue - West Long Branch. New Jersey - 07764 Greetings. CX have real ly quieted down i n ' t h i s area, allowin$ f o r continuing b o d DX. s t a t i c has been almost non-esietant, amamkzingly. . Here's my DX f o r the l a s t 'half of Ap- ril: 4112- PICPS-760, Q 6:43pm. ,4113- WORA-760, n 9pn . 4/14- HJBI-840, ? ?pa. 4 / l & F'&X-l730, HC, @ 4:03ar8; WRSJ-1560, PR 9 4:30;an s/@n; WSYD-1300,. XC, 5am slon; VNYR- 590, ITTI m. 5 : 2 b ; WICBK-1220, NK, r p 5:30am; Q'LNG-1500 hT " 3:ZOpm w/WRL looped out . 4/17- WID-150 Ky. f l 1:35am. 4118- RBm-1560 rn 3 3 : 3 b TEST; WW-1330 V a . 6:50pn; pH&-1330 NY 3Y 7 m ; WEAW-1330 Il l . m 7:30pm. 4120- CFCF-600 Que. a, 9 : P p . 4121- CHUM-1050 Ont. @~ 8:30pn ujWHN. r/25- WFBC-1330, SC @ 8 : 3 ~ m . .4/ S- bYlvd@V-L470 Conn. @: 4:42p. 5/1- CFRA-580, Oot. @ 5:slam. Joy! I i l n d l l y w a s dble to put an effect ive nu l l on. mCA. & l og some thing waderneath, w pKBN-570, 0 , a 3:50am; WGAN-560, *. '2 i TIS-560, SC O 4am; WONE-980 0. @ 4:30am; NRBD-1470 Fla . @ 5am sfon. Vsries seem t o #d cow i n spurts. For a few days none, &: then a deluge of, them. v/l- CJOY VJAGL CJOC WLNG WKLD m51 KBEW-TEST. vIq- WMCA WCBS CBH P'RVA KVOO WRAM CJFT WFBL. T o t a l s now stand at 563/105, s t s t e s 38/35, provincas, 8 / 7 , countries, 16/7, foreign veries, 18. Thanks t o Jerry Bond f o r the info about WWNY. 73s & don' t forget , a l l you Bob Dylan fans, Everybody m u s t get stoned! (77 -who b? ere) . .

N & b Gikow - 115 Forest venue'- West Long Branch. New Jersey - 07764 I gusas q y :iusing was too l a t e f o r the la6 t DX NEW' but I' won't repeaa the =a te r i a l i n it. DX & veries have been steady f o r t h e paat few weeks., I sent r e p r t to ?!PAT PcNEW

WLbIG WDEE T J H VMID WHbI VORA CFCF WTOD WASA VfJRZ. Veriee back: v/q- I?PTR FFEA WCFS WID! TRCP R.Americas, sent to Swan I s , WHN WTOD WQAM. v/c- WNJR WJ13(:. v / l - v!FIL

... WEAN'.ag% n, PZNG PKID WNJHWASA i n two days. DX was as follows: ,4112- WTOD-1560 Ohio 7:16pn w , k g R . r/13- InlO8A-760 7pm .for an hour report, S-7! 4116- VKBX-1220 5:30am,

.-- VLNG-1600 3:3Cpr. u/TVRL; WEEE-1300 5 :57pm (s.off? ) . 4118- .YlKGN-1340 4:30arn, WESR/trASA /WEAW a l l 1330, 7:30pn. I jus t discovered , the NY s ta t ions on 13% 0 ga off hioilday even- ings. 4/19- CE'VL-850 L&C @ 6:25,. PIrCYB-690 '?p s/of'f u/CBF. 4/20- WAPE-690 $:- iSp, CFCF-600 9 :Dpr:, CHU~L-1050 10:30pn u/WHN. . 4 /23- WINX-1600 5: 12pm, . WNY~-?80'5:30 (.5:30 s/on7) (No -5ean s/on a r c ) (probably 4am now -e&) 4/% CJRN-1600 7:32pm. (P. 19)

May 7, 1966 -D-x- -N-KWAS - ( ~ i k e ~ i lmw) 41%- THAZ-1330 7:30pn. 4/26- PMVB-1440 brief UD 3 5:12p. 4127- 1110 6:35p, PIAND-9'70 Aberdeen, Ivid. 10:07pm, #500! Yay! Total: 500/86, states Canada 714. I hope t o be able t o go to t b Convention i n September. - 73s L

Ernest R . Cooper - 438 East 21 S t ree t - Brooklyn, New Yotk - 11226 Only two vsr ies in since last t i r e , both receivsd on Sat. 4/30: KBm'-1560-'EST1 1460. b t h v/l. EBEF sent a CM & KTYM a business card making me an honorary PD

& Krn- of KTYM

f o r iy good repert! I guess they have sent out a bunch of l e t t e r s , & they told me to t e l l DXers they ' l l appreciate an SASE. It 'll bring a f a s t e r reply, they said. Well, another lean pariod here as f a r as new pickings a r e concerned. IviM 4125- Urn AN WING- 1410 no tsd on EST, while looking f o r WUNI. TLAQ-1410 heard ubrING w/s/off 'i: laan, no sign of 'J'UNI. VrTOD-1560 t e s t b g BXR 1:ll-1:19 & on. P'CBG-1590 was the t e s t e r w/Hw- a i i a mx, on top of t ha t frequency here; seemed to be on most of the AM. YVOV-540 AN- SS on top nuch of t b mrning, but not yet reported - no luck here th i s season So far w/Venezuelans. PM, WBW-900, unn but rare , heard s/off e 6:42p. YND-675 doesn't seem a s laud these nights - m t strong enough to get a good report on t h m , now % a t they are varlfying! No more DX till IvNt 512: F i n d l l ~ , a n w i e - WTTO-1520 TTmg all &, s l i g ~ i t l y o/K01viB w/IDs a couple of minutes &ta r effin h&lr'-nOur & nom. OddU 6- mugh, arnther Toledan, WTOD-1560, was tes t ing also, f i r s t w/AXR of 1,00bnr., then l a t e r w/5,000w., main XR. The TTer on 900 turned out to be unn WAFC 9 1:55-2:10 or So, a/ CHML. WJEX-1500 tes ted mst of AM, w /OC mostly. 1090 i s now Infested w / a Cman on the network carrying the mx. PM, a log on WRCP-1540, l ike a loca l , except that there W a s

background interference from polkaftplgrying WPTS, p i t t s ton, 6-6:30p. The Colonbian e- lections on 5/1 brought no AN Colombians w/W - I heard a h ? broadcast around lm whicl- already announced the winner, so i t was t a l l l e d up pret ty early. I ha2 hoped to bag a bevvy of Colombians on open or semi-open frequencies, too. Thanks to several more of you lads f o r p ic twes of yourselves, and f o r gloss postcards, too. I apprac%te thm, & I hope sone r a r e of you wkll also send photos. Thanks, & C U i n 14.

BASEPALL STATIONS BILL CALDPPXLL, of Springfiell , Mass. sends us t h i s l i s t of Boston Red Sox BB s ta t ions: WHDH-850 F!DXT-550 WGIR-610 P!TOR-610 W.W-790 WRUIVI-790 'AEI-910 WAGM-950 WTIC-1080 WERI- -- 1230 WJOY-la0 VlR'iNB-1230 WMOU-1230 BrTSV-130 WQDY-1230 WCOU-1240 WHAI-1240 Vfi!iON-lSO Q!A'ARE-1250 FZDd-lZ30 WKNE-1290 WICH-1310 WBRK-1340 WNHC-IB40 W'IlnlN-1340 WBTIf-1370 WBBX- 1380 WSYB-1380 VENP-1400 WIDE-1400 WTSL-1400 WWSR-1420 WAAB-1440 WKW-1450 maL-1450 WKD-1450 WSAR-1480 RBtJ-1490 WKVT-1490 WPOR-1490 WTXL-1490 WFAU-1340. Feed s t a t i ons f o r other major league games are a s follows: ATLANTA - WSY-750. CHICAGO CUBS- WGN-720 CINCINNATI - WCKY-1530. HOUS'IDN - EPRC-9 50. LOS A X W S DODGERS - RFI-640 PHILADELPHIA - RTIL-560, a lso N~ YORK i.:ZTS - VHN-1050 PI TmSBURGH - KDKA-1020 SCOJ-1420, VrW-1470 ST. LOUIS - E10X-1120 SAN FRANC1 SCO - KSFO-560 BALTINDRE - @ B A L - ~ B O CALIFORNIA AI'GELS - D.PC-710 CHICAGO W H P ~ E SOX - WCFL-1000 CLFIIFLAPJD- ~ ? ~ ~ ~ - 1 3 0 0 DETROIT - 4JR-760 KANSAS CITY- ECIO-810 MINNESOTA - VJCCO-830 N P YORK YA;\KEES - BCBS-880 (also WDEPI-1570, WBNR-1260, WBRY-1590) WASH. - WTOP-1S0.

Most kiave supplemental networks - we suggest wr i t ing your favor i te BB club for d e t a i l s on the network s ta t ions carrvine the eames. ~. - L,-~

m n n S I ~ C E EAS; IS SUF: 800 W L A D Now 1,000 D-1 NRC 1290 oil E Y E New XR s i t e FCC

1090, W B Z B Ex-1510 kc/s. i?EC 1340 K S K I Now at Hailey, Idaho FCC 1110 W B I B Ex-1590 kc/s. FCC 1520 W T T 0 Tolebo, Ohio NRC

K D Z Cadiz. ILaritucm FCC W I N W Cdnton. Onio FCC - WAN" SITUATION

ON- 1490 C F W B NSP? O m - 1300 C J M E mis onlv. 1-6am. NOTE : CKC,hTGES I N STATION DATA WERE PUT I N ON PAGE 9, ONE DAY BEFORE DEADL~IE HERE.-erc

TPB next issue comes out i n two weeks, and we woull lib to see more support fo r i t t h n we got fo r t h i s one. I t i s the so-called off season, bgt we know many of you are - s t i l l tuning. You lads can help to make these S m e r DX WlSes ju s t as great as t b - Winter ones by# sending i n your logglngs to the various sectlons of DX NEWS. Deadlines f o r a l l sections other than R1,usings w i l l be Monday, 5/16, ani f o r Musings, it m i l l be Tuesday, 5/17. Please remanber to double space your reports - skip a l i n e between your l ines , whether you wri te , p r in t , or type. I t saves much time and eye s t r a i n here, lads, and your help w i l l be appreciated. Thank you, and s long for a fortnight.

INTFRNATIONAL DX DIGEST . . . . kky 7, 1966 D I T a : John A. Ccl larmn, P.0, EOX 1914, Pampa. Texas 79065 . .

. ~ . . ... D E L A Y

- f a u l t ... or r c t he r ciqaumstnnoe~. Th i sgoes Tu?sdq night instead oSXondayg aause Ju s t ~ 8 . 1 s e t t l e d t o

, type s tenc i l s , had t o ~o out on a f a t a l accident .., and n o sooner tm I returned but had a seri'ous aooident

t o a t tend to. So I ' m i n t he m i l a d s ~ . l a t e r than psual. Sorry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . E.D.U. CHANGE LIST ;&2,~ ... througl, 3/i/66 . . . , ,. . . . 520 UNID. Russian s t a t i on hkkrdhere .since l a t e , Janmry. ~. .

548 ALGERIA. CAsn, 300 kV, i n se rv ice here instead of Beahar., . . . .

6 8 Y?TGOS&VI~Z. Deo&ad. Power increased t o 400 kW 12/29/65.

773 YUGCSLAMA, sljeme (.05 k ~ ) i n se rv ice s inco 12/1/65.

782 YUGOSLAW. Rijeka ( 2 kbl) moved here from1484 6/1/45. ~ ~ ~ R U V A N I A . h i d . heard on t h i s frequency 1/14/66.

881 WGOSLAVIA. s lavonski Brod (.05 kW) i n se rv ice 5/18/65. 927 UNID.. Arabic language trensmission heard here 1/12/;6. , , . . . .

971 W. GERMI\NS. Hamburg .Nm. Power increased t o 300 k>I sin00 2/5/66. . , ~.

1133 YucosLAvIn. osi jek (2 k ~ ) i n se rv ice 11/15/65; Srdj-Dubrovnik (2 k'd) i n se rv ice 7/1/65. 1169 YUGOSLAVIA. Deli Kriz - Kaper (20 kV) Power inoreased t o 20 kW 10/16/65.

1254 INCL. WATERS (so&.land) Redio Scotland an tbls frequency s ince mid-I'rebrunry a f t e r operating an 1231, 1236,

1237, 1241, and 1256. 1259 INTL. WATMS. Radio Tower not heard s ince l a t e December.

1291 EZECHOSLOVAKIA. Rimvska-Sobota on t h i s frequency since mid-January. Ex. 1285.

1313 AUSTRIA. KBtschaoh (.l k51) here s ince 2/23/65. (EX-1124). :

'1 YUGOSLAVIA. Yugoslav s t a t i on no longer heard s ince 1/21/66.

132 , UNID. Russian s t a t i o n heard s ince ear ly February.

1349 INTL. WATFPS. (England). R. Essex heard here s ince l a t e February. Ex-1353.

IKROCCO. Unid. s t a t i o n heard here 2/1/66.

1358 YUGOSLAVIA. DJurdjevac (.a5 kt[) i n se rv ice here s ince 9/1/65 - 1367 YUG?SLAVui. Molve (.05) i n se rv ice Sinae 1/1/65.

. ~> 140) CYPRUS. DFBS Akrotir i , i n se rv ice here, no date or power.

YUGOSLAVIA. I%ribor. Power incrensed, to 20 kW 7/21/65. . .

1484 ALGERIA. Bane, no longer i n ,service. , Delete.

FRANCE. coimar, no longer i n servioe, Delete e f fea t ive 1/1/66. YUGOSWVIA. Foveo (-05 kw) i n ,service 8/8/65; G e ~ g e l i J a (.05) i n servioe,5/1/65; S t ru t3 (-025 kW) l a : . .

. . . serv ice 8/1/65. Rljeka moved t o 702. . .

1529 UNID..Week s t a t i on heard here s ince e a ~ l y January. , .

1535 UNID. Greek . . s t a t i on heard here 2/26/66... ex-1538.

~ ~ ~ ~ ' G R E E C E . Amaliada (.8 kW) now here ... on 1565 u n t i l middanmry.

1570 YUGOSLAVIA. V~bovsko (..05kV), i n se rv ice 4/5/65.. . : . .

1502 UNID. Greek stat i? ,n,heard here ,1/31/66;. on 1586 1/19/66. 1594 FRANCE. Mulhouse i n se rv ice s ince 1/1/66.

YUGOSLAVIA. Jesenice -(.05 kW) i n servioe 8/9/65,; Oeulln (.05 kW) i n se rv ice 10/10/65; ~ b o v l ~ e (.05) i n

se rv ice 10/9/65. .................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................... ~ . . .

SWEDEN CALLING DXrElS LISTS: . . ISLE OF GN. Yam Radio, P.O. B,ex 2.2, Douglas, naw..broadaas.ts on 1295 a t 0200-1300, and 1594 0100.0200 and 1300-1330, according t o s t a t i on cnnounoements. However, t h e s t a t i o n has been h,e+rd on 1594 unt i l . 0530and

on 1295 u n t i l 1320. . .

POLAND. English s en r i ce of R. Tlarsaw i s now heard 1430~1500 on 1502; 1730-1800 on 1 5 0 5 G e r m bn 1502'0630.0555~ - 1200-1230; and 1330-1400. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

WOADCAST EACINEBING ( a n o t h e r H p ~ r d W. Sans pub) f o r Apr i l hns an a r t i c l e on !'woedcp.stine i n Micrcnesla" and l i s t s t h e fallowing:

~~. 3/1959 W S E C - ~ ~ ~ O , mJrso , F a ~ s k r l l Is., 13 hours hSa6-ly; 6/61 WSZl?, Koror, Palau Is., 15 hrs. daily, 17 on Sat.;

.*~ 12/62 31SZC-1500 Truk, 12 h r s daily8 1964 W~ZD-1450, Ponapa, 6 hrs S F , ?-Set; 6-Sun; 3/65 KJCR-1350 Saipan, Mar-

l ene Is., 12 hrs. f i d ly ; 6/65 h'S2'~-1480, Colonla, Yap Dist. LO h r s M-F, 1% hr. S a t 6 Sun. A l l have 1 kv. Speoifiu broadwst hrq n o t LisBed. Thn above is *om a l i s t , but t h e a r t i c l e says iiSZA is on 1430. (7) (peter

V. Teylor , 900 North Point, San Franclsco, Calif. 911109) (That's c/of KFCG.)

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R A D I O STATIONS FXOM THE PEOPLE'S REPUCLIC LF 'CHIIJIi

Ey. K.G. s a r iweou r

Idve made up t h l s list of s t a t i o n s hewd b) W,C end IilCk members s ince September 1965 t h a t a r e believed t o ~. be locsted i n W n l a n d China. On* a few of these s t a t i ons hnve been assianed hocatlons, because no l oca l IDIS a r e given on s o mny of t h e programs. 795 kHz i s de f i n i t e l y Shanghai, and both 835 kHz end 843 kHz gave Kianeb4 '--

i n t h e IDls. The 843 s t a t i on might be a rebroadaast by Thailand, s ince same T h a i s t a t ions ere reported t o be

bcadoast ing Peking programs.

The foreign semrioe on 1040 kHz is heard most of ten an t h e West Coast, and programming is i n Japanese with

Pekinz Hoso IDIS. The 1120 (variable s t a t i o n i s a l so fo r e i en sel.vioa, with several laneunees (including Russian

( ~ o v o r i t Pekin I D hkard).

Most s ta t ions m e hame servioe out lets . Central Psoplers Liroadoast s h t i o n s ; t he se a r e oharaaterized bY t h e 5 low, 1 high time pips on the hour (sometimes without a break i n pragmmmin&). The na t iona l l a n c w g e

i n China is W d a r i n , &d i s the language t h a t we hear on t h e home service usual1 y. The 1030 kHz s t a t i o n possib-

ly i s i n t h e home servlce, or a l oca l i n Kwiechow o r 7'77 The time pips a r e not standard, but 2 low, 1 hieh.

I n some eases, the only iden t i f ioab le material heard k ~ s t h e 6-pip i n t e rva l signal, but these s t a t i ons a re l i s t e d below anpay.

There Were other unidentif ied or ien ta l s t a t i ons (e.8. t h e second s t a t i o n on 955 kHz under Burm, 738 H Z , 810, and 900) t h a t mi@t a l so possibly be from China.

Most of the l e s s common s t a t i o n s wore l o ~ e d between l a t e September and md December. The strong t rnasmi t te rs

(835, lb40, 1120) w e r e heerd almost a l l year. Here a r e t h e de ta i l s , Sparse r s they are, on t he se Chinese out lets :

600 S ta t ion i n Chinese 850 Is u n d e ~ Pyongyang 1120 F o ~ e i g n services; Frequency 620 Home service 880 Prob-bly home serv ice Varies.

645 Mandarin often s t r o n ~ 890 IS heard llgO SE Asia Service 695 IS heard 920 Home service 121C

700 Frequent; Home servloe 940 Aome servi;se 1240 720 Home service 975 Possibly China t o o 1280

730 IS h e a ~ d 987 IS heard 1310 SE Asia Service

760 After 9/le. From 7657 990 Shanghai local?? 1313 Foreign serv ice 765 Enrly September 4000 H9me serv ice 1340 SE Asia

795 Shanghai I D heard 1020 Home servlce 1430 Taiwan Service - 800 I n October 1030 Local? 1480 Taiwan service

820 IS heard 1040 Foreign Service 1500

835 Chiagsi ID'S. Loud. 1050 Pa ra l l e l t c 035 kHz 1510 IS heard 840 IS under JOGK 1060 Hame service 1516 Foreign servlce; t o 1525

043 Also Chiaesl ID , Local 1100 Yandcrin heard 1525 Western China; foreign. Sinoo i t ' s not even possible t o ge t much of a verie from Peking, ya t , I sryrpose t ha t weqll have t o k e e ~

piecing together what infornat ion we oan get. Perhaps someday China w i l l publish a decent log of s tat ions, nnd a m i n give more spec i l l 0 veriea. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::*:::::::::::::::::::::::*:::r:::::::::::::::::::::: V I ' H A T ~ S H E A R D . . .

540 VIEZUELL. YVOV, R. Per l ja , MecNgues. Bpp ren t l y t h e Venezuelen AN here, MM's, acoordinn t o Mike S i l ve r a l s

info. S t i l l not positdvely ID*d here, s o no report out yet. (Ernie Cooper, 438 E. 21st St., Erooklyn, N.Y. 11226)

638 TANZANIA. R. Tanzania, kr-es-Salaam. Commercial Service, 'noted s/on through DDC-Cyprus with good s igna l

a t 2200 with I D i n Eroken Znglish and propawning appare t t ly i n Swahili. Report out. (A.J. Sla%er, 58b Uric derdawn Rd. Southwick, Sassex, England.)

654 SPANISH SAH8Rk. EAJ103, El dciun, noted signing off n igh t ly a t 1800 with f a i r s iena l , but low audio. I D as Radio Sahara. ($ la te r , &$land)

660 NEW ZULkh9. ZYC, l e l l ing ton . Mlst heve been t h e s t a t i on withclassioal mu6io under WNOC on 4$9 a t 0430.

Nan-stop cantnta f o r 1$ hours, but na I D . (K.G. Sorimgeour, 1105 Virginia t!?.y, La J c l l a , Calif. 92037) 665 PCRTUGAL. Emissora k c i o n u l , Lisbon. Summer-time sign-on now noted a s 0100. (Richard E. Wood, 7.W E. 164.h,

Cloomington, Indiana 47403.) 670 XE?? Unid., rlrivin, me nuts. Very loud enoh AM a f t e r 0700, mentioned Tnmpico Hermosa 4/4 a t 0726.

XETCR? ( h d y Seaver, 2119 30th St., San Diegc,Cnlif. 92104)

690 K b ? , Honolulu, f i n a l l y heard with CBU and t h e Cuban on 4/25 a t 01100 with goad music, and ID. (Scrim- geour, calif.)

700 AUSTFiALIA. 2 8 , Grafton, N.S.B. ADC s t a t l c n heard with pips 4/11 a t 0600. (sosi-at) .. Calif.) 720 CtPTE&UU. TGN, Guatemla, heard f i n a l l y 4/11 0620-0635, regular at t t i s bime, I've found since. ( S s c v e ~ )

KUAI, Eleele, very good a t s/off 3/29 at 0500. (~eavo r , ca l i f . )

IDXD 'Fa e I"ey 7, 1966

770 n2TRiLIA. 3L0, Melbourne. Tips heard under unknown Mexican 4/11 at 0700. (Seaver, cal i f . ) -~ ~

&80 m~l ZEAIAND. QYA, Cunedin, heard a t s/off under Spanish-speaker 4/11 et 0623. (Seaver, ca l i f . )

860 ?M3, R. Mundlal, i3lo de Janeiro, often is on t op here on day mornings, appnrently AN. ( ~ o o p e r , ~ )

880 GUkTEIQLA. T@J, R. Nueva Mundo, Gunternla. Heard 11/21 completely dominating Preq. with very good s igna l -

a t 2300. hogram consisted of marimbe music. (Dchiel T. Shoaf, 6906 Hartland hve., Houston, Texas 77055)

MEXICO. XETZ, Tequilla, Jal isco, heard 4/4 at 0800. Credit LBG fo r f i r s t I D . (Soaver, C a l l f i b ) . - - . - .

900 =. m, R. mrti, h*aoalbo, nofed with f a i r s i gne l s a t $1001 ($la%&, h e l a n d ) ' . . . . : . . ,

. . 1103 COLOMGIA. HJ??, R. Relaj. .Oh$ o r . t he other of t h e two s t a t i o n s with ;his s l o p n an 1100 has apbnrent1.Y

d r i f t ed up t o t h l s channel, I bel iave it is HJCN, DogPta, on. 1103, ti HJAT, ~ a r r & u i l l a , 'itill oh 1100. . . .

(Cooper, N.Y.) HJCN has been he&d here before. (Ed.) . , .

1120 VENEZUELA. Y M , Cndas del:tbgo, Maraaaibo, with g a o d ~ i @ l s a t 2990 i/off. (slat*; h g l e n a ) ' ... -

UNID. S.S. Noted hers it 22554/19, with versions of U.S. &sic. Not much Bs f a r a s enncts. 7W-W . ..

OF TGAR? (J. den Sheedy, 1056 Crest Drive, h o i n i t a s , Calif. 92024.)

1150 WID. S.S. a t 2349 with discussicns. No music heard, but I moss it's XWP. (Sheedy, calif.) . . ..

1175 EL SALVADCR. YSCB, R. Paoifioa, Sonsonate, hoard a t eaod l eve l 4/4 a t 0635. (Seaver, calif.)

1180 -"K. Eckes" (Radio IT') (or in. Spanish "Equis"-ed) which a few of the NYC a r ea DXlers a r e hear ihe here on MMIS is NCT a foreign s t a t i o n it a l l - it is a "spurn af loca l BN-SS WtQJXi (F i r s t IDred a s such by

Joe Fela, and I have ohecked i t and egree with ,Toe.) I t l s heerdssometimes on SM's w i t h ' ~ # o f f . (cooper)

9210 -KZCO, Honolulu* "The Cherry Blossom Station" was good 4/16 a t 0330-0400. (Seaver, Calif.)

1300 XEP, Cd. Juarez, Chih. Heard 3/21 M t h f a i r s i&a l s at 0105 with SS progI'am and S t a t i on ID i n ' . ,

English. ( ~ h o a f , Texas)

.VENEZUELA. YWE, R. Cona~ Radar, Maraaaibo. h he ward 1; CFonar, my f y p e - ed) with f a r 91&ls a t 2300 . . . . s/aff. ( s la te r , England)

1340 MEXICO. XBNV, Monterrey, N.n. hearc 4/15 a t 0030 with a f e i ~ siEna1. %.s. ( ~ h a a f , ~e-6) . . 1370 MEXICO. XMX, Cd. Obregon, Son, heard 3/? i n S.S. a t 0155 wlth good simls. (Shoaf, exa as)

'.

1380.- XECO, Mexioo, D.P. haadd 3/3 a t 2305 with pocr r ignsls . S.S. (Shoaf, Texas)

1400 FUmtTO fiIC0; WVCZ, R. Voe, Carolina, with f a i r s igna ls at VJdnight. ~ r e s w k b l y a l l i n igh t e r . (Slater , k g . )

- 1410 VENEZTELA. WST, R. Turen, Turen, with excel lent s igna ls at.2300. Listed 1 kW, seems very s trong f o r t h a t

power. ( s l a t e r , England) ./ 1420 M M A XW, Monterrey, N.C. heard 4/18 at 0030 with good s iyne ls . Program of itock and Hall music (EE) W/SS

anncr. (Shoef, Terns) , .

1490 KTOH, Lihue. togfed i n the clear a f t e r KDF e/off 4/4j t o 0302 d o f f . Be& 0 c e d a and lf12 Hawaii.

No report , but w i l l keep at it. (Sheedy? Calif.)

1500 NETHI ANTILLES. PJC-2, Willemstid, Curacao. on 0400 M.l*s, same time a s KSTB d o f f ; uses,'oddly; USA

c/w musio but INtch (I th ink) announcements. (Cooper, N.Y.) Delieve t he 1010 and 1500 ou t l e t s hove

exohapesd programmtng sinak I h e a ~ d 1010, Ernie, and t h i s i s t h e Papamiento program, now on 1590. (EL)

1510 AUSTRALIA. 2NA, Newaastle, M.S.W. t h r e e chimes heard a f t e r o l a s s i a a l musio 4fi a t 0430. (~eave2-, Cauf.@ 1515h COLGPZ314.NJLQ, R. mnuto, Earranquilla, AN now. hovering around t h i s channel, a sdgned 1520. ~ h o p d ' t h e y

never get srack on 1520, or e l s e - p f f t - goes 1520 DX, hi. (Cooper, N.Y.) . .

1517 COLOMBIA. HZLLI, wlth good slgnaltl ero&d 2300. (Slater , %land)

1520 GUATFMW. TGDX, Guatemala. R. Centroameriaa heard s/on a t 0500 4/11. (seaver,' Calif.)

1540 EAHAMAS. ZNS, Nassau. Heard 4/7 a t 2355 dominating t he frer:. wlth good.3ignals -- Englbillh. (shanf, exa as) 1554 o.R.T.F., Nice, now 150 k?t. S t i l l qu i t e i f t e n noted a f t e r 0000. (Wood, Ind.) . ~

1560 XE ?? While l is tenir lg t o ihe "other. Dun, i. henrd what 1 t h o q h t mieht be my mystery statl.on here,

but theloop d i ~ e c t i o h was Latin1 ~ i d d l ~ o f - t h ~ r d a d pops (US) wlth EE ~nbu%cements. Logged f o r 2 hours

4/20 from 0315, but only music heard. 'i&.hen.rd on 4/29 h t 0430 mentioned Mexico City, and c a l l Sounded ' '

l i k e XIBC or XEZ(2ee)Rc. Cuite weak. (sc~irngeour, Calif.) XERPK, Cd. Sa te l i t e ; a Mexico City Suburb. Unk. whether has EE ppogramming o r not. (Ed.) ' ' , . . . .

UNID. D.U. with B E on 4/4- from '0330dt30. Padlo dra'm ti1 0402, then pop rod"rds. ( U S f o lk songs, aotu- . ~

a l ly . 2ZH1 Not heard sirice ... '(except fat-later report 'ebbvk - ed)',osoi-imgeaui-, Cat if . )

WID. - Here 4/4 u n t i l KDDA iT a t 0440. Hopefully 2RE. I ' m i n t h e process o f pu t t ing u p i n ant"emi, 157' 8 5/8" long (quarter nave) t o be erected WSW-ENE. (Seaver, Calif.) 'n'ot? Ndithonbia? (~d;'). '

'

1570 MEXICO. XERF, Cd. Acu&, Coah. noted off t he a i r '4/16. Also have notice'd t h a t XEW has bee" fcd ine i n and . -

out qui te frequently. Must be t h e loca l bad Ex, hi2 (shmf, Texas) .'

1580 AUSTRnLI&. ZWN, Wolloligong, N.SW. fina'lly heard at good l eve l o n Easter, with Community HyUn sing, "at 0330? a 2CY I D st 0400, then ADC news. (Do t h e NSX ABC'ers use 2CY a s a feed reeular ly, John?) (S€!rlDEeour,

- - -calLf~)- So r r f i - I doaL t -h~ r them-repu_l&-~-to tell,- hi l LEi.1- - - - - - - - - - - - - '- - - - - - - - 'Tms good t o V l s i t Jack Keene and eab phone-wise with Dan Shoaf end ex-NRC'ers Hike Fe rpson and Hank i.Jsrd while

i n Houston last weekend f o r s t a t e Jayoee convention. Hank and Mike send t h e i r regards t o t h e i r old club-member

friends.

IDXD Page 4 Fay 7, 1966

V E R I F I C ! T I O N S . . .

654 SPANISH SAHARA. UJlO3, R. Sahara, El ~ 'a iun . Spec i f ic end lengthy v e r i l e t t e r i n Spnish, together with

co lor view ccrd of El A@un received i n reply t o w report i n Saanish a f 8/27/66. Gives pcwer a s 2 kW S

schedule a s 070C-1100 and 1500-1800 EST. L i s t s fl-eq. a s 660 irHz X t a l controlled, butactual freq. is more

l i k e 654 kHz. Signer i s J u l i o Zahonero Mez. later, England.) Go ge t :em, Den, Gordie, Clarencel ( ~ d d

660 CCLOKXA. HJJM, R. Unb, Cali. v/1 i n SS, signed by Leon Rldan Ramirez. Address: Calle 11 No. 9-20, ~p*$o.

Aereo 1971, Cali, Colombia. Verie f o r 3/21 loca l e lec t ion repurns. '.%ldanf' is a s typed, s i ipa%ure

i t s e l f not legible.) (Cooper, N.Y.)

700 VENEZUEIA. W, R. Popular, Meracabio, ver i f ied q,r repor t i n Spmish with GSL cand a t t r a o t i v e pennant. later, England)

737 Rhq, Central Emisor de l Nordeste, k o s l o n a . V/q f o r repor t out s inoe 12/65 received 4/64 - 16

months, klt Never give up. Mentibns 250 kW. '?klso says "Emisibn Permsnente." - I t :ink t h a t means "R'N" i n SSI (Cooper, N.Y.)

750 Taipeh. Standard P.C.C. QSL c a ~ d and s p e c i f i c l e t t e r received fo r repor t of 10/23/65. (S la te r )

760 SAO TUNE. R. Clube de Saa Tome. Folder type oard received f o r repor t of 10/27/65. Gives s/off time a s

1700 and s/on as 0100. Signar is Raul Seares de Aimeida CtlFvalhoi ( ~ l e t e r , ~ n g l a n d )

840 COLOMDIA. H i B I , Ondas d e l Cnribe, v / lSS s i m e d by I d s e a Diaz G., Secretarfn. Pddress: Calle 16- No. 5-08.

lpar tado Aer-eo 757, Sania Enertc. V e ~ i e says " C s n a l Preferenoialn end 10 kW. (Cooper, N.Y.) . ' 070 JOLD, Fukuoka. Standard Raflio Japan OSL card r eoe iwd from NHK f o r my fepor t of 11/24/65 fo r t h i s

home servlce channel. (S la te r , England)

875 COSTA RICA. R. Monumental, no cal l given, kpdo 800, San Jose, sen t p ic ture postcard with SS mossace

v e r i f j i n g my l/5 report, a f t e r an Apri l f/up. Didn't ge t my f i r s t report. .Signer: L l l l a de Berrocas ( ? ) a

(Ben k w e r f i e l d , 202 Governor's Drive, Chester, Pa. 19013) 904 BECHUANAIAND. Central African Relay. CSL card and l e t t e r reesived from BBC, Bush House, StFand, London

YC 2. Le t te r s t a t e s freq. i s now 926 !diz and signer i s J.K. Edwards. Suegest t h i s addFcss f o r repor t s on

any BDC reloy. (S la t s r , England)

-9bO ETHIOPIA. Verie l e t t e r from Addis 4baba l i s t s t he new Ethiopian ou t l e t s a s Harror 840 Hz, Addia A h b a 870,

and Aslwra 940. V e ~ i e was f o r 980 and signer was Sydney Y. Head, Brcadoasting kdvisor. ( s la tor , England)

1082 COLOMGIA. HJDZ, R. ReloJ, Medellin. v / l S S signed by Ignaoio Tor:,es (uintero, Admlnistrrdar. Ch l e t t e r -

heard, it a l s o snys "Ls Voz de Antioquia," and address is Aptdo. 4ereo 718, Ynraoaibo No. 46-00, Medallin, Calombia. Is a CARILCCL s ta t ion . This one logged on 1/23> SM, AN, w/WIC off (Cooper, N.Y.)

1120 AUSTMLIA. ~ B C , Fvisbans, Csld. Sent n l e t t e r ver i f in€ rooeption of 4/41 ~,!s i s T.C. McGregor, Propre.mme

%nager. Address i s par ir,RUR. (Scrimgeour, Calif.)

1230 PUERTO RICO. WNIK, R. Lhloa, brecibo. V/l-EE f o r reception of AN show an NJ4 3/14, d u r i w P.mora CX. They h v e been heard and ver i f ied from SImDEN, says v/s, Guillormo 4, Dsnat, CE. Let ter CPme addressed t o

"PookPlng, N.Y.", hi. No s t r e e t o r P.O. Box address given. (Cooperi N.Y.)

1250 AS. RDSSIA. CSL nard received from Il. Mosoow f o r my 11/24/65 repor t on Vladivostok. ( s la te= , ~ n g l a n d )

1295 ISLE CF mN. (,SL-card reoeived from Man* Radio f o r my repprt of 11/14/65. Deylight operation only on t h l s

frequenoy. Nighttime channel i s 1594. CTH: P.O. DOX 22, Dougles, Xsle of Wn. ( ~ l e t e r , England) SZNT FAARTEN. PJD-2& 2 GSL oards reoeived a f t e r 2 fa l low ups. S gne is 8. Wer. (s late?, England)

1315 COLOMcIA. LiJAK, Le Voz de l a Patr la , Par~anqt l i l l l a . Long v / l - S ~ ' ~ l u s sqvare pennant and * b e e photos of

s ta t ion . snys on t h e a i r sinoe 6/26/36. Pddrsss: Vassallo Gonez, Ltda, Apartada Aereo 231, ar Apartado

National 621, Parranquilla. Letterhead says 1310. (Cooper, N.Y.)

1466 R. Monte Carlo, Monaco, v / ~ p i e t w e of t ransmi t te r and twaer. Received 4/22/66 on 11/29/65

report. County { , here. Sent by seamail. (live Heinen, 126 Linwacd he . , Orchard Park, N.Y. 14127)

1513 CCLOMBIA.HJLU, R. Minuto, sen t ' l e t t e r ackmoWledging r eoe ip t of my report, and a pernat. Apt. Aereo No. 219,

Parmnc,ullla. (ScrPmgeour, Calif.)

SPAIN. Radio Grana.de. sent a i r m i l l e t t e r , did not s t a t e frequency, S i g n e d M. Albert0 MEchado Cayuso, address - Apartado 150. Enclosed photo and maw past-cards. 19 stamps on envelope. (Wood, 1nd.) ................................................................................................................. ................................................................................................................. Next Issue i s &y 16th for deadline, Fay @ s t POP date l ine . Hope t o see more representnted, a s I coin a Texas-

s i z e word. ... Elike Ferguson now on spor t desk a t outi ion Post, g e t s off a t mdidnl!$nb ... would DX but famed Fergason buzzes of several years a g o - s t i l l plague him. Perhaps Jack Keene errn s e t up some kind o f loop system

f o r Mike. ... Hank iqa~d current ly incrc!ive OX-wise, even on TV, a f t e ~ moving t o Aouston from Ponca City. Those

t r a v e l l e r s who have notEAed d r a s t i c cHanGes in CONOCO road mps i n recent years, t h i s is Hankts doine. Hers

i n charge of t h a t , department. ... ~ & k supplied address f o r ex-Oklahomc City EnCler Buddy Giles, who i s now ... i n Irving, Texas. W i l l l o o k u p Buddy next time 1 % i n l l e Dallas area. A 1 S l a t e r ' s juicy ve r i e s and repor t s

w i l l add sp iae t o IDXD. Yeloome aboard, friend. 73 f o r now. J.A.C.