Volume 39 – No. 555 JANUARY 2021

Asian DX Review 1 January 2021

Asian DX Review 3 January 2021

Hi friends, HAPPY NEW YEAR and very warm welcome to all of you. After a very disappointing 2020, I hope this New Year will set all of us back to the track again. We will get those good old days, soon. This month, as I expected in December ’20, we are having reports of a good number of QSLs. So, let’s proceed without any delay. NB: Radio stations are listed under the country in which the transmitter (not studio!) is (presumed to be) located. Unless otherwise stated reception report should be considered as sent by electronic mail. AUSTRIA AWR Punjabi prog. logged on 5980 kHz via Moosbrun Reception Report verified with eQSL. E-mail: qsl@awr.org 10 days. (Pradip Chandra Kundu, Agartala, Tripura, India) BOLIVIA Radio Mosoj Chaski from Cochabamba in Quechua lang. logged on 3310 kHz. I was confused getting no ID due to almost unusable audibility. Details submitted to the station at: mosojchaski@live.com Reply received from the station recently after 3 weeks. (Pradip Chandra Kundu, Agartala, Tripura, India) BULGARIA The Overcomer Ministry via Kostinbrod, Bulgaria on 9400 kHz. Email report verified with beautiful paper QSL received via IDXCI Post Box address. Report submitted via webform. (Pradip Chandra Kundu, Agartala, Tripura, India) CHINA PBS Hulun Buir, Hailar. Mongolian broadcast logged on 6080 kHz. Report submitted via Email to: yinglian@cri.com and f/data eQSL received after 2 days. (Pradip Chandra Kundu, Agartala, Tripura, India) GERMANY / COSTA RICA All Tribes Radio from Nosara, Costa Rica inaugural b’cast in EE hrd on 6070 kHz (4th Dec. 2020) via Rohrbach, Germany. Report submitted to: alltribesradio@icloud.com Beautiful eQSL with nice letter received from Ken Dunn, Station Manager in 2 days. (Pradip Chandra Kundu, Agartala, Tripura, India) ITALY Enterprise Radio 6285 AM (located in the North East Part of Italy) Rec’d E-QSL of the Star Ship Enterprise, as well as photo of transmitter and studio plus cover letter stating running 400 watts into a routable antenna. Reply in 24 hours after posting my report to: enterpriseradio@hotmail.com (Edward Kusalik, Daysland, USA) Radio Panda on 6290 kHz within three hours rec’d back a full data E-QSL depicting a panda eating bamboo, and an e-mail letter, station that the power is 30 watts into an end-fed sloper antenna, which has shown the signal being heard Russia and Brazil. v/s eligible (Edward Kusalik, Daysland, USA) KOREA (SOUTH) HLAZ (FEBA, Korea) Jeju Island hrs with Chinese prog. on 1566 kHz. MW 2 yes. Ago. Did’nt received their paper QSL which might have gone lost in transit. Now after my reminder, beautiful eQSL received in 20 hrs. Email ID is: chungsookorea@gmail.com . (Pradip Chandra Kundu, Agartala, Tripura, India) MADAGASCAR Bangladesh DX Report via Wavescan, AWR heard on 17730 kGz via Madagascar. Email report verified with eQSL by S. Dollar, the presenter of BDXR. Email ID is: dxbangla@gmail.com . (Pradip Chandra Kundu, Agartala, Tripura, India) NETHERLANDS Mike Radio on 3940 & 6195 kHz E-QSL. Reply with card and information letter within 24 hours after posting my report to: mikeradio@live.nl (Edward Kusalik, Daysland, USA) Asian DX Review 6 January 2021

Deltracks E-QSL letter with data and technical information (running 60 watts, into an inverted “V”, 30 feet above ground level). This first report, possibility end-up in spam mail (?) Reply from scnilderjos@gmail.com v/s Jos Koof. (Edward Kusalik, Daysland, USA) TAJIKISTAN AWR Asia EE prog. hrd. on 6155 kHz via Dushanbe, Armenia. Email report verified with eQSL in 10 days. Email ID is: qsl@awr.org (Pradip Chandra Kundu, Agartala, Tripura, India) TURKEY TRT Asia EE prog. logged on 15520 kHz. Beautiful QSL card showing Sultan Ahmet Mosque reached after several months in IDXCI box address. Email ID is: englishdesk@trtnet.tr (Pradip Chandra Kundu, Agartala, Tripura, India) USA Radio Station WWV – National Institute of Standards and Technology via Fort Collins – 10000 kHz, full data QSL card arrived after 8 months for my E-mail report to: wwv@nist.gov (Babul Gupta, Barasat, West Bengal, India) EWTN Catholic Radio via Vandiver AL, USA – 9385 kHz full data QSL card arrived after 2 months. E-mail report to: gtapley@ewtn.com (Babul Gupta, Barasat, West Bengal, India) WRNO Worldwide via New Orleans LA, USA – 7505 kHz, full data QSL card received in 15 days for my E-mail report to: wrnoradio@mailup.net (Babul Gupta, Barasat, West Bengal, India)

Asian DX Review 7 January 2021

Nostalgia por la radio - one of the best Shortwave Radios vis-à-vis Activity of Cuba.

The radio receiver ICF-2001D (sold in the US as SONY ICF 2010) was a portable radio having high-sensitivity and selectivity in the LW, MW, SW and FM bands. Manufactured by Sony in Japan, the radio covered frequencies from 150 kHz to 30 MHz in AM and SSB mode. The FM band coverage was from 88 MHz to 108 MHz and the air band from 117 MHz to 136 MHz. Because of the good performance and small size at that time, this radio was coveted by intelligence agents around the world, amid the so-called Cold War. The Sony ICF-2010/ICF-2001D, considered as an “All-Time Classic”, It was perhaps one of the most iconic multi-band portable radios of its time and enjoyed one of the longest production runs of any radio, being manufactured from 1985 to 2002. An example of the use of SONY ICF-2001D in international espionage is a series of cases involving Cuban intelligence agents between 2001 and 2009. In all such cases discovered by the F.B.I., at least one of the evidence found was one ICF-2001D!

The first case was one of Ana Belén Montes (born February 28, 1957), who worked for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency as its highest ranking Cuban analyst. Ana had been collecting sensitive information for Cuba since 1985 until her arrest in 2001. Before her arrest on September 21, 2001 (Montes was done in by one of her own so-called “comrades.”), the FBI searched her apartment and found evidence of the use of One-Time Pad messages on her laptop. A functional Sony ICF-2001D short wave receiver was also present in the apartment that was used to receive messages from the Cuban number station known in the DXers world as ′′Attention", at the frequency of 7887 kHz. Similar cases as detected later were those of Florida University Professors Carlos and his second wife Elsa Alvarez (captured in 2006), Marta Rita Velazquez (former US government employee), Gerardo Hernandez (one of the “Cuban Five”, arrested in 1998) and Walter Kendall Myers and his wife Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers (arrested in 2009 after 2009 spying for almost 30 years). The ICF-2001D was used in all cases to receive coded messages from the ′′Attention′′ station, presumably with transmitters in the West Cuba. The use of the short wave for espionage purposes was dealt with in the film ′′Wasp Network′′ where one of the ′′Cuban Five′′ can be seen. The film stars Penélope Cruz, Édgar Ramírez, Gael García Bernal, Ana de Armas and Wagner Moura. It tells the true story of Cuban spies in American territory during the 1990s. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2019. - Sudipta Ghose with inputs from Jesser Aguilar via Nostalgia por la radio (FM, AM y ONDA CORTA) FB Group.

Asian DX Review 8 January 2021

Freq. Time SIO Station, Country, Program & Reception detail Date Cont

558

567 594 792

873 882

1035 1143 3290

3940

3945

4885 5858 5880

5930 5990 6000 6080 6090 6165 6290

7245 7365

7370 7570 9530 9540 7780 9385 9395 9420 9455 9525 9535 9540 9590 9600 9605 9690 9660 9750 8835

2231

2300 2210 2305

2320 0020

0015 0020 1800

0720

1934

0046 0230 0829

1750 1820 0115 1020 1825 0030 1428

1828 1837

1745 1805 1800 1609 0240 0127 0131 0133 0135 1658 0139 1659 0143 0038 0145 0147 1808 1133 1136

322 333 333 444 444 555 444 444 454 354 353 333 322 454

343 333 333 232 444 444 454 343 343 444 322 343 343 333 322 333 444 222 444 222 433 444 333 333 333 444 444 433

JOCR, Radio Kansai (CRK) in Japanese talk about Olympic Games between two OM. JOIK, NHK 1 Sapporo in JJ w/ Stn. ID time announcement by OM f/by songs. JOAK, NHK 1 Tokyo in Japanese short music f/by talk between two OM. Continuous opening tone, f/by ID signal, then clock chimes f/by anx by OM at 2315 UTC R.Nepal Kathmandu, strong signal even in face of local noise. AIR Jalandhar with Gurbani. TWR India via Puthalam, Srilanka in Malayalam talk about Jesus Christ by OM AIR Guwahati with flute. R. Nepal Badribas-local song f/by YL talk. Radio Classic special broadcast via Radio Piezender. The Bill Board Hot 100 list played. hrd via various SDRs Sweden, Belgium and Slovakia. Mike Radio w/Classick rock prog. mentioned to switch to 6195 at 0800 hrs. Guitar Melody and opening song “Baker Street” via German & UK SDR Sites. Rebel Radio with a Great program of Polka and Waltz Mx. ID’s and e-mail Anx. R. Clube do Para in PP w/OM talk, short music in between the talk. HLL Seoul Meteorological Radio, Rep.of Korea in EE with weather report. Radio Rock Revolution. Varity of Rock Mx such as ELO “Eve Women” & Beatles “With a Little Help from Friends: Hrd via SDR in Germany. IRIB Tehran, Italian prog. Koran recitation. RRI Bucherest in Romanian, playing international music. TRT, Turkish prog. playing music. PBS Hulun Buir, Hailar Mongolian prog. playing music. Thazin Radio via Naypyidaw in Po lang. with Burmese songs. BBC via Al Seela, Pashto prog.report on Afghanistan. Panda Radio with a varity of pop Mx and many ID’s and gave an e-mail address. TWR Africa via Moldova, Male preacher in Tigriniya lang. Bible Voice Broadcasting, Nauen in Persian lang. OM/YL preaching alternately R. Romania Intl.Romanian prog. ID annt. By OM. V.O.Korea (KCBS) Pyongyang playing Revolutionary song. VOA Deewa Radio in Pashto prog. via Kuwait, Political reports, ID by YL. IBRA Radio via Al Dhabbaya in Oromo lang. Talk by OM. R. Argentina al Exterior via Okeechobee, FL, USA in SS w/talk by YL. WEWN via Vandiver in EE talk between two OM f/by a short Mx played. WRMI, R. Maimi International in EE with Stn. ID f/by song by YL. Helliniki Radiophonia via Avlis in Greek talk between OM & YL. WRMI via Okeechobee, FL, USA w/ The Hal Turner Show in EE. Radio Denge via Issodun in Kurdish lang. OM talk. R. Havana, Cuba via Bejucal in SS, talk about South America by OM. IBRA via Yeravan in Amharic OM talk. CRI via Kashi-Saibagh in SS OM talk. R. Romania Intl. via Tiganesti-Saftica in SS w/YL talk KBS World Radio via Cypress Creek in SS w/ OM talk. R. Exterior de Espana via Noblejas in SS talk about North America by YL. V.O.Turkey EE prog. playing beautiful Turkish song. NHK World Radio in Japanese talk between OM & YL RTM Sarawak FM via Kajang with EE prog. talk by YL f/by song in YL voice.

12/12 12/12 12/12

6/12 6/12

7/12

10/12 10/12

29/11

29/11

6/12

27/12 28/12

6/12 5/12 5/12 5/12 7/12 6/12 8/12

6/12 5/12

8/12 9/12 9/12 9/12 9/12 2/12 8/12 8/12 8/12 8/12 6/12 8/12 6/12 8/12

27/12 8/12 8/12 1/12

27/12 27/12

BG BG BG SG SG PSS SG SG EK EK EK BG BG EK PCK PCK PCK PCK BG PCK EK PCK PCK PCK PCK PCK PCK BG BG BG BG BG PSS BG PSS BG BG BG BG PCK BG BG

9965 9880 9918 9925 9965

11530 11550 11660 11665 11705 11725 11740

11780 11830 11905 11935 12030 12075 12095 13730 13750 13750 13760 15195 15255

15320 15580 15680

17615 17745 17760 17820 17880 17880

0802 1813 1141 1730 0900 0815 0855 1644 0740 1545 1100 1130

0030 1640 1116 1642 1642 1641 1120 0313 0310 0050 0312 0315 1115

0314 1645 0100

1116 1128 1122 0311 1127 1129

333 444 444 444 333 322 333 433 333 232 322 333 322 433 444 333 444 444 444 555 555 544 544 444 544 444 433 454 555 433 433 444 444 444

Hope Radio via Medorn, Palau w/ songs by YL singer. World Christain Broadcasting KNLS Alaska, Russian prog. OM talking. KTWR Guam via Agana in EE “The Lord’s Challenge” prog. with OM Pilipinas, Pilipino Service, Public Service announcement regarding Covid-19. Hope Radio via T8WH, Palau EE prog. Closing announcement by OM. TRT Radyo Recep Erclogan in Turkish playing song. R. Iran International TV via Gavar, Persian lang. Discussion by OM. TWR Africa via Manzini in Promo lang. YL talking about Jesus thought. RTM Wai FM, Kajang, vernacular lecture by YL. R. Tamazuz Arabic prog. via Talata Volondry, Political talk by OM. R. New Zealand Intl. EE prog. Time pips f/by weather report. NHK Japan via Singapore finishing Vietnamese prog. by YL saying “Sayonara” R. Nacional de Amazonia via Brasilia in PP w/song by YL, QRM from CRI. Deutsche Welle via Issodun in Amharic lang. OM talk w/Nx. Reach Beyond Australia via Kununurrain Japanese talk about Jesus. Radio Vatican via Volonondry in EE message of Pope by OM & YL. Radio Exterior de Espanol via Noblejas in SS talk by OM VOA Ashnavia Udan Thani in Pastho w/Nx by OM FEBC Radio in Hmong white Daw instruments MX by OM. CRI via Kashi Saibagh, China in Tamil with songs by OM. Radio Thailand via Udan Thani in Thai w/Musical songs by YL. Radio Thailand EE prog. Guideline for Covid-19 by OM. World Christan Broadcasting via Madagascar in EE with songs by YL. Radio Japan via Yamata in Japanese talk by OM. Radio Romania International via Bocauein FF with Romanian orchestra and song by YL. Radio Taiwan International via Paochung, Taiwan in EE Nx bulletin by YL VOA via Selebiphikne in Africa in EE Nx by OM, music. Hope Radio HFC Worldwide via Medorn, Palau with Stn. ID f/by gospel songs. Radio Saudi International via Riyadh in Arabic Islamic songs. BBC via Talata in Somali by OM talk. Radio Kuwait talk in Arabic by OM. Radio Pilipinas in EE folk songs by YL. Radio Mashaal via Bibilis in Pashto talk by OM. Radio Farda via Udan Thani, Thailand with songs by OM.

4/12 1/12

27/12 8/12 9/12

17/12 17/12 6/12

17/12 9/12

17/12

19/12 27/12 6/12 7/12 6/12 6/12 6/12 7/12 7/12 7/12 4/12 7/12 7/12

7/12 6/12 7/12

6/12 7/12 7/12 7/12

7/12 7/12 7/12

BG PCK BG PCK PCK PCK PCK PSS PCK PCK PCK PCK BG PSS PSS PSS PSS PSS PSS PSS PSS PSS PCK PSS PSS PSS PCK BG PSS PSS PSS PSS PSS PSS

NB: All times in UTC, days and dates are day/month, unless otherwise stated. Logs are entered in frequency order. Abbreviation: OM = Old Man (Male), YL = Young Lady (Female), Px = prog., Mx = Music, Nx = News, w/ = with, f/ = from, Xmtr = Transmitter. Language abbreviations: AA = Arabic, BB = Burmese, CC = Chinese, CT= Catalan, DD = Dutch, EE = English, FF = French, GG = German, HA = Hausa, II = Indian, IT= Italian, JJ = Japanese, KK = Korean, PP = Portuguese, RM = Romanian, RR = Russian, SS = Spanish, VV = Vernacular. Contrbutors: BG: Babul Gupta, Barasat, West Bengal, India. Rx: ICOM IC-R75, TESUN S-2000, XHDATA D-808 Ant: Inverted V antenna, J Pole, Whip antenna & Diamond HF Multi band wire dipole (Trap) Ant. PCK: Pradip Chandra Kundu, Agartala, Tripura, India. Rx: XHDATA D-808. Ant: Telescopic Antenna. PSS: P.S.Sekar, Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu, India. Rx: Tecsun 606. Ant: Telescopic Antenna. SG: Sudipta Ghose, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Rx: XHDATA D-808 Ant: External ferrite loop. EK: Edward Kusalik, Daysland, Alberta, Canada. Rx: Perseus SDR.

Asian DX Review 10 January 2021

FTIOM & UBMP, December 27-January 2 The Spaceline and Channel 292 transmissions should be listenable in much of Russia now that winter is here.

From the Isle of Music, December 27-January 2: This week, we present an evening of romantic Cuban music from the past several decades, so you can invite your sweetie into the radio shack. The broadcasts take place: 1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100Kw, Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 KHz, from Sofia, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK) 2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0100-0200 on WBCQ, 7490 kHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EST in the US). 3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1300-1400 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 kHz from Rohrbach, Germany. Our Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/fromtheisleofmusic/ Our V-Kontakte page is https://vk.com/fromtheisleofmusic Our Patreon page is https://www.patreon.com/tilford

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, December 27-January 2: In episode 197, we end our year with some cool jazz from John Coltrane and Airto Moreira. The transmissions take place 1.Sunday 2300-0000 (6:00PM -7:00PM EST) on WBCQ The Planet 7490 kHz from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe 2. Tuesday 2000-2100 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 kHz from Rohrbach, Germany for Europe. 3. Saturday 0800-0900 UTC on Channel 292, 9670 kHz from Rohrbach, Germany for Europe. Our Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/UncleBillsMeltingPot/ Our V-Kontakte page is https://vk.com/fromtheisleofmusic Our Patreon page is https://www.patreon.com/tilford

100KW Marathon We will be participating in Channel 292’s 100 kw Marathon on December 26 from 1200-1300 UTC on 6070 kHz

~ Babul Gupta – VU3ZBG

Asian DX Review 12 January 2021

AIR Chinsurah 594 kHz carrying AIR Kolkata 657 kHz programs from 29 Dec 2020 Due to break down of 200 kW transmitter of AIR Kolkata operating on 657 kHz (Gitanjali Channel) , this service is broadcast by AIR Chinsurah (located near Kolkata) on 594 kHz , 1000 kW from 5 pm of 29 Dec 2020. The DRM Service on 648 kHz is also off air of course. Hence Maitree Channel, The External Service in Bengali by AIR Chinsurah is available only in live streaming until the faulty transmitter is repaired. The DRM service on 648 kHz of AIR Kolkata is also off air. ~ Pradip Chandra Kundu – VU3IOP

The year 2021 marks 100 years of Amateur Radio in India The history of ham radio began in India as early as 1921. The first Indian ham late Amarendra Chandra Gooptu, started his transmission in the year 1921 with a callsign 2JK. He was the lone ham at that time and so his radio transmission was a one way traffic. Those having the receiving equipment could listen to his broadcast. 2JK was followed by 2HQ, Mukul Bose (changed to VU2HP) in 1922 and VU2AG Loken Bose in 1924. So two way ham radio contacts among Indians started from 1922 onwards. However, during the 1923s 20 British hams were operating from India. India’s first short wave public broadcasting station belonged to Dr. Matcalfe VU2KH, a leading radio amateur and who was the Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University. He and his group of radio amateurs established an entertainment public broadcasting station VU6AH in the year 1935 and had listeners all over India. Amateur Radio licensing was closed and ham radio equipment were taken away by the authorities when the World War II broke in 1939. At the end of World War II, the authorities started issuing temporary amateur radio operator’s licenses from 1946. By the beginning of 1948, there were hardly fifty odd licensed hams of which a dozen or so were active. Source: Brief History of Amateur Radio in Calcutta-by Avinash Missra, VU2EM: Hamfest India ‘96 Souvenir ~ Jose Jacob – VU2JOS A new 10 kW FM station will be commissioned by All India Radio on 31st December 2020 at Bathnaha in Araria District of Bihar. Its frequency is 100.1 MHz. It will strengthen the coverage of AIR in the Indo Nepal border area. ~ Sudipta Ghose – VU2UT Asian DX Review 14 January 2021

The Crystal Radio set. My first encounter with radio. By Sudipta Ghose – VU2UT

How I became acquainted with the magic of radio? I actually have a bittersweet memory about my first encounter with the world of radio. Allow me to tell you that.

During the winter vacation of 1965, I had the occasion to visit my uncle who used to stay in a semi-rural area. By profession he was a top notch Electrical Engineer who was with the General Electric Company (GEC) that had its Headquarters in Calcutta (as Kolkata was known at that time). At the launch table that day, with bated breath, he divulged to me that he will introduce me to some ethereal magic during the afternoon.

After finishing the victuals served, I was duly summoned to help him in erecting two bamboo poles of about 30 feet height on the roof of the single storied building that he used to stay in. A length of horizontal wire was tied between the two bamboo poles and from one end of that wire a length of wire was dropped down which entered the building through a window. The lower end of this vertical wire was then attached to a contraption on a low wooden table. Another wire came out of the setup and went out of the building through the window sill to the field outside and vanished into the mud. The uncle told me to put a broken telephone handset that was connected to the setup to my ear while he twiddled a knob fixed onto the setup. Lo and behold music and voices poured out of the telephone handset. The talks and music were a little jumbled up, but were intelligible.

I was actually listening to the radio stations through the most simple radio receiver also called a crystal set that was popular in the early days of radio. A crystal radio receiver used only the power of the received radio signal to produce sound, needing no external power. It derived its name from the most important component used, a crystal detector which was used to be fabricated from a piece of crystalline mineral known as “galena”. This crystal was subsequently replaced by a Germanium diode. Other components as used in such crystal radio, apart from the Germanium diode, are a coil of thin wire, a variable capacitor and earphones. The crystal radio sets produce feeble sound and has to be listened to with sensitive earphones, and can only receive stations situated close by.

Now, coming to the reality. Our euphoria of listening to the radio every afternoon came to a rude halt after two days when one Inspector from the Post Office visited the household. He espied the antenna on the roof and demanded to see the license for the radio attached to the antenna. At that time every radio has to have a license. On seeing the Crystal Set he was furious and threatened my uncle with all sort of punishment in loud tone due to contravention of the Telegraph Act. However, he became magnanimous and let my uncle off with a stiff fine of Rs. 100/- as that was the first offence and a flimsy radio was involved in the act.

C V L N SASTRY – Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. I thank you sincerely for reminding us about Sri Jonathan and his Thursday evening programs on RN. I was a very faithful listener. I also listened to Sri Tom Meyer and his Sunday program Smiles Across the Miles, using my inexpensive (costly, in those days, cost me Rs.350, when my monthly salary was Rs.200 ) 5 Valve, 3 Band, AC DC Philips India Radio. I now live in Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, sir. I fondly cherish the small gramophone record they sent.

Regards C V L N SASTRY

S. Chowdhury – Australia.

Wonderful publication, appreciated by Dxers all around the world. I will try to write some interesting features and email it to you. Please convey my best wishes for the New Year to all the HQ staff. S. Chowdhury Dr Anurag – Darjilling, West Bengal. Thank you so much for your email, I regularly read ADXR every month, actually became a big fan of the newsletter. I have also sent feedback/ readers mail for the last month's newsletter and will send feedback for this volume also. I will be back soon in Hamsphere 4 & hope to hear you soon in HS4, I will be very happy to have QSO with you. Till than stay safe, stay Happy & keep DXing Dr.Anurag Edward Kusalik – Daysland, Alberta, Canada. First, I wish to extend my deepest appreciation for the article about myself. I have rec'd many positive feedbacks about this article and my ability to DX since my beginnings in 1965. Please find attached some Pirate Logs and two QSL's recently received, which are Radio Enterprise and Panda Radio, who respond quickly to listener's reception reports. Again, thank you and hope to continue to send in information for your organization....

Edward Kusalik

Dario Gabrielli My name is Dario and I live in Italy. I began to receive your publication with news very interesting about DX. As I publish every two months a DX bulletin and in this issue I write an article about European DX Club meeting and I'll want some pictures about the Meet connection, may you send the picture of radio aficionados that take part? Hoping in your news and help, I wish my best from north of Italy. Dario

Michael Bethge - (WWDXC) Attached please find our DX MAGAZINE 12/2020 as a PDF file. If you have any problems to open this file, please do not hesitate to contact me. Deadline for DX MAGAZINE 1/2021 is on January 9th, 2021. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a very happy and healthy New Year 2021, Michael Bethge Asian DX Review 20 January 2021