OK, folks, post your April '10 QSLs and veries here! My wife just
phoned that I had received a verie in the mail, so I will have one to
kick us off in a little while... :-)

Bruce

QSL: SOUTH AFRICA (Meyerton), Channel Africa, 7230 kHz, 17 February
2010, 0405-0500 UTC - Full data verification *letter* mailed airmail
29 March 2010, received April 6, 2010 on SENTECH letterhead.
Transmitter 100kW ABB, Meyerton.

Signed by:

Sikander Hoosen,
HF Coverage Planning, Ops & Maint.

Return Address:
SENTECH
Private Bag X06
Honeydew 2040
South Africa

Bruce Jensen
(California, United States)

Well, here's a little surprise...

After I received my February QSL on March 3 from R. Prague in only ten
days, I shot them another message quickly to thank them for their
rapid response, and to give them just a brief "attaboy" for their
excellent signal on that day at about 0227z on 7355 kHz. I don't
think I included any program details at all, just a report of a good
signal.

So here comes another QSL, also in very short order, for that
incredibly brief report. This one has a photo of Czech Poet Karel
Hynek Macha.

It pays to be nice, and R. Prague is very generous with it's QSLs :-)
Now, let's not take advantage, OK?

Bruce Jensen

bpnjensen wrote:

Well, here's a little surprise...

After I received my February QSL on March 3 from R. Prague in only ten
days, I shot them another message quickly to thank them for their
rapid response, and to give them just a brief "attaboy" for their
excellent signal on that day at about 0227z on 7355 kHz. I don't
think I included any program details at all, just a report of a good
signal.

So here comes another QSL, also in very short order, for that
incredibly brief report. This one has a photo of Czech Poet Karel
Hynek Macha.

It pays to be nice, and R. Prague is very generous with it's QSLs :-)
Now, let's not take advantage, OK?

I just had to go dig out my first Radio Prague QSL, for reception on August 3,
1967 on 17840 at 0100.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:42:07 -0700 (PDT), bpnjensen
wrote:

OK, folks, post your April '10 QSLs and veries here! My wife just
phoned that I had received a verie in the mail, so I will have one to
kick us off in a little while... :-)

Bruce

While waiting for new QSL's thought I'd post a shortwave related
ham radio QSL:

HE3RSI
The last part of the call stands for "Radio Suisse Internationale"
Amateur Radio Club HB9MM operating using the Broadcast antenna of
Swiss Radio International before it was torn down.
The antenna was 62.5 meters high / weight 135 tons / gain 18-20dbi
11/14/2004 13:15UTC on 15 meters

Jim

On Apr 8, 1:18*pm, dxAce wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
Well, here's a little surprise...

After I received my February QSL on March 3 from R. Prague in only ten
days, I shot them another message quickly to thank them for their
rapid response, and to give them just a brief "attaboy" for their
excellent signal on that day at about 0227z on 7355 kHz. *I don't
think I included any program details at all, just a report of a good
signal.

So here comes another QSL, also in very short order, for that
incredibly brief report. *This one has a photo of Czech Poet Karel
Hynek Macha.

It pays to be nice, and R. Prague is very generous with it's QSLs :-)
Now, let's not take advantage, OK?

I just had to go dig out my first Radio Prague QSL, for reception on August 3,
1967 on 17840 at 0100.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Cool! Back in the good old, bad old Cold War days :-) Remember the
way they used to sign on in choppy slow English with that stuffy-
sounding lady, "This - is - Ray-dee-oh Pra-a-a-a-gue" and then to
invite letters at transmission end she'd give the address in sing-
songy slow motion, except for the last word which she'd say at high
speed, "Czechoslovakia!" How essentially Communist! :-D

Bruce

On Apr 8, 4:28*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:42:07 -0700 (PDT), bpnjensen

wrote:
OK, folks, post your April '10 QSLs and veries here! *My wife just
phoned that I had received a verie in the mail, so I will have one to
kick us off in a little while... :-)

Bruce

While waiting for new QSL's thought I'd post a shortwave related
ham radio QSL:

HE3RSI
The last part of the call stands for "Radio Suisse Internationale"
Amateur Radio Club HB9MM operating using the Broadcast antenna of
Swiss Radio International before it was torn down.
The antenna was 62.5 meters high / weight 135 tons / gain 18-20dbi
11/14/2004 13:15UTC on 15 meters

Jim

Wow - the hams heard on Jupiter!

OK, here's one -

RUSSIA, R. Voice of Russia, 9840 kHz, 4 March 2010, 0500z, TX =
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatky. GUM Shopping Mall architecture commemorated
on front, handwritten full data on back, with nice personal letter
from Elena Osipova, Letters Dept. The QSL itself is an odd shape and
size, about 7.75" x 3.5" - won't fit any normal holder I know of. In
40 days from being sent via an unusual free business mail service VoR
offers on its website via Nederland, of all places. VoR seems to
really want the reports!

For what it's worth, the program I reported on was excellent and
memorable, about famous opera singer Irina Arkhipova. With top-notch
Russian composers and musicians, VoR's cultural programming is second
to none.

Bruce

On Apr 14, 1:04*am, Bob Dobbs wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
With top-notch
Russian composers and musicians, VoR's cultural programming is second
to none.

You might like to browse around hehttp://rt.com/

--

Operator Bob
Echo Charlie 42

Thanks! What caught my eye immediately was the Mariinsky Theatre link
- the director of the MT Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, brings his band
around the US every couple of years, and we always enjoy his
concerts. His performances are a bit uneven - they have a typical
rough-and-ready Russian sound - but always played passionately and
frequently inspired. Last month he gave us a great Tchaikovsky 5th
symphony and a Fine Rachmaninoff 3rd concerto, plus Prokofiev ballet
suites that were panned by a local critic but which I thought were
thrilling.

Bruce Jensen

QSL: *JAPAN, NHK World Radio Japan, 17810 kHz, 6 March 2010, 0000-0020
UTC - *2* (two!) full data QSL Cards "Shimanto River in Spring" mailed
separately by Airmail from Shibuya, no envelope. TX site = Yamata,
Japan. Received April 16, 2010, 41 days.

Postal:
NHK World Radio Japan
NHK
Tokyo 150-8001
Japan

Bruce Jensen
(California, United States)