Radio St.Helena Day 2008

[ka3jjz]

Just a reminder that the once a year broadcast is coming up next weekend on the usual frequency of 11092.5 khz. According to the announcements (published lots of places, including the NASWA Journal), due to a heavy workload, and remnants of the 2006 and 2007 special broadcasts, they're cutting the schedule back quite a bit. The times/targets are:

2000-2100 UT to Japan
2100-2230 UT to Europe
2230-2330 UT to North America

The station address is R St Helena, P.O. Box 93, Jamestown, St Helena STHL 122 South Atlantic Ocean

Unfortunately that time for the East Coast of North America puts it right at twilight into dark, making 11 mhz propagation very difficult. You might try the other broadcasts to see if the path is favorable to your location. Good Luck to all who try for this!

73 Mike

 

[WouffHong]

Helena info

Just a reminder that the once a year broadcast is coming up next weekend on the usual frequency of 11092.5 khz. According to the announcements (published lots of places, including the NASWA Journal), due to a heavy workload, and remnants of the 2006 and 2007 special broadcasts, they're cutting the schedule back quite a bit. The times/targets are:

2000-2100 UT to Japan
2100-2230 UT to Europe
2230-2330 UT to North America

The station address is R St Helena, P.O. Box 93, Jamestown, St Helena STHL 122 South Atlantic Ocean

Unfortunately that time for the East Coast of North America puts it right at twilight into dark, making 11 mhz propagation very difficult. You might try the other broadcasts to see if the path is favorable to your location. Good Luck to all who try for this!

73 Mike

Mike - Is that both Saturday and Sunday and strictly at these times only??

Tnx es 73 (no "s")
Tom
http://wouffhong.org

 

[ridgescan]

Hey thanks Mike I hope I can come back with a positive from the west coast.

 

[ka3jjz]

Tom that's Saturday ONLY and ONLY on those times.

Let's hope they do better to NAm this year. Last year, they had built new antennas; but when they slewed them toward us, they found that their MW antenna interacted with their HF antenna, and had to fix it on the fly (almost had to do a Wouff Hong, hihi).

It's going to be a tough catch, even on the West Coast with their later sunset times. The gods of propagation have not been nice to us lately....73 Mike

 

[ka3jjz]

Here is an important follow up on the address to write to contact R. St. Helena, from Robert Kipp at the station, and credit Rich D'Angelo on the NASWA Flashsheet;
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In an attempt to avoid the well-known and unfortunate problems with the reception reports sent to Radio St. Helena for the Radio St. Helena Day shortwave broadcasts in the past years since 1998, an alternate postal route has been sought. With the considerable help of and excellent
suggestions by the Postmistress , Mrs. Henry, and her assistant , Mrs. Benjamin, of the Ascension Island Post Office, an alternate postal address and path has been found .

Therefore, ALL LETTERS to Radio St. Helena may be sent to the following address.

Radio St. Helena
P.O.Box 93
Jamestown
St. Helena Island
STHL 1ZZ

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--- Via AIRMAIL ----
Via United Kingdom and Ascension
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VERY IMPORTANT:
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The new part of this address is the last few lines, and it is essential that this address be written exactly this way.

IMPORTANT :
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Be certain to use enough postage on the letter, as if you were sending the letter to the remotest part of the world. This is even true for listeners in the UK.
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Remember, the date is November 15th.

73 Mike

 

[Bill_White]

Any one listening?
Good signal here.

 

[WouffHong]

St Helena

Any one listening?
Good signal here.

copying now 2100+ EU broadcast:

Getting an S3-S7 signal here in North GA Mountains with a kenwood TS480 and a G5RV Dipole oriented E-W - what is their E-Mail address? - I hear him reading them.. Reading one from Ronnie 2145Z Also "let-it-be" song
Tom
W4NOV

 

[Bill_White]

I just sent them an email report...
On this page:
http://www.sthelena.se/radioproject/Broadcast_Times_2008.htm

 

[LarryMax]

Got it here in Orting WA barely. I have written down what I heard and time in UTC, also signal strength. Anyone know how much to send for a qsl card? Cash?

Thanks

 

[WouffHong]

Read my mail! - Need help with recording

I just sent them an email report...
On this page:
http://www.sthelena.se/radioproject/Broadcast_Times_2008.htm

They read My e-mail (NASA Eng'r, Retired in North GA!!) - It went into a deep fade just then and couldn't get a recording to send to my son (an SWL and new Ham) - ANYONE get a recording oft the last 20 Minutes - the reading of my mail was at approx 2315Z.. Tom in N. GA - (Now playing GSTQ) )