QSL DRM 2

QSL Verification Cards

QSL card information shows broadcaster, frequency, transmitter location and how many days it took from e-mailing the reception report to receiving the QSL card in the post. Note that public holidays are not excluded from the days total.

QSL cards are shown as they were received rather than in chronological order of the reception report. Apart from RTL and Vatican Radio (1611 kHz) all reception reports were for broadcasts in English. Unless otherwise noted these were broadcasts aimed at Europe.

The receiver is a Winradio G303i PCI card and the aerial is either 3 metre wire indoors or 4 metre external wire connected via a balun. I also have a 1.5 metre indoor vertical.
 

WRMI (Radio Miami International)

9785 kHz - via Rampisham, UK

14 days

e-mail acknowledgement.

RTL Radio

6095 kHz - Junglinster

24 days

[QSL shows Marnach transmitter
1440 kHz - 208 metres]

 

 

Deutsche Welle

15440 kHz - Sines, Portugal

31 days

e-mail receipt.

[QSL shows some ‘postal damage’]

Deutsche Welle

21675 kHz - Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

3 days!

e-mail receipt.

 

Vatican Radio

9800 kHz - Sackville, Canada
                   DRM to North East America

5 days

e-mail receipt.
[Transmitter antennas at Santa Maria di Galeria near Rome, and statue of Archangel Gabriel]

Radio Nederland Wereldomroep

9800 kHz - Sackville, Canada
                  DRM to North East America

20 days

[One Spring Morning in Bussum]

Vatican Radio

1611 kHz - Santa Maria di Galeria
                   [DRM mode A]

11 days

[La Palazzina Leone XIII - the technical headquarters of Vatican Radio]

Radio Nederland Wereldomroep

15150 kHz - Bonaire,
                   Netherlands Antilles

33 days

[Summer at the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, Amsterdam]

TDF (TeleDiffusion de France)

15790 kHz - Issoudun, France

30 kW using a slotted antenna 2/2/0.5, 60° E

60 days

Radiotext:
Diffusion expérimentale DRM par TDF-Issoudun

[Steerable antenna at Montsinery]

NRK

1314 kHz - Kvitsoy, Norway
216 days
[Text: DRM area coverage test in Norway]

Radio Canada International

9800 kHz - Sackville, Canada
22:00 UTC    [DRM to North East America]

311 days

confirmation e-mail.

[RCI celebrating 60 years of international broadcasting]

 

Radio Taiwan International

9770 kHz - via Rampisham, UK

110 days -no details stated on QSL card

e-mail receipt.

[Amis tribe - largest tribe in Taiwan with over 140,000 people]