Ok I am addicted

I went to Cincinnati for the weekend for a friend's wedding. I was going to leave the radios at home but wound up taking too along anyway. That is so pathetic but in my defense one of them was a police scanner with weather radio so I could keep up with the weather this weekend. I guess I am doomed to never being fully away from the shack.

Japan QSL

This QSL is from radio Japan and the location of the photo was taken in Fuji City. Fantastic photo and I love the RAdio Japan QSLs because they have the best photos.

NOAA Same Codes

This is the first of a new series for this blog called the weekly website. It is going to be different websites related to radio listening. Since it is summer storm season I thought I would post the site for NOAA's Same Codes. Man are those handy. For those of you who do not know about them, them allow the alarm on your weather radio to go off for only those counties you desire. That is so nice especially when there is a storm coming in during the middle of the night and only those that affect you are going to go off. Talk about irritating to be woken up for a storm that isn't going affect you.The site is here.

Scheduled Topics

Doing the scheduled delayed post was a big success and easy to do. It has given me the idea of changing how I do this blog. I have been doing irregular posting schedule and been leaning too hard on posting QSL posts. I have no problem doing the QSL posts but I think I will be putting them on a weekly schedule so they can be spaced out more and still have content coming in on a regular basis. I was figuring that if I do a QSL of the week and maybe a shortwave listening related website of the week and the rest will be my experiences while listening then it will improve the quality of the blog. We will see how this goes as this blog is and probably always will be an experiment in how to blog. Hopefully there will always be improvement and room to improve.

Budapest Hungary QSL

I got this QSl in February of 2005. I have been trying to get QSL's from several differnt areas but it is so easy to get in a rut of hitting the same old stations. It does not help when recption is poor but that is a dead horse that I am whipping.

This blog post is also a test. I just noticed that blogger allows for time delayed posting so I am going to try it out so I don't have to have holes when I get busy or wait if I have a good idea. I I get ahead on this and have have the computer put them out at intervals. I am testing this out for myself to see how easy it is. I am not always the top at getting this online thing but I try.

Vatican City Radio QSL

This QSL I found interesting to see the Poe, and I think St Peter's Basilica and a radio tower all in the same shot. The Radio Tower makes for a weird combo of elements that you would think you should not bre seeing which makes for the interest. I found out that I could hear Radio Vatican as I was listening to Voice or Russia and found out their transmissions were relayed by Vatican City Radio. Another bit of weirdness at first but since a lot of shortwave broadcasters relay for others, it makes total sense.

HCJB QSL

This is from HJCB in Quito, Ecuador.

CFRX QSL

This was an interesting station to listen to since it was one of the most locally oriented shortwave stations I have heard.

Radio Prague QSL

This is a QSL I got from Radio Prague from the Czech Republic. I really like the Old World feel of this QSL. I should do some research to see if they are still on the air and the when and where if they are. I always feel so far behind in my dxing and keeping up on the current info.

RCI's Latest Schedule

I am being a bit slow on this but I just got to look at Radio Canada Internationale's latest schedule and was disappointed by the lack of English Content compared to the French Content. I realize Canada is bilingual but considering how many more English speakers there are who would like some Canadian content. The poor reception quality does not help either. I think the poor reception is the rel culprit for this grump since it has made hearing some of my favorite shortwave stations either hard or impossible to hear. Hopefully the sunspots will rise and reception will improve.

Propagating Information

This may not necessarily belong in this blog but I think it might since it does deal with the spreading of information with technology. My wife broke her leg and I used email, blog and links to forums I hang out to spread the news. I also use statcounter.com to track the hits. It was interesting to see how this spreading of information affected that stats of the blog. I think it was a success in sharing information in a hurry just by the stats I was seeing. I should enquer how people liked this method of information sharing. In any case, the nerd in me found this fascinating.

Radio Sweden QSL

This is a QSL I got from Radio Sweden about a year ago in June of 2007. It is quite different from the nautical themed ones I have gotten before. Still neat.

WBCQ Friday Night Line up

I got to listen to WBCQ's line up last night. I started listening to Blue Grass State of Mind. I always did like bluegrass. The crew from Lumpy Gravy radio show was filling in for Jenny with her 867-5309 show. They try to be this drug culture music show and I got a feeling most of it is show. They place generally good music and go from the weird to the funny and are mostly enjoyable good programming. Allen Weiner World Wide came on next. That one is a talk show and is a loose show on topics of radio and how WBCQ is going. They have lost two major programmers. Good Friends Radio and the Christian Media went on to other grounds. Good Friends has some good programming but Christian Media is one I am not going to miss. I am Christian but i have never been a big fan of religious programming. I have to wade through too much to fin d something good. I can see there is some stuff that is good but I am not in the target audience of the show so it really is not as relevant to me. The signal started off poor but got steadily better and last night's storm did not interfere too badly.
I also remembered to stay on a bit later and tune into Radio Sweden on 6010 KHZ. I missed hearing them. I really need to listen to the shack more often.

Until later.