This is Radio Bulgaria’s weekly DX Program for radio amateurs and short wave fans and DXers which is included in our one-hour broadcasts starting as follows: Friday at 21.00 UTC on 5900 and 7400 kHz beamed to West Europe and at 23.00 UTC and Saturday at 02.00 UTC on 9700 and 11700 kHz to North America, as well as in the half-hour broadcast at 06.30 UTC on 9600 and 11600 kHz to West Europe.
In this issue by DX Editor Dimiter Petrov, LZ1AF, with Broadcast Tips by Rumen Pankov:
World Radiosport Team Championship 2010
The World Radiosport Team Championship is the major HAM Radio contest event of year 2010.
WRTC-2010 will take near Russia’s capital Moscow where 50 teams from all over the world will compete in the same field conditions. The event is held by Soyuz Radiolyubiteley Rossii – Russian National Amateur Radio Society.
There are many press releases, information sheets concerning the operators, lists of events, callsigns to be used, etc.
The WRTC 2010 website is www.wrtc2010.ru.
The competition will be held in conjunction with the 2010 IARU World Championship. The contest commences 12.00 UTC July 10 and ends 12.00 UTC July 11.
Frequency bands: 3.5, 7, 14, 21 and 28 MHz; Modes: CW and SSB. Language: Only English language and common international abbreviations can be used when operating either CW or SSB.
Contest exchange: WRTC stations send signal report plus ITU zone (Moscow is ITU zone 29). A complete exchange must be logged for each valid contact.
Valid contacts: The same station can be worked once on CW and once on SSB on each band. Cross-band or cross-mode contacts are not allowed.
Requesting contacts and Disqualification: Requesting QSOs, e.g. setting schedules with special identification procedures, in any way, before the contest period is strictly forbidden. The Team contest stations must be QRT- off the air for at least 15 minutes prior to the contest start. The volumes of both radios must be turned fully down, and no monitoring is allowed within this 15 minutes frame.
The operators are not allowed either to identify themselves, or the teams they belong to. Use of non-amateur HF radio means (e.g. telephone, internet, VHF) for the purpose of identification or requesting a contact (or contacts) before and during the contest period is strictly forbidden. Use of packet cluster, WEB cluster, skimmer or any other spotting and supplementary information network is not allowed.
The use of the “Super Check Partial’ tool is not allowed. If the logging software incorporates this kind of feature, it must be disabled. Use of any callsign database during the contest period is not allowed as well. At the same time, the computer may display a ‘Check Partial’ list based only upon the callsigns already worked during the contest.
The WRTC Contest is the Ham Radio Olympic Games and to maintain the spirits and rulings that this name carries, the Judging Committee will disqualify a team that violates the rules of the contest; shows unsportsmanlike conduct; takes credit for excessive unverifiable contacts or unverifiable multipliers.
The calls assigned to the competitors will be the special calls from R31A - R39Z series. The process of assigning calls, stations and referees will be done in a lottery way Friday afternoon prior the contest. The call will be given to the teams by their referee, at the station 15 minutes before the contest. Each
WRTC contest station is allowed to use only 100 watts RF output.
B R O A D C A S T T I P S
Canada. The local Canadian radio station CBC North Quebec was heard in Sofia between 03 and 03.30 hours on 9625 kHz with the program “CBC Story” in English. The address is: CBC North Quebec, P.O.Box 6000, 17th floor, 1726 Montreal QC, H3C 3A8, Canada.
Brazil. Radio Cultura do Manaus was received with a music program slightly before its end at 01.57 hour on 4845 kHz. At 01.53 hours two marches were played, the first the National Anthem of Brazil and the next probably the Anthem of the State of Amazonia. The mailing address is: Radio Cultura, rua Barcelos s/n Praca 14, Manaus 69020 – 200, Amazonia, Brazil.
Iran. A station with identification “Eira Radio Dengi Kurdistana” was heard in Sofia between 01.45 and 02 hours with songs on 3932 kHz. It belongs to the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran and announces the following address: Radio Voice of Kurdistan, c/o KDPI, Storgarden 50, Linkoeping 58644, Sweden.
Netherland. Radio Netherland will have extraordinary broadcasts from the stadiums in South Africa on July 10 and 11 from 18 to around 22 hours on 5950, 9895, 11670 and 15310 kHz and eventually on other frequencies. Some radio stations are broadcasting directly foot ball matches although their national teams no longer play there. BBC World Service African Streams, Radio Free Asia, Radio France International and Africa Number One from Gabon have been heard. Other stations with direct coverage are Deutsche Welle, Radio Exterior de Espana and others.
Caucasus. Abkhaz Radio from Sukhumi is received in Sofia Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 07 to 08.10 hours including news in Russian at 08 hours on 9535 kHz. More emissions are reported on medium wave on 1350 kHz.
Saudi Arabia. Radio Riyadh was heard in Sofia with news at 07.45 hours and the Program “From the Press” in English on 17785 kHz just before the beginning of the program in French at 08 hours. Another broadcast in English is reported from 10 to 11 hours on 15520 kHz with strong interference from the Voice of America and from 11 to 11.25 hours also in English on the already clean frequency of 15520 kHz.
Cuba. Radio Havana in Spanish was received in Sofia after 01 hour with two different programs – one on 5970, 6000, 6060 and 11760 kHz and the other on 5040 kHz.
Eritrea. Their radio was heard at 17.50 hours on the new frequency of 7177 kHz.
With this we have come to the end of our weekly DX Program. Your opinions and suggestions will be appreciated and all reception reports confirmed with the QSL card of Radio Bulgaria. Please send your letters to English Section, Radio Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria or by e-mail to english@bnr.bg . An online reception report form is available at www.bnr.bg – click on English and navigate!
So, 73 and DX!
