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Re: [HCDX] RSH - why bother listening - details available online
Jari - you are a good DX-friend of mine - so don't take this personally -
but you're sounding like a voice from the 70'ies or 80'ies - when you would
spend endless amount of time writing a detailed reception report to a radio
station in order to prove you actually heard the station and get a QSL
confirming your reception of the station.
Sorry, but that is history.
Today you've got so many ways of "cheating". Exactly as you have described -
programme details and recordings of exotic and rare "DX-stations" are widely
available on the internet. You can also listen to several stations streaming
on the internet. You can utilize DX-Tuner. You can easily travel to far away
counties and send reception reports to the stations in that particular area.
Etc. - etc.
So obviously the idea of QSL'ing in the old sense is completely dead. I
think.
If you bother sending out reception reports and the stations bother
responding with a QSL, that's nice - and a nice souvenir but off course it
doesn't really prove anything.
I don?t know whether 90, 95 or even 99 percent of the people sending out
reception reports are honest people - or we've got more Giovanni
Bellabarba's among us ...
But DX'ing is still a great hobby. I think that neither Giovanni Bellabarba
nor the lack of "real" QSLs can take that away from us. Trying to catch
distant stations is - for me - still very exiting.
And - I too enjoyed the transmission from Radio St. Helena yesterday from
s/on 1800 UTC and for most of the evening here. Reception was quite good -
armchair listening at times :-)
Best 73s
Stig Hartvig Nielsen,
Denmark
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Emne: [HCDX] RSH - why bother listening - details available online
As always, during some very special broadcasts the dx-mailing
lists are filled with detailed logs of reception. Just the same with
this R St Helena broadcast. A weak mind with poor reception/no
reception at all can easily build up a reception report from these
mailings. And if someone puts a recording of the whole transmission
online, even better. There's gone the thrill of trying to log a station
with sufficient program details by yourself. Well, good for RSH,
they'll get more reports - more IRC's - more Greenstamps. But
how about the real reception? The broadcast was a great, hardwork of
Robert and all the sponsors and the staff of RSH. Thank you.
Jari Savolainen
Kuusankoski
Finland
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