Because of the huge solar flare activity , the highest for this cycle 24 so far I decided to use my spare time saturday, to try again to make it towards downunder last broadcast was 7 november this was when the solarflux was 72 A and K index were also poor but suprising enough, i got a report from NEWZEALAND !! this was never in my thoughts, i was trilling when i got a letter from there.
Unfortenly my big amp have failed , it looks that i can't fix it before saturday so i have to use my small amp this one will putting 150-200 watts into the 3 elements beam
The beam is aimed towards central australia 70 degrees from my qth the broadcast starts on 09:00 utc and will end at 12:00 utc or maybe longer when there is a huge pile of response is coming up
For those who got problems with the right utc time , check this http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx
Cupid radio
15.070 mhz AM mode
start 09:00 - till at least 12:00 utc
For this broadcast will be send out the special DX qsl card please inclose a photocard from the city were the signal is received drop this in the following mailbox adres
Cupid radio
P.o.box 9
8096 ZG
Oldebroek
Netherlands
we were be also in the chatroom from iann in france , you can find it here
http://www.easyshopdiscountzone.com/radio/pirate/english/
lots of pirates and listeners are here
later that day it is posible if the propagation is good that the beam will be turned towards the states
we will be there then around 14:00 utc
Well happy days everybody ,and a good 2010
greetings from the snowy cupid studio
rinus