Friends are working hard to convince me Aosta Valley, despite my believings, is not Pluto, and HF signals can get here too. I can understand -and deeply enjoy- their efforts, but trust me they never tried attenuation given by Europe’s highest roofs. In the last five years, talking about MW DX, all I got are dominant stations (the ones that, received, say, on the Adriatic shore make you tell Read more →

Good things come for those who wait. So, being patient day after day, today postmaster delivered a brown envelope from South Africa. It contained a QSL letter from 1Africa, the CVC Media station broadcasting from Lusaka, sometimes referred as “The Voice Zambia”. The sheet confirms my 2nd February 2011 reception on 4965 kHz, at 22.31 UTC. The letter, coming on paper Read more →