At about 1059 UTC on 1st February 2022, I tuned in to KBS World Radio, SOUTH KOREA, broadcasting on 7275 kHz in the Korean language.

The broadcast was coming from the KBS Kimjae 250 kW transmitter. The broadcast audience was in East Asia and South-East Asia.

The overall reception of KBS was good. The signal strength was excellent, but there appeared to be some form of ‘jamming’ signal on the frequency.

Below is a short video showing my video of KBS.

References.

1. Short Wave Info, 2022, <https://www.short-wave.info/>, viewed 1st February 2022.
2. Short Wave Schedule, 2022, <https://shortwaveschedule.com/>, viewed 1st February 2022.
3. World Radio TV Handbook 2022.

At about 0849 UTC on Tuesday 1st February 2022, I tuned in to NHK World Japan, broadcasting in the Japanese language on 71445 kHz.

The broadcast was coming from NHK’s Ibaragi-Koga-Yamata 300 kW transmitter.

The overall reception of NHK was good.

Below is a short video showing my reception of NHK.

References.

1. Short Wave Info, 2022, <https://www.short-wave.info/>, viewed 1st February 2022.
2. Short Wave Schedule, 2022, <https://shortwaveschedule.com/>, viewed 1st February 2022.

At about 1029 UTC I tuned in to KTWR, GUAM, broadcasting in the English language on 11995 kHz.

The broadcast was coming from the Agana 100kW transmitter.

The overall reception of KTWR was excellent.

Below is a short video of my reception of KTWR.

References.

1. Short Wave Info, 2022, <https://www.short-wave.info/>, viewed 29th January 2022.
2. Short Wave Schedule, 2022, <https://shortwaveschedule.com/>, viewed 29th January 2022.

At about 1046 UTC I tuned in to Myanmar Radio broadcasting on 9730 kHz in the Burmese language.

The overall reception of Myanmar Radio was poor. This was due to severe interference from the Sound of Hope broadcasting in Chinese. At 1059 UTC, China Radio International came up on the frequency broadcasting in the English language, and that totally blocked out Myanmar Radio.

Below is a short video of my reception of Myanmar Radio.

References.

1. Short Wave Info, 2022, <https://www.short-wave.info/>, viewed 28th January 2022.
2. Short Wave Schedule, 2022, <https://shortwaveschedule.com/>, viewed 28th January 2022.

At about 1018 UTC on Friday 28th January 2022, I tuned in to China Radio International broadcasting in the English language on 13720 kHz.

The broadcast was coming from CRI’s Xianyang 500kW transmitter. The broadcast audience was South-East Asia.

The overall reception of China Radio International was excellent.

Below is a short video of my reception of China Radio International.

References.

1. Short Wave Info, 2022, <https://www.short-wave.info/>, viewed 28th January 2022.
2. Short Wave Schedule, 2022, <https://shortwaveschedule.com/>, viewed 28th January 2022.

Three times a year in Australia, we are permitted to replace the VK prefix with AX. One of those is Australia Day on 26th January.

I waited for midnight and had a listen on the 20m band and heard some very strong signals from the Middle East. They appeared to be having a private QSO so I tuned across the band and found Kamal S79KW mobile in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Kamal was a strong 5/8 and gave me 5/9.

I then decided to call CQ DX and soon had a pile up from Europe. I ended up logging about 60 stations from the following parts of the world:-

• Austria
• Belgium
• Denmark
• England
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• India
• Italy
• Kuwait
• Netherlands
• Northern Ireland
• Poland
• Russia
• Spain
• Switzerland
• Ukraine

This year a new contest was announced…..the Australia Day Contest. The aim of the contest is for amateurs in VK, ZL and P2 to contact other amateurs in VK, ZL and P2.

The contest started at 2200 hrs UTC, but I had a sleep in and did not get started until just before 0100 UTC.

The 10m band was absolutely humming with lots of activity. I worked a total of 56 stations on 10m. You can see below from the waterfall on the VK2OB kiwisdr that 10m was busy.

Unfortunately by the evening, the static crashes had become strength 9 and plus at times due to all of the storms around Australia. It made it extremely difficult to hear the lower down stations on 40m. The map below shows all of the lightning activity and explains why it was so noisy. The 80m band was unusable due to the noise.

The contest wrapped up at 1000 UTC. I ended up with a total of 242 QSOs in the log on 10, 20, & 40m SSB.

The map below shows my contacts on Australia Day, including the DX and the QSOs I made during the contest.

At about 1640 UTC on 25th January 2022, I tuned in to the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation broadcasting on 5915 kHz.

The overall reception of Zambia NBC was fair. China Radio International was on the same frequency causing interference.

Below is a video showing my reception of Zambia NBC.

References.

1. Short Wave Info, 2022, <https://www.short-wave.info/>, viewed 25th January 2022.
2. Short Wave Schedule, 2022, <https://shortwaveschedule.com/>, viewed 25th January 2022.

At about 1602 UTC on 25th January 2022, I tuned in to the Voice of the Broad Masses, ERITREA, broadcasting on 7.140 kHz.

Eritrea officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa.

The overall reception was good. As this was in the middle of the 40m amateur radio band, there was some occasional interference from amateur radio operators. There were some static crashes on the band. From about 1613 UTC, there was severe interference from a very strong Over the Horizon Radar signal.

Below is a video showing my reception of the Voice of the Broad Masses.

References.

1. Short Wave Info, 2022, <https://www.short-wave.info/>, viewed 25th January 2022.
2. Wikipedia, 2022, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea>, viewed 25th January 2022.

At about 1533 UTC I tuned in to the Voice of Hope Africa, ZAMBIA, broadcasting on 9680 kHz in the English language.

The broadcast was coming from the Lusaka 100kW transmitter. The program consisted of various music.

The overall reception of the Voice of Hope was good.

Below is a video showing my reception of the Voice of Hope.

References.

1. Short Wave Info, 2022, <https://www.short-wave.info/>, viewed 25th January 2022.
2. Short Wave Schedule, 2022, <https://shortwaveschedule.com/>, viewed 25th January 2022.
3. Voice of Hope, 2022, <https://www.voiceofhope.com/station_africa.html>, viewed 25th January 2022.

At about 1312 UTC on 25th January 2022, I tuned in to Reach Beyond Australia, broadcasting on 11875 kHz, in the Kurux and then Telugu languages.

The broadcast was coming from the Kununurra 100kW transmitter.

The overall reception of Reach Beyond Australia was excellent.

Below is a video showing my reception of Reach Beyond Australia.

References.

1. Short Wave Info, 2022, <https://www.short-wave.info/>, viewed 25th January 2022.
2. Short Wave Schedule, 2022, <https://shortwaveschedule.com/>, viewed 25th January 2022.