At about 0938 UTC on the 20th day of August 2023, I tuned in to Radio Voz Missionaria, BRAZIL, broadcasting in the Portuguese language on 5939 kHz.

The broadcast was coming from the 10kW Camboriu transmitter in Brazil.

Above:- Map showing the location of Cambouriu in Brazil. Map c/o Google Maps.

The overall reception of Radio Voz Missionaria was poor. This was due to severe interference from WWCR broadcasting on 5935 kHz in the English language.

I also tried listening on their two other frequencies: 11750 kHz and 9665 kHz. Their 11750 kHz broadcast was totally unreadable due to Asian broadcast stations. Their 9665 kHz broadcast was readable, but only just. There was also a lot of Asian language interference there also.

Below is a short video showing my reception of Radio Voz Missionaria.

References.

1. Shortwave Schedule, 2023, <https://www.shortwaveschedule.com/>, viewed 20th August 2023.

A few days ago I received the letter and QSL below for my reception of Bangkok VOLMET on 2965 kHz on 9th August 2023.

A few days ago I received the QSL letter below for my reception of Hong Kong VOLMET on 6679 kHz on 9th August 2023.

I received these two QSL cards in the mail in the past few days from Adventist World Radio.

The first is for the reception of KSDA on 22nd February 2022, on 15210 kHz.

The second is for the reception of KSDA on 29th September 2022, on 9590 kHz.

A few days ago in the mail, I received a QSL card from WRMI USA, for my reception of their station on 9955 kHz on 11th January 2022.

About a week ago I received the certificate below for participating in the ZS SOTA Autumn Day.

I chased Philip ZS6FY on ZS/MP-154 Uitkyk.

Many thanks to Adele ZS5APT.

The next ZS event is the ZS Spring SOTA Day on 25th September 023.

A short video of some of the lighthouses I heard/worked on Sunday for the 2023 ILLW event.

Last night I joined the Southern Cross DX Net on 20m, which is one of the regular DX Nets that I check in to. I worked numerous North American stations on the Net, and amongst those was Michael W4ALM in Orlando, Florida.

What made the QSO with Michael so special was that he was running QRP with only 3 watts with a home brew tx and a homebrew inverted vee dipole.

Michael’s transceiver was a homebrew tr9uSDX QRP kit radio.

Below is a short piece of audio that Michael has provided to me. Michael mentions he was running 3 watts and then 30 watts, but he later corrected this to confirm that he was running just 3 watts.

Congratulations Michael. Great QSO.

I received the World Wide Flora Fauna (WWFF) program certificate below in my email inbox today.

It is issued for having activated WWFF references from 9 different entities.

Thank you to the Awards Manager Swa ON5SWA.

Nearly there.